The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-01
HISTORY OF THE BROWN
 JUDGMENT AGAINST BOERS

censes were then to be issued. But before
 the men on the field could stake our
 claims the law required that they should
 be advised as to the number of licenses and other details. There was neither tel
 ephone nor telegraph communication be-
 tween the Witfontein reef and the land
 drost's office. So to comply with the law
 the big syndicates pressed jockeys on fleet mounts into service to transmit the re- cessary technical information to the men on the field. On the day appointed MT.
 Brown appeared with other mine opera
 tors at the head of a calvacade of jockeys But no sooner had these rival horse- men started dashing across the veldt to- , ward Witfontein than MT. Brown calmly set to work with signal corps and helio- graphed all necessary instructions far in advance of the swiftest riders. By the
 time these reached the field MT. Browns men had staked off 1000 claims. Long It.
 igation followed. the high court of the
 Transvaal ultimately deciding that his
 action, though alert and novel was legal,
 and he was awarded judgment in a sum
 amounting to five million dollars. President Kruger was incensed at the findings of the court, and summarily dis
 missed the chief justice from office and | enJoined the Transvaal treasury from
 paying judgment.
 The case is still pending. Before the
 war was declared between the Boers and the British. Colonial Secretary Chamber
 lain. cited the Brown case as an instance
 Of the inability of foreigners in the Trans
 vaal to obtain justice there. Up to the I time of his death MT. Brown was work
 ing to secure recognition from England
 concerning the validity of his judgment
 against the former republic. The state | department has the matter in hand. Con | gross in its recent session. called for a | report Of the case, and the history of the | interesting matter was printed as a pub | lie document. G | Although MT. Brown had accomplished
 much as a mining man, operating proper
 ties in British Columbia Washington
 Idaho, Mexico, Spain, and South Africa
 he was but young man at the time of
 his death, being not more than 37 years | Of age. He was an excellent writer as well as financier, and it is said that for his contributions to the London Statist
 he received compensation at rates hign-
 CT even than Kipling enjoys. MT. Brown ! was great traveller, occasioned by his l
 Il Trogmorton street. London at 66
 Broadway, New York; in the Real Es-.
 tate and Trust Building. Philadelphia; in
 the Crocker Building. San Francisco, and at the Bank of Montreal, Chambers, Vic- | toria, B. c.
 | His death was due to quick consurnp-
 ton. brough on by severe cold which he l contracted recently in London. Accom- panied by his wife, nurse and physician
 he went to Phoenix. Arizona. few weeks | ago in the hope that the dry air or that | latitude would restore him to health, but the end came suddenly.
 | MT. Brown was a native of Philadelphia. | His death will be mourned by the many who knew him. He was a man whose companionship was greatly sought for. his intelligence and wit were of high order. He was particularly interested In | literary men and artists in America and abroad. MT. Brown was Knight Tenn plar. a member of the Mystic Shrine and of other orders.