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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14
The Negroes Position in the North.

1t was to have been expected that
northern papers would wax wroth and
grow bitterly sarcastic in replying to
southern structures upon the president
Tor entertaining Booker T. Washing
ton at dinner. But the southern pa
pers are replying by asking some pert
lnent questions and citing some peril
nent facts. They point out the fact
that northern love for the negro is con
fined to election day. How many bus
mess Offices in the north employ negro
clerks? How many trainmen are en-
ployed on northern railways. How
many northern states have elected
negro senators or congressman? How
many negroes have been appointed to
postmasterships in the north? How
many negro mechanics are employed
in northern mills and factories along
side white mechanics? North he is limit
ed to the position of porter in hotels
and on trains, or to waiterships in ho-
tells and restaurants. Is there a negro
linotype operator on any great daily
newspaper in the north that is so
roundly ~denouncing the south for it's
attitude toward the Roosevelt-W Wash
ington dinner incident? Does anyone
OF the northern republican daily news
papers employ a negro pressman, a ne
gro reporter or negro city editor?
Some OF these days the negro will rea-
lie that he has nothing to gain from
the alleged friendship of men who seek
to use him for political purposes only.
Japan looks upon the United States
as it's best friend. 1t was the United
States that brought Japan into contact
with the civilized world. How? Not
with bullets and swords; not with rap
id-fire guns aud high-priced commiss-
ions living at the expense of a peo-
pie impoverished by 800 hundred years
of fighting for liberty. 1t was accom-
plished by kindness, by force of exam
pie and by recognition of ~inalienable
rights. But when Japan was reclaimed
from industrial seclusion there was an
absence OF congressman anxious to con-
fer blessings" in return for the priv
ilege of gobbling up all of the rich
VI iO1oliIS GllC idU OLilcSS.
Having lost valuable colonies by in
sisting on taxation without represen-
tation the British government is now
experiencing trouble by taxation with
misrepresentation.
Republican organs love to tell the
young men of the land that stheir
chances are just as good as they ever
were," and then urge as a reason for
retaining the republican party in pow
err that it is better to ''let we'll enough
alone" But g. 0. p. logic is usually
SO badly snarled as to be unintelligible
Gen. Chafee says that the only friend
ly Filipinos are the ones who are
holding Office under the carpetbag
government. At that rate we can pa
city the islands whenever we have po-
sitions enough to go around.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14
Boiler Explosion Eata1.

Louisville, KY, Nov. 11.-By the
explosion Of a boiler in the Central
Stock Yards George Fusting, an en-
gineer, was killed and three others
were seriously injured.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14
Acuuit Cr.m,ey of Mprder.

Cripple Creek, Colo. Nov. IL
Grant Crumley, who killed Sam
Strong, the millionaire mine owner.
has been acquitted. They quarreled in
a bar room.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14
Killed for His Sermons.

Inez. KY, Nov. 11.-G. w. Estepp,
for forty years a minister in the
United Baptist church, was fatally
stabbed by Martin Daniels. The man
found fault with the preachers SER
mona
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14

Attorney Cfor the defense)-Now.
what time was it when you were at
tackled? Complainant don't know:
ask your client-he took my watch
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14
snfeblowers Get $4,000.

Sioux City, iowa, Nov. 1.-THE
safe in the Bank of Scotland at Scot
land. S. D., was blown open and $4,000
taken.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14
TURKISH GRAND VIZlER DEAD,
Hall Rifat pasha Passes Awav-re,

ham Rifat Pasha Passes Away-Tem-
porary Successor Named.
Constantinople, Nov. 11.-Halil Rifat
Pasha, the grand %vizier, died today and
Apour Rohman Pasha, minister of JUS
lice, has been appointed to succeed him
ad interim.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14

President Roosevelt is well enough
versed in politics to have known that
the g. o. p. organs believe in negro
equality for election purposes only.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14
Death without Hope.

