The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-03-29
OUR COLORED SOCIETY.
ms and Outs Of the Local Colony
and Their Friends.

ana neII cIlenQS-
The Colored woman's Club met
With Mrs, F.. M. Moore Thursday after,
noon and transacted the usual routine
of business.
| Chas. Adams returned from Licking.
ton, Mo, this week, where he wen,
for visit and to attend the annual
conference of the M. E. church, col.
ored.
] Hobe Armstrong came over from
Buxton Wednesday and paid the coun,
ty treasurer in the neighborhood oil
5000 in taxes on his Mahaska county
lands.
Mrs. Fife Weeks, of Des Moines,
and her sister, Miss Hettie Finley, OF
Colfax, came down Saturday and spent
a few days with their mother, Mrs.
Jordan Wilson.
Rev. Lockwood was not returned to
Oskaloosa for another year, but goes
instead to Sturgeon, Mo. He will
however, be in the city in few days
to arrange for his removal to his new
charge.
The program arranged for the enter
tainment at the A. NJ. Z. church on
Wednesday evening was dispensed
with, owing to the fact that the new
organ recently purchased by the
church has not arrived
The inimitabie and only Jim Hud-
gins, barber, politician and alEaround
con" man,was in town for few days
this week. Jim has taken charge of
politics in the First district, with
headquarters at Washington, and de-
clares that Senator Young will be
nominated for congress without a
doubt.
G. Fl. Jones is in receipt of letter
from Rev. ]. A. w. Young, NJ. D., who
has been appointed pastor Of Wesley
Chapel for the coming year, stating
that he would arrive in the city Sun
day morning and will conduct services
at the church at the usual hours.
Rev. Young, we understand, is one
Of the bright young men of the con-
ference, a graduate in medicine, and a
preacher of much ability. He will
undoubtedly receive splendid well
come in this community.
The United States government has
been given its opportunity to take ju-
dicial notice of the lynching of ne
gro. The case is that of Ed Johnson,
a negro who was lynched at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, recently. Attorney Gen.
eral Moody first learned of the case
while On his way from Chicago to
Washington, and Immediately tele-
graphed the federal authorities at
KnaXville to begin at once an investi-
cation into the facts, taking all the
necessary steps to run down and ap-
prehend all persons suspected of hav-
ing a hand in the lynching. It. is a
peculiar case and grows out of a con-
dition that makes it absolutely neces-
sary for the government to take it up.
The Chicago Record-Herald of Friday
presents the facts in the case in the
following editorial: "Lynching, when
deliberate and cold-b1ooded, is muir
der, of course, and it is also contempt
for law and the necessary processes
and safeguards of law. But there are
peculiar circumstances about the
lynching which occurred at Chatta-
nooga on Monday night that make
that particular crime Migrant and SEN
sational above the ordinary lynching
outrage. Here is an instance Of MUIR
der committed in willful, reckless con-
tempt-contempt not merely in the
moral but in the special and technical
sense of the term - of the highest
court of the nation. The facts at first
we're not clear. Now all obscurity has
zen cleared up by fuller information.
4 A negro named Johnson was tried, con-
victed and sentenced to death for as
sault on a white girl. The evidence
appears to have been far from con-
vincing beyond a reasonable doubt;
and an unnamed justice of the United
States supreme court is quoted as say
ing that the whole trial was little more
than an empty formality, the spirit of
mob rule characterizing the conduct
of the jury and the spectators. An
application was made for writ OF
habeas corpus to the federal circuit
court of the district, but it was denied
The court, however, intimated that an
appeal to the federal courts on con-
Institutional grounds was within the
statutory rights of the defendant.
Fear of the mob prompted the defense
to pass over the local federal tribun'
al and make the appeal to the SUI
preme court of the United States. Jus
tice Harlan granted the application
and iSsuad an order staying the exc