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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24
THE.NORLDATAGLANCE
BEST OF THE NEWS
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Washington.

President Wilson selected William
L. Chambers of the District OF Colum-
bia to be commissioner of mediation
and Cancellation under the Newlands
Act, and G.. w. w. Hanger as his as
sistant. The other two members OF
the new board will be Judge Martin
Knapp of the United States commerce
court and Louis F. Post assistant Sec
rotary of labor.
Martin M. Mulhall, late lobbyist"
for the National Association OF Manu-
facturers, was put on cross-examina-
ton about the truth Of his own cor
respondence before the senate inves-
tgating committee. Senator Reed OF
Missouri conducted the examination.
Banking by mail is the latest inno-
walton entered into by the government
In connection with the postal savings
system. Hereafter deposits may be
made by mail and Withdrawals like
wise effected through the same agency.
President Wilson, after an early
conference with Secretary Bryan, or
dered Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson
at the City of Mexico to come to
Washington for a conference. Am
bassador Wilson will hurry north on
either the battleship Michigan or
Louisiana from Vera Cruz, if any de-
lay would be entailed by waiting for
:, commercial steamer.
The extension of the authority of
the United States engineers to con-
troll all streams and sources of water
supply, non-navigable as we'll as navi-
gable, is the central recommendation
resulting from the federal investiga-
ton of the recent Ohio and Indiana
valleys and Mississippi river floods.
The United States treasury handled
in actual cash during the fiscal year
ending June 80 the stupendouS sum
of $7,O71, $40, 900, breaking all previous
records.
Washington was interested In devel-
opments following Secretary Bryan's
statement that he had to spend his
vacation on the lecture platform be-
cause he could not live on the secre-
tary of states salary of $4,000 year.
In explanation Mr.. Bryan said that 1t
was necessary to supplement his sal
airy with proceeds of lectures to keep
from making inroads upon his savings.
New federal machinery for the ad'
justment of railroad wage disputes
was authorized when the house and
senate passed and the President signed
the Newlands-Clayton bill just as II
was agreed upon at the conference at
tended by President Wilson, congress
sional leaders and representatives Of
the big eastern railways and their
employees.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24

Governor Hodges is going to devote
a good deal of his time in the remain
der of his administration to work out
plans whereby the life of the farmer
may be made so attractive that there
will be no need for back to the
farms" movement in Kansas. The first
step in this plan is the organization
of community centers, the next is good
roads, the next is graded schools in
the country districts. and then he
would have the country merchants ad-
vertise, that every interest in the COM
munity may be built up.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24
GOLD BEDS ONLY SCRATCHED
AIaska's Mines Will Last a Thousand
Years at Least Believes an
Expert.

Like a tale out of the Arabian
Nights is the opinion given recently
by an expert on the future of Alaskan
gold mining, only this expert bases
his opinion on facts, whereas the
Oriental story teller specialized in
fancy, says the Engineering and Min
ing Journal.
But the testimony just given by Fall
com Joslin is doubly interesting be-
cause 1t exceeds the Imagination of
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24

cased opening with a commodious
dining room extending across the re-
mainder of the front of the house. At
the end of the dining room Is a large
fireplace and inviting hearthstone.
A servants room is provided, open
ing on the same passageway which
connects the dining room and
kitchen.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24
SAVED FROM
OPERATIONS
Two Women Tell How They
Escaped theSurgeon'sKnife
by Taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Swarthmore, Penn. = " For fifteen
years I suffered untold agony, and for

one period OF nearly
twoyears 1 hadhem-
orrhages and tn g
doctors told me I
would have to un-
dergo an operation,
but 1 began taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Veg e table Conn
pound and am in
good health now. 7
a m all over the
Change of Life and
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24

Guy o. Taylor of Topeka has been
appointed disbursing clerk of pensions
at salary of $4,000 year. The posi-
ton was created when the various
pension agencies throughout the coun-
try were abolished.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24
His rhouaht.

She latter the quarreD-Leave my
presence!
He (confused) Why-er - you've
got them all!-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24

The Atchison city bond row broke
into the Kansas supreme court the
other day, when two suits were filed
by New York holders of the bonds to
compel the city officials 60 levy tax
to pay off the bonds.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24

Governor Hodges recently received
an invitation to ''keg party" in Rus
sell county. A young man, about to
be married, wished to celebrate the
event in style and wrote to the gov
ernor for advice. The governor de-
clined the invitation with some
fatherly advice.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
COLORED WATERS RE
FUSE TO SERVE
A COLORED WOMAN

