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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
RUSSIANS GET OUT LEMBERG
. FOLLOWING A FIERCE FIGHT

London, Oct. IA, AIS P. MIN a
dispatch from The Hague TO the cor
respondent of the Exchange Telegraph
Company says the Austrian legation at
The Hague announces that the Russians
have evacuated Lemberg, Galicia, aft.
er fierce fight.
Lemberg, has been in possession of
the Russians since shortly after the
beginning of their Galician campaign.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
600 GERMANS Reported
killed IN BAYONET FIGHT

London, Oct "A, 2.55 P. MA dis
patch to the Reuter- Telegram Company
from Ostend, under date of October l.,
says:
Following violent engagements
near Quatrecht and Melle, more than
500 Germans were killed and large
number of Others wounded French
marine fusilliess charged with bayonets
and took 4op'Germsn prisoners: The
enemy was obliged to retire in the di-
rection of oordegem. The battle began
again this morning IN the ueighborhood
of Lyde.'
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
MURPHY LIKELY TO RESIGN
Friends Say Suspended Patrolman Will
Give UP Fight to Remain on Force

NlNo Op r1SuC W ISouidlu ou OICo
Rather than wait for final disposition
of ais case by the City Commissioners
Andrew J. Murphy, suspended patrol
man, who has made vigorous defense
against charges of insubordination made
by Mayor Royal, will hand in his resig-
nation, his friends said to-day. The
Mayor has suspended the policeman
and wants him dismissed, although the
City Commission has not yet either
confirmed or disapproved the Mayor s
plan.
Since his suspension from the police
force Murphy has attended several
meetings of the City Commissioners and
made appeals in his own behalf. The
Commi missioners in all probability will
act on the patrolman s case next Tues
day unless he resigns in the meantime
The Mayor wants to appoint Jacob Kin
ley as lMurphy's successor.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
Gigantic Foreign Cor
poration Building in
Mexico City Taken
at Point of Bayonet
STRIKE HALTED
TRAFFIC OF CITY
Action Alleged TO Be In Interest of
Public Welfare and Due to Stop
page of Cars when Company Re
fused Demands of Employees

Mexico City, Oct, IL, (By Courier to
Vera Cruz, Oct. 14)-The seizure of
the Mexico Tramways Company lines
by the Carranza government to-day was
made at the point of the bayonet. The
Mexican Tramways Company Limited,
is foreign corporation capitalized at
Sl,000,000. Its home office is in To-
ronto.
shortly before noon soldiers sur
rounded the main building occupied by
offices and plant while a delegation of
officials entered the premises and serv-
ed notice upon General Graves that all
the books, rolling stock and other
property of the company with the ex-
eeption of the cash in the vaults must
be delivered to the chief of police. The
order was given in the name of the
supreme chief and was signed by the
governor of the federai district.
Governor Explains Action
The governor explained that the
measure was provisional one taken
in the interest of public welfare and
due to the stoppage of the street car
traffic of the city on noon of last
Thursday when the motormen, conduc-
tors, inspectors and shopmen struck be-
cause their demands for a 100 per
cent. increase in wages, an eight hour
day and recognition of the union were
not granted by the company in the
four hours time limit specified bv the
strikers committee.
The principal owners of the prop
erty are English, French and Belgian,
with some American stockholders. All
foreign employees were kept in the
building at the behest of the troops.
The management has made a vigorous
protest to the Brizilian, British,
French and Belgian legations. A for
NAL protest was registered also with
Carranza.
Millions of Passengers Carried
Carranza later designated Tomas
Ramos as acting general manager of
the system. The lines of the company
form a net work over the federal dis
trlct extending for nearly $50 miles
and carrying millions OF passengers
monthly.
The act has caused a sensation here
as the tramways company and the al
lied Mexican Light and Power Com.
Pany, Limited, supply all the light,
power, heat and transportation within
a radius of so miles of the capital. The
Joint investment of the allied com.
panies represent nearly 100000. 900.
Passengers arriving from Aguas
calientes say that General Villa is so
miles north of there with large force
and determined TO fight unless the ad.
herents of Carnanza agree to a commits
sion form of government.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
PORTUGAL HAS DECLARED
WAR AGAINST GERMANY?