DS"eh 1oYcs
The lesson taught by the last hours
of Czolgosz should not be lost upon the
world. He expired like one who sinks
in mid-ocean without a sail in sight.
How barren of real happiness must be
the life of one who denies the exist
ence of a God, defes all government,
and c%ultivates the belief that he can,
without moral guilt, take the life of a
fellow being merely because hat fell
low being is administering for a little
while the authority conferred upon
him by his countrymen. How can he
delude himself with the belief that he
is living upon q more exalted plan,
than ordinary people?
Consider the perennial joys of the
gray-haired patriarch who learned in
youth that s'The fear of God is the be-
ginning of WISDOM" who has met life's
responsibilities with a prayer for light
to see his duty and courage to perform
it, and who approaches the grave "like
one who wraps the drapery of his
couch about him and lies down to
pleasant Dreams" Consider the life OF
such a one, and compare it with the
career of n who lives in constant re-
bellion against nature and in constant
antagonism to society, and then ends
life as a lonely traveller would turn
from a deserted house out into a darL
and s~tarless night.
Compare the sweet contentment Of
one who accepts life's successes and re-
verses with the sentiment of the psalm
lst: 1.-The Lord is my Shephere; I
shall not want. He maketh me down
lie in green pastures; He leadeth me
beside the still waters.# = Yea, though
| walk through the valley of the shad-
ow of death, l will fear no evil: For
Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy
staff they comfort me- Compare this
with the lot of one who curses the
Creator and His creatures, and then
swears back at the echo of his bias
phemy.
Government officials are exertino
themselves to prevent the shipment of
munitions of war from San Francis
co to South American ports, fearing
they are to be used in the Columbo-
Venezuelan trouble. American mules,
however, continue to go from United
States ports to agents of John Bull in
South Africa.
a republican paper sagely remarks
that it is lucky for civilization that the
work of the conventions of one decade
is likely to be repudiated during the
next decade. If it has reference to the
work of republican conventions it has
allowed a good deal more time than is
usually required.
The body of Czolgosz was buried in
quicklime. Republican attempts to
make political capital out of the sad
chapter, assassination should be buried
in the same material.
President Roosevelt is well enough
versed in politics to have known that
the G. 0. p. organs believe in negro
equality for election purposes only.
If ever an Understanding greenbacls
is issued perhaps Secretary Gage will
be able to look upon it without expe-
riencing that tired feeling.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14

If ever an interest-bearing greenback
is issued perhaps Secretary Gage will
be able to look upon it without expe-
riencing That tired feeling.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14

A republican paper sagely remarks
that it is lucky for civilization that the
work of the conventions of one decade
is likely to be repudiated during the
next decade. If it has reference to the
work of republican conventions it has
allowed a good deal more time than is
usually required.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14

The body Of Czolgosz was buried in
quicklime. Republican attempts to
make political capital out of the sad
chapter, assassination should be buried
in the same material.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14

Gen. Chaffee says that the only friend
ly Filipinos are the ones who are
holding Office under the carpetbag
government. At that rate we can pa
city the islands whenever we have po-
sitions enough to go around.
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30

N Aew-York City there are sss,O46 foreign born
S'es and s22.oS5 foreign born females In the en-
1ie CITY there S3.5S colored males. Of whom
-.-~ are negroes and 33n7 females. OF whom
S'sa are negroes. In AIbanv there are 67G3
-sies and $3.50 females and s.S2s foreign born
males and $3.50 foreign born females. Buffalo con-
ans SOC native males and SOS native females,
sna Ss2 foreign born males and $3.50 foreign
porn females
-Nese hgures given in connection with the
~ ~sus publication showing the population by sex.
%l'lV and color in NeW-Jersey. New-Mexico.
=. ork and North Carolina. forming the sew
-'H OF the census group OF States.
A0cording 10 this publication 81 .76o OF the total
equation OF New-Jersey are males and 81 .9Os
ss s-sies the total population being .6Ss. The
''slon IN this State is that no fraction
exs. o9ne @ q show the difference. and each Of the
- Hes given 80 per cent Of the population
nsrhs1ytssl tslen born residents in the census year
tor-,Ie..tsa sase4. or z2S per cent. The colored
re- lrss'seaon n was q, ,S52. 3S per cent OF the col
people IN Aew-Jersey 1889 are Chinese, 81
grsss grsese anc 50 Indians. the remainder being ne
nsls IN Jersey City there are 72Su native
BiS ,aho s.lB native females while there are
foreign born males and 2s.2ss foreign born
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
CONGRESSMAN HULL RETURNS.
DEEPLY IMPRESSED WITH THE PoSsIBII-
ITTES IN THE PHILIPPINES.

