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The colored American., 1903-08-29
The Business League
Holds its Fourth Annual
Session i'm Nashville.
VOL. x, NO. IL

The Largest Attendance of Delegates
in the History of the League-Nearly
Every State and Territory Represen-
ted-Elouuent Speeches in Which
Practical Common Sense AbOunded-
DR.. Washington's Address -Tennes-
sees Hospitality-Notes of the League.
The colored American., 1903-08-29

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Special.-The 4th
annual session of the National Negro
Business Mems League assembled at
11I3O o'clock Wednesday August 81, in
the Hall of Representatives at the
Capitol. Long before the convention
was called to order every available
seat on the floor and in the galleries
was taken, and the aisles were packed
with people who could not find seats
1t was estimated that there was | 5000
persons in the hall, of which about 800
were delegates.
There was loud anl prolonged ap-
plause when J. G. Napier and DR..
Booker T. Washington entered the
hall.
The convention was called to order
by Rev. Preston Taylor.
Rev. j. E. Purdy, pastor of the Tab
ernacle Baptist Church in behalf of
the committee on arrangements, turned
the building and the city over to the
convention. The chairman thanked
the committee for their plans and eX-
pense.
DR.. R. F. Bloyd was introduced and
handed the gavel over to Mr. Wash
ington, president of the League.
The invocation was offered by Bish-
op G. II. Philips, of Nashville.
Mr.. A. S. Williams the Democratic
nominee for Mayor on behalf of the
city of Nashville, and in the absence
of Mayor Head, welcomed the delegates |
He said that the city welcomed any |
organization which had as its object |
the moral, mental and business eleva-
tion of persons, whether white or
black.
THE time has come in the history of
the world" he said when the bust
ness communities are severing itself |
from all bitter partisanship which has
had the tendency to promote only self
ish interests. The plowman is as essen |
tial as the monarch who sits upon his
self-constituted throne of authority. |
We have forever thrown off the for
eign and domestic yoke of oppression
Nashville stand to-day with out
stretched arms to every interest that |
has for it's purpose the bettering of /
mankind. more so than any other city |
in the country"
He said that the president of the
League had not only the opportunity,
but the mental endowment to do a
great work in behalf of the Negro.
The colored American., 1903-08-29
PRICE, FIVE CENTS
A Bright BarriSter.
COlOred Lawyers Look out
for 70, 900 People.

The Career of Hon. j. T. Suttle, the
Leading Attorney of Memphis Tenn.
His Early Struggles-His Victory
Over Dificulties-A Learned Lawyer
"A Gifted Orator and Profopnd
Thinker, He Has Been Many Times
Honored
The colored American., 1903-08-29

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Special-The legal
business of the seventy-five thousand
Negroes in Memphis is attended to
by twelve lawyers of the race. The
wealthiest and most eloquent orator
of the entire number is the Hon. Jo-
siah T. Settle. During his visit to
Memphis just after his victory in the
Spanish-American war Admiral
George Dewey was received and en-
tertained by the most prominent and
well-to-do members of the race, at the
Main street auditorium. In a speech
of welcome in which he named the
admiral the Sailor Statesman, Mr.
Settle proved himself to be entitled
to place among the famous orators
of his country. To say that his ad-
dress was a masterpiece in point of
literary production as well as oratory,
would be describing it in a very mild
degree.
Mr.. Settle was born in East Ten
nessee, September 80, 1850. He pre-
pared for, entered college and COM
pleted his Freshman year at Oberlin
College. He was one of the four Ne
gro boys of class numbering fifty,
yet he was chosen as one of the eight
orators to represent his class when
they entered the college, an honor
much desired by all students. After
graduating from Howard University
Mr.. Settle graduated from the law
department of Howard University
also. He was admitted to the bar of
the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, but having decided TO make
his chosen profession his life's work,
and believing he could best serve his
people where resided the greatest
number, he left the District of Column
bia in the spring of 1875 and located
in North Mississippi, where he at once
engaged in the practice of law.
In 1876 he was a delegate to the
National Republican convention and
was the only delegate from Mississip-
nj who voted for the nomination of
Roscoe Conkling for President, and
continued to vote for him as long as
his name was before the convention.
Mr.. Settle was elector for the State
at large on the Hayes and Wheeler
ticket, and in 1880 he was presiden-
tial elector on the Garfield and Arthur
ticket. When a resident of Mississip-
pi, there was no man that stood high
er in the estimation of all classes than
he. He was as popular with one race
as he was with the other. Mr. Settle
The colored American., 1903-08-29

Continued on page 4.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
POSTAL INVESTIGATION.
Iona Conference Between Messrs.
Payne and BristoW.

