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The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

Sunday dinner, carves it himself,
and draws the neck from the ruins
after everyone is served. "What
is home without a mother?" Yes,
that is all right; but what is home
without father? Ten chances to
one it's boarding, father is under
the slab and the landlady is the
widow. Dad, here's to you
you've got your faults-you may
have lots of 'em-but you are all
right and we miss you when you're
gone.-Exchange.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07
A NEGRO SCULPTURES.

The current issue of TIE World
contains an interesting article
dealing with the artistic attain
ments of Meta Warick, a Phila-
delphia sculptress, recognized
throughout the country as one of
the true artists of the nation. The
author of "The Clansman" or the
pitchfork statesman of South Car
olina would of course consider him
self everlastingly disgraced if he
shook hands with her, for she is a
Negro. The only trace of Caucas-
ian blood in her ancestry is from
the white husband of far-off semi
barbarian princess" of which
Miss Warrick claims to be a des-
cendant. But her ancestors of re-
cent generations were slaves and
she herself was a truct gardners
child in the environs of Philadel-
phia.
The art critics have enthusiastic-
ally declared that she bids fair to
out -Rodin Rodin, the French mas
ter who has SO signally befriended
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

her with his counsel. The negro
phobes would probably think that
M. Rodin, of whom they probably
never heard, had very little self-re-
spect to receive Miss Warrick as a
pupil, but M. Rodin is himself
hailed as the Michael Angelo of
today When he permits anyone
to call ON him, it must be someone
of artistic account, and when he
calls on anyone, that ones artistic
atanding is assured.
Miss Warrick is the sculptress
of the group at the jamestown ex-
position depicting the progress
and development of the Negro race
since the first Negroes were landed
at Jamestown in 1919. This group
has been highly praised, though
it was executed with such haste
that it can hardly be fairly COM
pared with her other works. She
has had the distinguished honor
Of stss-s examples of her works. She
has had the distinguished honor
of two examples of her work in the
Paris Salon in one year. She de-
lights in the horrible, the tragic
and the grotesque. AS student
her best piece was head of Medu-
sa, and among her most famous
pieces is "The Thief Oh the Cross" :"
She has not yet attempted bust
of Senator Tillman or of the Rev.
Thos. Dixon.
Miss Warricks career is one of
inspiration to the race to which
she belongs, and though she is on
ly an individual, yet her achieve
ments go long way toward refut-
ing the declarations of such authors
as DIR. Schuteldt, whose recent
book is entitled "The Negro a
Menace to American Civilization" ?"
and who have not yet learned that
injustice and oppression are great
menaces to an civilization than
those who are the victims thereof.
Kansas City journal.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07
A FORGOTTEN TOAST

We happened in home the 9th
er night and over the parlor door
saw the legend worked in letters
of red, "What is Home Without a
Mother?" Across the room was an
other brief, God bless Our Home. "
Now what is the matter with
"God Bless Our Dad?" He gets
up early, lights the fire, boils an
egg. and wipes off the dew of the
lawn with his boots, while many a
mother is sleeping. He makes the
weekly handout for the butcher
the grocer, the milkman, the baker
and his little pile is badly worn be
fore he has been home an hour.
If there is a noise during the
night dad is kicked in the back
and made to go down stairs to find
the burglar and kill him. Mother
darns the socks, but dad bought
the socks in the first place and the
needles and the yarn afterward
Mother puts up the fruit; well, dad
bought it all, and jars and sugar
cost like the very mischief.
Dad buys the chicken for the
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

