The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, BOERS CLAI FIRST MESSAGE FROM THE TRANSVAAL CAPITAL : Says That But Ten Men Were Killed in { the Engagement Fought on Friday. RETORIA, Oct. 21 (delayed in transmission). The Transvaal Goverpment received this morning the following dispatch from Com- mander General Piet Joubert: ‘“Commander Lucas Meier has had an en- gagement at Dundee. He made a plan of cam- paign with Commandant Erasmus by messenger. Erasmus, however, failed to appear, ‘It is estimated that the British lost heavily, Our forces suffered, but owing to the mijst it has been impossible to get all the details, | “Itis réported that ten of our forces were|. Killed and twenty-five wounded,” B¢ 1ts and men fell thing checked uo 1 on the fighting line throughout was KRUB[H lN Lord Ava, attached especially to | brigadfer’s stafr. | _“The flnal rush was a sight to see. | With leveled bayonets, cheering as they | went, our men sprang over the bowlders | that were strewn at thelr feet. The in the the flerce onset. is among the Gordon Highlanders | & but Con- lines, | Boers recoiled, fired wildly and then | dashed down the rugged slope to escape | the annihilation which threatened them Some, desperately determined on killing, returned to the neck, in the rear of which | the Highlanders crouched behind me | tain is now tzir Z : e | bowlders. These men fired on ambulance | In Vienna it 1s re \_f“"‘d";fl;“‘_*;"n";’;f; — = others can certify from our own experi- | {s about to acquire from Spain Ceuta or | ence to this dastardly act.” some other naval station on the African | & ng forward, and the position —_——— coast. Elsewhere it s stated that the | SAYS AMERICA MUST movements of the French Mediterranean s *of Lancers and fleet the nuimm.q-u.nrd of the Levant, £ where it_could e joined by the J LbeiBoerat BACK GREAT BRITAIN Euiifin miack Via the Straits of s 5o - the Dardanelles, | stoning_suspicion mping them Lady Randolph Churchill and Mrs. Ar- t do was not.” | » Oct. 28.—Clifton R.| thur Paget are orgar a fund amc ‘nited States Minister to | American ladies in F ith t the second Cleveland ad- completely spita in an interview to-night S e 0 hat ) : 8000. Lady Curzon and Mrs. sald that in case natlon or com- | & ¢ et e b e S, caught in | Pination of nations should attempt e b itLae embarrass E nd In the present w. The Australians are much exercised at South Africa it would be the imper reports that the Imperfal Government i of the United States to take anned meat in America, of Great Britain and tain Office had promised to = our whole moral and material | SODSETVe an Interests. Those in 1gth, S s i e best R to H("Ll]v ![::W?‘Ir‘\'lv\l;'s‘r:!» t v natio that the S 0 he nited S t thate any/naton wor s ord as the British or desires ent embar- r the purpose of : G n great power; but I do € © as a citizen that it h become m: f us by eve nd duty to take t such attacks orth our whole n in South Africa lopment ‘Grea ain’s ac in line with the du Anglo- : 2 she des MAINTAIN INDEPENDENCE = uropea tional Je attempt to PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23 — Edward r in the clear and simple duty she!vandusen Paul, who is delegated to rep- ; e e e be Hateomineg | Tesent President Kruger at the Interna- by a consideration migh tional Commercial Congress, will not ¥ litical expedienc: t urther part in the proceedings. He | We should be > - | left to-day for Chicago, where he goes to h and | m otism and every Ue OLraGal | contract other business for the Transvaal 8 kinship to stand shouler o Shoulder With | Government. Mr. Paul intended to have x e g 2 read a p before the congress, but the | state of affairs in South Africa called BRITONS RECOGNIZF him to other duties. Before leaving for | the West he said, speaking of the war: . VALOR OF THE BOERS| ‘rhe news thus far received trom South Africa would rather favor the Brit- = ish side of the contlict, but it would be LONDON, Oct. 23.—The British victories | o)) for Americans to remember that nine | 5 Natal tollowing each other in quick of ten dispatc received from the | : ession, though accompanied by heavy | seat of war come from British sou on 'the side of the victors, bear | I do not believe that the Boers have been : x Raityeioete | repulsed as badly as the press dispatches iking tesfimony fto the'valor of the|ISRIIS0 05 M LT Ar . o8 Ol of savboay nquished Boers. They appear to have| ¢ ‘Great Britain a tremendous r shells were mostly percus- e imE e ve lan on which i 3 vi small st lcanoes of mud and len vietims to the very plan on which | power, and had she to deal with a small “should > they counted to drive the British to the| nation like