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- 'V DiDTJOT'STAY Bailer finds' Boers Too -Strong for farther Advance. IADYSMITH GARRISON EXCITED BOrrmt of th Xatar'Ariajr and Me ttoaald' Forces Bettered to Bare i " ' ' Bn Strategic UoTCneaU. LONDON. Feb. to. (Saturday, 4:20 a. m.) London! accepts as true, the Boer statement, that General Butter has failed again. These statements were passed by ;the British censor at .Aden and arc read in the light of Bait four's announcement in the house of commons, that General Buller is not iprcsiing his advance. Winston Churchill wires that Vaal Krantz was Impracticable for, guns, '- which were needed tosupport a further adv;nce. Hi cablegram leave! Gen eral Buller, on Tuesday night, sending a fresh brigade to . relieve the tired holders of Vaal Krantz. Descriptive writers with General Bul- ler ! were allowed a rather free hand ?$jajn. jin explaining the ugly position which the British held and the natural obdacles which (had to be pvercome. So ( it is casyi to infer that, with the Boer riflemen' and artillery defending them these hills, ravines and jungles have 'hot been overcome and thus the public is prepared in advance for bad news. , I f : : ; j .. . ' ' j . . : A' heliograph from Ladysmilh. dated Monday, describes the effect General Euller's cannonade had on the worn garrison. Hope ran high that the long period of inactivity and tedium was drawing to aldose. The crash of guns a almost Continuous for ten hours, and at times It seemed as if as many as twenty shells burst in a minute. The Brers, preparing always , for the pos sibility of defeat, .were driving herd and sending long wagon trains toward the Drakenborg passes. - A series of '..'British mines, laid for the Boers, ex ploded accidentally, ; shaking and alarming th city , and ! camp. General Mac Qcnald's retirement puz zles military, commentors. The theory that finds acceptance is that it was or dered by Lord Roberts, and that loth General Buller s? and General Mac Don ald's operations' were by the direction of the comniiander-in-chief. in order to occupy the dloers at widely separated points, so they would 1m unable U transfer anyi portion of .their forces to oppose the projected central advance; Charles Willinms, the military writ-; rr, whti is understood to be in confi dential relations with Lord Wolscley says that beyond a doubt the most authoritative opinion in London re gards it probable, that an endeavor will be made to force the line of tht Orange rive before Wednesday night, probably by .Monday. MR. BALFOUR TALKS. Tendon; Feb. 9. Mr. Balfour, the government leader, replying to a ques tion in th house of commons, this evening, to whether any information bad !cen . received from the scene of war. said: j ! , . "Onr information points. to the fact that General .Buller is not pressing the advance from the 'position he has oc cupied. We do not consider it right to press him for details of the opera tions which are in progress, nor. if he gives such information, do we deem it proper to make this public until such operations are completed. The govern ment has no information as to whether General MacDonald has retired." NO FURTHER NEWS. London, J Feb. 9. (Midnight). The war office announces that it has no fur ther news to give out tonight. - ROUGH RIDERS. Vancouver. B. C. Feb. 9 Fifteen Vancouver troopers ; were accepted for the Strathcona ! rough riders today. At Kamlooos twenty were accepted. The men will start' Sunday for Calgary, where they will join the Northwest Territory contingent! FOR A NAVY. London. ? Feb Q. The first lord of the admiralty. George T- Goschcn. is preparing estimates for a large increase of the navy. It is thought possible that parliament will be asked for 20, oro.000 for new ships. The war office has reduced the min imum standard of height again, this time to 5 feet J inches for infantry, atvl 5 feet 2 inches for artillery. . . : 1 ' ' - -; j Announcement. ; To accommodate those who are par tial to the use of atomizers in applying liquids into the nasal passages for ca tarrhal troubles, the proprietors pre pare Cream Balm in liquid form..wbtch will be known ! as Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Trice including the spraying tube 'is 75 ct. Druggists or by: mail. The liquid form embodies the medicin al properties of the solid preparation. Cream lialm 1.4 utcKiy aos"'""' the membrane j and does not dry up the secretions but changes .them natural and healthy character. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N. Y. CREATED A SCEKE. . A South Carolina Democrat Demands a Quorum in Congress. 1 1 I 1 1 Washington,! Feb. a The threat of Ta'berf. democratic of South. Carolina, to block all pension legislation on Fri day nighr tiulcc. quorum was pres ent, had th? effect of bringing out a large attendance in the bctusc tonight, Talbert create! a sensation by rushing down the aisle demanding recognition from the speaker. A dozen democrats were on theFrfeet. denouncing the speaker for his arbitrary rulings, p After the scene grew in excitement, the speaker recognized Talbert,. who stated lUdl ne srrnpiy desired to state that the presence ;of a quorum had vindicated tin position. KILLED ,BY A TRAIN. Victoria. B.C, Feb. 9. Mis$ Emily tjoward Crease, sister of Sir Henry Crease, of Pentrelew, was killed at Lyt ton last night. Miss Crease was a pas senger on the east-bound express, and had stepped off the train for a moment, when, the west-bound train came along, passing over her. ? . ! , LOOK IN BOSTON. Chicago. Feb. 0 A special to- the Chronicle from Washington says: The war department believes that Aguinaldo has escaped from the island of Luzon. The department officials would not be surpirsed to hear from him next as being in London or in Paris, in com pany with Agoncillo. ? . LOOKING FOR A POWDER. ; France, Germany and the : United States are endeavoring to secure a sta ble and safe powder that will at the same time give low pressure and high velocity. England has contented her self with the use of cordite. Ordnance officers agree that cordite is a very suitable powder, but it has one defect. Guns from which cordite is fired quick ly erode, and the heat is so intense that the life of the gun is considerably les sened. RIBBED WITH GOLD. WONDERFUL QUARTZ FIND OF BY AN IDAHO PROSPECTOR. One Ton of Ore Valued at $100,000 , Great Excitement in the District A Fabulous Strike: 'LEWISTON, Ida., Feb. 9 Ira Lamcreaux, a miner, has arrived at Grangeville, Idaho county, and reports a fabulous strike on his quartz, claim, located ;one and one half miles from the bid1 Elk City mining camp. He srnk six feet, when he struck a 12-inch vein of quartz that is literally ribbed with gold. In a few minutes he mor tared out $ 1 So, and then continued ex tracting ore. He now has one ton of ore on the dump, that . is estinfatd to be worth $100,000. Mining men who have been to the strike corroborate Lamcreaux." s statement. Great excite ment now prevails in- mining circles throughout Idaho county, as a result of the strike. OPPOSES THE TREATY. Hcobiirn Savs the Agreement Injures the Canal. Washington, Feb. 9. Representa tive Hepburn, chairman of the house inter-stale and foreign commerce com mittee, which has charge of the Nicar agua canal appropriation, opposes the canal treaty with Great ; Britain now pending in the senate. "I think." he said. " that the negoti ation of this treaty is very Unfortunate and that it ought not to be ratified by the senate. I don't know that the pendency of the treaty will interfere with action by congress on the Nicar agua canal b ll, but the ratification of the treaty would certainly impair the value of the canal when constructed. "This treaty reaffirms the principles of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, conced ing all the claims and contentions of Great Britain, though Great Britain has. by her own actions, given us the right at any time to abrogate the Gay-ton-Bui wer treaty. It surrenders 'ev erything to Great Britain, abandoning our contention of years that we might abrogate the treaty at will." i "Moreover, it recognizes the right of any foreign power to interfere and dic tate with reference to our negotiations ot tnis continent. 11 aDanaons tne Monroe doctrine." THE BOY CAUGHT. I A Reform School Runaway. Apprehend- ca at uoany. Albany, Feb. 0- (Special). Chas. Roper, the boy who escaped from the reform school yesterday was captured last nieht a lefferson and this morn- insr. before the overland arrived, he escaped from his captors. He was not recaptured until after an all day's chase near this city, this evening. He is from Ashland. ENCOURAGED THE FA M I LI A R- ITY. An ex-congressman told a reminis cence of his visits to the departments in the old.n times, s."ys the New York Telegraph. On one occasion, he went to the navy department. 