Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-03-06
SCANNING THE HORIZON

Il
Even before Nashville. so far as the colored
citizens are concerned, was the Athens of
the United States, and this new institution
of learning but ads another evidence of the
fact.
Near Clayton. La. a jim crow car went
into the river and twenty Of it's occupants
were drowned. The jim crow car was
ahead Of the baggage car, which piled in
on the Jim crow when it went off the
bridge into the river, thus preventing any
of its occupants from escaping watery
grave.
Owing to Indifferent treatment accorded
to coIorcd patrons in the haberdarseries con-
Quoted by white men, r. 7. Cater of Birm-
ingham. Aa, has organized the Pioneer
Mercantile Company and is now opening up
a chain Of haberdashery stores in Georgia
and Aabana which it is hoped will move
other colorcl persons to dO likewise III
other places.
''S;unnv" Edwards Of Billings Mont, had
doubtless seen men make fortunes out OF
bootlcuvinu BOOZE but the thought he could
beat their game. and so he filled lot OF
empty whiSkcy bottles with tea and began
TO Law his foundation for a fortune, but
Uncle Sam STEPPED in and said, ''you are H.
legally usin" United States revenue stamps,
and You are under arrest"
In an inGrmary in Montgomery, Ala,
James ToIivcr. a colored man, was suffering
from hydrophobia the result of a mad dog
bite, and in his deliriums he jumped out of
bed and attacked two female nurses, each
of whom was bitten by the man. A police
man. who was on guard at the institution,
was forced to shoot the mad man in order
to protect the patients. The two nurses
were hurried to a Pasteur Institute.
The attorney general of the State of Mis-
siSsippi holds that children of Chinese par
cnts come under the ban of 'colored child
rem in the eyes of the law and if they de-
sire to attend the public schools as provid-
ed by the laws of that state they will have
to attend those schools set apart for colored
folks And now the state of Mississippi is
bidding for bit of Oriental notoriety,
which will give Uncle Sam more to worry
about.
According to a report made by Mrs. Ida
Wells-I}arnett who spent two weeks IN Ar
kansas investigating the cause OF the race
riots in Elaine, the cOored men were the
owners of, on the average OF twenty-five
bales of cotton each and the current price
was TOlIN-TNe Genus per poulu, UuI CH0
white merchants refused to give the coored
planters over twenty-four cents per pound,
which was responsible for the colored plant
ers organizing to get better prices, which
was directly responsible for the race riots.
Roscoe Simmons, Robert r. Church, Sum-
ner A. Furniss William H. Lewis and James
W. johnson are the Race patriots asked by
Mr.. Hayes to help in drafting a platform
for the victorious Republican party Of
course these men appreciate the honor in
volved But they also realize the opportun.
ity to serve both their party,t heir country
and their people Simmons, great, popular
leader: Church, wise in counsel and brave
in opinion; Furnis successful in the politics
of a great city; Lewis, distinguished law
yer: johnson. publicist and specialist
After Shooting and killing Eugene 2.
Davis white cotton planter near Laurens,
s. c.. in a personal altrecatiOn, Eli Blakely,