the Transyaal located within £ C it s They have been beaten in detail by | reach of the guns of her ships there Spe ground Ctuteietrokes caretully lconkidsredtanal| would be eedy ending of the war; but . suitestt brilliantly carried out in the fact of cour- | the Transvaal is a gigantic fortress in bursting & E 3 2=t U | itself. The are determined to main- sholm, of ageous opposition, which has done much | 7%y oir “independence; they are willing i to increase British respect for the burgh- | to sacrifice all, and the fight will be a ers, whose splendid valor and determina- | bloody one from the very start. England tion, it is universally admitted, reached | has a much more difficult task than her s the "highesc il w y is aware of, and the truthful- show 1 tried to s rty of B ler accounts of Saturday’s battle at aagte emphasized the splendid gallantry exhibited on both sides, and the uperiority of “ul . K3 * kS . ® . + ¢ 34 & * X 3¢ ® + ® * L3 + @ \ > 4 terests m it ness of early ev OCTOBER 24, 1899. 3 [ R e e e S S S I 2 will er through hould compel cant credenc difficult to e with men: required if the ved s statement will be bor nts. 1 expect to see m ghting done in English territory, be ince of Major Gen- M THEIR LOSS W B e o e an e dn el o S e THE BOER METHOP OF FIGHTING. able to the Or- them to h Nat side to meet in the inva- 1 from the sc : ensational s of the design 1 powers inimical to Briti. 1- though 1 the o, nable to furnish a tithe of campaign to have been an at- military trains bound from to Southampton was dis- ) ay evening. Five chalr aced on the track near § ansea. laden with troops passed soon ne out by st of the and 1 AS LIGH O O SRCER SeCE S0y From a sketch made during the last war. FUNDS FOR CARRYING ON THE COMBAT England to Raise Eight Million Pounds by Treasury Bills. St Spectal Dispatch to The Call R R R i R SIS S LONDON, Eng., Oct. 23.—During the course of the day’s proceedings, while the House was discussing the report on the supplement. mates Patrick O'Brien, Parnellite member for Kilkenney City, de- clared that the hands of the Brit- ish Secretary of State for the Col- ontes, Joseph Chamberlain, were as much stained with blood as those of any murderer who ever mounted the scaffold. The Speaker, Willlam Court Guiley, called on Mr. O'Brien to withdraw his remark, but he refused to do so, whereupon the House by a vote of 316 to 2 re- solved to suspend him, and he left the House remarking, “You had better bring up another army corps unless you want it somewhere else.” B R e e R R R R R R R R e R R R R R | LONDON ng., Oct. 23.—The Parli; mentary Sec ry of the War Office, Mr. George Wyndham, made a statement in the House of Commons to-day, saying: Lord Wolseley sums up the position in Natal early this morning as follows: In the battle of Elands Laagte, October 21, | | two guns were captured from the Boers, who | | lost heavily A large column of the enemy appeared ad- vancing from the northwest on General Yule, who consequently had fallen back from Dun- dee and was concenf ing at encoe Junction. In this operation we gathered in the wounded and medical attendants left at Dundee. General White was in position at Ladysmith and is being reinforced from Pietermaritzburg. The enemy appears to be arge numerical | superiorit | The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir | Michael Hicks-Beach, made a statement | on the question of the expenditures made by the Transvaal war. He said the ex- | penditures for the vear had been in creased by the supplementary vote to a total of £121,205,000, but he added the rev- enue had increased and he expected there would be an increase of £3,000,000 over his estimated revenu This would be a conslderable contribu- tion toward the unforeseen expenditures, and would leave about £7,000,00 to be pro- vided. He thought there should be | no addition to the fixed debt, but the for- mer should be raised by a temporary addition to the floating debt. The Chan- | and pro | considering the grea | the Dutch | to_the enem: | view the British in a pltched | expect further that the independence, | cellor of the F SSeliie Ly battle, although the Boers fought with | complete and everlasting, of the South | for power to mf}:;’“;f‘ Ee jesken fire. The Gordo i ihe greatest tenacity to the last, only | African Republic will bé acknowledged | bills, the whole question of remmommery Manchesters were rend. | iclding when further fighting was hope- | by all the nations of the earth. and the question of fresh taxation (o be | 5 i = ess e eft over to the next financlal year. | avage than ever by this a After the battle the Boers dead and | Bt Aichaal” alngs pota year. their energy, for the Boers in | wounded among the rocks ‘who were SCHIEL ASKED FOR THE ;p,‘,:p,{(l'fi‘?:’f’di},';‘n.r{"f“r’.f;,:‘ St ws were delivering a flanking fl numerous, were attended to as far as| 5 BRI thal: heteatie i FJous ones Smmies got wonderful quantities Possible in - the dark KAISER’S BLESSING | &Xerutty arawn up o mad been more o8 et thanked the troops on the field, | Jrawn up. No one could fore- ats and frock coats to o tiGhing Colonel Tan Hamilton's splen- | [ 35 what the total would be, but the Brit- cloths. Tt was a S%ht | did handling of the infantry. The British| BERLIN, Oct. 2.