The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-06-07

London, June 3.-Lord Roberts con-
| tinues sileit+ regarding Pretoria, prob
ably because he cannot wire Of events
| from his own knowledge. Lourenzo
Marques, where all the news from the,
Beer side is rehandled, cables that
compun. cation with, Pretoria Is now
suspended some messages by courier
having reached I,ourenZo Marques,
but none of later date than Wednes
day. They have il that the burghers
are in state OF panic and that Pre-
toria is leiLg controlled by vigilance
committee. LourenZo Marques again
sends the report that President
Kruger Has, Been Captured.
The news blank gives suspicion that
the citizens committee at Pretoria
may not have been able 10 carry out
their plans for securing the peacefui
entry of Lord Roberts and sparing the
city the horrors Of siege. The peace
party appeared to be in the ascendant,
and as soon as. President Kruger and
his cabinet left Pretoria to organize
a new capital the citizens committee
persuaded the commandants of the
forts TO withdraw their troops from
the defeDcts, perhaps with the view
OF keeping
Order I'm the Town.
If me sseneers were sent to the British
or il the British, being two hours
march from Pretoria ON Wednesday,
entered il at any time prior to Friday
noon, Lord Roberts would certainly
have telegraphed this fact Hence It
looks as though there was a Boer
force between Pretoria and Johannes
burg. The Beers trekking back toward
Pretoria, some Of them fresh from the
fight with Gen. Hamilton, would have
brought new elements into the situa-
ton and would probably overrule the
peace committee, taking the direction
Of affairs out Of their hands. If this
has happened the British may, as the
Chronicle says, see
Some Hard Fighting
before the British flag flies over Pre-
toria, for even If the Beers held three
forts standing close together on the
hills south Of the town, they would be
in a post on to stand a siege. The
Beers, according to dispatch from
Lourenzo Marques, have re-entered
the northeastern territory of the Free
State and are engaged with the British
between Ficksburg and HarriSmith.
Ii is reported from Antwerp that the
best rooms at the Het Haasje, one of
the principal hotels there, have been
engaged ,
kruger's OCCUPANCY
from June %. Gen. Butler is moving
slowly against the Boer TANKS. A dis
patch from yryburg, dated May 80,
says:
During the occupation Of this place
by the Beers they logged the natives
for slight offences. A whip and several
cords. knotted and sailed, were found
Mt the police station. A boy who
brought letter to a woman received
twenty-five iashes. and another who
sympathiZed with hif received fifteen"
Lady Georgiana Curzon has raised
f1T,Oeo to provide comforts and lux
uries at Mafeking.
Conflicting Reports.
The Times has the following from
Loure EZo Marques, dated June /:
Reports of the most conflicting char
actcr are current here due to the activ-
ity Of the Boer agents. While one sec
ton declares that President Kruger
has returned to Pretoria for the pur-
pose Of arranging terms of surrender,
another asserts that the British have
been repulsed outside of Pretoria.
Nothing authentic Is known here re-
garding Mr.. Kruger's whereabouts. or
the situation in the Trans, aal."