Washington. July l5.-Postmaster
General Payne had no developments in
the postal investigation TO announce
Monday. Charles Hedges, superintend-
ent of city free delivery service,
against whom charges have been made
which are under investigation, had an
interview with the postmaster gener.
al. but the latter stated subsequently
that there was no change in Mr..
Hedges case Mr.. BristoW had long
conference with Mr.. Payne regarding
the progress of the investigation.
John y. Masten, assistant superintend-
emf of the railway mail service, was
examined by the inspectors in the prl-
yate office of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow. Subsequent
" the statement was made that the
inspectors wanted information about
certain matters that occurred while
Mr. Masten was acting first assistant
postmaster general several years ago.
At that time Mr. Masten approved the
contract with a Binghampton COM
pany for time clocks and had occasion
to PASS on other important matters.
Thomas G. White during the course OF
his argument for permission to reopen
his employment agency at Az west
Michigan street. which was closed by
the police week ago.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15

OYSTER Ray. L. l., July 15.-An I'm
portant conference was held at Sag
more Hin during the day between Ia
president and representative Jcwish
citizens rom the Society of B'N2l
Birth REGARDING the petition to the
Russian government on the kishinei.
outrages. Besides the president the
parties 70 the conference We're Simon
s Wolf of Washington, Oscar S.
Shaus ami Leon Levi Of New York.
The administration has been em5ar-
.assed BY the delay of the represents
tiyes of the BNai BIRTH society iii
presenting the petition. A draft OF
the document was handed to President
Roosevelt weeks ago by Mr.. Wolf, ba,
il was decided after some considera-
ton 10 modify the text of the petition
before presenting it formally TO this
gcvernme for. transmittal to Rus
sia Time was desired, too, to obtsi1
TO the petition the signatures of rep
resentative citizens of the United
States of all religious faiths. AS a
result the document was not placed in
the hands of the president until now
The result of the conference at Saga
more Hill has not been disclosed yet
but a strong intimation is given that
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
Profitable Business.

The Balfour Statesman says That
blind pigging has been a very ucrea-
tive business is very evident from the
sales. in Balfour during the month 81
June and the first two days III JAY.
During that time there was shlppeu
into Balfour 247 cases of beer, i5o
kegs and between fifty and sixty har'
rels of the amber fluid Most OF thlS
was shipped from Minneapoli3 at q
cents per hundred by express whereas
the regular express rate to Ballohr Is
S275 per hundred The empty cases
are returned to Minneapolis at ~
cents hundred by express. With a
strong demand, strong special priVi-
leges and profit in the illegitma'e
business no wonder the business mas
hourished The presence OF the pro
fessional spotter in the principal sma u
town looking for evidence WHEREBY
they can convict piggers and get SoV
reward for each thus convicted ana
the certainty of being severely deai'
with by all the judges of the state
has snuffed blind pigs out of eXistance
No doubt personal canvassing anu
bootlegging will become more marked
as result of the new conditions
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15

him her affection, but trusted him so
far as to buy lonely Moat farm. where
they might live together in peace.
Soon after commencing their ten
ancy Dougal began to fill up the ditch
leading from the farmyard to the
mOat. This work was not completed
on the day when he determined to
take the unhappy woman's life and it
afforded him a ready made grave in
which to bury his victim.
Miss Holland was seen alive for the
last time on May 10, 1899 Not only
was she not seen again, but no trace
of her was discovered until four years
afterward, when the remains of wo-
man We're found in the Moat farm
ditch
1t is one of the remarkable features
of the case that during all these years
Dougal had been able to act as her
double IN forging her signature to
checks and carrying on correspondence
with her bankers and brokers. To the
few inquiries made Dougal explained
that Miss Holland had gone to the
Continent.
Dougal was suspected of having
made away with at least five wives.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
LEASES ARE INyALiDATED.
Cont acts by Indian Parents for Minor
Children Void.

