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The Colorado statesman., 1908-10-03

Washington, Sept. 23.-No story
concerning President Roosevelt in
long time has aroused so much
interest as the one to the effect
that the main purpose of his pro-
lected visit to Africa is not big
game at all but to study the Ne
gro on his native soil. We are
told that Mr.. Roosevelt believes
the race question is the gravest
one confronting American states
manship today, and that a study
OF the Negro in Africa may go a
fong way toward solving the prob
lem of the Negro in America.
There is an intimation that Mr..
Roosevelt is convinced that, upon
retiring from the presidency, he
can devote his time no more profit
ably than to a study of this ques-
ton.
Here lies a field of endeavor
with possibilities of achievement
vast enough to satisfy the stupen-
dous energy of even Theodore
Roosevelt. If he can take the
lead in a solution cf this problem
so perplexing that the wisest grow
grave in contemplating it, he will
have place in history unexcelled
by any other American-unexcelled
in the history of man anywhere.
No other question has SO en-
crossed the best thought of the
present generation of Americans,
and a solution is no nearer at hand
than it was generation ago,
while the need of a solution is
much more imperative. 1t is said
President Lincoln had in mind
some scheme of colonization, and
colonization is the only thing that
has been proposed in the way of
solution. The obstacles in the
way of colonization are so vast, so
apparently insuperable, that the
bravest have qualified before them.
One great man expressed the view
when he said that separation was
absolutely impossible. Can Roose-
welt overdome these obstaclse? He
probably come as near as any liv-
ing man. Certainly the job is big
enough tosatisfy him and to keep
him busy the rest of his natural
life.
In discussing the matter it must
be remembered that President
Roosevelt has never said publicly
that he believes in colonizing the
Negro. But it is well known that
he appreciates the necessity of do
ing something in situation that
is all the time growing more acute,
and that he has given some of his
best thought to the problem. The
wears since the civil war have DEM
onstrated that the races cannot
dwell together in amity, that in
enforced propinquity of dwelling
The Colorado statesman., 1908-10-03

make a more enduring cover for
the grave of Prince Hall in Copps
Hill burying ground. Mr.. Boyd
was authorized 10 lay the matter
before the grand lodges.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-10-03
English Dress for Indians.

1t seems not improbable that the
dress adopted by educated India,
which is more or less of the western
type. will also be adopted by the peo-
pie at large in the future. The fond
ness OF the orientals for bright colors
may give rise to gorgeous neckties
and gold-laced collars.-Hindustan Re-
rev, Allahabad.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-10-03

to enter the employ of the Govern
ment Printing Office, and he sub
sequently became editor of the
New National Era, a newspaper
devoted TO the colored race. He
was a veteran of the Civil War.
The Colorado statesman., 1908-10-03

Washington, d c., Sept. 22,-
Lewis FL. Douglas, son of the late
Frederick Douglas, died in Wash
ington Saturday of paralysis. He
was the first Negro composition
The Colorado statesman., 1908-10-03
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Memphis, Sept. PA move
ment is on foot here to organize a
stock company for the purpose of
establishing a large department
store for the Negro citizens. The
movement is being headed by w.
j. Harvey, who says stock will be
put on the market shortly at $40
a share.
Bluefeld, w. Va, Sept. II
The body of Lou Stafford, a 10
year. old white girl, who has been
missing since Monday night, was
found tonight in clump of bush
es in the courthouse yard at
Welsh, w. Va. The child was
strangled to death after having
been assaulted. There are threats
of lynching. A white man is sus-
pected, but no arrest has been
made.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
PRUSSIA TO GRANT WOMEN EDUCATION EQUAL TO MEN,
Forced Modern Conditions Prepare
CoEducaton in Universities Elaborate
Begin Six Years and Lead Up to MatreuIation.

