Show CONSUL BECAME SO POPULAR MERCHANTS WANTED TO PAY hUM HIM KANSAS SAS CITY Jan Tan Names 2 James Gardnor Gardner Gardner Gard Gard- ner nor Stowe consul general to South Africa from front 1897 to IDOl 1001 and one Inc of the he best known manufacturers J m in tho the United States died at his bis homo home hero horo today today to to- day age aged 65 05 years Colonel Stowe Stow came of an m old ola English family amily an and amid was a brother brothel of Baron Howe Stowe founder of tho the famous library of London London lie He watt wan app appointed inte 1 consul general to South Africa bv h President McKinley Through h h his s efforts cOorts tra trade o between tho the thoUn Un United States and Africa increased wd to such an extent that when ho tendered his hi us resignation because as he ho stated of the he the inadequate compensation attached to tho the post American manufacturers and African merchants petitioned the president ent to refuse to accept the resi resignation resignation nation and allow them to make up the tho deficiency This was a n thing unheard of in American American Amer- Amer ican can consular history and the tho president old held that flint such an notion action would bo he un un- constitutional |