In an address before the stud
ents of Howard University, An
drew Carnegie sums mp the race
problem in the following words:
at is not now question of what
will we do with the Negro, but
how can we get more of them"
In other words, if we are to eradi-
cate crime from the universe we
must breed more criminals. If we
are to maintain a high intellectual
standard we must breed more men,
tai weaklings. If we are to main
tain high standard of citizenship
we must breed more children who
IRE utterly incapable of developing
into good citizens. Mr. Carnegie
has evidently borrowed from the
homapaths the AKIN, What causes
a disease will cure it, and applied
the same remedy to social prob
lens. WILDER Register.
The Seattle Republican replies
to the critic as follows:
Who, in heavens name are the
real criminals of the South, the
blacks or the whites? That the
blacks are more or less given to
petit pilfering apd occasionally
grarer offenses is not denied, but
are they to be compared with the
reign of terror that the whites have
cause to exist in every state south
of Mason and Dixon line for the
past thirty years or more? How
few the murders and rapes COM
mitted by the black man OF the
South in comparison to the whole
sale carnage of human gore and in
Vulnerable rapes on innocent wo-
men that can be laid at the white
mans door? Granted the black
man occasionally rapes an inno-
cent white woman, even then is
not the white man million timeo
more criminal than the black man
for does not he desise to criminally
cnhabit with every black woman
with whom he comes in contacti
Is there a single home in the South
where live a white father and Son
in which a black woman is safe tc
work even as servant without be.
ing criminally assaulted by one ol
both of them? Would you pro
nounce such either right. religious
or refining? Do you think the
black woman or the white man ag.
gressor in such illicit relations
If the millions of mulattos of this
country are not criminals from the
time of their birth until their death
then it is not because they were
not conceived in sir and born il
iniquity, and we do not believe
you are willing to declare the blacl
woman is wholly responsible fol
such a state of affairs. The in
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07
NO. 1.

Trenton, Oct. 31.-Anthony
Coleman, a desperate colored man,
who in April, 1903, almost killed
Dennis Frawley, a Pennsylvania
railroad detective, was arraigned
in Mercer County Court today, and
pleaded not guilty. After the as
satilt, during which he shot the de-
tective several times, he escaped,
but was later captured in Newark,
and sent to the State prison on an
other charge. His term expired
today, and he was arrested as he
was leaving prison.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 29.-Edna
Mason, mulatto, today won the
first prize at a beauty show held at
a charity bazar in Taylorstown and
tonight the admirers of her white
competitors threaten to expel Ne
gro population from the neighbor-
hood. Edna, Is years old, possess
ed strikingly regular features and
with a clear, light brown complex
ton, come from Louisiana two
years ago, At the beauty show
she claimed the right to sit upon
the stand witii her white sisters.
One 10y one the latter dropped out.
The mulatto was getting the ma
jority of the ballots. Her milli-
merry and gowns were of the latest
designs and worn with a grace that
caused the chagrin of the farmers
daughters.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

Topeka, Kan. Nov. 23.-Declar-
ing that he had confession Of one
of the men of the mob and the
names of many more, George Alex
ander, an aged Negro, came before
Gov. Hoch and asked that legal ac-
ton be taken in the death of his
son who was burned at the stake
in .Iaeavenworth, Jan, Is, 1901
Alexander was accompanied by o.
T. Drummond, an attorney of Don.
iphan. Kan. Dummond and Alex
ander inquired if the reward of
$500 was still standing for the ar
rest and conviction of mob men,
bers. They were also told that it
had expired within 80 days. They
were also told to take their case
before the prosecuting attorney of
Leavenworth.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

, nocent white woman, who is
occasionally misused by some
burly black brute, gets the
sympathy of all Christendom,
but comes not a word of sympathy
for the poor black woman, vino,
either by force or violence or by
superior intellect of the white man,
is made a human outcast to satisfy
his damnable passions and tn
doubly guarantee the virgin purity
of the white woman. The three
or four million mulattos in the
United States are living evidences
that the blacks are being rapidly
absorbed by the whites, and one al
most shudders to think that all this
is the work Of the white man, the
very one who is burning black men
at the stake, if they show the
slightest sigh of even becoming fa-
miliar with the white woman. It's
an easy matter for yon to see the
pigeon on the barn, but next to
impossible to see the barn.
Senator Tillman, South Carolina
says, mo Negro woman is virtu-
ous." From the number of mu-
lattos in the state of South Caro-.
lima there seems to be some truth
in the statement, but the senator
failed to tell us how many virtuous
white men there were in South
Carolina In the struggle to pre-
serve the honor and chastity of the
white folk, does none of the re-
sponsibility rest on the white man ?
Are the men Of the white race
licensed to live lives of moral lep-
ers and expect the honor, integrity
and uprightness of their white off
spring to be wholly dependent on
their mothers? Instead of heap
ing Goals upon the heads of the
poor untutored black folk, who are
making a noble struggle to rise
triumphantly from the pits of slum
to which they were forced by the
hands of the white men of the
South, let the white men of the
North stand out for simple justice
for the black man. Only that and
nothing more. Insist that he gets
no more or less than what he de.
serves. Let the spirit of fairness
prevail. Do not measure the de.
gree of the crime committed by
the color of the skin of the crimi.
nal. Even where the black man
commits heinous crime on white
women, did it ever occur to you
that perhaps he was simply retail.
ating for the moral wreck of a darl.
ing daughter who had fallen vic.
tim to the lusts of some heartless
white man. who, if criticised by an
older head, laconically replies
"She was only niger" Do moi
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

