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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

the most love-sicS swain dare not disre-
gard A
The Beer with whom lived had two
farm houses, one of stone on the 'hoch>
velt,' that is on the table land, where he
lived with his herds in summer. The
other smaller but well-built on the low
land was inhabited from May 10 Septem-
Der, the winter in this country. The furni-
ture was simple, of yellow wood, without
any carvings or ornamentation. The sofas
and chairs had seats of leather thongs an;
goat skins, the hair side up served as
carpets. There were no outbuildings for
the cattle. only stalls for the horses, the
cattle yard or 'kraar was merely sur
rounedd by stone wall.
Il was now again seized with the gold
fever. and in company with two brothers
by the name of Hudson started for the
gold fields of che Transvaal the news Of
the great fields there nflaming the whole
country, ali but the Beers.
"One-fourth of the entire territory of
the Transvaal contains gold. The first dis
cover of the precious metal here only dates
back to 1880 when Karl Mauch, a German
traveller, found a rich vein in the northern
part Many We're disappointed on follow
ing this announcement, but in 1887 a new
discovery in that richest of all fie ds, Wit
watersrand, was announced and the fever
ragged high. An Australian gold hunter
had found a brook with golden sands and
later traced veins in the while quartz. One
company after the other was formed for
exploring, and all faded The crash came
and millions were lost Expert engineers
at last came and the fever fell, new fields
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

bit and the grumblng was loud AMI con-
tinuous. Capt. McNely was called away
on some businesses and Lieut. Robinson. a
very charming fellow from Virginia was
In charge. A committee waited upon him
with the request that "A few OF us should
be permitted 20 go to the fandango each
night, but he declined TO entertain tha
proposition for an instant. Then the men
"a .kcd It over and half dozen decided to
take chances and go 10 the dance. They
slipped out of camp and soon were having
all kinds of fun dancing with the Mexican
senoritos at the fandango. with a hint
from their six-shooters the Rangers hal
made the Mexican men stand up as wall
howers about the dancing enclosure.
Made the Sergeant Dance.
Right in the middle Of the fun Lieut..
Robinson suddenly appeared with note
book and pencil in hand. He was cordial
~ invited by the Rangers to get a partner.
but he quietly declined and as quietly or
dered the six Rangers TO report for extra
guard duty at 6 a. m. to Sergt Orrell They
reported and were put TO work cleaning up
the camp, but the next night went 10 the
fandango again with Orrell and six other
men. Again the lieutenant appeared on
the scene and this time ordered all hands
to report to Corpl. Rudd at O'Clock for
extra guard duty
Now Rudd was something of a martinez
on small scale and attentive to his
duty" TO a heartrending degree, so we
knew he would not be so easily led astray
as Orrell had been. He worked us hard
that day and made himself unpopular
That night Rudd was put over six men to
guard the camp, and heard Robinson say
afterwards that he retired with feeling
of perfect security that orders would be
obeyed
But about 11:3O o'clock that night the
lieutenant was awakened by the sound OF
revolvers firing In the direction of tho
fandango. He jumped up and called for
Rudd, but got no answer Then he In
Vestigated and found he was alone in the
camp. We had captured Rudd and MS
guard and marched them off to the fau-
dango and were making them dance in the
middle of the ring to the accompaniment of
our revolvers when the lieutenant appear
ed He merely shook his head and shad-
ow of smile crept about the corners of
his mouth but we never heard again OF
our mutiny He knew that the wild hare
Drained boys there were loyal to the core
to him and would have risked their lives
hundred times over TO follow him into
danger.
But very few of McNelIy's Texas Rang
ers are alive now. Many OF them went
over the Range" in the service Of the
state, and others have scattered far and
wide few of the survivors will be az
San Antonio at the Rangers reunion, bur
thelf mar VIII be Streaked with gray and
the weight of years will be on their broad
shoulders-for the times of which / writc
are those of nearly quarter OF a century
ago.
There are a very few Rangers sim In
the service of the state, but their work Is
light now compared to what their prede-
cessors mad cut out for them. Still they
are efficacious, brave officers of the law
and always acquit themselves well when
called upon to assist a. sheriff in rounding
up some particularly dangerous criminals
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
-gF UITLANDERs' SIDE OF 1T.
,,~ER FROM THE GOLD FIELDS
TELLS HIS STORY.

