Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-12
To Be KILLED
As CAPTURED
D0Wager'S Wrath is Una
bated.
PERSECUTES REF0RMERS
The Governors of Provinces Protest
Against the Policy of the Empress
---Chinese Will Rebel.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
Shanghai, Mar. "A full account has
been received here of the meeting on
March 5th at Peking between the en-
press dowager and the grand council.
Protests were read from the viceroys and
governors of nine of the eighteen PROV
inces against the policy of the empress
dowager. These officials are the greatest
provincial authorities in China. They
declared unitedly that, if the empress
dowager persists in prosecuting the re-
formers and continuing her reign of ter
ror policy, the Chinese under them will
rebel against the Manchus. The viceroy
ia Nanking says he has 100000 Hunanese
troops who are anxious to fight the Man.
chus, and he fears he cannot control
them.
The viceroys who united in this re-
markable step represent the provinces of
Kiang-Sue Anhui, kiangsi. Humane. HUI
peh, Chekiangfookien, Quangsi and
Kwangtung, with an aggregate popula-
ton of 1870. 900, 900.
Until this protest was made the dow
ager empress had been having things
quite her own way Though she had de-
sisted from her purpose to set UP new
emperor, yet her wrath toward those who
opposed her, has shown no abatement. 1t
is unbounded. Kin Lien-Shan has been
captured in the Portuguese colony of Ma
Gao, off the south China coast by Ii
Hung. Chang's detectives. Mr.. Kin fled
from Shanghai last month. He is the
manager OF the national system of tele-
graphs in China lid headed the petition
signed by twelve hundred notables,
against setting up new emperor. Prob.
ably he will be decapitated. An English
law firm here has been retained to defend
him. The government has triumphed
up charges of defalcation against Mr..
Kin, who is really very able and en-
lightened man.
On March l, instruction were wired
from Pekin to 500 Chow, capital of XII
angsu, to arrest and put to death the re-
formers Weng T'ung-Ho and Shen Pong
These men had been in very important
positions in Pekin, but were easily cap
tured in 500 Chow. The chief reformer,
Kang Yu Wei. has fed to Singapore. The
empress dowager has offered 100000 for
his body, dead or alive.
Kang Wi, who is the dowager's high
extortioner' has announced his purpose
to visit the Yang Use ports at an early
date. We shall probably hear that many
reformer who cannot buy his freedom
will be killed. Old Chang Chi Tung, vice.
roy of Wu Chang, has recently been pub
licly reprOved in scathing terms by the
dowager and he may lose his viceroyalty
on the arrivalof Kang Wi.
1t is aid that there is an official list
prepared by the Pekin government of the
names of three hundred reformers who
are prescribed. A special list of over
35 names evists of those who are to De
killed as soon as they are captured. The
Chinese correspondent in Pekin of the
North China Daily News writes as fol-
lows We, in Pekin, think this indffer-
ence of Western nations, especially Great
Britain and the United States. during a
crisis like this, a shame. The subjects
of these two western nations have been
most earnest and energetic in trying to
introduce western civilization and educa-
tion into China. They have succeeded
gloriously. They have obtained most il
lustrious converts-from the emperor
and some of the younger princess of the
imperial house downward. Yet now they
shirk from making even mild protest
against the actions of the empress dow
ager."