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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1920-07-23
l(LI I,WnaiJTIES ANALYZED
nv STATE LABRATORY

-. 4. r. Lewis State Health
cOmmission' ,,hr.torv 10 ro-
Beea'r more water for analysis than
PT'nt no.sibly attend to, a more
.art Gan order has been passed gov
r'as. ns the kinds of water samples
n.ng nsg.reafter s may be submitted.
y r,r ~ the present it is necessary to
f~ @ me samples to municipal
p'l', w.. d, another Interpretation of
'' .j,, Is that analyst will be made
V ~" va.cr Ii ed to supply u num-
' " u.opjc. Therefore samples
a,t,rworks and community
IA. u" ar, the only kinds that will be
~ .,rd by ,hc Iabratory.
W.. only exception to this ruling
l." .,.r. Of suspected infection
.h,ro j.. SICKNESS in family for
,!ab I !, j, though; the family well
nv. Nv be the source, samples from this
'H i properly submitted, will be
.ivyrd However, such samples
~s; u be sent in by the County health
sficer--and not from the family.
pn,,l;pg works are affected by the
~ ruling. Hereafter they must
ithmi, for analyses, at least every
~ months samples of water used
making their products. This is
,ceJ a, a matter of protection for
/ yo samples from any source will
analyzed unless they are properly
Emitted which means that they must
/ sent in a sanitary container. These
butainers are sent upon request by
\e labratory.
Persons wishing to know whether
heir well or spring is Of medical
Ilue should send the sample to a
(lyate or commercial labratory. Fur
ker information will be furnished
bon request from the State Lab.
kfOry
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1920-07-23
MUST PREPAY FREIGHT
ON WATERMELON SHIPMENT

Frright on watcrmelons from Ok-
iahoma points mist b.: prepaid by .hc
shipper this year, according to infor-
nation received last week by Ed. c.
Dustin. secretary of the state market
commission, from officials of the Kock
Island Railroad company.
The ruling does not apply to cante-
loupes or other vegetables. They may
be shipped, as in former years. on a
proper guarantee that charges will be
met. Dustin charges that the ruling
will force small dealers 70 refrain
from handling watermelons on ac-
count of the financial burden entai,ed
He stated Thursday that big houses
will handle the crop and pay smaller
prices. AS a remedy Dustin is urging
watermelon growers to form a mar.
keting association and combine theil
financial strength.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1920-07-23
COW ON A JAG

That even the meek and sad.eyed
COW will break the monotony of every
day existance and get soused up when
occasion offers is proved by the fol-
loving item sent out by the Associat-
ed Press recently.
John King, farmer living near
Durham, N. c. found two of his cows
lying on the ground of the pasture
IN a stupor, apparently suffering Of
some strange malady. A veterinarian
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1920-07-23

IN the same style. The table was
donated to the class BY the men Of the
church and we take this opportunity
TO express our sincere appreciation
for this help in our undertaking
Aside from the material things which
this class is accomplishing the men,
bership is growing steadily but there
IS always room for more and we again
extend an invitation to all the young
men OF this city who are not at
tending any other Sunday School to
join our class and we feel sure that
II VIII prove benefit to all parties
concerned.
CLASS REPORTER.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1920-07-23
MINUTE MEMS CLASS

The plans made by the Minute
LENS Class Of the First Presbyterian
hurch have materialized and when
he class met for their regular sess-
h Sunday they were greeted by the
qht Of new suite Of furniture in
ke recitation room. This included q
bzen golden oak chairs of a beau
hui finish and handsome table of
be SAME finish. The other room
mich was furnished the class for q
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1920-07-23

nounced both animals % merely
"beastly" drunk. A search for the
cause le. dto the discovery of a big
"monoshhine" still in q secluded cor
ner Of the pasture, The cows had
eaten quantity Of the mash used by
the Illicit whisky manufacturers.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1920-07-23

eshy Msues % unuxxJ6 Oh ~ IIIofs
tai coil IN . sudden and unexpected
way why not get 4 job in a dyma-
mite factory, there is not half SO much
worry about 1t and the end is about
the same.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
NEGROES QUESTION.
RESIDENTIAL ASPlRANTS.
REPLIES TO BE SENT TO NEGRO
PRESS THROUGHOUT
NATION.
Hoover, Pershing, Wood, Palmer, Nc
Adoo, Underwood Among the Can
didates sent Questionnaires.