5 It was while Commodore John G. Walker, now a rear admiral on the retired li.st.., -was chief of the bureau of navigation. A young ensign fresh from his cadetship. and imbued with a due sense of his im portance, entered the bureau. Meet ing a man in a business suit who was crossing the .apartment, he said; "I want to see Walker." The gentleman replied: "What Wal ker?" The ensign replied: "Why, Walker, the chief of this bureau . "I am Onmmodore Walker, chief of the bureau." was the reply. ; - At this the mortification of the young officer was apparent. He colored, stut tered, and when he recovered his speech was profuse in his apologies. "Commodore," . he stammered. "I bee vour : nardon." i V ! 1 Tire ? commodore beseechingly re plied: "Don't call me commodore; call me John." -: ; The ensign is now a lieutenant, and did his dutv in the engagement at Santiago. No man is more strict in observing naval discipline and eti otrette. ' 's " POINTS AND MOOT POINTS. ; Words are dyspepsia, jdceds arc digestion.-:,!: : vl : . . All the virtues ind talents are a job lot without cmiranre ami resr4utkn. Our fallen brcrfher drags ns wi to his level if we do not ron to his rescue. Th candle of life should burn ana go mt with a fragrance, not with a Stink. '. . ;''' r Twice-a-weck Statesman, ?l a year. WEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN, STIMIVIHI Kentucky's legislatures Meet In London and LcsisYille. REPUBLICANS THREATEN ARRESTS : :' -. '-';. i X:. Troabla Is Expected It Officer Attempt ta Brim i Democratic Member 1 , lUar Coal ere are. : "I f '.' ; ' ' - LONDON, Ky., Feb. 10. Sergeant at-arms Cecil, of the house, and Ser- geant-at-arn:s Howard, of the senate, left! after i'jr o'clock this (Saturday) morning) on the northbound trainj armed with warrants for the arrest of rlie absent democratic members of both houses, jl-ate last evening it was fin ally decided by the seriate officers to make out warrants for the arrest of the democratic senators, without waitinc for, the Arrival of Lieutenant Governor Marshall and to send Howard and Cecil, who had already been given his warrantst from the. house. .Where the two wcie going could not be ascer tained here, as no tickets were pur chased ahd they refused to tell. A sig nificant remark was dropped, that some thing would be heard tomorrow.' 5 DEMOCRATS UNITED. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 9. The demo cratic legislature met here oday, hav-f ing a quorum in each house. Govern or Beckham made the announcement this afternoon, that he is prepared to protect trie legislature Irom arrest, and tlAt he ivili do so. Tlicse develop ments of tcday mark the steps toward carrying jnt the plans, announced on Sunday last by the democrats, to set up a statqj government here. Tlie leg islative spfsions today we're held in the Court house. The events of the pns ten days ihave served to solidify the democratii forces in the legislature, and to strengthen the party's position there. Among the members who an- swered to their names today were a number who had been classed as anti Goebel. and who on several politica" issues havej voted with the republicans. NO RESULTS. Frankfort. Feb. O. This has been a LA. n( r ; T .i . . n Hay-Iauncefot?f.pr. - ftllJ -na, f- .n.m , ,hi morning until late tonight, and out wardly nothing tangible .resulted from them. . I ARl THEY GUILTY? Fiankfortl Ky., Feb. 9. Two men, suspected of complicity in the murder of Governor Gotbcl. were arrested in a boarding ; house today. Their sime arc Silas Jdnes, of VV'liitley county, and Gottchalk, I of Nelson county. , The men .are said to have slept in the ex ecutive buiSding for some time and they will be kept in confinement until something nore definite is known of their whereabouts at the time ot the assassination. Both strongly deny any ( knowledge of the murder, SOUGHT DEAD; FOUND ALIVE Husband amd w'fe, separated nearly nine years ago. each since blindly hunting for the other and each at last supposing the other dead, were re united recently through an advertise ment in the personal column of the Herald. This three line advertisement appeared in the paper: Mrs. Alice Josephine West, former ly of Passaic! N. J., communicate with George Robinson, lawyer,. 