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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-14
GOLDEN STATE LIMITED
SOUTHERN PACIFIC HAS
IlIAUGURATED new TRAIN
FAST TIME AND A CONSEQUENT
HEAVY TOURIST TRAVEL.
TRIP oEeIoHTY.EIoHT
HOURS.

Chicago Oct. 31.-With the Inaugural
ton, Sunday. of the Golden State lin
tied. between Los Angeles and Chicago.
over the Southern Pacific and Rock
Island railroads, the time from coast to
coast will be reduced to lightweight
hours. The limited will leave Los
Angeles at 2:30 p. m, and will reach
Chicago at 10:3s a. m. in good time to
connect with the twenty-hour trains for
the Atlantic seaboard over the Lake
Shore and Pennsylvania roads. The
running time from Los Angeles to Chi
cago will be only sixty-six hours. and.
allowing two hours lay-uver at Chi
cago. through time from coast to coast
will be lightweight hours, which will
be new record for the distance.
The travel to the Pacific Coast,
principally California. this fall, has
been exceptionally heavy owing, in
part. at least. to the cheap rates which
have been in effect during the past
two months-rates which expire to-
night Yesterday and today fifty-four
tourist sleeping cars, with every berth
taken, left Chicago via the connections
of the Southern Pacific. This morning
no berths were available. There were
at least $50 applications for space in
the tourist cars. and many Of the pas
sengers had to go in the ordinary
coaches or reclining chair cars, as the
Pullman Company was unable to fur
nish tourist sleepers. Railroad man
anticipate this winter the heaviest pas
senger traffic to the Coast ever known.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-14

The baseball game will take place
on the Punahou grounds at 3 p. m.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-14

Weekly edition Of the Bulletin, u .
year.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-14

There are some $4,000 Cinnamon In
Cuba, and since the island became in
dependent there is no law to prevent
their going there from China or else
where
The Forrest City times., 1902-06-13
DOM PAUL KRUGER,
Something of His Life and Work in
 SOuth Africn

President Kruger, ne who figured more prominently in the early part of this war that England declares Is now over than any other one man, k product of the hardy conditions that surrounded pioneer life op the south African veldt He seems to have been born leader of men. Cnlike the majority ot the Tran,yaal and Free State burghers, who are oi Holland ancestry, lie is of German descent, his ancestors emi. grating from the Pot>dam district of Ger many to south Africa in l7l3.
 Oom Paul was born in ColeSburx. Cape Colony, October 10, 1895 At the age of len year, he migrated with his parents from the place oi his birth to the then unknown interior. lr this new country his military hie began al the age oi l5, when he served in the wars with the Xulus as field eornet in the Dutch army In l84s he took his place beside his father in the conflict with the British at the battle of Boomplaats.
 When the British advance made further occupation of this territory objectionable to the BoerS he became one of the leaders of the trekkera' who moved to the Transvaal country. By 1861 he had risen in military rank until he was commander in
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>outh Atrlca it was generally estimated that the two republics had been able to place in the field an army of from 8 900 to 5o,O0o men, though Dr. Leyds. the diplomat ic agent of the Transyaal in Europe, claimed that they had not less than l00, 900 men under arms.
 The first battle of the war was fought at Glencoe, Natal, October 20, 1899, when the Boers were defeated and their position captured by Gen. William Penn Symons who paid for his victory with his own hfe. and the loss of some 43 men killed and POO wounded. This was followed the following day with a battle at Elaandslaagte in which Gen French commanded the English troops and Gen. Rock the Boers. The Boers were deieated with l loss of 100 Killed and 300
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ne was not satisfied Suzerainty was q tern not to his liking Still less was he ,ss5a ia to welcome British suzera.uty. Brjtai, was the one enemy that had been dog9sn, his steps, and his fathers step, sns 'as l4' grandiather's steps; and now h;, la.t sa' preme effort to rid himself of the bstsfpl presence, which was also hamperjny oo1' trol, had come to naught President Krn. ger, m 1888, visited London with a petjrio, to Queen Victoria for revision of inc srt;' cies of the convention in lSsl. He wa, gfaelously received; and the British govern. ment n 1884 conceded to him new word. ihg Of the clauses against winch he. in tb. name of his people-rather. in the name If the Boer portion of them-had entered Ii, protest. It was this new wording. with f, interpretations, that served as the nominal ground for the last dispute which ended n var, and the war has now ended .n Brit ish victory, and the union Jack agaip fife, from the tiagstaffs of Pretorla and Bloom. fonteiu.
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ing of Gen. Whites force at Ladysmith practically the whole of the British force in South Africa was besieged in three places, and England realized that the subjugation of the burghers meant more than holiday parade of her troops. The home govern ment began immediate preparations for the sending of large endorsements, and Gen
 Sir Redvers Butler was assigned to chief command He undertook the relief of Lady smith and assigned to Gen. Lord Methuen the task of raising the siege at Kimberly.
 Additional leYies of troops to the mum Der of l6,OO0 were poured into Durban, Ma tai, and with these Gen. Butler attempted the relief of Ladysmith. the garrison at which place was being hard pressed by the Boers, who were determined to force sur reneer before assistance could come to the besieged town. It was on December l5 that
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C0uIa suE1 | I0Ing nave been pos-I6le.
 Alter the capture and occupation of Bloemfontein Gen. Roberts moved his army toward Pretoria at a rapid pace Occasion al Boer victories were reported, such as that at Sanna post on March 30. when Col. Broadwood' forces were badly routed with loss of seven guns, and the disaster at Reddersburg the following day, which resulted in the loss of 5o0 English troops, but in the main the British Wete successful and the war office at London and the Eng fish people began to feel that the war was about over, They could not at that time see another two years and more of fighting before them.
 On April Gen. Methuen retrieved part of the laurels he had lost in the earlier part oi the struggle by the capture of d con
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AMERICANS IN SOUTH AFRICA
At the Forefront of Great Industrial
 and Mining Enterpri.ex

