The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-04-13
Race News.
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Ore, who says that excellent opportuntie.
are now ffered for progressive colored mer
and women who wish to improve their oppor-
tunities. There Is great demand for them,
as the white people of that section of the
country are getting tired of laps and China
men; they DO not want anything but progress
sive and industrious colored men and women.
No loafer or those who idle the year around
need look towards Oregon, as the laws are
very strict against that class and are rigidly
enforced
1t strikes US very forcibly that the colored
people Of these states who wish to better their
condition should go to a state like Oregon,
where the laws are more equally interpreted.
The schools are mixed, the laws are admin
lstered according to justice, and seldom, if
ever, do the people judge by the color when
IT comes to business. Take advantage of the
opportunity, and scatter over the great North
west.-Topeka Plaindealer.
The above applies to Montana
also, and all information desired
can be secured by addressing The
Montana Plaindealer, FL So. Main
Street, Helena, Mont.
H. c. Littlefeld, foreman of the
city delivery department in Mobile,
Ala, resigned because he had to
report to James T. Peterson, a
Negro who was over him. So, also,
did H. c. Sackeriff, the General
Delivery Clerk.
Daniel Webster, retired Color
Sergeant, 24th Infantry, is now
en- route to Washington carrying
a $4,000 present to Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longworth from Gen:
Wood of the Philippines.
Every Negro is being urged to
stay away from the jamestown
Exposition in Virginia, because of
the "Jim-Crow conditions" by the
latest Negro weeklies.
At Cash, Scott county, Miss,
Lee Black, colored, who was SEN
fenced to thirty days imprison-
ment for carrying pistol, has
been lynched.
Ed Turner, who killed his moth
er; Coots May, who killed his wife,
and Robert McGrew, for murder
ing a man, are to be hanged at
Indianola, Miss, April "a.
Henry Johnson of Washington,
D. c. has been appointed travel
ing Inspector of chefs on the Penn
sylvania r. r. system, position
never before filled by colored
man
A number of Afro-American
business men of St. Louis have or
ganized an association for the pur-
pose of buying or leasing ground
for a summer park. The organi-
zation is to be called the Afro
American Stock Company.
Hon. William T. Francis, one of
the most popular attorneys of the
Northwest and connected with the
legal department of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company at St.
Paul, Mimi, was successfully NOM
mated as a member of the City
Assembly on the republican ticket
at the primary election a few days
ago. His victory was enviable,
and was due to the hearty support
of the wealthiest citizens of Saint
Paul.
Inventoried with the wines and
whiskies in the saloon of +. n.
Castleman, at Berryville, Clark
County, Va, Dan Robinson, an old
Negro, was sold with the saloon to
w. A. Hartford & Co. 1t was stip-
ulated in the bill of sale that Rob
inson was to be included in the
purchase. No such transaction is
recorded in Virginia since slavery.
The Southern California Real
Estate and Investment Co., of Los