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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-07

City TO the winners just as soon after
the close of the contest as the votes can
lie counted,
And you don't have 10 take any
body s word as to the value of the
prizes. You can take stroll down TO
the Horst Campbell Automobile com
pany, 40 South State street and sec
with your own eyes Just what sort of n
classy car this Winton Six really is.
Then go over TO tho Consolidated Wagon
x Machine Co, 1850 South State
street and glance over the $1,000 Over
land Touring car that goes to the second
highest vote gctler.
Then imagine YOU starting up the
gang plank of the big ocean greyhound
next September at the pier ia New
York, cmbarking for the Old World,
across the pond. And the best part Of
this double European trip is-thal we
pay all the bills-cvcn tho tips. Doesn Z
that listen good! Then YOU can have
some ono with You on the tour, all at our
expense
Does moi your church. club or organ.
lzation need new piano! HeIn them
get one an $500 instrument, while YOU
are winning your own prize, BY our
plan the votes count double for this
Whcclock Pianola Piano. Drop into the
Christensen \ Ansou Co. store and see it
and try it out.
Then come the trips to the Pacific
coast, Diamond, Watches, Scholarships,
and Cameras.
These other prizes, which many con.
testants would like to win more than
anything, will be described later and
Will he placed on exhibition where
everybody may look them over.
The first thing every one who is not
yet in the contest should do is 10 fill
out the Nomination Coupon on this page
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TTAVE you ever hoped that
some day you might own
dandy big automobile?
Haven't you sometimes, in i'm
agination, seen yourself spinning
along the avenues with party OF
friends in your own touring ear?
In your day dreams have you
never pictured how much really
high grade piano would add to
the attractiveness Of your lodge,
club, church or organization?
And diamonds-when you have
seen big. handsome gems on other
people, haven't you often wished
that you might own and wear
jewels as fine?
OF course YOU have! Not per-
son alive who does not want some
or all Of these good things.
And a trip to the old world,
what an education it would be for
you?
Here's the opportunity, right
now, to crafty your wishes-to
make your dreams come true.
Before another six months some
one who is reading these lines
will be the owner of a S3500
WiDton Auto. Another will own
an Overland Touring car worth
$3.50 Some organization will
possess an $500 Pianola Piano.
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is secured by the division Of the four
states included in the contest into eight
voting districts. Through this arrange
mcnt some of each of the prizes are
bound 10 be awarded right in your own
vicinity.
The candidate who receives more
votes than any other in any Of the eight
districts will receive The Grand Prize
the $500 Auto. Every candidate in tho
contest is eligible for this splendid
prize.
The contestant in each of The eight
districts receiving The highest number
Of votes, after the three Grand Prizes
have been awarded, will receive the
trips TO the coast.
The contestants in each Of the eight
districts receiving the next highest will
receive a 500 Diamond Fling.
The contestant in each Of the eight
districts receiving the next highest will
receive a 500 scholarship.
The contestant in each of the eight
districts receiving the next highest will
each receive n beautiful $50 gold watch,
The contestant in each of the eight
districts receiving tho next highest will
receive a camera and outfit valued at
$25.
The number Of your voting district
should he plainly stated on every voting
coupon and c-'ery eash.in-advancc sub
scription sent in by you or your friends
Here arc the eight districts;
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and mail IT TO the Contest Department,
81 Tribune Building. Salt Lake City.
Don I wait TO lay any plans for getting
votes. You VIII be surprised TO see how
rapidly they can be piled up, once YOU
are nominated and once your friends
know that you are in earnest about
winning q prize.
The contest is not vet fairly started.
III will not be over until Wednesday,
August 81. 1910, IL YOU file your nomi.
nation today YOU viii ba sure that no
other candidate has any serious ad
vantage over you
You won { realize how easy it is to
secure ash-in-advaucc subscriptions to
The Tribune or Telegram until you try,
One candidate secured nine longtime
subscriptions from nine of the first ten
people she approached
Study this paper carefully today Buy
and rcnd The Tribune or Telegram to-
morrow, You will find both The Tribune
and Telegram twentieth century news.
papers IN every sense OF the word and
YOU will readily see the many strong
talking points which can be used to IN
ducc your friends to subscribe.
