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VOLUME LXXXVI- NO. 135.
SENSATIONAL REPORT ON CONDITIONS IN PHILIPPINES
JUST FILED BY A SPECIAL GOVERNMENT AGENT
A Commissioner Sent to the
Islands Makes Startling
Disclosures Regarding the
Existing Conditions.
SPANISH FRIARS SHOULD
BE SHORN OF roWER ;
In regard to the power of the churcn
in the Islands, I have given the subject
much attention and careful thought, and
I conclude that the Spanish friars and
the holy orders had in the past, and still
have, more power than is good for the
development of the Philippines. I have
expressed to you and in the press my
great admiration for the Catholic divines
who accompanied our army as chaplains.
I think th Catholic religion the best re
ligion for the natives of the Philippines.
But the insidious rule of the priests and
friars is undoubtedly working an injury
to the cause of advancement in the Phil
ippine Islands. Again and again men of
high degree and low In the Philippines
assured me that they loved the Catholic
church and were loyal to the Catholic
faith, but hated the friars as the gates of
hell.
Of course, the power of the holy orders
is sometimes overestimated. For exam
ple, I learn that on farms near Manila,
which these orders rented to the natives
for three cents an acre per year, the peo
ple complained, notwithstanding the rea
sonable rent. f
There are Americans going into
Manila who do not represent even the
average class of American citizens.
Take some of the civilians. There is
a Mr. Brown, whose name is Baran
ski. and a Mr. Carmen, associated to
gether in the American Commercial
Company. I have it on the authority
of Mr. Kaelin and Timothy W. Coak
iey of ',„ c rmnppmes-American Com
pany that Carmen and Brown sell
tomatoes for $7 50 per case, whereas
the duty on tomatoes is $8 per case.
It is said that Carmen came to Manila
six months ago a penniless man, and
that to-day he has a monopoly of the
nipa thatch and the cascos for trans
portation on the Pasig River. Brown
is often seen with American officers
when these officers are intoxicated,
taking them to his home. Everybody
tries to get a saloon. General Otis
will not give a license to an ex-sol
dier. This is good as far as it goes,
but it goes such a short way that it
only irritates the ex-soldiers.
The abuses referred to in the above
paragraph are undoubtedly caused by the
■fact that we retain
the Impractical du
ties of the Spanish
regime in force. The
continuing of these
Spanish laws, in my
judgment, is an irri
tant to the people,
and only makes the
wound opened by the
war still deeper and
more exasperating.
The European resi
dents who have lived
in Manila for many
years assert unlver-
sally that taxes were
Gene-a! Otis.
J ereo grievous un-
Jer the Spanish rule as they are now under
our martial law. Of course, they under
stand that it is war time, but to have
martial law for more than a year ln a city
of 900,000 inhabitants must work hardship
to the vast mass of the people. I have
often talked to Filipinos, and found they
were brooding over these taxes and feel
ing that it was a wrong and an outrage.
You cannot convince them that it was a
military necessity, and so one of the
measures necessary to bring the war to a
close keeps It going on.
AGUINALDO HAS A
GREAT DEAL OF POWER
As far as the relation of one tribe i
to another goes, the tribes will fight !
one another when they get out of a j
job, but as a rule I think the Fili- ;
pinos, especially the Tagalos and
Visayans, are pretty much under the
influence of Aguinaldo. I do not
think they fear Aguinaldo, because i
he really could not reach them in ,
Cebu or Iloilo; but I genuinely think '
the people in the islands generally
would rather have an ' autonomous '■
Government under an American pro- j
tectorate than anything like a colo- ;
nial or annexation arrangement. It
will be a great deal easier to restore j
peace when you have 65,000 or 70,- i
000 soldiers in the islands; but that '
the rebels will ever give up their \
arms I do not believe. They will give j
up those arms that the Americans ;
corral and take from them; otherwise j
1 think they will hide away their ;
Mausers for another revolution. It is j
sometimes said that Aguinaldo has j
very little power, but I think that he j
has far more power than we are in
clined to admit. His name is one to
conjure with. I have never seen a
Filipino who would not turn his ear
and listen, if the magic name of j
Aguinaldo was mentioned. This man
must have some great traits of char
acter-
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that with a large and efficient army order
can be restored and Aguinaldo's army
captured or destroyed.