Muskogee, |. L, July IA decision
has been handed down by Judge c.
w. Raymonl, United States judge for
the Western district of Indian Terri
tory. which will invalidate leases on
3000G0 acres of CreeS Indian lands.
Judge Raymond holds that the parent
of an Indian has no right 10 lease the
land of his minor children unless ne
has by due course of legal procedure
been made the legal guardian.
Cases where the parent has been
made the legal guardian of his chill
dren are rare in the extreme, hence
thousands of acres allotted TO minors
that have been leased by their parents
have been let irregularly and the
leases viii not stand.
in the Creek nation there are 3,072,-
S13 acres Of land. OF this 2.30OO 600
acres have been leased to outsiders.
1t is roughly estimated that only
about 100000 acres have been leased
legally and that the remainder is now
held by persons who can be removed
by minors going before the Indian
agent and demanding possession OF
their amount.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
MEETS THE LEADING JEWS
President Roosevelt Holds Conference with
Leading Jews Regarding the Proposed
Petition to Russia.
Petition May Not &c Forwa~s.o

Petition May Not &c Forv.a~sc-
TO the Russian government y Ge-
sire of both the president ana SOC =
tary Hay is that the l\ishineiI incle-nt
should be closed as soon as possible,
as further delay in its consideration
might prove embarrassing to this gov
ernmenl il ether diplomatic negotia-
tions with Russia. irasmuoh rs the
Russian government has indicated by
the adoption OF severe measures a gen
uine disposition to punish adequately
the perpetrators of the kishineff mar
ders ana in addition these Who insti-
gated them ii is a problem for the
president and Secretary Hay to solve
whether representations concerning
the incident now are either desirable
or necessary.
1t is suggested that the whole mat
ter may be revolved into brief state
ment through diplomatic channels to
the Russian foreign ONCE that such a
petition is III = hands of the United
States. thus leaving it TO Russia to
say whether it would or would not re-
ceive the document if it We're present
ed. 1t would close the incident with
out subjecting United States relations
with Russia to strain and. it is re-
garded, would be quite as effective as
the actual presentation Of the petit
ton.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
CONTRACT is ILLEGAL.
Michigan Supreme Court Sustains
Antitrust Law.

Lansing, Mich, July ia majority
of the supreme court, Justice Grant
dissenting, set aside judgment OF
$4,000 secured by the Detroit Salt
company in the Wayne circuit court
against the National Salt company for
salt purchased under contract. The
supreme court says that the officials
the Detroit company knew that the
National company was endeavoring to
secure control of the salt market and
the contract is therefore declared to
be illegal, being in restraint OF trade,
and the courts will not aid in the en-
forcement OF illegal contracts.
In affirming the case of Bennett VS..
Carr the supreme court practically
gives a death blow to the Michigan
ant-colored oleomargarine law by de-
claring it not a violation of the law to
manufacture or sell oleomargarlne
colored with an ingredient coloring
matter such for instance, as crude
cotton seed oil which is an ingre-
dent, and when not refined gives the
product the desired butter color.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15

Leo -0lli. mas malnTalned close TeI&-
tions with German politics. He has
exercised power over the Clerical
party. directing a closer alliance with
the government, reconciling differ
ences and increasing the party's in
fiuence upon public policy Officials
frankly say that Leo XIII. has been
one of the best popes ever known as
Tar as his attitude toward Germany is
concerned. He always showed com
prehension of German affairs; smooth
ed out difficulties between the Center
party and the government, even exert
ing pressure upon the Clerical party
to carry measures like the septennate
OF 1887 in order TO get concessions
and ecclesiastical legislation.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
MRS. JAMES 6.
BLAINE DEAD
Augusta, Maine, July 15-Mrs. James
G. Blaine died at the Blaine home
today.
ERiEF BITS OF NEWS.