London, Oct. IA, lei P. MA
" Central News dispatch from Madrid
says it is reported from Lisbon that
Portugal has declared war against Ger
many. The message, which lacks of
tcial confirmation, is published in
Madrid with all reserve.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
NEWSPAPER DISPLAY WEEK
We Sell These Standard Products
---An Advertised in the DAILY
NEWSPAPERS

There is not purchaser who does
not know the name Of a certain brand
or article of the sort he wishes TO pur-
chase and his acquaintance is made
through advertising adver-
tising. Back of the advertising must
be the article of actual worth or the
newspaper space viii not do amy last
ing good
This national movement on the part
of the publishers association, is to
aid the merchants in placing before
their customers by means of window
displays the amount of goods of this
character that is handled on the in
side.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
HUNTINGDON OFFICIAL TO WE'D
Herncane, Divorced in September, Gets
Marriage License Here To-day

After an unhappy marriage through
which he landed in the divorce courts
of his home county in September las.
when the marital bonds were legally
severed, George B Herncane, inspector
of weights and measures of Hunting.
don county, came this morning to Har.
risburg and decided to make another
try at matrimony
He obtained a marriage license to
wed Mrs. Blanche w. Fogel, a widow,
whose home is in Philadelphia. The
Huntington official is 40 years old.
The only other marriage license is
sued this morning was obtained by An
drew Yaros, of Middletown, and julia
Pisalski, of Danville.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14

New York, Oct. 14.-The curb, OF
outside market resumed business in q
tentative way to-day, trading being re-
stricted to stocks selling under $40 a
share. In most instances quotations
were on lever, or above July 80
prices, but dealings which had the
sanction of the Stock Exchange were
very light.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
Belgian Government Now at Havre

London, Oct Il. A. MA Reuter-
dispatch from Havre saws the members
of the Belgium government arrived in
Havre at s CLOCK Tuesday evening
and were received by the Minister of
Marine and the local authorities. Mill.
tary honors were rendered the Belgians
and the Populaee gave them an enthusi.
astic reception.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
CRUSHED BENEATH BIG ROCK
Boulder Weighing Quarter of Ton
Snuffs Out Life of William Rawls

Hagerstown, Md, Oct. 14.-Crushed
beneath falling rock weighing quar-
ter of ton, William Rawls, aged 49,,
employed as quarryman at the quar-
ries of H. E. Bester, this city, was in
stantly killed last evening. His back
and neck were broken and six ribs
crushed.
Rawls had been attempting to move
the huge rock earlier in the day but
had failed. He was at work with a
drill on another rock when, without
warning, the boulder rolled down the
embankment and struck him. Other
workmen nearby narrowly escaped.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
Five.Year.old Girl Expires

The funeral of the fve-year-old
daughter, Frances Elizabeth, of Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. G. Carroll, 1925 Forster
street, Pleasant View, who died Mon
day, was held yesterday from the home.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
GERMAN SUBMARINES SUNK

Petrograd, Oct 14-The following official communica-
ton was issued by the ministry of marine to night:
According to complete reports received from the chief
commander of the Baltic fleet cruisers attacked by
German submarine boats October 10 and H. sank two
of the submarines"
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
Won kLUCk IN FIERCE BATTLE TRIES
TO CUT THROUGH THE ALLIES LINES

Determined Efforts of German
Commander Haze Thus Far
Been Frustrated in Fight With
the Anglo-French Forces in
Northern France desperate
Conflict Proceeding in Ti-
angle of Dixmude, Ypres and
Dunkrk --Germans Are Ap-
preaching Ostend By Three
Roads -7Kaiser's Forces Pre-
pairing to Lay Siege Upon BEL
fort, An Almost Impregnable
French Fortress
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
By Associdted Press.

London, Oct. II, 303 A. MA fierce battle is pro
ceedng in the triangle of Dixmude Ypres and Dunkirk
says the Times London correspondent telegraphing
monday. He says:
Won Kluck's right is making determined effort to
cut through the allies lines but thus far it has been
frustrated"
London, Oct IA, S45 A. M Adispatch to the Daily
News from Ostend, dated Monday midnight, says
The Germans are approaching Ostend by three roads
from Ypres by way Dixmude from Coutrai, through
Thourout and from Eecloo through Brughes
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-14
PROPOSED SIEGE OF BELFoRT

