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VOL. X
THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1900.
NO. 51
IS
MOVEMENT TO
WARDS PEKIN
Sir Alfred Gazellee. Commanding the
British Forces in China, Cables
the London War UHicelhat He
Contemplates an Immediate Ad
vance.
London, July 31. la the house of
commons today the parliamentary sec
retary for the foreign cfllce, William St.
John Broderick, announced the receipt
of a dispatch from General Alfred
Gazelle, commanding the British forces
in China, stating that he contemplated
an immediate advance on Pekin, and
that he hoped to have the co-operation
of the allied forces.
Washington, July 31. The war de
partment has received the following
cablegram from General Chaffee:
"CheFoo, July 30. Adjutant-general,
Washington : Have had interview with
admiral. 'Go ashore this afternoon;
facilities for unloading not adequate,
therefore discharging slowly. Informed
by Byron has oidered tag for towing two
70-ton lighters. If tug is obtained, die
charging will improve. Indiana will
finish discharging today and proceed to
Nagasaki ; take two days to unload horses
Riley Battery ; week before Grant dis
charged of cargo. Will see Daggett to
day. "It is reported in Taku bay that it is
the intention to make forward move
ment tomorrow towards Fekin; details
not known here. Arrive lien Tsin too
late tomorrow to cable from there.
Message from Tien Tain must leave
Tonga Ku C morning to catch dispatch
boat at anchorage for Che Foo at 4 after
noon. Soon as possible will get definite
information as regards conditions and
purposes at Tien Tsin. Will cable my
views. Chaffee."
London, July 31.-0:10 p. m. A
special dispatch from Tien Tsin says :
"A Pek:n message dated July 21 re
ports that the first outside news reached
there July 18. The failure of the relief
exedition made the siege far more
perilous. On June 10 the Tsnng li j
Yamun broke off relations. June 20
China declared war. Baron von Ketteler
and Francis James, an English professor,
were murdered. Over 400 non-combat
tants occupied the British legation.
"I understand converts are holding the
North Cathedral. A thousand refugees
occupied the palace of Prince Ln. A
truce began July 17 after 26 days of
fierce assault. One night the shelling
was nninterrupted for six hours."
tinct and determined effort from Shang
hai to Che Foo to hold back the advance
of the allies under a menace of the death
of the survivors of the legations. It
nothing else be plain in the Chinese
maze, there are cumulative proofs that
a single will is paramount at Pekin, and
that a definite and positive policy has
been adopted in dealing with the powers.
One fact of Btipreme importance is the
helplessness of the legations if the Chi
nese government cbootes to renew the
attack while the allied forces are march
ing toward Pekin. In that sense the
envoys are hostages, and the empress
and the Mandarins are making desperate
effort to keep the powers out of the
capital.
CONGER AGAIN
HEARD FROM
Has Several Weeks' Provisions But
Short of Ammunition Chinese At
tack Has Ceased.
ON THE MARCH
TO PEKIN
Thirty Thousand American, British and
Japanese Are Believed to Constitute
the Army Which Started for China's
Capital This Morning.
WERE HELD
AS HOSTAGES
England Now Sure Ministers Are in
That Position.
New Yonic, July 31. The effect of ail
the reassuring dispatches from China
during the past twenty-hours hours,
vers the London correspondent of the
Tribune, has been to impress the mem
bers of parliament with the fact that the
survivors were virtually held as hostages.
It was no longer asserted that the
Chinese cfliciali were lying in order to
(tain time for insidions attempts to
divide the powers and for the removal
of the seat of government from Pekin to
egat, a mountain stronghold far more
inarcessable than Mr. Kruger's LyJen
burg, in the Transvaal.
The theory of a small group of optim
ists had suddenly been taken up by the
best-informed men in parliament, and
n the clubs, namely, that the legations,
"iter a seige of several weeks, during
hich many had been killed and
wounded, bad passed under the protec
tion of the imperial government, which
s nouiing the survivors at its mercy
nd endeavoring to induce the powers to
"spend the advance of the army from
Tien Tsin and to negotiate a settlement
n the basis of heavy financial in
'Intimities. There are many proofs that an author
"y of some kind with a powerful will be
'dud it has been substituted for anarchy.
