Show IAFFA AT L MANIU l Utah Volunteers Description of resent Conditions I TRIBUTE TO MAJ YOUNG 0 COOLnESS AN BRAVERY OF UTAH OFFICER Isaac Russell Now Secretary of a Ming CompayHis Horse Shot Instead of James Crelmas Chinese Threaten to Ru the IladsHve Great Wealth Weat I A letter just received in this city from a Utah volunteer In Manila tells entertainingly of present conditions fl the Philippine islands There Is hardly hard-ly a Utah man here now Mania Is the dumping place for the filth and outcasts of the word but the strong military law enforced at the < nd ot the long tomtoms keeps the act ot these people down and when they are caught they get it properly the writer stateS Only today a fellow was sent to Bill Ibid I-bid our local 1 prison to serve a six months sentence and ther 1000 days mare for besides the imprisonment he ctas fined 250 which he will have to I work out In jai at the rate of 25 cents per day the same as Is allowed natives under the old Spanish laws I tel you people of Utah you can never overestimate the work of Major Ma-jor Young I have seen him when I quaked and trembled and dug my holed hole-d p stnd calmly while the volleys cut hales In trees on each side of him I just 15 cool as If he were eating at home I Is very few who are that way and they are far between Importance of ChinamEn I Referring to the prominence of the I Chinese in Manila the wrier says The Chinese here are a peculiar lot and they are going to get the pie qf the Philippines I if the Americans dont rl ht r i i wake up I fear that American capital will not have the courage to invest In wI the great riche and to develop the Unprecedented I un-precedented opportunities that arc klcbn around lobse until after the ground floor Is full On phase ot the Chinese question that i rather odd Is the immense amount of capital that Chinamen have at iro disposal There are twenty firms which can obtain credits of 5000 at the banks of the I city and many a Gcrawn fth I Chinama is worth a million or less I The have a government all of their own and no Chinaman Is so poor that I he cannot find friends to bal him out I of jail and produce the amount of his fine no mater how large It is very I rare that a Chinaman doe time Every Chino seems to be bound to some other Chino seS flfle never does business I with principas but always with agents I Each district seems to have a ruler who I attends to all the commercial relations with outsiders and keeps all members out ot trouble John Chinaman does business on the sugarcoated Commls zion plan and the whole crowd are salams and cod fish When a Chino domes to your office with a bill he stays outside grinning and bowing low In response to your demand to entre pronto he kisses the doorstep bows till you get tired and finally reaches his hand close enough for you to get his letter I is a bl all receipted and I payment acknowledged according to the custom of the country All you do is hand him his money then with a I few dozen more salams he bows himself him-self out and is gone The Chinos have had lot ofmone I confiscated by the government ot Spain and ate now prey for the insurrection lts Corquenty muc of their wealth was horded in England and China but now as confidence Is restored re-stored it is being brought out of its holes to be applied to every sort of enterprise en-terprise which the change of conditions brings into existence Ike Russell In Cover The letter mentions the fact ot the I organization ot the Philippine Mining Bureau Development company by I bank officials residing at Manila and Hongkong Isaac Russell formerly a private In battery A of the Utah Light artillery is the companys secretary I Russell is The Heralds Manila correspondent corres-pOndent and besides he is i writing for Lesle syndicate The wrier reports I that whIle James J Creelman was representing rep-resenting the New York Journal In the resentng Philippine campaign Russell was as slating him but he Russell got I scared out after having a horse plugged under hIm Creelman wrote ot this incident I In-cident to the Journal telling how his on horse was killed udder him I Russell Is putting his spare time in at writing a volume of stories of battery I bat-tery teis life and sketches ot queer charac |