The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-10-28
NATIVES ARRESTED.
Inn pressed Into Service-Roers Pre-
pairing to Attack Kimberley.

London. Oct. PA dispatch received
at Cape Town from Herschel, dated Oc-
tober %, says fifteen natives who have
arrived there say they were arrested aft
er leaving Johannesburg and ordered to
fight the British in Natal. But they
succeeded in escaping.
1t is reported at Cape Town that Pres
ident Steyn of the Orange Free State is
close to Aliwal North near Herschel, on
the borders of the Orange Free State.
1t is added that the Boer camps on the
Orange river are quiet. that plowing and
shearing are proceeding and that there
are large quantities of stock on the riv-
er bank.
News has at length been received d.
rect from Col. BadenPowelI, dated
Mafeking, October Is. 1t confirms the
statement that in the armored train
fifteen wounded, including Lieut.. Lord
Charles Bentinck of the Ninth Lancers,
slightly wounded. The Boer loss was
estimated at ffty-three killed and many
wounded.
The latest advices from Kimberley, I'M
der date of October p. said the Boer at
tack was still pending and that large
Boer forces in the neighborhOod had de
stroyed big sections Of the railroad line
north and south of the town. Many fu-
gitives from neighboring villages have
been imprisoned by the Beers. Several
iaGleS, nearing tnelr nuSDanuS Hdu Dtti
captured, visited the Roer camp and were
courteously received. Their intercessions
for their husbands were successful and
the reunited families have arrived at
Kimberley. The prisoners report that
they were well treated.
Gen. Yule'e Movement.
Gen White has not fought his way
out of Ladysmith," as published in New
York, because he left Ladysmlth Sat
4 l. lnt, L.
laagte, which is eighteen miles out. and
he has since, apparently, moved towards
Waschbank He expected to unite with
Gen. Yule in the neighborhood of Wasch-
bank tonight, so his fight with
the Orange Free State troops to-
day must have occurred nearly TWEEN
ty-five miles out from Ladysmith-
Newcastle road. which runs son: two
miles west and almost parallel with the
railroad he evidently encountered the
Free State force which had taken up
position in the Biggarsberg hills
Ladysmith- and Glencoe. also threaten
ing Gen. Yule's flank. The dispersal Of
the Orange Free State force senslhiy I'M
proves the British position at Waschhank
If Gen. White decides TO wait there for
Gen. Joubert.
Natives Remain Neutral.
According to runners who have arrived
at Kimberley from Kuruman. British
Bechuanaand, the resident magistrate
there has recently presided at council
of the native chiefs. He advised them
not to participate in the war. The ma
tives expressed satisfaction at the magis
trate's explanations and promised to re-
main quiescent.
A dispatch from Pretoria dated Oc-
tober %. indicates that the Rhodesians.
under Col Plumer, at Fort Tuli, on the
Transvaal border, are taking the often
sive. They have attacked Il Boer patrol
at Rhodes Drift, but apparently not
much damage was done on either side.
The Beers say that they lost three horses.
Lieut. Barnes, who was wounded at
the battle of Elandslaagte, is Il brother
of Violet Van Burgh, the well-known ac-
tresS.
Germany has sent to follow the Brit
iSh forces in South Africa her military
attache in London. Capt. Baron Won
Luttwitz, who married Miss Mamie Cary
of Cleveland. o.
The British military authorities hope
To have the wireless telegraph i'll opera
ton in South Africa within three weeks.
when. it is hoped. the difficulties expert
enced from the cutting of wires will be
ohvated as it will only be necessary to
establish communication with point at
which the ordinary wires are intact.