The people oi this nation have more than sentimental interest in practically all that pertains 10 South Africa. In addition To our rapidly increasing commerce with the different English colonies tHere m. eIudlng the Iransyaal and the Orange Fres State, there Is the interest tHa. attaches 10 the large number of Americans who ars III the country and assisting in me devel. opment of its resources. MT Howard c. HuIegas, in his book entitled "Oom Pauls People, pays the following tribute to these Americans Tn South Africa.
 However great the comm ercial interests ot the United States in South Africa, they are small in comparison with the work ot !HelE E.uual Americans who have been active ln the developmeH of that country during the last quarter Of a century Whatever great enterprises have been iraugurated. Amer flcars have been prominently identified "jh their growth and development. and in not few instances has the success Of the ventures been wholly due 10 American lead eIship. European capital IS the foundation of all the great South African institutions. but it is to American skill that almost all of them owe the success which they havs attained
 British and continental capitalists have recognized the superiority of American methods by ntrusting the management or almost every large mine and industry to men who were born and received their traln- ing In the United States IL Is ar express sion not infrequently heard when the suc- cess of a South African enterprise ls being discussed. Who Is the Yankee% Ths reason of this is involved in the fact th at almost all the Americans who went D South Africa after the discovery of gold had been well fitted by their experiences in the California and Colorado mining feds for the work which they were called upon 10 do on the Rartt and owing 10 their ab!i- ity. were able 70 compete successfully witn the men from other countries who were nos glgff fAF
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Gen. Roberts had now carried the war into the very heart oi the enery's country. and, with the exception of Il number of raids into Cape Colony by the Boers, it has re mained there. But the war was not over
 England rising huzzahs at British victories were tempered by news of British defeats
 Roberts pushed active operations against the enemy in the eastern Transvaai and on Sep tember 20, eight days after President krueger had entered Portuguese territory, he report ed to London the capturing and dispersion of the remnant of the Boer army in that section of the republic. True the enemy was scattered. but they were neither killed nor
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left, however, in command of the LAdysmith relief expedition, and alter three failures succeeded in accomplishing that purpose oa MarcA ]. lso0
 While Gen Butler was meeting with de- feat along the Tugela, Gen. Methuen was making but little Il any advance toward the relief e; Kimberly He was opposed by Gen. Cronje. He suffered a serious reverse at Magersfoatein. on December l2. and was forced 10 fall back 70 the Modder river with loss of about O0O out ot l3.0oo he had engaged In this battle the Gordon Highlanders lost nearly 700 officers and men in vain attempt to carry the Boer position.
 On Decembe. 70 Gen. Gatacre attempted . surprise on the Boer troops at Stromberg.
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chief oi the Boer army in the conflicts Wit the savage natives, position winch he re tained until 1877, when England annexed the country to Cape Colony
 During the war for independence. which virtually began and ended at Majuba Hill, he served as vice president of the trium. virate which governed the country. In lSS3 ne vas elected to the presidency of the republic, and was thrice reelected. holding the position so long as his land which he had helped to build remained m indepepd. ent nation, though for the past two wears he mas been forced to reside in Europe. hi, advanced age preeluding the possibility of his tak ng any part in the active military campaign.
 In his younger days he was q great hunter. and during the long trekking trip from Cape Colony to the Transvaal he is credited with having killed no less than 25o lions
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Orange Free State. crossed the undefended borders of English territory, prepared to strike quick and decisive blows if possible before England could prepare for tbe con il ct
