Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — STEYN IS RE-ELECTED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STEYN IS RE-ELECTED.

Boers Again Choose Him H#ad of Orange Free State. “A gathering, for the purpose of electing a president of the Orange Free State, has been held in the Boshof diatrict. Steyn was declared re-elected president and a feast followed.

Mr. Steyn ia a highly cultured man. He is a native of the Orange Free State, was educated in Bloemfontein and Holland, studied law in England, and was called to the Inner Temple. In 1889 he was appointed state’s attorney, and was

appointed state’s attorney, was made Puisne judge in the same year and supreme judge in 1893. Since the capture of Bloemfontein he has accompanied General Botha on his expeditions.

PRESIDENT STEYN.