Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-16
LETTER
Speculation as to the Re-
: suit Of H0StilitieS.
TO SUCCEED pAuNCEFoTE
II is Believed Sir Thomas Henry San
derSOn Will Be Named as Ambass-
ador to WashingtOn--T The Garrison
at ESQuimault.

London. Sept 16-(Copyrighted 1S9?
by the Associated Press. )--Speculati tior
regarding the events that would immedi.
ately precede and follow hostilities with
the IransVaal continues to occupy public
attention. 1t appears that no declara tior
OF war is necessary The process, ac-
cording to good authority, would be a
! proclamation by the British high COM
missioner Sir Alfred Miner, stating that
j the convention of London is annulled and
that Queen Victoria has resumed the gov
efnment of the country known as the
South African republic The general
commanding the British expcditionary
forces would be instructed to occupy the
. lransVaal and hold it until fresh gov
ernment is Established. When the coun-
| try is pacified, commission doubtless
/ representing all classes of the inha hi
tants of the Transvaal would be appoint-
! ed to draft new constitution. That this
Is easier said than done is most papa BILE
TO the most enthusiastic Englishman
Estimates Of the strength of the Beers
widely diverge. John Morley referred TO
them as able to put an army of 80. 600 men
in the field, while the war office officials
seem 10 thlnk that 25,O0O is all they could
muster. AS a matter of fact their
strength entirely depends upon the assist
ance they receive from the Orange Free
state and the natives which is imnossi
Ole TO gauge. The present atmosphere of
war has enormously stimulated army re-
cl lullng. Crowds Of young men surround
the onlces and daily large patches take
the queens shilling
f. fn Belgium he Dreyfus excitement has
resulted in the issuing of pictorjal nost
cards bearing portraits of the prominent
hsures IN the Rennes drama and even
reproductions of the handwritings of
Dreyfus and Esterhazy.
Fhe queen has been dragged into tba
church fight She is quoted as saving :,
clergyman regarding the archbshon,s
deeision Surely, if incense is illau.l
now. 1t must have been SO 80 wears 400
why did they not discover 1t sooner?., .
RMS enunciation by the head of ~. +
church delighted the ritualists.
Commenting on the difficulty exner-
fenced in finding a successor TO Lord
Fauhce1ote. ambassador to Washington |
q weekly paper says 1t is more than like
~ that Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson x
:. u. permanent under secretary Of stare
Tor foreign affairs since 1884. will receiv.
the appointment to Washington as a re
"aiu iof MS long services in the pelman-
ent under secretaryship.
United States Amba ssador Cho.ta !,
staying with Mr.. and Mrs Bradley M.rY
TN IN lnVernesshire. They are expected
pack IN London by the end of the month
Nh. Choate, Jr, is in Scotland with tha
Earl of kintore. Henry White, secretarv
OF the United States embassy has gone
10 Gefnany, whence he will take his wife
to Switzerland.
me umted States military attache at
Berlin, Colonel Samuel S. Sumner is ac.
companying Emperor William at the mil
tary maneuvers. With Colonel Summer
s Lieutenant Mervyn c. Buckley. II. $
A. VINO previous to going to GERMANY
mpieted thorough inspection of the
" oolWlch, Chatham, Portsmouth and
plymouth arsenals and dockyards. in ar
'ofdahce with his special mission to in
'est1gate the European ordnance and
equipment. Lieutenant Buckley. aftar
completing his work in Germany. goes to
Paris e'e' -
Inc Duke of Manchester has created
considerable talk and. some scandal nv
appearing at Mrs. Hughes -Hallett's fan.
" dress ball a Dinard in an abbreviatedt
"a thing suit. ]
Mr. Andrew Carnegie's yacht, Sea S
breeze, with her owner and several titled I
ommoners and their wives on hoard .
roke down off the coast of Scotland sev,
raj days ago Distress signals wero
nade and the party was eventually taken
II and landed by a fishing boat. but a
ad to spend the night at the little town =
+ Cromarty. v
The Fifes have now got the big steam, u
acht for Mr. A. ]. Drexel, designed nv .
Watson, in the framing stage. It is said II
lat 1t will equal any yacht afloat in "
peed and equipment 9
Mr.. William O'Brien's newspaper the y
'ish People, made it's first appearance in
ublin this week. The self-described mr..
an OF reunited Ireland maintains thatI
u the irish forces must be recast and
'created to insure success.
Referring to Halifax dispatch regard
e the strengthening Of the Esnuimalt ~
arrison, the Globe says it is gratifying u
rat Esquimalt is beginning to receive NJ
1preciatlOn as strategical position te
hich 1t entities lone of those imperial tv
isns of vantage which have suffered fo
ON systematic neglect" The paper in
so says that couple of years ago a -
ritish engineer officer was sent to Es ~
limalt to investigate the place and add ~
g that it was evident that he saw the w w
tility of strengthening the fortifica- CO CO
)ns unless manned by thoroughly ef- -
lent troops. ~
'',rhe Canadian militia says the Globe. 10
$ as useful as such force is for local IN
thAN, i