And remember. plcase-papcrs sub
scribed for IN this way will be senU
through the mails; they will be deliv-
cred by any newsdealcr the subscriber
may prefer. The dealer viii get his
regular profit on the papers iust the
same as II he took The Suhscr ber S
nickols and pennies for them from day
TO day.
Never Before Such Chance.
More than $4,000 worth of prizes
the most valuable array ever offered by
any ncwspaper-are within the grasp of
the people OF Utah. Wyoming. Nevada
and Idaho.
There is no doubt about the value Of
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DO not give subscriptions TO the news.
dealer who is TO deliver the paper Send
them direct TO the Contest Department
with your remittance for the proper
amount. Make your remittances br Dos
ial or express money order or check,
DO not send cash except by registered
mail
An Equal Chance for All.
Once nominated. these are the Two
ways of getting votes and winning a
handsome priZe--by saving the voting
coupons from The Tribune and Telegram
and by securing p0ld-in-advance sub
scrlptlODs 10 Tho SUNDAY and The Daily
Tribune aud Tho Evening Telegram,
Every precaution that experience
and ingenuity can suggest has been
taken TO make this Voting Conte est abso,
lutcly fair and insure 10 every candi.
date an equal chance There are no
faVorltes and nobody can win except bv
saving the voting coupons and getting
cash-in,advance subscriptions as ex,
pained above
Employees in the plant Of The Tribune
ana Telegram and members of their
families arc rigidly barred from the
competition.
~, votes positively cannot be purchased.
Inc only money which Tho Tribune or
telegram will accept in connection with
snls contest Will be that sent in to pay
TOT subscriptions,
Another guarantee Of perfect fairness
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District No. AL territory west of
Main street and north of West Second
South street to city limits. including
west side of Main and north side OF
Second South.
District No. All territory west of
Main street and south Of West Second
South street 10 city limits, including
west side of Maiu street and south
side Of Second South
District NO. 3-Al territory east of
Main street and north of East Second
South to city limits, including east side
of Main street and north side of Second
South.
District No All territory east of
Main street and south Of East Second
South street to city limits, including
cast side Of Main street aud south side
Of Second South.
District No 5-AlI of the state of
Utah outside of Salt LAX" City
District No. GAIL of the state of
Idaho.
District No. 7-AlI Of the state of
Wyoming.
District No. S-All of the state of
Nevada.
These voting districts have been pro-
vidcd to make possible a wide dlStrbu-
tion Of the prizes, You are not limited
TO any one locality in securing votes
The field open 10 YOU includes every
pincc ia which copies Of The Tribune
and Telegram COnta ming voting coupons
20 and every place whore there are pco.
pie who would like TO subscribe for The
Tribune or Telegram.
There Will be no btch-no delay Of
any kind-abour the awards. The prizes
have all been bought and paid for They
viii be delivered f. o. b. Salt Lake
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any of these prizes. There is 10 doubt
that every single one OF them Is 10 be
given away-iust as promised without
n penny Of expense To the winner.
Can YOU afford TO miss such Il splen-
did opportunity Every one has an
equal chance. and YOU might as well
have share of all these good things
as some other person.
loIn the contest today and make up
Your mind that YOU VIII be the proud
owner OF an automobile, European trip,
or Il niano, or one Of the magnificent
diamonds,
Full Particulars.
The Contest Department is getting
out au attractive prospectus, giving all
the information concerning the contest,
the prizes. rules. districts how to enter,
how TO get votes and all necessary IN
formation for the guidance of the con
tcStants or any of thcir friends
We will hc glad to mail this TO any
one that viii write or call for II. II
YOU know of anyone who is interested
in an auto or any one of these splendid
prizcs-send i'm their name 10 us and we
will mail one of tho proSpectuscs to
them, gladly. Always address commupi'
cations To the Contest Manager. 3l4-l1
Tribune building, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Gold Nomination Prize.
If YOU arc lucky enough to nominate
the contestant that wins the first grand
prize, YOU will hc presented with $50 IN
gold for the little trouble il takes YOU
To cut out the nomination blank on this
page and mail it to the Contest Man
agcr. Nominate Yourself it You want,
II s all the same and win the gold your,
self. Or better Yct--Eominatc several
and increase your chances of getting the
half n hundred pieces of Uncle sam $
money. DO IT NOW.
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
Supreme Vice Chancellor Dead.

