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WEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1900. TfflEy: RETIRE Doer Army Is in Fell Retreat Be fore LcrdRc2erts. FRtNCH CONTINIES IN PURSUIT. Oenalne Prellenlnary Immm Wronfht by the Brltleh. ComBa4r-Joy Tfcroaf host Eag laad. f LONDON. Feb. 17, (Saturday, 4: 15 a. m.) General Cronje. itn a stan 01 n ia or tarn, i teerainzlr in full re treat from Lord Roberts. Moving northward.. General French, with hn cavalry, simply stayed over night' at Kimberley, and then pasnea on m ex in tmu-h wrt-h h rrtirirxr enemy. A ions' Boer wagon train is movinj? to ward Bloemfontein, iollowea presum ably by a large force of British infan try. In their hasty departure the Boers lest large quantities of supplies and am munition. The military opinion here is that Lord Roberts: will hot push far after the Briers immediately, because of the transport problems and the need of rest lor tvts troops, tie nas to.teec 70.000 persons in his army, and the whole Kimberley population. He must rebuild the railway from Modder-River town to Kimberley, and reviciua the latter. . -, ' General French lost a few men onh in the action, but forced marches an the heat have probably made many ill Numbers of femouits must be provid ed. Lord Roberts has -wrought a gen uine preliminary success, and the im pression is that he has done enougl for the present," and hnl need to prepare for another strike. I j All over England tonight there ha? been evidence of public joy. In even theatre arid public meeting. arounc railway stations and !ri the streets, therr have been expressions of - gladness, am jubilation over the news. The news papers are editorially rejoicing. Thosf who read the news, closely, see only on Hif-urbincr factor in the situation: aru" that is the" pressure of Boers toward Lord Roberts line of supply througr De"Aar, which was never more import ant than now. The Boers, under Com mandants DeLanjf and Gobler. an making persistent I efforts to penetrate . -1 . . T-1 I 1 I to tne ranway. iney nave jjusiicu uch eral Clements back to Arundel, am" have outflanked him. All are withir sixty miles, or two lays hard march, o the central railway. Doubtless Low" Roberts has left considerable forcer along the line and cart sertd back mor if necessary. K ' In the lobbies of the house, last night Jt was rumored that General Buller hac" again crossed the! Tugela. '. ; : A GAP FILLED " ' ' : ' London, Feb. 16. "9:30 p. m. Th following dispatch from General Rot? erts fills the gaps in the eariler di patches: ? "Modder River. Feb. 16. The Sixt division left Waterfall Drift early e$; terday morning, and marched herrl going on the same evening to Rondova Drift to hold the crossing of the Mod tier river and leave General French frc to acti -. ; ' ! "Shortly after arriving here th mounted infantry visited Jacobdal am' found it full of women and children with four-of our wounded men doim well. On the. -way back the .Tnoutite .infantry was attacked and nine met were wounded. Colonel "Henry an' Major Hadhell and ten men were mis ing. Both officers were subsequent!; found at Jacobsdal. slightly wounded, j - ,'The cavalry division is moving r northerly direction and has appar ently already "reduced the pressure-fr Kimberley. Kekewich 'signals tha the enemy has -abondoned Alexanders fwhtein, and that he has occupied it French has advanced as far as Aboni dam 'with a slight loss, and is pu shim, ott his posts, his rear being held t: mounted infantry. I TClemarrts, having been pressed b Boers. has retired to Arundel to cot er Naauwpoort, - i The war office points out that th. word "here. in the above dispatc means some point on the Modder river other than Modder River station. A BOER REPORT. Pretoria. Feb. 16. The Transvaa' government has made public the follow ire official dispatch: j "Yesterday, at Rondeval Drift, in th ncitrborbood . 1 of Jacobsdal. federt troops were, ensraged in a severe fight with u.ono British who were trying t rfnch Kimherlev. Cormmandant . De-T-any- continued the engagement unt: tTvs" tnrmn?. sthe federal easualtt;? MiiiT f-ve wounded After another -to h-.i?rt hard fighting it is reported tv Britih retired.: leaving Colone' TTfnrv daneerously wounded. Colont' T Ten nr. with bis servant, was taken t Tacobsdal" . 