General Lawton.
CORRUPTION MD DISHONESTY
COMMON IN THE ARMY
Rumors of dishonesty and corrupt
officialism in our army are so common
in Manila that it seems to me that
there must be some truth in them.
Thus, we hear that an English con
tractor sold 150 mules to the Govern-
ment, but had to pay lj>6ooo to have
his contract accepted. The truth of
this transaction I cannot be certain
of, but I feel quite certain about one
thing which was told me by a most
responsible person, Mrs. Br. Beer,
chief of the Red Cross Society of Col
orado. She said that a Chinese
woman who contracted to sell vege
tables, eggs, etc., to the American
hospitals came to her and asked her
to try to influence the proper officials
to continue her contract. She said to
Mrs. Beer that she had been paying
the Americans 20 per cent commis
sion on the goods she sold the Gov
ernment, and they wanted 25 per
cent, which was more than she could
pay and make a reasonable profit. I
think the impression was growing
among the Spaniards and Filipinos,
as well as our own people in Manila,
when I left, that some of the Ameri
can civilians and soldiers could give
the Spaniards cards and spades and
beat them at the game of theft.
There is no use for any American
civilian trvincr to tret
into Luzon just now
to start a business
because if he takes
in his merchandise
honestly through the
Custom house it
would be impossible
for him to make a
living. These things
are not pleasant to
say, but when your
own countrymen all
through the city
laugh and sneer at
such things there
must be some truth
in them. I know that
Aguinaid
our soldiers aredescending from the poetry
of history to the prose of shame. They
oftentimes levy blackmail on the people
of the city, going, for example, into a
Chinaman's house and charging him $3
for the tax of his piano. So much is this
carried on, that a day of two before I
came away the walls of Manila were
plastered with a proclamation of General
Otis in Spanish, English and Tagah g,
calling attention to the fact that no citi
zen should pay taxes to any one except
at the places established by the Govern
ment. Of course, it is very difficult to
see how these things can be helped. I
am of the strong opinion that our officers
are too strict on the men In relation to
their conduct around the camp and in
places where it conduces to the comfort
or discomfort of the officers; but that
they are not strict enough with them
when they go out on the streets, or In
other words, when their conduct conduces
to the comfort or discomfort of the gen
eral nubile.
RED CROSS SUPPLIES
STOLEN BY OFFICERS
Then it will depend upon how
justly the people we send there treat
the Filipinos. Nobody could justly
have the idea that either the Ameri
can Government or people mean to
oppress the inhabitants of the Phil
ippines, but many of the agents
sent there are undoubtedly cor
rupt. For instance, I saw on the
books of the Red Cross Society of
California to-day an account of how
two young fellows, one an army offi
cer and the other a Red Cross officer,
had stolen the supplies of the Red
Cross Society and sold them, and
have now gone into business and are
now prosperous business men in
Manila. As long as dishonesty and
cruelty are possible with our soldiers
and civilians I do not think thero will
be any lasting peace in the Philip
pines, but I do think that if the cam
paign was given into the hands of
one man who was competent to run
the civil administration we could
have peace; in other words, by send
ing men above politics or bribes or
flattery men of . large brain, whose
honor is unstained and who, are hon
est and sincere .without being affect-.
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The Call gives below the most important and most sensational official report on the J
5 present condition of affairs in the Philippines ever filed with this Government. It was ?
5 made by a special agent of the War Department, who has been secretly investigating ?
5 affairs on the islands for some time past, and who has just filed the startling result of his 5
' labors with Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn. f
It is a plain and exhaustive portrayal of the true condition of affairs in the Philip- J
' pines, and is made by a man backed by our Government and empowered to get at the very a
I heart of official corruption. It tells plainly and directly of the jealousy, bickerings and dis- s?
• honesty of certain officers in the army and navy, of the misinformation constantly sent out a
5 to the public, of the shameful treatment of the wives and daughters of the natives by some J
'• of the American troops, of the gross incompetency of many political appointees and of the * s
I heartless conspiracies on the part of men in public and private life there to rob both the na- &
• fives and this Government. ♦
• For obvious reasons the administration has not yet made public this extraordinary ♦
■ report. ♦
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5 this sensational document and here makes it public for the first time. &
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cd. The deepest danger in the Philip
pines is that we have men in high
offices there who are utterly incapable
of studying the problem from a psy
chological standpoint; who can do no
governing but simply to damn and
kick "niggers."
