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The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-11

Ralph E. Langston, a prominent
local coIored Democrat, has been
appointed special agent under
Revenue Agent John W. Sinsel of
the New York Division of the In.
terual Revenue Department. He
will assist in the discovery of VIC.
lations of internal revenue laws in
this district. Mr.. Langston as
sumed his new duties October l.
This is the first Negro appoint
meut under the Wilson Admins
traticn that has occasioned general
satisfaction, as Mr. Langston has
the respect of all elements. Bish-
op Alexander Walters gets credit
tor the appointment, which is the
first political plum that has been
landed under the administration
at the instance of Il Negro.-New
York Age.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-11

and theCOI-
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being lost in time spent in going
to the eighth floor from other
floors of a great building occupy
ing a city square, although toilet
rooms heretofore used are near to
all. Ia the teasury department
the toilet rooms assigned to colored
clerks are in a corner of the base
ment, and in this great building
similar loss of time ,oecures.
Soon after the issuance of these
orders in the treasury department
segregation signs were posted.
Following a protest the signs were
taken down, but verbal warnings
affirm that the order is in force.
segregation in work has been be-
gun in the bureau of printing and
engraving. Colored clerks "ho
have been reluctant to submit have
beer admonished sharply, and a
state of alarm has spread among
the colored employees of all execu-
! tive departments. The fear that
they may lose their positions has
led some of those segregated to
seek favor from the administration
by declaring that they are pleased
with the new plan. They dare not
protest, but privately they declare
their Indignation and disapprovaI.
ITO subject any Government
clerks or employees to public hu
initiation of the most glaring sort
is, in the first place, cruel and in
human. In the second place, it is
obnoxious to the spirit written in
to the Federal Constitution by the
war amendments to draw the color
line in the field of Federal employ
ment In the third place, segre.
cation of this character is most
discouraging to an important ele-
ment of the country's citizenship
whose welfare the Federal Govern
ment must promote quite as much
as that Of any other class of citi-
Zens.
"Why the Republicans in Con-
gress--yes, the Pro5ressives. too
ignore this ominous development
in caste distiction at the seat OF
the Federal Government continues
to be a most striking aspect OF the
situation. The successorPf Cbas.
Sumner in the Senate is dumb.
No Congressman from Illinois, the
State of Lincoln, raises his voice
in protest. No resolution of in
uuiry has been introduced at either
end of the Capitol.
Here is real cause for criti-
cism of the administration. The
question is one of democracy and
of human rights in the sense that
government approval of these dis
tinctions in its service must dig
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-11
PLAN BITTER FIGHT
ON DISCRIMINATION

Washington, ID. C., Sept. 81 -
In dispatch to the New York
Press the papers Washington cor
respondent writes that the Negro
es throughout the United States
are preparing to make a bitter
fight against race discrimination
before the United States Supreme
Court.
The Oklahoma and the Mary
land~ Grandfather constitutional
amendments, by which thousands
of Negroes have been disfranchis-
ed, will be attacked AS unconstitu-
tional. An effort will be made TO
have the Oklahoma Jim Grow"
legislation annulled.
An attempt will be made by
Tennessee Negro organizations to
be permitted to use the name of
knights of Pythias" for colored
lodges as well as white lodges.
The local ordinances in Baltimore
and Richmond, which limit Ne
groes to certain residential dis
tricts, will also be attacked.
Frank Gumm, and j. j, Beal,
two election official, have been
convicted of conspiring to prevent
several Negroes from voting at the
Congress election of 1910 in Ok
Iahoma. This was done on the
basis that the ''Grandfather
Clause was unconstitutional.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Ap-
peals has EXPIRE ssed doubt as to
the validity of The clause and has
asked the Supre me Court to pass
on the question
The Oklahoma "Grandfather
Clause" made it necessary for all
persous whose ancestors We're not
qualified to vote in 1866 i'll this
country to be able to read and
write in order to vote.
la Maryland damages have bee n
recovered against two election Of
ficials who refuse d to permit Ne.
groes to vote. The officials were
enforcing the "Grandfather Clause
which prohibited election officials
from registering for voting those
persons whose ancestors were not
qualified to vote in 1868 This
law, however, applies only to
municipal elections in Frederick,
Annapolis and few smaller Amer
ican cities.
The Oklahoma Jim Crow" law
requires railroads there to provide
separate coaches for the whites
and Negroes equal III every way in
comfort and service, Five Negro
es seek to enjoin the rdrroais from
enforcing the law. They lost in
the lower Federal courts, which
went so far as to hold that rail
roads need not furnish sleeplng
cars for Negroes if there was moi
sufficient demand by Negroes for
such accommodation The feder-
al courts to date have upheld Jim
Grow" laws where provision was
made that equal accommodations
must be suppli' d for the two rae s
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-11