having special courses laid out for
them, such as Latin. After two
years they will again be arranged in
divisions, classical or modern higher
study respectively. Then after four
years work they will, under normal
conditions, be admitted to examina-
tions for naturalization to the univer-
stiles.
Up to this time their education will
have been carried ON in separate
schools, but in the university co-edu-
cation will begin under conditions
similar to those governing men stu
dents Those who at the end of the
seventh school year do not elect to
specialize for university course may
continue the ordinary courses until
they reach the age of sixteen, after
which they may leave school or take
two years in modern languages, mu-
sic or domestic accomplishments, or
they may take four years special
training as teachers.
This scheme has been under dis
cussion and preparation for a year
There has been an agitation for equal
privileges for the sexes since the early
eighties, and most of the other Ger
man States have already granted
them.
Frau Helene Lange, the noted edu-
cationalist, has been a leading advo-
cate of this intellectual emancipa-
ton. Professor Adolf Harnack, of
the University of Berlin, said that
women now have equal rights with
men to enter all the technical schools,
with the exception of the art acade-
mics, and that this prohibition is like
ly soon to be removed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01

Young Turk Party in 1902, but who
was recently restored to his rank as
Field Marshal and returned to Con-
stantinople, tells an interesting story
of his exile and Imprisonment at
Brussa. He says that before his de-
portation his life was attempted four
teen times, his struggle against the
infamous palace rule involving him
in dangers of all kinds.
when they failed to murder me, ;"
he said, "by secret means I was de-
ported without trial or warning, and
even while imprisoned the systematic
precautions did not cease.
"It Is the. fashion to say that the
sovereign is ignorant of the fearful
crimes committed in his name, but
His Majesty must have sheaves of re-
ports in my handwriting reciting the
mysteries of the camarilla for years
past. Every Ottoman functionary
was compelled, whether he liked it
or not, to be an accomplice to a great
er or lesser degree in the wholesale
robbery which has made Turkey
byword Comparatively honest men
were drawn into the meshes, and
once there it was impossible to resist
rowing in the same boat. To refuse
meant to become the object of perse-
cution and to pay dearly for one's
temerity in the end
81 ask you whether the mere grant
ing of a Constitution at the swords
point is sufficient to blot out the
memory of the sufferings of thou
sands like myself, who have under
gone far worse physical and mental
tortures than I have. If the Sultan
henceforth sets his face against the
abuses he formerly fathered he has
nothing to fear, but he must be
warned that the slightest symptom of
tampering with the nations rights
and liberties will be the signal for
his downfall That he has for so
long time been unmolested is large
ly the fault of one or two European
Powers, whose interest lay in main
tanning Turkeys weakness as a pow
er. We now look chiefly to Great
Britain and France to foster our lib
critics"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01

Berlin.-German homes and Ger
man newspapers have been far more
occupied during the end of the week
with the Prussian Governments de-
cree granting higher education to
women than by discussions on Ger
man and British naval ornaments or
the meeting of the two sovereigns.
The granting of educational opportu-
mites for girls and women equal to
those of men is regarded as marking
a deep change in German life, where,
more than in the Western States,
women have been considered as the
keepers of the home and the workers
in minor industries.
The Introductory paragraphs of the
decree of the Ministry of Education,
which has been approved by the EN-
peror, recite the reasons for the
change in the system. Modern life,
says the decree, develops an increas-
ing disinclination on the part of men
of the upper classes to marry, and
more girls in the upper and middle
classes are prevented from becoming
wives and mothers. 1t is desirable,
therefore. that the surplus Of young
women should have a chance of pre-
pairing themselves for professional
callings, and that they should be
trained in the higher mental func-
tions.
According to the scheme, girls are
to be educated in all studies embraced
in a specially arranged curriculum,
beginning at a minimum age of six
years. At the end of the seventh
school year the pupils will begin to
differentiate In their studies. those
preparing for advanced instruction
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
FIG Old Loss MILLIONS.
All Records Broken in South Carolina
---Five Known Dead,

