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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-05-06
Hill to Start Cattie Boom,

St. Paul, March 3o-University pro-
fessors under the direction Of James
J. Hill will conduct live stock cam
paign throughout the northwest, it
was announced at the First National
bank, to which institution the pro-
fessors are attached.
Howard r. Smith, professor of ami
NAL husbandry Of the University of
Minnesota and author Of 'Profitable
Stock Feeding" resigned his chair to
direct the work, which has already
started. Mr.. Hills campaign will be
exhaustive in character and territory.
Professor Smith began his campaign
by talking to groups Of farmers and
bankers. He will explain how to raise
stock and how to finance the enter
prise.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-05-06
To Secure Lasting Peace.

London, March 27.-5An organizat ton
known as the Union sof Democratic
Control has been formed by number
Of distinguished Britishers to lay down
principles to- guide the trainers Of the
peace terms with view to securing d
lasting peace by giving the people OF
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-05-06
Richard |. Manning, Now Chief Exeeu.
tive Of South Carolina.

planter His ambition was to enter
the law, but he was obliged to give
up the study Of this profession because
of poor eyesight.
Mr.. Manning went to the Baltimore
convention as delegate at large from
South Carolina. He was an original
Wilson man and with the other men,
bers Of his delegation cast every one
Woodrow Wilson.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-05-06

nation for governor at the state pri-
mary election. He made a canvass Of
the state on the issue of lower taxes
and greater economy in. the public
service and was elected over his OPP
ponent by a~good plurality, although
the State is normally Republican by
from 1900 to $4,000. He was the only
Democrat elected on the state ticket,
and the legislature is Republican in
both branches. r. III ..s:z ia Al
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-05-06
Our Reserve Army Of Sixteen.

OUT ReserVe Nrmy OF SIxteen.
Washington. March 29.-NQt long ago
three army officers were testifying be-
fore house committee on the matter
of bigger army, when one Of these
officers remarked that the reserve army
Representative Augustus P. Gardner
of Massachusetts happened to be pres
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-05-06
War Horses jfe Is Twenty Davs.

War Horses Life Is Twenty Days.
London, March 29.-Twenty days is
the average life Of "A horse during the
present war, according to an American
horse contractor here. But the life Of
a horse nevertheless, lie declares, is
twice as long as that Of motor We
hicle. The contractor said:
"Some horses last longer than TWEEN
ty days, but they're exceptions. for the
fearful condition Of the roads puts Il
horse out Of commission in less than
three weeks. Motor vehicles are SUBJ
jected to terrific wear as result Of
bad roads and heavy loads. At the
end Of ten days the average motor lor-
RE is ready for rebuilding and often
for the scrap; heap"
The computation is based ON risks
from explosives also.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-05-06
The Man Who Succeeded Cole BIease.

Charleston. S. c., March 29.-Rich-
ard Irvine Manning of Sumter, who
succeeded Cole J.. Blease as COVER
nor Of South Carolina, is banker
and planter, and many Of his ances-
tors have been prominent in the at
fairs Of the state. Mr.. Manning was
born in South Carolina in 1859 and was
Sumter county and the University Of
Virginia. He left college before being
graduated and returned home to be a.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-05-06

their own destinies and reducing inter
national ornaments.
The executive committee of the union
is composed of Ramsey Macdonald, M.
p; Charles Trevelyan, NJ. p; Arthur
Ponsonby, NJ. p, and Norman Angel,
the leader Of the international peace
movement.
Women Could Have Averted War.
Paris, March %. - Nine. Despard
French, sister of General Sir John
French, who is on visit to Rouen,
delivered an address on the subject Of
''The Entente Cordiale Among Wo-
men,"
She said that if women had made
their influence more strongly felt in
public life, if they had better under
stood their role in all it's domains, they
would have been barrier against
which the ambitions of those who
wanted war would have been broken
Mosquito determination Raises Values.
Atlantic City, n. j., March 30.-Dr.
Thomas J. Headlee, entomologist at
the New Jersey experiment station,
told the New Jersey Mosquito Exter-
mination association that mosquito ex-
termination had increased shore prop
erty values from Jersey City to Rum
son by at least $5,OOO,000. More than
100000 persons had been relieved
from the pest, he said, and the cost to
none of the counties was more than 20
cents per capita.
The association asked the state to in
crease it's appropriation for mosquito
determination from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-05-06
A Unique Murder Trial as
Described by the Foreman
Of the Jury, Ia Which Is
Revealed the Most AStound=
ing and Inconceiyab'' ACT
Of Rascality.

