The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-03-28
ARE
BOLD AGAIN
And With Luck in their Favor
Promise to Greatly Annoy
Roberts.

LONDON, MARCH pS.--4 a. m The
Boers are having little good luck and
are showing some boldness again "a
raiding party estimated az 44Oo Is
believed by the British forces M Wa.
renton to have crossed the Kimberlv-
Bloemfontein wagon road Mondav ana
70 nave headed for Jacobsdal, with the
intention Of cutting the railway ten
miles west.
Commandant Oliverier appears 20
have gotten his five thounand men ami
twenty-five miles OF wagons into rug
ged country where he can make an
easy rear guard defense. C,larles VIII.
liams, the military expert. says:
III this column gels through sub
stantially, ComhlandanS Olivier win
have carried out the great feat OF the
war, seeing that he ran every chance
of being grounded between the upper
millstone OF Lord Roberts army and
the neither milestone OF the broken Ba-
suto frontier"
He Will have done II within fifty miles
of Roberts main strength. Certainly II
looked for a week as though Lord Rob-
erts held Olivier inD-the hollow OF his
hand. II Olivier gels TIN ough 10
Kroonstad with even 800 men. IL VIII
be an important addition to the Boer
gathering there. His escape is attrib-
uted to the worn out condition OF the
British cavalry horses. Lord Roberts
transport appears to have been badly
dislocatd by the loss at Reit river, ba.
fore Cronje's surrender OF the wagon
train. and in addition TO this. The army
Nrn frl1 ba -.
ward Pretoria Is nearly double that OF
the earlier rapid movements.
Ten thousand transport cavalry and
gun animals are due to airive at Cape
ports during this and neXr week 1t
Is geven out at Cape Town that lord
Roberts advance may be delayed for
months. Although such statements
should be received with reserve. It
seems positive THAI he intends to 20
to Cape Town TO meet Lady Roberts,
who is due to arrive there IN ten days.
The war office has issued another ta-
BILE OF British losses, showing an ag-
gregate Of 1862 which does not in
nlude 1904 who have been invailded
In a fw yards OF the sleeping Beers
and succeeded in creeping up to with
fort threatening our western postion
MAFEKING. MARCH 14.-The
Beers recommended the bomba1dmfnt
OF this place March IL six inch Gun
which had been comparatively silent
for a week firing IN shrapnell against
the troops In the open The prOjvctlles
wre Ineffective against cover but were
dangerous to pedestrians. one shell
bursted in the court house. killing sew
aNt eIga
slightly wounded The steel plate 81
the shell parsed through the hotel Of
fice and spent Itself beneath a table
where II was scrambled for by EN-
ployes. Another shrapnel shell ex-
ploded above the boom-proof occupied
by the Reuter- geleg.am company's cor
respondent and sprpkled the wall with
bullets.
There has been little development
since the dispatch Of March TO- a de-
tachrnent Of colonial natives cOmman l-|
ed by Mackenzies advanced to JACKIE.
Tree fort. she position originally occu-
pied by the Siege gun on the Fouta
western heights, but the Beers discov-
erred the plan and evacuated it. Pre-
viously a detachment of BarTaiong ma
tivea had been dispatched agalna. a new
outside and In the rear Of the for.
They fired three volleys and then re-
treated In accordance with their qi-
structions. Sunday, March n, was OH
served a. a truce. the British troops
sat on the parapets oonver0ng WI
the Beers and amicable relations we're
maintained until dark.
LONDON. MARCH &--The Capetown
correepnndent OF the Daily News, fele-
graphing Tuesday, March 81, says: