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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-25

prison yard. Here was our opportunity
Tor escape by cha-tering a tug towing an
empty canal boat. Accordingly the heces-
sary arrangements were made 49,.
Meanwhile my wife, MISUNDERSTANDING
the strict prison rules allowing ohy
monthly visits. was permitted to hold long
interviews with me weekly. a hVe dollar
bill was the magic influence that procurea
unlimited visits with no limit on the time
she remained with me; so II was easy 70
plan for my escape. The said hVe upiiaf
bill was always found between the leaves
OF a book which she brought and handed
70 the official in charge of the visiting
room when she came to see me. This book
played an important part and was the
open sesame that enabled my wife to enter
ana talk over affairs with me as long as
she pleased.
Il soon discovered that the prison OFF,
cials and their political friends considered
me gold mine, and they proceeded 10
work me accordingly. 1t required adj my
wits, with cool head. to keep them within
reasonable bounds in their demands
About the middle OF June a certain man
In New York paid me visit, and a day or
two later a Personal appeared IN the NEW
YORK HERALD, indicating In cipher that
the tug might be expected az haif-past
eleven A. NJ, on the day agreed upon, dis
playing red flag at the bow.
when l fnally saw shat Personal
could scarcely contain myself Ny heart
beat as II II weighed a pound. At the
time appointed the tug appeared, with the
red Rag flying, and half an hour later,
with the canal boat in tow. the craft was
alongside the dock, but. unfortunately.
there was a strong tide, with a heavy
Wind which made 1t impossible to get In
taa proper position so our escape was
or for a day or two.
soon another Personal appeared In the
HERALD. and this time II was arranged
for horse and carriage TO be In waiting
in Nyack. to take us TO Jersey city, on
arrival OF our tug and before the news
OF our escape could reach Nyack. UnfSr-
tuhately, this feature failed.
1T was a clear day In August when the
tug, with an empty canal boat dashed 60
her starboard side. steamed In close to the
prison dock. ] figured that when once we
were inside the empty canal boat, we
would be protected against the guns OF the
guards but when We got aboard. We found
they were too much bewidered and ex-
cited 10 do any effective shooting. -Four
OF US climbed aboard and dropped out Of
sight into the hold Of the canal boat
and We were cOngratulating ourselves on
our escape when the unexpected hap
pened and proved our undOing.
LAS We disappeared into the canalboat
company Of prisoners working nearby
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-25

was cut or from the world-sepafattd nont
all loved-from wife and devoted friends
Branded with shame, l was a helpless con-
Wet with the terrors OF prison solitude
haunting me night and day.
Il was 50 crushed that / could scarcely
realize my position. That l, son OF
View England parents, trained in the Chris
tan faith, was to wear the garb of a
convict seemed monstrous. NY only con-
ISOLATION was that my Identity was un-
known to the officials and the worlds ]
had given false name.
Graft and Politics.
Perhaps the worst Of the prison sys-
tenn Is the character and makeup OF a
large per cent OF the officials and en-
ployes. Men without experience or train
ing for such positions failing in other
pursuits for lack of ability manage to OBJ
tain fat positions through political pull.
The greater a mans rascallty the greater
the grafter's influence i'm office.
''If the reader had seen as / have men
strung up by the thumbs hanging In rows
until blood burst from their skin In their
agony he would get some idea Of the
brutality OF New York's Infamous prison
system.
"such was the condition Of affairs when
we entered Auburn. We were told in
brutal tones to take off our hats and face
the wall We were ordered to clean our
selves In a repulsive bath room that had
not been scrubbed in months They gave
as miserable towels and clothing. Some
OF the garments were In rags. some too
large, others too small. Suffering acutely
with rheumatism, asked the privilege OF
keeping my heavier underwear and was
told shut up. we do the talking here, not
YOU Understand you are nothing hut a
convict; you own nothing, not even the
hair on your head.
while we were hurryiRg into our rags
as fast as possible the Keeper yelled. Are
YOU conVicts asleep? This is no Fifth
avenue hotel. Hurry up and get out
such was our Introduction to Auburn
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-25

watching us. taking in the situation. threw
down their tools and eight of them tum-
bled aboard before the tug could get clear
OF the dock The captain was fully alive
to the situation and cut loose from the
canalboat. On the Jersey side of the Hud-
son these eight men who had come aboard
escaped, and our party of four were landed
at the Nyack dock and separated. Be
cause the eight men had Joined our party
there was great commotion at the prison.
passing steamer was hailed and offered
a thousand dollars by a prison official
to overhaul us, but the captain declined,
saying he did not care to get mixed up
in the affair. The wires were kept hot
in all directions warning the police of
neighboring towns and New York city
detectives Of our escape The news that
a dozen Sing Sing prisoners were at large
aroused the country for miles around
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-25

