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Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29

one period he contributed a weekly col umn of humorous and witty comment to a Spokane newspaper over the signature 'The Barbarian" and so he also was known as Barbarian Brown" He died in 1902 in Arizona. His father, Lawrence E. Brown of Philadelphia; his mother and his widow are now the claimants.
 Like John Hays Hammond and other Americans, he journeyed to South Africa when the Rand began to show it's golden wealth. The summer of 1895 found him in the district of Potchefstroom.
 The Kruger government was about to throw open for gold prospecting and claim an area known as the Farm Witfontein. It was presumed to lie on the main reef. But before any claim could be filed the prospective claimant must first obtain a license permitting him to stake-"peg," " they call it in South Africa-a claim; one license for each claim.
 proclamation was issued setting forth that at S:3O o'clock on the morning of July 19 the clerks office at Doornkoop, twenty miles from the Farm Witfontein, would be opened to receive applications for license.
 Miners and mine operators focked to
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29
TAE CoQUrrLArr. SEIZED bY LIGHTING BOB ExAnSs
 UNCLE SAr1 ISASKED To PAY%lO4. 900 DAr1AeHs.

his claim before this government for prosecution.
 The British reply paints anything but a hattering picture of the old Sultan Ali islander. It asserts that he was in the habit of signing any old thing that was put before him, and that his Singapore representative, Keun, did a profitable business in alleged concessions. It also asserts that Studer was somewhat in the concession business himself, and, in the names of numerous American consuls in the far east, obtained a whole flock of alleged concessions from Ali. which are not mentioned in the American memorial
 * *
 The reply also vigorously upholds the title of the Johore ruler to the throne and to dominion over Muar It inti- mates that it will see the heirs of Maj. Studer elsewhere before the British gov ernment will admit the justice of the claim.
 In the meantime the lands have become immensely valuable as rubber planta- tons. Hence the large sum demanded. Interest also from 1909, when this rubber value became known. is asked.
 Much more modern is the claim of the
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disdaining the proffered crown.
 Stevens, who is a democrat, was elect ed to Congress in November, but was at that time member of the New Hamp- shire legislature. He should by law have been entitled to his seat in the House of Representatives March 4, but the governor of his state, having i'm portant measures before the legislature, begged Stevens to retain his seat till these measures were passed.
 Of late years a democrat in a political position in New Hampshire was as rare as a snowbali in June. So Stevens did not come on to take his place here, but remained in Concord till his presence was no longer needed. He reached Wash ington April g.
 On being offered his salary as a mem Der of the House for the preceding month, Stevens promptly turned down the offer, stating that he was not entitled to the remuneration
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Blakslee's room was located.
 When informed, he tremblingly pulled from his vest pocket, where it ieposed ready for delivery, a card greatly em- bellished in a Spencerian penmanship hand showing that he was a rural car Tier from Wisconsin
 T wonder if MT. Blakslee would like to see one of his hands," he remarked.
 The clerk, not being familiar with rural vernacular, and knowing that MT. Blaks- lee had two hands, could not under stand why he should want to see an other one.
 However, Mir. Blakslee saw lone of his hands," as he always does, and this phrase promises to be the popular ses- anne to gain entrance into his office.
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Here we are; show us a good time! Then MT. Aiken shows 'em.
 There was one pilgrim to this na- tional shrine who, I fancy, had got his conscienstousness on somewhat askew," said MT. Aiken in reminiscent mood. 'He tromped in with his party one Saturday afternoon, seeking to be shown, and showed enl. Took them around the Cap itol, where they shuddered at the cham Der of horrors and Oh, oh'ed' at the Sen ate looking dignified and the House look ing busy
 Then I drove them through the Mall and by the White House, where I showed them a distant prospect of the President of the United States on the back porch. Then I took them to dinner and the the ater and to bed
 Next morning I called around at their hotel early and mapped out a joyous day for them, embracing pretty much every thing from Mount Vernon to movies.
 Wait minute. exclaimed this fellow, as we started toward the waiting auto.
 - always do this every day when I'm away from home
 ''Then he pulled out a postal card and a fountain pen and wrote: Darling wife-Auother dreary Sunday.
 E Lovingly. Hubble
 All set, boys he exclaimed, as he dropped it in the mail box. Now I'm ready for youl"
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29
An Angel" UnaWares.

