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The i)alles Daily Chronicle.
Gntered at the Postoffioe at The Dalles, Oregon
a second-class matter.
THE DALIES
OREGON
CAUGHT IN A TRAP.
Captain Wilson's Party Surrounded and
Cnt to Pieces.
- Cape Town, Jan. 13. Details of the
massacre of Captain Wilson's party by
the Matabeles were received here today.
Natives who were with King Lobengula
at the time of the fight arrived at Buln
wayo to surrender and tell the story of
the struggle. Wilson's party "consisted
of forty British troopers and about 100
native auxiliaries. They came npon
King Lobengula, who had a strong force.
The confident spirit of the Matabeles
were thoroughly broken, and, intent
only on capturing the king, Wilson,
without taking precautions against a
surprise, dashed forward with the troop
ers. Lobengula, discovering the small
nees of the attacking force, planned a
successful ruse. He ordered the center
of his column to retreat before the Brit
ish advance, while the flanks fell away
on either side in order to surround the
British. The plan worked perfectly.
The troopers, dashing recklessly for
ward, soon left the native auxiliaries far
behind. Then the Matabeles in front
made a stand, and those on the flanks
began to close in. Wilson discovered his
danger and tried to cut his way out to
join his auxiliaries, but the Matabeles
pressed him on every side in overwhelm
ing numbers. . The troopers' horses fell
beneath them, and they were finally
compelled to make a life-and-death
Etand, fighting from behind their dead
horses as breastworks.
CLUBBED TO DEATH BY THE SAVAGES.
" Ammunition for their carbines soon
gave out and they had to resort to their
revolvers, and when there were no more
cartridges for them, defending them
selves with their swords. ' The savages
pressed closer and closer, and finally,
with savage yells, swept down upon
those who remained alive of the little
band, and with assegais and clubs beat
them to the earth, and all was over, af
ter a struggle characterized by almost
unexampled bravery.
So ended another tragic chapter in the
"history .of Great Britain's military oper
ations in Africa, in which, as in others,
perished some of her bravest soldiers
and the young sons of some of her best
families, sent out to get a first taste of
war. Among the officers' in the Wilson
party were Captains Fitzgerald, Judd,
Greenfield, Kirton and Barrow, and
Lieutenants Hugh and Hoffmeyer. Dur
ing the latter part of the stand not a
man of the British force was unwound
ed, some of them being hit at least a
dozen times'. All reports are to the ef
fect that the young troopers made a gal
lant defense, keeping the savages at bay
a comparatively long time, owing to
their accurate markraanship and the
steadiness with whiah they faced certain
death. It is estimated that about 4,000
eavages participated in the attack, while
tbe British, it is said, numbered only
34. After all was over the triumphant
natives stripped the bodies of the troop
ers, mutilated them horribly and pos
sessed themselves of their weapons.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES.
Alabama has nearly fifty. Baptist
Young People's unions.
The German Epworth league .now
comprises 801 chapters, with an aggre
gate of 10,840 members.
It is thought that no less than S100,
000 has reached the treasuries of the
missionary societies this year from the
Christian Endeavor societies in the
churches.
As English paper reports a Christian
Endeavor cycling club, whose object is
to promote open-air mission work in
villages. This is a "wheel within a
wheel" to good purpose.
Recently a large party of Australian
Endeavorers traveled about fifty miles
to assist in holding a week's evan
gelistic services. Their earnest efforts
were crowned with much success.
Bt the use of the two-cents-a-week
pledge plan, the Second Presbyterian
Christian Endeavor society of Nash
ville, Tenn., has lately handed over to
the Presbyterian board of foreign mis
sions the sum of $48.50, of which 810
came xrom the juniors.
-juuring trie epidemic ot la grippe
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy took, the
lead here and was much better liked
than any other medicine." H. M. Bangs,
druggist, Chat8wprth, HI. The grip is
much the same as a very severe cold and
requires precisely the same treatment.
This remedy is prompt and effectual and
will prevent any tendency of the disease
towards pneumonia. For sale by Blake
ley & Houghton, druggists. " '
Persons of sedentary habits often suffer
with "kidney affections. Sufferers from
this weakening and dangerous disease,
by a persistent use of Simmons' Liver
Regulator,' will restore the kidneys to
their wonted health and vigor.
Warner'e butter at Maier & Benton'i
grocery store. '
WOOD! WOOD! WOOD!
Best grades oak, fir, pine and slab
-wooa. - umce 133 Second street. All
orders promptly attended to.
tf Maier & Benton.
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MIDWINTER FAIR.