Des Moines, la Nov. 23.-From
the gold fields of far off Nome Mrs.
j. B. Verden, a former East Des
Moines colored woman has return
ed after an absence of thirteen
years. She drove directly to her
home, an humble cottage at HOS
Fremont street, which she had left
a poor girl to return woman of
wealth. Mrs. Verden conducted
hotels in the Yukon country while
others mined breathlessly for gold.
She charged miners $3.50 month
for meals alone, but she was oblig-
ed to pay as high as rs cents a
pound for meat. She saved
enough to invest in mines and her
fortune was founded. Mrs. Yer
den returnes to Des Moines to
make her aged father, Henry Bell,
comfortable. Other members of
the family have died in the long
absence.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

Brennan, Texas, Nov. 23.-Hor-
ace Lindsey. Negro, is in receipt
of the first prize awarded at the
State Fair for the best ice machine
exhibit The machine is Lindseys'
own invention.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

E. Weber, a white man, a SER
geant in the U. S. Army, stationed
at Columbus, Ohio, was killed last
week by Edward Mitchell, colored,
who went home unexpectedly and
found Weber with his wife. Nit
chelI stabbed the sergeant and then
walked to police headquarters near
by and surrendered.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

Chris. j. Perry, proprietor of
The Philadelphia Tribune. has
been appointed a roadway inspec-
tor in the Bureau of Highways,
with a salary of $1,000 year and
$3.50 for carriage hire.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

William S. Rogers, an Afro
American, of Xenia, Ohio, has
been elected member of the city
council in that city for two years,
His associates are all white.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

forget that God above sees it all
and His recording angel is writing
it down.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

Many Negroes are leaving Georg-
ia, Florida and Alabama, going to
the far West.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

Shreveport, LA Kansas City
Southern man arriving Sunday
night from the South, stated that
when they came through Zwolle
they were informed that a Pull
man porter was taken from Jail
there just atsday light and hanged
and burned. 1t is reported that
the Negro attempted to enter the
berth occupied by a young lady.
The porter lived in Kansas City,
and made only few trips South.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07
CRITICISED

Cayton of the Seattle Republican Answers the Wlber Register
in Its Attempted Criticism of Andrew Carnegie
The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-07

Guthrie, Okla, Nov. 24.-Fire
destroyed the main building of the
State Agricultural and Normal Uni
versity at Langston today. The
loss is $4,000 with insurance of
$4,000. Langston is inhabited
solely by Negroes. The university
was established here ten years ago
Nearly five hundred students are
enrolled. 1t is believed the fire
was of incendiary origin, resulting
from the bitter Jim Grow fight.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-19
WHAT CHINA MAY EXPECT
Japan Willing to Make Concessions
Upon Minor Matters.

Mukden. June fS-Niscount Haya-
shi foreign minister of Japan, who re-
CARDS the new administration of Man
churia. which is the outcome of Baron
Komura's mission to China in Decem-
Der, 1905, as the medium of a settle
nnent of existing differences between
China and Japan, followed the viceroy
of Mukden here and the two held a
long consultation at Haushichang to-
day.
In regard to Japans position and
policy in Manchuria, Viscount Hayashi
said to the correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press that he regretted many
incidents which had taken place during
the military regime. but expressed a
willingness to accede to China's just
claims. especially in the matter of GER
tain houses and lands which consti-
tutes a minor difference. Here Japan
would be able to compromise. as she
desired to be conciliatory. but he would
insist upon adherence to liberal in
depreciation of the treaty as i'm the
case of the requirements of the Yslu
Timber company, which China was not
disposed to concede.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-19
LIFE IS CRUSHED
OUT UNDER CAR
Stewart ]. Jenkins Victim of
CHASTITY Tragedy on Third
South Street.
RIG SMASHED BY SHOCK
SERIOUS ASSERTION is MADE
AGAINST MOTORMAN.

