The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-01
Beers IRE MAKING MORE
TROUBLE FOR ROBERTS
Showing Renewed Activity West Of BIOemfOntcin
and Capture Town Of WindSOrtOn.
British Abandon Attempt to Capture Enemy and Are Now
HaraSSing the TranSvaalerS.

London, May 1.-The Beers are now
showing uncommon activity west of
Bloemfontein. They are in force be-
tweeR Fourteen Streams and Kimber-
ley. On Sunday they occupied Wind
sortOn, west of the railway. and now
threaten to interrupt the cOmmunica-
ton Of the British force at Warrenton
to the north. This, too, at time
when General Hunter is about to start
on a 200-mile march for Mafeking,
probably with 5000 men,
To the east Of BlOemfOntein the
Beers on Sunday night were still hold
ing the hills near Thaba N'Chu, while
behind them We're long wagon trains,
loaded with wheat for the BOer army
in the north and moving through La
dybrand.
The British captured one Boer con-
voy on Saturday, but its size is not
mentioned in the dispatch, which bare
ly announces the fact. Wepener, lately
the scene of incessant fighting, is de-
serted. General Brabant and Colonel
Dalgety having moved nOrthward. A
dispatch from Maseru. dated Monday
says:
"The Rasutos are a second time
astOunded to see the Beers peacefully
retiring with herds which the natives
think should be the booty Of the Brit
ish, who are said to be the conquerOrs." "
Beers Travel in Safety.
According to information from Ma
seru, the main body of the Beers
reached Leeuw river, due west Of
Ladybrand, Sunday. small parties
trailing behind at intervals Of ten
miles to protect the rear and whip up
their herds. Slight outpost actions take
place daily beyond Karee Siding.
African horse sickness has broken
out in General Buffers army. It
proves especially fatal among freshly
arrived animals The Bloemfontein
correspondents point out that the de-
ficiencies in the veterinary department
cause thousands of losses.
General Lucas Meyer. replying to
General Buffers complaint that some
of the British prisoners at Pretoria are
lodged in the town jail, SAYS that onlv
those are so treated who have tried or
who are suspected of trying to escape.
He retorts, moreover, that Boer pris-
oners are confined in the town jail at
Pietermaritzburg with natives.
The morning papers give special
prominence to the statement Of a news
agency that Sir Redvers Butler seat
his resignation to Lord Roberts after
the SpiOn Kop censures were published
and that Lord Roberts declined to ac-
cept it.
General Frenchs object, now that all
chance Of catching the main body of
the burghers has disappeared, is to
harass the Beers and prevent any well
organized retreat.
DR.. Jameson Receivers.
Cape Town reports say DIR. jameson
has recovered from the severe attack
Of fever from which he has been suf-
fering, and he is mentioned as a can
didate for one of the seats in the Cape
parliament, representing Kimberley, in
succession to DR.. Frederic Rutherford
Harris.
The agent of Julius We'll at Mafeking
wrote under date of April II most
cheerfuIly, saying everything was sat
isfactory He added that the Boer guns
were firing heavily into the town and
! that a determined attack had been re
pulsed, without casualties on the Brit
ish side.
A conception of the continuous raw
ages of the war can be gathered from
Cape Town dispatch dated todaZ.
briefly announcing the arrival from
Natal of twenty-five officers and 252
men invalided home, and the sailing