The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1900, Page 13

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ROBERTS ARMY MOVING TOVWARD HE STRONG BOER FORTIFICATIONS British Forces Have Made a NO NEWS COMES FROM MAFEKING {t Is Evident That Hunter’s Col- umn Has Not Yet Relieved the Besieged Town. has been confidently expecting to have ght, but at that hour the War received of Hunter's column, d the work of relieving the re midr telligence had bee 1 dated May 4 vs the sending 1 hill one of Boers trying to has moved here, in which official e rapid yun- Begbie has been ar: ed in con- retoria i Hdy is |MADAME MODJESKA REPUBLICANS DISCUSS CAMPAIGN ISSUES TO REVISIT POLAND cial Matters the | Will Go Back to Her Childhood’s | he Conference | Home and Receive Punishment to amento. { Remove the Ban of Exile. s 1 M er ter LOS S, 5.—~Mme. Helena ¥ € t Ameri- ( nstead the is: ed by the s isit her ow much | Modjeska has not vis- tr he sion 10 Jabor. It‘has been held t During the World's Fair the actress was of the at the nd in n she or » in Rus- 1f to the r om from the r > address re £ d much attention in foreign and rican diplomatic circles and was y copied. These utterances caused madame to fall under the ban of the During her Eastern tour she determined to visit Poland, and permission was t from St. Petersburg, but a refusal he answer. The Russjan Embassa- Washington was asked to aid, and les were invoked. The only advice the Countess received was to go to Poland and in order to remove the ban accept whatever punishment might be de- creed “rom the Orange County ranch the m me will go in August direct to the home of her childhood. W AGED INDIAN DIES. El Compadre, Aged One Hundred and Fifteen Years, Passes Away. i 5—Word kept e coun- cial Dispatch to The N DIEGO, ) ne eas and the was re- t A ved this evening of the death to-day at h months 1 have | the Indian rancheria, about four mites . Demoeratic or. | Pelow the line in Lower California, of Bl s, cisco and this Re. | Compadre, the oldest resident of the la. His age was recorded at 1i5 t the registration of his death, and old idents who had known him for many vears have little doubt of the correctness of the count. For more than thirty years he bad been known as an aged and dried up Indian, and his great-grandchildren have been ministering to his few wants at s he rancheri: Loeovirrs ‘” ° | He was once well known in San Diego, T wne o oical- | but for the past eleven years he had not ¥ the complete con. | been able to travel so far away from the | shack which ‘provided hifl with shelter, n_this afternoon | While he has never been able to tell his the election iaw | age to a certainty, he has told of being a | strong, full-grown man a long time before | the fort at Yuma was built. Years ago . | his age was figured out by what he told Woodmen | 54 peing close to 100 years. He has sur- nd Fresno coun- | vived all his children and many of his ain View | grandchildren have passed away, but same subject—the atfon and | therein. I deciine of sclentific the progress mad. Yect on the treated by Festivities of Woodmen. VISALIA, May 5—The Jodges of Tulare, Kings ties held a biz pienic e amiaan Inter | there are few Indians in the northern part people were in attend: The fes- | of the peninsula who have not traced re- with a ball in this city to- | lationship to him. The funeral will be held according to Indian rites on Monday. tivitles closed night | Lord Roberts has made a great| | . 4 7. £ : % stride toward Kroonstad, in the | division. The Boers have evacuated Wind. | .!,‘Incighburl‘.mul of which it h:x%j . | ti - | time the fact must be taken into Great Strike in the Direc- tionof Kroon- stad, the New Capital of the Orange Free State, e More Than Maneu- vering Required to Conquer the Com- bined Armies of the Transvaal, Which Are Now Merely Shifting From One Stronghold to An- other. PREDIDENT. ONDON, May 6. — All|stores at’ Lydenberg, which they through the land the people | will ‘make the capital of the had been getting heartily | Transvaal. {tired of the war. = The slowness of | f w ‘ No importance should be at- | operations and long waiting for|tached to this report, nor reports the news of Roberts’ advance hmlj {almost stifled general public in-! |terest in South African events,! | but interest is growing again,and | anything in the shape of a sensa- tional line in the contents of the afternoon papers creates excite- guns. In conversation to-day an invalided officer from the front said that when Lord Roberts did get near Pretoria, which would be only after some tough fight- ing, he would have at least a six- ment. | months’ job to take the town He | It is now very plain that the|declares Cape Town enthusiasts forward movement from Bloem- | are terribly far out in saying that fontein has begun in earnest. B'\'ilh(‘ war will be ended in six months’ time. WARRENTON, May 5 (evening).