London Oct. IA, 1912 A. MA dispatch to the 'Cen-
tral News from Copenhagen says:
According to Berlin dispatch received here the Ger
mans are preparing to lay siege upon Befor with as large
force as possible Almost the entire civil population has
left the city,.
Belfort is an almost mpregnable fortress in France
Just across the Asaan border opposite Muehausen In
the Franco Prussian it withstood siege for more
than three months The town has population of about
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Nine. E. Azalia Hackley, after
series of Interesting experiences in
Paris, France, during the present
European war, returned to this
country last week. She recured
passage by way of the French line.
She was in Paris during the mobi-
lization of the French troops and
remained there until the Germans
were almost at the capitals gates,
when the seat of the government
had to be removed to Bordeaux.
She will probably have some inter-
esting lectures upon her war ex-
periences.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26

st. Louis, Mo, Sept. 17.-Pa-
trolman Paul Walker of the La
cleds avenue station was dismissed
from the force Friday afternoon,
September IL following testimony
that he fired his revolver at the
feet of a colored porter in I'll. @.
Donigan's saloon, 2300 Olive
street. Witnesses said Walker
wanted to see the porter, Jesse
Armstrong, dance. The shooting
was not reported to the police, and
Capt. johnson learned of it through
an outside source. Sergt. A. j.
Smith, in command of Walkers
precinct, was cited to appear before
the police board. Testimony
showed Donigan had reported the
shooting to Sergt William E. Har-
rison of the Laclede avenue station.
Harrison said he told Smith about
it.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26
REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM

At a meeting of the Republican
state central committee on Tuesday
last after the election of officers, the
platform for the state campaign was
announced as follows: Adherence to
the principles Of protective policy
through the enactment of just and
adequate protective tariff laws;
pledging of our nominees for the ma
tional Congress to stand first for Colo
RADIO in the struggle for Industrial pro-
gress and advancement; liberal appro-
priations by the National Congress for
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26
VANCOUVER, 3. c., NEWS.
Especial to Colorado Statesman.)

Especial to Colorado Statesman)
The Vancouver Exposition and
fair opened last week and has been
a success up to the present time.
Quite number of strangers are
in the city both colored and white.
All seemed to enjoy themselves
and pleased with the city.
Mrs. Martin of 621 Davie ST.,
who has been very sick, we are
glad to say in now convalescent.
Mrs. G. E. Ross who has been
sick is up and able to be about.
Mrs. Sally Macdonald of East
Triumph Street left Sunday for a
visit to Colorado. She will visit in
Pueblo, Denver and Salt Lake
City before she returns.
Mr.. George Paris arrived last
week from the continent and ex-
poets to remain few days. He is
well thought of in Canada.
Mr.. Bryant of the Occidental
Club expectc to improve his place
by adding fine up to date cafe
where his patrons can be accom-
modated on short order.
Mrs. Oliver of 621 Davie st. is
now one of the subscribers of the
Colorado Statesman. Who is
next? The agent will be around
next week, let him know if you get
your paper regular.
Mr.. II. Hayden received letter
from Chicago stating that Capt.
Silas johnson of the Denver Fire
Department was the biggest man
in the city. ii. Fl.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26
HISTORYOF
ACHIEVEMENT

smith shops, IL shoe shops, II
tailor shops, 1 dairy, 2 ice cream
stores, 10 coal dealers, 2 under
takers, l steam laundry, 3 livery
stables, IL real estate brokers, 4
cab lines, moving picture theatre,
l bottling works. There are 30
Negro preachers, dentists, A phar-
macists, IA lawyers, 5 periodicals,
Is Baptist, 6 Methodist, l Chris
tian, ! Episcopal and Church of
God; Ii fraternal orders, Z women's
organizations. Muskogee has four
fine schools for its children. The
Manuel Training High School did
all the carpentry work last year on
strictly modern, six room cottage
al by At feet, worth $4,000 and
renting for 500 a month. The ag-
gregate value of the Negro schools
is $4,000 and 36 Negro teachers
are employed in the public schools.
j. E. Thompson, of Clearview,
Okla which is one of several pros
porous Negro settlements, controls
5000 acres of farm land; furnishes
employment throughout the year
for many members of his race !;
grows crops that are worth selling
and brings the market to his pro-
ducts. The son of slave woman,
he began at the age of thirteen to
farm on the half. and. half plan.
After making several good crops
as a sharer, he bought 20 acres and
then his real struggle commenced
To day, at the age of fifty five,
Thompson actually owns 1,SO0
acres
}. HI. Teer, of Holly Springs,
Miss, has succeeded in handling
people as well as raising farm crops
and stock. 1t was in 1890 that
Teer started with ten dollars in
borrowed cash to grow cotton-the
best cotton. Now he owns 1000
acres of land worth about $4,000,
and employs 20 families which
help him care for 20 mules, 100
head of critic, and vast fields of
corn
From being a cowboy. poorly
paid and badly sheltered, to being
a prosperous plantation owner and
stockraiser, is the story of Jake
Simmons, one of the keen Negro
business men of Haskell, Okla.
In 1856 Simmons first began farm
ing and met with a crop failure.
He borrowed $50 from his boss
ond started again, after he had
secured contract to cut $4,000
rails as a side line. Next he be-
came cattle trader in the Choctaw
country and here he found him
self. Now Simmons actually owns
in his own name, 1900 acres-700
being in active cultivation 27O
head of cattle, $50 hogs, and over
TOO hens. He owns ten-room
house in which his ten children
have the conveniences of modern
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26