New York, September 29.-Hav-
ing Won an education and a bride
in America, Prince Nadika q.
Cele, Jr., of Durham, Natal, South
west Africa, is arranging to sail on
November |, as a missionary to
his people, the Zulus. He will be
married October 20 at Danville,
Va, to Julia ]. Smith, an Ameri-
can Negro girl, who was Il student
at Hampton Institute. BY pick
ing a foreign spouse the Prince
saves his father, who is Governor
of a province in Zululand. twenty
five or thirty cows, the cost of a
Znla wife. The Prince was sent
to this country nine years ago by
his father, who had been convert
ed to Christianity, and who want
ed to give one of his sous Chris
tian education. AS . missionary
Prince Nadikano's expenses will
be paid by Hanlpton's Institute.
He intends to start campaign
against the polygamous customs
of his people, some of whom have
from ten to twenty-five wives.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-11

Joliet, ILL.,, Oct. Fifty Ne
groes and as many white people
almost caused riot in the village
of Romeo, near here, this afternoon
when the Negroes attacked the
wooden Jail and liberated Lulu
Gibson. negress, who had been
arrested for drunkenness. In the
fight one Negro was killed and the
little Jail was demolished. The
woman. found on the railroad
tracts, had been removed to the
iaiI, when james Winfield, after
calling out all the Negro citizens,
led an assault against the Jail,
which was defended by james
Hausen, Il village trustee. The
Negroes bad succeeded IN l. berat-
Jug the woman hen Hauspn op
eued firr. Winfield was kill, d and
the Negro IS dispersed after calls
for help had been sent to Joliet.
The woman was arrested again.
The Jail was hastily rehull and,
with the woman prisoner III il, was
kept under special guard.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-11

(From the Springfield Republican,
Should | become president of
the United States they (the Ne
gro citizens) may count on me tor
absolute fair dealing and for ev.
erythiug by which l. could assist
in advancing the interests of their
race ia the United States. Can
didate Woodrow Wilson.
Has the president yet given adj
equate consideration to the new
policy of race segregation enforced
in certain of the great administra-
tive departments at Washington?
This question must be his to de-
eide, in the last analysis. The
departmental orders by certain
cabinet officials, or their subordl-
mates, which have had the effect
of separating the clerks and en-
ployes by a color line having no
basis but race prejudice, are nee
essarily the presidents orders, If
he does not contermand them
Weeks ago we called attention to
the development, and few other
newspapers have also protested.
Strong memorials from citizens
have been sent to the White House.
If the president will not interfere,
he assumes full responsibility.
Just what the segregation orders
have accomplished is described IN
detail! in the last issue of the Con-
gregationalist and Christian
World:
During the last few months
orders have been issued in the
treasury and post office. depart
meuts which require white and
colored employees to use separate
toilet rooms, to be separated IN
lunch rooms, and most of the col.
ored clerks in the post office de-
partments have been gathered
from the various bureaus and as
sembled in the dead letter office, in
a room where they are separated
from white clerks by row of lock-
ers ulaced across the middle of the
room. One important colored
clerd whose location cannot be
changed conveniently, has been
screened off so as to conceal him
from the public view and from his
fellow workers. Two or three
others have been assigned to mes.
senger service, although having
appointments as clerks.
Watchmen are stationed at the
doors of the toilet rooms to see
that colored clerks use the special
ones assigned to them on the
eighth floor of the post office de-
partment building. In addition
to the humiliation involved in seq
recation, thousands of dollars are
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-11

f r several years fight has
leen waged between White and
Negro lodges of Kngnts of Pyth-
las III Tennessee over the use OF
the name. The Negroes have
brought the question TO the Su-
prrme Court, having lost their
case IN he courts of Tennessee.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-11

