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Show I FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA. , There is riofing in Johannesburg, 1 South Africa, which lias taken on the propoiiions of a rebellion, and 100 persons have been killed and the wounded will reach a much larger figure. fig-ure. This g a reminder of the Boer war. which had its inception west of Johannesburg, Jo-hannesburg, and. like thp present con flict, grew out of the scheming of the mine owners on the Rand. When gold was discovered at Johannesburg, Jo-hannesburg, the Boers were in ccr. trol of the country, and, later on. when the mining industry prospered, they attempted to raise much of the revenue necessary to the purposes ot state by taxing the dynamite used in mining. John Hays Hammond, an American mining engineer, was one of the dominating figures on the side of the mine owners. He had gain d much of his experience in the Coeur d'Alenes of Idaho where hieh handed methods wpre resorted to in dealing with the workingmen. A form of slavery slav-ery was employed at Johannesburg. Kaffir boys were sent into the depths of the earth, and they were kept In compounds and paid whatever the mine owners, out of the generosity of their shriveled souls, felt disposed to give. When the Boer government sought to tax dynamite, John Hays Hammond adocated armed resistance, resist-ance, in keeping with his practice of being a law unto himself. That was the starting of the Boer war. The present conflict is due to the white miners inaugurating a strike, followed by the calling out of troops 1 to overawe the striker. |