Cclored walters on the Union
Pacific passenger train, recently
refused to serve a young colored
woman enroute from California to
Chicago. 1t seemed that the
walters had no instruction to le-
fuse serving any one who came to
be served in the dining car. The
following account was noted:
She was seated at the table by
the steward and given a bill of
fare and check. Pausing long
enough to write her order she no
ticed that none of the walters came
near to serve her. Waiting pa
tiently, thinking that they might
be busy, she said nothing, bnt the
situation began to become strained
for these brutes began to make re-
marks not only to one another but
to the white steward in charge.
Finally this gentleman, seeing
that his crew were not men, got
them in the pantry and cursed
them, telling them that dog could
not hive been treated worse; that
no Irish, jew, German, Greek nor
any nationality on the fabe of the
globe but cowardly "nigger"
would try TO, much less treat a
woman who has proved herself a
lady as they had-that on the end
of the trip none would ever leave
the station with him again.
woman is a woman, and you
all had mothers, many have sis
ters, and to do as you men have
done proves to me that you are not
fit to mingle with the class you are
hired to serve, of which this lady
is one. Ske has a ticket, she is IA
passenger, and under the law and
while [ have charge of this car
you must serve everyone the same
black, white, yellow or brown
makes no difference to me-"
What tbs steward said was none
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15

which DIR. Booker 7. Washington
is president, when it convenes in
this city the Goth, 21st and 22d of
this month, is to be given a great
treat and shows a signal honor
when John Wanamaker, the mer-
chant prince, entertaiDs the men,
bers of the League in the famous
Egyptian Hall of the great Wana-
maker Store Thursday afternoon,
the 21st inst. The indications
point to- this being the most large
ly attended and mnst interesting
meeting yet held by the League.
During the fourteen years the
League has been in existence six
ty-three Negro banks and over
ten thousand Negro business en-
terprises have been founded.
Philadelphia's City Council appro-
priated $4,000 out of the city's
treasury to assist in entertaining
the League.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15

too severe, provided the walters
had no instructions from higher
authority to do as was said of them.
If the story is true, the fact that
the stewart gave her bill of fare
and check should have been their
cue even if colored people were
the Unexpected. OF course, their
is no sentiment supporting Ne
groes as guests on dining cars and
similar places, yet it is not up to
the walters to help push the thing
along. Walters here have been
known to do what is said of them
here, apparently taking as much
pleasure in turning down one of
their own kind as the most anti
Negro white people. In fact the
notable disregard of race by the
race has done much to encourage
the white people in their disregard.
They go on the theory that if those
who know you best, know nothing
good Of you, then there's nothing
to you.-The Freeman.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
EMPLO LOYMENT
FOR NEGROES

The Industrial Committee of the
National League on Urban Con.
ditions Among Negroes seeks to
open new avenues of employment
for Negroes who are engaged in
skilled and specialized occupations
increase their efficiency and re.
liability, and thereby create
greater demand for their service
In its effort to direct workers into
channels of training, the committee
has succeeded in getting the coop
Grafton of five manufactures of
women and children's clothing, one
of which employed and trained
thirty-two colored women as pow
er machine operators. Others,
are willing to employ dressmakers
and power-machiue operators, who.
are qualtied to do the work.
Colored girls from IA to II years
OF age, WHO are ueSlTOuS Oh lea.n-
ing typewriting, shorthand, dress
making, millinery straw machine
operating, flower, power machine
operating free of charge.
During the past month the com
mittee intercedt d for colored firm
of architects and an electrical con-
tractor in get lug employment for
them on the Y w. Z A. building.
where they rendered satisfactory
service.
Opportunities are being opened
for colored engineers. firemen, elt-
vator meu, Malchman, aud porters
in office buildings. i be committee
has had tha privilege of lacing
colored employees in one office
building OF the city, and bright
outlook for mal Y Others, if COM
petent men are available-New
York Age.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
Who Issued linn
Crow Order?"
SENATOR CLAPP PRESENTS BILL ASKING THAT AN
INVESTIGATION BE HELD.

however some of the colored clerks
who were protesting against dis
elimination month ago are get
ting "cold feet and are disposed
to keep their mouths shut. They
would rather be humiliated and
kicked about than lose their jobs
To them principle means nothing,
but money everything. The sub.
stantial Negroes in Washington
and througout the country are ex-
pected to strongly support Senator
Clapp in his fight against Jim
Crowism."
Even the colored Democrats are
not backward in condemning the
infantile course pursued by Adam
E. Patterson when he found there
be some opposition to his confor-
nation as Register of the Teasury
Patterson's withdrawal stunt has
not caused those disposed to be
friendly to have increased respect
for the race.
In all fairness to President Will
son, who has not shown disposi
ton to be the Negroes friend up to-
date, he did not ask Patterson to
withdraw his name. The nation S
chief executive, it is said, intended
to demand Patterson's confirma-
ton. But Senator Gore, after
urging Patterson's appointment,
showed him way it was absolutely
necessary that he play the role of
a gutter in order to name an In
dian as his successor.
So the Negro race, with it's
thousands of votes, was subjected
to deep humiliation because Pat
terson proved himself a spineless
weakling. That an Indian is a
more representative citizen than a
Negro is not conceded by Negroes
who think something of them.
selves.
Negroes here are wondering how
Gabe E. Parker, the Indian, will
take the segregation order issued
by the Treasury Department,
which caused the Hon. j. @. Nap
ier to resign. They say if he is
an Indian, then he, in the strict
sense, is colored man, and should
oppose the order to separate the
white and colored clerks.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
THE CONCLAVE