San Francisco. Aug 29.-Congressman Hull. OF
Iowa, chairman OF the House Committee Mill
tary Affairs. who has arrived here on the trans
port Hancock from a FIVE months tour of China,
Japan and the Philippines is deeply impressed
with the possibilities Of the new American pos
sessions in the Orient He says:
II ] were a young man I don't know where
should rather than to the Philippines For a
prospect in almost every line OF business for one
who has the grit to go there and stick 10 H.
The mineral. agricultural and timber resources
OF these Islands constitute field for commercial
enterprise that is practically unlimited. or
the present conditions OF brigandage make II
ceedlngly unsafe for people 10 settle in the islands
away from the protection Of the military posts.
But the people. the great majority desire peace
and safety, and doing all they can 10 help the
troops attain this end.
Naturally. II Is impossible to make Anglo
Saxon OF Oriental Therefore, the Filipino
probably never will be American citizen in the
broad In which il IS understood that term
applies the born IN the United States of
white parents. But he gets suf
fcient education and becomes little more i'm
ideas acquired by three hundred years OF associ
alton with the Spaniard the Filipino Will be
citizen IN spirit. patriotism. industry and educs-
ton and will he worthy Of participating 10 the
fullest extent in all the benefits Of this govern
meut.
Of course we shall have govern him with
frmness, as we'll with kindness. 1 think forty
thousand soldiers should. be kept there for some
years 10 come.
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
THE STEEL TRUST STANDS FIRM.
THAT MORGAN HAS EXPRESSED
WILLINGNESS TO HAVE SETH
Low ARBITRATE.

The report that President Shaffer Of the Anal
gamated Association had submitted to President
Charles NJ Schwab Of the United States Steel
Corporation a statement of modified terms
could be confirmed Yesterday at the office OF
the corporation. 1t intimated that no COM
munication OF any kind had been received from
Mr. Shaffer. that none expected. and that If
sent in il would not receive official con-
sideration. The attitude of the steel corporation
remains unchanged. The officers of the company
say there is nothing to arbitrate, and that they
will not with representatives of the strikers
unil they are convinced that they are negotiating
with responsible persons.
1t rumored that J. Pierpont Morgan and
some of his associates had expressed their willing
to leave the settlement of the strike to Seth
Low. As Mr. Morgan and DR.. Low are close
friends, the report received with some cred
ence. but of Mr.. Morgan's partners promptly
denied IT,
Federation Of Labor: when seen yesterday after
noon at the Hotel Victoria. said that no peace
overtureS had been made He repeated that that the the
was practicable. yet he still hoped that there
would be some way of bringing the contending
forces together
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
PHILIPPINE POSTAL SERVICE.

Washington Aug. 2s.-The Division OF Insular
Affairs Of the War Department to-day made public
the annual report OF c. NJ Cotterman director
general Of posts in the Philippines While the
receipts from the postal service in the last
fiscal year showed an increase over the preceding
year. the expenses were increased TO considerably
greater extent than the receipts. This apparent
deficiency is explained by statement that CON
siderable amounts had TO be expended in the last
year for mail transportation through foreign coun-
tries, the debt having Tapped over from the pre-
ceding year. The number Of regular postofices in
the archipelago was increased from nineteen to
twenty-three. Mr.. Cotterman urges the application
of United States postage rates to the islands He
comments on the irregularity of inter-island mail
transportation. and recommends that authority be
given TO advertise for bids for regular service
all important points, and that steamers having
contracts be required by law to run fixed
schedule.
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
HUNTING A NEGRO MURDERER.
NEGROES WHO TOLD HIS WHEREABOUTS
MAY BE LYNCHED

Kansas City, Mo, Aug. "a telephone message
from Holden. Mo. says:
>, Bessie Francis the negro who killed Miss Mary
Henderson on Tuesday night at the Hyatt farm
mouse, is believed to have been located in a mine
PIT just outside Holden If it should develop that
he is not in the pit Francis may eude his pursuers
almost indefinitely. owing TO the nature of the
rounding country.
Posses spent the night searching for the negro.
Early to-day they came upon Emmett Davenport,
Charles Briscoe, who lives near Columbus. and
Bud Francis. brother OF the fugitive. All
three strung up TO tree in the hope Of MAX
ing them talk. After Davenport had dangled at
the end OF a rope for few moments he motioned
be let down and cried:
Let me go. and will tell you where he is He
is in a coal bank over here. and will show you"
All three let down. and the posse started for
the mine indicated several miles away The crowd
worked until relieved at daybreak by hundreds OF
other armed men, who took up the hunt where the
night shift had left OF.
The three prisoners sent Warrensburg
fail for safekeeping, and bloodhounds secured
from nearby When became known at
Warrensburg that the negroes who strung up
last night had been placed in jail a mob began 10
gather Trouble is feared. Francis is known TO
be armed and If he is finally located in the mine
IL will doubtless become necessary to starve MIN
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR ADJOURN
CONCI,AvE ENDS WITH A BALI~oFFTCERs
ELECTED-SAN FRANCISCO THE
NEXT MEETING PLACE.

