The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-11-24
ANOTHER ORIENTAL WAR
Immine noe Of q Struggle Between
Holland and LombOk.
An Island In the Dutch Fast Indies That
Is Contesting the Supremacy of
the Fatherlnnd-Ii.story
of the Trouble.

An Island In the Dutch East Indiss That =
Is Contesting the Supremacy of !,
the Fatherland-Ii.story
of the Trouble.
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Besides the war between China and
Japan the orient Is the scene OF an ,
/ other war. The sovereigns who are
/ contending for the mastery are the ,
fourteen-year-old Queen Wilhelmina OF
Holland and Balinese Rajah, who
claims sovereignty over the island OF
Lombolx, Dutch East Indies.
The contest, writes Thomas Parke
Gordon in Golden Days, is not as un-
i equal one as might at first be sup
posed; for the young queens troops
have met with such serious reverses as
to cast a gloom over the whole king
dom.
The queens birthday was to have
been celebrated on grand scale at
The Hague, August 81, but on account
of the losses sustained by her troops at
Lombok she gave orders to abandon
the usual festivities.
For over half century the Dutch
: have exercised sovereignty over Lom-
! box, in trying to discipline whose ori- |
, entail ruler their troops have met with I
, SO disastrous a defeat; but this SOW
ereignty has been merely nominal, the
{ real ruler being Balinese Rajah The
. latter-a strict Brahmin-has been for
l some years trying to rid himself entirely
t of the Dutch influence in his country's
: affairs, and recently, with this end in
e view, he tried to secure the support of
= the British government
Il That was about four months ago.
e When he found that his efforts were
e Intellectual he procured small flotilla
a of naval vessels and made other war
d like preparations.
d The Dutch authorities protested
e. against such proceedings, but the rajah
,r paid no attention to them War was
is then declared and three battalions of
is the colonial army were sent against
a. him, with artillery, and five men-of-
Ii war to support them, to teach the orr
e. entail potentate a lesson. But the
er Dutch, instead of teaching him lesson,
st met with overwhelming defeat, as has
ID been recorded in the cable dispatches
it which have been received at this writ
IN ing There had been bloody battles
before in the East Indies, but never
&C, have Europeans been SO badly beaten.
os, Lombolz-called Tanah Sasal1 by the
BE- natives and Selaprang by the Baiinese
st. lis an island of the Sunda group, lying
les east of Java, with the island of Bal
mt intervening. 1t has an area of about
raj zoos square miles, which is watered by
Gu numerous small streams, scarcely any
3ed of which are navigable, and dotted ovel
co. with many mountain lakes
de- There are two mountain ranges, be
al tween which is well-watered plain
ny wholly planted with rice, the hillside
I've producing coffee and Indian corn. Th'
ty. scenery throughout the island is beau
of tifuI-forest-elad mountains and thorn.
i'm iungles alternating with the rich allu
The vial plains which are cultivated lilS
OF gardens under an ancient and elaborat
out system of irrigation.
ne To the naturalist, LombolS is of pc
10 culiar interest as the frontier island Q
OF the Australian regions, with its coclSa
tly toos and mound-builders and bee-eat
ow ers and ground-thrushes. The populs
her ton is about half a million.
IS, There can be but little doubt as t
IN the outcome of the war. While th
out rajall may be able to keep off tn
'om Dutch for months and years, sooner
lrly later Vilhelmina's troops must be vi
TO torious.
AA'
S as the loss of that one island, although
vns. all the other Dutch colonies encou
OF aged by the outcome of the war
ice Lombok, should link hands and revol
their independence would probably r
:, suit.
y. 1t is interesting to call attention
rtain the colonies of Holland. This lit
European kingdom, with an area
orld but L., GAS square miles and popul
and tion of 1860, 576-which is about t
rgu- area of Delaware and Maryland
, re- gether, and half a million less than t
indi- population of the state of Pennsylvar
saws rules a colonial territory of 766,l
,g to square miles, with population of
,opu- 900, 900.
sim The colonial possessions fall natur
4 are ly into two groups-the East Indi
rela- possessions including Java, Madu
,oun- Bali, Lombok, Sumatra, the Mollucc
n re- Celebes, Timor, parts of Borneo, q
The the western part of New Guinea-a
e in the West Indies, the chief of which
' 100 Dutch Guinea and Curacao. Holls
: 1o6, once had considerable territory on
tier coast of Guinea but this was dispo
the of by sales TO Great Britain in 1879.
opla- Queen Wilhelmina, whose birth'
festivities We're abandoned on acco
crate of the Dutch reverses in the East
o 100 dies, was born August 81, 1880,
rance succeeded to the throne on the de
of her father, King William III.
n be- November 23, 1890.
n, al She is now fine, tall girl of fl
opean teen. Her birthday festivities
than year, by her special desire. took
70 100, form of school treats on very IL
4 are scale Next winter the young qu
re be- is to figure ON a new issue of coins
: 95.4 stamps, with her hair done up i
G per- womanly fashion.
alton -
Of the Shower Baths for horses'
ny the They do queer but very sens
low "a thing to the car horses IN New ior
e new hot weather. The horses are KEPT
side not in the heated stables. and