The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20

Gen. Botha. through their wives, regard
ing terms of surrender.
London, June 16-4:f7 p. m.-The war
office has received the following message
from Lord Roberts. dated Pretoria, June
49,:
Ruste1berg was occupied yesterday
by Baden-Powell A column starts from
TINS place tomorrow to meet Baden
POWELL and repair the telegraph between
Pretoria and Rustenburg. Hunter is
moving from Potchefstroom. His adj
vance brigade expects to reach Johannes
burg June 49,"
Butler hope, is at Standerton. Hell
delbeIrg will be occupied from this place
snortly and then the Orange River colony
VIII be completely cut off from the Trans
vaal.
Baden Powell reports that the district
through which he passed is settling down
satisfactorily. Over 1000 stands of arms
were surrendered and Hans Eloff an Pet
Kruger, son Of the President, were to
make submission to him yesterday, hav-
ing been previously disarmed on their
farms.
'Botha's army has retired and is he
lieved to be at Middleburg. His rear
guard was surprised and entirely routed
by Ian Hamilton's mounted infantry"
Malicious Destruction of Property.
The war office has received the follow
ing dispatch from Gen. Butler, dated
Laing' mex, June 10:
Now that Natal is clear OF the enemy,
l wish to call attention to the disgracefu
way III which private property was treat
ed in the part Of the colony they occu-
pied. Their wlllful and needless damage
IS visible everywhere, and houses, when
not completely wrecked, have been desc
Grated with filthy ingenuity That this
has been done with the consent Of the
leaders is proved by the fact that while
III Charlestown every house was wrecked
in VOlksrust, two miles off. but in the
IranSyaal, every house was intact"
Cape Town, June 16.--The Basutos are
raiding the farms Of the Beers who have
surrendered their farms to the British
destroying their fences. threatening the
people and driving off their cattle. Sew
eral instances are reported, also, where
natives of Cape Colony have assaulted
and robbed colonial rebels who have sur
rendered their arms. Lord Roberts is
coping energetically with the difficulty,
furnishing without delay those proved
guilty of eXcesses.
American is Killed.
I President Steyn's chief of engineers, an
American named Seymour, has been
killed in action. 1t is still rumored that
Sir John Gordon Sprigg is forming cab
met, but some days must elapse before
the ministerial crisis can be brought to
an end.
Come to Plead for Peace.
An Afrikander doctor of divinity and
three Cape Colony Beers will sail for
England next Wednesday to plead for
peace and the independence of the Boer
republics.
Beers Guard Their Position.
London, June 16.-Where the next
battle will be fought it is too early to
guess. Lord Roberts latest dispatch
concerning the fighting at Hatherley
shows that Gen Botha was prepared SO
thoroughly to resist thanking movements
that the British field marshal was COM
PEELED to abandon the attempt to turn
him out of his position and to launch a
column against his front. This duty
was assigned to Gen. Ian Hamiltons
two days to get around the Boer left
AS the penalty of the Beers effective
flank defense they were forced to leave
their center comparatively weak, and
Lord Roberts took advantage of the sit
uation as soon as ne realized the true
state of affairs.
The work of Ian Hamiltons men IN
assailing the enfeebled portion of the
Boer line is said to have been daring in
the extreme. The general himself was
on the firing line and came off, after the
capture of the key to the Boer position,
with bruised shoulder that told Of
close association with shrapnel bullet
Steyn was Opposed.
London, June 16-The Times Louren-
co Marques correspondent says that Pres
ident Steyn and not President Kruger
was the stumbling block to the surren-
der of the burghers shortly after the
British entry into the Transvaal Kru-
ger proposed reopening peace negotia-
lions, but Steyn strongly demurred point
ing out that according to the treaty be-
tween the two republics neither party
could conclude peace without the consent
Of the other. AS representing the Or
ange Free State he refused to consent
Unless he is willing to lay himself open
to the charge of breach of faith Kruger
had no alternative but to continue the
campaign.
Botlia's Next Stand.
London, June 16.-A dispatch from
Laing's Mex, dated today, says Gen.
Christian Botha's next stand will be at
Baardekop, but with a reduced force.
The German ambulance captured by
Gen. Butler has been sent to Durham.
whence it will be allowed to return to
the Transvaal via Delagoa bay.