Savannah, Ga, Sept. 15.-John
w. Hubert, principal of the Farm
School, White Plains Ga, will
come to this city October l to as,
sumo principalship of the new
Cuyler street grammar school
This school will be housed in what
is probably the most complete
school building for colored children
in the South, recently erected by
the board of education, S f. Ash
more, superintendent, at a cost of
100000. 1t contains 2l rooms,
and besides the regular branches
facilities will be offered for the
teaching of practical domestic
sciences. Mr. Hubert is a graduate
of Morehouse College, Atlanta,
and of Chicago University. For a
while he was head Of the natural
science department of Tuskegee
Institute.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26

Baltimore, Md, Sept. 16.-In
order to aid Liberiap export and
import trade, as well as to stimu-
late other activities in the little
West African republic, the Inter
national Liberian Beneficial league
is being formed. The plans for
the project are in the hands of DR..
Ernest Lyon, the Liberian Consul
Generate to the United States, and
the headquarters for the projected
organization will be in this city.
DR.. Lyon has received the endorse
ment of prominent Liberians and
will seek to enlist the aid of prom
inent men and women of this
country.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26
country life.

country life.
RAISES FOURTEEN OUNCE PEACHES
Logan Morgan, who lives with
in four miles of Muskogee, Okla,
finds that no color line is drawn in
the market against his twelve and
fourteen ounce Alberta peaches,
which brings So a bushel in the
orchard. Twenty-one years ex-
perience in the Southwest, "as an
unlearned man among many graf
ters," to quote him exactly, has
taught him the value of remaining
quietly at work and of producing
among other crops peaches that
can't be beat" Morgan was mar
ried twenty years ago when he had
only six "bits" and an SIS pony.
Now he owns 400 acres of land,
with more than half their farm
holdings in money and cover crops.
RECEIEEs RENTALS OF 81 900 A MO.
John B. Keys, who came to Ok
lahoma as a homesteader in 1891,
with sos in his pockets, is one of
the wealthiest Negroes in Okmul-
gee, thriving city 30 miles from
Muskogee, rich in oil and gas prop
critics. Keys owns solid block of
two-story buildings in the heart of
the best business section, together
with 16 cottages and 6 store build-
ings, and has the respect of his
white and black competitors in
business. Keys rents amount to
$1,000 a month, from 100000
worth of buildings, and his receipts
from the sale of groceries amount
to 81, 200 day.
@. w. Gillian runs a 6rst-class
general store in Oklahoma, Miss,
and has for his customers some of
the best white people. In March,
1886, Gilliam's father died, leaving
destitute wife and eight children
-four boys and four girls. Young
Gillian earned his FIRST money by
hunting for old, dirty bones, which
he sold for few cents a bushel.
In 1898 he bought his first bill OF
groceries for $S1. In 1897 he be-
gan business in notions with a
stock worth $50. A little later he
opened shoe line with $50 worth
of good but inexpensive footwear
Now he employs six clerks, doe S
an annual business of over $4,000
and has a substantial brick store.
He lives, with his family, in a
twelve. room house, has II tenants
and owns so acres of farm land.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26

Dayton, Ohio, Sept 17.-Misses
Florence Crockett and Ethel Stew
art, graduates of the normal school
here, have been placed in charge
of classes for colored pupils in the
upper grades, the session being
started at the Garfield school last
Monday. These classes were re.
Gently organized by Superinten-
dent Brown. The lower class,
es, conducted by Miss Louise Troy
and Miss Ivy White will also be
continued.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26

more and better roads, also the main
tenance of good roads in our state
owned or controlled by the national
government; favoring an amendment
to the federal constitution providing
for woman suffrage; a pension law
for the firemen of the cities and towns
of the state of Colorado; a constitu-
proportionate per cent of signatures
for referring and initiating bills shall
be secured from each judicial district
of the state; a more liberal policy
towards actual settlers on government
and state lands and an efficient farm
loan act; workmen's compensation
act that will compel the payment of
a reasonable sum to the widows and
orphans from the industry where the
loss occurred; condemning the efforts
of the reclamation service and the
interior department to prevent the
utilization of the waters of our
streams by the people of this state as
unwarranted, unjust and unauthorized
by l.-&; denouncing the action of the
state tax commission in its arbitrary
raise in the assessed valuation of real
estate in various counties for the year
1913 in the sum of $1S7,000,000, and
the further raise of $135, 100000 for
1914; the just, efficient and impartial
enforcement of the laws of the state
in accordance with the fundamental
American doctrine of all being equal
under the law and the necessary pro-
lection to all citizens and people in
the country; no opposition to any
union either of labor or capital, when
organized to accomplish lawful objects
by lawful means; the enforcement of
the laws concerning the liquor traf-
fic as our position on other laws.
whether in its present form or other
wise adopted; the reduction of taxes
and abolition of unnecessary boards
and bureaus in our efforts to strict
economy; the maintenance, extension,
and enforcement of civil service laws,
dsapproving the continuance of in
competent employees in office without
proper or civil service examination"
These, among other things COM
prise the platform of the Republican
party, and an earnest appeal is made
to all good citizens irrespective of
party affiliations and especially to
those who have acted with us in the
past to rebuke strongly the spirit of
lawlessness, which would turn popu-
lar government into irresponsible des-
pousm and through unprincipled agi-
tators keep alive the fire of race
prejudice, class hatred. lawlessness
and treason, and join us in supporting
and electing nominees on the Republi-
can ticket to the end that the state
may no longer be blighted and
mildewed by the advocates of lawless
ness and treason"
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26

Foray Tom Watson watermelons,
ranging in weight from forty five
to sixty. two pounds, recently at
tracted and held my attention in
Muskogee, Okla, whileI was pass
ing through the splendid agricul-
tural and industrial exhibit that
had been arranged as supplement
or assessory to the meetings OF the
fifteenth annual session of the Ma
tional Negro Business League.
Fred Hawkins, young, slim,
dark-skinned Negro of East Mus
kogee, who is a share tenant, work
ing a dozen acres of rich Arkansas
. bottom land, raised these melons.
He was as proud of his achieve
ment, expressed in luscious water
melons, as any man might be OF a
rich painting, a beautiful SYM
phony, or busy factory, which
was his own.
Hawkins was born thirty years
ago in the Indian Territory.
When he was mere child he lost
his mother and father and was
brought up, along with one sister,
by his grandparents, who though
they were ignorant of book learu-
ing, taught him to work, to save
and to be honest. For two terms
Hawkins attended the Orphan
Home School on Old Agency, Hill,
which is on the outskirts of Mus
kogee. Hawkins is making hun
dreds of dollars for himself, as well
as for his "boss man." from his
cotton, corn, sweet potatoes and
watermelons.
NEGROES IN MUsKoGEE
Negroes in Muskogee, some TO-
600 out of a total population of
$4,000, have already made good in
business. Edwin S. Monroe, city
superintendent of the public
schools, who is a broad minded Of
fetal, recently presented to the Me-
tyro Business League in Conven-
ton Hall, where over 1000 white
and black people had assembled to
hear the facts of Negro progress,
some interesting evidence that ne
had gathered. In Muskogee Coun-
ty, said Mr. Monroe, Negroes own
and control 5000 acres of valu-
able agricultural and oil land; Ne
groes own city real estate in Mus
kogee that is worth 81 800, GOO; the
Negro business concerns OF Mus
kogee have value of at least
$1,00O,OO0.
Here is a partial list of the Ne
gro business enterprises of Musko-
gee, according to Mr.. Monroe: One
clothing store for men, l drygoods
store, l ice company, l plumbing
and plumbing supplies shop, 6
contractors and builders, IL barber
shops. 5 concrete contractors, 5n
grocery stores, 4 drug stores, l har-
ness shop, 20 restaurants, 8 black
The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26
First Thinq In Nature.

Every investigation which is guided
by principles of nature fixes it's ulti-
mate aim entirely on gratifying the
stomach.-Athenaeus.