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Show NEWS SUMMARY. I NORTHWEST NOTES. War in South Africa From First to Last, A cloudburst near Terry, Mont, did considerable damage to the Northern Pacific company's track. Fire at Wadsworth, Nevada, did by the fact that Cecil Hinnies with of The to amount the $00,000. customary gallantry had shut himself damage up along with las people to bear the fire started in the kitchen of a hotel. CHRONOLOGY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. brunt of the att.uk on the diuinoud-niinin- g At Lamona, Wash., Mike Lahey fell company's property. 199. Prinsloo surrenders between two cars and his body was July A British column rant out of Lady3.34s Britto 10 men. Oct. Kruger's ultimatum almost cut in twain. Death was insmith to Lombard's hop was attacked annexed. ish. Kept. stantaneous. slurts by the Boers; its ammunition carried Oct. 12 Boers Invade Kami. Kept. 12 Kruger for Kurope. At Noblesville, Mont., the Brooks Oct. 12 British fall buck on Ladyby mules lost in the stampede, Its Held. Nov. 1- 2- Kitchener takts command. smith. fate. After a In a guns sharing tindeath came near meeting A British troop ship sailed from family Dec. 12 laird Roberts starts for Oct. 15 Buller dispatched to seat of gallant defense tlm column surrenfire which destroyed their home. Two war. Capetown Saturday with 1,400 troops dered. 1901. girls when rescued were almost suffoOct. 25 Siege of Kimberley begun. bound for England. Meanwhile Lord Methuen was adcated. Oct. 22 Siege of Ladysmith begun. Feb. by captured A dispatch from Utrecht says that vancing to the relief of Kimberley, Oct. SO Boers capture sortie party of Boers. A coroner's inquest reveals the fact He was opposed by t lie lluers at every 870 at Ladysmith. leave Ur. Kruger is seriously indispoced and Feb. found near a man of that the the body 6 shell Boers Nov. step and after fighting three fierce batMatching. Kngluiul. confined to his bed. smelter in Butte last week was that of 28 Under River. Nov. Battle of tles, gaining a fi w milea each time, April 10Nepntiutlons for jieacc by The condition of King Albert of Sax John Reed, and that he had been murDec. 10 Gatacre lost 1,000 men was repulsed at Magersfontcin, where Botha. ony, who has been ill for some time, ii dered. Btormburg. supply train capSlay he sut down to await the coming cf 11 General Wauclio:e killed Dec. Boers. tured as by critical. Lurd Roberts. regarded I; Senator Clark of Wyoming has been 20 Delarey Seventh destroxs Sypfonteln. May Gen. Buller had by this time arwill of The the late Dec. 15 Battle of Tugela. Duller de- - j. authorized to report favorably on the Yeomanry. rived iu the country with strong reinVictorian Rifles captured. feated with loss of l.vuu men and June Fennoyer of Oregon shows his ealaU bill for the opening of the Ute Indian forcements and determined to relieve eleven guns. and S'.i yn isJune 20 to be valued at $130,000. reservation in Colorado to the free Dec. 15 Lord Roberts ordered to AfLadysmith. To do this he advanced sue pruc'.amatii n. Margaret Taylor, who was kidnapped homes act. rica . through Natal and took up a position Aug. 7 Kitchener Issues from Cincinnati over four years agat SI Lord Roberts takes command Dec. banishment. on of Denthe Tugela river. The Boer of Council The Building Trades of 250.000 men. three companies capwas returned home last week. moved down to defend the crossing; Sept. ver has called off the strike which has tured. 1900. and the British moved forward almost Anglophobia finally has made its way paralyzed all building in Denver for Oct. law in Tape Colony. Feb. 15 French relieves Kimberley. without reconnaissance. The conseto lawn tennis tournaments under the the past two weeks, directly affecting Nov. loses twenty-liv- e Feb. 27 Cronje surrenders 4,v0 men was that this foolish frontal quence 211 ulid lueil. and six guns. auspices of the Herman clubs 5,000 mechanics. was repulsed with great losr, attack Feb. 28 Buller relieves I.adysm'th. linj. Several strikes are imminent in MaThe first suit in Wyoming in regarc. and worse than all the British batMarch March 12 Bloemfontein surrenders tc Methuen captures workmen demanded an for use to water nila, having the right to irrigatery of eleven guns taken by the a ml ilextn. s liis cnniin.ind. Roberts. -increase of 50 per cent in wages. 