Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-19

| Bile hand 10 the doctor, murmurlng
| Jameson" That was the end
DR.. jameson was a sort OF private
secretary to Rhodes at first learning
the details Of the management of the
| British South Africa company's affairs,
and In 1891 was made the admlnistra-
tor OF Rh0desia, TO the astonishment Of
everybody except Rhodes. His govern
ment of this 10000 square miles was
| wonderfully shrewd and wise. The
Matabele war. In which +. r. Buruham.
| the famous American scout first at
| tracted European notice, was under the
! direct management Of Dr. jim. and ac-
| cording TO all accounts reflected high
credit on his military qualities.
THE CRASH.
In 1895, at the moment when Il began
TO look as II the greatest Of Rhodes
dreams might be quickly realized. and
when, II he had willed 1t, and no one
had Numbered, he might have broken
me whole Of South Africa or from the
map OF British territory and set up in
government for himself there, In a
United states Of his own, with DR.. Jim
Tor vice president or crown prince--Iust
at that dramatic moment DR.. Jim
slipped up with the untimely dash into
me TransyaaL lie might have got 10
johannesburg with his 500 troopers. ana
me government might have been over
turned II the men who were engineering
me Johannesburg end OF the scheme
had been as dashing and as unhpsItat-
lnB as Dr jim, But the raid failed.
the inevitable extinction Of the Kruger
government was postponed To n div
When the cost OF a revolution I'm British
men ANA money was 10 be multiplied nv
thousands, and Rhodes and the loo.
previous Dr. lin went down with n
crash
Rhodes proved to the satisfaction NJ
most folk that he had not authorized on
ADVISED the raid, ana escappd worse
punishment than the temporary down
iall or his hopes hut Dr.. Jim and the
leaders OF the raid were sentenced in
death, were subsequently turned over 10
the British government. tried and Gnallv
sent TO jail In London Or. Jim woro
convict garb had convict food and slen,
on plank bed at FIRST, but aftcrward
was treated more as a political prisoner
at Holloway Jail.
IL was the Jameson raid that dashed
Rhodes from the height of power IA Tho
bottom depth of despair and obioauy
YET az the moment when things looked .
The blacklist Lord Grey came nm m
Rhodes and told him. with some heslta.
Iion' that he had bad news FOR him
Ihe unhappy man started and then /.
asked eagerly "Wel. Ehat Ia itqo /
Whereupon Lord Grey broke 10 him tbo .
news OF the destruction by fire Of Grooto .
schuur his beloved country house I'm
which all Of his collections OF historical
and personal interest were stored Lord
Grey was afraid that this blow would
almost finish Rhodes. and WAS aston.
lshed 10 hear him breathe rroat sipb
OF rolief ana say "rhnnk God. NJ maj /
nll' l thought you were going 10 tell
me Or, Jim was dead. Wo can rebuild
'he house, but II Dr. jim had d,cd /
should never have got over H."
ON TOP AGAIN.
After DR. Jameson's release from Uo,.
oway jail be wandered back to South
Africa, rldicued by hls enemies and
by his friends. When tho
war broke out he went IN for hospital
work as n civilian, suffered from
wound, from fever and from overwork
ma proved through II an that he had
ost none Of his skill as n surgeon.
Rhodes prohted afterWard by Or. Ilm's
administrative abilities, and when
Ifhodes died the doctors position as a