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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
Jury Commissioners Again
Arrested.
Bond of Each Increased to
$4,000
States Attorney Says IL Is Not Acct
dental that Juries Have Been
Averse tc Convictions in All of the
Important Cases Presented Before
the Court---County Judges Take a
Hand I'm the Investigation.
BY United Press Wire.

Chicago, Sept. 20.-The county
judges today took hand in States
Attorney Wayman's investigation of
alleged Jury fixing when they ac-
cepted the resignation Of Jury Com.
missioner John ]. Holland and sus.
pended him from participation in any
jury drawings until after the investi-
CATION had been finished.
Holland, who, with w. ]. Rayburn.
real estate dealer. and Nicholas
Martin, private secretary of Alderman
(Hinky Dink) Kenna, was arrested
on a bench warrant charging con-
spiracy to thwart justice, today was
arrested the second time and COM
PEELED to furnish bonds in the sum of
$25, 900. Rayburn was also rearrested
and furnished The same bond, but
Martin has not yet been located by
the servers of the second warrant.
The action of the Judges was taken
at an executive meeting held this
morning, during which the states at
torney told them that he knew about
jury fixing. Wayman declared
~
crooked banker is tried. other crook
ed bankers are drawn for the jury;
whenever crooked union man is tried
other crooked union men are drafted
for the jury.
Wayman declared IL was not acci-
dental that, whenever an important
case is tried, he has TO cope with
fixed juries."
The judges decided to accept the
resignation of Holland and decided
that the boxes containing names,
from which these Jurors are drawn
can be turned over as evidence to
the criminal court.
After the meeting, the states at.
torney asked the, county court for
an appropriation of $4,000 to carry
on the investigation.
In connection with the states at
torney's investigation, a motion was
made during the trial of criminal
court case today which, IL sustained,
VIII have a,sweeping effect on prac.
tically all the criminal cases tried for
months. When counsel was ready
to examine veniremen IN the case of
Gustave Meyers, accused OF perjury,
Meyers attorney challenged the
whole array of veniremen on the
ground that the states attorney
had himself admitted that all jurIes
for years bad been improperly drawn.
The state was taken completely by
surprise and asked the court to ad-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
IN PERJURY
August Chamot Finds His
Hero Medals of No
Value Now. ~cll
BY United Press wire.

=
San Francisco. Sept 21.-August
Chamot, the hero of the Boxer up
rising" wearing the decoration of the
French Legion of Honor, medal
from the late Pope Leo XIII and with
testimonials to his bravery from a
half dozen nations, Is dying in pow
erty at his home in Larkspur, a San
Francisco suburb, after making vain
appeals for aid for his wife, who was
Miss Betsy Dollar, of New York. his
nurse, whom he secretly married last
Thursday.
Chamot is the man who rislxed his
life when the Boxers were besieg-
ing Pekin in 1897 to obtain provis.
ions for the 4,200 foreigners and
Christians in the besieged city. He
obtained supplies enough to last rs
days and the whole world rang with
applause for his deed.
Today, turned down by those who
then lavished gifts upon him, Chamot
sent the following message to friends
In his native country:
II am dying. VIII you pay my fun
eral expenses?"
The marriage of Chamot and Miss
Dollar, who has nursed him during
the three years OF his illness, an i'll
ness that must soon end in death, re-
vealed a romance with both a SOM
ber and heroic side. Chamot believes
that his name may OF value to his
wife when he is gone, for ne still
Is hopeful that the public will remem-
ber his heroism of dozen years ago.
and come to the aid of himself and
wife. Fpa
chamot was once wealthy but he
had but fifteen cents when he was
married.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
SACRED SONG SIC
WRITER rs DEAD
BY United Press Wire.