1 An official dispatch from Cotesbure -iv. fighting .was resumed Tuesday (February t.tth). and that the Britis!' hd sixtv killed and -wounded, and lot eighty; captured. The federal force had no casualties during the fight. .GOOD HOSPITALS. ! London. Feb. 16. The war office to night issued the following from Lord Roberts: -! " - J "Jacobsbdal, Feb. lO, 7:45 P- an. I am much grati6ed on my arrival here to find the admirable hospital arrange ments, made by the German ambulance corps under Drs. Kaettner and Hilde brand. who with their staffs, have shown the greatest kindness to oar wounded, as thev have to the Boer wounded, Some of our wounded have been here since: December Some were crougni in yesieraay. . A WARM TIME. Outside Jacobsbdal. Oranee Free Stae, Thursday, Feb. 15. The road be tween Modder river and Jacobsdal is now opened. .The distance is only nine miles. The road is available for send ing reinforcements aid supplies. When (the Boers evacuated Jacobsdal they were obliged to pass over a ridge, where they afforded a splendid mark for British guns, , which showered shrapnel upon the retreating enemy. The convoy which was attacked at RSet ; river had been countermanded but the order did not arrive in time,' and the experience was a very warm one, although the Boer dod little ma terial damage. As General French with a strengthened division pushed forward toward Kimberley he found beleaguering, Boers deserting their po sition at Alexandersfontein, thus al lowing ; a portion of the Kimberley garrison to occupy and entrench the place. ' i ; , -' (. EFFORTS TO ESCAPE, London, Feb. 16. General Roberts has sent the following dispatch: . "Jacobsdal. Feb, 16.I have good reason to believe the Magersfontein trenches have been abandoned, and that the Boers are endeavoring to es cape. General French is scouring the country north of Kimberley. One of General Kelly-Kennysr brigades c in fantry is in pursuit of a' large Boer con voy moving towards Bloemfontein. CROSSED THE RIVER. . Riet Riverr Orange Free State, Feb! 14. General French, , -with a cavalry division and a strong artillery detach ment, left Sunday morning for Ram San, twelve miles from Enslen, where he whole division concentrated. The icxt day he made a rapid march to Reit river, where a party of Boers -con-ested his passage at Dekiel and Wa erfali drifts, After some hours of helling, French drov the Boers away ind crossed the river. Yesterday' (Tuesday) the column ontinued its march to Klip and Rom faval drift on the Modder river, where 'gain a1 short engagement ensued, French shelling the Boers vigorously "nd forcing a passage. The Boers recipkately retired, leaving five laag ers in the hands of the British, besides great quantity of cattle and 2000 sheep. ;' t . They were informed that an ngree icn had been reached, between the British officer commanding the ex reme left, and the commandant of the "toerv ambulance corps, that a half com pany of British should be permitted to "etch water from a neighboring farm h'oirse. The ambulance then - retired nd the Boers rushed out of conceal nent and cnt off the water party. General French now holds both the VIodder and Reit rivers, between the kers at Magersfontein ami their base t Bloemfontein. Throughout the narch the Free State . farms were re pectcd, but their owners almost in ariably fled, taking their effects. The calth of the troops is excellent, but ickness is prevalent among the horses." ' ,WILL RETURN. Louisville. Feb. 16. The democrat "f the legislature will resume their ses sions in the state capitol, at Frankfort Both houses met at noon today and tfter, short sessions took a recess onitil 'ater. A quorum was present in the House but not in the senate, and the ecess spent in securing one. A quorum s necesskry for the passage of a con urrent resolution to resume the ses ions at Frankfort. The committee, ppointed to investigate conditions at 7rankfort, will make no formal report SNAKE BITES. The Suggestion made by the British -ledical Journal that a selected officer hould be appointed to deal with the uestion of mortality from snake bite ias found its way to India. "No doubt," emarks an Indian paper, "if an iin erial snake suppressing department, vith an imperial snake suppressor at he top, aided by a sufficiently large rmy of selected snake catchers and Hven 'a free hand.' were constituted. ; he number of snakes might be reduced jnd the : mortality , from snakes might :el lessened; but a Tar greater savirg fl life would probably result if the inds required for' such an experiment tere spent in combating any of the any forms of disease in India respon- 5ble for a mortality compared with vhich the number of deaths from snakei ite is wholly insignificant It sounds ippalling to a stay-at-home to read fiat the death roll from snake bites in 4 ndia in 12 months included 24.000 hu nan beings and 80,000 cattle; but Vhen we recollect: that -over 1.000,000 eople die in the northwest provinces nd Oudh from fever alone, we get hings into proportion. When, more over, we remember that British India ontains some 840,000 square miles, of vhich perhaps 140.000 square miles are angle, the ;- desolation wrought by nakes seems less extraordinary and he feasibility of reducing it to any narked extent by any measures within he powers- lof an administration with mi'ted funds is less obvious. ; j A QUESTION OF TIME. .. f Ethel "(rummaging in grandma's rawer) Oh, grandma,, what a curt Mis key this is! j. Grandma Yes. rrty dear; that was four grandfather's latchkey. "And you keep it in memory of old ays?" , "No, my dear; old nights. Tit-Bits. i- In the number of locomotives the United States comes first with a total f:. 16.7461 Great Britain comes next with J 9.602. .. There is no better medicine , for the babies f. than Chamberlaia's Cough Remedy. Its pleasant tate and prompt and ' effectual cures make it a favorite with mothers and small children. It quickly cures their coughs and colds, preventing pneumint or ther seri ous consequences. It also cures croup and has been used in tens of thousands of) cases without a single failure so fa - ve have been able to learn. It not only cures croup, but when given as soon as the croupy cough appears, will prevent the attack. In cases of whoopiug rough it liquefies the tough mucus, making it easier to expector ate, and lessens the severity and fre quency of the paroxysms of coughing, thus depriving that disease of all dan gerous consequences. For sale by F. G. Haas. dnggist OUT Of LADYSMITH Adventcrcas Escape of an Asso ciated Press Correspondent. CONDITION 1 0f THE GARRISON. Fever m.md. Dyseatry Arm Abetlnt Vrt blea Are Scmree bet other NoerUh - j lag Food la Flcntlfal. LONDON, Feb. 16. A correspond ent of the Associated Press at Lady smith, from which place he escaped, on February loth, says: "Every one .capable of shouldering a rifle is confident in our ability to hold the town against any force ihe! Boers are capable of putting in the field, but the continued use of horse and mule flesh is getting somewhat monotonous although the health of the camp is bet ter than could be expected, "Enteric fever and dysentery are abating. The scarcity of vegetables is very trying to the troops and they are luxuries beyond the means of the ma jority. - ! Eggs are 36 shillings a dozen; a small fowl is 18 shillings. 6 pence; pumpkins, 12 shillings' each; a tin of jam, 12 shillings 6 pence; a box of sar dines, 3 shillings; tobacco, 9 shillings a pound; . A case of whiskey-was raf fled for 145. "The " Boers are . smuggling tobacco into the camp through the natives. A local ' factory is turning out excellent horse sausages, and another is making nourishing soup which is much appre ciated by the troops, who certainly have increased in strength since this was served out. The escape of the Associated Press correspondent was most adventurous and arduous. A STORM WAS RAISED. PENSIONS OF. SPANISH WAR VETERANS THE CAUSE. Southern Soldiers Make Less Claims Than Those from the North, " ; Say the Democrats. WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. A sorm was raised ;n the house today in the debate on the subject of pension claims made by veterans of the Spanish war. "Sims, democrat of Tennessee, yes terday submitted figures, showing that the Northern soldiers were more clam orous for pensions than those from the South, and attributing this to the de bauching of public sentiment in the north by , pension cases. Pearre. re publican of 'Maryland, raised a, .-storm by reference to those figures, and the statement that hundreds of Massachu setts soldiers, who never smelled pow der, had applied for pensions. This brought out an indignant reply from Fitzgerald, democrat of Massachusetts. He was followed by others who de fended the records of the soldiers from their Several states. TORTURED TO DEATH. Filipinos Commit Atrocities on Amer- -i ican Soldiers; i Boston, Feb. 16. A dispatch to the Globe from Ho llo says: Three Mas sachusetts soldiers of the Twenty-sixth regiment, U. S. V., have been tortured to death by insurgents. The men were Dennis Hayes, William Dugan and Michael Tracy, privates of company F, under Captain William Tutherly. They remained behind the column at Baliuag last November to get a tuba and refused to-accompany the corporal sent by Captain Tutherly to bring them along, i They were captured by the insurg ents hanging on the rear of the col umn, and were cruelly tortured and murdered by the rebels in the public plaza at Baliuag, the action being countenanced by the Spanish priest. The padre has since left his parish for the mountains. Manila. Feb. 15. Generals Bates and Bell, with the Forty-fifth infantry, Keiler s battery and many pack mules, started today for the province of Cam annes. The Cruiser Baltimore and the transports Tartar and . Athenian, compose the fleet which, with the gun boats accompanying, will land at Neu va Cascares, and sweep the province. It is expected there will be much cam paigning in the mountains. i t CHANGED THE DATE. Seattle.Feb. i6 The state republican central committee has decided by a mail vote, to postpone the state con vention at Ellensburg from : April 4th to April 5th, on account of the munici pal election at Tacoma on April .3d. SEEDS Thonaaiida of nrdea. 