Martin Evans. a Tennessee millionaire,
has bought Government Peak. In the Colo
rado Range. near Pueblo, and has named
Il the Evans mausoleum. He has decided
TO reserve Il as the monumental burial
ground Of his family.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-25

! ROM the chief Of the famous band 1
: OF safe robbers who were con-
victed and imprisoned in lS1i comtsi
an extraordinary story Of bank |
robbing and prison life, given ex-
clusively to the Sunday HERALD. /
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21
THE LAST SLAVE AUCTION.

The last slave auction held in this
country occurred year and half
before the warm October, 1859
at the race track at Savannah The
slaves were the property of Pierce
Butler, a picturesque and promi-
nent figure at that day in Philadel-
phia society, who is to-day only re-
membered as having been the hus-
band of Fanny Kemble, the actress,
reader and author. His family
name was Mease, but he inherited
fortune in lands and slaves from his
grandfather, Maj. Pierce Butler, of
South Carolina, on condition that
he should take the latter's name.
Buffers inveterate passion for
gambling got him into financial diff
fculties. 1t is said that he lost
$4,000 on a single hand-four
deuces against four kings held by
his opponent. Finally to meet his
losses Butler was forced to sell his
slaves. There were 999 of them in
all. The sale took two days and
netted $303,S Butler had cho-
sen a good time to sell. A year later
his Negroes would not have been
worth a dollar a head. But the sale
would have been more profitable
had it not been announced as one
of the conditions that no divisions
of families would be permitted;
hence in order to secure a good
slave buyers often had to take with
them infirm or aged relatives. Out
of this limitation grew memorable
tragedy Tom Plate, well known
Vicksburg trader, bought at the
sale a man, his two sisters and his
wife, with the guarantee that they
should not be separated. Disre-
garding this, Pate sold the sisters,
one to Pat Somers, brother trader,
and the other to a resident of ST.
Louis. What legal rights Negro
had in the South were well pro-
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21
NO. 43.

tected. Somers was told of the
contract, and he sent the girls back
to Pate and demanded his money. A
quarrel was the result and Somers
was shot dead. Ten days later his
nephew killed Pate and died from
wounds received. The feud was
kept up until every male bearing
the name of Pate was wiped out,
and then the war liberated the sis
ters.-New York Herald.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21

norant and irresponsible, can not be
criticised.
During the past decade, Mr.. Taft
pointed out, a period of unprece-
dented prosperity has come for the
fair southern states. "Under thd
circumstances, he said, cit is not
to be expected that the sensible,
clear-headed business men of the
South do not perceive the tremen-
dous disadvantage under which the
Southern states labor in having
only one party with any voice in
their state governments and in be-
ing herded together always as the
hide-bound support of the Demo-
cratic party of the country, no mat
ter what wild fallacies it may adopt
in its platform nor what candidate
it may put before the country.
"The effect of the change in in
dustrial conditions in eliminating
the cry of Negro domination from
the politics of the former slave-own-
ing states has manifested itself first
in the border states. West Virginia
has become permanently Republi-
can, and Maryland and Missouri
put themselves in the Republican
column in the last presidential cleo
ton, while Kentucky nearly
brought forth works meet for re-
pentance in the first Mckinley cam
paign." "
The question that should address
itself to the great business interests
of the South is how much longer
the spectre of things past is to
hold them to a political allegiance
that does them no good in national
politics, and deprives their commu-
mites of the "inestimable benefits
of the presence in local politics of
two parties, each of which, if it does
wrong, has real chance Of being
punished for its misconduct. -
Mr.. Taft contended that if the
southern people chad kept up with
the times; had they at the ballot box
expressed their sentiments on the
living issues of the day, instead of
allowing themselves to be fright
ened by a spectre and a shadow of
the past, their political Importance
as communities and the significance
of their views upon measures and
men would have been vastly en-
hanced. "
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21
Secretary Taft
Sharply Arragned Southern State Legislatures for Deprv
ing the Negro of the Ballot--LawS cover Both
Races but Only Enforced On Blacks.

