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Show IS AGUINALDO ALIVE?: Manila, June 6. A dispatch from Candon, dated June 4, says: Major P. C. March's men of the Thirty-third regiment returned to Candon that day hy steamer from Aparri. The majority major-ity of the men were ready for the hospital. hos-pital. They are thin and weak, having traveled 250 miles in the mountains, during which they suffered greatly from hunger. Of the fifty horses which started with the battalion thirteen survived.' sur-vived.' The remainder died on the march or fell into the canyons. The officers accomranying Major March were Captains Henrv L. Jen-kinson Jen-kinson and Edward Davis, Lieutenants Carroll Power and Frank L. Case and Dr. John O. Greenwall, assistant surgeon. sur-geon. They say it is all guesswork as to whether Aguinaldo was shot. Before Be-fore the Americans struck Segat the insurgent chief divided his forces into parties of ten, following different trails. The report among the natives is that Aguinaldo was wounded in the shoulder. shoul-der. Papers show that nearly all the presidents pres-idents installed by the Americans in General Young's territory are treacher- j ous and have been making regular reports' re-ports' to Aguinaldo as to the disposition disposi-tion and movements of American troons, and they have been colecting and forwarding taxes. The captured papers also prove the disloyalty of the native telegraph operators whom the Americans retained on-the Cayagan Vallev line. They had been sending Aguinaldo' copies .of important telegrams tele-grams exchanged between the American Ameri-can officials. Letters were also found relating to large contributions forwarded for-warded to Aguinaldo from Spanish and other foreisn business men. |