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VOL. IX
THE DALLES, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAKCH- 21 , 1896.
NO. 62
WAR IS PROCLAIMED
Proclamation of the Kalifa
Against Egypt.
AN APPEAL TO ALL DERVISHES
WILL WAIT FOB COOLER WEATHER
British Campaign Will Probably Nat
Begin Before September, Unlets
Something- Unforeseen Oc
curs Pasha Talks.
London, March 20. A dispatch to the
Globe from Ca;ro say a the Kalifa has
proclaimed a Jehad (holy war) against
Egypt, and called on all dervishes capa
ble of bearing arms to enroll under his
banner. It is said Osman Digna is to
leave Cassala and join the dervishes now
mustering at Dongola.
TALKED OF AT CAIRO.
British Campaign Will Probably Not
Begin Before September.
New York, March 20. A special to
the Herald from Cairo says :
Your correspondent called upon Lord
Cromer, but he declined to express any
opinion as to the situation. The as
sumption is that he knows very little of
the scope of the movement. It is known
the order for the advance was a sur
prise to him. With the experience
gained through Wolseley's dilatory and
vacilating tactics in the Khartoum cam
paign before the British war office, it is
practically certain that this expedition
will be pushed forward with sharpness
and precision, but it is not at all proba
ble that a serious advance will be made
upon the very threshold of summer.
The Soudan and Egyptian1 troops at
Wady Haifa may be pushed on to
Akasber, while the English contingent
will concentrate at Wady Haifa and or
ganize for effective work. When cooler
weather sets in, early in September, the
columns from the Nile and Suakin can
make a combined advance on Ondnrman,
but the guardians of the Khalifa Abdul
lah know something of British tactics
and may not wait for the cooler weather
programme. Fully 60,000 dervishes are
reported ready to fight. The massacre
of the Italians at Adowa filled them with
warlike zeal, and the fall of Cas
sala will , inflame them with fanat
icism. They may take the initiative and
fall upon the advance column of the
Nile and crush it even before the main
support can reach Maeann.
While the natives are all disconsolate
at the prospect of war the English in
Cairo are elated. Scores of young men
in civil places are striving for permis
sion to join the forces, and even the
English women have volunteered for
hospital service. The prospect of fight
ing creates much enthusiasm among the
British. . . . , , .
Many serious-minded observers pre
dict that the attempt to carry out Eng
land's long matured policy in the Sou
dan will provoke a European war, in
asmuch as it will afford Russia and
France the pretext which they have
been yearning for.
The war correspondents of the London
press are rapidly concentrating here.
The troops in Cairo are taken by rail
to Gbireb, where the steamers receive
and carry them to Assouan. . The North
Staffordshire regiment is expected to
make the trip on the 26th.
The young khedive is said to be elated
over the prospect.
Your correspondent had an interview
with Slatin Pasha, the companion of
General Gordon, who had 17 years of
life and imprisonment in the Soudan;
and who now holds the rank of colonel
in the Egyptian army. He ia suffering
from injuries received through a recent
fall from his horse. He said :
"Although I am still lame, I sball'go
to the front at once. -. By reason of my
knowledge of the forces in the field aud
to be brought into it, and my abilily to
speak the dialect of the Soudan residents,
I ought to be able to render good service,
I really speak Soudanese better than my
native German.. . I think we shall have
fighting inside of a week. Our troops
today made the first advance beyond
Egyptian territory.' They are certain to
to meet opposition. I tbink we shall
find the enemy at least 400,000 strong in
rifles with 5000 spearmen, and with' an
irregular, cavalry of about 2000. The
best arms they have are the Remington
rifles, and tbey are out of date now.
"The talk about the dervishes being
able to put 100,000 fighters in the field ia
absurd. Not half that number of fight
ing men can be mustered in the whole re'
gien. They have, some regimental and
brigade organization, bnt discipline is
lax and inadequate, Osman Digna will
probably be our chief opponent. The
dervishes will not in this encounter have
the fanaticism which the mahdi inspired
in the Gordon campaign.
"Besides, the people are much dlssat
iefied on account of the oppression and
misrule of their government of late. I
am familiar with all the tribes that can
be brought against us, and we need have
no fear as to the resultof this expedition.