Oscar Underwood tells good one on himself in regard to a trip he took to Princeton shortly after Wilson was nom- mated. He sat by man who began conversation regarding prominent demo- points,
 AS the train bowled over the long Jer- sey meadows the stranger remarked:
 Well, there is just one fellow I would love to see-and that is Oscar Under wood."
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Right!

R e pr e S entative WinSlow of Massa = chuSetts recently established the one infallible test of a true base ball fan He was toastmaster of the dinner ex- tended by the people of Worcester to Jack Barry and Manager c o n n i e Mack of the Phila- delphia Athletics at the close of the last worlds series.
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pOMEkv 4
The Password.

Strolling along the corridors of the big United States Post Office Department building a few days ago a large, husky man was bewiIdered at the number of rooms he encoun-
 tered in his effort to locate the desired one He accosted a passing clerk and i n q ir e d where Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
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He Refused Money.
Representative R.

Representative R. B. Stevens, the new mem Der from the Granite state, pos sesses the remark able record of hay ing refused money from Uncle Sam.
 In these days, when
 getting the needful out of Brother Jon athan is considered a noble occupation, to find some one re- fusing a check re minds one of Caesar
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Wise, After All.
R e pr e s e ntative

R e pr e s e ntative Wyatt Aiken of South Carolina Is a true son of the south in the hospj~ tality he shows vis- iting constituents. They make a bee line as fast as 8 taxi can whirl them from the Union sta- ton to his cozy quarters in the House office build ing, and, swarming in, cry aloud:
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29

Studer's planting efforts appear to have progressed favorably until June 20 1877 when Sultan Ali died. Enter upon the scene Col. A. F. H. Anson of the British army, administrator of the government of the Straits Settlements The Studer memorial recites that Anson, disreearding the Malay law of succession and denving the rights Of the lawful heir in the throne, conspired to and succeeded in having Muar annexed to the dominion of the Maharajah of Johore The British government became responsible for inc acts of the maharajah and caused him to be elevated to the rank of sultan.
 This maharajah person seems not to have looked with favor on the Studer concession. Studer couldn't pin him down to a definite recognition or denial of inc claim for years, the maharajah tenpo- rizfng with him, but all the time granting new and overlapping concessions thai took from Studer the bulk of his propertv
 In the meantime, so the memorial re cites, headhunters were "sicced' on to Studer's employees presumably by the maharajah, and the mortality rate on the plantation increased materially. Fi- nally, the property being all covered bl new claims and graves of the deceased. and Studer being unable to obtain recog. milton. he retired from the field and laid
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29

Seven British claims against the United States, totaling a sum of S2ss 694, arising out of the ancient Boring sea sealing dis pute. have been argued before the tri- bunal since it began sitting early in March this year. After the Paris Boring sea tribunal of 1893 had made it's award the United States was compelled to pay several hundred thousand dollars damages for illegal seizures of Canadian sealing schooners, but the claims now pending have arisen since then.
 Each government has in general charge of its cases an agent and under him considerabl staff of officers and coun- sel. The American agent is Robert Lam sing of Watertown, N. Y., who, after he had prepared the American cases and pointed counselor of the Department of State, succeeding John Bassett Moore. Under him are R. A. Young, secretary and L. NJ. Snowden, disbursing officar.
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So, when Brown. early in the morning of the 18th, approached the clerks office, he found it surrounded by compact, sul- len crowd of Boers, firmly intent on keeping out the Americans and British. These latter. some hundreds of them, were raging, but could do nothing against the several thousand Boers.
 Brown gathered to him some of his own men. a dozen or more. Among them were several old foot ball players. Brown told them what he wanted. And then. pres ently. on the outskirts of the crowd. what any American would have recognized as the flying wedge" was formed with Brown, clutching bag of money, at the apex.
 Under the scorching African sun, their feet stirring the white dust into clouds, 1t started. It gained impetus; 1t struck the massed Boers. Through them it went
 Forty yards to gainr' shrieked Brown
 Crashing through the wall of humanity went the wedge, and sharp at the hour of
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29
lSTEPHANUs J.PAuLus K1 1UGER

