The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-06

l Sprague of new edct, commanding
 that the Boxers be put down; but many such edicts had been issued to no pur- 1 pose There was gong beaten all 1 about the streets and man shouting: Don't go to Hsi Huo Tzu!" Don't go I to the Ye Su Tang!" Later we received 1 telegram from MT. Frying, Pekin, saying: 'Tung Chow abandoned, burn- | ed, many Christians killed; all mission l aries, pupils, refugees Methodist com- pound American guard reinforce ments expected. Political situation grave. Paoting-fu safe Thursday" l | wired to Ewing: "All fled Tu Flung Yamen. Going Mongolia" I hope the latter may have been cabled to the board, and relieved your anxieties as to
 my whereabouts. We are extremely sorry that the Christians in Tungcho have been killed, and wonder how
 many; and that those beautiful build
 ings have been burned--probably the
 college, the buildings there and in the
 city, and the beautiful new chapel, are
 all gone
 Monday afternoon a great effort was
 made to send us from the Yamen to
 some place on the Pien Lu Chieh street
 In the lower city. We refused to go,
 but were told that the big official had
 commanded it. In the morning, when
 asked what we wanted to ask of the
 big man, I wished to ask him to send
 us to the Russian consul at Urga, but
 MT Sprague and MT. Williams per-
 suaded me to ask only to be sent, Tues
 day, to the You Fai official with
 guard. When they tried to move us to
 the lower city, I proposed compro-
 mise. that they send us into Mongolia,
 Monday evening, which they agreed to.
 It was the 18th day of the fifth month,
 and the streets were full of leisure peo-
 pie, so the yar1en men waited till a late
 hour before sending us away. As we
 were beginning to eat supper they
 moved us and our large amount of
 baggage, to different house in the
 yamen, nearer the gate. At 1925
 o'clock we started for Mongolia with
 one small and two large carts, Sprague
 on his horse, Yu Va Ike and I on ya-
 men horses, and some soldiers and ya-
 men runners to escort us safely out of the great gate. Beside the lot of bag gage on the carts, Sprague had eight large boxes and trunks, which he had rescued from his house, expecting the houses would be burned, but he could not take so much into Mongolia, and was not allowed to store them In the Yamen; so he hired another cart haul | ed them to Yuan Pao San, and left ! them in MT. Schapoff's care at a. m. All the Russians had gone to Kiakta ex- l cept two or three men, who were plan- | ming to start at once. The Larsons. | Soderboms and Lundquists were spend ing the night at Tu Chin Tzu thirty | "li" from Kalgan, on the way to Hara Oso Cor perhaps Urga). We have not | seen them, but hear that MT. Larson called here yesterday We lunched at Tu Ching Tzue, and suffered from the heat till we came up the Hanore hill on the broad and beautiful road just being made. You never saw so great | a change In any place; it beats the road in the Nankou Pass. We stopped and drank tea at some Mongol tents. and reached the Ton Aai officials house, where the Tai Tai welcomed us cordially. So we thought our troubles were al an end. For sixty hours or more we had not slept except in little maps
 We had one more scare. Yesterday afternoon the Erh Yeh's son, who has charge of affairs in the absence of the Ssu Yeh and Erh Yeh, came into our room full of wine, and angry, and told us we had come to the wrong place, and that many of the Mongols are Boxers He would ordinarily be glad to receive us to his home, but could not do so when we came from the Yamen as refu- gees. He fumed while, and became |! soberer; then sped my Winchester . shotgun; asked me to tell him all about 1t; seemed pleased; and finally told us to go our Journey the next day, and. after spending few days at Hara Oso, one of us come and inquire of him; meantime he would !, consult his uncle, the Esu Yeh, and others, and, if possible, help us private y by writing letters, and enable us to reach Urga. So we were both troubled and comforted
 To-day We started for Erh Tai. The 'oad led past here. and he welcomed US and told us to stay here to- lay. So we have a good time to eat