Show I PLNTY Of WORK I FOR UTAH TROOPS 4 i Plzying Hide and Seek With Filipino Rebels > + INSURGENTS SWARM IN RIVER JUNGLES 4 Idaho Captain Captures a Squad of Sharpshooters 4 Utah Artillery and ItS Brigade Rave Hard Work to Keep the Filipinos In CheckThree Hundred Insurgents Insur-gents Killed Within the Last Twentyfour HoursRebels Return Re-turn As Fast As Driven Back Intense Heat at Manila 4 Special to The Herald ManIla March SBriadler General Hale withdrew his line today to the position they occupIed prior to yesterdays yester-days fighting and the insurgents followed fol-lowed recruIting theIr lost ground General Wheaton estimates that there are 500 rebels on his front Captain LInk ot the FIrst Idaho Infantry In-fantry captured nineteen insurgent sharpshooters without loss oC one ot his command The sharpshooters were sur pnsed and surrounded and laid down their arms without firing Colonel Potter has returned from Cebu He reports that Major Goodale landed a battalion ot the Twentythinl Infantry without opposItion on larch 3 The FIlipInos are swarming in the jungles along the river banks and as fast as the Americans dislodge them and drive them over the river they re tu1n The wIthdrawal of the Americans Ameri-cans to take up theIr positions after these sharp engagements Is the sIgnal for the rebels to sneak back tD cover and continue their harassing sharp shooting at the troops The Wyoming Nebraska and Twentieth Twen-tieth regular Infantry regiments and the Utah artillery are in these brigades bri-gades and they have had nard work to keep the treacherous Filipinos In check In the engagements of the past twentyfour hours it is estimated that the number of Filipinos killed Is In the neIghborhood of 300 early that number num-ber or bodIes were found by the reconnoiterIng recon-noiterIng party sent out today by General Gen-eral Hale Private ChamDJaIn company M Fourteenth infan3ny doIng outpost duty was mistaken for Filipino durIng dur-Ing the night and was shot and killed by a sentry from his own company Colonel Smiths battalion ot Callfor nUt volunteers were received with enthusiastic en-thusiastic greetings by the Inh11b1tants of Bacoloda the capital ot Negros island is-land An hour after landIng at Baeol oda CaptaIn Tilly or the signal corps opened the cable to hello exchanging greeting with General Ulller SkIrmIshIng SkIrmIsh-Ing continue around 110110 TUESDAYS FIGHTING How General Hale Drove the Insu gents Back New York March SA wspth to the Herald from Manila says General Hale determined thIs morning to clear away the enemy from the front of the rgnt wIng The gunboat Laguna de Bay under Major Grant ben shelling the ees position Two companies or the tw tieh Infantry an three companies of the Frt Nebraska under Colonel Statenba swung In from the road tt the waterworks driving the reels toward to-ward the Pag river The First Wyoming advanced directly position In front on the Insurgent positon il Meanwhile the Lga de Bay pounded the foe from the rive Thus attacked on thre side the in srgents were drIve back Captain T D OBrien ot the First Wyoming was shot in the right wrist and Major Shell of the bureau or Information Infor-mation was slightly wounded Complete Com-plete reports of the Wunde are not yet in Gee Hale estimates the en eys loss at 250 At the time of sendIng this dispatch the Wyoming troops occupied an advanced ad-vanced position The Insurgent opened fire across the river from Guadaloupe killing Private Loveo of company C First Washington Washing-ton and woundIng two others The insurgents have ben Ccetrat log to the enat or the city and will probably try e attack from that side Their principal object is to cut off the water supply of Manila The American positions are strong and their attempts will be futile The insurgent los have been severe the last few daS The Madrid authorities have offered AguInado a ransom of 100 for each officer 100 each for the privates and 50 for each chi I servant They have not offered to ransom the priests Aguinaldo declares that he has paId filibusters SiOOOO and has received only 500 rifles and 2OOOOO rounds of ammunition ammu-nition The filibusters say the rest have bee captured but probably they were nuye bought we 1 sTG HAT AT MANILA But the Trops Kept In the Shade Yesterday Manila March 8The temperature today at 3 ocock was 8i degrees but the cloudy air was like steam and the greatly Inconvenienced on troops were the trops In spite ot the tempora shade afforded by matting and bamboo wher feasible There are few prostrations aver felble trations however from the heat Our troops today are not compelled to remaIn In the open country to the same extent as yesterday when they were engaged in clearing the jungle engse in the open The rebels seldom appear opn Te and except In the cool or the morning In the evenIng Our soldier probably will feet the heat less when they are on the move DEWEY DRG DOW Capitan Says B Should De English Capit Say Ie Relieved Vancouver B C March gAong I the passengers arrived her today on the Empress of India was CaptaIn Fra of London England late of the zer imperial forces He has just come from Manila He said I dined with AdmIral Dewey prior to leaving for Honkong He Is In poor health and certaInly should be ordered t home I believe he has age much beleve I and c hnly his haIr is veo w te i Ie is i an unassuming man and is I I should think a born comm nder The I strain which he haS undergone ad Te I undesing must be very great IsI ver grat Frm the in thl way which the American naval commander speaks he fully apprecl ate the 1tfflcuIty In the ate difculy way of the olnlzaton of the 20 Islands that form the great grp of the i tl gat goUP P111111 i Phl pine Admiral Dewey thinks that it I 11 take at let two yeas to subju gate the Philippines for they arc fight ers from away back a phrase that tha Admiral Dewey hImself Is sad to have a partiality forS |