The Thirty y-Second Tri-ennial
Conclave of the Knights Templar
has just come to a close and again
Denver has done herself proud as
the foremost convention city of
America.
Those who have attended many
conclaves consider the one just
closed the most successful and to
the man they praise Denver as be-
ing the best decorated and most
hospitable of any city that has en-
tertained it.
The parade was the one thing
that interested the great majority
of the people and that was a spec
tacle long to be remembered by
the many thousands that beheld it.
Thirteen thousand plum d
Knights, marching with sturdy
gait to the music OF some fifty
bands, must have impressed that
great throng the value of organi-
zation and loyalty to a purpose.
All great movements are the re-
suit Of organization and organiza-
tions succeed just in proportion to
the loyalty of each member.
One of the chief results of or
ganization is recognition. When
ever an individual seeks office or
position he first seeks the support
of some organization to back him
and usually the man with the
strongest organization at his back
secures that which he seeks.
The late Bishop Grant had great
political influence at Washington
because he had the backing of the
greatest Negro organization, the A.
NJ. E. church. Booker 7. Washing
ton, with his striking eloquence
and trite sayings, would be little
known were it not for Tuskegee
and the Negro Business League.
Constructive organization is the
one medium through which we are
to rise and be recognized and it is
hoped that the conclave has
brought this one lesson above all
others to the heart of the Negro.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15

years ago and by dollar subscrip-
tions raised twenty thousand. Re-
Gently they have enlarged their
space and are now covering four
floors. 1t is patronized by both
races and gives employment to
twenty-five members of our race
and to two white girls, who have
been employed in other ten-cent
stores. These white girls act as
managers in different departments.
The store is well kept and the
grade of merchandise that is sold
is equal to any for the money.
1t is not only the largest but the
only one of its kind in America.
1t proves to the world that if the
race would unite throughout the
United States they would be sue
cessful. One Of it's kind could be
made to pay in any of the large
northern cities, namely New York
and Chicago. There is vast field
in the latter city and as the young
men and women are denied d place
to work in the stores of the other
race it would give employment to
the otherwise idle.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15

Washington, d. c., August g.
After the disgusting spectacle of
Adam E. Patterson. the colored
lawyer of Oklahoma, withdrawing
his name, declining the appoint
ment as Register of the Treasury,
the colored residents of the capital
city have been temporarily put in
good humor by resolution pre-
sented by Seuat II Clapp of Min
nesota, demanding an investiga-
ton to determine who is response
BILE for the order to segregate the
clerks in the Post Office Depart
ment.
1t is said that the Post Office
Department is badly frightened ov-
er the Clapp resolution, as those
responsible for the 81 i'm Growing"
of Government employees know full
we'll that they would be the laugh
ing stock of the country were their
un-American tacticts fully expos
ed.
The Democrats in the Senate,
having already been placed in an
embarrassing position by such
menaces to the county as Narda-
man, Tillman and Hoke Smith,
are not at all pleased with the
prospects of having Jim Crow
investigation, and are doing all in
their power to throttle the heoric
attempt of Senator Clapp to stop
segregation in the department at
Washington.
Senator Clapp's resolution fol-
lows;
Whereas it is reported that
there has been a segregation order
issued by some unknown source or
authority in the Post Office De-
partment; and
Whereas the clerks and employees
have worked together peacefully
for over fifty years; and
Whereas the said segregation
order will cost the Government OF
the United States over $l5O,OOO
Therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Com
mittee on Post Office and Post
Roads be, and they are hereby, au-
thorized to inquire into and to re-
port by what authority the segre-
CATION order was issued and what
necessity, if any, exists for such
order in the executive department
after fifty years of perfect peace
among the employees of the de-
partment, which order makes 1t
very inconvenient for the clerks.
1t is reported that the charge
that colored clerks are being "Jim
Crowed'' in the Department is to
i be also investigated. Already,
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
NEGRO ENTERPRISE

Charleston, S. c., Aug. 2,-What
is reported to be one of the largest
commercial ventures of the race
in the Southland is four-story
ten-cent store owned and operated
by the race. This is the outgrowth
of a small company that started
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15

