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and fixed 1t up, SO today after q week
the little ono is sitting up.

and fixed 1t up. SO today after q weeh
the little ono is sitting up.
Saturday. January 10th. we went
TO little Association. We remained
here Saturday and Sunday. The Doc
tor and Miss Bryan were introduced
and the people thanked God and the
churches in America for Il Doctor
Nurse and 4 Dentist. Oh tho sickness
and the sores to be treated here!
On Monday, the 18th, l got off for
Suchn again at il cost OF $1,000. Tues
day we went up tho st. Paul River
and Wednesday, after helping Broth
with loads, at 200 =. NJ, we started
on our 90 mile hike. We over esti-
mated our strength SO tho sun went
down on us two miles or more from
the station. The carriers were tired
so we fastened on and left them. As
l got Il little way ahead l recalled ali
had heard of the boa. constrictor
hanging over the way to get its food,
SO | watched for him prayed the Lord
l would not see one. Only Il monkey
crossed our path and by the time it
WAS dark good we were at tho Mis-
sion again.
Since being hero % days
we have gone by launch ard boat
1873 miles. by canoe 10 miles and walk
cd 1872 miles We are in GOOD health.
but taking 5 grain tablets of quinnc
daily and leaning hard on the Lord
God. or course my head roars and I
hear things.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.


Prince George G. H., Va. Feb. 2S
"A lodge Of knights Of Pythius was
set up about six miles from hero ut
Mt. Hope i'll Prince George County
today by Grand Chancellor John
Mitchell, Jr. The work was done in
the daytime. Those accompanying
tho Grand Chancellor were: DR.. A .
A. Tenant. Grand Medical Register
DR.. e. RI. Jefferson, Grand Master OF
Exchequer; Col. r. G. Mitchell, Sir
Robinson Davis. Sir John r. Cog.
bill OF Richmond and Mrs. Lucy A.
Peters, Deputy Grand Worthy Coun
scllor and State Organizer. Sir J. &C.
Williamson. District DEPUTY Grand
Chancellor and Sir W. II. Stokes.
Grand Inner Guard.
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AT CAMP LEE.

The party came down to Camp Leo,
where automobiles wore in waiting
TO convey the party to the place OF
initiation. The following officers were
installed In Mt. Hope Lodge. No. 23G
Chancellor Commander. James Wat
kins; Master OF Work, Albert Crock
EFT; Vice Chancellor, William Tyler;
Prelate. Nicholas Sykes; Master OF
Exchequer Willie Haskins; Master OF
Finance, Andrew Hines; Keeper OF
Records md Seal. Charles Crockett;
Master at Arms. Alpheus Winfield :
Inner Guard, Strowa Haakins; Outer
Guard, James II. Allen.
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THANK YOU

On finding ourselves hcdged in in
England, we appealed to a few Of our
brethren at me-rcmcmbering, the
Board would have to organize TO get
money for us, so to save time and
suffering we acted as we believed for
the best. Only for the timely help Of
those Cody brethren we would have
suffered untold hardship, If not hung
er and great humiliation. They did
not give once or twice, but indeed
they gave n dozen times for the river
and road transportation in Africa
could never have been accomplished
without 1t. We are quite sure our
Board will not punish any Of us FOX
this act as it saved tho day for the
Army in the field of God even as did
Grant. Foch and Pershing won undy'
ing fame for their Governments by
striking at tho right time and report
ing afterwards.
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THEY ARE HERE.

Br9tho" IInton met us as We or
tered The P"orncs. fell on our noel;
and went for 10y We reached the
house all in from our al day jour.
ney in tho sun. Doctor Sisusa with
wife. children and Miss BRYAN are
hapnv hut their hnlongings are st"cwn
II miles along thc wav. This Mission
IS six years old and has not had an
accident until the day tho Doctor
and our Nurse arrived when q small
native. child. about three years old
broke its lcg::,With knives they got
to work, made splinters set the limb
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FOOD SCARCE.