Louisville, KY Aug 2.-After eIecting officers.
and selecting San Francisco the next place OF
meeting and the first Tuesday in September. 1904.
as the date, the twenty-eighth triennial conclave
OF knights Templar. which had been in session
here since Tuesday. adjourned to-day The fsS-
tvites came to end a magnificent ball held
tonight at the Horse Show Building.
The election OF officers occupied the greater part
OF the days session.
Henry Bates stoddard Of Bryan Tex. was
elected Grand Master to succeed Reuben II Lloyd.
OF Californis. Colonel George II. Moulton. OF Chi
cago. was elected to succeed Mr. Stoddard as
Deputy Grand Master. The Rev II. W RuSg Of
Rhode Island, advanced one rank 20 the once
OF Grand GeneraI!ssino. made vacant by the cleo
ton OF Colonel Moulton William b. Nellish Of
Cincinnati. elected to succeed the Rev Mr
Rugg as Captsin-GeneraI. while the Junior Grand
Warden, Joseph A. Locke. OF Portland Ne was
made Senior Grand Warden
These officers were elected without opposition
The only contest came in the election OF Grand
Junior Warden. There were fifteen candidates.
Frank H. Thomas. OF Washington d c.. was
elected on the second ballot. The office OF Junior
Grand Warden was much desired AS II means
that the holder eventually will become the head
OF the Templar organization. The showing Of the
Washington man was surprise On the first bal
lot he received l37 votes. 1l being necessary 10
choice On the second he received ~ out of 2nS
votes
In the contest for the Grand Recordership ". II
Mayo OF st. Louis. who held the Office for six
years. was pitted against John A Gerow OF De
troit Mr.. Mayo led the first ballot but lost
steadily thereafter. and the ofice went 10 the
Detroit man on the fifth ballot II Wales Lines. of
Connecticut, was reelected Grand Treasurer prac-
tically without opposition
When the elections were finished the committee
on time and place OF next meeting reported San
Francisco was the only bidder, and carried off the
honor without struggle Minneapolis put in a hid
for the conclave Of 1907. The installation Of the
ne" Grand Master. received enthusiastic greet
Nig IRON the Iexas Iemplars tonight.
The breakup Of the concave herap carly To-
cay and became n"rked after the grand ball BY
tomorrow most OF the Knights will have departed
either Tor their homes for places of interest
near LOUISVILLE. Mammoth Cave being the point Of
, ne baiI tonight was a magnificent show. The
dancing. but the knights pronounced the affair a
success II IS estimated that eight thousand per-
receptions and excursions on the river were
other features OF the evenings entertainments
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
AUTHOR SENTENCED TO DEATH.

Paris. Aug 2e.-Georges Dorys. son Of the late
Prince of Samos. former Minister OF the Sultan
OF Turkey. and formerly Governor of Crete. has
been condemned 10 death by the Sultan's courts
ar the direction of Abdul-Harnid II.
This action taken in Constantinople be-
cause of the publication Of NJ. Doryss book.
THE Private Life of the Sultan" The book
angered Turkeys ruler that he exerted hi, In
fuence In diplomatic channels to have IL sup
pressed in all European countries. His efforts
succeeded in Sweden, but the popular outcry
against such action in Paris was so strong that
the government declined 10 exert itself.
NJ Dorys secretly left Constantinople some
time ago. and is in Paris. where he has
identified himself with the Young Turk party.
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
REPORTS DENIED BY sHAFFER.
ARBITRATION PLAN REJECTED.
SIMON BURNS SAYS HE WILL SUBMIT AN
OTHER PROPOSITION TO PREsI-
DENT SCHWAB