99 Nassau street. ' , It was 'nscTtcd y the attorny for James Martin West, a traveling sales man for a firm of silk importers in Grand Street.; The husband was ad vertising, not with a hope of finding his wife, but to fulfil the necessary re quirement before going into court and proving her dead in the eyes of the law. West told the lawyer that he and Josephine O'Neil. a .Brooklyn girl, had been wedded in the Church of the Strangers on September 20. l8yo- He. a Southerner j by birth, was wealthy, and was in the silk business. He had a store in lower Broadwav and another in Texas. Taking his bride to Passac, N. J., he established her in a hand some home. Tbey lived happily for rtearly nine mjonths, and then financ'al disaster came.! Sending his' wife to New York. West hurried South to protect his in terests there. It was several months before he retiimed. and then his -wife had vanished. He took a place as .a salesman and put his back to the past. Finding his wife a bar to disposing of some, property, west toaK tiic legal means to establish her death. "Is Mr Robinson in?" inquired a stylishly dressed woman at the law yer's office late in the afternoon. "If he is. tell him 'Mrs. West is here." Her story was soon told. She paid after her husband had gone. away, sh? had not heard from hint for some time, and finally shej had gone to live with friends in New York. Five years, she told the lawyrt. she had searched for her husband, and1 at last had come to believe hm dead. It only tools a rail over, the tele phone to bring the husband to the of fice. The reunion the lawyer de scribes as almost dove-like. "It's the third or fourth time, the lawyer said, "that I have found peo ple I-wanted through the Herald's per sonal column, 1 But this was the most unexneeted climax and the quickest case in my recollection." New York Herald. ; . ? Miss Birdk !Rimn of Columbia, Mo., is freight agent for the Waha?h rail road, and manages all the freight and ranker business of that roid in Co lumbia.' Aside from Miss Raum's du tie, which reouire her to meet every ' train 'daring the day. she is accom plished as a root, and at the toinmiwj fair last summer took several premi ums for the. best pastry. Our first duty is to become healthy.! Heme. 1 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, Wiffl Peace Agreement in Kentucky Is Declared Off. CONTEST TO BE SETTLED IN COURT Gorrraor , Taylor Send XUltia Force Heme ami Recall Lejrtslatare t ' tb Capital City. : FRANKFORT. Ky jcb. ia 'T have only this to say:' After mature deliberation l and conference with my friends from every section of the state. I have concluded to allow this contro versy to take its due course, vigorous ly contesting every inch of ground and upholding the rights of the people td the uttermost If these rights be des troyed the responsibility for that de struction, must rest with those who sit in judgment. - "It is due to say that the eminent gentlemen, my friends, who ' secured the propositions resulting from the Louisville conference acted in perfect good faith. from the highest motives of patriotism and did the very best they could, j (Signed) William S. Tay lor, governor of Kentucky." . The above proclamation was issued by .Governor Taylor tonight and ac cording to 'his oral statement, at the time of its jissuancc, embodies all he desired to say concerning his position at the present time. The deceision not to sign the Louis ville agreement'; was reached by Gover nor Taylor a few minutes after 1 o'clock this afternoon. For over two hours he had been in conference with fully ,150 prominent republicans from all parts of the state.' The' meeting was secret in the, extreme, all those, who came irom the hall before Governor Taylor himself, refusing to say anything con cerning the progress of the delibera tions. ;. i , Governor'Taylor stated to the confer ence tliat there were two courses to be pursued- First, to sign the Iouisville agreement: j second, to quietly with draw the troops, allow the legislature to reconvene in the capitol building in Frank forty to call off the session now being heul "in London, and to ignore the Louisville agreement entirely. It was sc?on apparent that the sentiment ff the gathering was strongly in favor of the second course, and this was adootcd