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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
SATURDAY. JANUARY %, 1904.
THE ALTON SCHOOL CASE.

The famous Alton School case has
been decided against the Afro-Amer-
sican. The board of education several
years ago built a special school for
Afro-Americans. Scott Bibb and a
number OF others refused to send their
children there and attempted to send
them to the nearest public school.
The superintendent of schools refused
to permit this and a suit for manda-
tmus was brought in Bibbs' name
against the officials.
r. The suit has been to the appellate
sand supreme courts a number of times,
land has been reversed and remanded
upon various points each time. An
:appeal will be taken to the state SUI
preme court.
Money will be needed to make the
slight and the Afro-Americans of Hi
snois ought to furnish it.
The Appeal will give $40 to start the
fund. How much will you give, kind
reader?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

az KNOW OF THE BRAVERY AND
CHARACTER OF THE NEGRO SOL
DER. AG SAVED MY LIFE AT
SANTIAGO, AND | HAVE HAD &C.
CAs!CN 70 SAY so IN MANY ART
ucLES AND SPEECHES. THE
TROUGH RIDERS WERE IN A BAD
POSITION WHEN THE NINTH AND
'TENTH CAVALRY CAME RUSHING
UP THE HILL, CARRYING EVERY
THING BEFORE THSM. THE Ne
GRO SOLDIER HAS THE FACULTY
OF COMING TO THE FRONT WHEN
EiE IS NEEDED MOST. IN THE
CIVIL WAR HE CAME 100000
!sTRONG, AND | BELIEVE HE saw
led THE UNlON."-President Roose-
welt.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

the reform. school for boys at Plain
field, Ind, and noticed that Alexander
Baker, aged twelve years, an Afro
American boy there, seemed ashamed
of his surroundings, and though he
was classed as "incorrigible," she be-
lieved he would respond to kindly in
fluences and has secured his parole
and taken him to her home with the
idea that she can reform him. We
hope the boy will prove himself wor-
thy of her kindness and Judgment.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
There is some hope of the breaking

There is some hope of the breaking
up of the peonage system in vogue in
some OF the Southern states, since
they are fning those found guilty Of
practicing the system. In Montgom-
cry, Ala, Monday Samuel M. Tyson
plead guilty of unlawfully holding
Will Brown, an Afro-American, in in
voluntary servitude. He was worked
under guard and imprisoned in a
stockade Tyson was fined $1,000.
Thank the Lord for that much!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

Chicago delegation in Congress has
conferred with Postmaster Coyne and
decides to favor plan for establish
ing three independent branch post
Offices in Chicago, to relieve the con-
gestion and expedite the movement
Of mails.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
According to statements made

Prof. H. J. Davenport, professor of
political economy in the University of
Chicago: Extinction of the Cauca-
sian race is pertinent certainty; the
Chinese will dominate the world; the
pending r-usso-Japanese war is a pos
tive menace to the life of the Cau-
casian people," We wonder which
would be better, Negro or Chinese
domination, We, however, do not ex-
pect to live to see either brought
about.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

James K. Vardaman was inaugu-
rated last Tuesday and made one of
his characteristic speeches against
the o-American. With such a
thing as him for governor there is
little good for the poor unfortunate
Afro-Americans who live in the state
to hope for. May God be merciful to
them. Vardaman won't.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

Gov. Hayward of South Carolina
has sent to the legislature special
message on lynching. The governor
asks for the passage of an anti-lynch-
ing law and for an adequate fund to
suppress the evil. The governor says
in his message that he is not seeking
additional responsibilities, but is will
ing to undertake this for the good of
the commonwealth. All honor to
Governor Hayward.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

The Kentucky legislature which is
now in session will in all probability
pass a law DISTINGUISHING the Afro
Americans of the state. The house
committee on suffrage and elections
has decided to report, favorably a bill
that will have that effect. We were
bred in old Kentucky, but we are no
longer proud of the fact.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

The St. Louis dive keepers have
formed a close corporation and raised
a fund of 100000 for the purpose OF
procuring girls between the ages of
II and 20 for disorderly houses dur
ing the exposition. No Afro-Ameri-
cans are interested in this scheme,
but the promoters will search the
South for beautiful Afro-American
girls.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

A Caucasian girl in South Dakota
turned bandit, held up and robbed
man. She was a school teacher and
pretty. No pretty Afro-American teach
er in the South has ever been charged
with such a crime.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
CORRESPONDENT WANTED

