Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — GENERAL SCHALK-BURGER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GENERAL SCHALK-BURGER.

Boer Leader, at the Head of Movement to Bring About Peace. General Schalk-Burger, Boer officer and orator, who is visiting President Steyn under flag of truce and “safe Con-

duct” through the British line* with a view to proposals for peace, occupies a position among the Boers hardly less important than that of President Kruger himself. At the last election before the war he was a candidate for the presidency of tiie Transvaal Republic against Mr. Kruger, and is

now a member of the executive council of the provisional government, with a tremendous popularity among hili people. General Schalk-Burger’s proper military command is the Portuguese frontier, but his duties during the present war have been largely connected with the civil administration and as adviser to the generals in the field. He is a veteran of the memorable war of 1881, when he served as field cornet until the peace that guaranteed the integrity of the Transvaal Republic in 1883. He is a tighter from fighting stock, his grandfather having been one of the great Voortrekkers. on whose head the British put a price of £3OO. General Schalk-Burger is a selfeducated man with a groat gift of oratory ami high standing among those who know him for his personal integrity and high character. He wan bogy at Lyden-, burg in 1852.

SCHALK-BURGER.