Greensboro, July 9.-Secretary
Taft, who was warmly applauded
throughout his address, in opening
said that when he was invited to ad-
dress this meeting the committee
advised him "that the political sit
uation was such that if a proper ef-
fort was made at the coming cleo
ton it would be possible to carry
the state for the Republican
party" The secretary added:
81 believe that nothing that
could happen in the politics in this
country would work greater advan-
: tage to the country at large, and to
THE South in particular, than the
breaking up of what has been prop
erly known as the solid South. l
say this in no partisan spirit, for l
am not one of those who think that
this result would necessarily in
crease the probability Of the con-
tinuance in power of the Republl-
can party. The solidity OF the
South has in a measure furnished
it's own antidote in restraining
many voters in the North who
might have left the Republican
party but for what they regard as
the injustice and danger OF south
ern political conditions.
'sThe South has been kept solid
bT the spectre of Negro domination,
anN by stirring up racial prejudices
and arousing unfounded alarm over
an impossible return of reconstruc-
ton days" said the secretary.
"After long Struggle, he added,
"the Negroes vote was made to
count for nothing and then the
leaders of the dominant party came
to realize that dreadful demoraliz-
alton of all society that followed IN
government if law was fouted and
fraud was to constitute its basis.
They cast about to make the law
square with existing conditions by
property and educational qualifica-
tions which should exclude the Ne
gro. They adopted amendments to
the state constitutions with the So
called grandfather clauses, in
tended to apply the new qualifica-
tions to the Negro, and not to apply
them to the whites -
The secretary said it is impos-
lsible to frame law establishing an
educational qualification for suf-
frage which will stand the test of
the fifteenth amendment and which
will not operate ultimately to ex-
Aclude impartially the Negroes and
whites from the ballot who lacked
educational requirement.
A policy in the South, he said,
which excludes from the ballot i'm
partially black and white, when ig-
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21
company

Aunt" Fannie Lomax an old
nanny of the true type died in
Virginia across the river from
Washington recently. She was
los years old and remembered
dimly many incidents of the war
of 1912. AS for the Civil war she
remembered wildly many events
of that great struggle. Aunt"
Fannie was born in 1901 and grew
up as a slave on the plantation of
William Buckney on the Kappa
hammock river. When she reach
ed the age Of 100 years she receiv-
ed hundreds of letters from physi-
clans asking her for her rules of
life. She replied that she never
wore low-necked dresses or short
sleeves. For years sha had smok
ed blackened old clay pipe.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21
Grand Junction Notes.

Miss Dora Newman is on the
sick list.
The narrow gage engine will not
run in our city after July 21st.
Reese's Southern carnival will
on Monday begin a weeks show
here.
Miss Edna Price has been con-
fined to her room for the past
week.
VIM. Jones and Arthur Newman
have secured very good positions
in Manitou.
An immense crop of fruit will
be raised this year and labor will
be serious consideration.
Visitors coming to the Junction
will find the very best accomoda-
tions at Mrs. Scott's, 139 Chipeta.
The July races promise to be
the most interesting and largest
attended matinees ever pulled off
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coulston of Great
Falls, Montana, have moved to the
junction where they expect to per-
manently reside.
Marcus Hines, who has been
sick for the past two months with
typhoid fever is seriously threat
ened with relapse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wright left
last Sunday on the Elk's special
for visit to friends in Denver and
Colorado Springs.
One of our most prominent citi-
zens is expected to go in quest of
a missing rib. We hope him much
success, while cupid has not been
idle with the fair sex here.
The A. M. E. church's picnic
and fishing party last Wednesday
was very well attended and a most
pleasant time had w. H. Hay
den carried the honors, catching
the largest number of fish.
Mr. and Mrs. j. II. Stokes, Mr..
and Mrs. Reed and daughters and
Miss Bertha Pitts left Sunday for
two weeks outing among the
hnny tribe and Brer rabbit on
Pinon Mesa.
Arthur Jones has temporarily
taken charge of Osborn's meat es-
tablishment at Palisade. He has
been in our city six months and by
his compentency and reliability
has made himself much sought
after.
Last Saturday Messrs. Arthur
Jones, j E. Harris, Il. p. Langon,
Clark and john Hines, drove to "a
private lake about 2S miles and
about five hundred of the fnny
tribe were caught. The honors
were about even between Messrs. 4
Jones, Langon and Clark Hines.
Several young rabbits helpedl ito !
fill the bottom Of the wagppsA
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21

