The Sulu Archipelago and its people, by Sixto Y. Orosa ...

8 SULU ARCHPELGO AND ITS PEOPLE

Warren G. Harding.

to fight. On September 2, 1903, Major Hugh L. Scott
became governor of Suu. Although Major Scott was a
military man, he instituted a civil government; that is,
the government under hirm ceased to be purely military.
Many of the chiefs proposed to resist all interference
with the old order Every few days a juramentado
would set out on his errand of killing.
In November, 1903, it became evident that an
important rising of chiefs was planned. "Major Scott,
says Foreman, "having called upon the biggest chief,
Panglima Hassan, to present himself and account for