John W. Strauther Of Mississippi,
Supreme Vice Chancellor of the Su-
preme Lodge. Knights of Pytbias, N.
A. S. A, f.. A, A. and A, ex-onicio
Supreme Worthy Counsellor of the
Supreme Court died at IFS home in
Greenville. Miss. October 13, 1910.
under suspicious circumstances.
1t seems that he had an alteration
with his wife. which led to blows and
within twenty minutes thereafter he
was a corpse The family physician
arrived just before he breathed his
last. but found that he was past med
ical skill. II was thought that he
had been poisoned. and he was dis
embow'elled and his intestines sent
to Memphis. Tenn. for examination
The result was that no poison was
found and this theory was exploded.
He was also Grand Master of Ex-
cheQuer OF the Grand Lodge OF Mis-
sissippi, Knights of Pythias.
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
Life of Edward Shorts Brown.

Edward Shorts Brown was born OF
slave parents in the year 1850. son
OF Thomas and SaIlie Brown sister
OF Edward Shorts: sold when he was
a small boy, carried TO North Caro-.
lima after the war. in the year 1865.
He walked from Danville, Va. TO Rich.
mond City 10 his grandmother. Here
he was taken in charge by his uncle,
Edward Shorts. the father OF s. w.
and Peter B. Shorts.
His uncle was then Janitor OF the
Court OF Appeals, Judge r. c. L. Mon
cure, President; the Circuit Court OF
the City OF Richmond. John A. Mere.
dith. Judge and the Circuit Court OF
Henrico County. Judge Joseph Chris.
tian, Judge.
He was made Messenger along side
OF Edward Shorts sons. At the time
OF the Capitol disaster. he was with
the Circuit Court OF the City Of Rich
mond, on Main Street opposite the
Post Office. After that Mr. Philip
Cary Nicholas. the Law Librarian
made him Janitor and Assistant IL
brarian. where he continued to serve
until his death.
Edward S. Brown had limited ed
ucation. He attended the day school
at st. Phillips Church. lth Street.
attended night school at Navy Hill
School, his teacher being Mrs. Usher.
a public school teacher. He also at
tended the night school OF Rev. Kirby
a white Baptist Minister. He con
tinued his studies and that Of law.
He married Miss Mary Lucas, the
daughter OF Mrs. Harriet Lucas. in
the year 1881. His wife died in
1888.
He was elected a Justice OF the
Peace for Jackson Ward aud licensed
to practice law October 3, 1893. He
was appointed Notary Public Septem-
Der z. 1900 by Governor ]. Hoge
Tyler and continued 10 serve until
his death. He represented in Grand
Lodges of Masons and Odd Fellows
He was a 32d degree Mason.
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
Baptist Notes.
w. F. Graham. d. d.

Well. we have been recently to New
York in attendance upon the Baptist
State Convention. The Convention
met with the ST. Stephens Baptist
Church. Astoria, Long Island. Rev.
Brother Lynch is the excellent pastor
oi that church. a young man whom
all the brethren respect and esteem.
He is making a most successful pas.
tor.
This was our first visit to the New
York Convention. We regret very
much that we have not been attend.
ing 1t at other times. IL was a great
and blessed meeting. Business. broth
erly love. and profound respect for
one another's feelings characterized
the whole convention. It was a
week OF religious enjoyment.
The women had their Convention
at the same place. preceding the
brethren the first and second dav.
We were very proud indeed to look
upon them for their souls we're stirr-
ed for the work OF the Master. We
were received with a hearty welcome
by both Conventions and given on
portunity TO lay the work OF the
Virginia Baptist State Convention and
Virginia Seminary before them. We
also preached the Doctrinal Sermon
In the place OF the late and highly
respected Rev. Brother Royster
The brethren are welded to our
school work at Lynchburg. They de
clare that Virginia Seminary, having
been voted the educational plant OF
the Northern States should be sup
ported by the same. as well as by
Virginia, District OF Columbia and
Maryland. The brethren say that the
school at Lynchburg is theirs and
that when they put money into a
they know where is going; there
Tore when we called upon them TO
Continued on Fifth Page)
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
HAD MANY TROUBLES.

II owned a saloon" said he. "at
Eagle Lake. Was doing well. max
ing money. These white men would
send men In there to get up fights
and to injure my place. Two white
men came in there and demanded
drinks without paying for them and
cursed and swore. / ordered them
out and fnally had TO fight with one
OF them. beat the blood out OF
him with the butt end OF my revol-
yer. 1t went of and they swore out
a warrant against me for attempted
murder. l employed a smart lawyer
and he got me out of the scrape, but
/ had TO close up the place for little
or nothing and leave.
''I had a nice home there too, and
as they gave me to understand that
I would be killed IL did not leave,
made a sacrifice and got a woman
to buy my place for four hundred
dollars. although she had no money
at the time. / lost about twenty
five hundred dollars.
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
a Real Estate Sensation.