With view TO W dtfImony - 1OOQ
Chance for Young Lady.
Manila, Philippine Islands.
Editor Appeal:
I have the honor to advertise through
the columns of your valuable paper
for a lady correspondent who possess
es a good knowledge of stenography
and typewriting. I desire this CORE
spondent with a view to matrimony.
I'll give references: Edward Cheat
ham, Quartermaster's Department,
Washington, D. c.; T. Thomas For
tune, The Age, New York City; Will
liam Mckinney, 1914 w. Houston
street, San Antonio, Texas.
The lady must be between Is and Fl
years of age. My. age is 81. Occupa-
ton, business manager for the firm of
Lack & Davis, Manila, P. L., and
Shanghai, China.
Respectfully,
T. Nimrod Mckinney,
P. o. Box 499,
Manila, P. l.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

Mr.. J. B. Kinghorn, Caucasian
who claims to be a Republican, is
after the Beaufort, S. c., postofice,
but Robert Smalls has written a. let
ter to- the press, showing. that King
horn has always been a Democrat
and has refused to act with the Re-
publicans even when requested to do
81
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

Senator A.. ]. Hopkins would be an
ideal candidate for vice-president on
the ticket with Roosevelt.
Roosevelt and Hopkins would sound
we'll and it would be winner.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

All the Afro-American Democrats
who are trying to get together ought
to do as some are already doing, get
into the Roosevelt band wagon. All
Of the Afro-American Democrats will
go out of business after November
9Th.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

Mr.. Cyrus Field Adams of THE
APPEAL has been elected a member
of the American Social Science Asso-
ciatiOn
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
Clark University

Is Christian school, It offers the best faclli
ties for academic and industrial education'
Seven Departments: Classical, Scientific,
Higher Normal, Normal College Preparatory,
Grades, Industria Our aim is to Grain ths
head, the hand and the heart Fer full IN
formation address the President,
c. NJ MELDEN South Atlanta, Ga.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

In 1903 cotton exports reached the
value of s378,O0O,OOO, and nine-tenths
of this enormous crop was produced
by Afro-Americans of the South.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
CIVIL WAR TIMES.

Civil War Times. By Daniel Wait
Howe. author of the Puritan Republic.
vo: PIP: 421. $3.50. Indianapolis: Dobbs-
The war of 'e1-5 will never cease-at
least in the present generation, to be a
and fang topic of alb
was war of giants; because many. of
those giants still survive it's vicissitudes;
it's hair breadth escapes, and the ,mmi-
ful na 1 its Gettysburg rye and chicKa-
maugas; because the finale of that con-
fict profoundly Influenced the civilizations
Of the world because its echoes still re-
vertebrate in all the various activities Of
American life.
Because Of these things the authors
+ volume Is interesting. It can be read
dents Of the great strife which has hith-
erto remained unwritten, is brought forth
by Mr.. Howe. &c..
one Of the most interesting chapters
lation of the Confederacy toward the Ne
gro Soldier The author tells us. that
nearly every important Confederate com
mander favored the enlistment of black
soldiers; that the matter was finally de-
bated in the Confederate Senate, and the
bill authorizing the enlistment Of Negro
soldiers. was defeated by b, but one vote e..
that Of Senator Hunter. That when the
desperate circumstances of the Confed-
eracy became so visible that the leaders
saw the doom Of Richmond and the
the black soldier to fight under the Con-
federate flag, but that before it could be
made effective, the fail Of Richmond, and
the fight of Jefferson Davis was at hand.
This chapter is especially interesting at
this time in view OF the present propa-
ganda Of the Southern people, to debase
the Negro, whom they were per. ectly
willing in the last desperate strait Of
the Confederacy, to enlist as soldier,
under its banner. .s<.... -
There are other very interesting chap
tiers in the book. The style is clear, unin-
volved and natural. ana the author has
written instructfvey.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

Several weeks ago Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison of Indianapolis, Ind, visited
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actor
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FOLEYSRONEYN6TAR
rto ps the cough and h ais lungs
.ARDMORE SROEING SHOP.

We do all kinds OF Scientific,
Practical and Artistic Shoeiug,
Special attention given to diseased
feet and track horses
We are also prepared to do all
kinds of general work, such as
carriage, wagon and plow work.
Don't forget the number, 206.
HOBBS 6 BANDY, Props.
North Caddo ST. Ardmore, I. 7.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-04-21
Free to twenty-five Ladies'.