-ossed by High Taxes-Ignorant
r. Govern Every Detail of Min
NV Absurd ReguIatiOns-This
,,ar Driven From the Mines by
nth Taxes and Silly Laws, Went
work on a Farm-HOw the BOer
-. court Their SVveethearts-A
,,.rl. Made with n Pin ON n Can
II. shows How Long the Lover
- Remain with His Chosen One.
r,.-lir oct. 1S.-Much has been said on
ei5a of the Beers regarding the pres
lifHeulties in the Transvaal, and the
,..,ra is therefore, the greater TO have
- authentic statement on the part of
the Uitanders.
This is given in an account by E. ].
t,,e,rs,roem. a Swede, who has lately ar
ia in Germany after an eighteen years
..f,urn IN South Africa. His experiences
nbDs there and the conditions which he
studied face TO face are detailed below:
His account of the unreasonable regula-
,,ors passed by the Boer Parliament will
se,ount for much of the trouble which
has arisen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
coLoRADo's BURNING MorNrAIx.
4 GLOW of Coal and Gas That Has Not
Ceased During a Century.

Ceased During a Century.
From the Kansas City World.
A mountain. which has been on fire for
more than one hundred years, is situated
just west of Newcastle. Col So close is it
that it's shadow envelopes the town at 5
p. m. at this time of the year, and yet
the people hereabouts think no more of Il
than of the beautiful Grand river which
washes the feet of the huge pile where
the fire has burned so long. To the ten
derfoot however, the glittering patches of
deep red fire, where it breaks out on the
side of the mountain and is exposed 10
view, there is nothing in all the state quite
its equal.
The fire is fed by a big vein of coal
which the mountain contains. Just how
the coal became ignited is not known The
Oldest resident says il was on fire when
he came and the Ute Indians who once
lived there, say it was burning many
years before the first white man crossed
the continental divide The supposition
is that the coal was ignited by forest fire
at an early date in The present century.
It has smouldered and steadily burned un-
til this day. At night when the moon is
dark is the best time to see the fire Then
ferno as given us in the word painting of
Dante. The earth covering the coal is
loosened by the heat and falls away eX
posing the sheet of fire.
The escaping gas probably assists in
stripping off the rocks and dirt, and
wherever the vein of coal approaches the
surface the fire can be seen. The first fire
l saw was fully fifty feet square. It had
a peculiar red tint, while the burning gas
coming up at the base of the coal vein
added a bright blue color to the scene.
In many places the surface of the noun
tain has sunken, showing where the fire
has burned out its course.
Efforts have been made to eXtingulsh the
fire. Some time ago a company which
owns a large amount of coal land con-
structed a ditch from point several miles
above the mountain, into which it succeed
ed In tSrning the water which goes to
form Elk creek.
Previously a shaft had been sunken in
the mountain and into this shaft the water
was permitted to flow. The shaft was soon
filed but the fire was above the level of
the water, and the effort was a failure.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
JEFF DAVIS OLD HOME.
The House He Occupied When an
Army officer.

r rom the chicago news.
At Fort Gibson, Indian territory one Of
Uncle Sans deserted army posts, stands
a two-story house, part frame and part log
that was for a time the most pretentious
residence in the radius of 500 miles, but
now stands deserted by all save bats and
owls, and now and then a stray hoot-owI
whose dismal and lonesome cry only
brings back long-forgotten memories OF
what this house has been, says an ex-
change.
The house was built in 1s4s by jefferson
Davis, ex-President Of the Southern Con-
federacy. who at that time was an officer
in the United States Army. 1t was here
that Davis was in the zenith of his glory
as defender of the United States flag It
was here that Davis, then a lieutenant.fen
in love with, wooed and won his wife, the
daughter of Gen. Taylor.
The post was wild and woolly srot Ia
those days 1t was the only trading point
for miles around, and was infested with
gamblers, desperadoes, Indian traders, flu
gitives from justice in the States, with now
and then gang of cowboys, who would
come in to the post to get red eye and
incidentally shoot UP the town and any
thing and anybody who objected 10 them
shooting up the town. Here in the shad-
ow almost of the post have arisen and
thrived such desperadoes as the James
gang, the Daltons. the STAIRS, Cherokee
Bill ETC. who terrorized the country for
so hong, until civilization and the farmers
cleaned them out
This old house has seen many stirring
times; il has sheltered many fair women
and brave men, and IL II had a tongue, It
could doubtless tell many state secrets, as
well as many interesting stories of the
early days of the Indian territory. The
post was deserted in 1892, and now only a
few buildings stand where there was once
a thriving post of several thousand sous
and where the deer and turkey used TO
roam in the broad prairie, almost in pistol
shot of this house, are neat and cosey
farmhouses, surrounded with peace ana
plenty. Such Is the passing of the wild
and woolly'' day la the Indian territory.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

