The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-01-20
STILL HIVE NO
RELIABLE NEWS
No Credence Put in Vague Antwerp
Reports That General Butler
Has Been Defeated.
kRuEeER ISSUES PROCLAMATION
Orders All Bnrehcrs to the Front,
Urging Them to Show More
Energy In Transvanl Cause
PRISONERS Taken.

Brussels, Jan. 17.-An Antwerp pa
per pretends to have received a cipher
telegram from Pretoria, dated Janu-
airy 10, announcing the defeat of Gen
eral Buffers army at Springfield on
that. day. The report is discredited.
1t is also rumored that the Belgian
speaker. Beermaert, who was received
by the German emperor, was commits
stoned to plead for German friendly
intervention between England and the
Transraal.
New York, Jan. Ia Herald dis
patch from London says:
A dispatch received this morning
through an agency, contains the
strange information that ten train
loads of mounted men have been sent
back to Durham by General Butler.
They took trains Saturday for the
mouth Of the Tngeln river. and it is
said that they are to march through
Zululand.
There is no other corroborating dis
patch to hand and it is hard to see
why such a large body of men as is
now most NEEDED Mt the front should be
sent at this time to make SO long a
march.
Not n Word From Natal.
London, Jan. 1.-THE complete alb
sence of news from Natal proves the
censorship will allow nothing to pass
until General Buffers plans have been
executed or have failed. Even Gen
eral Roberts, in his report of yester-
day evening. refrained from saying a
word about Natal or Butler.
From the other columns there is lit
tie news of moment. Modder river all
vices of yesterdays date only report
daily long ronge Smelling, from which
the Beers are supposed to haye suf-
fercd severely. A dispatch from
Sterkstroom, dated January Is, reports
that Gatacre's troops made Il demon
~strntion beyond Molteno. in the direc-
ton of Stormberg, in the belief that
the Beers intended to seize Moltcno.
The hurghers We're not sighted, and
the British remained at Moltcno. Ar
rivals from Stormbcrg estimate there
are 4,500 Beers at that place, mostly
revolted %colonists and Free Stnters..
President Steyn's brother is the land
rost.
Kruger Exlnris Burghcrs.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail dotted
Saturday, January 13, from Lourenzo
Marquee, says:
President Kruger has issued n
proclamation ordering all burghers to
the front. The Nolksstem, the Trans
vaal official organ, suggests that the
moment the British cross the border
the gold industry should be irrctriev-
ably destroyed.
President KRUGER issued a circular
dated January S, to Boer command
ants and burghers, urging them to
show more energy in the T%ransvaal
cause. He quotes Psalm Nxxiii., verse
Z, as God-given instructions to the
burghers, and says the British have
fixed their faith in Psalm lxxNiii. He
quotes Psalm lXXxiN. verse 10 and IA,
and asserts that he has. searched the
bible without being able to find any
other mode which can be followed by
the Beers, Who must fight Sin the
name of the Lord"
Communicating is proceeding busily
at Pretoria, where the town guard is
exchanging mausers for martins, as
the former are badly needed at the
front. 1t is said there are nearly 5000
British prisoners in Pretoria.