The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-14
EMPRESS
Expresses Her willingness for
Troops TO Suppress
BUXpIS.

Official information was received her
this afternoon firm the foreign offic=
OF one of the most important CONT
mental powers stating that Tsien LaI
Yamen had notified the minister cs |
that power that the empress would not /
object to the presence Of the foreign |
troops in China territory Vague unof-
fiicial rumors to this effect had beer |
current, but the information receiVel |
here today was from such a high Oft.
cial source as to leave no doubht tha. |
the empress dowager, who practically |
constitutes the government of China, |
had made this determination not to OBJ |
ject to the presence of the foreign |
troops. This change of front came. as
uIstlnct surprise to officials and all ~, I
ulpIomates, as all of the reports ,,o+o
time had pictured the empress dowa-
ger as In ensly hostile to the FOREIGNERS
ana as the real power behind the hoy
ers anti-foreign movement. This sur
posed attitude of the empress gave a |
great deal of concern to the authorities
mere and at other capitals. and if wa
feared that it would eventuate iu an
open declaration by the government ~
China against the presence Of foreign
trops. This would have raised ne,y
complication, placing the foreign
forces now advancing upon Pekin in
the attitude of resisting the sovereign
power of China over her own territory.
instead of assisting China in the SUP
pressing of disorder.
The empress dowagers acquiesence
in the plans of the powers is felt to re-
move threatening complication, and
at the same time to give evidence thai
the empress dowager is no longer yield
ing to the anti-foreign clamor
In official Russian quarters the rum
or that the empress dawager has
sought a refuge at the Russian legation
in Pekin are discredited, and are re-
sented as a bit of spite intrigue design
ed to create the impresso nthat Rus
sian sympathies are with the anti-fon.
eign element 1t is pointed out that
Russia's course has been marked by
the utmost reserve, for while it would
have ben possible al any time to land
large forces in China, the Russian force
actually landed has been comparatively
insignificant, mainly for the reason that
Russia desires to be wholly free from
any imputation of ulterior designs.
1t was stated in diplomatic quarters
tonight that the Belgian secretary Of
legation at Pekin, who was attacke
by a mob on Monday, was probably
Mr.. Phillip May, formerly with he
Belgian legation in Washington ana
quite prominent in social and official
circles here, as his post of late has beer
at Pekin.
BERLIN, June 13-The German for
eign office has had no Geographic com
munication with Pekin during the last
SO hours, it has no important news re-
garding the Chinese situation toda
1t is not known whether the railroad
has been repaired. The statement made
! by several papers of Paris that Ger
many had made common cause with
the boxers is characterized by the for
egr office as "bloodsinning' QdiOtic)
since Germany is the one power which
has all along been urging action
against thm.
A statement in an English press that
the powers have reached an under
standing in all the circumstances to
maintain the present Chinese dynasty
and government is officially character
! izer as untrue.
| BOXERS ENTRENCHING.
LONDON, June 14.-4:30 p. m.-The
! Chinese are intrenching outside of Pc
kin to oppose theadvance of the inter
national column. A rispatch from Tien
Tsin, dated Thursday the 18th says
learn that the Chinese have guns
trained on the American mission and
the British legations.
1.-TWO thousand Russian cavalry and
oinfantry, with artillery have landed
at Taku."
The Shanghi correspondent reports
that United States Minister Conger, by
courier. asks for 1000 United States
troops.
The question of provisioning the re-
lief force is already difficult, and 1t IS
predicted in Shanghai that it will be-
come acute
The leading members of the reform
marty representing out of Is provinces
are at Shanghai. A dispatch to tn
Dailv Mail dated yesterday, says they
are sending a petition to the United
NEW YORK. JUNE 13.-A shipment OF
,,old silver and minor coin amounting to
one million dollars was made by the
treasury department today on the trahs-
port Burnside to Porto Rico. the money
was drawn from the local sub-treasury
and is the second million dollar ship
ment TO the new territory, whose none
tarv system is now undergoing read
iustment under the supervision of experts
! from Washington. The money sent is "a
be put into circulation, replacing the
Spanish coin.
THAYER, KAS., June 13-Fire de-
stroyed the Phoenix and Vulcan build.
ings, belonging respectively TO c. G