Washington, d. G, Sept. 30
Il intend to vigorously oppose the
conformation OF every colored man
t. miua ell for Federal Office tx.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
DIR. REDDY LEFT FOR
THE EAST SUNDAY

DIR. Reddy left Portland Tuesday
evening for the east, and there is ey-
cry assurance that word will come
within a few days OF the successful
financing OF the Grants Pass Crescent
City railroad throughout its entire
distance TO the sea. Before leaving
Portland the doctor was assured by
the representatives of bond buying
houses that the Grants Pass NUM-
cipai issue OF 5000, 900 bonds would
be sold next Saturday night, or as
soon as the details were arranged,
and with this settled to his salts
faction Reddy was In position TO
arrange for financing the balance OF
the road. He will be joined in the
east by Mr. Hotchkiss and the other
heads Of the redwood numbering in
terests, and plans that are already
practically arranged for the immedl-
ate building OF the road will be ma
tured.
The Public Utilities commission
met Wednesday TO consider bids
that had been asked for the clearing
of the right-of-way, and the bid
made by c. C. Hammersley was ac-
cepted Under this bid Mr.. Ham
mersley agreed to clear the right-of-
way from station 279 to Az at the
rate OF Sal per acre. The distance
covered by the bid is about three
miles, and runs to the Applegate
river The clearing is to be done by
April list, MIR. Hammersley has not
yet signed up the contract. Other
bids received we're much higher, the
'eIov led IS suIeq lseAol lxeu
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, U. s.
Land Office, Roseburg, Oregon,
November 20, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that William
H. Meldrim, whose postoffice address
Is 1920 27th St., Sacramento, Cali
fornia, did, on the 11th day Of March
1912, file in this office sworn state
ment and application, No. 07S9O, to
purchase the NWA SEA, lot l and
lots 5 and 6, section 2, township 81
o., range west Willamette merid-
Ian, and the timber thereon, under
the provisions OF the act OF June 3,
1878. and acts amendatory, known as
the Timber and Stone Law" at such
value as might be fixed by appraise-
ment, and that, pursuant to such ap-
plication, the land and timber there
on have been appraised $464.00, the
timber estimated 100000 board
feet at 40 cents per NJ, and the land
nothing; that said applicant will Of
fer final proof in support of his ap-
plication and sworn statement on the
21st day OF February, 1918, before
register and receiver United States
land office at Roseburg, Oregon.
Any person is at liberty to protest
this purchase before entry, or initiate
contest at any time before patent
issues, by filing a corroborated affida-
Wit in this office, alleging facts which
would defeat the entry.
B. F. JONES,
Regieter
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, U. s.
Land Office, Roseburg, Oregon,
November 20, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that David
Williams, whose postofnce address is
Gridley, Butte County, California, did
on the 18th day OF March, 1912, file
in this office sworn statement and ap-
plication No. 07891, to purchase the
sh SwA, swk sEA and lot 7,
section 2, township 81 s, range W.
Willamette meridian, and that timber
thereon, under the provisions OF the
act OF June 8, 1873, and acts amenda-
troy, known as the Timber and
Stone Law" at such value as might
be fixed by appraisement, and that,
pursuant to such application. the land
and timber thereon have been ap-
praised s44S, the timber estimated
1,12o, 900 board feet at 40 cents pei
NJ, and the land nothing; that said
applicant will offer nnal proof In
support OF his application and sworn
statement on the 21st day Of Febru'
ary, 1918, before register and re-
eeiver United States land office al
Roseburg, Oregon.
Any person is at libert to protest
this purchase before entry, or initiate
a contest at any time before paten'
issues, by flling a corroborated afnda'
Wit in this ofAes. alleging fasts whiss
would defeat the sntry.
B.F. JONES.
Register.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
GRAFT CHARGES CAUSE
ARREST OF LEGISLATORS.

