The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-01-05
pEsIeNs FoR srAMps.
o Be Used by Postoffice Department
During the Worlds Fair.

Edst decided upon the designs for
bostage stamps to be used during the
Isorid's fair. collectors are already on
hhe qui vive for the first issues. The
teries of stamps decided upon designs
/. .Ior which are now being engraved,
Eill be attractive souvenirs of the ex-
POSITION. The respective denomina-
lions viii be one OF the prevailing
3|olors The portraits will be as fol
kows: One cent Robert r. Livings-
ION, minister to France, who conduct
4 'ld negotiations for the Louisiana pur-
lhase; two cent, Thomas Jefferson;
hree cent, James Monroe, who, with
Livingston, concluded the negotia-
ioes FIVE cent, President Mckinley;
EN- cent, map of the United States,
Knowing the territory purchased from
france.
The Eastern Press bureau has re-
teivea advices that site for the in
htallation of the Transgaal Military
spectacular company has been tenta-
lively granted on the area close to
Bldnker Road for the reproduction of
he principal events in the South Afri-
IAN war. The district tentatively al
sotted is 500 yards square. an area
larger than that occupied by the ex-
.libit of Jerusalem.
The plans Of tie Transyaal Military
kpectacular company are on as ambi-
lious scale as those of any conces-
ion yet projected at the exposition.
'rhe proposal is to supply NAM
|noth arena, the front of which snall
be a reproduction of the old Trans
gaaI government building at Pretoria,
which is III the distinctive architecture
ll style of the Beers. The arena is
blamed on the lines of an open air
stage, the spectators being massed
in front. Stretching before the seats
is to be the area on which the bat
lie OF Colenso and Cronje's last stand
ht Paardeburg are to be reproduced.
The foreground as seen by the spec
tator will be real grass and trees and
rolling country The vista will die
tnsensibly into The painted panorama
which will carry the eye of the spec
tator across miles of South African
veldt. All this IS to be geographical
y exact.
Six hundred men are to be brought
from South Africa, every one OF whom
has taken a part on one side or the
other in the great conflict. Besides
General vilseen, the Boer contingent
is commanded by General Piet Cron-
je, whose capture and deportation
formed one of the most picturesque
incidents of the South African war.
Another Boer leader with whom ar
rangements have been made is Gen
eral Kemp, who captured General
Lord Methuen. The English forces
are TO be commanded by Major c.
Ross. d. s. o., who commanded the
Canadian scouts in the military oper-
ations. With him will be Major
Scott Warden, who commanded the
Beers that fought the Mad Mullah in
Somaliland, and Colonel G. p. Kuper
of the British artillery, retired Bug
Ter Dunno. who was presented to the
queen OF England for services on the
occasion of Colonel Longs surrender
at Colenso. has also been engaged.
Also Stats Artillery band wi the
uniforms and instruments used by
them in the campaign
Mrs. Charles H. Ball, secretary of
the New York commissioh, reports
that the commission has adopted the
resolution:
Resolved, That the members of
the New York commission desire 10
to the president OF the Louis
iara Purchase exposition and the
heads Of the various departments
whom they have been brought in per
sonal contact, their appreciation Of
the delightful courtesy extended them.
II Is obvious that there is a desire on
the part of the exposition authorities
10 facilitate the departmental work
of New YORK ia connection with the
exposition We cannot fail 70 express
our appreciation of the gigantic task
which the officers Of this great inter-
national fair have carried to such sue
cessful elimination. In the entire
history OF expositions there has been
evidenced no greater progress and
such work could not have been ac-
complished save through the most
predigious efforts on the part OF the
projectors Of this vast enterprise
When St. Louis opens her exposition
gates It win be to invite tie world
10 witness the greatest exposition ia