Stewart j. Jenkins, 40 years old, a
member of the saddlery firm of j. w.
Jenkins & Sons, was instantly killed
and his body dragged for fifty feet I'M
der car IS on the Wandamere line at
Sixth East and Third South streets,
about $40 o'clock last night, in col
lisiOn between the street car and
horse and buggy occupied by Mr. Jen-
kinS and Miss Nellie Griffith, dress
maker.
The tragedy was a most narrowing
ore The rig occupied by Mr.. jenkins
and Miss Griffith was struck as it went
north on Sixth East street, the Wan
damere car coming west at high rate
OF speed, according to Miss Griffith
story.
Both Mr.. jenkins and his companion
were thrown under the wheels of the
onrushing car, and how Miss Griffith
escaped serious injury or death is a
mystery, as she was carried under tie
car with Mr.. Jenkins until it was
stopped, fully fifty feet from the place
of the collision.
The car was in charge of MOtOrman
L. ]. Porter and Conductor John Erick-
son. Porter was taken to police head
quarters after the accident and held
there until II O'Clock, when he was re-
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BODY COMING FROM BUTTE
Mrs. Hiram KimbaII Suceumbs to
Stroke of Paralysis.

The body of Mrs. Hiram Kimball will
arrive from Butte, Mont. at SIS
o'clock this morning. Funeral services
will be held at o'clock this afternoon
in the Fifth ward meeting house
Hiram Kimball accompanies the body
of his wife on the sad Homecoming, the
couple having been on a visit in Butte
when Mrs. Kimball succumbed to a
stroke of paralysis. She came to Salt
Lake with her mother from England
when 8 years old, and had since resided
in this city
She leaves three daughters Mrs Clara
McCarrol and Mrs. y. j. Ford of
Butte and Mrs. Ella Feeny of Salt
Lake. Two sons also survive Hirs m
and Royal Kimball. Mrs. kimbaIl was
81 years old. -
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DEFENSE LAYING FOUNDATION FOR THE
IMPEACHMENT OF ORCHARDS TESTIMONY

Ali the members OF the Haywood
family were in the seats near the pTis-
ener when the case against William d.
Haywood was resumed at $3.50 a. m.
this morning in the Ada county dis
trict court. During the intermissiOn
since the adjournment on Saturday a
large number of witnesses have arrived
in Boise. The court room was only
about half filed, however, at the time
court opened.
J.. T. Nichols. who was deputy sheriff
Of Canyon county and in charge of the
lail at Caldwell at the time Of Or
chard's arrest after the murder of for
mer Governor Steunenberg, was the
yrst witness. Orchard. in his statement
bn the stand. said that while i'm ;he
Jail at Caldwell he received a letter
from Pettibone. The origuIsI of the
letter V as destroyed by Orchard, but
Nichols made copy of it before giving
IL to Orchard.
Letter Produced.
The copy of the letter ~-4S produced
and identified by Nich1is. A section
of the original eCvc.oDe WAS aiso pro
duced and identified. The letter yay
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not read The witness sail Sat. 4
was not signed.
Nichols testified that Fred Miller. A
lawyer of Spokane. had called upon
Orchard shortly after he was placed in
the Caldwell Jail Miller is now one of
the attorneys for the defense of HAY
wood. Nichols said that Orchard had
not sent a telegram summoning Miller.
but he had received a telegram signed
M" A copy of the telegram was pr,-
duced and identified by the witness.
Nichols was proceeding 10 tell of con-
Versation with Miller when the defense
raised objection after objection and.
after argument. the testimony was adj
mitted. Nichols said that Miller had
told him that money sent to Orchard
should be turned over to Miller as his
attorney.
Nichols was allowed to go without
any cross-eXamination, and Harry Or
chard was called.
Orchard Brought In.
The notorious prisoner witness on
tered the court room through the door
Continued on Page 2.
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leased and left the station with Super
intendent Arnold of the street car COM
pany.
Ugly Assertion Made.
1t is asserted that Porter. after
bringing his car to Il stop after the ac-
cidCnt. started it again while jenkins
body was still pinioned beneath it.
Miss Griffith crawled from under the
front end of the car as soon as it was
brought to stop. 81 had scarcely re-
gained my feet and realized what had
happened. and that Mr.. Jenkins was
still under the wheels, when / saw the
car move" she declared last night. Il
screamed that there was man under
meath and to stop the car. 1t was
stopped at once and they took him
out"
Miss Griffith's story was cOrrObOrated
by half a dozen eye-witnesses last
night. John w. jenkins, % G. street,
at midnight said he was positive the
car was started while the victim was
still beneath it. II shall take steps at
once to thoroughly investigate the mat
ter. and I'll see it through to the end.
Continued on Page 3.
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Poris. June 1s-The action Cf the
governments. III determining to prose
cute the agitators in the south of
France led to a lively debate in the
chamber of deputies TO day. hut after
tumultuoUs session the cabinet Sc
cured an indirect vote of confidence by
the large majority of Pa.
Premier ClemenCeau refused to agree
to the immediate discussion of an in
terpellatiJn on the subject of the gov
ernment's plans. and demanded that
the motion be postponed until June 26.
In d speech. which was frequently in
terrupted by noisy protests, he de-
clared that all means of Cancellation
were now exhausted and that as chief
of the government he was bound to en-
force respect for the law.
The committee at Argillers had set
itself up in place of the central gov
eminent If the chamber defeated the
pestponement of the Interpolation he
would Immediately counteTmand the
prosecutions and the chamber would
be responsible for the grave conse-
ouences.
The governments motion was finally
adopted. amid wild excitement, by Az
TO 15S votes.
Advices today from Narbonne show
that the situation there is worse than
at any tine since the vine growers
movement began. Dynamite has been
discovered or the railroads. in some
cases tie tracks have been removed
the telegraph lines have Deem cur with
tn. object of impeding the arrival OF
troops. : and revolving villagers have
been pulling up the pavemeuts and col
qecting material for barrica9Cs.
The excitement i'm the south has as
SIuCd dangerous proportions.
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EXPLOSION Of GELAT|AE
Five Men Blown to Fragments at
Williamsport, Pa.-Cause of
Horror Unknown.