which you came, and which is still
dark; till all Ethiopia shall stretch
forth hands of service; hands that
pray, and hands that give to the
God who made you in His high i'm
age and redeemed you with His
blood.''
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JULY 2l, 1906.

the race. Among other things
Bishop Doane said:
''The white people have the ire
mendous advantage of centuries of
cultivation, of education and of lib
erty, while you are only within the
century emerging from illiteracy
and bondage, and whatever gives
us the advantage gives us also an
opportunity and responsibility, but
| am equally clear that the hope of
the Negro is in the Negro himself.
Lifted above the conditions of ig-
norance and the circumstance of
bondage, a new Negro race is com
ing, and coming to the front, in
America. The progress is as in
structive as it is characteristic.
Hampton began, as the effort
of one man, white in soul and ma
ture as he was in compassionate
meet the new condition of the free
men, plunged without preparation
into the obligation of citizenship.
But the result of Hampton is Tus-
kegee, and the black man, founder
and teacher, as well as student, is
preparing himself for his share,
and it must be larger scale in the
uplifting of his own race Just as
the hope of what we call foreign
missionary work depends for its
success upon the training of ma
tive ministry, Africans for Africa
and Japanese for Japan, so the
hope of the elevation of the black
people depends upon the raising
from among themselves, not teach
ers only, but men and women of
high character and social influence
which they can impart to their fel-
lows, not as subject lessons, but as
leaven to raise and quicken the
race.
This is the real gift for your
hands to give: To go and be a
power among your own people,
staying with them; not wandering
away, living lives that shed light
upon the ignorance and spreading
influence through the dullness and
the degradation of the neighbor-
hood where you may be, and that
influence must make for religion,
for righteousness and for reality.
Herein, specifically, it seems to
me, Tuskegee has justified itself,
and made it's claim for renewed con
fidence and increased support. As
| read its story, quite beyond its
romance, the record of its reality.
chapter after chapter written by
men and women who have been
trained here, it tells how they have
been penetrated by its spirit and
power, given to others what they
have gained themselves. What has
been wrought here in these five and
twenty years is good enough for a
backward look of amazement and
thanksgiving. But our faces turn
forward as well. We look on. To
be fruitful and multiply was not
only spoken of the first man and
woman, but it is spoken with deeper
meaning to such as you are for the
production, the perpetuation, the
perfection of this higher life, until
all Ethiopia, here in the country to
which you were transplanted, and
in the far-away continent from
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21

power was denied by the electric
corporation, and exorbitant license
fees were charged, and now their
own newly installed dynamo has
failed, necessitating further delay.
In the meantime the patient walk
ers are still walking rather than
be Jim crowed" by the regular
company.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21
HIGH CHARACTER

The address of Bishop Doane of
Albany, New York, at Tuskogee In
stitute, was gem, and will never
grow too old or stale to keep before
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21

Elmer A. Carter, a 16-year-old
Negro, Junior in the High School
GloveEsville, N. Y, won a $50 gold
prize in an oratorical contest Mon
day night, July 9th. His subject
was "The Great Heritage, or the
American Negro"
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21

AT Birmingham, N. Y, Miss
Gilberta F. Wallace, graduated
from the high school at the head
of a class of 36 white students.
She was valedictorian, the most
honorable position among the
graduation speakers.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21
RACE NEWS
from variou. Sources.

