Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-15
ARE MANY DEATHS
FEVER CARRYING OFF INMATES
OF BLoEMFoNTEIN HOSPITALS.
BUTLER EXPECTED TO MOVE,
Relief Of Mafeking Expected Within
"a Hours-Roberts at Kroou-
.stadt.

"oAuOns Ndy 10, $40 u. m.-Genefal
Buffers turning of the Biggarsberg
position was made by a bold move
ment. The Beers had evacuated Help
marker, but Were making a stand Mon
day evening at Bleskop1aagte, seven
miles from Dundee. The corps on the
spot regarded this as a rear guard ac-
ton intended to cover the retreat of
the army. AT the same time General
Hildyard took Innoba, and it is report
ed that the Beers withdrew in disorder.
General Butler, who seems to be en-
ploying his full strength, is expected to
push on. His first marches were 40
miles in three days. He Is thus break
ing into British territory which has been
administered for six months by the
Transvaalers as though it were part of
the republic, they holding courts and
has political as well as military conse-
quences.
While Lord Roberts Infantry are con-
centrating at kroonstadt, where they
will rest for a day or two. his horsemen
have penetrated IS miles northward. In
the squadron which cut the railway Is
miles beyond K~roonstadt was the Ameri-
can scout Frederick Burnham. Two
hundred Beers. who had hidden in the
river jungles near kroonstadt to escape
service, have surrendered to the British
and taken the oath of allegiance.
According to a dispatch from Bennett
Burleigh, to the Daily Telegraph dated
Thursday, May 10, Paul Botha and Mac
Donald, members of the Free State
volksraad, demanded hat the chairman
should call a meeting to sue for peace as
further resistance was suicidal and pro-
posed to make President Steyn a pris-
oner.
Nothing definite has been heard about
the expected relief of Mafeking. The
Capetown correspondents continue to
wire that relief is imminent, fixing Tues
day or Wednesday as probable dates.
lnquirers at the war office are told that
the news of the relief will be made public
Immediately upon it's receipt. No word
has come to hand at midnight.
The latest superstition concerning Cen
eral Hunter is that possibly he is march
ing up the north bank of the Vaal river
with a force sufficient, in cooperation
with Lord Roberts, to render Boer de-
tense of the Vaal frontier impracticable
East of Bloemfontein General Rumble is
advancing toward Ladybrand. His
troops and those of General Brabant are
stretched over a distance of 80 miles.
The Beers are described as quite disor-
ganized and as retreating northward.
President Steyn's l~ieutenants trying to
rally them.
The same stories Of d~isintegration
come from nearly every point where the
English correspondents are. MI. Holla-
we'll, formerly a correspondent at MAIZE
King, who was put over the Transvaal
border, ~telegraphing from Lourenzo
Marques Sunday, says:
Judging from talks I have had with
the Beers the end of the war will come
IN a month or six weeks. Mr.. Stein
kampf. chairman of the second raad,
who Travelled with me said that if the
urghers were pressed from Pretoria
they would retire to the district of Lev
denberg mountains which had already
been provisioned. He remarked that he
hoped the burghers would stand firm. but
he feared that they We're too broken in
spirit.
Il gathered from him that the whole
available force of the Transvaal was
now in the field. the ina communicating
having taken place last Thursday and
that it is only the powerful magnetism
of President Kruger getting his burghers
together.
A the British hospitals in Bloem-
fontein deaths from fever average from
s to 10 daily"