1 Ferry Heed daappointmeat. Cheap eabaU. . bo pevioc crotav a little mere, fai Five cents per paper 1 at ware wort h f , ISOOSeed AddbbJ free. " FTIMT, WCt. fDrrrasertpoLnei mum m Si JSI INFLAMMATION a Tab! TeTClFlU M ALafe II -3 I Sorrthroat. Headache It KtinutoaV. Tooth- a-b ( I mtnmo. Cold SoreaJTeioas. ette. "C18,"ForT"!-"y Fevere, GRIP, CwavUb AH Y PAXN U,ilIiB OA OUT I m Uitrty midii .aVv Oj mm ate. Freclniua.f T- V V S S efeiJepeod 7 mrerx reaj . 1 r maem onng torn It pay te pay rutTlbma. f 1 ererywoere. aai f I Alwan the Beet. I 1 . H. HJtT AT MEDICAL LAKE Interesting Letter Received from Ellton Shawl TRAVELS IN EASTERN WASHINGTON. Trams porlstloa of Grata oe. the Soake River AreommodaUn- Employee " on the Railroads. MEDICAL LAKE, Was.h, Feb. 13. In this letter I will give you a, slight idea of a 'portion of the country over which I have traveled. I- wrote you before from Riparia, while aboard the steamer Lewiston. 'We spent r hours aboard the boat,,! passing up the Snake river. There, is some very pret ty scenery, but none equaling that along the Columbia. The stream is not wide, and is quite swift.The bluffs on either side are hundreds of feet in height and they seem to be solid stone and are al most perpendicular. At one point, we passed a fine quarry of granite. It is an extensive quarry and the stone is of a very" fine quality. They have just fin ished an order for the new custom house in Portland. At another point we saw 600 sacks of barley piled up for shipment to Lewiston, but as our boat was full -we did-not stop td take it aboard. ! ' At intervals we saw, along the river, chutes coming down from the tops of the hills, down which wheat in sacks is slid onto the boat below; some of these are three miles long. This means of transportation is hard on the sacks, so another kind of chute is used more and to a better advantage. These are con structed of tile. The wheat is emptied at the top, and re-sacked at the bottom. It think' it would be quite a treat to see a nice Oregon' fir; I have not seen rone since leaving the Dalles. By the way; in Pullman I met a young man who is well acquainted with Messrs. O. B. Miles, Jay Bowerman, Crossan & Robbins, all Salem boys. -?, Along Four Mile creek, before reach ing Colfax, we saw rose bushes and buck brush patches, very much resem bling those in , dear old Willamette valley. There are orchards of ,the more hardy trees scattered almig the foot of the hills. In manyplaceS we saw mullin stalks equal to those grown , in Missouri. The farmers here are taking quite an interest in the subject of di versified farming. At this place I met a number of the young' men who are attending the state university here. I also met Wm. Perkins, an old teacher, formerly the county school superintendent of Latah county, but at present conducting a commercial school at this point. . At Pujlman is located the state j agricul tural college, with an attendance of 450 students. This is a bustling little place of about 1000 people. -! ; ; From here to Colfax the country makes me. think very much of the Wal do hills. Heretofore the people throughout tbi Palouse country have been wholly dependent upon their wheat crop. 'Meetings are being held all over the country. They are well attended and great interest is shown. At a recent meeting, at Pullman, a couple of professors from the agricul tural college demonstrated to 1 a much surprised audience the use to which wireless telegraphy can be put. At Colfax we find a town of iooo . peo ple strung along th! two sides of a canyon for a mile- .or two, perhaps. Here the young were enjoying them selves immensely upon a Smoothly frozen river. Since leaving here we have seen skating continually. At Garfield I found the most accommo dating trainmen I have found since leaving home. The train, a mixed one, was here to leave for Belmont at 10:50. My business kept me soearar train time that I had to use my lower linibs most energetically to enable me to reach the depot by the time of departing. When I reached the depot, all panting and about tuckered out. I found the train