The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-06
9aiIg Eagle

.. lsE. lIURDOCK, Editor.

trouble there detail 1.-THE history OF the tangled
situation Africa Cape of Good Hope was dis
by Britain early thereafter
made claim it Netherlands, through the Dutch
India company established trading post at Cape OF
Hope Emigration Holland followed the estab-
ishment of this post Prcestants perse-
cuted in France many went over Holland When the
Holland emigration to South Africa set many of these
HugenOts with Today cent of the
Netherlands Roman Catholic All Dutch
Reformed. grew Napoleon appeared
history and upset Europe Joined with him
because she feared Britain. with Ma
poleon, Dutch world She took
Colony, only settlement South Africa
Napoleons Britain restored HoI-
land kept Cape Colony Cape Colony
unhappy under British first The Eng
nsh officers naughty There on
the part of the Dutch small revolt which quickly and
severely squeced Then the Dutch gathered
households wilderness the
terrible frontier struggle with
the settled founded Natal After
a while England and annexed it Then
again hberyloving further into the will
derness Part remained population Of Natal
today Dutch. Dutch pressed away from
Great Britain into lds founded Transvaal and
Orange lay inland England and POr-
augal coast Dutch few and They
they could the savages and save
their beyond their power to
fight port Moreover their hope of rest in an indie
pendent land Of their own wholly living
inland much Of the track Of to make
It worth Englands while interfere with them again
South Africa open country. There is little heavy
timber. hunting done at long range, in
deceptive atmosphere with the hot air quv
e4ng under burning Europeans do not shoot well
marvels Of cool and accurate rife
practice said there that the word BOer is
simply Dutch farmer"
The Transvaal vaal river; the Orange
State south Of that Both states, the former
being officially styled the South African Republic
pied much the stock and they have been friendly
though independent of each other born Of the
longing independence and saved from de-
by hardhOod. faith and The
farther north Its position is the
posed far greater and people have borne
brunt of the conflict with the and beasts
of wilderness. Naturally they ruder in
warle ready make friends Of strangers
outsiders. the "uIanders" Outlanders often
toned in the of the day.
These successive excursions founding states &C.
CURED in the 1877 Transvaal had be-
important lands supposed be rich min
erals they certainly composed hunters paradise The
greedy Englshman control Cape Colony Natal
Now in the each
a great tract. doesn't like to see the smoke of
neighbors range cattle and
lots of It has family and black servants,
contract which is all but slavery He is lonesome
near Before 1877 the sparsely
settled country harrassed by the natives the
country over-tared unhappy. Great Britain
waiting the Beers thought 1t would be
well to let England frontiers crush
the And important to remember
a bargain between the Beers the British was made
which sefgoverning institutions un
der British sovereignty. was in 1877 Great
Britain put a army the Transvaal Almost i'm
mediatey military men began to clash with
Beers. The Beers numbered five
fighting They had decided not to move into
the wilderness again 1880 explosion came The
bitrary enforcement Of petty British had
levy brought on revolt series of hot fights
followed every British troops were routed
They suffered proportion to the number
engaged The Beers free Of injury At Ma
;uta Hill the British general and his force was
half destroyed driven from the top of a low noun
utterly Beers had one or two men
killed and half a wounded
England people were astounded The cry for re-
went Gladstone premier would not listen to it.
large army to South Africa lest the Beers
prove The Beers were modest and
ell to Cod The Beers prayed
Victoria peace Then between Great Britain
compact signed which gave the Beers
government OF their own but under ,ba
Euzeranty Britain This was in 1851 Three wears
later the Beers demanded given much larger In
dependence convention was signed at London
which said nothing suzeranty 1t only placed one
limit freedom of the South African Renuh;c That