Mceroys and generals are going n( to
ward the capital with strong bodies of
Chinese soldiers, the governor of Kiang
S is inarching north, I.u Chnan Lin is
"Pproaching Pekin, and other generals
removing. The military forces which
wre at Tien Tsin have retreated upon
the capital, and there 1st nnily of direc
lin in the Chinese councils and di-
Washington, July 31. The war de
partment this afternoon received two
cablegrams from China. The first read :
'Che Foo Undated). Corbin, Wash
ingtou Tien Tsin, July 27. A message
i'lst received from Conger savs: 'Since
July 10, by agreement, there lias been
no firing. I have provisions for several
weeks, but little ammunition. All safe
and well.'
I (Daggett) report that the allied
forces will Boon advance. There is prac
tically no looting by the Americans, and
no unnecessary .killing. The India ar
rived July 20. Order McCann, Sladen,
both Aliens, Mitchell and Brice to join
regiment here. Daggett,"
The second read : "Che Foo. Corbiu,
Washington. Tien Tsin, July 30. The
Flintshire airived July 27. Two hun
dred and fifty-seven of the Ninth in
fantry are sick. Two doctors, 100 hospital
corps men and twenty signal men are
needed. There is unavoidable delay in
unloading the transports. Foreign troops
are aniviug. Daggett."
Tne official confirmation of the news
that Minister Conger is safe and well,
coupled withthe statement that he has
provisions for several weeks, and tbat
the firing on the legation has ceased,
was welcome intelligence. The informa
tion from Colonel Daggett was promptly
telegraphed to President McKinley at
Canton.
The last message which came from
Minister Conger w: that obtained
through the intermediary of Minister
jyu, and was supposed to be dated the
18th, before which time nothing bad
come since June 12.
It is expected all the energies of tbe
government, as well as those of other
nations, will be concentrated for an ad
vance on Pekin. The proportionof men
of the Ninth Infantry reported by Colonel
Daggett as sick is considered an alarm
ing and unfortunato feature of the
situation. Officials are unable to ac
count for it, but agree that it may de
lay an immediate movement forward.
The delays in unloading the transports
are .also discouraging and vexatious.
Surgeon-General Sternberg already had
given public notice that 100 contract
surgeons were wanted for service in the
Kast, but it will be some tine before
they can bo on the (round, ready for
active work.
London, Aug. 1. "The allies began
the advance from Tieu Tsin this morn
ing," announced an agency bulletin
dated at Shanghai at 11: 10 a. ni. today.
It is assumed that the Americans,
British and Japanese are taking part in
this forward movement, whether other
nationalities are or not. An advance
base will probably be established twenty
or thirty miles nearer Pekin, and sup
plies will be assembled preparatory to
a direct stroke at the capital.
Of the 60,000 allies debarked at Fe Chi
Li ports, English military observes con
sider that 30,000 are available for an ad
vance beyond Tien Tsin. The Chinese
forces, according to the vague gatherings
of the allies' intelligence officers, up to
July 27, were disponed in a great arc 30
miles long and distant 10 or 15 miles.
The numbers and exact location of the
several divisions are utterly unknown.
The Pei Ho River Is blockaded by sunken
stone-laden junkB for twenty miles be
yond Tien Tsin and farther up, according
to Chinese spies o' the allies, and a dam
has been constructed for the purpose of
flooding the low-lyingexpanse of country.
The first engagement of the relief ex
pedition will probably be at Pei Tang,
where ttie viceroy of Yulu personally
commands.
Tien Tsin, July 20, via Che Foo, July
30, and Shanghai, Aug. 1. (Copyright,
1900, by the Associated Press.; The
American commander received orders
from Washington today not to delay the
advanc3 on Pekin. He was also informed
that heavy reluforcements are en route.
Great activity is noticeable at the
Japanese headquarters. Traneport prep
arations are being hurried. It is ex
tremely unlikely thatelther the Japanese
or British intend to be left behind the
Americans, though theBiitieh prepara
tions arda lung way from completeness
The Japanese organization, on the other
hand, excites the admiration of all.
The total strength of the allies heie is
17,000. Reinforcements are arriving
daily.
CHICAGO CHINESE
FULL OF JOY
Evening Telegram.) State Grain Iu
s pee tor George P. Wright is back from
trip through the wheat districts of
Eastern Washington. He estimates that
the wheat crop will be fully 20 per cent
short on account of very dry weather
just at the time the wheat was heading
nicely. Fields which gave promise of
yielding 40 to 45 bushels to tbe acre,
will do well if they run as high as 25 to
30. The greatest shrinkage is in the
foothills and valleys, wnere there is an
enormous growth of straw, but the heads
are small. Harvesting Is progressing
pretty well, and the grain is of good
grade. Instead of Washington having a
wheat crop of 30,000,000 bushels, as was
expected, 25,000,000 will be a high
estimate.
