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THK MORNING ASlOKlAN, smiRUAl. WTOUEH 21. 1899.
HEAVY BATTLE REPORTED
AT GLENCOE YESTERDAY
Nine Thousand Boers Attack the British
Position at Daylight-
REPULSED WITH GREAT SLAUGHTER
year MA the heai of the two day as scheduled, or at ths most nut
fwfi were recxgnlted a marking later than Tuesday,
prints of a temporary division tin.' The Srauxr li built of teel. and
wi'hout sacrificing th permanent ct JWO lri.
rights of elthr party- This arrange-' She U only tto )mvi olJ. nd U ont
mefit has been found to work absolute- cf the staunrhrst vessrts on th. Pa
ly without Motion and the present U ciftc.
not believed to be an opportune time
BOTH RETIRED.
to disturb IL
Th point where the trouble threat- ,rty u mJ EnfUsh Mer,
ened u on the DaMon trail. which. (n Oppo WweUoM
by the way, la not directly on the
Skagwy route, although a aide trail GLENCOE CAMP. Oct. 1 -(De-doe
connect th points, but rather layed In transmission.) A report
the natural pathway from Pyramid reached the camp today that the Boers
HartMT Into the Klondike. The United had bern alghted trvea rclle out. A
j Statu gvwernment could acarcely coo- squadron of the Eighteenth Hussars
I tend at thla point that the boundary rode out. On reaching tie brow of a'
i line vai to be iMned by the precrlb- hill they discovered a strong advance
4
Wilson improved Air Tight Heaters
...FOR COAL...
ed tone of thirty milt from the .. part of Dorrs. The liusnars tvtlred
for in this section of the country, thvr on the main body, which In the moan-
I was an undeniable mountain range. In Ume had moved und-r cover and made
British Infantry Advance ml Carry All Before Tbera-All the
Guns Plantelty Transvaal Troops Carried
British Loss Heavy.
rvady to open Ore. The wily enemy
W(N not to be drawn out In fact,
they, after delivering their Are, hesi
tated, apparently staggered at their
LONDON. Oct. JO. War office re-, are still out. General Symons Is -
eetved the following dsspalch from I rereiy wounded. Oar loaae re beTy.
which case the treaty provides that
this range should fix the boundary.
Therefore, the new arrang?meti
draws a line from Chtlkoot pass In a
direction a little south' of west to a ttoor success with the rtflns, and per-
mountain peak about ten miles Wtt of wiving that the Human had maneu-
the Danton trail Thla line cats across vered out of range, they quickly
the Chllkoot river some distance abov turned and retired.
the town of Klukwan. thus completely
cutting off the British possessions from
Ladysmith. flkd at : this after- They will be telegrapher as soon as
' possible."
"This from Glencoe rT were at
tacked this morning at daylight by a
force roughly estimated at IMS. They
had placed four or fire guna in poca
tioa oa a hill i.40 yeards esvst of our
I
I scetion of the Porcupine country of
I
i LONDON. Oct. 10. A dispatch from considerable extent which was clsim
i Glerooe camp says Sir William 8ym-j ed by Canada, and which Is now being
I on has assumed command. prospected by a number of American
i miner) who were driven out of the At-
LAD 1 bMITn, Oct. At . w Un country by an adverse Brltlih Co-
THK BATTLE GENERAL,
CAPE TOWN. Oct. 10. GUncue
Camp has been attacked by a great
force of Boers, who posted guns on a
hill overlooking the town and opened
fire on the camp, 'the battle is now
general.
TliU lioator is e.-juvially ndtiptid for Sufi Coal
and Lignite, Hit? IhhIv in muili' of mlMied
stool. Kxtr liruvy finikin' itin! tlinnpinn
prate. Kiro hjI oxtnt lu'itvy with large iikIi 'it.
Una nickel urn, nickel iiuiiic pluto iiihI two
nickel I'laUnl fxt rail;.
The hot bldft draft i hi constnicled that the
ex-njiii)j gnss are all coiikuhumI, which niiikt
n great saving in the connuinjition of furl.
Price, $12.00 to $25.00.