ARMY OFFICERS JEALOUS
OF ONE ANOTHER
There is a good deal of Jealousy be
ween the high officers of the army, and
that makes it dlffl-
■uit to iorce matters
o a focus with the
Filipinos. Thus, for
'xample, when Law
on went to San Isi-
Iro Mac Arthur's di
vision moved up the
allway to San Fer
.ando, driving the
nemy before it and
etting him escape
icross the open
ields, whereas it
teemed to those who
vere on the ground
hat the only logical
eason for Lawton's
movement was, to get down fromArayatto
Mexico, and from Mexico to San Fernan
do, and thus flank Agulnaldo and hold
him between Malolos and San Fernando.
The military men and foreign attaches
whom I have talked with about this
maneuver all seemed to feel that we had
accomplished absolutely, nothing by Law
ton's expedition north and Mac Arthur's I
General Hale
HERE ARE A FEW OF THE IMPORTANT CONCLUSIONS THAT WERE
REACHED BY THE GOVERNMENT'S AGENT.
/]GUINALDO has more power than we are inclined to admit. His name is one to conjure with.
v* It will be a good deal easier to restore peace when you have 65,000 or 70,000 soldiers
in the Islands, but that the rebels will ever give up their arms I do not believe.
It seems unfortunate to retain General Otis in command. He has entirely lost the confi
dence of the soldiers and civilians in the Philippines.
Many of the agents sent here are undoubtedly corrupt. Two young officers stole sup
plies of the Red Cross, sold them, and are now prosperous business men in Manila.
The deepest danger in the Philippines is that we have men In high offices who can do no
governing but to simply damn and kick "niggers."
Men like Funston could have taken command of the army, and men like Irving Hale would
be very well suited for the civil government.
The Filipino Peace Commissioners were sharper diplomatists than ours.
The Tagals who are at the head of the revolution are the smartest, brightest and best of
all the Filipinos.
A silly decree was published, and, I believe upheld by General Otis, that all marriages
that have thus far been performed in the Philippines by Protestant clergymen are null and void.
While we have allowed our soldiers all to gamble, the Tagals watch us at cards and craps
and fully realize that cockfights (which have been abolished) are no worse.
I am surprised that John Barrett should state in the Review of Reviews that the people of
Cebu asked our protection. The records show that Cebu was surrendered to the Americans
under protest.
* There Is a good deal of jealousy between the high officers of the army.
If offices cannot be filled by men of merit it will be dangerous for the United States to
hold the Philippines.
movement on San Fernando. These
operations, it is true, gave us ten or fif
teen miles of railroad, but it left the
enemy as secure and defiant as ever.
RETENTION OF OTIS
IS UNFORTUNATE
I think it is absolutely necessary
to give the command of the army to
one strong man under the direction
of one strong brain. If I may be al
lowed to suggest, it seems unfortu
nate to retain General Otis in com
mand of the Philippines. He may
have all the qualifications and have
the confidence of the Gevernment, but
inasmuch as he has entirely lost the
confidence of the soldiers and civil
ians in the Philippines I think you
will find it more difficult to handle
things with him as Governor General
than you would if you had a new
man a man like General Leonard
Wood or ' General Irving Hale. The
great qualities of some of the younger
men in the Philippines, I feel sure,
have been overlooked. Men like Fun
ston could have taken full command
of the army, and men like Irving
Hale would be very well suited for
the civil Government, There must be
thousands of men in America who
have great business capacity and who
would accept for a brief time the Gov
ernor Generalship. I have the utmost
. respect personally for General Otis,
and believe him to be a much ma
ligned man. I feel sure that he is a
man of great ability in many ways,
but somehow the popular pulse does
not beat his way.