East Liverpool. Ohio, Sept. 21.--
w. l.. Thompson. aged 62, Well known
sacred song writer, died in the Pres
byterian hospital. New York. this
morning. Mr.. Thompson become fa-
nous as a musical composer and has
been at the head of the Thompson
Music Publishing company of this
city, for many years. Returning from
an European trip, he became i'll on
the vessel and was placed in the hos
pital when the ship docked. He was
n member of most prominent east
ern Ohio family.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
DENIED RIGHT TO
EXAMINE THAW
BY United Press Wire.

Pittsburg, Sept. 21.-With the en-
tire court comforting. the court of
appeals today denied the application
OF Attorney +. b. Kahl for a COM
mission to examine Harry X. Thaw
as TO his sanity. The application
had been made In the interest OF j.
ii. Graham OF New York, who al
legged that Thaw owed him s2,-
95477
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
YoUR'RE sURELY RIGHT

The aged gag about paying Off
cials higher salaries to eliminate
graft is again on its rounds as glibly
as though 1t could be shown that a
crook could be made straight by
raising his salary--Columbus News.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
IN COLORADO. NEvER,

Out in Colodado there's a legisla-
tor who proposes to make 1t a misde-
meanor for one man to call another
man liar. Still even with a law
it merely a misdemeanor it
is likely to be a case of suicide now
and then-Toledo Times.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21

hat than her friends Mrs. So-and-So
did.
II Is this style OF conversation
more than anything else that fright
ems off men who are intending hus-
bands.-Farmers and Drover's Jour
nal
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
LAND FOR
HOMESTEADING

Washington. Sept. 21.--About 163,.
900 acres of land in Millard. Toole,
Beaver and Juan counties, Utah wa
TO day designed by Acting secretar.
of the Interior Pierse &C coming with
in the provisions OF the enlarged
homestead act.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21

ALMOST HOURLY OCCURRENCE
Count that day an exception whose
Cow, descending sun doesn't witness
The police after Jack Johnson for ex-
|ceeding the speed limit"--Anaconda
Standard.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
COMING SPORT

When the aviators get so expert
that they can catch a pigeon, say, or
hawk, in the air, and put salt on
its tail, no fair or exposition will be
complete without aerial sports-Cleve-
land Leader.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
A GLORIOUS DEATH

A man in Russia got four months
because he married twenty women.
A better way to have disposed of him
would have been to turn him over
to the women-Buffalo Express.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
WHEN WISDOM Is FOLLY-HE
MUST

1t is gravely to be feared that by
the time the President has made the
round OF banquet tables through the
West his waist line will indicate the
wisdom IL its owner beginning again
to tee his own ball-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
ESTABLISHING A STATUS

Secretary Nagel has been shaking
up the rank and file of the census
bureau, it appears. Hereafter every
employ will count--Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21

Since President Taft discontinued
boosting Aldrich his speeches have
become popular. But that laudation
OF the Rhode Islander was a wet
blanket.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21

Mrs. Hartman is now the richest
woman with $1OO,OOO,OOO to bank on.
Mrs. Russell Sage and Mrs. Anne
Weightman OF Philadelphia have each
about 100000
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
UNUSED TO 'EM POSSIBLY

UNUSED ~ 'EM POSSlBbf
The Rev. DR.. Hay OF Fort Worth
district, in sermon declared: I'VE
need clean editors" The doctor evil
IDENTIFY overlooked the fact that a
Texan was recently drowned in a
bathtub.--New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21

referred to AZ a ''skyscraper" which
prompts the Lawrence World to re-
mark that the sky must hang pretty
low in Atkinson n.--Kansas City Star.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
COST OF LIVING 81

COST OF LIVING STILL ANNoYS
Five days and three hours from
New York to London is an accomp-
lished fact But, the average Of human
happiness has not apparently chang
|ed--Boston Herald
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
TRUSTS IN GRAVE DANGER

1t is said that the undertakers Are
organizing a nationwide trust. This
seems to be running the TRUST busi-
ness into the ground-St. Paul Die
patch. e...,.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
GUMDROPS COMPARATIVELY
NnIrDICIIINn
NOURISHING