 The Boers were by no means unprepared ser such conflict. The neavy revenue l..- srTed by the government for a number of grars previously had been judiciousIy ex. pended for defense, and they had stored @xay at Pretoria guns that were far sn. E@Tlor to anything that England could use xgsnst them for a considerable time after she opening of hostilities. Their army was s0nposed almost wholly of volunteers, but Hhsy were volunteers who were well trained in Sighting methods of their own, methods zs which England knew but little, and was ans prepared to meet.
 The armed strength of England in South sA5rlrs was at that time some 2, 900 men of
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all branches, of whom some F. 900 comprised the force Of Gen. Sir George White in Natal, and the others were scattered in small commands at different points in Cape Colony, the garrisons extending as far north as Mafeking which Col, afterward Gen, Baden Powel was defending with force of 200 men.
 Gen. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, the hero ot MaJuba Hill and vice president of the South African republic, was selected as commander-in-chief of the allied armies of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and al once took personal command of the troops that invaded Natal and shut Gen. White up in Lady smith.
 In less than 24 hours after the actual begin ming of the war as dated from the expiration from the time allowed ii the Boer ultimat-
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h, could scarcely give reasons for the war that would be acceptable to both sides The writer does not pretend to be able to deci- pher series of causes that might be of
 sered without fear of being accused of par aIality he, like millions of other readers of current history, as II is recorded day after day m the newspapers of every civilized Rand, IS familiar with the claims made by both sides, but out of these claims he does not intend to even attempt to unravel the real cause of armed conflict between the Britian and Boer in South Africa. When dime has healed the wounds of the present
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On September Gen. Roberts had issued a proclamation anneXing the TransvaaI to the British domains. He continued in su- preme command until November 30, 1900. when he turned over the command to Gen. Kitchener and prepared 10 return to Eng
 land. He can scarcely have realized the task he was leaving to the fearless officer whose laurels had been won on the battlefelds O. Egypt, and who, as chief of staff had done so much toward the success so far attained by English arms in the South African con fiiet. His training was of the kind that gave him N special fitness for the work
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though the end may not be just 10 our lik ing, It is enough that we go back through she more than three years of the wars his sory and recall some Of the battles, the deeds of daring and bravery, the skilled generalship of leaders on both sides that have marked this conflict, now closed. as Sne oi the memorable struggles of the past quarter of century and more.
 The real opening of the war may be said 10 have been October g, 1899, at which time President Kruger sent to England the per elnptory demand that that nation return a satisfactory answer to the demands of The Soath Atrican republic on or before ! o'clock ?. m, October IT, and that failure so do so would 1e regarded as a formal Celebration of War. These demands in. s,nded the acknowledgement of the com. rete sovereignty of the South African re- Tahllc as an international power, and the
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new oommander-in-chief left Butler to re tr.eve his fallen fortunes in Natal and took personal command . the reinforced army operating against Gen. CroHje in Cape Colo ny. Ihearriyalo Of Roberts seemingly marked turning point in the war. On January 24 Gen. Warren took Spion kop, though it was later abandoned and Buffers army again retreated across the Tugela. By Feb ruary II Roberts had pushed his army across the borders of the Orange Free State, and the following day Gen. French relieved Kimberly. On February ? Gen. Cronje surrendered with 1000 men at Paardeberg, and by March l3 the unchecked English ad- vance had captured and occupied Bloemion- tein, the Orange Free State capital.
 It was on March 2, 1900. that the Boers suffered the serious loss oi Gen. Joubert, who died at Pretoria At his death the burghers lost one of their most skilled leaders, a man
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south African Farms.