I am sorry I have to differ somewhat
from the opinions of Dr. Sehurman, as
they have been published in the dis
patches. Perhaps these are not his opin
ions, but I think he is very right if he
believes that the people of the towns and
provinces are practically able to run their
own affairs. I did not think this way at
first, but study and observation have con
vinced me that the Filipinos have a good
deal of latent intelligence. I do not
agree, however, with Dr. Sehurman if he
thinks that the sphere of hostility to
America is a small
one. In fact, the
gruff behavior of our
people, especially in
Manila, Is very of
fensive to the people
of the Islands. I am
upheld in this belief
by men unbiased' like
the French, German
and Russian corre
spondents, men who
really like the Amer
icans. Most of the
unprejudiced Ameri
cans think the same
way. We are too free
and easy in some
jeneral Funston
cases and too strict and rough with the
people in some other cases. It needs
wise, c^lm and disinterested mci: -to rep
resent us in the islands. Whether they
are right or not I do not presume to say,
but the natives of all the islands I visit
ed, Cebu, Negros, Panay, Sulu and Lu
zon, all seemed to feel that we are the
aggressors; except the people of Jolo, who
do not believe that we are going to es
tablish a very firm government over them
or one distinctively American.
PEOPLE OF CEBU DID
NOT ASK OUR PROTECTION
I am surprised that John Barrett
should state in the Review of Re
views that . the people of Cebu
asked our protection. On the con
trary, I have read the records of the
American occupation of Cebu in the
diary of the German Vice Consul,
who is a Scotchman, a British citizen
and the only foreigner I found enthu
siastic for American rule in the Phil
ippines. Mr. Cummings made an en
try like this:
"Cebu was surrendered to the
Americans, under protest, by the in
fluence of Majie and Llorente, the two
ablest Filipinos in Cebu.
"The young men of Cebu advised
to burn the town, but wiser counsels
prevailed. Majie said to the com
mander of the Petrel that, finding
ing themselves abandoned by Spain,
they had joined the Filipino Repub
lic. They had no orders from Aguin
aldo, but would yield only under pro
,test, owing to the greater force of the
Americans. At 9:40 the Americans
landed forty sailors, who raised the
Stars and Stripes amid a sullen and
angry populace who wanted to attack
the Americans."
This is quoted to show you what a vast
amount of misinformation there has been
regarding the Philippines, and to show
you how absolutely necessary it is to send
only the best heart and brains of the
country to try and establish a govern
ment which shall satisfy these people. A
large part of our army openly sympa
thizes with many of the Filipino conten
tions. This is especially marked in the
volunteer regiments and is also very
marked among the older men of the reg
ular army. Even here in California,
which of all States will benefit most from
the trade of the Philippines, opinion is
much divided.
Toward the end of July in Manila the
soldiers seemed to degenerate. The war
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Dr. Sehurman.
1 1 can believe it, for I had my servant man
assaulted and beaten three times on the
journey from my room. No. 15 Plaza
Santa, to the steamship Sherman in Ma
nila harbor.
The second day after the first negro
regiment landed in Manila I saw a negro
soldier take the money belt off a China
man in front of Major Devol's office amid
the laughter of our own people, civilians
and soldiers. Corporal Harvey of Major
Devol's office threw a Filipino on the
paving stones just because he was in the
way. An assistant clerk in the same office
struck a Filipino standing beside me on
the stomach. On being remonstrated with
he exclaimed, "He is only a damned
nigger." ?
INFAMOUS TREATMENT OF
THE NATIVE WOMEN
An American chaplain in Malabon,
whose name I withhold, told me
that in his first parish work he had
been told by the natives of Malabo.,
that their wives and daughters had
been raped by our soldiers. He could
authenticate only five cases. The pa
pers of that date (September 15) say
that two men in Manila have been
condemned to death for maltreating
native women. I saw again and again
the brothels of Manila crowded to the
doors by our soldiers, and the saloons
also. All these things may be ; un
avoidable at times. They show how
necessary it is to have the right dis
cipline, i General Hughes kept Manila
in the best order. A Boston lawyer
; told me that he had many cases come
Report Promptly Pigeonholed,
but The Call Secures Impor
tant Extracts, Which Are
i_t r_ _ _
Now Revealed.
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to his office on the Escolta of natives
who had been maltreated. These peo
ple said: "Your soldiers who came
into the towns first are very bad men,
but those who come later are very
kind men." I can explain this to you.