Dornkoop in great number Men were hiyed to camp on the farm. ready on re- ceipt Of signal to peg" claims in the interests of their employers Fast horses were placed in relays from Doornkoop 10 the farm to convey the messages that the licenses had heen issued.
 Brown had spied out POO claims and had his men on them. He did not, nor aid any one else outside the government know that Kruger had privately granted 1OO claims already to Kruger relatives Brown, with typical enterprise had elect ed not to depend on horses. but had se- cretly erected a heliograph apparatus to flash his signals across the veldt to his men as soon as he had received his licenses.
 The Boers, aroused by the intense ex- citement that prevailed among the British and American mining men who had gath cred, felt that they had made mistake in determining to open what must be a property of such huge value. Kruger's friends. not satisfied with the 700 claims illegally passed to their group, wanted even more.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29
ROBERH JANIS ING e~ozo @ 5yclnMoIMs1.

August IS, 1910, after long correspond ence. an agreement was reached and a schedule of claims adopted as the ones to be submitted to such a tribunal. The Senate, July 19, 1911. agreed to this schedule. Subsequently the necessary appropriation for the American share of the expenses was passed.
 The schedule contains claims against Great Britain and the United States in total sum of about S6,000,O00. A sec ond schedule is now being prepared by the Senate. At least two years work is ahead of the tribunal.
 Taking the place of what would be called complaint in the ordinary court of law. the practice of this tri- are set forth all the details of the claim and it's reasons. This memorial" like the 'answer' of the government which Is resisting payment, is printed in uni form sizes.
 Run through these printed documents that comprise the subject matter be- fore the tribunal and you find it rich and colorfu1 in tales of high emprise. of adventure. of battle, murder and sudden death. Kings, civilized and saw age; sultans, maharajahs and presidents; Malay headhunters and South Sea pi- rates; gold miners and hardy fisher men; venturesome seaIers and belted army and navy officers, stalk through the pages as real characters. History, political and military is told with the touch of human experience It is all vivid entrancing, romantic.
 There. for an example. is the claim of the heirs of Adolph c. Studer who wants the British government to pay him S1196,429.03 for what it did to Studer a third of century ago in the Malay peninsula, and the American government is backing the claim.
 Studer was a naturalized Swiss of military education, who fought through the civil war as officer of the Union army, rising to the rank of major Moines, Iowa. as a bank accountant In 1871 he was appointed American consul at Singapore
 Most of the Malay peninsula then, as now. was under British domination, but in the hinterland was the independent state of Muar. ruled by the Sultan Ali 1skander. Negotiations conducted through the sultan's representative in Singapore, one c. D Keun. resulted in Studer. in 1875, receiving concession from the sultan of six miles square in and return one-tenth of its product to the sultan
 EStuder's s representatives maintain that during all the time to 1902, when he was hnally driven out, he lived up to the ophgat1ons of the contract as best he could He remained consul at Singa- pore until 1Ss9. when he was transferred 10 Barman, Germany. where he spent four years. returning to Singapore in 1893, and then retiring from the govern ment service.
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Qaele Sam and ! IJ9hn Bul' PV6w Squariqy&$ 51ccount:
Special Gorrespondenee
 WASHINGTON, D. C., April X 1914.


