The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-07-27
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"tlc sIreWn with the curpses of Chine,
soiuiers killed by the shell fire. wh;ar
chused their fight. None, annarontIr
we're mt by bullets, the dampga 49,
uohe by lyddite shells. There Is t tono
: o'e row over the burning Of tho town
several foreign officers are renortod ~,
"e tired soldiers remained on tbc
mah' he natives went looting tbrornL I,
'he Onlnese town. The bonl and -
arsenal were heavy sufferers A. "a oH'
tdhce movement on PekiD il NOT o"n
templated soon. The American ,go,,,-IaiI ~
crG"d the hospital but aIl ara dniou
wen; Ihe flags of the allied armioa oa"s -
an hali-masted. Colonel I,iscnn, ,"a. p,e
buried at Tong ku. u'' was
Where the Ninth Was
:, lien Tsin, Saturday. Julv II rio CL.
roo, July 16, and shanghai irI, o. t"e
lhe Ninth Regiment, United Statoa =
ni,t ,ortiF +; 56 eHtered the fight at Tien Tsin
aoO men. An incomplete list of
SI"tIies omI SHOW Is killed, - wounded
IiiIl1 pHI missing. The marines had 1
R,,leu Pnn ana rs wounded. Major James
+he In' a. HihIh infantry, was wounded in
Ne ltg, captain Edwin V. BookmiIler
! ';mCn ;n,,t infantry, IN leg aud groin; First
i1'e1tenant ~ iIa Smedley d. Butler, l.. s. M
II : 'nV T ieg; Captain w, u. LemIey
49, ~ -, ~ III the arm; Second Lieutenant
foot. 'N'"n'ry' In the
}, Pirst Lieutenant Henry Leonard Of
Ine Marine Corps, carried lieutenant
nu'leI tI from the field under a fierce fire
% Ile was shot In the upper left arm while
ie'Grhing, but ran and swan milo
unuer IRE, getting to the rear. His arm
" T"S Tdnputated today. Captain Charles
W. HoyeS, VINO had been slightly wounded
III InG arm and leg, swan a mile with
only MS nose above water, with q re-
quesT Ior relniorcements. First Lieutpn-
int Lewis Is. LawtOn, of the Ninth in
ldhIry' made dash for reinforcempnta
uuuer nre and received three SLIGHT
mounuS. w. Colonel Liscum was shot in
Ine abdomen and died half an bour later
LIS Is, iasC words were Keep I'D firing "
me Nlhth was ordered to support tho
Japanese, who were receiving an enfilad.
ihs hre. Alter crossing q mud wall baIf
mile from the city wall the Ninth
suited, : advancing against the Hanking
III ana reached marsh beside ;he rivaP
aC the southwest corner of the citv
Douy OF Chinese burned a village nnder
Tue wall Just across the river. whore tbay
we're strongly barricad ded, poured in y
leaVy IRE, and whenever an American
raised hand, he was shot. A Norden-
eiC gun ana two small cannon were alao
,urhed ~, upon them. They Law in the mud
III day without a surgeon Tn attend
,heif wounds, were unable To helm or
move the wounded, and were witbont
oou ana drank the canal water Tho
iad exhausted their Ammunition evcent
lew rounds, which were retained in
'rder to repel a charge if il shonId ha
ncludlng neat prOsrTaJlons IN Jne esTi-
nate. After the Americans had retired
lnder cover OF the darkness they strag-
,led back in squads all night, pitifully
and carrying their wounded.
The American hospital was crowded and
hort OF surgeons, there having been no
of such losses. Today squads
earched the fields, collecting the dead
md wounded.
Wholesale Slaughter Plot.
London, July 18-The Shanghai cor
espondent of the Daily Express asserts
hat he has ascertained from an unim-
source that when the question
II an alliance between China and Japan
vas under consideration last Autumn
he empress dowager sent a commits
iOner to Toxic with secret proposals to
he mikadO.
These proposals." says the CORE
jpOndent, contemplated the conclusion
If a secret treaty having the object of
destroying all European and American
people, both in China and Japan, the
Wholesale massacre of foreigners and
the division of the whole Of eastern Asia
between China and Japan.
Want America to Help Them.
Washington, July p President Me-
kinley has received what purpOrts to be
a direct appeal from the Chinese imperial
government to use his good offices to
extrcate that government from the pO-
sitiOn in which it has been placed as a
result of the Boxer uprising. Although
the exact text of the appeal made by
the emperor of China to France. as out.
lined in the cable dispatches of yester-
day, has not been made known here, it
is believed that the dispatch to the prpsi-
dent is similar in terms. In our case the
communication was made through Min
lister WI to the state department. Thus
far final answer has not been returned
The French government answered at
once, but that answer will not serve ua.
The United States government is pro-
ceeding upon an entirely new line Of
policy in the treatment OF the case.
Unfortunately the state department
finds itself alone in this, but nevertheless
it is convinced its plan is the best, and
il has behind it the cOnsOling assurance
that at present all OF the European gov
ernments have tacitly admitted that an
error was made in the beginning in not
following the common sense advice of
the United States naval commander at
Taku.
England Sends COuriers.
London, July 22.-More than a fort
night ago the cOnsuls at ChefOO and
Tientsn were authorized to spend any
amount necessary to get news from
Pekin, and ten days ago Salisbury re-
ceived news that four trusted Chinese
had started from as many different
points, all instructed to get into the
British legation and bring dispatches il
the place was found to be still standing.
None OF these men have returned, but it
is confidently believed that some OF
them will get back to Tientsin at any
moment. If Minister COnger's dispatch
is old, it serves to strengthen the belief
that the massacre has taken place either
at the date originally named, or perheps
! a little later.
/ 1t Saved His Leg.
/ P. A. Danforth of La Grange, Ca,
/ e. CT pnnpthS With friOhffr,l