Al the time of the breaking out of the war there were some 5000 acres of land under cultivation in the TransvaaI Tho farms numbered l2,245, of which 3636 be- longed to the government, l.6l2 to outside owners and the remainder to resident own CTS and companies. The agricultural pro ductions were far from sufficient to meet the demand of local consumption, and food products figured heavily among the lm' ports The number of farms in the Orange Free State was 10. i99, with more than %o'' OOO acres under cultivation.
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cree in prompting the peace terms offered by England. IL was one of the most bril- liant dashes of the war. and Il 1t did moth. ing more 1t showed the London government that the war might be almost indefinitely prolonged if the Boer forces in the field could not be induced 10 accept terms of peace and that they would not accept the terms of unconditional surrender
 WRIGHT A PATTERSON.
The Forrest City times., 1902-06-13

siege of Mafeking had been raised For more than 200 days Col. Baden Powel's lit tie force had defended the place against heavy odds, and the whole population had suffered terrible privations, but they had held out untii the long expected relief had reached them, and the whole garrison were crowned with the yictors laurels by hero loving England
 On May 24 the British troops under Rob erts crossed the Naal river and on the Both marched into the golden town of Johannes burg, where they received warm welcome from the ultlanders, who had expected to witness the destruction oi their property be- fore they should be allowed to fall into the
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uln, the British were placed at q disadvan- tage from which they number of weeks and did not recover for a without the loss of a large number of men and munitions of war.
 The number of troops with which Gen. Joubert had ac- eomplished this coupe will probably not be known soon. In
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gotten Other Boer victories of the year were the capture Of PIummer's supply train on May 9; the almost complete destruction Of the Seventh Yeomanry by Delarey on May %; the capture Of 200 Victorian Rifles on June r. and the loss by Col. Benson ot 25 officers and 250 men on November l.
 During this time. however, Gen Kitchen CT had not been idle Ills army had been pushing the Boer forces almost constantly: ne had been rapidly extending the line of block houses that marked the permanent English advance. and w5ile the record of the year showed some brilliant eoupes on the part of the Boer generals they were Of th.
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prisoners, among the killed being Gen. koe. The British loss was 42 killed But brilliant as were these English VIC tories they had but little result other than opening a means of retreat to Iadysmith, where Gen. Whites entire force was rapidly con centrated
 With the mobiliz-
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ln tle north Oi "a De Colony, but failed after losing more than G0 men who were made prisoners by the Boers.
 Such was virtually the condition of the British forces when Gen. Roberts and Gen. Kitchen CT, his chief of staff, landed at Cape Town on Jan uarv 10. 1900. The
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some close student of history, blessed with an ability to delve beneath the surface of things, may De able to offer q SC xies of reasons that will be acceptable to a posterity through whose veins will not run the heated blood of conflict. That time ss not now.
 As We glory in the coming 0t peace. even
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meet. Early in the year it was estimated that there were not more than l40O0 Boer troops still in the field, bu; these afforded occupation for all the vast English army, and still ,hey could not capture or disperse effectively the willy leaders or their bands.
 The year brought with it such incidents as the capture of Modderfontein by the Boers on February 9, three days after which 5000 fresh troops left England to reinforce the army in South Africa. On April l0 the English heart was made glad by the open ing of peace negotiations by Gen Botha, but they amounted 10 nothing, and the war went on with varying success on either side
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Gen. Buller began the advance wuIch end d ed temporarily with the disaster to British arms at the Tugela river, iA which the British lost s2 en killed, G67 wounded and 34S missing This battle, the first fought by Butler in South Afri-
 ca, resulted in the loss of nis reputation as a strategist and
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withdrawal of all British troops near its borders. All South Africa knew and the world knew that England would not accept such terms and prepared for war, and the preparations Of the Boer troops
 for attack began i'm mediately. Military expeditions from the Transvaal. and others from I heir allv tna
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siderable Boer force at Boshoi This was followed on April g by a Boer defeat at W Wepener another on April II at Fort Abram, another at De- etsd orp O n April 20, again at Wmdsorton on May , and at the town of Maieking on May B.
 On May 20. the wei come news was cabled fn EngIop.1 that .ba
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of meeting the guerilla tactics to which the Boers restorted as the only means left them >7o continue the struggle
 While large numbers of Boers were sur rendering to the English authorities there were yet in the field such intrepid com manders as De Wet, Botha. Steyn, Delaray, Schalk Burger and others. and each of them
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TransvaaI Church Mem be rship.