SECOND OREGON
DAY AT REUNION
Deeds of Volunteers Celebrated By Old
Veterans
8I Hundred Hostage
Rome, Aug. 1. A dispatch received
here says: "The Chinese government
is detaining 600 Europeans as hostages,
including theminietersand their families
and the members of the legations."
It is believed here tnat when war is
officially declared these will be ordered
to leave Pekin w ithin 24 hours. They
wiil then be at the mercy of the Boxers.
China, it is thought, will consider that
the war has been declared as soon
as the allies begin to march on Pektn.
Will l'a United Mtate Money.
Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 1. In ac
cordance with recent order issued at
Washington, the legal tender of Porto
Rican silver coins ceasod today, and
hereafter American money will be the
medium of circulation throughout the
island. No time it set as a limit within
which tbe exchange into American
money can be made. In order to facili
tate the exchange as much as possible,
twenty-five or thirty postofflces and cus
tom houses will-be designated by the de
partment as additional places of ex
change. j
A good blacksmith is tnnch needed at
Victor, this county. A competent man
can have all the work be can do, and
have the use of suitable building prac-1
tically free. Of course be must furnish
his own tools and stock. Inquiries
made of A. F. Evlck, Victor, will be
promptly answered. al-3tw
Glad Tidings From China Brought
tbe Mongolians From the Seclu
sion in Which They Have Held
Themselves.
Chicago, Aug. 1. All Chinatown vio
lated the anti noise ordinance last night
with a native celebration. The police
at midnight were finally compelled to
put a 6top to the ceremonies. The cele
bration was brought about by a docu
ment received from the (Chinese of San
Francisco setting forth comforting news
of the situation in their native land.
At 7 o'clock the Chinese residents be
gan to assemble in their gala costumes.
Those familiar with South Clark street
were astonished at the number of Mon
golians who came forth from the Oriental
stores and down from the apartments of
the rich residents to the lower end of
the colony. Msny of the Chinese have
secluded themselves during the last few
weeks, fearing violenca at the hands of
the American populace, but the good
news received from their countrymen
dispel'ed their mlsgivings.and they gave
full vent to their relieved feelings. All
the influential members of the colony
were present.
The scroll received from San Francisco
was produced and read. According to
one of the prominent members of the
colony, the Chinese have been informed
that the Boxer rebellion is being quelled
and the legations protected. After the
reading ot the manuscript the terrible
clanging of gongs opened the celebration
and the noixe steadily increased in
volume. Tli" Chinese, singing and shout
ing, worked themselves into great ex
citement. Mid an iumense crowd at
tracted by the weird demonstration,
filled the street below and blocked the
car line several times.
The police were finally notified and
they ordered the Chinese to cease their
deafening noise and disperse.
hort Wheat Crop.
Tacoma, Aug. 1. (Special to The
Pleasant Home, Aug. 1. Today was
Second Oregon day at the G. A. R. re
union, and much enthusiasm was mani
fested over the programme given to hon
or tho deeds of the later young American
soldiery. Early this morning the camp
ing ground was a scene of activity.
Everybody was preparing for the day of
patriotic observance, and the National
colors were everywhere In evidence. At
10:30 the audience assembled and L. II.
Wells addressed them on "National and
Commercial Expansion."
After reviewing the events which led
up to the war that placed Porto Rico and
the Philippines in the hands of tho
United States, the speaker discussed the
responsibility that has come also. He
said :
"We may not like the job but we can't
help ourselves. Who among you would
turn back the hand on the dial of time
and undo what has been done? We are
going to have a part in the great com
mcrcial development that is taking place
in the Orient. It will mako this country,
and especially the Pacific Coast, greater
than ever. It would be a National dig-
grace, did we take the back track after
we have made the start. There will be
national progress or national decay. It
is only when we are standing still and
suffering from the canker of stagnation
that there is danger. We don't like to
mix up over there in China, but we can
not do otherwise. So long as we are a
world power we must play our part or
become a national sneak.
' You old soldiers helped make this
great Nation, did you not? Of course
you did. There is no danger of all this
being undone. Let us be optimists and
abiu-e pessimism. Great affairs have
daily occurrence, and we cannot take
the backward step without national
calamity.
llreiRl Does Not Deny Conspiracy.