We hurried on because of food con
ditions III Monrovia. No sugar or but
ter, little bacon in one store Sc
cents per pound, very little flour, at
All cXorbitant price. Food stuff Is not
TO be had and famine faces this peo-
pie numbering two and Ii half mil
lion.
MOVING BAGGAGE AND FREIGHT
The moving Of our baggage and a
littlo food, wo wore Thoughtful enough
to bring from England, has givon us
quite a little trouble, and is not all
moved to the Stations on this the
Goth Of January. Most Of our things
had to be unpackcd and put in sacks
10 be carried by the Natives. 20 miles
over land. At this writing our OK
penso for boats and native hire has
been $4,000. and we are far from fin
ished.
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HOUSE FOR RENT.

A nice home for n married counIa at
Woodland Cemetery, with ground for
gardening purposes. It Is only two
Clocks from the car line. For rental
terms, apply to
JOHN MITCHELL, JR..
311 N. Fourth Street,
Richmond, Va.
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WE ARE OFF AGAIN.

After two days wo take our long
walk again, on our way back to Mon
rovia for tho INAUGURATION Of Presi
dent King and 7. to go to Eassa to
took after the location Of the Work.
ers there. We saw our frs: Innngu-
ration OF q Negro President. It was
IN inspiring s!Cht. though 1t only re
sc,nbled meeting Of one Of our dis
trict Associations. but we believe as
Goa lives n brighter day awaits Iii
IBERIA.
On Tuesday I took freight hoat
FOR Bassa 7 slept WI the upner deck
without quilt or nil'oy, cN'y the Afri-
can dew ord stars cover, I'd me. Only
~" &c Lord knows tho torture Of
r. : u,Git nrd dav hut I got to Bas
s' thursday we got chonco II go
- st. John River in boat. put
:. rs within miles Of TIC Bible
ana Industrial Mission and we walk
ed into the Station about six that ev
cninE
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Voters to Meet.

dependent Voters League. Monday
might. March s. 1920 at $50 o'clock,
at the Rcformcrs Hall. All voters are
urged to be present.
J. M. SAMPSON,
President.
G. B. Gilpin,
Secretary
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MRS. PETERS'S WORK.

Tho candidates were delighted. Re-
freshmentn were served. This Lodge
was organized through the influence
and energetic work OF Mrs. Lucy A.
Pcters While tho roads were bad IN
this section the visitors succeeded In
their work without incident.
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$4,000 ENDOWMENT PAID.
LyDchburg. Va, Feb. s. 1920

This il to certify that we have re-
ceis cd from John Mitchell, Jr.. Grand
Worthy Counsellor Of the Grand Court
CT Va. Order OF Calanthe, (Sl00. 00)
Ono Hundred Dollars in payment OF
the death claim of sister Pcrmelia Tup
pin who was a momber Of Hill City
Court, No. So Of Lynchburg, Va.
Signed:
VIOLA MILLER.
ROBT. MILLER.
Benoficiar les.
Witnesses:
J. y. EVANS,
MARTHA LEWIS.
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GIVES OVER.

Miss DoLany sent her bunch OF
keys and n piece of white cloth to
two Of the Native Chiefs. few miles
away, bidding thcm come to see us.
When they came she told them that
Miss Harris and Rev. Nichols had
come to take her place and be their
"Strangors," and she wanted them to
take care of them and look out for
them as they had looked after her.
All this was said to them through ono
OF the girls as Interpreter. They re-
piled they would look after the New
Big Ma and Biz Daddy" We gave
them $500 in white money, somo
white cloth and white handkerchinfs
as marks Of friendship: the white
showing that our hearts were pure
toward them.
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Princess Manufacturing Co., 302 N
34th, street, Richmond, Va.
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MOVING BAGGAGE AND FREIGH,
HOW WE FOUND THINGS.