The men often got ahead of their offi
cers and committed outrages until
the officers came up.
General Lawton told me that he had
hard work to stop looting. He was very
good on this. One of the Kansas boys
told me "Funston is hard nuts on _nn
keyin' with the dead; the boys burned
the wooden Christs and stole the brass
Jesuses off the crucifixes." Jean Hess of
the Figaro is practically correct in his
notes on the campaign, but he does not
understand the Americans. The Filipino
peace commissioners were sharper diplo
matists than ours. I Interviewed Dr. Sehur
man for the Associated Press. He was
a good, strong man, and fair-minded, but
he did not see so much of the Filipino
question as the reporters. These men who
signed the round-robin against censorship
are to my certain knowledge reliable men.
Bass and Collins are especially conserva
tive.
THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED.
In conclusion let me sum up. First, we
need to study the question psychological
ly. These people are not as our people.
Our very voices rasp them. Individual
Americans, civilians and soldiers, treat
them arrogantly, as if already they were
our slaves. The Filipinos never forget:
they never forgive; they are highly sensi
tive, easy to flatter, but impossible to fool;
they are very bitter, very brave, very per
sistent. We need on our side great tact,
absolute discipline, stainless honor, in
corruptible — otherwise a legacy of
hate and bloodshed. This is as certain as
the decrees of God. -
Secondly — For the Philippines we
must have civil service. There are
instances all over of incompetency.
Captain Hanna, captain of the port
of Iloilo, is not fit for the place. I
saw him behave in a very ungentle
manly way to a Spanish captain.
Many other things show that he is
no man for the place. There are doz
ens of such men, and they are polit
ical appointees, and are no good in
such positions, but do us lots of harm.
If the offices cannot be filled by men
of merit it will be dangerous for the
United States to hold the Philippines.
Third— Martial law in Manila ought to
be abolished as soon
as possible. There
seems to be no rea
sonable ground for it
at present. The Span
ish taxes ought to be
recast at once, if fur
ther trouble, both
with Americans and
foreigners, is to be
avoided. Absolutely
strict discipline of
our soldiers in their
relation to the na
tives, especially to
the women, is neces
sary. I note, in the
newspaper dis-
General Mac Arthur
patches that two soldiers have been
sentenced to death for maltreating
women. If this be true, you will see the
ground for my remark.
Fourth Our Congress ought to be
called at once to give the Filipinos
some promise of government. It is
claimed by men familiar with the
subject in Luzon that our Govern
ment has not promised them any
thing except the most attenuated
generalities. The Chino-Tagals, who
are the leaders in the movement, are
among the shrewdest men on earth.
They know the difference between an
absolute statement and a diplomatic
evasion, and unless some promise is
made of a very definite character, in
my judgment ' the war will . not cease
with the conquest of Aguinaldo.
LEADERS OF REVOLUTION
BEST OF FILIPINOS
Fifth— The Tagals who are at the head
SPECULATION AS TO
THE CHARTER DECISION
Supreme Court Will Adjourn the
Session in Los Angeles Mon
day and Come Here.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.— Attaches in
and about the Supreme Court chambers
have been bothered all day with inquiries
as to when the decision upon the San
Francisco charter may be expected. Hun
dreds of inquiries have been pouring in on
the subject during the past twenty-four
hours. There has been no official intima
tion anywhere, so far as can be learned,
that the decision is to be delivered while
the court is in session here. San Fran
cisco, however, is evidently of that opin
ion. The Supreme Court will conclude its
labors here to-morrow evening, and most
of the members will arrive in San Fran
cisco on' the owl train Saturday morning.
CAPTAIN WHITING'S POST.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-The Navy De
partment has assigned Captain William
H. Whiting to the post of commander of
the Norfolk Navy Yard in place of Cap"
tain Rockwell. The place was given to
Captain Greene, but that officer, being
disposed to retire next spring, declined
the assignment. Captain Whiting is now
at Honolulu, whither he was called by
t__ illness ox his wild-
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
of the revolution are the smartest,
brightest and best of all the Filipinos.
They have great power with their tribes.
