The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-05

] movement at johannesburg was the
lack of protection foreign business in
terests were receiving from the Boer
government. There was practically no
| policing, no redress from outrages of
various kinds, such as the robbery of
many of the richest mines on the
ranch The Boer raab or congress
was not inclined TO interfere in behalf
of its foreign subjects nor could justice
be obtained from the native courts.
Then the reform movement began. We
sent a committee to Pretoria to de-
mand some immunity from the constant
contempt with which we. were being
treated by the courts. We also asked
for a revision of the old Teutonic-Ro-
man law which is worse than any blue
code you could ever conceive. No. relief
followed and then we began arming to
bluff the Beers. Meantime an agree
ment had been reached between Jane
son and only five of the reform COM
mittee that he should keep some of the
imperial forces on the frontier until
such time as the Beers refused to &C
knowledge our rights:
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Instead, and while the committee
was at Pretoria in consultation with
the raab, which had now given signs
of Cancellation, Jameson broke across
the border with the troops and was
we'll into the TranSvaal before we at
johannesburg were aware that mis-
chief was on tap. The Beers, how
ever, were fully awake to Jameson's
movements, and had been concentrat-
ing their forces for the purpose of
crushing the invaders and this military
stroke was we'll executed. jameson
was made prisoner and the committee
from Johannesburg were also thrown
into jail at Pretoria.
'All was on fire at johannesburg,
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point with some diplomacy. We were
preparing for a struggle, and they
were figuring to avoid it. Here is the
point in the drama where Mr., Rhodes
made a ten-strike for the favor of
kreuger. He did it by selling us out
and his argument was in substance
that unless we laid down our arms
and desisted from violating interna-
tional agreement the British govern
ment would not answer for our lives
or property. There We're but a. few
lives to lose but the property was
something enormous: we laid down our
arms and the next thing on the carpet
was the arrest of 65 members of the
reform committee, all of whom were
conveyed to Pretoria. [ was among
them We all expected TO be shot,
but got off with fines ranging from
e25,000 to $4,000. L only paid $4,000
In addition to these penalties we were
expected to serve two years imprison-
ment and three years of Punishment,
besides taking an oath under the pain
of death that we would never again
interfere in Transvaal politics. The
method of rubbing it in defeated the
Boerish punishment. Civilized nations
grew indignant, and we got off with
the fines. The government realized
e216,000 in fines, which we'll repaid for
the revolution.
'Kreuger was very astonished at the
stand taken by the United States, and
that helped decide our easy fate. An
American is well regarded by the BOer,
but it takes him some time to segre-
gate our countrymen from the roy
neck or 'red-neck.' as he calls the En-
glish. Despite English interposition in
their behalf. the Beers despise that
and attribute the uprising
to British subjects, but l admit that
the Americans were in the van"
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During Mr.. Clements stay in the
Transvaal, which in all was about four
years, he spent two months on q lion
hunt as far as the territory lying be-
tween the Oliphant and Limpopo rivers,
about 100 miles from johannesburg.
The party had large crowd of Kafirs
and dogs and succeeded in killing two
lions, one of the rare species known
as the black name lion, a noble looking
animal, having a bright tawny hide
and jet black name. Mr.. Clement shot
a fine specimen of the African lion.
which measured 10 feet II inches. the
largest quarry of the same animal on
record having measured II feet
inches. The skin of the Clement game
is now being prepared in London. Of
the As varieties of buck in southern
Africa this party killed % kinds, the
size of which varied from a large jack
rabbit to a bull.
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Mr.. Clement has been, since his
residence at johannesburg, consulting
engineer for the Consolidated Gold
Fields, and he has contract for a
mill which, when completed, will have |
a capacity of 5000 tons. His home is |
in California, to which he is returning |
by SLOW stages, stopping in the interim |
at different mining points. He declares |
that he has no connection with MI
Buffers.
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Miss A. R. Murphy, who passed a |
pleasant week visiting Mrs. Joseph |
Goodwin at Ogden, returned home yes |
terday.
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