A recent issue of the Richmond
Times Despatch says: The pro-
posal to establish one or more
parks for the exclusive use of the
colored population received a set
back yesterday when delegation
of representative of Negroes, head
ed by Rev. William Stokes, pastor
Ebenezer Baptist church called
upon Mayor Ainele to protest
against the project. Attempts to
solve the open air problem by pro-
viding separate parks for the col
ored people, according to the del
egation, would end to failure be.
cause they would become the
meeting grounds of the toughest
elements. The better classes, the
men thought, would stay away,
leaving the parks to become neM
recruiting grounds for already well
established evils.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15

A Negro farmer of Iberia, La,
has rivaled Robinson Crusoe's
grain farming. Representative
Broussard lately had a letter from
an acquaintance there who said
One of my neighbors, a Negro,
purchased a pound of Rio coffee,
and in the coffee were four seeds in
the hull. He conceived the idea
of planting these four seeds. Two
grew and gave him two plants.
This was two years ago. Last
year he made two rice sacks full of
coffee. This year he planted one
of those sacks. Briefly speaking,
he now has from this sack two
rows, two acres long, of coffee
plants.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
THE NATIONAL NEGRO
BUSINESS LEAGUE

Philadelphia, Pa.-The Nation
al Negro Business League, of
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15

Vice President Marshall receiv-
ed protest from Australia against
the prosecution of Jack johnson
under the white slave law. The
communication declares the suit to
be the result of "a conspiracy to
ruin the reputation and health of
Mr.. johnson as master pugilist.
The Vice President had to pay 10
cents postage due on the protest.
He promptly turned it over to Sen
ator J. Hamilton Lewis, from
whom he collected the excess pos
tage on the plea that johnson was
constituent of Lewis and the
senator should stand the tax on
general principles.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
RACE ne w S
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Chicago, Aug. 13.-The Lincoln
Giants of New York won the Ne
gro baseball championship of the
United States today by defeating
the Chicago Ameticans Giants, 4
to l.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-01
OSTRICH FEATHERS
 On SALE AI BALkE'S
The piumes Will Make Fine Presents
 for tho Folks at Home

There is no department of Bake Big Curio. with the possible exception of the Navajo blanket department, than that of the Arizona ostrich pluunes that is so widely known. The de- mand for the plumes comes from all parts of the country. as people learn through their friends about the excel lence of the feathers and the cheap ness of them in comparison with the high prices which they bring in other parts of the country.
 It was with surprise that strangers learn that nearly all the ostriches in the United States are here; that there arc more of them in this valley than in any other region in the world out side of South Africa.
 People who pay any attention to such matters have learned also that government officials have declared that the Arizona ostrich plumes in tex ture and glossiness excel even those of South Africa. Knowing all this, they have learned that Balke's Big Curio store is headquarters for Arizona os- trich plumes.
 The feathers have always been sold low at the Big Curio store; by way of an advertisement. But now, even the low prices which have prevailed regu- larly have been further shaded.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-01
TWO ROBBERS VISIT
 \ CHINESE STORE
Masked Men With RevoIvers Reap
 $20 Harvest.

A Chinese store at the corner of Ninth avenue and Hadley street was held up and robbed by two masked men q little before o'clock before il was quite dark.
 The Chinese proprietor was alone in the store and was getting ready 10 close up for the night when d man with a dirty handkerchief tied over his face and the visor of q gray cap pulled down over his eyes, entered the store and pointed q large revolver at the head of the Chinaman.
 The Chinaman noticed at the smc time, another man with a handker- chief over his face and revolver in his hand, standing outside the door
 The man on the inside told the Chinaman to turn over the contents of the cash drawer and all other
Arizona republican., 1913-02-01

of eighty complaints" Don't wonder at it. Our own missus finds even one troublesome
 The latest Irish bull: Tt looks as if she had saddled herself with a veri- table white elephant.'-Dubin paper
 A Missouri lawyer, in pleading a wifes divorce case, stated that her hus- band undertook to poison her without just cause"
 From a South Dakota journal: The bride is q refined young lady of cul- ture, as also is MT. Smith"
 From the Oxford Register: The zoo is open again. It was closed a few days on account of the pet pig swal- lowing q stick of dynamite"
 In the present high cost of living thanks are due the Corydon Repubi- can for this helpful recipe: "To keep ants away from the refrigerator, tie a wooden string around each leg satu- rated with turpentine. Boston Tran script.
Arizona republican., 1913-02-01

money he had about him. There was S1' In the cash drawer beside d p"ckctbook containing a little more than S. in silver. That was surren- dcrcd without protest and the men disappeared. As soon as possible a message Was sent to the sherifrs of flee and Deputy Lew Mickey and Officer Harry Gasllin hurried down. But Dy the time they arrived at the store il was quite dark. That vii cinity is beside one of the worst lighted ncighbOrhoods in Phoenix
 The Chinaman was unable to givt q description uf the robbers that was of much value to the officers. He said that they were white men, or at least they talked English