CHARLESTON, w Va, Feb IL.
Arrest OF from six to ten members
OF the state Legislature, involving
many "higher-ups" is expected here
today, following the alleged graft
disclosures In the states governing
body. which caused hve arrests yes
terday. II is reported that w s. Ed
wards, progressive candidate for
United States senator, employed
Burns detectives who made the ar
rests 10 date, but many republicans
assert the democrats In the feglsla-
ture also participated in the expos
ure in the hope OF involving ten OF
more republicans. It is declared
the democrats hoped to effect the re-
election OF Senator Watson, demo
crat, by preventing the legislators
under suspicion from voting.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE ON
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE.

In the Circuit Court OF the State OF
Oregon for Josephine county.
Charles Fetzner, Plaintiff, }
VS..
Robert Reed, The Washing }
ton Shoe Manufacturing
Company. a corporation,
The Noyes-Norman Shoe
Company, corporation,
r. l.. Sabin, the Southern
Oregon Supply Company,
corporation, defend.
ants.
Notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of an execution on the fore
closure of real property duly is
sued by the clerk Oh the circuit court
OF the state of Oregon for Josephine
county, in the above entitled cause,
and dated January 23 1913, and
wherein the plaintiff did on January
13, 1913, recover a judgment and
decree against the defendants for the
sum of $1.000.00 principal, $2S3.3S
interest, $4,000 attorneys fees, and
$16.25 costs. with interest from the
date of judgment at the rate OF 10
per cent per annum, and decreeing
the sale of the real property herein.
after described for the satisfaction
Of said judgment and accruing inter
est and costs of sale.
Now, therefore, / will on Monday
February "a, 1913, at the hour OF
ten O'Clock in the forenoon of said
date, at the front door OF the court
house at Grants Pass in Josephine
county, Oregon, sell at public auc.
tion to the highest bidder, for terms
cash in hand, the following describ.
ed property, to-wit:
Commencing at the southwesterly
corner OF Lot No. in Block lettered
s in Jonathan Bourne Jr.'s First Ad-
dition to the town, now city OF
Grants Pass, in Josephine county,
Oregon; thence easterly along the
south side of said lot 2, $50 feet
thence northerly and parallel with
the easterly line of Fifth street to
the northerly line OF said Lot No. Q;
thence westerly along the northerly
line Of said Lot No. 2 to the easterly
line OF Fifth street; thence southerly
along the easterly line of Fifth street
to the place Of beginning, together
with the tenements, hereditaments
and appurtenances thereunto belong
ing or in anywise appertaining.
Dated this oath day of January
1913.
WILL c. SMITH,
Sheriff OF Josephine County. Ore.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department OF the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon,
December II, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that George
A. Bark, whose postoffice address is
21O East 2Sth street, Los Angeles,
California, did, on the 18th day OF
March 1912, file in this office sworn
statement and application, No. 07902
to purchase the NJ SEA, section
20, township 80 s., range 8 west
Willamette meridian. and the tim
Der thereon, under the provisions OF
the act OF June 3, 1878, and acts
amendatory, known as the Timber
and Stone Law" at such value as
might be fixed by appraisement, and
that, pursuant to such application,
the land and timber thereon have
been appraised $4,000, the timber
estimated 360.0 board feet at so
cents per NJ, and the land $4,000
that said applicant will offer nnal
proof in support OF his application
and sworn statement on the 7th day
OF March, 1918, before Herbert
Smith, United States commissioner
at Grants Pass. Oregon.
Any person is at liberty to protest
this purchase before entry. or initi-
ate an contest at any item before pat
ent issues, by Ming eorroborsted
affidavit in this office. alleging facts
which would defeat the entry.
B. r. JONES, Register.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that |, the
undersigned administrator, with the
will annexed of the estate of Francis
II. Cobb, deceased, have filed in the
county court of the state of Oregon
for Josephine county my final ac-
count in said administration. And
that by an order duly made by the
judge Of said court, Saturday, March
s, 1913, at the hour of 2 o'clock p.
m. of said day has been set apart
for hearing objections to said ac-
count. That persons objecting to
the same or any part thereof, will
file their objections in said court on
or before the said date.
GEORGE w. COLVIG,
Administrator with the Will Annex
ed Of the Estate OF Francis II.
Cobb, Deceased.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department OF the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon,
February /, 1913.
Notice is hereby given that Will
liam Basel Anderson, OF Grants Pass,
Oregon, who, on March 3, 1911,
made homestead entry serial No.
O7035, for NWA section 2, town
ship 36 s., range 6 west Willamette
meridian, has fled notice OF inten-
tion TO make five-year proof, to es-
tablish claim to the land above de-
scribed, before Herbert Smith, Unit
ed States commissioner, at Grants
Pass, Oregon, on the 21st day OF
March, 1913.
Claimant names as Witnesses:
Chester NJ. Spring, Percy Jones
Roy Lathrop and Carl Lathrop, all
OF Grants Pass, Oregon.
b. r. JONES.
Register.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