—Colonel Schiel, the | ang ' the colonies w o Mol A 1 loaded with their | bivouacked on the captured position|captured leader of the Boers' German | there might be something. in ~io ool T daeten e ey Tomaes at s, but this is brepe | contingent, wired to Emperor Willlam | news giving cause for anxlety, yet he saw We gaye sthe iprisoners ;Lhe / exnggerated : : | on the outbreak of the war as follows | no reason to anticipate that the campalgn e campfires, many of Jonel Scott Chisholm: the only. British May your Majesty be pleased to note | Would not be brought to a close within in to lle out on the | m . - Yilled, was formerly attached to|that Wwe German volunteers, who are |the period for which the estimates were | they spent a terrible > Ninth Lancers. He served with dis- | marching to the frontier, fighting or fall- | framed. | 'S aake Eive in the Afghan war and organ- | Ing. have sworn to be loyal to our German | As British colonles had been invaded, he | X s, Out here are | ized the present Imperial Light Horse, a | kindred stock here. We bitterly regret | considered it to be consistent with all ‘the | l red round majority of whom are refugees from the | that the Government cannot ¥xert its in- | laws of war if, when it was brought to a | 3 an et Tonne Rand | fluence in behalf of our interests and pro- | successful termination, the attacker | is revolver to attract The death of General Viljoen is a se- | test against the predatory action of hould at any rate have to bear part of reaouts, for the field | vere blow to the burghers, and the death | land. ¥ German blood not flow in | the cost. = The Transvaal. he continued, ed miles. The Boers say | of Ge al Kock and the capture of Gen- | for freedom and _yu»xlmxx and may your \W"N Trr:lth\ ”,',”,’r unmlfl.»l.ls There had is of the Gordon Highlanders | eral Pretorius will handicap the further | Majesty's blessing attend us German sol- | been complaints from those interested in e el e movements of this column. . lers, whose loyalty will preserve the | the gold fields that there had been exe N vs: “The approach- According to advices from Durban, | friendship vour Majesty once | Sixe taxation, bue he believed from the 8 ApprHAC the Boers h entered Zi SHowedt k. | best infcrmation that under a pure and rkness was u)v,-'vu‘ {(«*C‘ J’”"" a large column ancing toward Me- | —— hunnfivl;.r}\:;rn(xR»an would be ‘,..,f,.my ight, ma € | Joth. | i possib) e Transvaal to bear not t once abso-| 'Thé best opin do not credit the re- | The Queen ,I’ Grieved. only the ordinary expenses of sovernm this time the the Boe suing for peace, | BALMORAL, Oct. Z.—The news of the | and of providing for the maintenance ‘.'”;‘ of Maxims likely to yield at present, successes at Glencoe and |peace and order within the territory, think they has been receited with the | also to provide a reasonable sum tow ‘tion by the Queen. Whils | the expenses.of the war, with a reduetion the same time of the t i fields. Continuing, Ticks-Beach sald: tion of the Michael | 1f thesc anticipations are not fulfilled and the | the @+ 54045804300 00e0ei et tsIeIIIIITIIIEIIIIIDIDEIIOITIIIDIDIOTeEIDIdeebebebedoede sum borrowed proves to be but part of the total cost of the war we shall appeal to your patriotism next April. We believe who have supported us in the prosecution of this work will not fail us when it comes to ng the bill. If fresh ta ion were intro- rrow it might prolong the debate division which might be entirely misunderstood ab SR ¢ all not take any urse which will promote divislon or pre a I vent us from presenting a unl crisis. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the ader of the opposition, agreed that this not the proper time to discuss the financial question and that it was not desirable to show a sign of disunion. The proposals of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach vere agreed to by a vote of 336 to 2. reference of the Chancellor of the equer to the anxiety as to the latest news apparently referred to Lord Wolse- ley’s announcement that the, British were wing back from Dundeé before su- perior forces. DUTCH IN CAPE COLONY ARE SULLEN CAPE TOWN, Oct. 23.