The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-06-15
WAR WITH THE BOXERS,
Strong Military Forces of the Pow
ers Proceed to Picking.


Tientsin, June 10.-The special train
that went to examine the line and re-
cOnnOiter returned last night. The rail
way was found clear two miles beyOnd
4angthsun. The engineers with the
guards walked a mile and a half further
They found the ties and two bridges
burned and the railway torn up. The
first repair train, with Admiral Seymour
and his staff, $50 British, Captain Me
CALAIS 100 Americans, 40 Italians and
% Austrians, left this morning at half
past 8. A HOtchkiss and other guns
were mounted in the center of the train.
second train left at II o'clock with
600 British, japanese, Russian and
French troops. Repairing matter and
new rails were taken along. There we're
81 foreign war vessels at Taku.
message from Pcking to the admir-
ais asserts that the situation is hourly
growing more dangerous for foreigners.
All those at Peking have taken refuge in
legation street. The civil males are
under arms to fight with the regulars if
necessary. The approaches to legation
street are surrounded by howling mobs
of undisciplined soldiery with cannon
and bayOnets. The International guards
were holding off the mob, which scream
ed insults and threats.
This was the situation yesterday
Saturday when the couriers rot
through with the latest dispatches. The
empress dOwager was amusing herself at
the palace with theatricals.
1t is reported that government arms
are being dealt out to the Boxers"
Sir Claude Macdonald, British min
lister in Peking, sent the following tele
gram to Shanghai on June z: "The
movement against the foreigners, which
has been allowed to grow to such an ex-
tent, has resulted in the burning of rail
way stations and in the interruption
OF railway communication for five days.
Two British missionaries and several
foreign missionaries have been murdered
in the district near PekiDg. In the court
round numbers Of converts have been
murdered and chapels have been pillaged
and destroyed, while in the capital itself
the British missionaries have baen
obliged to leave their houses and to
take refuge at the legation, which is de-
tended by IS marines. The Chinese gov
ernment is affected by these events so
far as to send high officials to parley
with the Boxers, but it does not show
any intention of summarIy suppressing
them. Probably it still has power to do
80, but the throne is still strongly in
huenced by sympathy with the move
ment and the spirit of the troops is
doubtful. All is we'll at present"
A special dispatch from st. Peters
burg, dated Saturday, June Q, says: 81
have learned from an absolutely reliable
source that minute dispatches have been
sent to the commanders of the Russian
troops in Manchuria, directing them to
prepare three regiments of COssacks on
the Chinese frontier to be in readiness
to enter on the day orders are received"
Powers Act in Concert.
London, June 1.-THE admirals at
Iaku, acting in concert, are forcibly re-
opening the railway from Tientsin to Pc
king. Gangs of laborers are repairing
the damaged line, which is guarded by
1900 men, composed of detachments
from the foreign fleet. One hundred
Americans, under Captain McCalla, are
among them. They have guns and
armored trains for use when the line is
repaired.
Ten thousand troops of all national
tiles, according to a dispatch to the
Daily Express from Shanghai, will be
sent to Peking to back up the demands
OF the ministers upon the government,
or, if necessary, to suppress the BOX
ers" themselves.
Three Million Boxers.
London, June 9.-Defnite returns re-
garding the severe fighting between the
Chinese troops and the Boxers that
was going on Thursday between Tien-
tsin and Peking had not been received at
Tientsin where the latest kilograms to
reach London were filed. The Chinese
troops, however, had killed many BOX
ers, according to some reports. while
another account had the government
soldiers sorely defeated in an engage
ment near Pao Ting Flu.
| Apparently the legation guards have