Albuquerque Morning Journal

GOVERNOR GARD SAN FRANCISCO

Badly Shattered Victim of Filipino Savages Comes to United States For Treatment.

[By Morning Journal Special Leased Wire.]

San Francisco, July 13.—Allen Gard, a district governor from Lanao in the extreme southern part of the Island of Mindanao, the Philippine archipelago, who was reported to have died as a result of wounds received in an engagement with Moros, arrived here today on the transport Sheridan.

Governor Gard, still suffering from the fearful wounds received, occupied a cot in the hospital ward of the Sheridan on the voyage from Manila, and was carried from the ship on a stretcher and placed aboard the train en route to New York, where he will enter the Roosevelt hospital.

Governor Gard, who went to the Islands in 1901 as a teacher, had charge of a district in the province of Davao, the southernmost province on the island of Mindanao, populated by the fanatical Moros, the wildest and fiercest tribesmen in the islands. Last February a band of natives murdered James Smith, a white road foreman, near Lanao. Governor Gard went in pursuit of the raiding Moros with a small force of constabulary. He followed them into the dense forests of the interior and finally located their camp on a mountain top. Advancing at the head of his bodyguard, he called upon the Moro datto to surrender. He was greeted with a volley of bullets, several of which struck him. His left leg was terribly torn by a brain slug, his left arm broken and his leg fractured in the thigh by another ball. The constabulary stormed the camp but the Moros escaped.