This actipn was decided upon at 1 o'clock; and the first information of the decision was given to the outside world by Governor Taylor himself. He walk td hastily toward the capital stairway, repeating; several times to the news paper men who tiodd in the halls: "I don't sign, I don't sign!" . From the capitol he passed to the legislative building, where he at once made up and signed the proclamation (convening the legislature at Frankfort. Orders were at once issued, to eral Collier! to prepare for the depart ure of the j troop3. Six companies left tonight, anid only a small detachment Will remain jhy Monday morning. These will be retained only as a peace guard and will in no way be obtruded on the presence ol legislature. Word was at once sent 10 the members of the republican llegislature .now in session at LondonJ that the ' next session will lje in Frankfort, and a prompt, reply was received to the effect that they would alt leave in a body on Sunday, and be in Frankfort Monday in time for business- j , -. After the adjournment of the meeting it was the ; opinion of the republicans that the gubernatorial contest was prac tically over;. They understood the act tion of todlay to mean, and it was in tended to mean, that the matter should now be foUght out before the courts, and the issiue there reached to be ac cepted as final. The action of Gover nor Taylor! today returns the guberna torial fight jto the exact position it oc cupied, cuij the day following GoebeVs assassination with the additional com plication tliat there was but one legis lature and One governor in fact, -whereas there are now two claimants for the position ared two separate bodies, each claiming to be the law-making powe of Kentucky. I REMAIN IN LOUISVILLE. Louisville, Feb. 10. Actig on the recommendation of Governor Beck ham, contained in a message which was read in both houses at 4 o'clock. "today. the democratic legislature decided to I coniii'.uc lis scsiion in mis tnty. i ! - MET IN IjONDON. ' London. ?Ky.. Feb. 10V Both houses met today,! and immediately adjourr.ed until 12 o'clock Monday. v VOICE Of WARNING. ti .iiT:mwP ta I i'. N - a m a m- j a a a. - a-i. . M ' Demand' That BimetalHfm Ic, Given a riae in the Financial BH1 1 in Congrcjs, I- WASIINGTOK. Fcb. 10 Chand ler." repwlilifrsn of New Hampshire., ad dressed the! senate tolay u rt the end ing financial' bill, lie Vai: The. passge' of the bill, withotit ade luatc recognition of the i desire and Kbrk Hor&M Oil I th Ix-t presorwatiT of ntrm toattxr q1 tlin host renovator of ol-l leslbrr. ' It oIlfsnofleriK, black oaaod protect. U a . durcha Horncss Oil m foot Ir iMirnea. ynor eH hr "t. and .roar crrlfcc K.p. ami IhT ill not mlr look heTier itnt imtr lonser. i Ki!d rrrrym heir In rn mil , else frm half rl ' Are r!lon. j moB att aw 1900. J determination of the American people silver snail oe remonctizea, is in defiance of the republican .platform - of 1836, and without such recognition in the iill I cannot give to it my vote. It would be unqualified gold mono metallism, and to advocate or submit to this is the abandonment of republican principles. j A' SAM PAN G GOVERNOR. Washington, Feb. to. It has been practically decided by the secretary of the navy,, to appoint Commander Seaton Chroder to.be' the firsjt naval governor of the Samoan island-of Tmuila. - YELLOW TAIL WON. - , San Francisco. Feb. 10. Foster II. Hackett's $10,000 colt.; Yellow Tail won the Feature race at Oakland today, in 1 :304- Good judges j beHeve the colt could have made the mile, in 1:35 flat, had he been -pressed. '? v ADJOURNED jSINE DIE. 'Sadramento. Feb. 10. The special session of the legislature adjourned sine die today. I YACHT BUILT OF ALUMINIUM. Mr. Meyer W'ill Raee Strange Craft v on Pewaukee Lake! . . . Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 23. William Meyer, who has a simmer home on Pewaukee lake, vrill sail in an aquatic novelty next summer', having ordered a yacht which will be built of alum inum. The I new craft is now . in pro cess of construction at Racine " Boat manufacturing company, and .will be completed ii about two months, at a cost approximating i$6op. Mr. Meyer is conhJcnt that . he has solved the question of yacht construction for inland-lake usage, and his .experiment will be watched with a good deal of in terest by Wisconsin yachtsmen. . Mr. Meyer says he expects to have a yacht which will , be considerably liKhtcr than if constructed of "wood. and will not increase inweight as the season progresses, owing to its im mersion in water. With the advent o! lightly constructed craft (or racing ,0 the inland takes of the middle West so much has been Sacrificed by the builders to attain hat desideratum that the boats have tarely survived 6ne sicasoii'. and by using aluminum sheath ing 111 place ot light .'timber. Mr. Aley er expects to secure strength, as well as lightncssl as the framework will -be strengthened bv trusses similar to these employed in stiffening the Lip ton cup challenger, prior to her jour ncy across tne. Atlantic last summer. Instead of building) a marine railway lo haul the yacht out of the water af ter er.cn race, the loat wrH le left at anchor when not in use, as aluminium does not cdrrode. The new I craft has been modeled closely aftef the Oshkosh sloop Argo, n which Commodore Gates . at the' Oshkosh Yacht . club beat everything itioai at tne annual ; regatta ol the Jn 'and Iakes Yachting association on Lake Winnebago last Auarust. but th floor of the) Pewaukee creation will be flat, the belly, so noticeable in the Argo. beig eliminated, but the over all, water line, and beam measurements Gen-lwill be retained. Ffmr sheets of alum inium will be sufficient to shcathfc- the iramc-work of the hall, which is thirty six feet in length, artd the entire wfight 01 ine metai 1. sneatning is only IS") pounds, ihirteen-gauge sheathing u being used, and the metal is so pliable that the boat builders arc 'having no trouble, in shaping jit to conform with the lines they desire to carrv out. , ' It is expected that the launching of ine aiumimum crati; on t'ewaukee lake next spring will mark a new depart ure in the construction of racing mar chines, and yacht builders, naval archi tects, and yatchsmea in this section are in a state of expectancy over Uhe pros- pciiN. ji in: innovation proves uc cessfuU there will be a revolution ii small yacht building in the West. Mr. Aleyer and his sons." who are veteran navigators, are confident that thev -will leavt. their competitors far-astern next summer in the . regattas which have been scheduled at Pewaukee, Ocono mowoc, and Lake Geneva.- ' A STQRY.OF FUSELI. ' (New England' Home Magarine. Fuscli, an8 emincnlt historical nainter. who -grew in fame after 1770. when he nrst tormen tne rcsoiution to devote his talents to paintihg. was rather fond of sarcastic remark at the expense of nis inenos. Northcote, a contemTwrary, - exhib ited his ""Judgment of Solomon." Fu sel i looked at it with a smirk ot his sace. . iiw ua you iikc my picturer ch quired Northcote. i -r " "Much." was the answer. "Th. tion suits the word. Solomon holds out nis linger jike a pair of open scissors it a child, and says, "Cut it, , I like it IllGCh,' ". ; ! . - ; ; V . .-' 1 f L t a ... " - "iKFiiiivnr rcmcmnerea rni .'hn Fuscli exhibited a picture representing "crnuts drawing nis arrow at t'luto. "How, do you like my picture?" en-- 1iTq.rnen.- 1 - "Much," said Northcote; "it is clev er. very rkvcu hvt hell never hit him. "He fbafl hit him." exclaimed the other, "and thatspeedily." Away ran Fnseli with hi brush, and. as he ia?orrd to give tliei arrow the true di reel ion. was! heard to mutter? "Hii him! By Jupiter, but he shall hit himl" TOO HfGIL--In peakinr of the rankrnptev case of L. h.. -McKinney Ac Co.. of Tiirner. tn the Statesman a few days sign .the reoorter mentionrd $oi.onr as the liabilities. This was a mistake. The informant of the report er was at fault. The writer . wa yes terdayfurnished with the exact figures, but, infortunatcly.d he misla?d them. Ilowever. the total amount . of the rlims. filrd and to be filed, is less than ti&.nnn. of which a rart are atrainst Tl F Me Kinney individually. Onlyialout Half the claims liave so far been filed The liabilities are, nominally, over $10,- OOO. ,'..'..',;...':.. The light of friendship is lh light of phophoru- 5.cen- ' ftlainest : when all around is dark. Growell. ' ' Simplicity in character, iir manners, in style, in all things' the supreme ex cellence -is simplicity. " 1 - ADtYTEM p. Prepared by Ike Boers f cr Gen. Boiler's forces. fOIND IN TIME A BALLOONIST Dlaaterto the I1rtlb Forces rreTcotcd ly rromptEetlrlnc Movemcat -, " Their IoUIoa. Vatenable. . LONDON, Feb. 11. (Sundays 45to a. ni.).The - war othce still mainains silence regarding the situation at the sea( of wan' announcing at :jo last cvenlnj:, that no further news had been received; antL none had -come from oth er sources! which would give a clew to General Bnller's movements since he recrosscd tue Tugela, or to the present position of hi forces.