The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-12
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Seems to Have Turned-HOers
Getting Su Cessful.

LONDON, JUNE u.-Ldeutenant Cen /
eral Sir Frederick Walker, in
command of the lines Of communication
in South Africa, reports that in the dis
aster to the British troops June :, at
Roodeval where the Beers cut Lord |
Roberts lire of communications, the
Fourth battalion of the Derbyshire regi- |
ment were all killed, wounded or made
prisoners, except six enlisted men, Two
officers and fifteen men were killed and
five officers and seventy-two men were
wounded, many Of the severely
The Beers returned the wounded to
the British The officers killed were:
LIEUTENANT COLONEL BAIRD
DOUGLAS.
LIEUTENANT HAWLEY.
The wounded include Colonel Wnkin-
son and lieutenant Balchard Of the cam
adian infantry
GENERAL WAR NEWS
LONDON, JUNE 1880 A. Nifty
thousand British troops are within half
a hundred miles of the marauding Beers
north of Kroonstad and they are expect
ed, of course. to make short work Of
them. Nevertheless, outside Of the war
Office telegrams, no one knows what is
going on.
South of Kroonstad there is a wide
gan Tae railway is only partially de-
Tended and, as Gen. Kelly-Kenny has
hurried all the available troops north
ward, the assumption is that there is
danger of a second raid. The loss Of the
Derbyshires is estimated at from 600 to
700 men.
A Reuter- dispatch from Maseru, dated
June II, S:95 p. m, says:
Fifteen hundred Beers surrendered to
Gen. Brabant today in the Ficksberg dis
trict."
Machadorp has been officially pro-
proclaimed the capital Of the Transvaal
A Lorenzo MARQUES dispatch says that
the village has swollen into a small city
the majority Of the inhabitants living in
! tents.
An official Boer telegram asserts that
the British have been defeated with con-
siderably loss at Donkerspoort in the
southern extremity Of the Free State, or
Orange river colony, ten miles from Nor
vals Point. 1t was thought that this dis
trict had been cleared of Beers and reb-
els long ago.
The Beers still cling to Laings Mex
but Gen. Buffers forces are stu working
far around in that direction
Lord Roberts has wired Cane Town
that prior to Wednesday he liberated 151
fcers and $500 Of the rank and file. The
Beers consequently took off only 900
Mr.. Schreiner, the Cape premier, had
eight supporters out Of forty at a eau
IS called to consider the ministerial pro-
gram. ]. Y. Merriman, treasurer, and J.
w Sauver, commissioner Of public works.
have resigned from the cabinet. and Mrs
Schreiner's own resignation is believed
| to be imminent, although he may recon-
struct the ministry, with the aid Of the
opposition. the British members. The
cabinent is so interesting that Sir Alfred
Miner will POSTPONE his trip north.
Food is still scarce at Mafeking, but
the railway is nearly repaired. Seventy
two rebels have ben arrested in the Vry-
burg and Mafeking districts. Sixty-fve
We're marched into Mafek!ng by two Of
their late prisoners at Mostia.
All of Gen. Harrington's force had
landed at Beira a week ago.
A Boer deserter who arrived at Ma
seru yesterday asserts that 1000 Beers
participated in the Roekrantz engage
ment, that Cen Olivier was killed and
Gen. Dev'llers mortally wounded.
The American young women who are
nursing in the hospital at Ladybrand
have been sighted by the Boer women
who are nursing the Boer sick in the
same hospital and have been made the
object of unpleasant remarks because the
Americans are nursing the English
Thirty thousand troops were engaged
in the mimic fields operations at Alder
shot yesterday.