 very center of the wall back Of the elevated platform nofslessiy swings open. It frames for an instant the tall, gaunt figure of a spectacied. slightly s t o o p c d gentleman, " t h something Tn q e. scribably foreign in
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The Cayugas in Canada became in- tensely loyal to the British crown. When events were moving toward the war of 1872 they took the British side. Ac- cordingIy New York stopped paying the annuities.
 Now come the Cayugas, backed by the British government, with demand for the annuities for 103 years. amounting to S236, 300, with interest at per cent The interest amounts to S139,l2S, or more than three times the principal.
 There are many small and individual cases before the tribunal One, which was argued the other day, is in a class by itself. It appears that in July, l9Of' Mss Elizabeth Cadenhead of Kingston, On- tario, went across the line to visit her brother at Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. While there, accompanied by relatives, she went then garrisoned by Company M of the 7th United States Infantry.
 The party was leaving the post when a military prisoner, charged with desertion, jumped the wall and started to make a getaway. Private Cyrus Gillette, the sen try in charge of the prisoner, took shot at the escaping man. It is evident that the sentry had not profited by the course of target practice laid down in the firing regulations of the United States Army, shot and killed Miss Cadenhead.
 The British government asks indignant ly if a feminine subject of his Britannia majesty is thus ruthlessly to be shot down in time of peace without something being done about it, and demands S25, GOO for the victims relatives.
 The United States responds that the shooting was mere accident: that Pri- mart1aled for the shooting and also for letting prisoner escape, and that he has been acquitted, as both matters were things he could not help.
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high court. There he won decision de- claring that he was entitled to his li- censes. Kruger was aroused as he never had been aroused before. He refused to let his officers carry out the decree of the court and dismissed the chief justice of the high court No charges of wrong doing were made against the justice; he simply was put out.
 Now Brown. as the evidence shows. had offers to- buy his 1,2OO claims at S1, 800 each the instant he could get title But, through the operations of Kruger be could not get title.
 Kruger's arbitrary acts in this in- stance famed British indignation to flame. It was evidence, so the Britons charged. that the outlanders were being discriminated against; that the laws were changed on the moment if an out lander was to profit by them.
 All these years the thing has dragged until now an international tribunal is to determine whether the successor of state is bound to pay the ad1udged deots of its predecessor in sovereignty A new precedent in international law is to be established
 The Cayuga Indian case is a notable one on the records of the tribunal. A little matter of $976,O23 is demanded of Uncle Sam by the remnants of the river in Canada
 The Cayugas were one of the Six Ma tions. They had undisputed title to some f. TOO square miles of territory north of Cayuga lake in New York. After the revolution most of them moved over into the Grand river valley in Canada In 1795, after several abortive attempts, treaty was concluded between them and the state of New York by which they ceded to the state their lands, with small reservations, in consideration of the state paying them annuities, yearly, at Canandaigua, amounting to S2,3Oo.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29

S:3o Brown was damned, breathIess and a bit bloody, before the clerks window
 Here are three hundred pounds he declared. T want 1 200 licenses
 F1ustered, the Boer clerk did not know what to do. He consulted with his su- periors gathered in the office, and then returned to the window and weakly said that the hour of opening had been changed to 1o:30. Brown was not to be denied. He insisted on his money being accepted. Finally the Boer gave abso- lute refusal and slammed the window in his face.
 A roar went up from all the crowd; roar of triumph from the Boers, of rage from the Americans and English.
 Brown already had taken legal advice. He rushed from the window to his signal station and flashed his message to begin begging" Later the Boer government refused his filings. and, under a new plan, devised later, issued grants to Boers on a lottery basis.
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All set, boys he exclaimed, as he dropped it in the mail box. Now I'm ready for youI'
Arizona republican., 1914-10-25
NEW APPARATUS lS DEDICATED
 ENCOUNTERS
Grand Parade, Speeches and Banquet Mark Formal Changing from Horse Drawn Vehicles to Auto mobile Fire Trucks