Columbia, S. C.-Reports received
from all sections of the State indicate
that the present flood is the most
damaging ever recorded In South
Carolina. The flooded area covers
practically the entire State, and at
many points the rivers are from two
to six feet higher than ever known,
not excepting the great floods of
1912, 1885 and 1903. The railroads
are operating few trains, and no eff
tort is made to maintain schedules.
Many places in the State are iso-
lated. More than a dozen toll and
public bridges crossing the large riv-
ers have been swept away, and at
least two steel railroad bridges have
gone down. Many of the dams along
the rivers, erected for the protection
OF the fertile bottom lands, have been
swept away, and the large corn crops
along the different streams are a to-
tai loss. The total loss Of life thus
far reported is five.
1t is impossible to estimate the
damage to the farming interests
throughout the State, but it will run
Into the millions. 1t is estimated that
the damage to the cotton crop alone
SSA eAAhSo 6AOatCA ludu tu0 TOTAL
loss of property resulting from the
great food of 1903 in this section.
A dispatch from Anderson saws
that the storm damage in Anderson
County will amount to hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and no train
service is expected for the next ten
days.
A dispatch from Camden says the
crops along the rivers and creeks in
that section are total loss, and I'M
told damage has been done to the
corn and cotton crops on the uplands.
Five persons were drowned when the
toll bridge across the Wateree River
went down-George RADON and his
son and three negro women.
The floods are heaviest in Western
South Carolina and Eastern Georgia.
Property loss is enormous, and the
railroads are among the principal suf-
ferers through trestles and bridges
being washed away, washouts along
miles of tracks and cave-ins which
have buried the tracks in places un-
der hundreds of tons of earth.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01

Il 500, 900 shares on the Stock Ex-
change became subject of investi-
cation by the Exchange, suspended
and d. w. Noel has been made as
signee.
Wall Street was inclined to regard
the suspension as bear" failure,
brought about by inability to cover
shorts.
At the height of the boom markets
of several years ago, A. o. Brown &
Co. did an enormous business, said
to have been larger than any other
brokerage house at one time. The
firm had offices in Buffalo, Chicago,
Cleveland; Detroit, Erie, Utica and
Toronto and Paterson, N. ]. 1t was
organized in 1902, the members be-
ing A. o. Brown, G. Lee Stout, 3. F.
Buchanan, Samuel c. Brown and w.
Rhea Whitman.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
SECRETLY MURDERED 10 FOR THE SULTAN
za By exead Of Turkish Secret Police Explains Methods Of camaa
The System Of EspionageEuad Pasha, Field Marshal and
Adherent of Young Turks Tells of His Escapes

London. -Zia Bey, the former head
of Turkeys Secret Police, who is a
refugee in London, in an interview
said:
Il am glad to be here, and it is
not possible that will ever return to
Turkey. You must remember that
at the bidding of my superiors | have
been the means of running Ministers,
officers and Government officials, and
10 Turks, many of them members of
the most honorable families, disap-
peared during my term of office.
1T mattered not who were the
persons to be removed, the orders
from the Yildiz Kiosk were implicitly
obeyed. To be denounced by the Sc
cret police was sufficient to ruin any
one. Can you wonder that Turkey
has seen the last of me?
THE Porte as an administrative
machine ceased to exist twenty-five
years ago; since then all the power
has been centred in the Yildiz Kiosk.
do not blame the Sultan entirely,
nor the Chamberlains entirely. Their
power rested in a sort of working
agreement, which enabled them to
manipulate the resources of the en-
pire in their own interests. Izzet
Pasha, the Sultan's secretary, is re-
puted to have saved $7,500,000,
which he has invested in the United
States. The Sultan himself has at
least SIS, 100000 invested in Europe,
this amount being his percentage on
brides from contractors for war
stores and army and navy supplies.
81 often reflected that this could
not go on forever, but the end came
quicker than, most of us expected"
Zia Bey explained the difficulties
he had in making his escape from
Turkey. The Sultan, he said, warned
him to fee, and he had to shoot a
man dead who tried to prevent his
embarkation despite the disguise he
had adopted.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
PLUNGED 1000 FEET
INTO MINE, s KILLED
Runaway Truck Crashes Into Car
Filled With Men.
SPEED OF FORTY MILES AN HOUR
Miners Killed at the Warrior Shaft,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, as They Were
Starting For Home-Headrqan
Arrested.