The first party reached their Sta
ton on Thursday the first day OF
the New Year. We reached our Jour
ney's end on Wednesday tho last day
of the Old Year. Coming to the close
OF our 20 milo walk, as we neared tho
Station at Suohn, n group OF children
met US. waving palm branches and
singing:
waving palms OF victory,
Singing songs OF Jubilee,
What q meeting n greeting
When our loved ones wo shall see.
Waving palms Of victory"
When we were about ono half mile
away wo mot another group, who join
ed In the same song. 1t ia almost need
less to say tho sight was ovcrwhelm
ing. we oil gave way subdued sObs
hut after shaking hands, we passed
on to the entrance of the Mission
grounds, where Miss Delany met us
with welcome words She had brought
tho blackboard from tho school-rcom
On which was written in large let
ters--"Welcome" and hung 1t In tho
arch of palms at tho entrance.
An excellent meal had beeA pre-
pared from the fcod sent out In Aug
asst, 30 after n prayer of thanksgiving
wo ate heartily.
AS night fell and tho moon lighted
on the African darkness we told Of
our long journey and the dear ones
at home,~~ with whom We held the
Watch Night" service, though thous
ands Of miles away.
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STORMY DAYS OF FIRST MONTANA LEGSl ATRE WHEN REBEL
SYmPATHKERS CONTROLLED SESSION AND F0GT G0ve13M0E,