All Varieties ct Hood Air lights al
FOARD 0 STOKES.
eamn. and they fired plugged sheU. j mornlng a teieaxn was received trom) ,umbUn
Their artillery did no damage.
kifantry formed for
Our
General Symona annotuicinf the Boers
auacs. ana vt, .wjii., r.iw dmn wiLh
oar Infantry advanced to the aack. from Glencoe at 1.40 this' Harbor
and after hard fignting. swdag mi'M m0TZlng saying tie flghdcg was pro-;
MANILA BOXES
FOR CHRISTMAS
THE FREDERICKSBURG.
All Aru.rians who visit In Portland
I vrvmus wi m wr mi.c-iu na aesire io speoa a pwiun evening
the lower end of the Danton trail, out should go to the Fredericksburg.
got our guns Into position. After the. d ,he were moimg out u wh)ch (tM, rnite4 StXM otXilnM " T:h ni Alder streets. Here Is the
portion of the enercy had been shewed aMlck ttem. oflcuj n,, n ,. n ... ,,nai Program for the week commencing
1 a rw ik
PART FIRST.
1 March "The Enquirer Club"
2 Wail "Flower of St. Peters
burg." As Popular as Ever
J WATERMAN SISTERS.
-Mart h Soldier s Life." Keller
Bel's.
5 "Ma Rxx Time Baby." F. S. Stone.
50N?.("U.AS A WALDO Acro-batli-
msrrela.
7 S'-h'il-clie Sambo's; Wedding
Day B-m diet
i vnur "Niarnra." Mxnrs.
9 'JEORwE T. MORET. The Ban
Joist Wltard
10 Ovtrture,
11 Waltx Plmpll.-"us" J. Strauss,
li STANLEY k SCANLON-ArchlS
and Mamie.
PART SECOND.
IS- WATERMAN SISTERS.
leWALDO ELLIOTT In their;
C'ir.ly Sketch.
17- -Overture.
18 GEORGE T. MORET The Ban-!
Jol Wltard.
1 Overture.
iO MAVlIE SCANLON.
21 Overture.
22 WATERMAN "IHTERfl.
23 ARCHIE BTANLET.
24 MIPS ROSE ELLIOTT.
25 ARCHIE STANLET.
5 FORGE T. MORET The Ban
1: p. m.. the almost inaccessible V- there ard announced the
aitlon was taken, the enemy retiring ,tn.n(r.n , .boat j.ooo men.
eastward. An the Boer guns were cap-' Boer, ,t tppers. posted guns on
Ulrd- the high hiU overlooking the town and
can see the soldiers at the topj opened fire oo the camp, and the bat-
af the hiU. Our cavalry and artillery tie became general.
THE CAPTURED TRAIN.
Kumber of War Correepondenis aad
One British Officer Taken.
LONDON. Oct The eorrpon
Aent of the Morning Ptot at Lady
smith tn a despatch s-nt Thursday,
eonf-rms the sfatement that a train
hns been cajxnred at Edanls Laagto.
and siy the train was partly made
up of four trucks of cattle consigned
to aa army purveyor at Dundee.
It is reported that one British offi
cer and Mr. Mitchell, the Johannes
burg war correspondent besides other
war correspondents were captured.
The train which precded the cap-ture-i
train was fired on. but the Boer
attack was not successful. There 1
aid to be J,W Boers with a heavy
wagon train enrimped near Artoo-homes.
OTIS' CASUALTY LIST j
i
WASHINGTON, Oct 20. General '
Otis today reported to the war de-,
partment the following casualties.
Killed Sixth Infantry, near Cebu,
i
Island of Cebu, September 18: Chaa.'
X. Cotay. Daniel E. Adams, Seven
teenth infranty at Angeles. Oct I;
William Parker, Thirty-sixth fnfan-!
try at Porae. Oct 17. Willard Winter.;
Wounded Oct Is. at Angeles, Act-!
ing Assistant Surgeor, Eugene Staf
ARE TO RE SENT EKKK
Exprrvs t'barj;r .Vd t'l Re Paid
to New York ai-Snn !Yincico
Mot be Mirked Plainly.
The "D.elsarte"
and "Regent"
Shoes for Women
A" Equal
Styles rirli to
WASHINGTON, Oct 2.-The secre-
i tary of war has instructed the quarter-
ford; Sixth Infantry, near Cebu, Sep-;Baal(.r jemral to forward from San
tember 18, William Stovall; Horace Francisco any Christmas boxes which Joist Wlxard.