i Starting For Home-Headrqan
Arrested.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-Five men were
! killed and many injured at the War
rior Run Colliery of the Lehigh Val
| ley Coal Company, when runaway
mine car dashed into car full of
miners who were being pulled up a
| 2000-foot slope.
The dead: James Gallagher, aged
| twenty-seven years, car runner, sim
Egle; julius Kurtz, aged forty years,
miner, single; Frank Ostrolsk, aged
thirty-seven years, married, survived
by wife and two children; Samuel
Ruscave, aged sixteen years, door
tender; John Forkalshak, aged fifty
one years, married, survived by wife
and three children.
William Naywadey, aged forty
years, single, and Ignatz Gowlsky,
aged thirty-two years, are fatally in
jured. Twelve others were more or
less injured
The days work had been finished,
and the heavy wooden car, with four
seats running crosswise, was filled
with men, eager to gain the surface
and hasten home.
The slope is 1000 feet long, run
ming from the surface down to vein
which is about 900 feet under ground.
When the car reached the third
switching station on the slope the
men heard sudden roar, and were
appalled, upon looking up the slope to
see huge mine car rushing down at
them with terrific speed.
About half of the men were able
to jump from the truck and thus save
their lives, though all, were more or
less injured. The runaway, heavily
laden with refuse, ran up the rope to
which the truck was fastened and
plunged down among the mine work
ers. Both cars plunged 1000 feet
down the slope.
Investigation showed that the acct
dent was the fault of John Stimcon,
aged twenty-six years, single, who
was headman at the slope.
Stimcon failed to handle the load
ed car properly, and it bacame I'M
manageable 1t dashed down the
branch track, jumped the switch on
to the main track, and plunged into
the ascending truck while travelling
at speed of forty miles an hour.
The descending car weighed several
tons and dashed the men in the front
OF the truck to instant death.
Mine Superintendent Boyle arrest
ed Stimcon for criminal negligence,
and censured the company for not
having head block at the end of the
slope so that no car could gain the
main slope. even though it did run
away on the branch.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
oRTs s71.ose MORE PENSIONERS.
Warmers i'm Manten-
eofBu

Washington, D. Can increase
of 371,OS9 pensions issued, with a
saving of $1,343,666 out of the re-
duced appropriations for the main
tenance of the bureau during 1906
'0S, covering Commissioner of Pen
sions Warmers administration, as
against the period of 10000, is an
nounced in a compilation of figures
given out at the Interior Department.
The figures are taken from Commits
sioner Warmers report, which will be
issued shortly. Statement follows:
From 1901 to 1904, inclusive,
there were issued 516,251 certificates
of pension. From 1905 to 1908, in
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
Newsy Paragraphs.

Naval authorities discussed plan
to paint warships darker color.
Turkey recalled its ambassadors at
Berlin and Vienna and its minister
at Belgrade.
The Dutch at Curacao stoned a
Brazilian schooner taking Venezuelan
goods to Willemstad.
Australia granted permission to the
American sailors to land at Sydney
bearing arms, but without ammuni-
ton.
A break of about So a bale in Oc-
tober cotton caused a bull panic on
the Cotton Exchange, New York City.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
AUGUSTA SWEPT BY
FLOOD; LIVES LOST
Dam C0IIapses and Streets Are
Under Six Feet of Water.
CROP DAMAGE is IMMENSE
Scores of Lives Have Been Lost in
Georgia and the Carolinas--Fiye
Feet of Water in Augustus Chief
Street--City in Darkness.

Atlanta, Ga.-The foods in the
Carolinas and Georgia eliminated in
the breaking of the big dam, six miles
from Augusta, which diverts the
water from the Savannah River into
the canal at that point. The great
food of water let loose soon found it's
way into the city, and from Fifteenth
street to the eastern boundary Au-
gusta is under from six to twelve feet
of water.
The big bridge across the Savannah
River went down in the rush of
waters, and the dam at the lock
seven miles above the city collapsed,
adding to the food
The Nixon warehouses, containing
thousands of bales of cotton, caught
fire. The city is in darkness and
boats are being used in the streets
All wires are down.
There were three deaths caused
by the food in Augusta. The damage
to the city and immediate surround
ings, it is estimated, will reach half
million dollars.
ne UNION OCaLlOn is IN ten feet or
water, and in the residence district
in Green street the water is six feet
deep and slowly rising. The Sacred
Heart Church is in six feet of water
The Southern and the Georgia Rail-
ways have been unable to move any
trains over their regular lines All
traffic was detoured by way of Nash
vile. Trains are from twenty-four to
thirty-six hours late
A dispatch from Camden, S. c.,
reports two lives lost and nineteen
missing as the result of the washing
away of the steel bridge over the
Wateree River at that place.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
The Nnfionnl Game.