WiliamspOrt. Pa. June 1S.-Fiye
men were killed in an explosion of the
gelatine department of the Sinnema-
honing Powder Manufacturing COM
pany today.
The dead:
Billmire Summers.
Edward Cole.
]. p. Nelson.
Harry Cole.
Samuel Shadman.
Only fragments of the bodies were
found. AS all the men in the building
were killed. it is impossible to ascertain
the cause of the explosion. Two men
a. work nearby were injured.
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THE DEATH RECORD.
John Person Titcomb.

Denver, Colo. June 1S.-John Peir-
son Titcomb. sole surviving officer of
the Texas navy, died yesterday at the
home of his son-in-law. A. 3. Frenzel,
in this city Mr.. Titcomb was born at
Salem, n. H., Dec. %, 1917. Going to
Galveston i'm 1887. he was appointed the
next year TO a mdshipman in the Tex
as navy and was soon advanced to the
rank of paNpaster.
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RUSSIAN SAPPERS MuTINY
Company Commander Killed-Five
Loyal Battslions Called Out, Who
Fired Upon Mutineers.

\ Kiev. June 1S.-I9atc tonight the y
y Twenty-first battalion of sappers. $50 y
= strong, mutinied. They killed the +
y commander Of the third company and y
= began firing vOllcys At random. Five y
y loyal battaliOnS were summoned to y
= quell the muIiny and called upon the y
y mutineers to surrender. They replied y
y with shots, wounding four Of the y
y loyal soldiers. The loyal battalion =
y fired and the mutineers fled. Two y
\ hundred and fifty-eight were arrest y
y cd. The otlers ESCAPED. y
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ORCHARD FOLLOWED BY
Ed BOYCE ON THE STAND
Former President Of the Federation Identified
the Miners Magazine as the
Official Organ.
Defense Paved the Way for Impeachment of the Testimony Of
Defense Paved the Way for Impeachment of the Testimony OF
the Actual Murderer of Steunenberg

Ell Paso Tex, June l8,-lt is reported here that Bill
Ackeman who was mentioned by Harry Orchard in his eS
timony in the Haywood trial at Boise has been in Cudad
Juarez Mexico opposite this city, for two weeks James
Kirwan, acting secretary of the Western Federation of
Miners has been advised 10 this effect and has an agent
here trying to locate Ackernan and induce him to go to
Boise as a witness for the defense,
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Professor A. S. Herschel.

London, June 1s.-Professor Alexander
Stewart Herschel. the distinguished
astronomer. died today at the Observa-
tory hospital, Slough Bucks, where his
grandfather. Sir William Herschel. and
Sir John Hersehel made most of their dis.
coveries.