The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-04-06
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Race News.


sipPi, Louisiana, Alabama and other Souther
States
We are N receipt of a Communication fror
Mr.. w. g. Byrd, 675 Hood St, Portland
Ore, who says that excellent opportunitie
are now ffered for progressive colored mel
and women who wish to improve their oppor
tunitles. There Is great demand for them
as the white people of that section of tn,
country are getting tired of Japs and China
men ; they do not want anything but progres.
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
istered according to justice, and seldom, if
ever, do the people judge by the color when
1t 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, 2I So. Main
Street, Helena. Mont.
Cole and Johnson, the premier col
ored performers, have sailed for Eu-
rope.
bill" Carr was lynched at Crescent,
La, March Is, for butchering a COW
alleged to have belonged to a planter.
Fifteen men consummated the act.
No arrests have yet been made.
Rev. w. E. GLADDEN. of Colorado
Springs, was last week appointed
in U. S. Army by President
Roosevelt to succeed Chaplain Allen
retired.
Benjamin Vance of Topeka, Kansas
died last week. He came to Kansas
about 10 years ago with nothing At
the time of his death he owned about
500 acres of the farming land in the
state and his wealth was estimated at
about s35, 1000.
Monroe Nash, white special labor
er with clerical duties at the Norfolk
Va, navyyard, resigned his position
because he did not like to
work side by side with Negro clerk,
TO whom he was required to pass his s
work. Nash's resignation was prompt
y accepted.
Ernest A. Adkins and G. II. Mitchell, t
-eal estate dealers at Greensboro, N. j.,
=, control about $3.50, 900 worth of
and are the only colored
men engaged in the business. There c
ire five cOlOred physicians, two drug q
lists, one dentist and many minor 1
BUSINESS enterprises that promise well
or the future.
Rev. M. M. PontOn of Atlanta, Ga,
eld agent for the John c. Martin n
Educational Fund, has been appointed d "
member of the board of directors %
nd general superintendent for the .
Outh. The amount of money which q
'r. Ponton helps to disburse is fully l
J, 100000. n
In Easthampton, Mass, Thomas M. g
regory, youngest son of Principal J. "a
[. Gregory, of the Bordertown Indus =,
-ial School, won the individual silver
up for the best of the six speeches IL
elivered in the debate between the tr
delphi and Gamma Sigma Societies W
! Friday night at Williston Semin- II
~, Easthampton, Mass. !.
This is the fourth successive time iIS
lat young Gregory has been on the ba
inning side in these annual public w
.bates at WillistOn. The representa- -,
yes of his society argued on the neg
i've of the question, Resolved, That "o
Q United States Government Should OF
yn and Control the Interstate Rail- sh
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