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The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY MARCH II, 1905.

ing in every race. Nowadays
there is rarely more than one col
ored boy, and, if he shows any pre-
tension TO class, the white jockeys
generally make it interesting for
him. He is kept in a pocket, or
forced to go around his field, de-
spite the vigilance of racing Off
cials, 'Long Shot" Conley was
Frequently given the knotted ond of
the rope. as he was very unpopu-
lar with bis brother pigskin artists
of the Caucasin race. Bonner ap-
pears to be well-behaved lad and
is as popular with the white boys
as one of his color can expect to
be. The public that bets its good
money has no race prejudice, how
ever, and. in consequence, many
play Bonner as they did Felix
Carr in the days of the old Bay
District track. Examiner.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11

of 80 to 80. The defeat of this
measure should have been over
whelming. We do not know Mr..
Wits motive in offering such a
bill-whether it was to prevent the
rough element of whites disturb
ing the peace and persons of Ne
gro gatherings or because of his
fear of social equality. At any
rate the law already established
providing for peace-breakers
should be sufficient in the former
case. And as to the latter, his
fears are groundless. Whites as
general thing only attend Negro
religious meetings and such relig-
ious associations with Neg roes-
with good earnest prayerful Ne
groes, but work for their own
good.-Hot Springs Echo.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11

before our fathers who founded
and preserved this Republic, the
spirit in which these tasks must
be undertaken and those problems
faced, if our duty is to be well
done, remains essentially unchang-
ed. We know that self-govern-
ment is difficult. We know that
no people needs such high traits
of character as that people which
seeks to govern its affairs Alright
through the freely expressed will
of the freemen who compose it.
But we have faith that we shall
not prove false to the memories of
the men of the mighty past. They
did their work, they left us the
splendid heritage we now enjoy,
We in our turn have an assured
confidence that we shall be able to
leave this heritage unwasted and
enlarged to our children and our
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11

Jockey Bonner gives every prom
Use of developing into the new col
ored Archer of the American turf.
He is certainly the best rider at
the Oakland track at present and
one of the few boys that can ride
a waiting race. AS general rule
good horses make good jockeys,
but Boomer displays natural apti-
tude for the saddle, and has taken
advantage of the opportunities pre-
sented. For the past decade col
ored jockeys have been in obsurity.
There have been no successors of
Isaac Murphy, Hamilton, Lonnie
Clayton, Soup" Perkins and Felix
Carr. In the older days, especial
ly in the East, there were general
ly three of four colored boys rid
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11
A Bright Legal Light.

Miss Perle E. Jones of Hill City
Kans., neice of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w
Moore of this city, is one of the
most talented young ladies of the
Sunhower state. An extract from
the Topeka Plaindealer says:
Miss Perle E. Jones, daughter
of Attorney Geo. w. Jones of
Hill City, Graham county, is vir-
tually partner in the practice OF
law with her father. The first
murder case in which Miss Jones
took an active part was the case
of State VS. Henry Nelson last May
which resulted in a verdict of not
guilty. After the defendant was
acquainted he offered to deed to
her father fine bottom farm con-
tanning a hundred and sixty acres,
within two miles of the town of
Bogue for his services. Her faith
er said to Mr.. Nelson: "You may
deed the farm to Perle, you owe
your freedom to her." The farm
was at once decided to Miss Jones
as her first fee.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11

children's children. To do so we
must show, not merely in great
crises, but in the everyday affairs
of life, the qualities of practical
intelligence, of courage, of hardi-
hood and endurance, and above all
the power of devotion to a lofty
ideal, which made great the men
who founded this Republic in the
days of Washington which made
great the men who preserved this
Republic in the days of Abraham
Lincoln.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11

Andrew L. Horton, colored, who
for several years has been post
master at Way, small town near
jackson, Miss is charging the U.
S. government with holding him
in peonage because the. postoffice
department steadily refuses to ac-
cept his resignation which he al
leges has been rendered upon sew
eral occasions. Horton gets a
salary of $3.50, per year and de-
clares that he is losing money by
holding onto the job or rather the
job holding on to him. AS no one
is anxious to succeed him he has
to stay on and his term is liable to
last his lifetime. We have read
several instances in which col
ored men have sought federal
positions, but this is our6rst
notice of a case in which one
has sought to get away from a
federal job.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11
"Let Ne Down Easy Boys"

A recent dispatch from Denton,
Maryland, gives the following
account of an incident that oc-
Cured at funeral there: Talk
won't prove cheap for Sam John
son, a dusky ventriloquist of
Queenstown, who broke up the
funeral of colored brother here,
for this afternoon he found him
self in the hands of the sheriff,
with the prospect of a heavy fine
tomorrow morning. Sam, like
nest voice -jugglers, is a practical
joker. His humor is appreciated
in his own town, but when he went
to the length of stopping a funeral
the Negroes of the place consider
ed it carrying a joke too far. So
Sam is in durance and the colored
brother is under ground, several
hours behind schedule, with bad
ly damaged coffin.
Sam was resplendent in "beav-
err hat and prince Albert" coat
when he joined the mouners on
the way to the cemetery. Every
body took him for a visiting par
son, and great was the respect
shown to him. He marched sol
emnly to the grave with the rest
and assumed a reverent attitude
while the local preacher uttered a
fervent prayer. Then the pail
bearers edged the coffin toward
the brink, ready to lower it into
the grave at the word.
"Let me down easy, boys"
seemed to come in muffled tones
from the coffin. The palibearers
started and looked at one another.
Lower me gently, you charcoal
chumps," the voice continued.
Everybody stared and mourners
nearest to the grave drew back,
"If I've got to be buried 1 want
to lie comfortable" the voice went
on.
That was enough. The pail
bearers dropped the ropes, the
preacher his books, the mourners
their hats and handkerchiefs, and
the entire funeral party, except
Sam, busted down the road to the
cemetery gate. Sam stayed where
he was, clasping his sides, until he
saw several of the more courageous
brethren returning. Then, he too
fled.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11
RACE NEWS.
Gathered From Our EXCHANGES.

Prof. T. A. Green, of Los Ange-
les, California, has been appointed
second assistant journal clerk of
the Senate of the state of Califor-
mia. He is the first Negro to be
appointed to clerical position in
the Legislature of that state. Prof.
Green is making splendid record
in the far West.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11
My Fellow Citizens:

M Y fellOW CltlZenS:
No people ON earth have more
cause to be thankful than ours,
and this is said 1everently, in no
spirit of boastfulness in our own
strength, but with gratitude to the
Giver of Good who has blessed us
with the conditions which have
enabled US to achieve SO large a
measure or we'll being and of hap
piness. To us as people, it has
been granted,to lay the founda-
tion of our national life in a new
lacontinent. We are the heirs Of
fthe ages, and yet we have had to
pay few of the penalties which in
old countries are exacted by the
dead hand Of a bygone civiliza-
ton.
We have not been obliged to
fight for our existence against any
alien race; and yet our life has
called for the vigor and effort with
out which the manlier and harder
virtues wither away. Under such
conditions it would be our own
fault if we failed; and the success
which we have had in the past, the
success which we confidently be-
lieye the future will lring, should
cause in us no feeling of vain
/ glory, but rather a deep and abid-
ing realization of all which life
has offered us; full acknowledg-
ment of the responsibility which
is ours; and a fixed determination
to show that under a free govern
ment a mighty people can thrive
best, alike as regards the things of
the body and the things of the
soul.
Much has been given to us, and
much will rightfully be expected
from us. We have duties to 9th
ers and duties to ourselves; and
we can shirk neither. We have
become a great nation, forced by
the fact of its greatness into rela-
tions with the other nations of the
earth, and we must behave as be-
seems people with such respon-
sibilities. Toward all other ma
tions, large and small, our attitude
must be one of cordial and sincere
friendship. We must show not
only in our words but in our deeds
that we are earnestly desirous of
securing their good will by acting
toward them in a spirit of just
and generous recognition of all
their rights. But justice and
|, generosity in nation, as in an
individual, count most when shown
not by the weak but by the strong.
While ever careful to refrain
from wronging others, we must be
no less insistent that we are not
wronged ourselves.
We wish peace; but we wish the
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Of President Theodore Roosevelt the Most Popular and
Most Astute President the Nation has Ever
Known. Demands Courage and De-
vOtiOn to High Ideals

peace of justice, the peace of
righteousness. We wish it be-
cause we think it is right and not
because we are afraid. No weak
nation that acts manfully and just
ly should ever have cause to fear
us, and no strong power should
ever be able to single us out, as a
subject for insolent aggression.
Our relations with the other
powers of the world are import
ant; but still more important are
our relations among ourselves.
Such growth in wealth, in popula-
ton and in power as this nation
has seen during the century and a
quarter of its national life is ine-
vitably accompanied by a like
growth which are ever before ev-
cry nation that rises to greatness.
Power invariably means both re-
sponsibility and danger. Our fore
fathers faced certain peril which
we have outgrown. We now face
other perils the very existence of
which it was impossible that they
should foresee. Modern life is
both complex and intense, and the
tremendous changes wrought by
the extraordinary industrial devel-
opment of the last half century are
felt in every fiber of our social and
political being.
Never before have men tried so
vast and formidable an experiment
as that of administering the affairs
of continent under the forms of
a democratic republic.
The conditions which have told
for our marvellous material we'll
being, which have developed in a
very high degree our energy, self
reliance, and individual initiative,
have also brought the care and
anxiety inseparable from the ac-
emulation of great wealth in in
dustrial centers. Upon the sue
cess of our experiment much de-
pends; not only as regards our own
welfare, but the welfare of man.
kind. If we fail, the cause of free
self lf-government throughout the
world will rock to its foundation;
and therefore our responsibility is
heavy, to ourselves, to the world as
it is to day and to the generations
yet unborn.
There is no good reason why we
should fear the future, but there
is every reason why we should face
it seriously, neither hiding from
ourselves the gravity of the prob
lens before us nor fearing to ap-
proach those problems with the
unbending, unflinching purpose to
solve them right.
Yet, after all, though the prob
lens are new, though the tasks set
before us differ from the tasks set
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11
NO. "a.

The plucky ones pried off the
coffin lid and found that the corpse
was dead beyond a doubt. Sam
was not able to keep so good joke
to himself, and in a few hours the
sheriff had him.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11

Representative Wits bill pro-
hibiting white people from attend
ing Negro meetings was defeated
in the House Saturday, by a vote
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11

New Orleans, La, March 5.-A
fierce race war is raging at Senate
bia, backwoods town in Mississi-
ppi, and from the meager reports
which have been received here up
to the present time it is believed
that at least ten men have been
killed and many injured. The
trouble started this afternoon,
when Negro struck a travelling
man in the face with a pair of
brass knuckles. The white man
opened fire with a revolver, and
since then hundreds of shots have
been fired at fleeing Negroes in all
parts of the town.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11

The first report of the American
Trust and savings Bank of Jack
son, Miss, has just been made
public. This bank was opened
last October. Every share of the
stock is owned by Negroes, and
employees are colored. Not a white
man has anything to do with the
bank. and the funds deposited
therein are all the savings of Ne
groes in jackson. In the three
months which the bank has been
in operation funds to the amount
of $4,000 have been handeled.
The dividends for the first quarter
amounted to 20 per cent. of the
capital.
, 1905-04-27
c]ontented Man Sizes Himself Up.

mot that I'm any walking physical
cu%iture-did.it advertisement" unused
the nan before the mirror. but I'm
not as bad as | might he al that.
For example. I'm q so thin that
my shirt studs make my coat stick
nj in the back, and I'm moi so fat
that | have to climb a mountain every
time ! want to take my shoes on.
What's more. I'm not so tall that
my suup gets cold before it reaches
my stomach. while. on the other hand,
I'm not so short that when | slip |
don't notice the fall.
Another thing rye got to be thank
full for. I'm not 50 narrow shouldered
that people have to look at my hands
to tell which is my right arm and
which is my left.
That must be as bad as being so
knoclukneed that crimson rsnlblers
take You for a ucllis and try to grow
up You.
But best of all. to my mind. is the
fact that I'm not so bow-legged that
the rush hour crowd ever clamor
about my feet under the annoying i'm.
preston that | am the subway"
, 1905-04-27
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

Mrs. Robert Jack and John c. are
over from Elk Mountain.
c. b. Sterrett returned Yesterday
from il surveying trip up country.
Roy Ainsworth returned yesterday
from Grand Island, Neb., where he
had been taking IA business course in
the college there.
, 1905-04-27

recently that ''if wool got very
much higher manufacturers would
have to find IA substitute for it,"
There does seem to be IL limit TO
the price of any commodity that
enters so largely into the daily
use of the people as wool. just
how much higher wool could go
and not reach the p]rohibitory
point is a problem that may con
front the manufacturer in II very
short time.
, 1905-04-27

Az a rule ii man finds what he
is looking for. If he is hunting for
trouble he will find il. for it is not
difficult To find when a man seeks
for it ardently. 1t is just as true.
however, that no man should run
away from trouble. 1t will do no
good. You may butt into it Just
around the next corner. The best
way is to neither seek for nor
avoid trouble, but stand your
ground and fight it out the best
you can, right there, and have
done with it.
, 1905-04-27

Within five years Saratoga will
be one of the best towns in the
state of Wyoming. With the fin
es' medical springs in the state,
and surrounded as it is by the
most f%ertil" agricultural land in
the west, il is bound to be the
center of n great and thriving
community. 1t is IA natural resi-
dence site and every one who lives
here for any length of time is ir-
resistibly drawn to the place. All
that is now needed, now that we
are assured of n north and south
trunk line, is for lis business men
to pull together IN harmony and
the result is certain. Throw aside
your differences and work for
Saratoga. Where So much is con-
cerned we ought not to be so blind
as to stand in the way of the
future of the town.
, 1905-04-27

Try boosting awhile. Nothing
succeeds without boosting. Boost
everything and everybody. All
keep ii up. Boost in the morning,
boost at noon. and boost at night.
Don't LET up. If the business men
of Saratoga all boost together and
with one another, there is no power
on earth can resist them, and we
will make Saratoga the banner
town of the state.
, 1905-04-27

If Hamilton is the man some of
the papers would make him APP
pear. are they not paying him too
much attention? AS IA rule. where
a man is given So much abuse, he
is II man of some importance and
his enemies 5 every means to
detract from that Importance
Emerson says we make our infer.
iors III superiors by heat. Why
sc much heat where Hamilton is
concerned? The swiftest way tn
kill off a MAJ of that character is
to ignore him.
, 1905-04-27

The grass On the range has been
growing very rapidly during the
past two weeks, and is now high
enough 10 provide good feed for
stock. The Iateness of spring has
put all kinds of ranch work back
nearly "A month, but business of
every kind is beginning to hum
like "A bee factory. Keep your
eye on Saratoga this coming sum
mer and see her grow like a mush-
room.
, 1905-04-27

With the advent of a railroad
the Hot Springs Hotel will be re-
built and from 100000 to Sl5O.-
600 will be spent in the beautify-
ing of the grounds, the construc-
ton of swimming and plunge
baths, and "A complete transforma-
ton will take place in Saratoga.
This will bring "A continual flood
of visitors, winter and summer.
, 1905-04-27

The death Of Joseph jefferson II
Few days ago, removes one of the
greatest tragcdians from the
American stage that ever delighted
any audience. Who ever has
seen Jetfersom's Rip Van Wrinkle
has had II glimpse of the finest
rendition of character that is pos
sible of man. He was one of the
gentlest. truest hearted men. and
on the stage he was SO simple.
natural and true to the character
that he represented, he drew all
hearts TO him. \ great man has
left us. Pence To his ashes.
, 1905-04-27

With wool at 20 cents it is no
wonder that the faces of sheepmen
are as broad as the full moon. BY
the way, who can tell what is the
matter with wool? Must have
been another frost in Australia.
, 1905-04-27

Arbor day was observed by our
merchants closing their stores, but
the weather was too cold and
stormy to permit of the planting
of any trees.
, 1905-04-27
FLORIST
In Need Write for Prices
Cheyenne wyo

MIR. Dugau, Il nephew of Major John
H. Albro, visited him IL few days the
past week.
H. \. Hunter. Mrs. Casteel, Miss
Ida Casteel and Miss Walker, were
city visitors last week.
, 1905-04-27
THURSDAY, APRIL u, 1908

What do you thing of Their rail
road prospects now?
, 1905-04-27

With wool at u cents il is hard
TO figure out what is the matter
with the sheep business. a
sheepmau remarked to the writer
, 1905-04-27

We are Sole Agents for Wyoming Write for Catalog and Prices.
We also carry "A full line OF Ribbons for all Machines. Cartons. OIL,
Nolseless typewriter pads, Typewriter paper, Swinging desk stands,
etc
LONG DISTANT TELEPHONE III X. GEO G WALKER
W Warren Block Cheyenne. Wyoming.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-01-20

many Of the dolls she had when she
was child, and some even older dolls
that the little girls grandmother had
when she was little tot: and dare
say there are dolls that belonged to the
little girls great-grandmother, and
even her at-great-grandmother
quaint dolls in faded clothes of a hun
dred years and more ago. carefully
handed down from mother to daughter
ever since. l saw one old doll, about
SIX inches tall, dressed as daimio, or
great lord Of bygone times, in gorgeous
brocade robes, covered with steel ar
mour of little overlapping plates, just
as beautifully made as If for a real
warrior. He wore tiny helmet, and
carried two tiny swords not as large
as matches. You could draw the
swords out of their scabboards lust
like real ones, and they We're as sharp
as they could be. Well, for about
week all Japan is one grand dolls tea
party. And then the festival is over,
and all the best dolls, even the pres
ents to the little girl, are put carefully
away, never to be even looked at for a
whole year. l don't see how the little
japanese girls can bear that part of It,
Then at the first of May comes the
boys festival-the Fish Festival, it is
called. Every family that's lucky
enough to have boy puts up flag
pole in the door yard; or perhaps sew
eral families combine to use the same
pole, and have it bigger, handsomer
one than one family could afford. On
the top Of the pole Is a gilt ball, or
else a basket with something bright
and tinsely in it. And flying from the
pole, In the brisk spring winds, is a
whole string Of carp, made Of oiled
paper or cloth, painted in bright col
ors, and anywhere from five to fifteen
feet long. Each fish belongs to some
particular boy, and the carp Is chosen
because it is a big, strong fish, and
not only can swim against the most
rapid currents, but in its eagerness to
get up stream will leap straight up
waterfalls The gold ball means a
treasure, which the carp, leaping and
struggling, buffeted by the wind is
forever trying to reach. And the whole
thing means that the boy, when he's
man, will have to battle his way as
the sturdy carp struggles up the river.
The fishes look so very pretty and gay,
fving over his house, and the boy gets
so many treats at Fish Festival time,
that I don't think he minds even If
the carp is nice little jolly lecture on
ambition.-St Nicholas.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-01-20
Grass in the Orchard.

Horticulturists and fruit growers
have long known that grasses are in
furious to young apple trees, but it
seems that they were wrong in at
tributing the injury to interference
with the air. the water and the food
supply of the trees. Carefully con-
Quoted experiments and observations
at the Wodburn experimental fruit
farm in England have shown, how
ever, that there is some direct Or in
direct product of grass growth that
has an active poisonous effect on the
roots Of the trees. It il also suggest
ed that the so-called exhaustion Of
the soil by certain plants, preventing
the subsequent growth of other plants
in the same ground, may be due really
to some poisonous product left by the
first plants
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-01-20
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same day, however, the French car
ried the Malakhov and that night the
Russians retired from South Sebasto-
pol to the north forts, where thew re-
manned to the end OF tine war,
The original besieging force at Sc
bastopol was 65,OOO men, with so guns
The Russian army In the Notifications
was $4,000 strong, with the way for re,
enforcement and supplies open. The
theater OF the Crimean war WAS linn
tied mainly to the vicinity OF Sebasto-
pol, and the besiegers were more sore
ly pressed by the privations of war
than the besieged. OF the English
army $500 were killed or fatally
wounded In battle; 4,244 died of chol-
era; 10000 died of other diseases, and
2,873 were disabled. The French lost
in the campaign 6S,50O men, and the
Turks as many. The war cost Eng
land $205,000,O 900, and the majority Of
the English people regarded the cap
ture of Sebastopol as barren VIC
tory.
The opening Of the Port Arthur cam
paign was not unlike the opening Of
the Sebastopol campaign. The Alma
Of Port Arthur was Kin Chow. After
the battle Of Alma in 1854 the Rus
slams went at once to Sebastopol, block
ing the entrance to the harbor. After
Kin Chow the Russians retired slowly