Show j PROGRESS OF THE CONQUEST j Our conquest of Manila is progressing slowly Of course We are bound to I win but so far the natives evince no I signs of weakening True they have Itt I-tt < rf rfr made 0 pretense of treating for peace but it may be only for the pur Dose of saining time As Sylvestcr Talker a member of the Twentythird regulars writing to relatives In Vlchi ta Kan said the other day there are so many that no matter how manC kill or capture it doesnt sepm to lessen their number Martin C Olsen of the Fourteenth regulars wrote to his parents in Sioux City last week and the letter was pub IIshed in the Journal of that place that In one day we killed about 5000 Insurgents and we lost bout forty killed and 100 wounded But like the true soldier that he is Olsen added We can lick them but it will take usa us-a long time because there are about 150000 of the dagos back In the hills and as soon as one of them gets killed or wounded there is a man to take his place at once A little while ago The Herald published pub-lished a letter from N A J McDonne of battery A He reported progress In the work of extermination during the first eighteen days of the conflict and said The enel11Y numbered thousands and had courage but could not shOot straight People can never tell mean me-an thing about the rough riders harg lag San Juan if these natives could shoot as accurately as the Spanish they would have exterminated us Fighting goes on all along the lines many natives are killed but we capture very few rifles as they seem to have men to take them Official reports say over 4200 natives have been buried Py American troops How many they have burled themselves and hcw many more are dead in the brush no one knows If we arc determined to civilize these islands probably the exterminatI method is the only really effective one And if they have to be exterminated wily we are certainly getting along faster tItan Spain did In less than three months we must have killed over 50000 of the creatures Spain couldnt have ahcompllshed that In three eargthe old pokeeasy |