,oo- -arper Bros.
Copyright, 1905. by
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was caused when it was reported in
London that the former, in speech,
had declared that, 100 years hence, the
British flag might no longer fly over
South Africa.
The general, however, was the first to
repudiate the Interpretation that had
been placed upon his words. What he
really said, it proved, was this: we
do not know what lies ahead of US.
Today we stand under the majesty and
in the shadow of the British flag, but
you do not know what will be the case
100 years hence, and there is only one
thing the people of South Africa can
do. and, that is, become united"
A year later SHUTS assured the
British government that South Africa
could defend herself against any pos
sible enemy, although. perhaps. they
might not be able to send corps to
other parts of the empire. In 1910,
when. largely owing to his instru-
mentality. Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-
nerman's government gave South
Africa it's constitution, Smuts took a
strong line against equality of treat
ment of blacks and whites, declaring
that the country must be white
mans country" and that he and his
colleagues were unable to accept the
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PRIME, Mll[NISTlE[RS[Hl1[P

tions as too big to be party ones.
Probably he has never appeared TO
better advantage than in his handling
of the syndcalist trouble in the early
part of this year, when, on at least one
occasion, he was in imminent peril OF
his life. During the desperate strike
rioting in johannesburg July 3. ooth
he and Botlla were covered by the re-
volvers of two members of the labor
party, and if the soldiers in the street
had ventured to fire on the crowd, both
he and the premier inevitably would
have been shot
the famous nine agitators and his poll
icy in general throughout the period
of turmoil. SmutS made the most We
hement and impassioned, yet coldly
logical speech of his whole career,
speech that lasted over three hours and
a half and left both the speaker and
his hearers on the point of exhaustion.
To such an extent. in fact, that the
sitting was promptly adjourned.
The syndicalists had denounced him
as representing the iron heel" bent
upon stamping out trade unionism in
South Africa and accused SmutS, too,
of having provoked the strike, arrested
its leaders and had the defense force
ready in the hope that the irritated
strikers would resort to violence.
In his memorable reply, however, the
minister of defense described in the
plainest language the condition of
terrorism which had been imposed ON
the country by the methods of the
labor leaders, and the threat of that
diabolical weapon" the general strike.
while he quoted at length from their
speeches to show the real character
of their intentions.
He declared deliberately that the SYM
dicalist leaders intended to paraiyze
all trades suspend all communications
cut off supplies and so terrorize the
community into abject surrendei. -
'No invading force could infiict q
greater disaster on the country" he
said. The object was to starve the
country into submission, and the or
ganizers little knew how limited were
the supplies and how easily the coun-
try could have been brought into con-
dition of starvation"
To no one, perhaps, has the capture
of De Wet, the flight of Maritz and the
annihilation of Beyers, particularly the
last event, given keener satisfaction
than to the eX-Boer commander, who,
unlike these rebels. means an oath Of
allegiance when he takes it. The let
ter of Beyers in which he resigned his
post of commanderi in chief of the de-
fense force was specious, but it's author
experienced the fate of gnat under a
Nasmyth hammer when SHUTS issued
his famous reply, in the course of
which he told Beyers fatty that for
his letter he would, without doubt,
be liable in the German empire to the