Hutchinson; Fourth Infantry, near, may be deliver.-d there prior to N-
San Nicholas, Oct 8,
O'Rielly; Ninth Infantry
Oct it. George W. Westmn.
Kelley. Albert Durand; Chaa. S,
sen; Seventeenth Infantry. Corporal
1 vember 2 for officers and soldiers
In
at Angvlea, . the Philippines. Such box should
John . be consigned to Majot O. F. Long,
Wll- general superintendent, army trans
port service, San Francisco.
ARMORED TRAIN ATTACKS.
Papers Containing Boer Accounts Con-'
firming Previous Reports Receive.
CAPE TOWN. Oct . A copy of
the Standard and Diggers News has
been obtained here, giving the Boer
account of the armored train fighting
fen the vicinity of Mafeklng. m-l.h Boer
oloring. It fully confirms the account
given by the engine driver of th
ti'ain, who escaped, adding that the
deserted trucks were riddled with PYRAMID
ballets. They contained dynamite'
and a- terrible explosion occured, the
trucks being blown to atoms. There
were no casualties among the burg
hers, according to this story. With
regard to the fcumd armored train
fight, the paper says the Boers had
two killed and four wounded and that
when the train seen approaching
with Colonel Baden-Powell's men on
board, the Boers formed in battle ar
ray and poured a withering fire upon
the train at a thousand yards, but the
armor rendered
The fiat nature
Henrv Koer. William Crosby, 1: B. ue Is also Instructed to rrwari
ThacWy. Thomas H. Scully, Six-from ,. York any Christmas box.s
teenth infantry, at Guiguinti Oct 18. ' for officer and soldiers in the I'hilip
Thon.is Lynch. Leslie Shore. Fourth ' piatt whlth may be delivered there
cavalry, near Arayai. Oct IS. First VTor to vov. ,uch boxes to be con-Serg-ant
Custav Will. Matthew Kill- tltnvi to Major F. B. Jon-s. general
lion; Thirty -sixth Infantry, at Porac. fUperinteiident. army transport ser
Oct. 1?. Sam Williams. ; vice, pier 22, Columbia Stores. Brook-
I lyn, N. T.
All boxes above mentioned should be
plainly marked with the name of the
officer or soldier for whom they are
inter. Jed, .giving the company and reg-'
I merit or other organization to which
be belongs, and should be further I fYt hppl I fl C
BRITISH CUT OFF
FROM THE COAST!;
Swell Lamps
for
Swell People
Great Left (Jvek Slb
Prices Away Down.
You'U Say So.
When You Sec Prices.
GreatAfficrican ImportinETea Co.
Store Everywhere.
100 Store.
171 Com-JiT-tft at.
One ! rtl any
Price : $5.00
$3.50 ShC
Also"Queen Quality"
Shoes for Women
$3.00
E. C. Goddard & Co.
Oregonian IioilJing, Portland.
ST. HELEN'S HALL.
A BOARDING AMD
DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
Reopened RepU-mWr 13. For circulsrs
add
Books
Ixiught, 8w!J ami Kxchangtti
t the
Old Book Store
History, Itiograt.ly. Mechanical.
Reference, Poetry. MfHeal.
Law. liellgioui, Scieuunc
All standard works..
Seoau-lun4 school books, tarjre st k
ebean. BemeJ-band mj:itiur. Li
brans boogbt. Large stock o( novels,
10.000 UU.
HYLAND BROS.
I
rOKTJ.AXD, OR. !
i
XN131 Yamhill St., below 8xtid. !
Telephone Red 2Hsl !
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Tonsorial Parlors r W. C. A. Pohl,
(utt (turn.
301 Washington St., comer Kiftli
Oppoaiu Hotel Perkins
Undertaker, Embalmer
and Funeral Director
Ladies Hair Dressing a Specialty ,
lies entrance to I
on Piftb street
PORTLAND. - ORE04J.W CV.roer 11th ami iMmne 8ls, Astoria, Or
Ladies entrance to bath Laskrts snl Knneral Happlie constant
ly 00 haml.