"Trip Made on Impulse" says q
headline on DR.. Cook. That is even
a lighter diet than tallow candles and
shoestrings-Washin Times
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
PRESS OPINIONS
HAD HIS HAMMER

HAD HIS HAMMER
1t must be adlnitted upon what
seems to be incontrovertible evidence
that Peary nailed the Stars and
Stripes to the north pole as he claim
ed in his first message after long alb
sence. 1t is unquestionable that he
had his hammer with him---You ngs-
town Vindicator.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
COMPLETE
CHANGE NEEDED
President Speaks His Mind
Relative to Interstate
Commerce Laws.
SETS MINDS TO THINKING
Proposes a Crusade Against
Railroads
Policies Practically Those
of Roosevelt.

Very Significant md Forceful State
ments are Made by the President
While Discussing One of the Burn
ing Topics of the Day Before a
Large Gathering I'm Front of Iowa
Capitol.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
THE SWEET INFLUENCg

The Pennsylvania pastor who offers
boxes OF candy to girls who bring
young men to church evidently be-
lieyes IN sweet persuasion as a NOR
al force--Baltinaore American.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21

They are sending chaffeurs to Sing
Sing in New York. 1t isn't absolutely
safe to kill man any more even il
one has mortgaged his house to buy
an automobile.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
CHIIiF DIFFICuLTY

Senator Gore insists that the Wesi
Is the real seat of government pow
er. The trouble is TO make Rhode
Island see 1t that way-Kansai, City
Star.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
POPULAR OFFICIAL

Secretary Knox has created q new
division In the state department and
has hired some more hands. This is
the sort of thing that makes a secre-
tary popular among the faithful work
ers-Indianapolis News.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21
Sept. q In American History.

1716-Great ire In New York from the
Battery northward along North
river: Trinity church and 500 other
buildings burned.
1s20-Josepb Rodman Drake, poet,
died; born Aug. Z, 1895.
1s92-The grand jury at Plttsburg In
dicted 167 Of the Homestead riot
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Sun sets 5:55. rises 5:43; moon sets,
e:JO p. m; planet Mercury visible.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21

A LOW HUNG SKY
A six-story building IN Atchinson is
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-21

Beautiful patterns in exclusive de-
signs at
1t MS. JENNIE THOMAS
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
NO. 40

cause it took too much of his time
from his farm.
Samuel Hawkes. pays the largest
tax of anyone, white or black, in
Calvin township. He owns 500
acres of land and is said on good
authority to be worth $4,000. G..
w. Bum, another Negro in the
township, owns two saw mills and
much real estate, and is reputed to
be worth a similar amount. Cor
nelius Lawson, who has been SUI
pervisor of the township for ten
gears, is a Negro. He has lived
here since 1858 and was elected
justice of the peace in 1878. retain
ing the office until three years ago.
In 1889 he was elected supervisor
and has been reelected yearly ever
since. He is a farmer, as is prac-
tically every other Negro man in
the township.
There are eight schools in the
township, four of which are taught
by Negroes and controlled by Ne
gro school officials. Regular serv-
ices are held in three churches.
two of which are Methodist and
Baptist respectively, are attended
by Negroes and have Negro pas
tors. Both have neat and attrac-
tive buildings. There is a Negro
band in the community and there
are two Negro physicians in the
township.
The ability of the Negro for
self government is evidenced by the
fact that there is no apparent fric-
ton between whites and blacks at
election time and that the affairs
of the township are conducted as
well politically as are those of any
in the county. For six years it has
been the boast of the Calvin tax
collector that he was one of the
first to secure and pay over all of
the township taxes.-Kalamazoo
Evening Press.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATION.