Cajjyesw iflVlMT Ijjtesj)
; op Publicity and FfeoSioai&N. J
rWeekly Circular Letter No. B. . "
P. H. TnusDELL, Chief of Department.
- The best news of the week in connec
tion with the coming Exposition has
been the extension of the time limit of .
excursion tickets from the East to 80
days. ' This means that those who come
to California to seo the Midwinter Ex
position will have a month in which to
visit other parts ot the state besides
those contiguous to San Francisco, and
that the benefits to be derived by the
entire Pacific Coast will be correspond
ingly multiplied. And just here there
ought to be a word said about the num
ber of visitors that may reasonably be
expected to come out of the frozen East
to hibernate in tho country . -
"Whore the leaf never fades in the still bloom
ing bowers.
And the bee banquets on through a whole year
of flowers."
Those who have already- arrived t
San Francisco as the advance guard ft
the grand army of midwinter continent
crossers say that the influx of visitors
will exceed the most sanguine expecta
tions of the friends of -the Exposition.
Eastern railway managers are constant
ly sending to the Department of Pub
licity and Promotion for advertising
matter in . connection with the Fair.
Their patrons are hungry for informa
tion on the subject. Some of them are
so hungry that more than one of the
great trunk lines have deemed it neces
sary to prepare vast quantities of mat
ter based on the . material furnisb.ed t)jr
this department with which t6 satisfy
the popular demands. All this means
that thousands of people in the East are
going to take advantage of cheap rates,
and the special attractions of the Expo
sition as an excuse for making a long
promised trip to the "land of sunshine,
fruit and flowers. "
Meanwhile the list of attractions con
tinues to grow, and there will be lively
times during the next three weeks get
ting all the concessions in readiness for
the opening day. . There is one feature
of the contemplated attractions, how
ever, for which no elaborate building
has to be erected, and yet it is one in
which a very widespread interest cen
ters, and that is the grand athletic tour
nament. This tournament is to cover
the entire term of the Exposition. The
contests will not be on each succeeding
day's programme, but there will be sev
eral events each wek and every Satur
day will be largely devoted to this feat
ure. There will be games of lacrosse
between British Columbian and Ameri
can teams; there will be polo matches
between swell society riders; there will
be football games between college and
university teams; there will be races
and all sorts of contests on the cinder
path, and last, though by no means
least, a series of baseball games in which
the entire Pacific Coast is invited to take
part. . .
With a view to facilitating arrange
ments for the last mentioned feature in
this connection, Colonel T. P. Robinson
of San Francisco has been selected to ar
range the games on the diamond field,
and in order to have the largest possible
number of clubs participate that gentle
man desires the addresses of every uni
formed baseball club not only in the
state of California but in all of the
states of the Pacific Coast. These ad
dresses should be sent to him at room
83, second floor, Mills building, San
Francisco, and based upon the number
of addresses of intending participants
which may be received there will be ar
ranged such a baseball tournament as
has never lief ore been seen anywhere vx
the world.
The latest and most startling of the
suggestions that have been forthcoming
in the form of concessional features of
the Fair is that which is to represent
"Dante's Inferno," and which has al
ready begun to be spoken of about town
as "hell on earth." This concession
is to be located in a very prominent
part of the Exposition grounds, and
the character of the entrance ,to the
buUdmg containing the exhibit is one
that will attract inevitable attention. A
great dragon's head, 15 feet high, yntlx
bat like wmeb nrotrndinar from either
side, se"ems to crouch against the ground
and grin a welcome to the passing
Crowds. The bat like wings, and entire
front in fact, are gilded to look like burn
ished gold, and, when the sun is reflected
from it, it presents as brilliant an exter
ior as one can easilv imagine. Out of
the Center of the lower .part of this fig-
. a x 1 t 1 .
ore-neaa, so jx speaK, projects a long,
red tonmle of the df aeon, and on this.
those who care to venture in must step
and walk between the teeth of the drag
on's lower jaw into the Very body of the
beast. . , -..
The interior arrangements of these
"Infernal Regions" is rendered remark
ably effective by the highly colored sta
lactites which hang from the walls anc
which seem to extend for miles, almost.
away in the distance. In one large grotto
a stage is erected, and half a dozen skel
etons dancing grotesquely in the fore
ground are so reflected by mirrors that
their number seems to be "legion" At
mother point, after traversing' several
tortuous avenues, the visitor "ines npQn
a clever construction with mirrors atve
and below" and with lights so arranged
that there really seems to be no top or
bottom to the place, and hence the
name "Bottomless Pit." There is much
that is grotesque about the dancing
skeletons in the cave referred to, ana
there id considerable that is uncanny in
everv Dart of this arrangement, but
there is nothing that is disgusting or ter
rifying though there is much to amuse.
When people turn to go out, after hav
ing seen all the show.they find themselves
confronted by numberless passages that
seem to lead everywhere, but which
reallv lead nowhere, for when you start
to follow one you run plump against a
mirror, and the result is that before you
find the way out you are fully convinced
that this particular type of "Hell"ia
decidedly jolly place to be in.
WTien the Train stops at THE DALLES, get off on the South Side
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