, ,'uo 10 the company at what were really
,tS. nous prices, turning il over to what
I!l' gan The Goddess settlers. While po-
l,5 -aI questions in which we had no voice
br. nol bother US much, we could not
IVY, ~ -eel indignant at the heavy taxes and
ps,,,5lsasohable regulations passed by the
u' I,diAent. There Is no doubt that these
~ ~ measures against the Uitlanders are
r, ,r to make outcasts of them, and
ftsn The Beers have not been one jot
T1ier to the Uitlanders since it took place.
NV. 1ueVelopment of this part of the cCGn-
Company.
Still Greater Taxes.
:. IN 1894 the twenty-four Boer lawmakers
rev bomb into the gold field by in
s easing the taxes there. The gold dig
cresss we're lncensed, not merely at the in
AM AMI III the tax, but because these peas
mfr. VINO mad never put their foot into
re- should sit in Pretoria and tell us
bor. we should wash and weigh our ore,
s.rrct our props and pits should be con-
ra,a-,'''u ana how the factories and other
Of fsf.dly buildings should be erected. All
lo7 -ie aroused angry feelings and called
,SlT many a curse on The grav heads Of
I'm 90 " makers Many a claim was given
M. p we haap' and when the agent of
ton nent came on a trip of inspec-
with through the gold fields, he travelled
was an escore of twenty TRUSTEES, and
Ps5 si9a to escape with a whole skin.
paid ~. II was to know that the millions we
inr % year for the privilege of work
wisbo5 Hdrd went where our oppressors
distrih', aup that we had no voice in the
lhass O8ollon- it was still worse to have
desrjedl,o g 81 who used the wealth that we
how, r-e l Islanders earned for theb. tell US
derstana were to do what they did not I'M
Us Is... Is copy of the license issued 10
~ the Boer authorities when we
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

proclaimed myself a Swede, I could not
gain their confidence for they had never
heard of Sweden and believed that | was
English.
while here I saw how the Beers come
counting. The girl was the daughter OF ny
employer. The young man dashed up to
the house on horseback, wearing new
clothes with an ostrich feather in his hat.
He made his fine horse prance and caper
before the house ere he descended. Then
ne gave the lines TO one of the Hottentols
standing near, and walked up and down
in front of the windows of the house, Wen
knowing that the eyes OF his sweetheart
were peeping through the blinds at MN.
Then ne strutted into the house, and trst
shook hands with 'Tante,' the mother, anu
said 'Guten fag, Good day) The same
he did with Dom, the father, and then at
last spoke to the girl and her sisters and
brothers.
A Boer COurtship.
loom said only Site Cake seaD, and
then there was complete silence, when
lasted until the bowl of coffee was brought
In. Then each in turn spoke few words.
DOM asked how everything was at the
huis' (home) and then heard all ABOUT the
health of each one in the family, how the
cattle and the crops were doing, etc. All
the time we were drinking coffee AT
last the sutton rose and handed his chosen
bride the I.achergoot (confec lionery),
which she blushing and laughing, accepted.
"This was the critical moment, for II
she had refused the gift that would have
ended the courtship. Now there was
gayer talk, until all but the two left the
room. for it was the right of the suitor to
remain in the front room alone with her
of his choice But so that he should nor
stay too long. Tante,' according to GUS
tom, stepped uD to the wax candle ano
noa5a mark on IL with needle saying
that the visit might last until the candle
burnt thus far. This was command that
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

Priceless Bits of Paper Owned by
Monsieur Ferrari, of Paris.