The idea should not obtain that
Denver has no business men. This
city has probably as many in pro
portion to population as any other
town. We have two successful fl
nancial companies, two drug stores
a grocery store, several coal and
wood dealers, a first class milliner,
lawyers, doctors, dentists, preach
ers, and host of politicians. All
of these would be directly benefit
ed by a commercial organization
that would bring them in closer
touch with each other, and the
masses. And again, this or gani-
zation could be the means of great
ly increasing the number of col
ored employees in Denver. When
men of a race reach that stage in
their development that they can
maintain financial and loan COM
pany for more than seventeen
years, own clear of all encum.
brances over ten thousand dollars
worth of real estate, besides having
disbursed many thousands in divi-
dends, and expenses, such men have
reached the point where they can
help others as well as themselves
Such men are not commercial eX-
periments. They are men of calm
Judgment and safe counsellers. We
can organize for almost every pur-
pose but the improvement of our
financial condition. We can build
great churches and schools, spend
hours, days, and months seeking to
promote the political success of a
white man, but not moment tc
spare for commercial organization
The pity of it
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
RACE NEWS
oArHERrp FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Fifteen citizens of Alton, ILL.,, in
cluding Mayor Edward Beall, all
OF whom were members of the city
council ten years ago, must pay the
state of Illinois $2,500.53 as the
cost of the court contest started by
the refusal of the school board, ten
years ago, to admit the children OF
Scott Bibb to the schools. The de-
cision holding the fifteen men re-
sponsible for the cost was handed
down by Chief Justice Hand Of the
Supreme Court of Illinois. 1t was
stated that the only recourse of the
defendants was to get relief bill
passed by the present council for
their reimbursement.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY JUNE 19, 1909.

white wings and see how many
Negroes are enlisted. How much
better it would be for the Negroes
of Denver to have twenty, thirty,
or fifty men at work helping to
clean the streets instead of one big
place to one lone Negro Let these
politicians who desire to be lead
ers do something tangible. The
white merchants, bankers and bust
ness men demands return for the
places given to politicians in the
world of business. For, after all,
successful business is the sum of
all living. And it is of greater
value to the business and profess
sional men of our race to have fif-
ty Negroes regularly employed by
thc city than one. This is along
the Jewish idea of getting most for
your money. Get the most for
your sufferage. Let the Negro pol
itician understand that he must de-
liver the goods. More money for
the masses.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
A NEGRO STORE.

1t was a real pleasure the other
day to walk by a colored man s
place of business and look in.
First of all the walks in front had
been swept clean and the windows
washed clean. The interior was
plainly discernible from the walk.
The stock of goods, through small
was neatly and tastefully arranged
on the shelves, the window decor
alton displayed judgment and abil-
ity. The place was clean and neat,
and the owner looked the part.
This tells its own story if you want
trade make your places inviting.
1t matters not what your business
may be, selling groceries. drugs,
taking roomers, etc, keep your
place clean and inviting. The Ne
gro business man owes this to his
patrons. Get your business be-
fore the people.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
CASS COUNTY NEGRO COL.
ONY ONE OF RICHEST
TO BE FOUND.

Niles, Mich, June lin the
township of Calvin, Cass county,
there has grown up within the
past few decades community af-
fording much material for study to
those persons who persistenly decry
the equality of races. 1t is no less
than a community of Negroes over
running that township and part OF
Porter who, thrown entirely upon
their own resources, have developed
unexpected power of self govern
ment, marked ability in financial
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19

Negro gladiators have figured
prominently in the fistic competi-
ton for nearly sixty years, but
never before have they held such a
copper riveted strangle hold on
everything in sight worth having
as they hold at this moment. Not
only is Jack johnson champion of
America and of the world, but Joe
Jeanette, another American Ne
gro, is champion of France, and a
third one, Sam Langford, is cham
pion of England Ireland and
Wales. Langford recently defeat
ed Ian Hague, the English heavy
weight, for the title in four rounds.
Samuel is now hot on the trail of
Johnson. The pair met once, and
the latter received the decision,
but Langford points to the fact
that when he and johnson met
some years ago he (Langford)
weighed about 140 pounds to 200
for johnson and that the latter got
so spirited "a humping from the
smaller man that he has no further
desire for meeting. Langford de-
clares that he has now grown much
heavier and would enter the ring
at about ITO pounds. At this
weight he is confident he would be
able to make it still more interest
ing for the champion.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
Potato Sour.