Tie extra session Of the Hawaiian
legislature has appropriated sS.00O.OO0,
being S2.0G0 900 over the estimated
government receipts.
Captain Solomon E. Sharrow, U. S.
a. (reti.ed) is dead at New London,
Conn. from a dose of carbolic acid
taken bv mistake for medicine.
Mrs. Delight Prentiss. wife Of F. F.
Prentiss.. wealthy manufacturer OF
Cleveland, committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid. Mrs. Prentiss
had been in poor health.
The Great Western railway OF Eng.
land claims to have made a worlds
record for it's train Tuesday. The
train ran from London to Plymouth,
246 miles, in 233a4 minutes.
Miss Mary j. Piercey, said to have
been one of the smallest women in the
world, is dead at her home in Bayonne
N. j. She was thirty-one inches tall
weighed fifty pounds and was forty
years Of age.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
COURTS APPEALED TO.
Federal Assistance Asked in Freight
Handlers Strike.

Chicago. July l5.-Federal court IN.
teryention in the freight handlers
strike growing out OF the labor trou'
bles at the plant of the Kellogg
Switchboard and Supply company was
asked during the day by the Chicago
Terminal Transfer Railroad company.
A bill of complaint was filed In the
limited States circuit court. naming
as defendants Lawrence }. Curran'
Hugh McGee and Albert Young, presl
dents respectively of the Freight Han
dIers' Truck Drivers and the Ma.
tional Teamsters unions. Federal
jurisdiction is claimed under the inter
state commerce law. TO which the
transfer company is subject. Ihe de-
fendants are charged with having con
snired TO obstruct the complainant
hnsiness by interfering with the deiiV'
erv of goods at its depot.
strikers ieered and threw missiles
while a kellogg company wagon was
hcing driven TO a depot under police
nrotection. but nothing serious oc
Cured
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
Gets a Stiff Dose.

Frank Smith, a barber at hehSa''
who pleaded guilty to making hiu'
derous assault upon his wife Win d
board was sentenced by Judge elias
pell at jamestown to two years III
the state penitentiary. Smith wep'
profusely when the judge passed sen
tence and stated that he was unue'
'he influence of liquor when ne cum
mitted the crime. Thomas Crawloru
OF Courtenay was sentenced 10
Months in the penitentiary LOT S''"
Oing Sam Atcheson. Crawford 'ooN
MS medicine like a man.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
THE DAiRYMEN'S PARADISE.
prof. D. e. Willard of the State Nor
nal School Sees Great Prospects for
the Western Part Of the State.

Prot. d. f. Willard of the state nor
nal school has been out at Medora
for some time taking some measure.
ments of the Little Missouri river
which has been in food. In a recent
letter Prof. Willard says:
Crops in this western country are
looking fine for the most part Grass
is really the great crop in this empire
OF the west. Some few fields OF ,raiL
are seen but they are not of great con
sequence either in the relation they
bear TO the income of the farm or in
the extent of land cultivated. The
farmers are learning that the most val
liable asset in that region is the na'ur-
al prairie sod. The grass which grows
on the unploughed prairie is the result
Of long ages of natural selection, and
no seed can be found better adapted to
that soil and condition than that which
nature has planted in the prairie sod
the buffalo grass. bunch grass and
blue grass.
Fine herds range over the grassy
hill sides, and creameries are coming
to abound in Ike towns The great
grazing empire Of the west - going
10 he the dairymens paradise N the
great by and by when We learn how
to live in North Dakota the way the
creator intended BY and by Walle
the grain growers and the Tri-State
drainage people are in convention II
Fargo and are devising ways an
means to raise more wheat, New Sal
EN-. Hebron, Relaxation anc Heiteld
will be all smiling in their sleeves oN
er the five pounds of butter al 20 cents
a pound they are producing u each
one bushel of wheat at 62 II ce:'s
a bushel that Fargo and the Red RiV
er Valley can raise.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
CORRUPTION is CHARGED.
Member Of the Duluth Council Said &c
Have Solicited a Bribe,

Duluth. July 15.-George Fischer,
alderman from the Second ward. has
Deen charged in an open meeting
OF the city council with having unsuc-
cessiully solicited bribe of SIS, to be
used in furthering the interests of an
application to conduct an employment
office.
Alderman Fischer Indignantly re
sented the charge and the lie was
passed between him and his accuser.
The council took prompt action. and
at the suggestion Of Alderman Sang,
ordered an investigation. The affair
created big sensation.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
HON. A. c. BLAIR RESIGNS.
Canadian Minister OF Railways Leaves
the Cabinet.