Something OF a sensation was ere
ated in the Clay Street section the
other day. when IL became known
that the Mechanics Savings Bank.
financial institution run by promi-
nent and well-to-do Negroes, had div
ed into the real estate market and
made some tony investments. The
bank, which seems TO have money 20
burn, went quietly into the marKet.
and in most unassuming way
bought certain property that was on
the market.
Said property consisted OF three
dwellings, Nos. 101, 1OI IL and 1O3
East Clay Street, for which the hank
paid Sl2 600 cash and made the pur-
chase purely as an investment. The
houses are occupied by white tenants
and when these tenants learned that
they had 4 new landlord and Il was
"off color''-wen. there ia where the
sensation came in. The other part
can be imagined. Il is not necessary
10 write IL.
The President of the bank, who is
a pretty shrewd business man and n
good hnancier. does not see anything
sensational in the matter. The bank
mas oeen In the habit OF making such
investments when II had the surplus
lunds and saw good thing, and as
matter OF fact, IL owns twenty-five
or thirty residences in that section
OF the city, nearly every one OF
which is occupied by white tenants.
one OF them by n prominent city on
elal who pays $50 per month rent.
But all the same the occupants OF tho
three numbers above named feel
a little sensational" and Il NAV be
that the real estate agency which en-
gineered the deals. n indeed thew
We're engineered by an agency. NAV
expect to hear something "drap."-
Mehmond' Va Times-Dispatch, Oct,
30. 1910.
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
MIR. CARTER SPEAKS.
4 Few Words About the True Re
formers.

To the Editor of The PLANET.
Dear Sir:
1t is not in a spirit OF bitterness
that / write concerning the downfall
OF the Grand Fountain, United Order
OF True Reformers. but in that OF
sympathy for those who will feel the
loss OF hard earnings they hsve put
in the organization for the improve.
ment of domestic conditions and OF
regret for "the gross mismanagement
IL not criminal negligence OF its pres.
ent and former management" which
caused the inevitable crash.
Much money, time and labor, have
gone down with the grandest of Sc
cret organizations among the Negro
people. I regret it.-regret Il more
than pen can write. not SO much
Tor the personal loss to myself
but more so for the disappointment
which it Will bring to others. whose
hopes were centered in its once pros.
porous condition that gave promise
and announcement TO the Negro race
But TO Judge OF SAe lethargical
way in which the business OF the or.
ganization was transao red. OF it's tar.
diness I'm business correspondence
and OF giving answers to importan
questions concerning the Immediate
anairs or the constitutional work. the
crash is IN no way surprise to the
writer. The long delay OF receipks
ior money sent, and OF repIies 10
letters seeking Official Information
showed the dilatoTy method. II not
the Czar-like ruling at the Fountain
head i''' !"
Too often il is the case IN Tho CO
cret ORGANIZATIONS OF the Neyro ,,ol,
pie. that favoritism. selfish een,t,,,o,s,
llIu ignorance rules, where intelli-
sence, business experience and manly
"a eel'sSlty should Dreval4 u g. now
evident that Rev. Taylor should have
oeen superseded by a majority vote
II not by acclamation by one of rraat
CT business capacity. OF sagacitv and
accuracy, before or at the end Of bis
nrst term. instead OF being retained
TO work ruin beyond resuscitation 20
the great organization.
But instead OF this. some s,+ T.,
dlssatlshed silence. rather than 80
raise their voices in obiection T.
the ($5O,000) fifty thousand do1Iar
ueai when the Grand Fountain wos
SOFA 10 the Grand Fountain wbon
me members thereof owned a.
through initiation fees and montblv
oues' and which was the begJnni,S :.
OF this deplorable end. MANY disan,
proved OF the act but dared nor %
MAKE it known. ~
DuI after reconsideration tho
writer disapproved and made a.
hnoWn through the columns Of T-ho
FLANET. Then as now. n &C. no.
MS intention to be personal. but
must disapprove OF the gross mis-
management" and Of the Czar.Iika
spirit that was then created ard ~
the gag-law then established nv tba
grand ruling head-which has cor,o
on down through the years until tba
persistent endeavors OF many honest
souls and the future object ~ r,or,
wage earners have been crowned With
aOsoiute failure and the officers now
race humiliated condition wjtbort
knowing what may be the end Rut
iet US nope that good NAV vet come
OF evlI' that order may follow disor-
uer' that everywhere the good will
and former confidence of the Negro
people may prevail, that again tho
great organization may be re-estab.
lished.
ROBERT w. CARTER
Magnolia. Mass, Oct. 80 1910.
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
TRUE REFORNnERs' TROUBLES.
Trying TO Raise Money.-Moral sun
port Pledged.-Depositors to
Meet.