In a few days the Seventeenth,
legislative assembly s,sof Montana
since it became state in 1889 will
convene in Helena for one of the
most important sessions of our
lawmakers that has ever been held.
Upset national economic conditions
and the aftermath of several bad
crop and livestock years have
brought upon Montana a difficult
and trying period. Wise, construct
i've legislation is needed more to-
day, perhaps, than ever before in
the history of the state.
This is the seventeenth assembly
Of the state legislature, but before
Montana became state, there were
sixteen territorial legislative as
semblies. 1t is interesting to con-
trast the conditions under which
the first legislature met and the
conditions which surround the law
makers of today when they gather
at the state capitol building at Hell
ena.
The members Of the coming leg
islature have mostly engaged their
rooms at the Placer Hotel, which
rises eight stories from Main street
and has all the modern luxuries
and conveniences. There will he
no physical discomforts for them
either in their hours of leisure and
recreation, or at the splendid state
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heated log cabin, which was ordin-
arify used for church services and
Sunday school classes.
No appropriations had beer,
made to pay the expenses of the
territory by the national congress,
and Governor Sidney Edgerton, in
conjunction with Francis M.
Thompson and others, had adj
vanced such sums as were neces-
sary to provide for the rude accom-
modations for the first legislative
assembly. There were no hotel ac-
commodations at Bannack during
the winter, and the statesmen slept
III hunks that our legislators today
would deem impossible of occu-
pancy, there being 20 to 80 of these
IN one room, with minimum of
ventilation.
Story Of First Legislature
The first session of the Montana
territorial legislature convened at
Bannack December IL, 1864, and
adjourned February 9, 1865. Sid
ney Edgerton of Ohio, who had
been appointed chief justice of the
territory of Idaho and had not
qualified, was appointed Montana's
first governor. Robert Lawrence
was president Of the council and
George Detwiler, speaker of the
house. The members of the upper
house, called the council, and cor
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mended the extinguishment of the
Indian title to lands in the terri
tory, spoke hopefully of the agri-
cultural resources of Montana. and
urged the legislature to do some
thing for the cause of education.
Recommends Mail Routes
As to local mail facilities he rec
commended the establishment of a
mail route from Virginia City to
Gallatin, another from Virginia
City to Fort Benton. by way of the
Prickly Pear valley; and one from
Bamnack City to Jocko, with post
offices at Willow Creek, Fort
Owen. Hellgate and Jocko. He
discussed the wisdom of changing
the local currency from gold dust
to United States treasury notes.
and commended many other vari-
ous interests to the attention of the
legislature.
NSlSlI IiIS 10 lIlc OlNll war then
III progress, he denounced the re-
bellion and its methods and pur-
pose, and spoke hopefully of the re-
suit then not far distant. So much
OF his message as referred to the
war was referred to a committee
of which Charles S. Bagg, of the
council. was chairman, and the lat
ter made a report thereon later in
the session.
Notwithstanding its difficulties
caused by factional feeling, the
First Legislative assembly worked
with commentlab'e industry and no
inconsiderable ability. 1t granted
many franchises. chartered MANY
corporations. The members Justly
felt that, upon the whole, they had
discharged an inspiring and pat
riotic duty. in that they had set in
motion and given direction to the
incipient forces of a great common
wealth. destined thereafter to be re-
nowned in the union.
The session closed amid great
hilarity. as legislative sessions were
wont to do for decades afterward.
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capitol which the state of Montana
boasts today.
But for the first lawmakers of
Montana living conditions were ex-
tremely primitive. There were.
too. many real hardships and in
conveniences in connection with
the trip to Bannack and the So
,journ there while attending the
session.
The hall of the house of repres-
entatives' was a rudely-built. stove
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The house for a time refused to
recede from its position. but after
some days Rogers solved the diff
Guilty by rendering his resignation,
after which the governor delivered
his message.
The bitterness of feeling on the
part OF sympathizers with the Con
federacy was also shown in another
way. 4 motion to elect a chaplain
i'll the legislative council was
strongly opposed by .Anson S. Pot
ter and Charles S. Bagg. both from
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continuation from Gallatin to Wal
la Walla, Washington, would be
built.
he protested against the oner-
Gus burdens imposed by the min
ing laws of the territory of Idaho.
then in force in Montana. and
against divers and sundry bills i'm
troduced in congress, providing for
the imposition of a seigniorage tax
on the products of the placer mines
which then were the only mines
worked in Montana. He recon-
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Lodge county-.James Stuart; Jef-
ferson county - Isaac N. Buck,
Milo Courtwright and George Det-
wiler; Madison county-John H.
Rogers, Patrick Ryan, Villa HUFF
faker, 4. F. Mayhem. Francis Bell
and Washington ]. Mccormick !:
Missoula county-E. B. Johnson.
These were all of the counties in
the territory at the tine-five of
them. All of the men who sat in
the first legislature are dead. The
son of one of them, Washington J..
Mccormick. Jr., was last month
elected to represent the western
district OF Montana in congress.
Confederate Sympathizers
The organic act creating the ter
rltory of Montana provided that a
census be taken to determine the
number Of representatives in the
Legislature each county should have
and Governor Edgerton appointed
James Tufts to discharge this duty.
His census gave the territory a
population of 10000, but the esti-
mate was a very rough one and the
number was undoubtedly much ex-
aggerated. Tufts rode on horse
back from the capital at Bannack
to Cottonwood (,low Deer LODGE.
Hell-Gate (now Missoula). Fort
Owen in the Bitter Root Valley.
Blackfoot City, Montana City
