Show r PENROSE BACK Army AImy Surgeon Surg On Returns ironi ont theP iDes v 1 I MEDAL FOR FOIt I J SAYS THE WAB IS PRACTICALLY l f ENDED t Dr George H Penrose major m jor and ad d bri brigade brigade brigade gade surgeon surge n of the United States any 1 Y arrived home me yesterday from the t Philip P af t r a voyage vO e of days g Major Penrose Penro took to k sick on the th let 1st of December and after an of thirty days deys on tilie island left for bom The trip trill across ac the ocean was vas a very rough ro h hone one and to io to add a d to the delay mr fort of the voyage the machinery of the vessel gave save trot out and had bad to ba be r in Honolulu Major Penrose received his commission a short time before the Utah volunteers left for the Philippines P and he left Salt Lake with them in 10 June l tor the isi Islands Islands ands He had harge of the Utah division on its voyage voy ge to the Philippines but after alter reaching the islands Stands he Was vas placed Ip in charge of the First division Tire Tile island of Luzon is divided into two divisions the northern part of the stand being the first division and the southern part the second division Atter Alter active service for f or about a year y r In the first division Major Penrose was given Charge of ot the Second division where the heaviest fighting has been going on Medal of Honor Among the toe things which the major brought back from the Islands and whIch he prizes more than anything else is a medal of honor and ami five brevets ts awarded to him for conspicuous gallantry on toe vae battle field and for saving life under fire The medal was awarded him for tor the th gal gallantry gallantry lantry displayed in the desert desett tight fight In lit southern Luzon in July 1900 1200 where with two assistants and twelve men m n he off oft 00 insurgents and escaped with all aU aUthe the wounded men in his charge Tha fighting was wes terrific and lasted tor for soy sev several eral hours 2 When seen yesterday es erday a at 4 Fort Douglas Major Penrose talked concerning hiS stay on tine the islands and the condition of af at affairs affairs fairs airs there The insurgents are coming in Ip In all the time lime and an taking taxing the oath of oi allegiance e but It K amounts to very little alter atter they th y have hav taken tak n the oath There are some iJ J wio have already sworn allegiance bat bitt many of them have gone back to the In surge ts especially prominent men and leaders in the Philippine army there is a feeling among the better beUer classes the merchants mer ard al d rieTi men nen that the war has gone on long enough and that It it is i time It was as ended They Thay realize that it is to their own interests inter ts that rat It should end erd The war is practically ended hut but there thre will be guerrilla warfare for fo years ye es to te come It is hard to set get et around arou When you are In one p fart rt of the island d d with a detachment of men it is almost alm It Impossible to know what is i going on In any other part and for that matter what wh t is going on in your Immediate vicinity The light fight fighting lightIng ing tag In the southern pert part of 0 Luzon 13 is much harder than titan in the northern part rt Aguinaldo Alive Aguinaldo dead Not much He is no nomore nomore nomore more dead ded than I am and what is more he will never be the best pian that General Mac MacArthur MacArthur Arthur has hit upen upon to bring the insurgent gent gente to time and a stop those who have taken the oath of allegiance from going back to the insurgents in urgent is his plan of ot de da deporting deporting porting them to the island inland of quam Guam The very thought f jing l deported d strikes terror to souls Recently expeditions I h have ve been sent out to capture guer guerrillas er rUins rillas and nd all that are captured are hung nun It ia is the way they should be treated I is I all right he Is the man for forthe the thc th race ace and th the way he is pushing things is fine tine He lie Is as levelheaded as I doing they make them rhem and knows what he Is While hile on the island I met several Utah boys Dick Young Youn te 15 doing fine ansI and mak malt making making malting I ing lots of friends He is well liked He Heis HeIs I is 18 doing good work w and has a good position tion I was d that he want Wt back bark Among others this s l I J met Lieutenant Hard Hart f the in infantry infantry fantry Captain Andy ridy Burt of the Thirty ninth and an d George Downey who wh is now a major end and paymaster All AU are in Ip very good health and doing well t |