HRB0R OURS
Details of ihe Alaska Boundar)
Modns Vivendi Will Show That
Previous Attempts to Descrilje
ih? Btondary Wrre
Inadequate
All freight and express chargrs on ,
these boxes to San Francisco or New
York must in every cas be prrpaid
by the senders. The maximum weight
of boxes should be about 20 pounds.
Tie? should contain no perishable 'AlCFCditfl'S
matter. The quartermaster's depart
ment assumes) no responsibility for th'e Washington between 5th and Cth Street.
Best and
Cheapest P
j Also Impairing and Recovering at
MLSS ELLNORK THIBBET IS, It. !)
Principii. pjrtlaal Oregon
Telephone Ited 391.
Golumbia Eleetrie & Repair Go
Successor to
COLUMBIA IRON WORKS
Blacksmiths
Boilermakers
Machinists
Foiindrymen
Lotglng Engine Built and Repaired
Loners'
Supplies
Kept to Stock
1 Heavy Forging Under Power Hammer a Specialty
j condition of these boxes when d-liv
j red. but will exercise care to deliver
1 tbem safely and In good order.
I t
I
If iRTI.AXD, ORK.
John B. Coffey,
WASHINGTON. Oct. 20.-Wben the
thr fire ln-frecUve. details of the Alaj-lca modus Vivendi '
of 'he veldt yielded are made public which will
NO FEAR3 FOR SENATOR.
I
t the Best Transports In the
follow Or
no cover and the men were compelled immediately upon Its conclusion, it' Service, and Hr Owners Say
to He on the ground. The British re- will be found that nearly all the at
She Is Safe.
pealed 1 rnkd their 11m. j t-mpts made up to this point tj de- .
The Btsndard and Diggers News ad- scribe the new boundary line accurate-' SAN FRANCISCO. Oct 20. The
wits that a total of abou 40 burghers ly wert inadequate in Important re-J I'hnolele says:
were disabled It print a Luyden- peits. j Th-re Is little cause for alarm at
bnrg telegraph which discounts the The maximum claim of the United present over the fact
Merchant
Tailor
K! ALI'l-K ST..
COR. TH1 hi
Portland, Ore.
brillia'vt account of the Boer success?
stating that the result
brush with the British
eooly received by
the exclamation. "Its God's wl!l,
that
States Is not maintained. That was the United State transport Senator,
P0",Wlfi A Portland Byyer
esult of the first not to te expWed In this arrangement,' with the Iowa troops aboard, encoun-jjr JJ LXOX wlio lias
irltlsh troops was i whlrh was Intended particularly to re-' tered a typhoon shirtly after leaving' ' ' yt,ftrs' "()f ,V.fri-l)ce us a
the Burgh-rs. with nve the situation so far as the Dal-1 rokohamo, according to marine men1 " '
. Buyer .
ton trait route is concerned. No at- and the own of the steamer. The I
tempt was made to establish a claim' fast that the Empress of India did not'
BRITISH SHELLED OUT. ' to that territory lying bew-en the sight the transport, and va herself'
1 head of Chllkt pass and White pass, caught In the typhoon. Is not regarded Will y jjlo.wi to give persona
wiuiMHiiM, ucl zv. 11 reponeo anr mp ihkr to :ne nonn. mjaous of the Senator. I
uum me roers oegan sneiung uiencoe it .joes not ioiiow that the United iD fact, the army officers and mem-' ,
Camp with big gun at t:S0 this morn- Slates has reUnquiahed the extreme' b-rs of the firm of Goodall, Perkins ft' torre-SpondeilCC solicited.
Ing. and that the troops are moving claim at that point, but simply that by Co.. the owners, are firm In the belief'
OBt. mutual agreement reached about two. thnt the Sena'or will arrive on MonJ
attention to all catiner.
203 Second St., Portland.
HIS MOTHER'S
BREAD
H says was always so light
and well baked.
Well there is a knack In mak
ing It
But don't forget the kind of
stove or range used make a
difference. Hi mother used a
Star Estate Uange
Sole flanfictirers of the Unsurpassed
... " Harrison Secton" Propellor Wheel ...
Contractors for Electric LigliU and Power PlanU.
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AND BRASS
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In all sites ami styles.
We shall oontitiun to sell
Iron ami Rriwn II.hMks.Is
the samn ,w lr,.t(1
reirarJIpM of th rnlsa In
Ihe price of imn mid hriiM
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