extreme penalty"
prime minister is as certain as any
thing in this mutable existence can he
In eVerV direction he has Increased
his reputation, and today he stands as
thr --.ss llAk between tAz Doers
and those striving for the democracy
of the Rand, and as the common cham
pion of those who put the welfare Of
the Transvaal before the interests of
cosmopolitan finance.
Copyright. 1914. by Curtis Brown)
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is the most important in the cabinet.
while his skill as a debater and his
gift of rhetoric have made him the
mouthpiece of the government. Like
Botha, by the way, he is known to
have declined a title at the time of the
opening of the first union parliament
under the new constitution.
Gen. and 1.-The Hon." Jan c. Smuts
may, incidentally also claim the dis
tinction of being, probably, the only
cabinet minister that ever has been
sent home to change his trousers be-
fore being permitted to take part in
the deliberations of the house of which
he was one of the most important Of
ficers. This amusing episode in the
generals career occurred in 1897. or
shortly after Kruger, as a reward for
political services, made Smuts state at
torney. one day he ventured to ap-
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got his first education at the South
African College at Ste1lanbosch. the
home Of the young Afrikander party.
he developed into a fine classical
scholar, and there is a story that on
one Of his fathers visits to Cape Town
he made point of calling upon the
principal of the college. Taking this
grave professor aside. he inquired. in
confidential tone: ''Mynheer, who may
this fellow Homer be that Jamie is
always talking about?"
Industrious as we'll as clever. young
SHUTS took one scholarship after an
other and by SO doing attracted the at
tentfon OF the man of the hour, Cecil
Rhodes. Eventually Smuts won the
Porter scholarship which would have
Immediately after he did SO the bank
In which its funds were invested failed.
Then Rhodes stepped in. The en-
pire builder declared that lad of such
remarkable promise ought not to suf-
fer on this account and promptly Of
fered to pay Shuts expenses during a
three-year course of study at St.
Johns College, Cambridge. and young
England forthwith. At Cambridge his
career was a brilliant one, the young
student capturing the gold medal and
heading the list of both parts of the
law tripos OF 1894.
These honors won, SHUTS returned to
South Africa, where he soon was made
a member Of the Cape bar, and, in
cidentally married. Mrs. Smuts, by the
bye. was and is still as brilliant a
classical scholar as her husband, and
is said to be generally seen with a
baby under one arm and Greek die
tionary under the other" Meanwhile
her husband prospered in the law and
still enjoyed the patronage Of Cecil
Rhodes, who intended him to contest
the safe seat of Kimberley, but then
came the Jameson raid, which ended
the friendship between the colossus
and his young protege.
X
Smuts, indeed, became his benefac.
tors most determined foe and stumped
the country against him, then giving
evidence for the first time of unusual
power as an orator. Shortly afterward
he went to Pretoria to practice as a
barrister, where he soon gathered a
practice and, in 1897, was made state
attorney by President Kruger in sue
cession to the renowned DIR. Coster.
At this time, 1t is said, he did his best
to persuade Dom Paul to grant re-
forms. and, but for the methods of
Chamberlain and Milaer. probably
would have avoided war.
War came, however. and SHUTS went
to the front as simple burgher but
like most Of the Boer leaders, dis
played such instructive military abil-
ity that he rose rapidly in rank and
was general before the struggle
closed. The brilliant British COM
mander, Gen. Ian Hamilton. refers to
Evening star., 1915-01-10
Of Course.