Larry Laioie did not make hit in
the recent Cleveland-B Boston series.
BridweIl is playing great fielding
game at short field for the Giants
Mike Donlin was the first National
League player to make 100 safe hits.
Durham, an Indianapolis pitcher,
has been purchased by the New York
Nationals.
"Sh0w me team that works three
first class pitchers often and I'll show
you team that wins more games
than one that uses six or eight pitch
ers. says Arthur Irwin.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
Harvard Has SEC, OOO, 900 In

Cambridge, Mass. - According to
the report of the Harvard College
treasurer, the investment funds Of
the college amount to $19,977,911,
and the annual income is $945,176.
General investments aggregate
$17,344,229. Over $5,00O,O00 are
invested in railroad bonds, over ST.
GEO, 900 In railroad stock, $4,000, 900
in real estate and $1,000, 900 in trac-
tion bonds. Besides, over $4,000, 900
are invested in sundry bonds and ST.
1E5,0O0 in mortgages and notes.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
Feminine Notes.

While a successful surgical opera
ton was being performed on Mrs.
Thomas TrebeIl, the steamship Ce-
dric was stopped three hours in mid
ocean.
Jane Adams, DR. Cornelia De Bey
and Mrs. Emmons Blaine, whose
terms on the Chicago School Board
have expired, have not been reap
pointed
Before she left for Cowes with the
King the other day Queen Alexandra
caused 1t TO be made known that the
sheath gown will not be tolerated at
her court
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
WOMAN MOB LEADER A SUICIDE.
Takes Poison When Arrested For
Murder in Springfield Riots.

Springfield, Ill.-Kate Howard,
mob leader and rioter, with police
record and conspicuous for years
about the streets of Springfield be-
cause of her $50 pounds of avoir-
dupois, committed suicide shortly af-
ter being taken into custody on an
indictment voted by the special Grand
Jury charging her with murder
Poison swallowed at her homie just
before accompanying an officer to the
county Njail caused death before the
woman was put behind the bars.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
MEAT PRICES SLUMP.
Good News For Housewives in ADJ
vices From Packing Houses.

Good News For Housewives in Adj
vices From Packing Houses.
Omaha, Neb.-Prices of fresh meat
have taken a tumble and packing
house managers report that still fur
Their reduction will be made in beef,
pork and mutton. AS result of the
reduction in prices the volume of
business in the South Omaha packing
houses has increased almost 100 per
cent Sirloin steaks have dropped
from twenty and twenty-five cents a
pound to fifteen cents; ribs fell from
eighteen to fifteen cents; pork chops
have fallen from fifteen cents to
twelve cents, and prices on other
grades of meat are decreased proper
tionately.
The downward trend in prices be-
gan two months ago, when the grass
fed cattle from the great ranges be-
gan coming to market, and will con-
tinue until that grade is disposed of.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
The Eield of Inhnr.

A new union of carpenters has been
formed at Virgues, Porto Rico.
The Waterville (Me.) textile work
ers have applied for charter from
the United Textile Workers.
The Scotch Shipbuilding Employ
ers' Federation and the mems union
are arranging for joint agreement.
and the mems union has appointed
seven well-lknown representatives to
draft constitution.
The Governor Of Porto Rico has
recommended to the Legislature a
law creating labor bureau ON the
island.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
Prominent People.

Fairfax l.. Cartwright, the British
minister at Munich, has been appoint
ed ambassador at Vienna,
lightweight thoroughbred race
horses belonging to James r.. Keene
and James B. Haggin were shipped
to South America.
Osman Ma Miami Pasha has been
appointed Minister of War of Turkey,
to succeed Redjeb Pasha, who died
suddenly Of apoplexy.
Governor Magoon, of Cuba, pre-
diets that no trouble Of airy sort will
follow the evacuation Of Cuba by
American troops next winter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-01
EARLE CAPTIVITY" BEATER.

Charge Of Choking Soul Mate Lands
Him in Cell at Monroe, N. Y.
Monroe, N. Enlarged with hav-
ing 'choked and beaten his wife with
his fist" Ferdinand Pinney Earle,
who only year ago sent his first
wife to her home in France so he
might marry his affinity" Julia
Kuttner, was arrested in his home
here and locked in cell in the coun-
ty Jail in Goshen. 1t was alleged
Earle had attacked his wife many
times in the last three months, and
that the young woman had suffered
many indignities" at his hands.
The arrest of Earle caused a tre-
mendous sensation here, as it came
exactly year after the first news of
the harmonious agreement" between
Earle and his first wife to part.