27 27 dies. tion was begun at Laramie last week. Peace ms Boers, the battery having advanced lei March Joubert May reported uceepl-- ! ed by Boers. too close to the burghers' concealed June 5 Pretoria surrenders. Advices from Iiermosillo say that the The ranchmen are watching the suit trenches. Yaqui trouhe is practically settled and with much interest was Another series of movement that travel is perfectly safe throughout Doctors who have been investigating The war In South Africa was should not have lt d them into the ag- then undertaken to drive the Boers Sonora. the cases of spotted fever in the Bitter brought about directly by the refusal gressive. The truth is that the old out of the hills, hut one attack after Mont relee has sent evidence of Its Root valley, Mont., give the opinion of the Transvaal government to al- staudiiig qua ml In tween Briton and another failed. At last the vigor ot power to Galveston, Tex., several piecei that the disease is caused by the bite low the foreign element of the popula- Boer was hound to lie settled by the the British attack made a way tion to have a voice in public affairs, arbitrament of the sword. The atmosof pumice stone haviug been found on of a tick peculiar to the district through Peter's hill and laird in force to continue refusal a like and rode into laidysmith February had to be cleared. phere the beach there. The Boers It is expected that Chief of Police certain and other public utilDUO, after u siege of more than railway 28, felt were li that and as on icrmined, In the mountains near Lnnas, Ne- Reynolds will begin to wage war ity franchises, controlled mostly by President Kruger himself said in 1887, four months. gros, in a recent engagement between the gamblers of llutte who are main British subjects. But the indirect Ijord Roberts meanwhile had been to take their the Americana and the bandits, five ol taiaing houses in direct violation of cause was a culmination of unsatis- nations of the place among the great pushing through llio heart of the world." the state law and the city ordinance. the latter were killed. factory conditions extending over a After long parley, the Boers still re- country with a large body of trooi. over Methuens command and Consul McWade, at Ilantou, lias inJoseph Turner, a saloon keeper of period of almost a century. fusing British terms for the uitlanders He took Dutch From the first the Boers, the with with duel troops at his disposal began formed the state department that chol- Butte, engaged in a pistol and President Kruger and his burghwere in farmers of the Cape, always of flanking movements by series a claimed whom Turner era ia decreasing there, but is becom- George Casey, ers showing every sign of impatience. trouble. Their uncompromising spirit means of which he sent Gen. French, borrowed him for indebted to was Steyn of the l'ne Stale ing more prevalent at Taclian, led them still farther afield and into President th( cavalry leader. into Kimberley, Neither of the men were hurt strife with the natives. The relations called out his burghers in arms!. Britmoney. to burned were death miners Eight compelling Cronje to retire with what kept pouring iuio speed he might. Cronje. however, was John Moen, a Butte miner, was in- of the white men to the black caused ish as tlie result of an explosion of gas at the country and the British army re- too slow, Onest, Keens & Company's colliery at stantly killed ly the explosion of a the firBt friction between the British and, along with 4.000 men serves wire called out. old administration and settlers. the he which of struck stick and six guns surrendered at laarde- Dowlais, Glamorganshire, Wales. giant powder On Oct. 9, 1899, the Transvaal sent With Kruger in office the Boers be27, 1900. Lord RobIn a connection with the Martinique with his pick while loosening a quanti- gan, in defiance of treaty obligations, the British government an ultimatum berg on February of staff, Lord chief his with car. erts, a into of rock before shoveling disaster, letters arriving in London de- ty for the withdrawal of the British Kitchener, a Beries of movements that necessitatthe retreating pursued d scribes the negroes of that island as Bessie Tristlcr, a ed a British expedition to drive them troops from the borders of the repubBoers through the Free State to whites are the because of Coohen and lic and the withdrawal of the school holding orgies Puyallup, Wash., at- out of Bechuanaland, girl, Bloomfontein, which surrendered on a a at cost so million a from or forty-eigof all dead. Within suicide Stellaland, hours March 13. the Boers retiring to Preby jumping tempted to British the the rescued. after answer this the taxpayer. British Naturally hut into ws8 the message, toria, which capital surrendered June last the river, General Enrique Collazo, bridge man of prominence to oppose the pres- - The set was the result of an ailment British hold up these Boer raids, in not suiting the burghers, the Boer 5, 1900. Gen. Brlnsloo. with 3.348 men, defiance of treaty obligations, as an troops invaded British territory and surrendered to the British September idency of General Palma, has called on of the eyes. offset to the