Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-13
OFFERED BRIDES
1T IS SAID BRITISH WOULD PAY
TO STOP FIGHTING.
GEN. HUNTER DEFEATS Beers.
Butler il Master of Laing's Nek-Re-
pairing Roberts Line Of Com
~munication.

London. June Is, $50 a. m.-Two
pieces Of news encouraging to the Brit
ishin the official dispatches are that
the broken communications y Of Lord
Roberts are in a fair way to be manded
by the forces movong northYard and
southwark n driving off the rowing
commandos, and that Sir Redkers Bull
Ter is at last master at Laings Mex.
Telegraphic communications with
Lord Roberts is expected to be restored
today, as a dispatch from Bloemfon-
tein, dated yesterday, says that 6; h
railway Is in British possession again
and that the work of repairing the line
is going on rapidly with abundant ma
terlal w~arehoused at Bloemfohtein
From h subjoined telegram it would
| appear hat General Hunter was in
command of the troops referred to by
General Kelly-Kenny in his dispatch
from Bioemfontein June H. General
Hunter is coming up rapidly from the
northwest having severely defeated
a large commando of Beers who had
destroyed two miles of railway north
of krOOnstad.' -l
Thu Boer government is also Issuing
news cheering to it's s~ympathizers. The
following bulletin the Boer version OF
the disaster to the Derbyshires, was
posted by President Kruger at Macha-
dorp: ION June 5 four divisions of
b%urghers commanded by S~teenkaamp,
Frineman, Duploy, Fourie and Hell at
tackled the British at Roodeval,, killed
200, took 700 prisoners and captured
immense stores of God and ammuni-
tiona Maxim gun and 10000 lydddlte
shells. Some food was taken by the
! Boer farmers and the rest was burned
The English mail was taken. Ihe
burghers attacked from the open veidt
and gave evidence of unprecedented
bravery
General DeWet has reported that he
put 1000 British out of action and de-
stroyed property valued at f10O 600. As
Lord Methuen is officially described as
fighting on June Z. it is possible tina
he was engaged by General DeWet.
According to a dispatch to the Daily
! Express from Machadorp, dated June
10, via Lourenco Marquee. those aroune
President Kruger say that Louis Botha
and Delarey have been offered indi
rectly G1O, 900 a year to lay down theil
arms, and President Kruger expects
the same offer to be made to himself
President Steyn n De Wet. Presiden'
Kruger believes that the British max
these efforts to close the war on TIT
principle that it would cost less thar
to fight it out. -
A dispatch from Lourenco Marque:
says tina 1,50O Beers are reportd to b.
retiring on Maddleburg from various
quarters and that. after wedding on
the faint-hearted, 10000 men are still
left. Ls
General Butler was unable on Monda
to follow up the Beers from lack G
cavalry, as well as water. The dis
:, patches describe him as fighting
spirited advance over a rugged feel
under prolonged rifle fire. The Boer
a two runs, which they got away
Few lead or wounded Roars We"
found. It seems probable that the ma
jor portion of the Beers had with
drawn before the advance began.
Lord Methuen, General Rumble IAN
. General Brabant are reported to ihav
l 8 200 men and so guns engaged in en-
: closing the Beers in the eastern pa
l of Orange river colony.
: The war office casualties returns u
to June 9 aggregate q .6664. besides Z!
t officers and 1885 men sent home a
t invalids. but not including the sick i
t South African hospitals.