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Show WILD MEN IN THE JOLO GROUP , WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. A strong picture of conditions in the Jolu group of the Philippine archipcl- j ago is contained in a letter from Col- j onel H. L. Scott, governor of that . group to Colonel Clarence Edwards, . chief of the insular bureau of the war department. The letter, which is dat-.-rl Sept.. 23. is made public as an expia-nation expia-nation of the campaign now waging m , the Jolo group. In it the writer says; "I find that the condition is one ; peace so long as the big Moro eniet , are allowed to have their own way un - ( reservedly to rob and steal and en- slave. The sultan is a man of no power , of his own, and mut depend on tho , chiefs, who may or may not do what he wishes. They are all surrounded by , gangs of rufnians who do no useful work, but who live through robbery j and by fining both sides in a case, ir- j respective "of who may be guilty, th.5 I full amount of the inability to pay. If , the victim refuses to pay he is en- . slaved. No peace or order can be main- tained in the Philippine islands s-o long i as these conditions exist. Movable i property is always on the move without I the desire of the owner: men say they i will not work and accumulate property j which they will not be permitted to j enjoy, and there are constant turmoils, murders and enslavements going on. i . "No one is allowed to. go beyond th. I. -mitosis hero without an armed guard and it is even advisable to go about th-' th-' rtrtets here armed on account of jur-amontados. jur-amontados. ..no cf whom got throuirli the qatP past a sentinel about four das ' as-o" with his art::.s. ran through, tho barrack vard. slashed a soldier across the buck' and fell !.-:d on the main plf..: and in front of the commissary oilice. shot five ti!,i,-s by a f unlade from our .-nMjf-rs. whi -h kill' d also a trumpeter trum-peter who was getting ready for guard. This nnkes the si;.:th or seventh jtir-amentu'lo jtir-amentu'lo who h.is appeared sine" las: spring. tine rrr-inoev soldier wa chopped ut. i.ist spring by one of them after be had .oven Colt's Its builets in him. He .-hopped ,.fi' a 1- and an arirl ta:-h at one stroke of his bnroiig. "All dr.rins the Faring th garrison has practically be.-n jn a state of siege. When Captain Kltirm'-s' troop went otic they surrounilrd it .'ora ndishing the bar-ong's bar-ong's .'ind spears. ;. n-1 had to come , hack because his ..rders x-re by no means to have a coniiiet. y,,,j will see by this the way p-ace has be..n kept heretofore, and at what sa i i:i. e. Now the Moro province o i contepuilates changes, among others the ahoiishnifct of shivery, a very sore point w ith them. It contemplates trials of offen,!, bv-district bv-district courts and these things will surely bring on confii-i'ts." |