Rome, Aug. 1. In the ciurse of his
examination yesterday Bressi did not
deny that he had been designated to
assassinate King Humbert. It is now-
believed that the crime was arranged in
Patterson, N. J. Bressl's brother, who
is a.lieutenant in the Italian army, stig
matizes the crime as the most cowardly
act of the centurv. lie had no news of
his brother for a long time and thought
he was (till in the United States.
Parliament has been summoned to
meet August tilh. It is stated that
Queen Maraheritii will retire to Strela,
to live with her mother. The clergy of
Alonza and throughout Italy are holding
memorial services today.
Great excitement is reported at Mi
lan. The tioops are in readiness at
their barracks to prevent a disturbance.
A score of prominent anarchists have
been arrested. The police are active
and other arrests are expected to full w.
CHINA IS
TO BLAME
Imperial Edicts Condemned the
Christians Boxers Ordered to
Kill Government Indicted Before
the World for its Cruelty
Klllffl (he IHirk.
Taimsia, Aug. 1. (Special to The
Evening Telegram.) The ravage! if the
cutworm in the l'uget Sound basiu is re
ported to be nearly past. The pest ap
pears to be going into the pupae state,
and its w oik for tbe year will soon he
ended.
In the paU few days the worms have
been making (ad havoc of potatoes, bor
ing persistently into the earth alter them.
Rutabagas and other root crops are also
infected. One man not finding anything
that would check the worms, turned bis
ducks into the garden. The ducks shov
eled the worms up with great glee for
nearly a dav, but out of a flock of 02,
37 died before 24 hours.
The hop crop in the Puyaliup valley
is reported to he badly injured, ami fruit
tree have suffered much. The worms
are devastating the wild alder trees, the
folliage of which is being trimmed off as
cleanly as if cut off lr frost.
Clark A Falk are never closed Sunday
Don't forget this.
London, Aug. 2, 4 a. m. At last the
story of Tekin has been told. Dr. Morri
son, in today's Times, holds up the CM-
uese government Deiore tne world as
guilty, and to n degree of infamy as
duplicity that exceeds the surmise of
its worst detractors. In the same die
patch be gives a more hopeful view of
the prospocts of the besieged than has
been expressed by any of the others who
have been beard from. Simultaneously
there comes from the Belgian Charge
d'Afl'aires at Shanghai an official state
ment that the allies are expected to
reach Pokln in about a week, they being
eighteen miles from Tien Tsin yesterday.
Another lettor has been received at
Tieu Tsin from the British minister, Sir
Claude MacDonald, dated July 24. "We
are surrounded by imperial troops," h
writes, "who aro firing on usconlint ous-
ly. The enemy is enterprising, but
cowardly. We have provisions for about
a fortnight and are eating our ponies.
The Chinese government, if there be one,
has done nothing whatever to help us.
If the Chinese do not press the attack
we can hold for, say ten days. So po
time should be lost if a terrible massacre
is to be avoided."
Yet a Shanghai special says Li Hung
Chang has received a decree, dated July
28, commanding him to inform the con
suls that the ministers were safe on that
date. Evidently Sir Claude MacDonald
was over-peesimiBtic, as Dr. Morrison
under date of July 21, announces tho ar
rival of supplies, ln view of this it is
quite within reason that tbe edict an
nouncing the safety of the ministers on
the 28th is correct.
Sir Claude McDonald's latest letter
while a strong indictment of the Chinese
government, is not nearly so much so as
Dr. Morrison's dispatch. That corre
apunueur, wun me imperial edicts as
authority, declares that as late as July 2,
the imperial government ordered the
Boxers to continue "their loyal and pa
triotic services in exterminating the
Christians." He explains that the mar.
velous changes in tho attitude of the Chi
nese have so puzzled the world that it
appears all the appeals for intervention
and protestations of friendship have
been due entirely to the victories of the
allies at Tien Tsin. The ministers at
Pekin owed their safety np to July 21
not to government protection, but to the
scarcity of Chinese aminuition and to
the fear which tho Tien Tsin victories
inspired.