D ICHARD CROKER'S bride, the In.
N dian Princess Kee-Taw Raluntchy.
is noted in New York no less for her
wit than for her beauty.
Young Mrs. Croker, condemning
steam heat and over-eating at a lunch
con in New York. said one day.:
The average woman of thirty looks
older than the average man of forty.
She smiled and shrugged, then she
added:
But then, of course. the average
woman of thirty is older than forty,
isn't she?"
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ssS7T TROENG
Special Correspondence of The Star.


CAPE TOWN, December 10.
HHRR 7HATEvER may be the fu-
CC MAN. ture of South Africa, it
\V\V will probably be more
" " affected by him than by
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just as he is now the brains of the
union government, and for the next
several years was counselor-in-ch chief to
the Boer leaders.
The appointment of Lord Selborne
saw him re-enter the political arena,
and at the welcoming banquet he was
the principal speaker, and the high
commissioner, in replying, spoke of
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b

"our gallant friend, Gen. SHUTS. and
our learned subject, Mr.. J. c. Smuts."
In 1907 Smuts was chosen to go to
England to present the Cullinan dia-
mond to King Edward, and at this
time and thenceforth he is said to have
made strong representations to the
British government as to the des1ra-
hility of granting constitution.
In England the loyalty of SHUTS was
appreciated no less than that of Botha /;
consequently something of sensation
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when. surrounded by the British col
umns. at Glands River Poort, he
rushed squadron of the 18th Lancers
and fought his way through them.
Later, with Botha, he was largely in
strumental in preventing the destruc-
ton Of the mines, and by the end of the
campaign he had attained to the su-
preme command in Cape Colony.
The war over, SHUTS. accepting the
inevitable, became a sincere loyalfst.
He was the brains of the 'Het Volk,"
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him in his "Staff Officers Scrap Book"
as that extraordinarily clever young
man, Gen. Smuts," and, indeed, SHUTS
made both his bravery and his strategy
respected.
A successful raid into the western
district of Cape Colony made him ia
nous, but perhaps his most brilliant
action was fought in November, 1901,
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suggestion made in England relative
to the color bar"
The general makes his home at
Doornkloof, Irene, near Pretoria,
where, being an enthusiastic motorist,
he has several fine cars. Dogs are an
other hobby of his and he is also bit
of an art connoisseur. though. he de-
clAres that he cannot afford many
masterpieces" His speeches invariably
sound the patriotic note, and he fire.
quently has described national Ques-
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of
the government He

the union government. He is here 81
pear in the Volksraad wearing gray
neither garments. a thing that shocked
that assembly, for the Beers were par
ticular that their representatives
should be "all blacks" in clothes at
least, and the clamor was so great
that the state attorney had, perforce,
to go back home and get into more
seemly "breeks."
This or-parliamentarian, who is
only forty-four today, is tall, well set
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B Commander Minister Defense Boh Cabinet Who Administered Stern
Rebue Rebel Leader Was Responsible the Deportation
Famous Nine Labor gato the Real Power Behind the Union Government and
Practically Mere His Bnliance
the Cecil Rhodes Who Him and
Appointed Attorney
His sPnnct ctonsDu BoerW
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66Wl\N ture Of 's South 9as africa, ns it it
W\V will probably be more
affected by him than by
any other man"
Ten years ago those words were writ
ten by one of South Africa's leading
publicists concerning Gen. Jan Chris
daan SHUTS. the iron-willed minister
of finance and defense in the union
government and every day that passes
makes 1t more evident that their writer
was endowed with considerably more
than the prescience of the ordinary po-
litical seer. For daily it becomes more
apparent that while Botha, as presi-
dent, is nominally the head of the gov
srnment, and Smuts his chief hench-
man, the latter and not the former is
the real strong man of the subconti-
nent.
Indeed, it is an open secret that the
government policy, never more clear
headed than during the last year of
crisis. is the policy of the brilliant
farmers son and Cambridge graduate
who, at only twenty-eight, astute old
Paul Kruger made his attorney gem
eral-a policy, however. that is tenn
pered by the more conciliatory Botha,
than whom none appreciates more
highly the exceptional gifts of his leg
tslative right hand and close personal
friend.
Hardly less than month ago the
whole world rang with the phrases of
the singing letter, in which Smuts,
who fought brilliantly against the
British in the Boer war, and once was
supposed to represent the irreconcil-
able Dutch element, heaped obloquy on
the head of the traitor Beyers, who,
commander-in-chie of the union de-
fense force, resigned his command
rather than take the offensive against
the Germans in Southwest Africa, and
later aided and abetted De Wet in TO
menting rebellion against the govern
ment to whom both had sworn alleg-
lance, and who has just paid the pen
atty Of his treachery with his life.
Months before the war began, how
ever, Gen. Smuts had proved his quail
tty. not only by his strong treatment
Of the question of Asiatic immigration,
but by his short way with revolution
lists" which resulted in the puelling of
the syndicalist riots and the deporta-
tion of the famous nine" labor api-
tators. Indeed, he had shown his met
tie previously. both before and during
the Boer war, which. by the way,
would almost certainly have been
avoided altogether If Kruger had lis
tened to the oft-repeated advice of the
brilliant young advocate whose genius
had attracted first of all the atten-
tion OF that keen judge of men. the
late Cecil Rhodes.
X
Facetiously one might declare that
to have overcome the handicap of a
name like Smuts is itself achievement
enough for any one man. AS a mat
ter Of fact. however, its bearers whole
romantic life has been one of achiev-
ing first one triumph and then an
other, and through it all he has shown
himself a man of singleness of pur-
pose and one to be relied on, once his
word is given, German diplomacy
has discovered to It's cost, and as a
:. statesman of lofty conceptions whose
utmost endeavor is to prevent Trans
yaal politics from developing on racial
lines. Today he holds an office that,
with the exception Of the premiership,
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up and uncommonly handsome. He has
fair hair, a high forehead and steel
blue eyes that mark the enthusiast, and
he wears a we'll tended mustache and
a short beard Of the Vandyke order.
Though his will is of iron, he is Dip
lomatic and adroit in argument.
His father, a typical Boer and
member of the state assembly, was
a farmer in the Malmsbury dis
trict of Cape Colony, and the boy
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-07-16
Notice for Publication