—The f his move on Brandfort, now the headquarters of the British army, | at Windsorton by Barton's brigade, with whom is General Hunter, commanding the sorton and Klipdam. They are trekking rthward and are fighting for all they Boers | are worth. Barton is hanging on to their | rear and shelling them vigorously. Judg- ing from the clouds of dust the retreat- ing Boers must be in'very large numbers. — COULDN'T REACH THE GUN. |been reported that the ;lm\(- been building extensive for- There is general re- good prog- at the same cations. joicing here over the | ress being made, but WARRENTON, May 5—The Boers to- day vainly attempted to reach the British w gun with their artillery, but some of consideration that before Kroon- |stad is reached the Boers will need to be driven out of the Win-! | burg section, which is a rougM land broken country, eminently suited for their characteristic tac- tics. Winburg is, in fact, regard- ed by the Boers as one of their | strongholds, and it is. exceed-| | ingly probable that the Boers will | make a stand there, or at least cause a great deal of trouble in | their efforts to stay the British | advance and secure further time | for preparationis to oppose the | British forces farther north. | While it is the opinion of some ' old military men here that Lord Roberts’ army, moving on a very | broad front, ought not to have |any difficulty in enveloping the| | Boer lines and compelling them | |to retire, others are more cau- | | tious in speaking out. These fear | that more will be required to | bring the war to an end than ma- neuvering the Boer forces out of one position into another. It is |again reported that even when the British reach Pretoria no real stand will be made there, but that the= Boers are B R B S e A ot o L] The British advance, yesterday at the Drakensburg. about Pretoria being destitute of Val River has been successfully crossed D S S S S S The British Advance on Pret-ria. Tho above map shows the positions of the several divisions of Lord Rob- erts’ army in the Orange Frec State, and that of General Buller in Natal, with those of the principal Boer commandos as far as told in the dispatches. to-day. Should they push on to Sinekal and Bethlehem the safety of Boers at Van Reenans Pass will be compromised to some extent, though they will still have a line of retreat by a road running north along the west side of Though General Tan Hamiiton 1s at Houtnek, north of Thaban Chu, with a strong force, the Boers are said to again hold the latter place, and if in force will seriously endanger General Roberts’ right flank and rear. (The positions of the forces are shown by small British and Boer flags.) accumulatmg | O e R R S R I 3 BY BARNETT, JOHANNESBURG, | the shells from the big gun effectually silenced them. Natives report that the Boers are ing’ Christiana, many of them that the situation is hopeless and appar- ently are trekking from Kipdam and Windsorton northward BULLET INTENDED FOR PREMIER SCHREINER CAPE TOW can News say! guarding Prem S s been shot, addl that the policeman was smoking a cigar at the time, upon which fact is based an tion that the bullet was evidently inte d for the Premier, who is an inveterate smoker. The African Bund papers are making a sensation out of the affair, declaring an anti-Dutch plot is on fo that HAMILTON'S ADVANCE REPORTED BY ROBERTS LONDON, May 5.—Lord Roberts reports to the War Office under date of Brand- | fort, May 4, as follo “Hamilton adv | welka. He was en | throughout the mar d to-day to Neal- ged with the enemy h. He speaks in | terms of praise of the behavior of the | | troops, especially Broadwood's brigade of cavalry and the mounted infantry.” Passengers for Nome. SEATTLE, Wash., M; —The Alaska | Commercial Company’ Dora <ailed this afternoon for Cape Nome, via | St. Michael, with ‘thirty-seven first-class passengers and 110 tons of general cargo. Heoe D O ebebedeieie@ QP90 91C-0000 400000 tDeP eI eI ePePedededsdedebeded the Vet River, is probably at Winburg the £ EX0DUS of BRITISHERS FRO RAMBLEFORPLACES C RANDFORT, Orange F result of an admirabl The night before the Bri coneeived , May 5.