| Show ENSIGN PEARSON an pearson has written an inter letter from philippine waters Ws relatives here anent the eubig T incident which came near leading 46 unpleasant complications between ame 1 country and germany inci faby he figured quite conspicuously f it that is he was one of the boffl awen 1 the he raleigh which was sent by admiral dewey to the scene of dis tb tranee anee having been transferred to I 1 tw ship from the zafiro which cut via A c cable ble immediately after the de I 1 of admiral montejos montejon Monte jos fleet 04 the arrival of the raleigh and the germ german an man of war ly i ats in eubig bay quickly sailed out jT fough another channel and thus fiffi elded a collision spanish troops were entrenched on to a considerable number the sent an under officer and a of marines to the forts with fk unconditional conditional demand for tun the spanish colonel refused and american rican sailors returned to their but the american ships were on business as the spanish soon out to their discomfiture and rea bombardment was commenced the forts at first it had but little t then the american gunners the te distance and hit the main cat ati ions ons with unerring accuracy terrific force instantly says agn pearson the spanish troops ed forth like a swarm of bees tsal they were obdurate and defiant ng with all possible force then raleigh sent a 12 pound shot fab the spanish commanders i that settled matters without er loss of time a white flag was ra up and the enemy capitulated lay 64 down own their arms and turning over ever 40 4 H 0 VOW prisoners ners to the americans j 1 aa saturday two more letters came the ensign to his parents at r one being written from manila OH A august ut and the other from kong ong september 2nd and showing the ti to have been but three weeks in that Is a most marvelous the short time en route is ac d tor for by the fact that it came returning troop transport the the other letter which was jjck a month eilonth on the way came by one 1 regular mall mail ships the letters alboth bolix written on the raleigh and follows hilla la august 22 1898 since we Xa manila tilla everything is opening up n the cable to hong kong has repaired street cars are running la in open again and busio 0 generally lene ally rally is in booming they say we aard many steamers ate amera from shang hal hai hong kong singapore and japan on the way to manila with various cargoes to fill up the many different k kinds of stores whose supplies were wholly gone owing to the long blockade during the blockade no ot stemmers ate amers emmers were permitted to enter or leave port so it finally got so that supplies in the city even were nearly gone we hear that peace negotiations are progressing and that they will soon saon be completed while ashore a day or two ago I 1 visited the utah volunteers who are now stationed in fine barracks in the city of manila I 1 had the pleasure ot seeing most of the officers and learned that the utah men generally in excellent condition I 1 am surprised that draper did not furnish some men it seems that salt lake and ogden furnished most of them gen merrit LT errit has isred his proclamation stating that he assumes the position of gu governor vernor general in the name of the united states we have a post office el ol ready have assumed charge of the customs taken all the public buildings and barracks for our use and in fact entire control of the government of the place the old police force which of natives and the street cleL denning ning vace have been hired by us to cont continue jnue in their respective places august 24 two more transport ships with troops from san francisco have just arrived and the mall mail for the united states which goes by one of the transports that came some time ago closes in to in a few minutes we got orders yesterday to go to hongtong Hong kong tomorrow to dock ship and give liberty on shore to the crews who have not been on shore for four or five months will remain there about two weeks the olympia starts for hong kong the day after us for a similar stay then we will return to manila and other ships will go there for a like stay H A PEARSON hongtong Hong kong sept 2 we arrived here se several veral days ago and have docked the ship and given all the crew liberty and expect to return to manila in a day or two the olympia came here a day or two after us and yesterday the concord came all for the purpose of docking and giving the crew liberty on shore the first in five months today the S S china one of the transports that brought troops to manila came here with general merritt on board he is going from manila to paris to act as one of the peace commissioners the china leaves tor for san francisco in a day or two and may take this letter there is no news worth mentioning tio ning there are rumors of ships going home this fall but nothing definite yet hongtong Hong kong is very hot more so than manila we learn from the olympia Olymp Olyn pla la which left manila after we did that two men of the utah volunteers had been bean shot by narves it seems that they were out buying something at a store and some question arose as aa to the price of it whereupon they drew their revolvers and began firing not at anybody particularly ticul arly but perhaps more to make a noise they wore were perhaps under the influence of liquor somewhat though I 1 am not positive of this when the fire began some natives shot these men killing one and fatally wounding another regards to all H A PEARSON |
