Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-21 | Page 6 | Former Utah Residents in Philippines Making Good

5 Former Utah Residents In Philippines Making Mak g Good 1 I I i L I 5 1 tr 5 z S S I 5 44 t tk k 5 i 5 1 1 1 CHAPLAIN JOHN T AXTON Chaplain John T Axton assigned to the Eighteenth United States Infantry has returned to Salt Lake on a four months leave of absence after two years service In the Philippines Chap Chaplain Chaplain Chaplain lain Axton will spend his furlough with his family and parents in this city rejoining his regiment at Fort McKenzie Wyo In his seven and a half years yearn service servIce service ice Chaplain Axton has occupied two stations in the Philippines the last being at Camp Kiethley on Lake Lanao Mindanao a district termed b by General Bliss as the heart of ot the tho hos hostile hostile hostile tile Moro territory According to Chaplain Axton the I fighting such as there Is ls in the Philip Philippines Philippines Philippines pines Is 18 confined to the th Island of Min lin Mindanao Mm danao where the natives are all aU fol followers followers followers lowers of Mohammed The dattos or chiefs there are all aU pretty positive characters even though illiterate and incite their the r followers to acts of vio violence violence violence lence through their religious fanaticism fanaticism cism Their subjugation however though slow Is being accomplished as asis asIs asis is evidenced by tho the fact that surround surrounding ing Camp Kiethley there Is now under cultivation by the natives upwards of 2500 acres of ot land landIn landIn landIn In the island of Luzon and particularly particularly particularly Manila the under the American rule over the old regime is marked In the extreme and Manila Is now a modern city of the Chaplain Axton speaks enthusiastically of the success in the Islands of ot former I Salt Lake JAke and Utah young men Major I Charles Stanton Is at present chief pay paymaster paymaster paymaster master of the department of Mindanao with Frank Shelley formerly of the Union Pacific Coal company as his chief clerk Dr John A McAllister Is dental surgeon of the department of Mindanao and Harold Pitt well known in Salt Lake Is now a capitalist in Manila and is ac accredited accredited accredited credited with having been the backbone In the fight for free tariff for the PhilIppines Phil Philippines Philippines Carlos Young formerly a Salt Lake newspaper man and who went to the Philippines as a member of the Utah bat battery battery battery tery is manager for the big shipping concern of company in Man Ian Manila Manila ila II a and Carl Hard also a newspaper newspaperman man is assistant superintendent of ot the secret service Mr Hard is expected fo tb f arrive in Salt Lake on his vacation in a afew afew few days Ernest Young Toung Is making a a success out of the manufacture of soap and matches and P B Florence another Utah bat battery battery battery tery man is the proprietor of ot one of the leading mens furnishings stores in Man Manila Manha ila ha Gordon Kimball of Ogden Olden Is now a lieutenant in the Twelfth United States cavalry and aide alde to General Potts Wil ml Willis its lis Is director of the postal savings department one of the most Im Important Important important in the Insular govern government government ment service and C M Cotterman of ot Ogden holds the equally responsible post position position tion thou of director of ot posts There are a number of other Utah boys In the Islands and all succeeding