The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-06-16
GEN. BUTLER FORCES AHEAD
THE ENEMY WAS IN FORCE.
Had Several Guns in Posftion-Brit-
ish Loss SmalI-Boers Claim They
Recaptured BIoomfontein and
President Steyn in Charge.

London, June l3.-The war office
posts the following dispatch from Butler:
Headquarters in Natal, June
l3.-Ne have forced Almonds mex. 1t is
not marked on the map, but is the last
defile to the Charlestown flats. The enc
my were in considerable force, with sew
eral guns in position. The brunt of the
lighting fell upon the Second Dorsets, who
carried the position at the point of the
bayonet, and the Third cavalry brigade.
who were heavily attacked on our right
from the very broken country around
Ikelini mountain.
Il hope our casualties are less than 100,
which, considering the extreme length Of
the position, is much less than expected.
The whole attack was directed by Hid
yard, whose dispositions were extremely
good. The artillery, Tenth brigade and
Third cavalry brigade did most of the
work"
"Joubert's Farm, June l3-I am
encamped four miles north of Volksrust.
Laing's Mex and Majuba were completely
evacuated by the Beers. General Cleary.
from Ingogo, is now coming over the
mex. l have had to camp here for want
of water"
At Honigspruit.
London, June l3.-The war office has
received the following dispatch from Gen
eral Kely-Kenny:
"Bloemfontein, June l3.-Our troops
from the north are at Honigspruit
(south of Roodeval), where the Beers cut
the British lines of communication Hav-
ing defeated the enemy, they will be at
America siding General Knox moves out
from kroonstadt to intercept the enemy"
Claims of the Beers.
London, June l3-A plentiful crop
of reports has been fltering through Lor-
emo Marquee.
According to these, General Dewitt, with
$4,000 burghers, is marching ON Johannes
burg, the Beers have retaken Bloemfon-
TEN, where President Steyn again oc-
cupies the presidency; the British have
sustained severe defeat at Elandsfon-
tein, and have also lost $50 killed and
wounded and 100 prisoners in a fight at
| Vredefort.
Nothing from any other source lends
color to these stories with the exception
OF the last, which is probably the Boer
version of the disaster to the battalion
OF the Derbyshire regiment at Roodeval.
In regard to President Steyn being at
Bloemfcntein, a dispatch from Mazeru,
Basutoland, dated June IL, says Steyn was
then at Vredevet, 200 miles from Bloem-
fontein.
General Butler appears to be making
substantial progress, and ought soon to
be occupying the railroad at Charlestown,
whence, presumably, he will advance on
Heidelberg. and effect junction with
Roberts.
A dispatch from Lichtenberg, dated
June IL, says that 90 johannesburg
mounted policemen with a Maxim gun
have surrendered to General Hunter.
A probable explanation of the reports
that the British force is moving through
Swaziland comes in a dispatch from Port
Elizabeth, dated June IL, announcing the
return there of the British cruiser Doris
from Kosi bay, whittier she had taken a
number of whaleboats with the object of
landing an armed force, presumably part
of plan to penetrate into Swaziland. The
Beers, however, got wind of the expedi-
stion and the force was not landed.
According to a Cape Town dispatch,
the cabinet crisis continues. 1t is added
that should Premier Schreiner secede from
the bond, as he threatens, his action
would place the bond in the minority in
the assembly.
Among the members of the yeomanry
killed at Lindley was w. T. Power, pro-
prietor of the Canyon ranch, in north
Texas, and son of Sir w. T. Power