Jameson raid. 1, 1900; Kruger lied to the war began Ort. 11, 1899. the latter and pledged his sincere supWilliam A. Morgan of Frannie, Big From time new returned Transvaal this Roberts the Lord The Boers rode to war on Oct. 12. Europe and I Horn county, Wyo., has commenced Republic set out on the path of inport of the government. to home was England. estimated by themselves that It London Times says Kitchener will suit in the federal court at Ilelena, dependence that ultimately led to the between the two Lord Kitchener, by building a series republics, the forresidents of war. Gold was discovered in the not come home for the coronation. Mont, against twenty-fiv- e of blockhouses, connected with barbed eigners and the Cape Colony rebels lie etill has much to do in South Carbon county, Mont., to establish hie Transvaal In 1S8G. It was a field for there were 75, 0U0 burghers in the field. wire fences, succeeded then In driving Africa and it is unlikely that he will right to the waters of bage creek. He elaborate machinery and for Immense The British had chosen to defend Na- the Boers out of a large stretch of leave there before the middle of July, bases his claim on priority of location capital. These were furnished by the tal and Its roal mines from sentimen- territory, but Dewet, Ilelarey, Bothq uitlanders, drawn from every race un- tal reasons. They found out the folly and others continued the hopeless warBy the accidental overturning of a ln der the sun. but with the Anglo-Celtof their undertaking. Talana hill was fare and even as late as on March 8, N. M. Parsons, of Rawlins, Wyo., on which a party of Denver Gen. Methuen and cenThe 1902, captured vastly predominant mining students were riding, one waa instants carries a vslnahle relic of the war of ters like Johannesburg became full of the first battle between the enemies. broke up his column of 1,300 men in The British went at the hill in frontal ly killed, another fatally hnrt and the rebellion. It is a ladies gold watch varied life and afforded a strong con- charge and took it with considerable a night surprise. The Boers were dressed in British uniforms. twelve others more or less seriously irir. Parsons took from the dead body trast to the Dutch headquarters. These loss. The Boers were again defeated of General T. F. Tracey, C. S. A., at uitlanders largely outnumbered the The pursuit of the Boers still coninjured. at Elandslaagte, but with increasing tinued The ISOS. with considerable vigor and Because he returned to Garden Grove, India, Miss., September llj original inhabitants of the Transvaal, numbers they won a strategic victory, after the Dutch government had were taxed "From and hia They life case hears the inscription: heavily badly the British being forced into Ladyla., in spite of a threat that used and they deafened Great Britain sought fruitlessly to offer to negotiwould be taken if lie did so, Dr. W. D. George to Marth Washington. a village in the plain surroundsmith, ate between the parties the Boers uncrieB. with their There was not a Duff has been shot and killed by W. A Grand Encampment special says ed by hills, from which the Boers der r, had which driven acting President the Boer wrong II. Clark, a farmer. The latter gave that within the next six months the 10.900 British troops bombarded the British moved the foreign from Cape Colony that he did not by perhaps within the circle. himself up, declaring he had kept hia mine will be giving now reference to courteous minister's practice on others. A wrong in At the same time Gen. Cronje was themselveH and the fact that they repromise. employment to more than 300 men. 1835 might have been excusable; in l, who was alized that overtures for peace must An indictment for murder in thefiist xhe company has decided to install a 1895 it was monstrous. besieging Maj. in Wila with shut Brit few J. up come from the Boers in the field, as Mafeking waa n In reported against Boers could not stand degree capacity concentrating plant short, the sh officers and a few hundred vlllag well as pressed bard Ly the British frid Blondin of Boston. It is charged at the mouth of the mine and repre- the lust for gold. Their primitive virera he whom trained themto defend BosIlia wife in tue vanished. The farmers were still troops, sought permission to commuthat Blondin murdered sentatives are now in Denver purchasselves. nicate with the other leaders with a new to untouched the by ton and transported her body greed, but the ing machinery. beAnother force was of view to arranging terms of surrender Boers large at Its with hidden was found corrupt oligarchy Pretoria, Chalmsfnrd. where it While excavating in Cheyenne, workand attracted thither peace. nepotism, its accepting of bribes for sieging Kimberley, in a brush