Thousands of citizens gathered in the city hall plaza or lined along the down town streets last evening wit messed parade of ancient and modern fire-f fighting apparatus, parade that iH itself was historical, in that it marked the periods in the advance ment of the Phoenix Fire Department from the days Of the hand drawn hose reels, nd-power engines, down through the years when horse -dra wn vehicles, modern in the years they were first used, to the present time when the most up-to- date auto fire trucks are in the hands of the men who fight fire and risk their lives in saving others.
 It was q pageant such as was never before seen upon the streets of this city and such as will never again be witnessed. It marked the official passing of the old and the formal in duction of the new into service. The procession covered more than two city squares. It was viewed in si- fence by some of the old timers, in the minds of whom the old-time ap- paratus conjured up thoughts of the pioneer days of Arizona To the younger citizens, the parade brought visions of d past of which they knew little and of a present of which they are proud. From these there were cheers and handclapping, particularly when the new apparatus. headed by Fire Chief Peter H. Sullivan and Cap
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-22
COLLECTION OF BUGS
SUBJECT OF DISPUTE
Former Official of California
Takes Insects When He
Goes Out of Office.

SACRAMENTO. Cal. March I'll
."who owns the buGs?" WAS tho question
that occupied today the attention OF the
California board OF control. The en-
tomological collection Is ono OF the most
valuable In the world. An expert trav-
eled eight times around the earth to COM
plcte It
a. J. Cook, state horticultural commits
sioner, appeared for the state, contend
ing the collection WAS the property of
the people. z. *. Carnes. former head
OF the state insectary. appeared as the
defendant. claiming ownership OF the col
lection.
Commissioner Cook said Carnes took
the bugs with him when he left the en-
ploy OF the state.
George Comperc OF San Francisco. for
merly IN the employ OF the state. said that
In his opinion the collection belonged 10
California. as he had assisted In making
the collection.
II travelled eight times around the
world" said Compere. collecting The
scales from every corner of the world.
] visited remote parts OF Asia. Africa,
Europe and the Philippines and every
section OF the globe where II was pos
siblc I might find specimens that would
be useful 20 California, My SALARY and
all expenses and the very Walls In which
the scales were put were bought and paid
for by the state"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-22
MURPHY APPEARS AT
DEMOCRATIC MEETING

ALBANY, n. Y, March 21.-Mem'
bers OF the Democratic state committee
met here today for the first time under
their new chairman. William Church
Osborn, were told in speeches by him
and Governor Glynn that it was their
duty TO the party to work for con
stitutional convention in 1915 at the
referendum election on April T, and
then they adjourned. The meeting
lasted about an hour.
Neither speaker left any doubt as
to where he stood on the proposed con-
vention. ''lf the rcvitalized Democ.
racy'' would demonstrate that it
planned to accomplish real results 3or
the people, they said, the earliest op.
portunity to show that would be at the
polls on April z.
Charles f. Murphy occupied front
seat at the meeting, but ne did not
meet the governor. The Tammany
leader merely nodded to him from
across hotel lobby when he entered
Murphy expressed himself as heartily
approving the 1915 convention plan.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-22
SENATE INCREASES
ARMY SUPPLY BILL

WASHINGTON. March 2l.-An in.
crease of S7,565, 900 in the army appro-
priation bill was made by the senate
military affairs committee today in
reporting the measure to the senate.
The amended bill carries an appropria-
tion of Sl0l, ,755, 900.
The most important new item is $135,-
600 TO construct military cable from
Washington state 10 Alaska.
The committee urges an increase Of
81 ,22l 900 in the pay for enlisted men,
that the army NAV be maintained at its
present full strength Of $4,000; So 2,000.-
900 is asked for ammunition for the
militia field artillery, and 1880. 900
provide $4,000 for airsbips
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-22
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