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Show OAYAQAN'S QOVERNOR STErS DOWN AND OUT. Philippine Executive Resigns Hit' Office Because Ho Is not t Recognized. MANILA. Keb 10 The Governor o the town of Cayagan, In the province o( Mlsnmls, Island ot Mindanao, has re signed, declaring that the military nu-t thorttles thero do not recognize his au-J thority In refusing to receive his writs of habeas corpus f Somo mom hi ago many of the leading) officials of Mlsamls province were ar-i rested because they tendered a banquet! to an Insurgent Colonel, and because It was proved that they had also contributed con-tributed funds to the Insurgent cause. At that time Gen Davis, commanding at yamboanga, Island of Mindanao, requested re-quested that tho province be transferred from civil to military contiol The military authorities In Misamli refused to allow the prisoners to be lepresented by a lawver sent by the civil commlslon from Monlla for that purpose, holding the arrested officials to he irltontrs of war. Lately Gen. Chaffee Instiucled Gen Davis to re lease the prlsonem In question and notified no-tified tho civil authorities when and wheie they could arrest them should thty desire to do so Hut the fact that thalr olftnse was committed btfore tho passage of the law of sedition makes further action In tho mntter Improbable, Improba-ble, Gen Chaffee deeming It Inadvlsa-able Inadvlsa-able that civilians shuuld be tried by a military commission f-enor Lernia, the newly.elecled Gov. oi nor of Ilataan province, tied after his election, when he was called upon to accunt for 1400 ot Instlrgent funds. He ls fcllll missing |