—The South Afri- the bitter end. s a result of the strategy of Lord tily, nearly losing a convoy of gu Lord Roberts was present while the op of Karee, in which position he was | right Brunce and Hamilton's T Tucker. Jones' and Stever mainly of Canad | arrived at the east of the town. The night before the occupati s commanding a decp and [ al Pole-Carew and occupy th greatly facilitated the ad the passage of the whole About three hou heard to the right good position, engaged fired furiously, but the Boers' The gun fire whs heard to t with the Boers, who were holding a stre expected arrival of the British the Boers kop, cupled. after night g 3% above, commanding the As they retreated the bat . and they immediately r¢ percelved by Hutton, who sent a seized the kopje abandoned by the town at the merey of the British to outflank, found the Boers and he was obliged to retire. prisoners were taken, including stroy the telegraph instrumen The townspeople declare that the Iri behaved riotously manaing a korje close to the town. The military attaches with the Boers watching the arrival caused them to retreat. wore very few. Their advance presented pushed slowly forward. ‘While General Pole-Carew's divi engaged with a force of some 4000 Boe: town. During the artillery duel Wavell's of the Boers’ guns and was forced to ret had been oposed to the British at Thaba HOW THE BRITISH TOOK BRANDFORT 'Details of the Battles Preceding the Retirement of the Boers. ree State, May 4.—The capture of the town was the strong line of defense with the avowed object of opposing Roberts izing these, General Hutton opened f on to outflank the Boers on the left. town tery placed seve -ated from thet srtion of ! the Boers. In the mwean His galloping Maxim receive On the other By 2 o'clock the whole force was several mi commandant, wh when the fighting began and kopjes north of the town, following the mover British in front they failed to perceive All the British movements were carried out like clockwork After the retreat of the Boers try was sent in pursuit, entering the town at 2 p. m., close Boers, but the latter were too quick to be overtaken. fon was occupying the town General Tucker on-the British The Boers finally retired with two guns disabled, The prisoners say that there were about 6000 Boers in the town, including 1000 who M THE TRANSVAAL. e and well eéxecuted combined movement ish advance 4000 Boers moved here, taking up a the B to they heliographic le moved eastward 3 There Ameri watched the fight th nts on m h glasses from s that while and his a superb 1 the retreating right brigade came under e. southwest of the the concentrated fire making good their retreat. Nchu. | BUILDINGS WRECKED | BY TERRIFIC GALE| Much Damage Done and Several Per- | sons Injured in a Section of | Nebraska. OMAHA, Nebr., May 5.—A special to the | Bee from Wilsonville, Nebr., gives meager | details of a terrific gale, accompanied oy heavy rain and hail, that swept that sec- tion this evening. Much destruction is| known to have resulted, but how much | cannot be told until daylight comes to aid | the searchers. In the north part of the town one house | was blown down, the occupants escaping. | A Presbyterian church was destroyed and | many barns and outbuildings demolished. | In the country along the path of the storm ruin is widespread. Several farm- houses were blown to pieces and a num- ber of persons injured. So far as is known, no one was killed. It is known | that the family of A. Tower was caught in their house when it was crushed and all were seriously injured. H. A. Bourne was caught in the wreck of his home and badly hurt. . s New School Assured. MILL VALLEY, May 5.—The friends of the new school defeated their opponents to-day by $2 votes to 21. The opposition | to the school was mostly furnished by those who disliked the site which has been chosen for the new building. In spite of the opposition. however, the | school backers put extra voters in the field with the result that victory is theirs. ‘The general interest taken by citizens s shown by the vote cast—103 out of a total voting population of 175. ONE LIFE LOST Irflifi THE SANDON FIRE Property Loss Is Very Heavy, but Aid Is Pouring In From All Sides. SPOKANE, Wash., May 5.—A Kaslo, B. C., dispatch to the Spokesman-Review says: Sandon presented a frightful scene of desolation this morning and to make it worse a tragedy is connected with the conflagration. Miles Rambaugh, a gambler, perished in the Clifton Hotel. He came from Finches, Canada. The property I 000. J now figured at $700,- ner of the townsite, is the heaviest loser. His losses aggre- gate $300.000. ~Offers of assistance are pouring in. Kaslo took the lead with a special train of supplies. Vancouver, New Denver, Slocan City, Nelson and other points came promptiy to the rescue, while Winnipeg wired, “Draw on for $2000."" All the big mines uround the town placed their boarding-houses at the disposal of the homelesss. The women are Sticki pluckily to the burned town. them refuse to leave it to come to Kaslo. o b et Pope’s Appointment. WASHINGTON, May 5.—Formal notice was received at the Papal legation here to-day of the appointment by Pope Leo XIII of Very Rev. Benjamin Keilly, D.D., as Bishop of Savannah. Ga. The conse- cration of Bishoo Kel will probably occur at the Baltimore Cathedral at an early date. ‘Archbishop Martinelll, the Papal dele- ate, and Rev. Dr. Ruoker, his secretary, f%avi this week for Portland, Or. whers the former wi confer e pallium upon Archbishop Christy.