Monsieur Ferrari, of Paris.
From the London Mail
The prince of stamp collectors is un-
doubtedly a Monsieur Ferrari, of Paris
Virtually priceless are the stamp collec-
tons of this gentleman, and his devotion
to the hobby may be gauged from the
fact that he keeps three secretaries es-
pecially to look after the precious bits
of coiored paper, which are arranged and
catalogued in luxurious libraries.
M. Ferrari possesses no fewer than eight
specimens of the famous 'Postoffice Maui
ritius," the rarest stamp in the world, of
which only fourteen copies are known to
exist. The actual value of this stamp
which has been known to fetch privately
the large sum of $3.50 over 10000 times
it's face Value-arses from the fact that It
hears the words "pOstOffice" instead of
the regulation post paid" 1t was issued
in 1S47, and is so very highly priced that
not long ago a wholly enthusiastic COL
lector advertised that he was willing to
correspond, with a view to matrimony,
with a lady possessing a copy of Post
office Nautilus, 1S47."
The two-penny blue post paid" Maui
ritius is another very valuable stamp
and at an auction a copy of it has actually
realized $700-the highest prize ever paid
for a stamp sold In this way. This par
ticular specimen was unused, but even a
Cancelled copy has been sold for 800.
AS a rule, African stamps seem to beat
the record for big prices. For example,
a one-penny Cape of Good Hope has re-
allied 1925, another specimen of the same
$3.50 and nine-penny Natal has changed
hands at $780, A Cingalese four-penny
rose, unused. was sold by our informant
for $3.50 not long ago. while sheet Of
twelve West Indian six-penny stamps
went for $775, this being a record price.
Five hundred dollars apiece has been re-
allied at auction for a ive-cent American
"Brattleboro" stamp and a nine-kreutzer
Baden stamp, the value of the latter con-
sisting in the fact that il was one of a
sheet printed by mistake on green paper
instead of on the official pink
But some idea of the enormous trade
done in foreign stamps may be gathered
from the statement that the total sum of
our informanps sales during last season
amounted to more than 10000.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
MINEs WHIcH BoERs THEY VIII

THE Parliament" he says was con-
Gnually passing still more oppressive laws
AGAINST the Uiuanders to whom, although
they own the largest gold fields, all poliu-
cal rights were denied.
only after an uninterrupted residence
Of fifteen years in the Transvaal can
mau calm citizenship, but the taxes and
account In 1894 were discovered the new
eoi fields now owned by the British Char
tered Company with Cecil Rhodes as pres
maut The Beers who had lived in this
section before the gold period sold their
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

being found from day to day. The amount
of gold produced by the Rand is at least
thirty thousand pounds (weighD of gold
year. Little of the gold of Africa is
washed out as in California, Australia and
the Klondike but is chiefly taken from
quartz, which must be crushed. The large
companies have called science to their aid,
bore the stone with diamond drills, and ex-
tract the gold chemically. In the best
fields ton or ore will produce about two
pounds of gold at ali expense of IA pounds,
leaving a profit of three-quarters of a
pound per ton of ore.
occasionally the veins are purer and
sometimes nuggets. 'Nuf,' of pure gold
are found. The private individual sets his
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

mining are regarded mis- rustfu,ly. as in
deed is anyone who does not support him
self as the forefather of the Beers did,
by raising cattle. All other productive en-
pioyment lies in the hands of the Uitland-
or, and this causes no little unrest among
the conservative Beers.
"On the farm where l had found employ
meut after the excessive taxation had
driven me out of the mining business,
great meetings were held in a barn which
served as meeting house. have count
ed as many as fifty OK wgaons and as
many Cape carts laden with Boer fami-
lies. My employer did a good business
then. selling them his produce. Although I
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
They Hate the English.