The National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People, 40 Fifth
Avenue, New York, announce that II
QUESTIONABLE has been sent to every
man prominently mentioned as pres
idential possibility, asking him to state
his views on program for lettering
race relations in the United States.
The replies are to be published in the
Negro press throughout the country.
The questionable is as follows:
'If elected President:
1. VIII you favor the enactment Of
laws making lynching federal of
fense?
. What is your attitude toward the
disfranchisement of Americans of Ne
gro descent: (O will you advocate
that Congress enforce the fourteenth
amendment and reduce the representa-
tion of states which disfranchise their
citizens, or (b) will you advocate the
appointment of United States commits
sioners to enforce the fifteenth amend
ment?
3. VIII you endeayor to bring about
the abolition of ".Jim Grow" cars in in
terstate traffic?
4. VIII you withdraw armed or 9th
er Interference with the independence
of Haiti?
3 VIII Won Illrpp NATIONAL aid to ole
mentary education, without discrimina-
tion against Negro children?
6. VIII you pledge the apportion-
ment of Negro soldiers and Negro of
ficers in the armed forces of the
United States in proportion to their
numbers in population?
Z. VIII you abolish racial segrega-
ton in the civil service of the United
States?''
The QUESTIONABLE was sent to the
following men: Herbert Hoover, VIII
liam G.. McAdoO, Governor Goodrich of
Indiana, Nicholas Murray Butler, pres
ident of Columbia University; Attor-
ney General "A. Mitchell Palmer, SEN
ator Hitchcock, Governor Cox of Ohio,
Senator Pomerene, James w. Gerard,
Senator Underwood, General Wood,
Senator Warren G. Harding, Governor
Lowden of Illinois, Senator Hiram
Johnson, Senator Poindexter Gov
ernor Coolidge of Massachusetts, and
General Pershing.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
DENVER, COLORADO SATURDAY, FEBRUARY %. 1920
Referred to AS Indian.

DIR. Anderson, known almost ma
tionally as "the Indian Doctor" is
said to have effected cures, some
chronic cases, which We're considered
wonderful. He was thoroughbred
Negro, having been known from birth
by many East Tennesseans. For
many years he operated at Kingston,
Tenn, Il little village near Hartman,
and erected large sanitariums there
to care for the hundreds of patients
that flocked to him from all sections
of the country. Included in his great
number of patients are said to have
been men and women of wealth and
distinction. He caused the eyes of
the country to center on the little town
in which he practiced.
His career was rather IL stormy one
in Tennessee and as the result of GER
tain indiscretions, involving young
white girl, he was hailed before the
courts and later forced to leave for
Kentucky where he piled his trade.
He gave several thousand dollars to
the State University of Kentucky, for
colored, shortly before his death
which occurred several months ago.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
NO MORE LYNCHINGS IN SOUTH
is PLEDGE OF FOUR Gov
ERNoRS.

Boston, Feb. 25.-Within few
years there will be no more lynching
of Negroes in the south, DIR. Robert
r. MQtpn, the Negro head Of Tuske-
gee institute, predicted in an address
here Tuesday night The governors
of North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee
and Kentucky have pledged them
selves that there will be no lynching
in their states while they are in office,
he said. As an instance of what he
said was 1.-The very gratifying attitude
of the best people of the south toward
the Negro" DE- Motion said the COVER
nor of North Carolina recently recog-
nized Negro committee as
brothers,
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
THE FUTURE Of AMERICA MAY
DEPEND UPON THE WAY II
TREATS THE COLORED RACE
THE WHITES CAN'T BLUFF OUT CROOKED TREATMENT OF
OUR CoLoRED FELLOW CITIZENS MUCH LONGER.
LET'S GET TOGETHER

factors, and all right thinking persons
to set on foot influences and projects
to harmonize relations between mixed
blood and white races in America.
Colored people actually have pref
erence of work in the South. In the
North conspiracy exists to freeze
them out. Here and there Il cOlored
person may get job among white
peoples higher activities, but it is only
to take the '.cuss off" and he is sell
donf advanced any higher.
This single feature of employment,
is really at the bottom of most of the
discomfort and bitterness among the
colored people. Right here in Boston,
where sentiments about freedom" are
engraved on dozens Of tablets, are
hundreds of big concerns employing
100 to 1000 people who will not hire
a colored person. Why? Colored peo-
pie conscientiously send their child
ren to the public schools and spend
money to put them through high
school, confidently expecting the white
people will do the right thing when
these children are fully prepared to
compete for jobs in the business
world
A job on the elevator is as near as
these educated colored young men and
women ever get to the business office.
From out of the public grammar
and high schools are coming each
year colored young men and women
as refined and well educated as any
other class of young people in Ameri-
ca, yet few business concerns will
give them sales or office jobs, and
this is true the country over.
Ambitious colored youths are kept
down. Colored people are not wanted
in the business colleges. They are
frozen out of office jobs, and sales
mems jobs. The thing to do is break
down these barriers and give them a
chance The existing prejudice and
discrimination against the colored
race in the business world is un-
American and in-human. 1t serves to
keep down, and render defiant, twenty
million Americans who are meeting
every requirement as far as permitted
to fit themselves for an even chance
in the business world.
When these citizens present them
selves to the business world to com
pete for situations, all their prepara-
ton and equipment counts for moth
ing. The color line stops negotia-
tionS.
Custom is the only barrier, and that
can be easily broken down.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
MOB RULE KILLED IN KENTUCKY

