Hello all; I finally conned my sister into transcribing some of the Hazzard information I got from the Museum in Lewis County, Washington. This tells part of the story of how a group of five solders including two Hazzard brothers, who migrated from Scott County, Indiana to Chehalis, Washington with there family in 1882, captured General Aguinaldo in the Spanish American War. These Hazzard brothers are my first cousins twice removed. More to follow. Don Coatney TACOMA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1906. HELPED TAKE AGUINALDO Three Officers at Camp Tacoma Were in Famous Expedition. FUNSTON'S CLEVER PLAN Americans Carried by Maccabebe Scouts Ostensibly as Prisoners --Lieutenant Hazzard's Story [From a Staff Correspondent] CAMP TACOMA, Aug. 23.--Of the Five American officers who were present at the time Aguinaldo, the notorious Filipino insurgent leader, was captured, three are now in Camp Tacoma. These are Brigadier General Frederick Funston, First Lieutenant Burton J. Mitchell, aide to the camp commander, and First Lieutenant R. T. Hazzard, company C, Seventh infantry. Incidentally, Lieutenant Hazzard is a Washington man, with hosts of friends in this part of the state. He hails from Chehalis, from which city he came in the spring of 1898 to join the First Washington, enlisting as second lieutenant of company M in that famous organization. Since then Lieutenant Hazzard has been in the United States army and, although he has traveled extensively, he still holds Washington as his home. Upon returning from the campaign into Peking in November, 1901, Lieutenant Hazzard, then captain of the Eleventh cavalry on detached service, organized the First battalion of Maccabebe scouts. Company D of this battalion of loyal natives was selected for the daring expedition against Aguinaldo. Aguinaldo Was Cunning. "Aguinaldo is a man of extreme cunning," said the lieutenant in relating the thrilling story, "and he had the knack of selecting intelligent men as his advisers. He had been prominent as an insurgent against the Spaniards for a number of years before Americans went to the islands. His last coup against the Spaniards occurred in 1896, the campaign ending in a treaty by the terms of which Aguinaldo was paid a large sum of money by the Spaniards. The leader and some of his henchmen promised to leave the country and never return. "Aguinaldo went to Hongkong and remained there until after Manila was taken by Admiral Dewey. Then he returned and practically became an ally of the United States army, gathering such an insurgent force as he could get together. After the fall of the city, August 13, 1898, he and his army were refused admission into Manila. The outcome of this was the insurrection of the natives against the United States forces in February, 1899. "For two years after this he eluded capture and continued to harass the American army. He established headquarters in all the important towns of northern Luzon, his last stand being made at Palanan, where he was finally taken. Funston Got Information. "The rebel leader was captured on information secured by General Funston and the plan of capture was entirely that of the general. The men of the expedition were selected by General Funston and had the little drama been rehearsed on a stage it could not have been more succdessfully executed. "Among certain papers secured by General Funston were letters written from Aguinaldo to General Lacuna, at that time commander of the insurgent forces in Luzon. These requested Lacuna to send reinforcements to Palanan as soon as practicable. General Funston conceived the idea of fitting out the Maccabebe scouts to appear as native soldiers and sending them to Palanan as the reinforcement. "This was done, information being sent ahead from time to time by messenger informing Aguinaldo of the progress of the company. The five American officers accompanying the expedition were ostensibly being carried as prisoners of war, thus enabling them to get into Palanan. Americans With Expedition. "These five officers were General Funston, my brother, First Lieutenant O. P. M. Hazzard, then with the Eleventh Volunteer cavalry, and now with the Second cavalry; Captain H. W. Newton, Thirty-fourth Volunteer infantry, Lieutenant B. J. Mitchell, then, as now, General Funston's aide, and myself. "We left Manila on the gunboat Vicksburg March 6, 1901, captured Aguinaldo on March 23, and arrived back at Manila March 28. The Vicksburg landed the expedition at Casiguran bay and then we had to march 116 miles overland. Returning, we covered the same distance on foot and then took the gunboat for our destination." Lieutenant Hazzard tells his story modestly, but every American knows that the brave officers who accomplished the downfall of the insurgent leader took their lives in their hands. It was a daring expedition, and to have been a member of it is a distinction. Lieutenant Hazzard, during his long service in the army, has participated in many exciting campaigns and Washington has a right to be proud of him. His brother, assigned to the Second cavalry, is not in Camp Tacoma, being on detached service at present. Well-Known in Washington. During the stay of the Second Washington here last week Lieutenant Hazzard found many old acquaintances with whom he fought for Uncle Sam in the islands. Among these were Colonel George B. Lamping, Lieutenant Colonel Matt H. Gormley, Captain