There have been no further de-
veloISnents In the failure OF the True
Reformers' Bank and the inability of
the Grand Fountain, United Order of
True Reformers to pay its death
claims and other obligations. The
hrm or Messrs. John L. Williams a
Sons, bankers and brokers with the
cordial approval of Mr.. Stewart Brv
an have been endeavoring TO devise
plan TO save the Order by making
terms with the benehciaries OF the
past due policies.
Mr.. w. p. Burrell Grand Worthy
Secretary is the leading figure I'm this
movement and has high homes of
meeting with success. II this plan
goes through. it will be the result
or an agreement by which the pres
ent assets Of the Order can be pledged
TO this banking firm as a security
for the fifty thousand dollars hich
are now needed 10 give the Order q
running start" so to speak.
While there has been some tain,
about arrests on account OF the action
OF the bank officials in receiving de-
posits after they knew the bank was
unable to meet it's obligations, which
oftense is felony. no definite steps
have been taken in this respect.
The Independent Order of st. Luke
Mrs. Maggie L. Walker. G.. w. s.
pledged their moral support at a
meeting held last Monday night at
the Second Baptist Church.
Mr.. ]. II. Sampson and DR.. James
A. Jackson have called a meeting of
the depositors at the Pythian Castle.
727 N. Third Street for Lext MONDAY
night. The indications are that the
Hall will be packed.
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
A RISE IN VALUES.

our attention was called TO the
marsh land which at one time could
nave oeen purchased for thirty cents
yer acre but which was nov bring.
ing twenty-five and thirty dollars ner
acre due to the system OF drain aoa
ADOPTED and the ability TO get ana
market the wood obtained fron, :,
Ihey built bitches or canals 60
wheh the water drained 10 tbesa
nlshways. logs were hoated down 70
saw mills where they were cut M
try OF civilization. cum
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
WHITE KNIGHTS OF PYTHAs
LOSE.
Ihe Chancellor Decides That CoIored
Men Can be Pythians.

AHS CfhAncelfor Decides That CoIored
Men Can be Pythians.
Attorney S. A. T. Watkins of Chi
cago. ILL.,, who Is also Supreme At
torney of the Supreme Lodge. knights
OF Pythias, N. A. 8. A, E., A. A
and A. reports that in conjunction
with other able counsel, he defended
the Grand Lodge or Mississippd in
the suit OF the white Grand Lodge.
knights OF Pythias OF the World. re-
straining the colored Grand Lodge
from using the words Knights of
Pythias.
The case was under consideration
for week and the Chancellor before
whom the case was heard decided
that the coIored Grand Lodge
knights or Pythias was the older cor.
poration in that State and that the
white Knights OF Pythias did not
have the prior aud exclusive right
TO the words. knights Of Pythias. %
The Chancellor sustained the conten-
tons OF the attorneys for the colored
Grand Lodge throughout the hearing.
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
ALL SURPRISED.

1t was surprising to note the sur.
prise everywhere manifested when
the Mechanics Bank building picture
was shown TO conductors, traInmen,
porters and passengers. This was a
new experience for them and for us
We had long nights ride ahead
and when the train stopped at a
place wnere we saw no station. VIC
were told TO look out OF the window
and see n relative OF Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt He owned a ranch al
this point and the train stopped on
special orders 10 permit him TO get
there. We saw him and ne bore a
striking resemblance to the distin.
guished ex-President.
Continued on Fifth Page)
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
Grand Chancellor Creswin Dead.

c. d. Creswill, Grand Chancellor OF
the Grand Lodge. Knights OF Pythias.
N. A, s. A, E, A., A. and A. of
Georgia, died In Georgia this week.
While he has been subject to drastic
spells OF sickness. his death al this
time was unexpected.
He stood high in Pythian circles
being member OF the Committee on
Law and Supervision OF the Supreme
Lodge. He recently attended meet
ing or that Committee in Chicago, Ill.
He was spoken OF as a candidate for
the position made vacant by the death
Of John w. Strauther.
Richmond planet., 1910-11-05
Attention! Read!

II you are making less than 500
per month, write us enclosing 800
Tor full working plans and particu-
lars on how you may start an inde-
pendent business and be your own
ooss. Many are making big money.
why can't you? Why should You toll
Tor others all your life? Work can
be done In spare time. Brain and
push only capital needed. BE wise
and do II now. BARRETT MFG. &
SUPPLY CO, Dept. p, Newark, N. ].