SO soon as I had an opportunity to
make the acquaintance Of the Beers. I
found that they were hospitab'e 10 a
stranger who understands their language
and customs, but an Englishman is sell
dom wei ONE on treir Fla u or farm. The
English know this and ther re call hem
selves Welshmen, for the ignorant Beers
do not know ,hat Wales belongs to Great
Britain. The Beers hold 10 ancient meth
DDS and customs with the GREATEST con-
serVatism. They want no industries but
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

hopes on this kind of finds but they are
few and far between in the TransVaal.
Still If he does find one it may make him
a millionaire in a minute.
The TransvaaI Gold Fields.
ION our journey we rode right over the
place in which the Englishman George
found rich vein Of gold a year or so lat
er. Arrived at the fields we found that we
could either work for fifteen shillings a
day for one of the companies or sell them
our ore-if we found any. We had as
equipments one mule to carry the pack
one negro as helper, small tent, bottle
of nitric acid, a. wooden mortar with an
iron bottom, two spades, one chisel, one
drill with its mallet, one metal water bowl
and revolver. This was the requirement
for each man. We had gone TO the 'Kap'
as most promising table land of several
(50) square miles We b ew off what SEEM
ed some promising bits of quartz, puIver-
lied them In the mortar, and then washed
away the dirt to see if the gold Law there
In vain was our prospecting for many
days. All that we found was the nest of
an ostrich from which We secured two
fresh eggs, which served for breakfast for
our party for Two days. Here were gold
mine clubs without number where the
lu ky men might gamble away their hard
earned dust but The revolver did not
pay so large part in The proceedings on
account OF the excellent order preserved
by the English authorities. Disguised, we
were easily fooled by a man known as
Mac who promised for a sovereign each
to show US good diggings. He spent the
money on whisky and always forg.t'
1--WE have been wandering about maxi
ing tests for several days under his guar
dianship but IN vain. One night he slipp-
ed away, and when we went to our heart
breaking work of breaking and digging it
was on ground where the quartz was rath-
er dark with shining specks in 1t. The
usual process OF pulverlzing was gone
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
For No. 161.

" The Swedish subject, f. ]. Kaerts-
troem, in the district of the Sheha Gold
Washing Stock Company. Block No. 1914
stretching along The WinterfaGs river so
meters Ions and 10 meters broad from
point Alp on the north to the south, to
lie worked; which discovery. which NO
duces gold-Quartz and is known as Hud-
sons Claim is to be divided into ten
claims for which the owners are to pay
tax of one-third OF the enteire yield and
rine pounds st ring, 10 shi ngs : er mon h
INTO The treasury of the company from and
after this date.
Barberton, April
For the Sheha Stock Co,
I'D. Boieve,
&C CrustOn'
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We're at work in the Transvaal. From il
II VIII De seen that he were taxed almost
zen pounds sterling for each month besides
one-tnird of all the products of the mine.
Here is the license:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
BATHS

Every well regulated household should have a
bottle of SULPHUME and SULPHUME SOAP
in their bath room, for those who have taken Sui
plume Baths find their medicinal properties
superior to the most famous sulphur springs,
and can be made any desired strength.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29

hopes on this kind of finds, but they are
few and far between in the TransVaal.
Still If he does find one it may make him
a millionaire in a minute
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
Thirty Battles in Three Years.

Under McNelly we found all the adven-
ture we sought, and to spare. In the three
years I was with the company we had
raiders and Texas desperadoes and any
number of minor encounters with them.
We arrested over two thousa nd outlaws in
that time, and broke up gang after gang
of horse thieves and cattle thieves and
murderers who roamed over the western
part of the state.
We literally lived In the saddle. We
carried our blankets with US and wherever
darkness overlook US on the plains or in
the chaparral there we lay down and slept
For two years ] never once had so much
as the shelter of a tent over me at night.
II Il rained, we pulled our hats over our
faces-for rein drops are cold when they
strike the bare skin at night-and slept
the sleep Of tired children after a hard
DAYS play; If IL showed, we let the snow
add a white covering 10 our beds and
slept sounder for 1t. But frequently we
rode all night long so as to be where we
could surround some desperate stronghold
at dawn and arrest-or kin, IL they showed
nght-those whom we sought.
Wen armed with six-shooters and car
bines. tireless riders, ready at all times TO
seek danger, quick to shoot and wen able
TO shoot straight, McNelly's Rangers were
a formidable body OF men, and ii did not
take long for their fame as fighters o
spread from one end of the state to the
other.
on one occasion thirty of US pursued
body of Mexican raiders five miles into