department of the Interior. U. S.
Land Office, Roseburg, Oregon,
January 22, 1913.
Notice is hereby given that Vern
Cook OF Kerby. Oregon. who, on No
vomber 80, 1911, made homestead
entry, serial No. 07673, for NEA
SV Y, NWA SEA and Lots 2 and
OF section 15. township 80 s.,
range W., Willamette meridian,
has filed notice OF intention to make
commutation proof, to establish
claim to the land above described,
before Herbert Smith, U. s. commits
sioner, at his office, at Grants Pass,
Oregon, on the 3rd day OF March,
1913.
Claimant names as witnesses:
~. E. Hodgdon, Charles May Casad,
George Baldwin, J. H. Maynord, all
of Kerby, Oregon.
B. F. JONES, Register.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
department OF the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon,

department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon,
January 9Th, 1913.
Notice is hereby given that Joseph
McClelland, whose postoffice address
Is ga Clackamas street, Portland,
Oregon, did, on the 4th day OF
March, 1912, file in this office sworn
statement and application, No. 07S76
to purchase the lots and and
SWA NEA, section 2, township
81 s., range west Willamette mer-
idian, and the timber thereon, un-
der the provisions OF the act of June
3, 1878, and acts amendatory
known as the Timber and Stone
Law" at such value as might be
liked by appraisement, and that, pur-
suant to such application, the land
and timber thereon have been ap-
praised S456.00, the timber estim-
ated 1,140,000 board feet at 40
cents per M, and the land nothing;
that said applicant will offer final
proof in support Of his application
and sworn statement on the 2Sth day
OF March, 1913, before register and
receiver United States land office at
Roseburg, Oregon.
Any person is at liberty to protest
this purchase before entry, or initi-
ate contest at any time before pat
ent issues, by filing a corroborated
affidavit in this office, alleging facts
which would defeat the entry.
B. +. JONES,
Register
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
CORNEII,-FLANAGAN
HOP CROP Is SOLD

The Cornell-Flanagan hop crop of
474 bales has been sold to John Car
michael of Salem, and will be loaded
for shipment at once, the hauling
from the warehouse at the hop yard
west of this city having already COM
menced. Five ears will be required
to move the crop, and It is expected
that they will go to London, though
their routing has not yet been or,
dered.
This sale cleans up the last OF the
hops in this vicinity, and practically
all that We're left in southern Ore
gon. The price received is not made
public. o
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Notice is hereby given, that Lillian
M. Perkins and Elmer H. Perkins
the undersigned, have been appoint.
ed joint executors OF the Estate ol
Howard Alonzo Perkins, deceased, by
the county court for Josephine coun.
ty, Oregon, and all persons having
claims against said estate are here
by notified to present the same with
proper vouchers, duly verified, to the
undersigned executors at the law Of
fee OF H. d. Norton in Grants Pass,
Josephine county, Oregon, on or be-
fore the expiration OF six months
from the date of first publication OF
this notice.
Date OF first publication, Jan. 81,
1913.
LILLIAN NJ. PERKINS,
ELMER H. PERKINS,
Iafnt