It is not true that this power is gained
through terrorism. It is gained because
there is a spirit of nationality abroad In
the Philippines to-day. This is what
made it so easy for Aguinaldo's emissar
ies to gain control in Panay, Cebu, South
Luzon and Mindanao. Of the final dis
position of the Philippines I have no sug
gestion to make. That lies with the peo
ple of the United States. At present the
zone of hostility to the United States
authority is very wide in the islands.
owing in part, I think, to our lack of
success in dealing with the people.
Hatred of Americans has developed and
increased as we have advanced in our
occupation. The abolition of cock-fight
ing and the retaining of taxes has griev
ously offended the Filipinos. While we
have allowed our soldiers all to gamble,
the Tagals watch us at our cards and
"craps" and fully realize that cock-fight
ing is no worse.
AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT
WITH AMERICAN PROTECTORATE
Sixth— For the present I think an
autonomous government with an Amerl
■?an protectorate
yould satisfy the
>eople. We might ar
ange for a conven
ion at the end of ten
ears to determine
>y a public vote of
he Filipinos what
erm of government
hey wanted. If, in
he eyes of the civil
zed world, the Fill
>inos at the end of
en years were unfit
or self-government.
; :<■•£«_;;:, ■*-«... . i --;,*"r^'. v by thet,timft,mpjtte?i»^
~ Hon. John Barrett. will > have developed
so that both we and
they should have our minds made up as
to what our permanent relations should
be. The manner of dealing with the peo
. pie of Sulu is, I believe, the proper one
•in dealing with the Filipinos, although
opponents of the administration will say,
with some degree of justice, that we
should not have encouraged the Datto
Mundi, the Mohammedan, to take venge
ance on the Christians of Mindanao.
This will undoubtedly be used by the
hostile press. Moreover, to send Indians
to the Philippines will be apt to have a
reactionary effect upon the people of the
country, because it was one of the ob
jections made by William Pitt in the
House of Commons that England intro
duced into her warfare with the Americans
the "scalping knife and the tomahawk of
the savage."
REPLACE THE FRIARS
WITH AMERICAN PRIESTS
Seventh — The Spanish friars should
go home to Spain and American
priests take their places, granting to
the Filipino "padres'' the full rights
of priesthood, which they have never
had under Spain. Religion should be
let alone or wisely guided. Catholi
cism is best suited for them at the
present time. Protestants should
have the same rights as Catholics all
through the islands. A silly decree
was published (and, I believe, upheld
by General Otis) that all marriages
that have thus far been performed in
the Philippines by Protestant clergy
men are null and void. It caused a
great deal of unfavorable sentiment
among the Americans, who would not
tolerate such a measure.
These are my opinions and ob
servations. They are given with
out fear and without favor and I hope
they will be of use to you in considering
the question. If I am wrong time will
very soon show it, and if I am right there
is no use sending you flattering words
which only take up your time and throw .
no light on the question. I hope for the
President and his Cabinet all success in
dealing with -the Philippine problem, and
have no doubt that j their painstaking
work will in the end : bring good results,
although at times, they may be criticized
by an ungrateful public.
Respectfully submitted,
SKELETON OF A MAN
FOUND ON THE DESERT
Belief Expressed That the Bleached
Bones Are Those of Murderer
James Daniels.
PHOENIX. Ariz., Oct. 12.— The skeleton
of a man was found on the desert near
Phoenix yesterday by a Mexioan. The
discovery was made nine miles from the
Phoenix mine in a canyon where Jack
Ford was killed in April by Jim Daniels.
Daniels was never caught and it is be
lieved by the officers here that he re
turned to the spot where the killing oc
curred and ended his life and the skele
ton found is his remains. Coroner John
stone will go to the place where the bones
were found to-morrow.
May Contest a Will.
SANTA CRUZ, Oct. 12.— John Doyle, re
cently deceased, left an estate to R.
Jones and wife, at whose house he had
stayed. In his will he stipulated that
none of his relatives should receive any
share of the property, valued at $5000. He
had not had anything to do with his rela
tives for many years. A contest is now
in prospect, as to-day Rose Doyle of
Springfield, Mass., through her attorneys,
announced her appearance in the matter
of a petition to probate the will. She is
a niece of the deceased. Some years ago.
through inquiries made for Doyle's rela
tives in Ireland, she learned that he re
sided in this country. She is the only
jiving relative.