Ottawa, Ont, july l5.-Hon. A. c.
Blair, minister OF railways. has re-
signed his position in the cabinet. Ef
fo,ts We're made to get statement
from Mr. Blair but he refused to be
interviewed The difficulty between
himself and his colleagues appears to
have arisen over the eastern section
Of the Grand Trunk Pacific PROPOSE
ticn Mr. Blair has been opposed to
the extension to Moncton, as he said
that would be paralleling the govern
ment line, and the other members of
the cabinet favor the extension.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15

Immediately after Mr. Hansen's de-
parture Mr.. Hay sent for Mr.. Rockhill.
chief OF the bureau Of the American
republics and formerly American COM
missioner to China, and the two were
IN conference until luncheon time.
Mr. Rockhil1s intimate knowledge of
lhe Eastern situation. gained through
ms residence there, is duly appreci-
a'ed at the state department, and be-
fore Count Cessini's departure he was
frequently at the Russian embassy in
connection with the negotiations.
1t was indicated by state depart
ment official that the next few days
might bring TO light important devel-
opments regarding the Chinese Ameri-
can treaty.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
TWO SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
Men of the Fourteenth Cavalry Enqaq.
in Battle

Wilcox. Ariz., July ia fight has
occurred between the men of | and NJ
troops ON one side and f troop on the
other. all of the Fourteenth United
States cavalry at Bonita, three miles
from Fort Grant Corporal Seiden-
sticker of Troop NJ was fatally wound
ed in the groin and Trumpeter Davis,
also of Troop Nj, was shot through
both thighs. The men who did the
shooting are unknown at present One
hundred shots were fired and a house
wrecked. About fifty men are impli-
Gated
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
POSITION FOR WI TING FANG
Former Chinese Minister Now an IN
der Secretary.

Washington, July l5.-Minister Con
tar al Peking has informed the state
department that WI Ting Fang, for
merry Chinese minister TO the United
States. has been appointed second as
sistant in the corps OF under secreta-
ries. while" says Mr.. Conger, this
gives Mr.. WI nominally only a clerical
place. vet it makes an opportunity for
utilizing his foreign knowledge and
experience if the foreign office SO de-
Sires."
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
POPE'S CONDITION UNCHANGED
No Change in the Popes Condition Which
the Doctors Regard as Extremely
Critical

Rome. July 15.-The Pope's condi-
tion is unchanged The doctors con-
tinue to feel that the patients condi-
ton is extremely dangerous but say
he may linger for some days
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
ENDS CAREER OF CRIME.
Samuel DougaI, the "Moat House" Muir.
derer, Executed.

London, July 15.-Samuel Herbert
Dougal. known as the "Moat House
murderer, was hanged during the day
in Chelmsford prison.
The execution closes a career OF
crime that was surrounded by as many
circumstances of mystery and sensa-
ton as the brain of novelist ever
invented
The deed for which he paid the death
penalty was the murder of Miss Ca.
mile Cecile Holland, woman of in
dependent means, who not only gave
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
RACE WAR IN NEW YORK.
Negroes Attack and Beat White Mar
in the Street.

New York. July 15.-Several negroes
have been hurt in resumption of the
race ricting, which broke out in the
vicinity of West SiXty-second street
and Amsterdam avenue Sunday.
Several young colored men attacked
and severely beat son of Alderman
Harrington. Police hurried to the
scene and made one arrest. On the
way to the station they We're assailed
by voleys of bricks thrown from the
housetops.
When the police disappeared crowds
of white men attacked every negro il
sight and chased them from the
streets. Several were severely beaten.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-07-15
AT HIGHEST SPEED.
Battieship kearsarse Ordered to san
for United States.

Portsmouth, Eng, July 15.-Captaln
Hemphill of the United States haSship
kearsarge has received instructions
to clean the warship's propeller, III.
its bunkers with the best coal and go
at the highest speed, with natural
draft. to Frenchmans Bay, Me. This
is the first occasion in time OF peace
that an American battleship has been
subjected to such severe test. II
recalls a similar voyage of the battle
ship Oregon during the war with
Spain Divers commenced work dur
ing the morning on cleaning the pro
pellers and LOO tons OF coal VIII be
delivered Immediately. Captain Hemp
hill will follow the great circle route,
leaving Portsmouth at 9 O'Clock FIJI
day morning.