White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-14

TRIBUNAL
BOARD Is NOW IN SESSION AT
WASHINGTON WILL DECIDE
DISTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN
SIX MILLION DOLLARS.

With Mexican affairs as they are
now, it is not likely to be long before
the question of damages and repara-
ition for injuries and losses of the
citizens of various countries VINO
have been in Mexico or have owned
property there will come up for
settlement. They will all be settled
in time; such matters always are.
but the fact that, in the ponderous
fashion of diplomacy and the leisure
ly process of international adjudica-
ton, the time may be a long IN Is
well ~instanced in a tribunal or COM
mission now sitting in Washington
to settle some historic disputes and
strike a balance of Indebtedness
between this country and England.
Since March 9 this tribunal has
been sitting In a spacious court room
loaned for the purpose in the Carne-
gle institution. on the Avenue of the
Presidents. 1t has attracted but a
minimum OF attention.
The schedule contains claims
against Great Britain and the United
States in a total sum of about So
600, 900. A second schedule is now
being prepared by the senate. At
least two years work is ahead of the
tribunal.
Run through the printed docu-
ments that comprise the subject nat
ter before the tribunal and you find IL
rich and colorful in tales of hig /
emprise. of adventure. of battle.
murder and sudden death. Kings.
civilized and savage; sultans. ma
harajahs and presidents. Man.
h~eadhunters and South Sea pirates:
gold miners and hardy fisherman,
venturesome sealers 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. II
is all vivid, enhancing. romantic.
One of the comparatively modern
claims. for instance. is that of the
heirs of r. f. Brown. of Phila-
delphia, for $3.50. 000-approximate
ly $3.50, O0o-from Great Britain
for an injustice perpetrated on
Brown by Paul Kruger. when the
latter was president of the South
African republic.
The odd part of this claim is that
the cry injustice perpetrated on
Brown had as much as anything else
TO do with arousing British anger
against Kruger and bringing on the
Boer war. All the British books
which treated of South African af-
fairs leading up to the war site the
Brown case to Justify British aggres-
sion. Liberal quotations from these
books adorn the pages of the
memorial.
Brown was a famous mining en-
gineer. In every mining camp in the
world he was known as Brownie
Out in British Columbia. Idaho and
Washington. before he ever went "a
South Africa. he had acquired a for
tune in his profession and in opera
tons in mining. There at one period
ne contributed a weekly column of
humorous and witty comment to a
Spokane newspaper over the sigma
ture. The Barbarian" and SO ne
also was known as Barbarian
Brown" He died in 1902 In Ari-
IONA. His father. Lawrence f.
Brown of Philadelphia; his mother
and his widow are now the
claimants.
The Kruger government was about
to throw open for gold prospecting
and claim an area known as the
Farm Witfontein. 1t was presumed
to lie on the main reef. But before
any claim could be filed the pros
pective claimant must first obtain a
license permitting him to stake
peg" they call it in South Africa
a claim; one license for each claim
A proclamation was issued setting
forth that at $50 O'Clock on the
morning of July ~ the clerks office
at Doornkoop. 20 miles from the
Farm Witfontein. would be opened
to receive applications for license.
Miners and mine operators flock
ed to Doornkoop in great numbers.
Men were hired to camp on the farm.
ready on receipt of signal to peg
claims in the interests of their EN-
ployers. Fast horses were placed In
relays from D%oornkoop to the farm
to convey the messages that the