- 3 POSITION UNTENABLE. London, Feb. n.r-A special dispatch irom Springfield .bridge, under date of Friday. February 9th, gives a new ex planation of General Bullcr's retire ment. . ' f r According to this dispatch; a balloon ist4 on Wednesday discovered the fact that the Boers had developed-extraordinary and unexpected military strength on Doom Kloqf, where they had man aged to draw up a doren heavy guns.. These, but for the balloonist, would never have been discovered in time to save the British . from, falling into a deadly trap, as they 'commanded the road the British would have had to take in order to reach Ladysmith. (These gnus rendered the actual positions of the British untenable, and a further advance impossible except at a cot of a terrible and useless loss of life. , - ; HEAVY ARTII I ERV" FIRE. Headquarters 1 Camp, Sprinaficld. Feb. 9. The position taken north of the Tugela river proved a difficult one to maintain. The regiments sent across as reinforcements', went into the -front line of trenches, but, owing to the great strength of the"-. Boers in the Brakfontein hills to. the" left, "H found impossible to -advance without risking 1 unnecessary loss. - The j Boers continued shelling the British position and several "Long Tom" shells fell arrjong the transport trains, and four burst at Sivaatkop, but the Boers cotiVJ " not get the range. The Brifisli guns nostel there failed to silence the " Long Tom" or other masked giins. The Boers, continued to work the Korden feldts on the British .infantry enjrench ed in the hill. The fire was severe at times. ' " . j . Wednesday aflernon Buller resolv ed not to press the advance by this route. The transjwrt train moved la-k and the infantry retired from; Vaal krantz. Wednesday, night the giin-r on the Swartzkop replied to thej Boers shelling. When they commenced to she'l the trancprt. train, the Boers got a large number of cannon into 00 sitton. Their srpcriority of .1h11 fire rendered the advance impossible. A dispatch to the London T'liies from Springfield Bridge, dated" Feb ruary 9th. says: ''Our force at Vail Krantz entrenched itself .as well as -possible, but, nevertheless, we jcrintin ucd to Jse men, and no advance was made. The Boer' artiHcrV) fired inces santly, and a Wednesday proceeded it was increasingly apparenjr that, al though the infantry might-rnaVe a de termined assault and fo"c their wav through the center of the Bocjr poM tion, it would be impossible during the subscnucnt operations to maintain thr security of the lines and evacuation was decided upon. RetiremcnNjcom menced ?t 9 o'clockat' night, the pon toon bridge beingremoved aftr Gen eral Jlildyard's fprce hvl crossed this morning. Tlie Vhole force ret:rcd be yond the rarige of the Boer runs, which continued shcling. AN -ALLIANCE. v London.Feb. 10.71 hcre cxisus today what practically amounts to an offens ive anrj defensive alliance between Great Britain and, Portugal. For the past Week and longer there has -been circulating through the English press, irrespective of party lines, .a nervous apprehension of Eurofman ooposition, and a still more ncrvoUs apprrhensinij of the fact that.(reat Britainj at the pre'cnt moment is unable to face it with hnr to herself.. ROUGH RIDERS. Nelson. B. C. 'Feb..' in Ktiinl men for the Sjrathcona ITorsc left liere tonight. They were given an ovation. THE JLOCA L GOVT EST The annual meeting of the Oregon Inter collegiate Oratorical Asforiation ; will be held at Monmouth on Friday even ing. March 16th. The local tryout at Willamette University has not yet tak en place. The local conteM was held by the Albany college at Albiny' last . night. - Joe Torbit, the sulijcrt of whose orlionf was "Individual Initiative" wai selected to represent the college in the staie contest, :.i' "' . No man t bound to le rirh of great, rfo. nor to be wise; but every man in bound to be honest. ! HAIR SWITCH ON EASY QPNDITIDN. 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