At least so long as His Honor Ed"la
p. Morrow is governor of the state OF
Kentucky there will be no great gath
ering and holiday preparations to pun
off lynching in that state.
Instead of holiday feast, celeDrlt-
ed with all the fiendish glee of the
heathens, mourning has encouched 1t
self about the homes of the celebrants.
Mobism has gone, down in defeat
while law and order have perched
themselves upon the portals of Law
supreme"
Governor Morrow has, almost over
night stepped into the class of the big
men of the country 1t surely requires
a big man in this day and hour to get
above the howlings of the mob. He
did not take snap Judgment, but, brave
and courageous, he met and faced the
mob, pleaded with them to let the law
take its course, and warned the mad
dened crowd that the law must be Ell.
forced and the processes for the ad-
ministration of justice must be ic-
spected.-The st. Louis Argus.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
BULK OF DR.. ANDERSoNs
ESTATE GOES TO YOUNG
, WOMAN AND SISTERS.

Harrodsburg, KY, Feb. 14.-(News
SpeciaD The will of DR.. ]. S. An
derson, noted herbalist, formerly of
Kingston, Tenn, often referred to as
the Indian Doctor" has been made
public and shows that his more than
half Il million dollar estate, including
four lots and six buildings at King
ston, Tenn. 374 acres of farm land
in Pulaski county, estimated to be
worth 500 per acre and an automo-
bile, goes to Miss Bessie Darland, II
young white woman, former school
teacher of Harrodsburg, who went to
Kingston as IL patient of DIR. Ander-
son, but remained as his private sec
retary. Her two sisters, Misses
Myrtle and Bertha, jointly receive
house and lot in Ferguson, Pulaski
county.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
BISHOPS COUNCIL BACKS UNTIL
CATION.
Ratification Means the Union of Three
Great Churches.

Baltimore, Md, Feb. 20.-In the alb
sence of Senior Bishop Lee of Wilber-
force, the Bishops Council was presid-
ed over by Bishop Evans Tyree OF
Tennessee. After disposing of NUM-
ber of questions incidental to the prog
ress of the church, the question of uni
,fication of the A. NJ. F., A. NJ. Il. Zion
and c. NJ Il. churches was favoraDly
passed on, and the ratification of the
same was set to be finally disposed OF
at the general conference of the A. NJ
f. Church, which will be held later in
st. Louis, Mo.
The unification OF the churches was
one of the most important steps taken
by any of the connections in the past
fifty years. 1t means a consolidated
membership of nearly 100000 people
and a consolidation of wealth running
into several millions of dollars.
All Churches Represented.
The leading bishops of the various
denominations, including such men as
Bishops Blackwell Kyle, Clements of
the a. NJ. f. H., Phillips, Cleves- of the
C. NJ. F., and Lee, Tyree, Johnson,
Flipper and others of the A. NJ. Il.
Church, exerted their best offices ~
make possible this great movement,
which bespeaks great future in the
religious world.
Possible Elections.
Prominent among the candidates fer
the bishopric, the name of DIR. Archi-
bald Carey was foremost upon the
tongues of every one. Others who
seemingly are sure of election are w.
Sampson Brooks, Baltimore; WI 4.
Fountain. Georgia; \. II. Hill, Arkan-
sas; w. II. Nance, South Carolina
Reverdy C. Ransom, New York, ami
Nv. p. Johnson, Georgia, are also for
midable contenders.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
CHICAGO WILL HAVE TO MEET
SOME HEAVY DAMAGE SUITS.

Chicago, H., FEB. 17.-This city has
bills of suits for damages for oVei
one million dollars as Il result of the
race riots last summer. More suits
are to be filed. Claims vary from Il
few dollars to $4,000.
OF the total more than S1OO,OOO is
asked by relatives of the twenty-one
persons killed during the rioting. I'm
der the law the highest amount that
can be asked in case of death in Il
riot is $4,000, which limit is fixed by
an ordinance of the city.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
JONES WILL PRoBATED.

Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 20.-The will ot
the late Moses H. Jones, for "A number
of years a prncticing attorney, has
been probated. He leaves an estate
valued at S35, 900, of which his wife,
Mrs. Florence Jones, was named as eX-
ecutrix. The will provides that Mrs.
Amelia ]. FELTON,, a sister of the tie
ceased, should receive $1,000; Miss
Phyllis Waters, a distant relative, Sooo :
Miss Ada NJ. Scott, his office assist
ant. $1,000. The will also provides thac
following the death of Mrs. Jones the
remainder of the estate shall go to the
Y. VI. c. 4.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
WHITE WOMAN TRIES TO MARRY
INDIAN BY FORCE.
Oklahoma City Woman Tried to Kid.
nap and Wed Incompetent Creek
Worth 100000.

Muskogee, Okla, Feb. 2.-Efforts Of
an Oklahoma City woman to kfdnap
and marry Jackson Barnett, an incoln-
petent Creek Indian, worth nearly 81
100000 failed last night when the
guardian of Barnett blocked her
scheme and has the Indian ut his holae
under guard.
The woman drove in taxi to the
home of Barnett and invited him To
drive to Henrietta. Instead they drove
to Okemah, where the woman applied
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
X. P.'s 100000 sANITARiUM.

Hot Springs, Ark, Feb. 19.-The
Pythian Temple Commission OF the
Knights of Pythians of North Amerl-
ca, etc, Which S. w. Green of this
city is supreme chancellor, met ana
decided to improve the present bath
house and erect IL sanitarium and no
tel for not less than 100000. For this
purpose, fifty-two feet on Malvern
avenue, adjoining the present site,
was purchased. Architects We're in
structed to prepare plans, and work
will begin as soon as they are ready
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
RACE NEWS S.s;ss.' S.t;ss, s.s,ss. sss"

for marriage license. The clerk,
knowing Barnett was legally incompe-
tent, refused They then went to Hold
enville, but an Indian who knew Bar
nett telephoned to his guardian, who
stopped the license. Government
agents then found the couple and
brought them back.
Barnett owns one of the richest
pieces of oil land in the Gushing poo.
The woman was released tonight ana
will not be prosecuted.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
LEONARD WOOD
LIKE ROOSEVELT
,By EDGAR q. BROWN
indianapolis. Indiana,

February %. 1920.
TVER SINCE General Leonard
- Wood declared before the
IL Lincoln League assembled IN
Chicago that ne stood for
equal rights. equal justice and
equal protection to all citizens -
in other words, that he stood Tor
the Rooseveltian Square Deal
and further stated that America
must be made safe for Amerl-
cans, hundreds have sent their
names to be enrolled as charter
members of the National Colored
Peoples Wood for President
Club located in this city: Every,
one feels that Leonard Wood VIII
be the next great RepuDllcan
leader because he is real Amer
lean like Theodore Roosevelt.
Mr.. T.. b. Ransom. recently ap-
pointed on the Indiana state
platform committee to represent
the colored people of this state
leans toward General Wood be,
cause he thinks Leonard MoSu
understands the needs of all the
people of the United States. and
like Theodore Roosevelt. viii be
able to put the country in line
for greater progress IN the neNt
four years. Some other proml-
nent leaders to take stand Tor
Wood are Perry w. Howard,
Jackson. Miss, and Major Johh
r. Lynch. eX-auditor of the navy
and at present residing III SH'
cago.
All people wishing to be en-
rolled as charter members of the
National Colored Peoples Wood
for-President Club. with head
quarters in Indianapolis. IND,
can do so by sending in their
name and address at once to TINS
association.
General Wood is the only can
didate up to date to pubiiciy
state his position in regard to
the Colored people.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
PRAISES RECORD OF
NEGRO TROOPS IN WAR

Hampton, Va, Feb. 23.-General
Pershing told students of Hampton In
stitute today that the people of the
South were becoming more and more
interested in education of the Negro.
Praising the record of Negro troops i'll
the Spanish and world wars, General
Pershing urged that the Negro veter-
ans associate themselves with the
American Legion.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
OLD SLAVE MARKET TO BE
MOVIE THEATER.
Old Slave Market to Be Negro Movie
Theater.