Pare and cut into dice three pota.
toes, cover with water. add a piece OF
butter and little onion. II liked. and
boil until done. Then add a quart of
sweet milk. While this heats make
dough by rubbing one tablespoonful of
lard into a small cup Of flour with
half teaspoonful of baking powder in
1t; add milk to make q stiff dough. roll
thin. cut into strips or small squares.
drop in when milk comes to a boil.
cover, and boil ten minutes; season
with pepper. salt and a little finely
chopped parsley or thyme.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
A LITTLE POLITICAL.

We wonder sometimes if any of
our people realize the vast amount
of time spent working politics. We
have more politicians among us
than any other class. This class
is constantly increasing. They do
much for the other fellow and lit
tie for the race. Here in Denver
the number of unemployed politi-
clans is largely out of proportion
to the population. Almost every
colored man you meet has a tale OF
woe. All want to be leaders and
at the top. The governor and may
or would have few places left ii
they should undertake to hand the
big pieces of pie to our boys. And
our boys want only the big pieces.
Denver is a big city with many
miles of streets to be cleaned. TO
do this work small army is main
tanned. Watch this "army OF
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
Commercial
Organization
THINGS TO BE SEEN. DEVELOP THE COMMERCIAL
SPIRIT. ORGANIZE TO PROMOTE sue
CESS. A CLEAN PLACE OF BUSINESS.
THINGS SEEN.

THINGS SEEN.
The white man has nothing, he
will not turn into money. His
dream from the cradle to the grave
is money,-more money. He seeks
alone and in combinations to keep
Lnefore the world the wares he has
for barter. The West is proverbial
in this. He was a stranger and
we took him in" From the golden
days of the boom out here the world
has been filled with the unsur-
passed resources of the mighty and
resistless West. The white bust
ness man is busy at all times pre-
pairing the way for the strange. The
daily papers are full of the gilt
tering promises of his daring fl
nancial schemes, or heavy with
minute details of agricultural, and
mining ventures. He leaves no
stone unturned that the world may
not know what he has for sale and
understand the possible financial
success he knows all his schemes
contain. These things to be seen
are prepared and presented by
commercial clubs and bodies OF ex-
perienced business men who seen
in every settler increased profit in
his business. Almost every town
has its commercial club or its care
fully organized body of enthusiasts
who believe the wealth of Golconda
to be within the suburbs of their
town. Likewise almost every class
of citizens possess some form OF
commercial organization among
themselves devoted to the upbuld-
ing of trades and labor. The Ne
gro alone possesses no such organi-
zation, and he goes along through
like talking big of business ven
lures and conducting a haphazard
proposition of which his own peo-
pie are ignorant. The Denver Ne
gro business man does not get the
trade of his o,Un people because he
does not 90 after 1t. The stranger
within our gate get an eye full OF
massive building housing, great
dry goods, hardware and grocery
emporiums, belonging to white
men. He rides to the parks on a
street railway built and maintained
almost entirely by white labor
This is due largely to the fact that
our colored business men are not
alive to the value of getting before
the people in a tangible way. The
many visitors and possible resi-
dents should know something OF
our business men and their posi-
bilities before coming here. Pre-,
pare them to see things indicative
of progress and prosperity.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
coLoRED BISHOP FLEES-
RACE RIOT IMMINENT

Greenville. Miss, June IA
Threatened with lynching because
he rebuked telephone operator for
not calling his daughter " Miss,
Bishop Z. w. hampton of the A.
NJ. E. church, the most prominent
Negro in Mississippi, has fled from
his home here. A race riot is i'm
minent