The Defiance Starch Co. will give
rs ladies a round trip ticket to the
st. Louis Exposition, to five ladies'
in each Of the following states: Hi.
nois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri who will send in the largest
number of trade marks cut from ten
cent, 16-ounce package of Defiance
cold water laundry starch. This
means from your own home, any.
where in the above named states.
These trade marks must be mailed to
and received by the Defiance Starch
Co., Omaha, Nebr., before September
LIST, 1904. October and November will
be the best months to visit the Elk.
position. Remember that Defiance il
the only starch put up 16 OF. Ia full
pound) to the package. You get one
third more starch for the same money
than Of any other kind, and Defiance
never sticks to the iron. The tickets
to the Exposition will be sent by regis.
tered mail September 5th. Starch Tor
sale by all dealers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-04-21
TWENTY-FIVE WELLS ON ONE TA RIM IN THE

do not take a small payment down
and a mortgage for the rest.
Notwithstanding the depression IN
the business on account of the inabil-
ity Of the Standard to take the full
production, development is going on
in every direction. Wells are being
drilled and capped. They are not
being shot. This will be done when
the market opens up again. The courts
have recently decided an important
case to oil men. A farmer here sold
his farm to another farmer. 1t had a
lease on It. The original owner tried
to hold the royalties. The court held
that the lease was a part of the LAM
and its ownership went with the land
and that the purchaser was entitled
to the royalties. OIL wells knock out
farm for crop purposes. The two
don't go we'll together. Most Of the
oil lands are converted into pastures.
Humboldt has au Independent refin-
cry. It is the only one in the Kansas
field. It is owned by C. d. Webster,
of Philadelphia, and is called the
Webster refinery It has a capacity
of $50 barrels a day now Within
thirty days it will be increased to 500
barrels and Mr.. Webster promises to
make It a 1000 barrel plant by No
vember. 1t was only started in Janu-
ary. Mr. Webster has eight oil wells
of his own and he gets the rest Of the
oil from local operators. He has e.
tablished a tank car line. and ships
oil in all directions. He owns a couple
of other refineries in the East. He
has been fighting the Standard for
twenty years, and is acquainted with
its methods. He says the railroads
give his competitor the best OF 1t In
freight rates. but still he is able to
carry on a profitable business. One
time he said his freight rates were 81
tank higher than the Standard to
the same points and the railroads had
to give the Standard so cents out OF
each 81 which he paid them. The
Standard has also tried to run him out
of business by reducing the price OF
oil in his territory. The merchants
would stay by him, however. He Is
now having such a fight at Emporia
and lola and says his trade is increas-
ing.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-04-21
ARMY TRIALS.
An Infantryman,s Long Siege.

An lnfantryman's Long Siege.
This soldiers tale Of food is interest
ing.
During his term of service in 18th
Infantry in Cuba and Philippines, an
Ohio soldier boy contracted a disease
of the stomach and bowels which all
army doctors who treated him pro-
nounced incurable, but which Grape.
Nuts food alone cured:
I'm October, 1899, when my enlist.
ment expired, was discharged from
the army at Caiulute, Philippines, and
returned to the States on the first
available steamer that left Manila.
When | got home was a total wreck
physically and my doctor put me to
bed saying he considered me the worst
broken.down man Of my age he ever
saw and after treating me months
he considered my case beyond medical
aid.
During the fall and winter OF 1900
and 01 was admitted to the Barnes
Hospital In Washington, d. c., for
treatment for chronic inflammation OF
the stomach and bowels but after 5
months returned home as bad as ever.
Il continued taking medicine until
February, 1902, when reading a news
paper one day read about Grape-Nuts
and was so impressed | sent out for a
package right away.
"The result is quickly told for !
have used Grape-Nuts continually ever
since with the best results, my health
is so can do fair days hard work,
stomach and bowels are in good con.
dition, have gained 40 pounds In
weight and | feel like new man alto
gether.
Il owe my present good health to
Grape-Nuts beyond all doubt for medi.
cal science was exhausted" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Had he consulted any one Of sew
sral thousand physicians we know Of
they would have prescribed Grape
Nuts Immediately.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
little book. The Road to Welivills."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-04-21