heap. men uncovered the complete skeleton valuable franchises, its mon dynamite Replying to a question in the house of a man. The bones lay under two opoly, Its crowd of greedy Hollanders of Commons, the war secretary, Mr, and a half feet of tightly-packe- d earth who handled the stream of gold exLOCATION OF NEW BOER REPUBLICS. Broderick, said the total number of and were badly decayed. The absence torted by way of taxation from the South Africa and of buttons or vestiges of cloth about miners, gave an exhibition of venality Boer prisoners in elsewhere was 25,505, of which 793 the bones leads the authorities to he' and corruption in the last degree abd and imwere under sixteen and 1025 were over lieve that the body buried at the spot horrent to all of observers. age. years partial sixty was that of an Indian. The uitlander was compelled to pay In Amsterdam it is reported that Mr. The Union Pacific Coal storage s of the taxation; was Kruger has declined the fadllies of building at Echo, Wyo., was destroyed fleeced at turn and laughed at every fered by Great Britain for his return by fire last week. The origin of the to If he wanted a vote the bargain. to South Africa, bnt has accepted Queea fire is unknown, but it is thought to he had to reside in the country fourWilhelmina'a proffer of a Dutch vessel have a from from the teen and then he sparks caught years might make to convey him to South Africa when he train. The track was de application, which had to be signed passing decides to return there. of the inhabitants of stroyed for 200 feet on each side of the by Owing to his age and infirmities, tlis building, the rails being warped and his district and receive the assent of British government has waived its twisted by the intense heat. the raad. Even then he was not ad claim for the acknowledgment by Mr. citizen privileges. The smelter for the New Rambler mitted to too numerous to Other Kruger of British sovereignity over the mine, grievances forty milea south of Laramie, mention the uitlander weie Transvall, and has guaranteed to all rankling lias arrived from Denver. It bosom. the Boer delegates in Europe a safe Wyo.,he stored in the will city until the In 1S95 the Jameson raid occurred conduct to their homes. a condition in mine are to the roads a foolish undertaking to help the Contracts have just been awarded by ia about forty It travel. for wagon in their for the Johannesburg uitlanders Henry C. Frick of Pittsburg and will reduce the low struggle. The uitlanders did not tons capacity, and avenue rise; erection, probably at Fifth which also contains Jameson and his handful of follow' ore, copper grade a of modern in that city, Grant street the rare metals, iridium, platinum and era were raptured by the Boers and hotel, to cost $3,000,000, which It ia palladium, to matte, so that this can after much parley released. promised will equal in appointments he li hu led to the railroad The Free State had been established profitably. The map Ehows the approximate position of the two repuhlirs which and comfort any in the land. as a republic by Great Britain much nn and Austrian an Steve have been organized by the Iloet in districts remote from Pretoria and lopps, The village of Csmbnlata, In the married man, was instantly killed ia against the will of Its burghers, who British interference. The new governments, one of which takes in a piece Urnseh range. Russia, hns been dehad even sought and obtained com 1 mine of the Central Coni A (,'oki of German territory, have organized, Fiet do Villairs being president of the No. A large rent stroyed by a landslide. punsation for the withdrawal of the - at republic of Sangcberg and Commandant Beyers of the government estabWyoming, Sweetwater, coin pansuddenly appeared in the mountain, of the British. They power protecting lished in the northern end of the Transvaal, the inline of which is not in which shortly afterward toppled over lust week, lie wns drawing piliurx were not threatened in any way. Even contained in the dispatch from London which told of the formation of the 'e slope hcu a rock fell aud crushed j on the village and lie neighboring alliane e with the Transvaal republics. him to death. farms. The inhabitant!1 escaped. A slight shock of earthquake Lai been felt in Kouth Australia. One death from cholera lias occur ret in the Japanese barracks at 1ekin. Paul Underwood, the murderer o bis baby, in Seattle, is still at large. The strike of the soft coal mines ii West Virginia will involve 2H.OOO men. The Prohibitionists of Kansas have placed an entire state ticket in the - Knff-lau- d. 12-- 2"0 is l)un-douul- 1 fifteen-year-ol- ht ( n8e-wago- n ic Schalk-Burge- Ferris-IIaggert- y, I Baden-Fowel- 500-to- right-minde- nine-tenth- three-fourt- hs first-cla- 1 ss d |