—The capturs of General Viljoen is a cause of great sat- isfaction to the Outlanders. He is the author of a blasphemous and violent pamphlet virtually intended to incite the Dutch of the colony to rebellion, and it Is sincerely hoped that he will be brought | to trial and punished as he deserves. It is difficult to gauge exactly the amount of feeling ex B | Dutch by the recent < Their behav on the whole cellent, amount of sympathy they feel for their smen in the Tran vaal and Orange Free State. The ishers receive the news of each succ 1 and of the grand stand at N with the wildest enthu 10, are silent. then king a 2 n the rest press their sorrow openly, but the gen- I feeling is one of relief that the Brit- s will not compel them to face sibility of giving active support the pc The reports of the kind treatment ac- corded to the Boers wounded meet with unstinted admiration, bringing into mark. ed relief the magnanmity of Great in—magnanimity the Dutch admit the had not expected to be displayed toward A g cult problem is loomin, owin 0 the increased race fecling aroused by tha war, but indications are frequent and sub- stantial that the mists of acrimonious di cussion are being dispersed by Great Bri- tain's magnanimity and splendid toierance tending to make the Dutch in Cape Cole ony proud of their British citizenship. RUMOR DESIGNED TO PLEASE ENGLISHMEN LONDON, Oct. 23—A special dispatch from Cape Town, dated Sunday, says that advices received there from Pretoria re- port President K now being in favor .of an uncon urrender. It is added that it is ted the E utive Council will meet on Monda Tuesday to discuss the advisability such a step. The report, it is stated ac .T] ::\d“\\\llh reserve, RSy mustibe o AWA, Ont., Oct. The Govi C General, Lord Minto, has r ed & oablo: gram from South Africa, dated this after- noon, to the effect that President Kruger has decided to surrender. - t Sent to the War. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Colonel Sum- ner, Major Store ptain Gibson and Captain Slocum have been detalled to pro- ceed to South Africa and observe and re- port upon military operations in the Transvaal. Colonel Sumner is a brigadier general of volunteers, his present station being that of military attache to the United States Embassy at London jor Storey is stationed at Governors Isl- and; Captain Gibson is an ordnance offi- cer ' stationed at Columbus. and ( tain Slocum, who was United States mil- ita he at Lisbon, is already on his way to Cape Town. R e Red Cross to Take the Field. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 23.—The Rus- sian Red Cr offer to help Africa. The nouncement, We prese appearances with dual proposal, but we do not conceal our American Agen both He belligerents ald, in making in South All the papers have ope: for a volunteer corps, w cquipped in private circ b British Columbia’s Regiment. VANCOUVER, Oct fuch enthusi- asm is evinced here at the near approach of the departure of the British Columbla ed subseriptions iich is being well e griing will_probably re- 3 line of d. s to the | g enough at Nek and | admiri ravery of the troops, her . where they have blocked the | Maje is deeply grieved by the heavy E passes with great bowlders and masses of | losse: her troops, and especially the I rock blown up on either side and where, | loss of so many valuable lives. SAMD | mu hey are ) munition, and they are cool and accurate | terrible beating. Maher had little dif- BANDITS MAKE THEIR | in thé thelr Winchesters ity in reaching Dunkhorst's face and ) , Kans., Oct. —The | chinl when he chose, but could not put | ESCAPE FROM POSSE | poiice have been on the watch for the | him out. The fight was not very not un yoniphan band since 1 ock last | til the sixth round, when Maher opened night. It Is believed from the brief de- | with a volley of swings and Jjabs that | s Who, While Barri-| scripition that the bandits are Jack Hol would have put an end to the fight then | + i .. Priest, two of the three convicts | and there had his opponent been a more 8h. ta Policeman, Shake who escaped from the United States peni- | vulnerable man x)mn' ’lruv:khnrt. The tat- Of Povsns tentiary on Augu They w nt to | ter could offer no defense and hegan » Oct. 23.—Notwith- | the prison cemetery to dig a » and | catching Maher's glove under his arm g it el there overpowered a guard and took his ter every blow. He refused to stog armed men Atchison the two t killed one | at Doniphan near here yes- rifle. | sio S MAHER WINS THE FIGHT. Outpoints Dunkhorst, Who Deliber- ately Fouls and Loses Thereby. by a posse, | gyRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 22.