Nashville. Tenn, Feb. 5.-The cid
building in Cedar street here, in ante
bellum days one of the largest slave
markets in Tennessee, and in later
years one of the South's most widely
known saloons and gambling houses
is to be converted into a moving pic
ture theater for Negroes.
1t has been purchased by wealthy
Negro real estate dealer.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28

~ HIS government cannot illoiu
to be unfriendly to one-fifth of
l. our own population, for raciai
reasons 1t may need their help in
crisis.
One-half the Negro race in this
country are no darker than the buik
of other mixed blood races here why
all this caste distinction?
Any defects in the black race are
pretty largely due to inferior racial
opportunity because they are ostra-
cized. Why not stop it. Recent up
risings of the colored people are not Il
ocalized spirit of complaint and bit
terness, but inherent desire for COM
mon justice, for their rights under the
Constitution.
They do not accept their fixed So
cial status: they would be fools, like
any other class of people, if they did
not aspire to higher and better life.
And they don't want the earth.
Only the justice we guaranteed in
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ment. AS Pastor b. w Swain of the
A. NJ E. Church, Boston, put it,
I'VE are 100 per cent Americans,
from teeth to toe-nails, and we pro-
pose to stand by the principles of this
government so long as there is a gov
ernment, but at the same time to lay
our wrongs before the American peo-
pie and ask that they be righted."
Social equality takes care of it
SELF" Pastor Swain says, You can't
legislate for or against it; but we Op-
pose -lynching and Jim Crow cars and
segregation. For the outraging- of
women, white or black, the punish
ment should be hanging, but only by
Il judge and jury. If | have the mo-
ney. | can ride with as much comfort
as anyone from Boston to Washing
ton, ID. c., but once south of that,
even if l have $4,000, must get out
of the car and go into the car for
colored people, designed to humiliate
the Negro and make him less than Il
man. And L claim the right to buy
property anywhere, whether on Com
monwealth avenue or anywhere else
There should be no segregated dis
tricts"
The racial issue in America is the
most mOmentous problem we have, be-
cause it involves the rights of nearly
twenty millions of as patriotic citizens
as we have, who some day, may be the
balance of power to save America, in
Il crisis. There is absolutely no ques-
tion of the Americanism of the col
ored people in the United States, nor
of their God-fearing and law-abiding
qualities. They are an asset to this
nation, buffer against any attempts
TO destroy the foundations of our gov
ernment or the integrity of its institu-
tions.
The government did not discount
their worth, when it came to using
men to die for this country; 4OO,OOo
colored men were good enough for
that and thousands paid the price for
liberty, made the supreme sacrifice on
foreign soil
1t is up to the boards of trade.
womep's clubs, churches, educationai
The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28

~ HIS government cannot afford
to be unfriendly to one-fifth Oh
l. our own population, for racial
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-06-10

FOR 2RENT-Two modern rooms, one
large front room suitable for two.
Phone 3O6-W. SLUT
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-06-10

city PROPERTY For Sale-No. sos
Irvine avenue, Groom house, 50
It. corner lot.
NO. 913 Bemidu avenue, Groom
house, 373z It. lot, not modern.
No. 623 Mississippi avenue. q
rooms and bath, hardwood floors,
garage and wood house, 100 It.
corner lot.
No. 314 18th street, 7-room house
home, SO It. corner, q choice loes-
ton for public garage in the BUSH
ness district.
No. 1902 Beltrami avenue, real
home, brick and stone, 10 rooms
strictly modern, Is It. corner lot.
NO. 1902 Mississippi avenue, II
room boVse, partly modern, g. It.
corner lot.
NO. 1917 Irvine avenue, s room
house and barn, lot 66x380.
NO. At Irwin avenue, s rooms and
bath, 50 It. lot fenced with iron
fence.
No. sos Bsmidji avenue, s room
house, so It. lot.
No. I'll Irvine avenue, room
house, so It. lot. ~
No. 1919 Dewey avenue, 4-room
bungalow, full basement, modern;
garage; Soft. lot.
NO., FL Third stree, business
property, building 26x60, full base
ment, heating plant. Reynolds &
Winter. 6t6-lo
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-06-10

GOOD 5-passenger Oakland car, ele-
CANT running order. Will sell
cheap for cash or trade for land,
house and lot, or take lot as part
payment. It's good one. E. J..
Willitts-Luther Olson, the landmen.
6t6-12
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-06-10

SUMMER RESORT Properties for
Sale-Cottage, 3-rooms and SCREEN
ed porch, so It lot on Lake Be-
midi.
rooms and screened
porch, 20O It. lot on Lake Bemidu.
Lake Shore lots at Lavinia, Pine
Beach Park, rs acres on Marquette
lake; 81 acres on Turtle Lake, and
20 acres on Three Island Lake.
Reynolds and Winter. 6t6-2S
house, so IT, lot.
NO. 1919 Dewey avenue, 4-room
bungalow, full basement, smodernj
garage; so It. lot.
NO. 211 Third street, business
property, building 26x60, full base
1nent, heating plant. Reynolds Z
Winter. 6t6-16