When it is remembered how great re
liance is placed upon Dr. Morrison in
England, the importance of his exposure
of the Chinese government can scarcely
be over-estimated. It seems to banish
all hopes entertained by Lord Salisbury
that tho Chinese government migfit yet
be proved not directly responsible for
the outrage, and it may result in an
entire cessation of negotiations witli
Chinese diplomats, if not sn open decla
ration of war on the part of the powers.
the wretched work of the transportation
service.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt made a
speech against the government yeeteiday
in the house of commons, and displayed
a semblance of hisold-tiuie flghtinir form.
He referred to the estimate of f 13,000,001)
for the operations in Chin and inti
mated tbat the ultimate cost of British
operations in that quarter might exceed
that in South Alrica. He also assumed
that the war in South Africa would cost,
fully $400,000,000, and comumitsd on
the fact tbat consuls which used to stand
at 115 had gone below par. He even
veutured to predict that Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach, if ho were borrowing,
would emulate Mr. Goschen's achieve
ment in sending them to 05.
This speech was the nioet effective at
tack which has yet been made on the
government. The war has not been well
financed. A tax of a penny a pound on
sugar would havo yielded more revenue
than the new schedule of increased taxes
imposed hy Sir Michael Hicks-Beach at
the expense (if pavers of income dues
and other direct taxes.
FREE COMMUNICA
TION DEMANDED
fiatT Li Hung Chang Practically Ac
knowledges Ministers Are Held as
Hostages and Oilers Their Release
If Advance on Capital is Abandoned
BOERS BAREFOOT
AND IN TATTERS
Remnants of Their Army Are Suffering
Many Privations End Cannot Be
Far A way.
New Yoiik, Aug. 2. A Tribtinn die
patch from London says: The war in
South Africa is clearly approaching an
en.l. Hunter lias reported tint he w ill
Washington, Aug. 2. The state de
partment has made public the following
correspondent between Li Hung Chang
and tho department regarding the
abandonment of the campi'.inon l'ekin :
Telegram sent to tho .United States
embassies in Berlin, London, Paris,
Roino and St. Petersburg, and to the
United Slates Minister at Tokio :
"Department of state, Washington,
August 1, 1900: In reply to a sugges
tion of Li Hung Chang that the ministers
might be sent under a safe escort to
Tien Tsin, provided the powers would
engage not to t.iaich on Pekin, the secre
tary ofttale replied on the 30th of July:
'This government will not enter into
any arrangement regarding disposition
or treatment of legations without first
having free communication with Minister
Conger. Responsibility for their pro
tection rests upon Chinese government.
Power to deliver at Tien Tsin presup
posed power to protect and to open com
munication. This ia insistod on.'
"This message was delivered by Mr.
Goodnow on July 31st to the viceroy,
who then inquired whether, if 'free com
munication was established between the
ministers and their governments, it
could be arranged tbat the powers
should not advance on Pekin, pending
negotiations.' "
To Ibis inquiry the followirg reply
was sent on the first of August :
"Goodnow, consul-general, Shanghai :
I do not think it expedient to sntimii
the proposition of Earl Li to tho oilier
powers. Free communication with our
representatives in Pekin is demanded as
n matter of absolute right and not as a
favor. Since the Chinese government
admits that it possesses the power to
give communication, it puts itself in an
unfriendly attitude by denying it. No
negotiations seem advisable until the
Chinese government shall have put the
liplomatic representatives of the powers
in full and free communication with
their respective governments und re
moved all danger to their Kvesnnd lib
erty. We would urge Kai I Li earnestly
to advise the Itnpetlal authorities of
China to place themselves in friendly
communication and co-operation witn
the relief expedition. They are assuming
a heavy responsibility of acting other
wise.
"Yon will communictte this informa
tion to the minister of foreign affairs.
Hay."
Shanghai, Wednesday, Aug. 1. The
allies advanced towards Pekin today. It
is estimated that the expedition numbers
have fully 4I;00 prisoners among the hills 20,000 men of all arms with 170 guns. It
south of Bethlehem, and that Oliver
alone has succeeded in hreakinaway to
ward Harrismith with a thousand men.
Forty thousand British tro s to l e able
to catch Id m commando with its five
guns.
The Free Stale forces now consist of
two columns of 1000 men each, under
Dcwet and Oliver, several hundred miles
apart, and enveloped with British troops,
ami when these surrender the Transvaal
Boers will not have any justification for
holding out, especially when the cam
paign has become one of intolerable
suffering on both sides. The Boers are
fighting in rag) and bare feet and suffer
ing from hunger, cold and every con
ceivable privation. The British troops
are also badly clothed and fed, owing to
is hoped to reach Pekin August 12.
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