Coal land. Act 6-12-10s Serial No. 01G570.
Department of the INTERIOR U. S. Land
Office at Miles City, Mont, June 10,
1915.
Notice is hereby given that Edward
w. jackson, of Brockway, Mont, who,
on Dec. 9, 1912, made Homestead
Entry, No. 0l6570, for north half, Sec
ton s, Township IS N, Range 46 E.,
M. P. Meridian, has filed notice of in
tention to make three year proof, to
establish claim to the land above des-
cribed, before Peter Rorvik, U. S.
Commissioner, at Circle, Mont. on the
18th day of July 1915.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Gelmer Lindh, A. E. Sutherland, Elber
Harnden, Robert Lindhy all of Brock
way Mont.
G. w. Myers
6-18 IT'S Register.
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Notice for Publication

Coal land. Act 6-22-10 Serial No,
.O15OS9. 0215S9.
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Miles City Mont, June
Is, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that
JOHN SPARBY
of Watkins, Montana, who, on July 3;
1912 and April 1, 1914, made Homestead
Entry, No. O15O89 and 0215S9, for Sd mel
sci nwi, lots 1, 2, 3 and lot 4, section 2,
township II NJ, range 46 E., NJ. P.
Meridian, has filed notice of intention
to make three year proof, to establish
claim to the land above described, be-
fore Peter Rorvik, U. S. Commissioner,
at Circle Montana, on the End day of
August 1915.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Chalmers L. Fletcher, Arthur R. Cobb
both of Circle, Mont, and Vel Wesley,
Gullick ABBY, both Of Watkins Mont.
G. w. Myers
Register.
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Coal Serial No. 0164S7
Public Land Sale
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office Antilles City Montana, June
9Th, 1915.
Notice is hereby given, that, as. directed
by the commissioner of the General
Land office, under provisions Of Sec.
ton 2455, R. S., pursuant to the appli-
cation of James Meehan, Terry Mont,
Serial No. O164S7, we will:offer at pub
lie sale to the highest bidder, but at not
less than $500 per acre, at 10 O'Clock
a. M, on the End day, Of August, 1915,
next, at this office, the following tract
of land: Lot2,, W. SE1 Sec. 6, T. IS N.
r. AZ E., M. Nj.
This tract is ordered into the market
on a showing that the greater portion
thereof is mountainous or too rough for
cultivation. Tolbe sold.subject to the
provisions andireseryation Of the Act
of June %, 1910 (36 Stat, $780,
The sale will not1' be kept open, but
will be declared, closed when those
present at the hour named have ceased
bidding The person making the high
est bid will be requiredto Immediately
pay to the Receiver the amount there
Of.
Many persons claiming adversely the
abpve described land are advised To-
file their claims, or objections, on or
befbre the time designated for sale.
G. w. Myers,
6-25 7-23 Register
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Notice for Publication

Coal land. Act 6-22 10 Serial No. 012973
/ Department of the Interior, U. S
Land Office at Miles City Mont, June
is, 1915.
/ Notice is hereby given that
CLIFFORD H. DOUGHERTY
of Redwater,, Mont, who, on Jan. %,
1912, made Homestead Entry, No.
0129E3, for north half, section s, town
ship 20 N. range 40 E. M. P. Meridian,
has filed notice, of intention to make
three year proof. to establish claim to
the land above described, before Peter
Rorvik, U. S. Commissioner at Circle
Montana, on the End day of August 1915.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Ralph j. Payne, Arthur Davies, Ole
Hanson, John Tonander, all of Red
water Montana.
g. w. Myers,
6-25 1923. Register.