The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-03-24
BXTBNT
0fthe British Defeat Of Yester
day Urknown.

LONDON, MARCH 2t-,A dispatch TO
NE Daily News from Lorenzo M7rqucz.
dated Friday says:
Lord .dethuen IS skirmishins with che
Beers at warrenton i67 miles away. Az
though seemingly In force suniclent to
40 pretty much as he likes. hc has not
advanced these nve days. II is hoped mat
his military administrator h1- pieas-
ant surprise in preparation TOR he Br,t-
ishers by rasirg the Siege win q strong
column Of cavalry and artillery detouying
to Mafcklng, while Commandant snyman
q drawn off 60 engage Colonel plumer.
General Frenoh's cavalry and mounted
Infantry, according to a rumor are hight.
ms somewhere east OF Bloemfonteln This
suggests more Boer bad .Ews, as COM
mandaut Qliviers commando. 1000 wcg-
ons, is reported on the Basutoiand FROM
tier. toiling northwari toward KroJn-
stedt. via Ladybrand This enormous
wagon train IS supposed 70 be moving
twenty five miles a day. General rranons
cavalry post stretch from Bloemfoute'nn
eastward 20 the mountains
General Butler has not yet moved to
Natal
The Eighth division viii go directly 20
Bloemfontein, Lord Roberts eonctive DIS
posal at the front ten days hence, won
be. IT Is estimated. seventy thousand mon,
with the easy possibly Of moving east
ward, fociug The Beers 20 evacuatc the
Blggarsberg range and joining hands
with General Buler before continuing the
promenade 20 Pretoria.
Delagoa bay railway arbitration reward
IS oditoriany considered in the moraing
papers. The approaching declaration OF THO
nndlngs of the arbinators is welcomed as
coming at an appropriate moment enl as
bringing the acquisition Of Deiagoa bay
appreciably nearer.
! BOER CAMP. Kroonstadt, Thursday
/ March 22--Anairs are being put in prop
er shape and the Free staters who nal 10
leave are returning in crowds. The pres
idents proclamation has shown TIE
Burshers that the government Is stand
ing firm The commands are mobili2.ne
in great numbers and the men are more
determined than ever.
Preslent steyn has issued proclama.
tion In which he warns the Burghers wh,
lay down their arms and help the eng
lish that they are liable 60 the utmos
punishment as traitors
LCNDN. MARCH 4--A Bloemfonteli
correspondent Of the Daily News. teie
graphing Thursday says.
A letter from Mr. Poultney, an liner
prefer in ,ae Free state courts, has beer
received by his wife here. irhwhich tn
writer declares that General Jsubsrt d
commanding the combined forces "a
Kroonstadt where there - Il plenty G
men guns and foodstuns for a determin
ga resistance.
LONDON. MARCH 23.--9:2l p. m
The war office has issued the following
From the General at Cape Town t.
the Secretary OF War;
CAPE TOWN, MARCH 2a-The FOL
lowing teiegram has aryed from Nich
olson, Buuwayo. March i6;
"The following Is from Plumer; I.o
bata. March l4-The Beers advance,
from the south in considerable fore
.his morning They first advanced from
Goodies siding After q harp little en-
gagement Lieutenant Colonel Bodle
post was compelled to retreat. The re-
tirement was excellently carried our e
our main position. The casualties I'M
cluded Lieutenant Chapman and cor
porai, prisoners, AMI two missing prob
ably prisoners. Fivy troopers wer'
wounded.
N la rannrind hnrn from Irnlnrln fha