had not left me, but my grip was .three or four blocks distant at another de pot. To my query: "How long before you pull Out, the conductor ! replied, "how long 1 before you will be ready to go?" I told him! I wanted to finish up a business transaction, and get my grip from the other depot. He said: "All rights I'll wait on you." ' Soj he ditl. This is a great iexception to j general principles acted upon by railroad em ployes. . - ' i -. , Belmont is oAy a junction, land our next stop is at Oakesdale, a place of 1200, scattered all Over a section of land, the coldest place in the I Pafoitse comntry, unless it is Cabbage FlaC an other -flat near Oakesdale. At this place I found the families of Mr. Wolf and Frank Harris, both of which were formerly - of Brooke The train for Tekoa leaves Oakesdale at 2:15 in the morning. After sitting up until about midnight, rehearsing events of he past and answering questions of the Harris family and telling news from home, we were afraid that if we went to bed we would not awake in tinSe for the train, at such an early hour in -the morning, so we concluded we would go- down and Wretch out on a . depot bench and wait the arrival of , a freight for Tekoa. When morning. came I boarded a train and came here, "one of the prettiest towns in Washington. i ELLTON SHAW. SHE HAD MONEY TO BANK. A Squaw Surprised a Cashier by the $500 Handfuls She Deposited. iDeadwood, S. D., Jlfi. 26. 1 bank in Rapid City has an Indian dtpositor. A few davs asro the n!H TnHIm hU squaw and little t daughter started from one of the Indian reservations for! a visit to the Indian school at Rapid 5 City. Before sUrting; the old squaw carefully dug up all of the family I wealth and packed it carefully in two ' small hand satchels. Upon arriring at Rapid City, the trio sought out the first bank they came, to, and entering, made koown to the cashier that they wished to place in the. white .man's vaults some of their surplus cash. The cashier soon grasped the j situa tion and thade known to the squaw that he was ready to take anything she had. The old utoman of the plains, with a satisfied grunt, reached for safchel No. iand opening it she pulled out a roll of bills. These she handed to the cash ier. He counted out $500. The second time .the old sauaw reached for the bills and again she. pulled out $500. The third time she brought to light a big handful of gold coins of different de nominations. She hesitated a moment and then placed therii carefu'fv back in the grip. The glitter of the yellow met al was too much for her Indian nature. Again she dove to the bottom of the handbag and out came another roll of greenbacks. The cashier : was com pletely astounded. He; counted out an other . $500. The old squaw closed the grip with a snap, and grunting ' with satisfaction reached for satchel No. 2, which was being held, by the little daughter. Opening the grip ; the wo man disclosed a large number of gold and silver coins of all denominations. There was a hurried family consulta tion, the coins-were passed by and there was'another dive for more bills. Out came several roll and all were landed on the cashier's window. An other count and another $500. Grip No. 2 was closed and the woman of the tepee signified by signs that she was through ler part of the transaction. The cashier counted all of the rolls; prepareq ai certmcate oi aeposit, tne , unpronounceable name was affixed ami 1 the business was closed up. Chicago I Record. All this time the great railway mag nate bad sat silent, listening. At lapt he spoke: "Young man," he said, "I I am not sure I understand you. Please be a little more explicit." 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A patrol of the Enniskillen dragoons was surrounded by some 500 Boers, and gal lantly ci:t its way through without a loss, but a company of the New South Wales mounted infantry was unfortu nately annihilated, most of the men's" bayonets, however, bearing impress of jhe sanguinary conflict with heir foes. I "Colonel Conyngham was shot through the heart. The enemy chose the time of thel moon's settihgilor their onslaught. Out of five colonial, offic ers only one returned to camp. : ' f "A strategic and concentrativc move back to Arundel has been decid ed upon. 'Nine wounded officers and thirty-five men were "brought into the Naauwpoort field hospital. Our death roll at present is not known." , I he correspondent of the Daily Mail at Naauwpoort, telegraphing Wcdnesr day and describing the evacuation of "Two companies of the Wi'kshire regiment, in withdrawing from Kloof camp, lost their way and are missing. 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