Charles E. Head and others. Lieutenant Hazzard came to Washington in 1882, and for years had a speaking acquaintance with nearly every person in Tacoma and Seattle. However, as illustrating the growth of those cities, the officer remarked that during last Sunday's review he looked in vain for a familiar face among the crowd of spectators. "From my point of view, I consider the First Washington the best volunteers that fought in the Philippines," is the way the lieutenant spoke of the famous Washington organization. Lieutenant Hazzard clearly recalls being at Camp Rogers, half way between South Tacoma and Lakeview, when the Washington volunteers were assembled upon the outbreak of the war in 1898. He was in the Philippines five years and one month excepting nine months in 1900, when he participated in the relief campaign into China. Upon leaving the First Washington he was made captain of the Eleventh Volunteer cavalry, and later was commissioned into the regular service as first lieutenant of the First United States cavalry. In October, 1903, he returned from the islands, and last spring he was transferred to the infantry. He has been with the Seventh since and recently was in temporary command of company G. Story Is Interesting When asked to recite the details of the capture of Aguinaldo, Lieutenant Hazzard modestly replied that it was an old story. However, the recital proved most interesting, for it was Lieutenant Hazzard's company that outwitted the cunning insurgent. Aguinaldo was taken by the Americans on March 23, 1901. At this time Brigadier General Funston was in command of a district comprising several provinces in the north of Luzon, the general having previously won his laurels by several dashing and brilliant expeditions in the islands. Hero of Philippines 93 Years Old GENERAL AGUINALDO HONORED By A. M.Rosenthal _______________________ New York Times News Service Kawit, The Philippines, March 22. The old man sat near the band listening to the waltzes. When the president of the republic and the ambassador of the United States and the admirals and generals came up to him to wish him a happy birthday, he held them briefly by the hand because he could not see them very well. THE GREAT house, built like a toy fort with gingerbread turrets and two little cannon poking from a balcony, was full of guests. They roamed about huge rooms with hardwood floors and peered at the memories of decades fading in oak frames on walls and drank martinis. The old man sat all the while near the band. Two nurses patiently fanned the hot air and made little signs to visitors not to talk too long. But the old man wanted to talk and he did--of how it was not his birthday that should be honored but that day long ago, 64 years ago, when he proclaimed the first Republic of the Philippines, and of comrades and rivals and enemies of a whole epoch of a nation's history of which he alone survives. THIS WAS the 93rd birthday of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, a slight, taciturn man full of a nation's passion, who became the leader of the revolution against Spain in his twenties, a president and an idol at 30, fought the army of the United States for two years and was taken prisoner at 32 and who has seen more than a half-century slip by while his country paid him reverence. That band that played waltzes was a United States Air Force Band. At tables sat United States officers in dress whites and on the wall hung pictures of presidents and generals of the United States inscribed in honor of the man once known as "that bandit Aguinaldo." AT FIRST pictures and souvenirs--rusty guns in cases and the sword captured from a Spanish general and then worn as a talisman--give the old house the atmosphere of a museum. But soon the presence of the old man, alert and remembering, produces a quite different sensation--one of being thrown backward in time. On one wall hangs a picture of Commo. George Dewey, white moustached and dignified. It was the destruciton of the Spanish fleet at Manilla by Dewey--"you may fire when ready, Gridley"--that gave the general then in exile after an armed deadlock with the forces of Spain, a chance to return to the Philippines and reform his army. FOR MORE than a half-century the question of whether or not the general had the promise of the commodore and the United States that the Philippines would be free after the defeat of Spain has been debated. Aguinaldo says the promise was given. In the archives are his pleas to President Taft of the "great North American nation." Dewey said coldly and repeatedly that such pledges were never given. Aguinaldo returned. When it became quite clear that the United States intended to take over the Phi8lippines, he and his army fought hard against the country they had regarded as their liberator. THE GENERAL was the soul of the battle and of the nationhood movement. On one wall there is another picture--Gen. Aguinaldo in top hat in 1889 riding in a carriage to his inauguration. But there is no picture in the house of Col. Frederick Funston. This was the man who captured Aguinaldo in a daring ruse that Theodore Roosevelt said sowed iron courage and the British termed poor cricket. Funston and a band of Filipino mercenaries marched itno Aguinaldo's camp. They pretended that the Filipinos were loyal Aguinaldo men who had taken the American prisoner. They opened fire, won the camp and took Aguinaldo prisoner.