The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-16
These. with the force AZ Pieternari;xburg.
make total % L 10s men in Natal
T~r-~u. Must he Neutral

CAPE TOWN. Oct. IL DELAYED In
transmission )--Ths German consul ger
erai has issued g proclamation OF nea-
frsiity. commanding ali Germans TO bold
aioof from hostIlitsss.
sseyn and Kruger Consult.
CAPE TOWN. Der. 5.-Prestdsns
steyn, % the Orange Free state,
and President Kruger. 9. the Trans
yaal, maintain Gixee. ieiegra2fa3 connec-
ton. Aliwalnorth dispatches say inat
Freye bridge. which heretofore has been
crest aid 70 Boer spies. is now csosed ana
guarded by Cape police. II Is rufnotsd shai
the Heesie KraaI commando. s'rengtssaei
by SIS Beers from. SmitAaeld, IL rneEa2ins
Aiiwainorth.
A Kafir brought 10 yryburg by the hos
usta! train says he passed the rcsne OF the
recent arrnorea train disaster and saw sew
era bodies OF white uien lying there.
Tier. is still no reliable news from either
Ik6ysEaith or GLENCOE, except thai a patToi
from. tho after place exchanged st1ots Win
a. sasag body Of Beers on ne road 10 Help
maker. All reports agree that the Beess
now occupy sewcas
poey fents nave been discovered eight
raiieg scut!eaet o. Kimberley. Great clouds
% g,iyt seer ter miles ~ the eastward OF
Kimberley this morning seem 20 indicate
the movement of the large body OF troops
with wagons TWO imperial officers az
midday also discovered column OF +0
Beers goiag In the direction OK Aod1er
river bridge from Johannesburg. small
parties of Beers. evidently on a CON-
.-1T.-Terlng expedition. have reached KAT
fir river There are large commands on
either side @. the railway. The butxaers
xs@ they will have 1850 They probably In
,en. 10 tolg tAe other forces in camp last
niaht several miles from the Cape Colony
border.
Reception ia CenynEham Greene.
6.onyugham Green. from Pretoria. and
Cansal Evans from Johannesburg, nave
arrived here. Mr. Green was accorded
,nagnlncent reception. A crowd Of 800
persons. WAC had gathered. sang Rule.
Britannia" aud God save she Queen.
Acton Homes May he Attacked.
DURHAM, Oct. i4-Oelayed In trans
mission Accommodation by means Of
seouts Is maintained between Lafysnith
and Acton Homes which X is reported the
Beers fran Tint.a pass contemplate at
lacking.
The Free State laager below Van Reen-
ans pass Is said 10 be four miles long AMI
TO have al least twelve guns. II Is ex
pectea that II Will await the British at
tack
No News From Mafektng.
CAPE TOWN OF. lf.--tDe aysd In ira 3
mission, Five hundred Beer troops occupy
border siding uofthward Of Fourteen
streams with cannon where they are await
Ing orders to destroy the line or attack
Fourteen streams
TIE railway telegraph officials have aban-
doned Maribogo The nearest British poin;
OF communication. therefore 10 Mafekinx Is
understood TO be sstlagoiil. sixty miles
away.
While 1t IN the general belief that the
Beers are attacking Mafekins there Is sin
no confirmation Of the reports. II the Boess
had met with any success II would surely
have been announced IA the only telegraph
10 communication H. In the hands of the
burgh.rs. The absence Of news therefore
Is regarded AZ a good sign.
Hospital Tratn'. Narrow Escap~.
vRYBURG Cape Colony, Oct. ia hos
pitsl train that started for Narihogo. has
just returned after an adventurous jour
Eey, II had reached a curve on a culvert
10 yards south OF Maribogo and had just
s.ackened speed when II vas observed that
the rails ahead had been upturnea, The
brakes were applied bur the engine passed
on to one rail partly raised ana VAS de-
rallied The occupants Immediately righted
the engine. a. the same time IL WAS OBJ
served that party of Beers were galiop-
Ing into line east of the railway. but well
On the Cape Colony side OF the border.
Some of the persons on ths train declare
tho. they saw cannon pointed az the
train. The iuteuttcn Of the Beers wa. ap~
Iaren'ly hostile. The train ran back 10
vTybufg Il; fun speed. the engine nyinx a
white flag with a red cross Picks and
sbovtls were seen lying about and the
Beers had apparently been disturbed while
ror2osi0g t!le raila
1t is learned shat previous to the starting
@: the train. Marihoso tciephone3 vryburg
assstng shat the train he sent AZ ~ all was
quite safe. The operator al Ny bagg zee <
nlxed the voice az that ~ A European
store clerk In view 81 the Subsequent re
port that the Beers were removing the rails
4, Is believed the Beers compelled the clerk
IL speak through the telephone
TSae nearest Isoer 1ommand 10 Vryburs
laagefei north of schstixetteuck. tween
~ miles distant and twu miles Inside he
Tgansvaal. Title commando gen; = message
10 the Ny hIfE railway sta;i3p shat If thr
delivery IL ihf.v Wagon loads III ueat ANA
,wo wagon ioa3s az Sugar received a week
ago Mere refused the Roers would xcn!
en neu e. taxa lhcm. This morning all
the goods a. the state We're na,ie lp 10