(near Helena) Fort Benton. Gala
tin near where Three Forks now
stands) and Virginia City.
Governor Edgerton then issued
his proclamation, calling for an
election of seven councilmen and
Is representatives. As matter of
fact a majority Of the population
at the time were residents of Alder
Gulch and other points in Madison
county, and if the letter of the law
had been carried out by the COVER
nor. Madison county would have |
had a majority in each house of the
assembly. But Governor Edgerton
was of the opinion that the popula-
ton of Alder Gulch was somewhat
transient and SO arbitrarily denied
Madison county the absolute con-
troll of the legislature.
AS the campaign preceding this
election took place during the cri-
sis of the Civil war, and majority
OF the population of the mining
camps were democrats and in SYM
pathy with the rebellion, the feel
ing was extremely bitter. The re-
suit OF the election showed that
The southern sympathizers were in
the majority and the legislature
was democratic. Such was the new
ness of the settlements, however.
hat several men were elected who
we're out and out northerners, but
Who had managed to conceal their
political sympathies, and although,
he house was democratic. it elect
ID republican. George Detwiler.
tor speaker.
Some Further Troubles
When the Legislature convened
It Bannack December l8. 1864.
difficulty arose with reference to
he organization of the house
which delayed proceedings for
'ome days. In 1862 congress had
an oath of office which
provided that any public officer.
before entering on his duties. take
IN oath that he had never volun-
ar'ly borne arms against the Uni
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session seemed to be thoroughly
enjoyed by all.
OF the members of the first leg
lslative assembly of Montana. the
last to survive as a resident of this
state was DR.. Erasmus D. Leavitt
a member of the Council from
Beaverhead county. who died at
Butte November 80, 1909. Dr.
Leavitt was the first surgeon in the
gold camps and was one of the dis
coverers of gold in Grasshopper
creek in 1862,
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responding to our state senate.
were: Beaverhead county-Francis
NJ. Thompson and +. r. Leavitt :
Chouteau. Deer Lodge and Mis-
soula counties-Frank L. Worden
Jefferson county-Nathaniel Mer-
riman; Madison county-Char1es
). Bagg. Robert Lawrence, and A..
). Potter.
The members of the lower house
were: Beaverhead county - Will
liam Faulds and A. ]. Smith: Deer
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which, although it did not conform
to the congressional enactment.
satisfied the house. The house then
organized, but Governor Edgerton
refused to accept the organization
unless each member took the prop
er oath prescribed.
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1t is recorded, however. that differ
ences OF opinion arose between
some OF the Legislators as to the
merits of the Civil war that result
ed in knock-down fist fights, but
despite these Interruptions the
three-day orgy that concluded the
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priation to establish a road from
Sioux City, Iowa, to Gallatin CITY !;
and another one from Niobrara,
Nebraska, to Gallatin. in order to
save 600 or 700 miles Of unneces-
sary travel. He prophecied that if
one or both roads were built, a
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Alder Gulch, the latter making a,
'mpassioned speech against "politi
cal preachers He attributed tt
them the blame for the then exist.
ing Civil war. and denounced Rev
Henry Ward Beecher in terms OF
great severity. The motion to cleo,
chaplain was lost.
Another Cause for Trouble
Another cause of much bitter
ness and much subsequent trouble
III territorial government was an
act disqualifying negroes from tes-
tifying i'll actions where white men
were parties. This provision was
unfortunately part of a much
longer law which provided for the
apportionment of representatives.
elections for subsequent legislative
assemblies and many other matters
OF Importance. The bill passed the
house and the council, but Cover
nor Edgerton vetoed it on account
Of the discrimination against the
negroes. The Legislative assembly
could not pass it over the veto and
would not amend it, so the appor-
tionment bill failed and this fact
caused much subsequent civic diff
Guilty. Legislative affairs were
thrown into confusion for two
years until congress in 1867 en-
acted necessary legislation to cut
the knot.
The Governors Message
Nothing that exists in print to-
day recalls SO vividly the newness
OF the territory, its isolation from
routes Of travel and its lack of pos
tai facilities as the message deliv-
cred by the governor to that first
legislative assembly. Cautioning
the members as to the necessity of
diligence and devotion. he congrat-
ulated them OH the growth and
prosperity of the territory. saving
that very few years previously it
had been as little known as interior
Africa. He recommended a men,
or'al to congress asking an appro-
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ted States. 4 representative of Ma
olson county, John II. Rogers. had
been IN the Confederate army, and
as he could not take the oath, a
form was prescribed by the house
which he could subscribe to. and
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-01-07

FOR SALE-6 room modern home
located on State ST.. furnished.
Price $1,000. W. H, Grabenhorst &
Co.. 215 State St -
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Best BuYs.

acres on paved road, best berry
land $500.
s acres, house, barn, wel fruit, $2,-
900, terms.
10 acres, 7h cleared, house, barn
n lot of timber. fruit. best of soil, Vs.
G00; " cash, balance per cent.
20 acres close in, best of road
good house, barn, some orchard. $7,-
500 on easy terms,
70 acres, two sets of improvements
some logans, family fruit, best OF wal
nut, berry or prune land. $4,000.
HOUSES
6 room modern bungalow, paved
street garage, fruit. $500.
room bungalow fine location, paw
ed street. $4250.
Z room plastered, modern house
paved street, good location. 325OOi
$500 cash. balance easy terms.
IL room modern, paved street, car
lime. lot S0x200. lots Of fine fruit WITH
two sets of plumbing. This would
make a fine flat, s2750 cash,
We do not Advertise all we have lis
ed II you do not see what you wan
in the ad call and let US talk 1t over
Socolofsky
34I State street