—Ed Dunk- uards d r;nz horst of Syracuse lost to Peter Maher on am escaped. in the enth round of what was Dicker- | & foul | BATTLE EXPE n. CTED SHORTLY IN when ordered to do so and lost the dec! PERU | Leader of the Eeb;ais Has Appeared bers mear | to have been a ten-round go before the With His Forces in the Vicinity +about 5 | Monarch Zthletic Club here To-Night. The | of Sayau. t ricade this | rules under which the men fought stipu- | Speclal Cable to The <all and the New York morning w artridge- | lated that they should break clean at the | Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gor- hox and lead to the command of the referee. When Dunk- don Befinett. horst saw that he was bound to be| LIMA, Oct. 2. —The revolutionary hat one of the | whipped he deliberately broke this rule obbers had b unded. Hun- | and after repeated warning the referee reds of men £ for the ban- | gave the decision to Maher. Dunkhorst| any moment. dits to-day seem to have | never had a chance. He was completely | provided themselv: with plenty of flm-‘culpolnled by Maher, who gave him IA nation of the prefect of leader Durand has appeared at Sayau, near Huacho, and a fight Is expected at he Government has accepted the resig- ima. Minor . chiefs of the revolutionary groups con- | tinue to surrender under promise of am.- | nesty. | - a Fight a Draw. i Ryan and Re i LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23.—The ten-round | boxing contest of the Southern California | Athletic Club, at Turner Hall, to-night between Jim Ryan of Cincinati and Rea of San Franc Wwas declared a draw at the end of the contest. Ryan appeared to | bave_ the better of it up to the ninth | round, but he ducked into an uppereut and | was cut on the ip. Tn the tenth he stood | a ‘good deal of punishment. | - | Torpedo Boat’s Trial. | BATH, Maine, Oct. 23.—The new torpedo | boat Dahlgren had part of her official speed trial to-day. As her engines did not | attain the maximum speed of 29.46 knots | | until nearly dark, the final run will be | made to-morrow, 'when the builders are confident the 30% knots required by the contract will be reached. Expects an Extra Session. SANTA BARBARA, Oct. 23.—A letter received to-day from Assemblyman C. W. Merritt of this district, who is now in San Francisco, states that an extra ses- sion of the Legislature will be called oo oo e | without a doubt. | to_cure dys He says it will be called early next month. —————— of unskilled labor in California nced 25 per cent in the last Wage have ad ninety da Passing of the Horse. 80 soon as nati Is a cl tricit ng wheel to mach horse to the autom! act that Hoste: ter's Stomach Bitters has been sold for ov half a century proves its vi Th fng to equal it for stomach or live It Is Nuture's own remedy Woehddebeberbdedededode oo ool bbb 3t T * Don’t fail to try T * BEECHAR'S PILLS : when suffe: from any bad condition of thc Stomach or Liver. 10 cents and 25 cents, at drug stores. - - +* * - i R d R F R FF TSR R R R R 40— that those | front in this | Soclety has determined to | the an- | this | | | B S S S e e O B S OR S ] & - é + | regiment for the Transvaal. anthem is sung in all the city churches, |and this evening citizens are arranging for a tremendous send-off to the boys, who leave for Quebec en route to the | Cape in the morning. Over a thousand {qunm—s is already subscribed to present | each soldier with a fifty-dollar purse on }leaving. Victoria is doing the same, Com- rades in_arms of the Sixth British Co- | lumbia_Rifle Volunteers are presenting representatives from thelr ranks with $2 each, e CECIL RHODES ASKS FOR REINFORCEMENTS it understands that a message was recelv- ed in London yesterday from Cecll Rhodes, dated Kimberley, October 19, de- claring in substance that the inhabitants of Kimberley desired to draw the attention of the Government to the need of speed- town was being surrounded by increasing numbers of Trans 1 and Boe The matter, according to the AIH,\' Mail, has been submitted to the inet. ndent of the Daily Mail at | | 1, says: An official of the | who had just arrived from | Pretoria, declares that " while thére he heard that Colonel Baden-Powell, the British commander at Mafeking, had cap- tured General Cronje and thirty Boers and had killed 500. - American Agents Sent to the War. BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, Oct. British Government has placed an mense order for ammunition with Union Metallic Cartridge Company of thi city for use in the war in South Africa. It is unofficially declared tha | order is for 5,000,000 shot s many more ball cartridges. tioned as to the full extent of the order, ells, with wa t in relation to war orders. the order will entail have already commenced. een FE ol X E S Two Hundred Boer Prisoners. DURBAN, Natal, Oct. 23 (Delayed in transmission n official dispatch from Ladysmith says that about 200 Boer pris- oners have been marched into the town, including General Ben Viljoen, General Jan Koch and Colonel Schiel. Reassuring News From Dundee. CAPE_ TOWN, Oct. 23 (afternoon).