indianapolis. Aug 29.-Simon Burns. who ar
settling the steel strike by arbitration has been
rejected by President Schwab of the United
states Steel Corporation. Mr.. Burns. who is
president of the National Organization of Win
dow Glass Workers. and also the head of the
knights of Labor declared that another plan
would be submitted tomorrow to President
Schwab. He explained that his first plan of
arbitration which was made public last night
was submitted to Mr.. Schwab on August n, but
he received no reply until yesterday. when Mr.
Schwab's secretary telephoned to him from
New York that his chief would not consider the
proposition.
Il submitted my plan to Mr. Schwab merely
as a suggestion" said Mr.. Burns. "and if there
is ANYTHING in 1t that is Objectionable to the
trust officials il be modified. When I
turn to Pittsburg tomorrow l shall take the
matter up again with MIR Schwab. in the hope
of making some kind of an arrangement where
by the strike questions can be submitted to ar
bitration. l think a start toward settlement
of the strike should be made somewhere at once,
d il is hurting business. If IL is true, as Mr..
Schwab says, that there is nothing to arbitrate.
l cannot see where his side will be Injured by
submitting to arbitration. II might be different,
of course If the matter were submitted 10 IN
terested parties; but that was not the plan.
think President Shaffer of the Amalgamated As
sociation has acted fairly in agreeing to submit
his side of the trouble to arbitration.
Mr. Burns expressed the belief that the en-
tire matter, far the steel corporation Is
concerned has been left in the hands of Presi-
dent Schwab. and that 1T will depend on him
whether or not the strike shall be settled by
arhf sraf ion
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
KENTUCKY MINERS ARMING.

Darlington, KY. Aug 29.-Me nbers of the Mine
Workers Union OF Hopkins County have gathered
Nortonville during the last twenty-four hours
A number OF idle union miners. armed with guns.
have been seen and pickets stationed on the high
ways near NortonvilIe warned travellers against
going there.
Information is IN the hands of the county oti-
ciaIs that the local unions IN the last few days
have raised 81 600 and placed it ir the hands of a
representative with instructions buy guns and
ammunition. to be shipped TO Nortonville for use
in campaign against the non-unlon miners or
Hopkins County.
This condition of affairs Is causing much ap-
prehensfon. The operators express themselves
being able take of their interests All
mines in the county are running regularly with
full
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
POWER GIVEN TO MITCHELL.
WITH DISTRICT PRESIDENTS. HE MAY
ORDER COAL MINE STRIKE.
IgY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE

ley TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
WHkesbarre Penn. Aug. 29.-The decision of the
United Mine Workers Convention al Hazleton to-
dav was that unless the operators recognize the
union card once a month and allow the union
card committees to enter the mines National Presi-
dent Mitchell and District Presidents Nichols. Duffy
and Fahey shall have the discretionary power 10
order strike The refusal OF the companies 10 ad-
NIT the committees to the mines has occurred only
in District No l. and chiefly In the Wyoming Val
ley other parts OF the district and in districts
Nos and the committees have been satisfied to
do their work outside the mines at the roadways
leading to the coeres and this has proved Just as
effective. In consequence, when the men from
District No insisted upon strike az the colertes
where these committees refused admission
there was much objection on the ground that doing
the work inside the coery was unnecessary. and
only aroused the opposition Of the operators The
No / men, however insisted some OF them even
desiring sympathetic strike at ali the mines: but
this proposition was defeated
AS the matter stands now the companies operat-
ing in this valley will be waited and asked to
sign a written agreement allowing the committees
in the mines and I'm the event OF their refusal,
which is expected the four presidents Will have the
refusal is made. As President Mitchell, with Duff
and Fahey - opposed 10 strikes, II is believed that
the difficulty will be adjusted in some without
the men quitting work Several Of the companies
In the mines They the Delaware, LaCkawanna
and Western the Lehgh Valley, the Delaware and
Hudson the Temple Coal and Iron, the Lehigh and
WilkeSbarre and the Kingston. October 70 was set
aside by the convention miners holiday. 70 be
known Mitchell Day, and 10 celebrate the ending
of the big strike last year.
New-York tribune., 1901-08-30

females. Newark showed s4.s75 native males 20 go
foreign born females ~ ~
or North Cardinals total population I se3 so
there s3s,6 males and 851g3 females the
percentage being 4e6 males 5o4 females In that
state there are only 4.4s2 foreign born people or
10 or l per cent There are however, ,207 col
remaining coored people, 5,66 Indians and 81
IN that State is 233
New-Mexico presents the largest preponderance
OF males females in the entire group the per
eentage Of males in that territory being 534. Of
ah entire poOuiation of 1885 10422s males and
sl.0e2 females. that Territory there are 13 s25
foreign born persons constituting per cent OF the
popula ton. There 5103 colored people fnclud-
ing 16l0 negroes. 3l Chinese, Japanese and I3 444