Ross d. Brown, young Negro
of Muncie, Ind, has invented a
machine that will mould and COM
plete the manufacture OF glass jars
and bottles.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21

The Mobile Express remarks:
"The colored man cannot go in the
railroad dining room and eat at the
best table, but he can get the same
meal sent out, served in the same
plates and with the same wares
and get for 25 cents, what the
white man pays Is cents for. He
saves so cents by being Negro
while the white man pays so cents
extra for being white. Come to
think of it this is only a sample
case.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21

Louis F. Pollard, of Littleton,
N. c., graduated a few days ago
from Hopkins Grammar School,
New Haven, Conn, winning the
honors of salutatorian and first
Greek prize. Mr.. Pollard was the
only colored man in the class
which was a very large one
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21

The Union Transportation COM
pany, organized in Nashville,
Tenn, to run an automobile line
to accomodate Negroes who are
Jim crowed" by the city lines, is
havidg a multitude of troubles.
Tacks have been placed on the
streets to ruin the rubber tires.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-21

How justice must hang her head
in shame at some of the verdicts
reached by southern judges and
juries. The idea of sentencing a
man to prison for nearly 1000
years for simply catchinga a woman
by the foot is supremely ridiculous
and a travesty on justice, But
what does the average white south
erner know about justice when the
color of a mans skin determines
the grade of punishment?
The Washington times., 1906-12-01
DIsTRICT DTCKpTN LEAET-F-
O'BRIEN IS UNDER
PHYSICIAN'S CARE

Los ANGELES. Cal. Dec. THAT
Jack O'Brien was more seriously hurt
in lis contest with Tommy Burns on
Wednesday than was - drst supposed
was generally realized yesterday. when
the Philadelphian did not put in an APP
pearance at Manager McCarey's office
70 receive his share OF the purse IN
stead he Is still prostrated from the ef-
fects OF the fight His mother and sis
ter are at his bedside ana a physician
Is constantly IN attendance.
Although both OBrien and Burns
were pronounced in perfect physical
condition by the club physician. il is no
secret here among those who have stud
led the Quaker City boxer that he has
some latent organic weakness
Burns had been told 10 pummeI
. BTien about the body. He did so re-
peatcdiy in the Clinches. The sDcCta-
Quaker city heavyweight vince every
time he was punched over the kidneys
or under the heart Burns did not hit
him hard enough in the mouth TO make
his lips bleed, and when O'BTien began
10 spit blood those around the ringside
began 10 realize the effect Of Burns
body blows.
While the Philsdelphian's condition is
not serious. yet IL f. such as 10 warrant
the constant attendance OF a physician.
His family fears hemOTTha EaS as lung
trouble is its hereditary ailmcnt.
The result of Wednesday nights bat
tie VIII. in all likelihood, remove
O'BTien as a possible heavyweight as
plrant. driving him back 10 the middle
weight class There is. however enough
Irish in him to cause him to persist in
seeking another fight with Burns.
The Washington times., 1906-12-01
IBAlL RACING : BOXING WRESTLING GOLF ATHLETICS
HE'S A Draw LADDIE.
IS YOUNG WRIGHT
Baltimore Youth Outgener-
aled Kerr Brothers in
Amateur Cup.

A chubby siNteeu-y ycar-Old Lad named
Wright. "a native of Baltimore. pitted
his skill against the best gentlemen
riders of the District of Columbia yes
terday at the Benning track Ia the
Amateur Cup. and easily came out
victor. BY srasping a winning oppor-
UuHity which presented itself al the
lead Of the stretch, young Wright
landed New York winner Of the anna
teuT cup.
II made the crowd OF 1910 cheer and
laugh 10 see this little boyle still
wears knicEerbockers on the street
completely out-maueUyer his long
legged opponents Dion and Charles
Kerr. the champion riders 10 hounds Of
the Washington hunting set 1t was a
battle of wits as much as OF quality Of
horse.
The Washington times., 1906-12-01
WAR DROPS THREE
TO COMMISSIONERS
Meyers IS High With 205.
ActiVeS Treat Foundry
10 Same Dose.

The Commissioners took three straight
games from War Department iu the De
partmeHtal League hast night by large
margins. Meyers 295 in the first game
was high. Ia the Printing Office Ass0-
citation the Actives treated Foundry 10
shut-out. taking the set easily. Several
good scores were made, richards IA.
which was high for the SET, and Clark s
-l1. being the best.
Low scores y ere the order i'm the Real
Estate League set which was won from
City Hall by Columbia after the former
had captured the first game by the
slim margin of three points. Among the
Binders the results were still lower.
Unions taking the last two from Rulers,
In the INSTRUMENTATION League St
Marx took the second and third from
Marvin. and in the Navy Yard League
the Erecting shop got all three from
the Tool Shop.