The South African War and the Outlander Viewpoint
J B Steiger a South Africa engineer visiting Butte offers a personal, detailed take on why the South African War started. He links gold and diamond mining with English and German capital, defends Boer independence, and contrasts Boer spirit with British discipline while noting colonial taxes and mining laws.
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Butte
J.B. Steiger
South Africa
Africa
Johannesburg
United States
Pretoria
South African Republic
China
Kaffirs
Transvaat
Geeil Rhodes
Kroger
Chamberlain
Rhodes
Rock
Tommy Atkins
Kruger
Republic
Neers
Capes
Prehistoric Civilizations in New Mexico Irrigation Marvels
Ancient Java beds in New Mexico reveal thousands of years old irrigation systems with reservoirs and cemented ditches. Long vanished builders showed advanced agricultural planning, centralized water management, and vast fields of grain and orchards, once thriving in a fertile landscape now arid.
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Java
New Mexico
Southwest
United States
Capyons
America
Glory of being a newspaper man cited by Atchison editor
Ed Howe of the Atchison lobe muses on the glory and trials of newspaper work. He notes editors face enemies with every issue and that popularity rarely comes. Horace Greeley’s presidential bid ended in humiliation and death. He defends fairness, cites a local case of a woman over an offense, and says errors occur but are corrected quickly. The Globe often bears unwarranted abuse, yet running a paper remains disagreeable but necessary.
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Ed. Howe
Atchison
Horace Greeley
the Globe
Globe
Knox Bill Aims to Restrict Territorial Legislatures
A fragment discusses Congressman Knox’s bill curbing territorial legislatures power. It forbids new counties by special act and requires general laws approved by Congress for organizing counties. It also sets debt thresholds before forming new counties from existing ones. Historic eclipses forecast for 1000 include sun eclipses May 20 and a moon event in June. a yearly sun eclipse on November 12 is noted as invisible in America.
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Knox
House Committee On Territories
Arizona
New Mexico
Congress
United St
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A. F. Barker
Florence, Ariz
SAN Pedro Lumber Company
L. W. Blinn
Oregon
San Pedro
Cal
Tog Angeles
Long Beach
Compton
Whittier
California
Blinn Lumber Company
East Second St
Los Angeles
Case Grande
Pale
Mattonnin Aes
Nes Roce Fiimon
Apaplo
Ooi
Ben ‘Tite
Catapornia
Pasadena
Monrovia
Banning
Ontario
North Paona
Pioneer Lumber Company of
W. A. Driscoll
Mrs
Nick White
Lodging House
Tribune
Thayer
Adarens
Busine
Eureka
Tors
Jeans Lar
Yuma
Florence
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