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Hum
boldt district makes up the north end
of the Kansas oil field as recognized
by oil operators. In other words IL is
regarded as the upper end OF the
proven field. There has been some
oil discovered up in Miami county, but
oil men do not pay much attention to
that section at the present time. A
trend also angles to the northeast to-
wards Moran and they have little
oil there but 1t is not being marketed,
so operators are not giving that To-
cality any attention. Another trend
veers to the northwest towards Neoshu
Falls, but 1t is not yet defined and but
little development is going on there.
Some oil is being hauled from there
to this place in tank cars and then
piped to Neodesha. Immediately north
OF the Humboldt oil district lies the
big lola gas field. There is an abund-
ance Of gas in this territory also.
Some of the largest wells in the state
are here. One was brought in last
week whose production cannot De
measured. It exceeds the limit of the
instruments.
Oil was discovered in this district
about eight years ago by Guffy and
Galley, auxilIaries to the Standard oil
Company. They bored thirty wells,
found oil, but shut in the wells and
left, just as they did at other places
south of here. For six years the ground
remained undisturbed. Two years ago
local company drilled for gas. They
wanted to start brick plant. They
not only found gas, but also a rich de-
post Of oil. Since then things have
been humming in Humboldt. Most Of
the land was leased up, some by oper'
ators who began development, and the
rest by spectators. To-day there are
perhaps $50 oil wells in this district
This takes in the oil section Of Allen
county. 1t includes probably 100 wells
owned by companies headquartered al
Chanute. The Humboldt and Chanute
districts overlap each other. They arc
on the same trend and the dividing
line Is the county line. Oil is founo
here at from 700 to 1000 feet. Gas is
also found at the same depth. Some
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-04-21

tory in the West, which has been run
ming many years, and second one now
In operation. There are numerous
brick factories in lola, Humboldt, Cha
mute and many other lesser concerns
which in the aggregate bring millions
Of dollars into this part Of the state
annually. The gas fields were devel'
oped earlier than the oil fields, par
ticularly In lola. 1t has been eight or
ten years since II was known that lola
had such large quantities of gas, but
the oil development is recent. Two
years ago you could count on your
fingers all of the drilling rigs that
were in operation; now we have 1000
wells within the lola quadrangle alone
and are drilling new ones at the rate
Of more than fifty a month"
The geological formations and con-
dltlons along the eastern part OF the
state are practically the same from
Kansas City to below the south Dor
der Of the lola quadrangle, and why
gas and oil have been so abundantly
found around lola and not around Kan
sas City, where the geological condl.
tlons are the same, Is a question that
DR.. Haworth says is hard to answer.
The oil and gas are found in what is
known as the oil or gas sands. Ac-
cordlng to DR.. Haworth about nine
teen twentieths OF the gas and oil so
far found comes from what is known
as the Cherokee shales. In Chanute the
Cherokee shales occupy the interven.
ing space from 500 to 700 feet deep.
In Kansas City the formation Of sim.
liar .shale is at about the same depth,
as measured from the bottoms, or lies
at a depth of 700 feet from the top OF
the bluffs. II extends, as in the other
cases, a distance Of about 200 feet.
The strata Immediately below the
Cherokee shales is the Mississlppian
limestone, beneath which neither oil
nor gas has yet been found. When
asked regarding the similar conditions
of the lola quadrangle and Kansas
City, Prof. Haworth said:
by way OF comparison. II may be
interesting to add that the formations
are practically identical, with the zone
trending northeast and southwest and
reaching as far north as Kansas City
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-04-21
Deafness Cannot BE cured

by local applications, they cannot reach the dis
essed portion of the There Is only one way to
cure Deafness and that by constitutional remedies.
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube Is inhamed you have arumbling sound or i'm.
perfect nearing and when 1t Is entirely closed, Deaf
ness is the result and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condL
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine easel
out OF ten are caused by Catarrh, which 10 NOTHING
but an inhamed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case OF
Deafness caused by catarThl that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-04-21
Nation Without RELIGION.

The bishop of the Philippines, who
was for years missionary in Japan,
says: To-day the Japanese are
nation without religion. Shintoism
is little more than an interesting his
toric relic, once the cradle Of nation
al tradition, now a venerable ruin.
Buddhism, the question Of its theo-
retical value being laid aside, Is no
longer able to inspire; whatever 1t
may be as a philosophy. as a religion
II is dead"