Church membership in the Transvaai s divided about as follows: The United Dutch Reformed church-the state church. 30, 900 communicants; other Dutch churches P 2,76O; English church, 5000; Wesleyaa Methodist, 10000; Catholic, 5000; Presby' terians, 5000; other Christian churches 5000; Jews, 10000
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NA uoN VI " n tN II EAd N
 ly one person in ten could in t diligently guess at. so completely has the cause been swallowed up in the din of conf ct. Even those directly respon- sible for the struggle; those who were most
 intimately connected with the diplomacy or shall We say rather a deplorable lack Of diplomacy that i'm. mediately preceded
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captured, and then began the long guer- rilla warfare that continued down to the day peace was declared, and which brought many de feats and heavy loss es 10 British arms. even though it has eventually resulted in a British victory that places all of South African ter ritory under the Eng fish crown
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" hose judgement
 every officer and pri- vate oi the Boer army trusted implicitly, and who, had le lived, would uEloubt- endly have done much toward bring
 ing about If not a dif- ierent termination 10 the conf ct, a much more dearly bought victory for England.
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kind that couldreslslt in no lasting benefit 10 the Boer cause, her than toe inspir- ing of fre>a Nigor and hope 10 the contest ants.
 The victory Of Gen. Delareyoyer GenAle- thueu on March $ of thls year was 1olIowet on April II by peace #oyertureS. and is sup posed to have had q =coHsiGl era ble inhu-
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hands of the English. On the same day that Lord Roberts entered Johannesberg he is sued the proclama ton that made an English crown colony of the Orange Free State. Four days later he was in the Boer capital at Pre- toria, and now, thought England, the war must speedily en.
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Iae heavy losses seemed to fall 70 the English, for the req son probably, that they were the only one of two contend ing forces in a posi- ton 10 suffer a heavy loss. Boer com mandoes were occa- sionally captured or dispersed, but they
 were of small num- bers and the incl dent was soon for
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Transyaal Gold Production,

The value of the gold production ot the Transvaal in 1898, the banner year ot Trans vaal mining, was fl6,044l l35. There were S6 companies operating mines, employing SS ,627 men.
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Orange Free State PopuIstion

The area sf the Orange Free State is 4s. S20 and the population is given at 77.7l6 whltes-4O,5ll males and 37.l45 females oot this total 5l,9lo were born in the Ere, State and 2l,ll6 in Cape Colony. In addi. ton to the whites there are I2e, ,7s7 natiys