A number of European military officers
are applying for permiaeion to accom
pany us. Sirdar, who is the nominal
commander of the Egyptian army, will
goto the front Tuesday. Much . is ex
pected of the trained Soudanese regi
ments officers by the British, but 1
would not care to depend much upon
Egyptian troops such as I have seen.
Objected to the Color.
New York, March 20. The young
lady members of Ballington Booth's new
army have been greatly excited over the
announcement that the uniforms for
God's American Volunteers would be of
seal brown rolor. When the samples of
cloth were first brought to the room in
the Bible house devoted to the trade de
partment of the new army they were
sharply examined by the women. Then
there were whispering, which .grew
louder and louder until finally it broke
out into open revolt. The fair soldiers
admitted they had one worldly weak
ness left, and that was touched wben
they were asked to don a color so unbe
coming. They were joined by the men,
who said brown trousers would be more
quickly ruined by kneeling in the streets
than those of blue. After much deliber
ation Commander Bcoth rescinded the
order for the ' brown clothes, and is now
looking for suitable cloth of a cadet-blue
color. "
Election of Senators.
Washington, March 20. The senate
committee on privileges and elections
met today, for the purpose of passing
upon Senator Mitchell's report upon the
election of senators by a direct vote of
the people. The report proved accept
able to the majority. The minority, who
opposed the proposition, probably will
file a report later. 1
If there ia any one thing . that needs
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former . says, and many agree thereto.
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WHEN REPTILES RULED.
There Was a Time When the Globe Was
in Their Possession.
There was a. time "in the wide revolving-
shades of centuries past' when the
globe was wholly in the possession , of
walking, ' Swimming1 and flying rep
tiles," says an exchange.' Being the
dominant type, they divided naturally
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In the oceans they became gigantic,
paddling" enalioeaurians; on dry land
or, rather, wet land, for the whole sur
face of the globe was doubtless a quag
mire at that time they became mon
strous, erect . dinosaurians, some of
which had - legs 15 feet or more in
length.
Those which inhabited the regions of
the air were the terrible flying ptero
dactyls. For a vast but unknown
length of time these awful creatures
lilerally ruled the earth. Then one by
one they died out in the face of the
younger and more vigorous fauna until
at the present time only a few miniature
alligators and crocodiles, a few '. toy
snakes and skulking lizards and geckos
remain as reminders of the enormous
reptilian types that once crowded land
and sea.
The Modern Hat Building;.
"You know, it's old enough and fa
miliar enough," said a flat dweller,
"but it's striking all the same, to hear
the whistle blow in the kitchen, from
somebody in the cellar at the elevator,
and may be at the same time to hear
the bell ring from sometody at the
front door. The servant throw3 up the
door to the elevator shaft, to be ready
to receive the tilings that the man is
sending up from below, and she swings
arou nd and presses the button and
opens a door far away and in still an
other part of the hou&e. All simple
enough, but it interests me all tha
same. It seems sort of like running
the steamer from the bridge; or like
throwing the levers in the switch house
and controlling-. switches far away; it
seems like business; it's modern and up
to date.''
. South Africa's Joan of Arc
Cecil Armitage, a young English
man in Ashantee, tells of a strange
West African "Joan of Arc," who is
equipping an army for King Prempeh.
Her appearance is more impressive than
beautiful, t and, unlike the famous
French Joan, whose features we know,
this dusky amazon is said to have only
one eye, one ear and one arm and to
wear her hair hanging long. With one
touch of her magic wand she can bring
armies together, and in an engagement
a brass pan is placed before her, into
which all the bullets of the enemy can
conveniently fall without hurting her
brave soldiers.
Cleanly Japanese Tramps.
A traveler in Japan says that the
Japanese tramp takes his hot bath
daily if he has a fraction of a cent to
pay for it, or his cold bath if he hasn't
a cent. He carries a comb, toothpicks,
a razor and a toothbrush in a little
bundle. A few Japanese tramps -might
well be introduced as missionaries in
the American brotherhood, whose mem
bers do not seem to appreciate what
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