— News b been received here from Dundee to the effect that the Boer disaster at Elands Laagte staggered the Boers com- , rendering the attack upon Dundee Therefore there is no cause for anxiety | stamped in your hat popularity. In every town o agency. A<k to see a Haw them always after tha | Derbys Two shapes Three colors—black wainut and cedar S H)S.N.WO PSS The national | LONDON, Oct. 24.—The Daily Mail says | ily sending reinforcements there, as the | Free State | 23.—The | Sajd a workingr im- the an official of the company replied that it | against the rules of the concern to | Prepara- tions for the rush that the fulfillment of T AT DUNDEE e JUBILATION GIVES WAY TO APPREHENSION e London Fearful That All Has Not Gone Well at the Front. . Specfal Dispatch to The Call, LONDON, Oct. 21.—No news yet re- celved tends to dispel the apprehension caused by Lord Wolseley's brief sum- mary of the situation. A Pietermaritzburg dispatch says that the censor now permits no message to be sent from the front. Other dispatches represent the Boers as boasting that Dundee is absolutely cut off and assert that despite the British ries the situation is still uncertain. The Pretoria dispatch giving the report of General Joubert to the Government evi- dently refers to the first battle at Glen- coe, and the reasons why Commandant Erasmus failed to come to the assistance of Commandant Meyer cannot be fath- omed. Had he done so the British victory might have been still more dearly bought. Probably Commandant Meyer, having ar- rived at the rendezvous first, thought to get all the glory of wiping out the Brit- ishers himself, and opened attack without waiting for the others. If so the Boers suffered badly because of his hastine: It appears certain, however, that the brilliant victory at Elands Laagte was productive of no effect for the relief of | | Glencoe, and the very reticence and brev- | ity of Lord Wolseley's communication are only ominous. It seems to be worded to | prepare the public for bad news, and it is only too likely that General Yule hag been | compelled to abandon the wounded and | prisoners at Dundee because his force is too weak to hold the four and a half miles separating Dundee from Glencoe. Probably General Yule believes he can | better protect Dundee from an enemy ad- | vancing from the northwest by concen- | trating all his available strength at Glen- | coe, where there now 3,500 men and three batteries. In the meantime efforts will be made to reopen the railway and to get re- inforcements from Ladysmith. It is expected that Commandant Eras- mus has by this time joined Commandant General Joubert, and that their combined columns amount_to some 10,000 or 11,000 | men. while the Free State Boers now threatening Ladysmith from the east and | a column reported to be coming through Zululand must also be reckoned with. | In short, General Sir George Stewart | White has been unable to follow up his and is obliged to remain at h without being able to restore nmunication, which is probably other points besides Elands | brok | Laagt: the enemy, although their original s 'supposed to have been Colonel Schiel’s, failed, may fairly be credited with having 'isolated General | Yule's brigade and divided the British | forces in Natal. General Yule may find himself in a tight place, needing all his | expertence in Indian and Burmese fighting o extricate himself. 2 %l quite evident that the War Office | has news which has been withheld from | the public, and if the situation as here { sketched is confirmed, Boer divisions may | be expected at other frontier points { "Up to midnight the War Office was b sieged with inquiries, the heavy lists of British losses causing much heartburning an who was reading the | plan, which w ist: : “Jf this is the price of suzerainty, good | God, but we are ying in full! par of the | GOAT LIVES MANY as When ques- | DAYS WITHOUT FOOD Found in the Bottom of a Dry Well After Having Been Missing | Six Weeks. { TACOMA, Oct Six weeks ago a goat | fell down a well and was supposed to | have been stolen. Yesterday it was taken | out alive, though so emaclated that it could not stand. 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