The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-07-28

cidnlS ana MISSIONARIES living III the
open ports, procedures, departments and
districts under their respective jurisdiction
and to afford them due protection in ac
cordance with treaty stipulations without
fail. Last month we heard with profound
establishment and regret of the killing of
the chancellor of the japanese legation
MIR. Akira, and the same fate befell the
German minister shortly afterward. The
violent removal of the German minister,
whose residence at the capital was neces-
sary to the transaction of business between
the two countries, affected us very deeply.
ct is the duty of the authorities con-
cerned to cause stringent orders for the
speedy arrest and punishment of the MUIR
derers to be carried out
"Since the commencement of the attack
OH Tientsin there are foreign subjects and
missionaries who have on account of local
disturbances suffered death or loss of
property through no fault of their own.
We hereby command the governor of Pc
kin and the viceroy of Chilli to cause
investigations to be made by their re-
spective subordinates of all such claims
except those rising directly from the said
attack, with a view to their ultimate set
Element. Moreover, local outlaws and
rebellious subjects have of late given
themselves up to burning, killing and
plundering, to the great disquiet of our
loyal subjects. This is in utter defiance
OF law. We hereby command the said gov
ernors general, governors and comman-
ders of our forces to investigate the situa-
ton and to take such measures for the
punishment of offenders and restoration
of order as the necessities of the case de-
mand. We hereby command this, our
general edict, to be made known for the
information of all it may concern. Re
spect this"
A significant statement in the above
edict is noted in that passage which d.
reefs an investigation of all claims sex
cept those arising directly from the said
attack" (attack on Tientsin) with view
to their ultimate settlement
This appears to make plain not only that
the Chinese government will settle claims
for actual losses, but that it has now for
nally decreed an exception of the claims
arising directly from the attack on Ten
tsin. 1t seems to indicate that the Chi
nese government holds that the attack on
Iientsin was unwarranted.
Fighting at Wei Hal Wei.
st. Petersburg, July 24.-Two encoun-
tiers are reported to have taken place be-
tween British and Chinese forces near Wei
Hal Wei. The latter, it was reported, were
repulsed after a stubborn encounter. No
dates are given.
Credited to Prince Tuan.
Washington, July 24.-The state de-
partment made public the following:
Inc state department has received a
dispatch from Mr.. GoOdnow, the consul
General at Shanghai, saying that Prince
Tuan wires that an officer of the tsung Ii
yamen saw all the ministers on the 18th;
that none was injured and that no attack
was at that time being made. He does
not say t." whom the dispatch of Prince
Tuan was addressed and it is to a certain
extent at variance with the dispatch of
Mr.. Conger of that date, describing the le-
gauons as being under fire at that time.
The above dispatch was shown Minister
Wa this afternoon. He said he had no
explanation to offer, but said he placed no
dependence on any of the Shanghai dis
patches. He advanced the theory that
Prince Tuan, after all, might not belong to
the Boxers, but might be supporting the
government.
The officials of the state department,
after reading Goodnow's dispatch, express
the belief that a mistake has been made
in the transmission of the message, and
that the name Tuan should have been
Yuan, governor of the province of Shan
Tung.
Hancock VIII Go to TaI<u.
The war department is considering the
advisability of sending the Hancock, which
sails from San Francisco July IS, with
four batteries of artillery and 500 Marines
direct to Taku instead of to Nagasaki
These troops were to have gone on the
Meade, which sails August l, but it has
been decided, owing to the urgent neces-
sity of getting remforcements to China
to have the Hancock make a special trip
She will carry stores and provisions only
for the troops in China.
The Meade ON the first proximo will
take out one battalion of the Fifteenth
infantry, one squadron of Third cavalry
and one company of engineers from Yves
Point, in all III men and 60 officers.
The Garonne, carrying two squadrons o
the First cavalry and 100 recruits, 80 of
ficers and $50 men, will sail from Seattl
the same day for Nagasaki. The place o
= the Hancock, which was original,
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