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accept the bonds and asked for the
return of the certified check The
board declined to comply with the re
quest, constituting that the sale OF
the bonds was made according to the
printed bids and paying no heed to
the attached stipulations. Legal pro-
lceedings were at once commenced to
regain the one thousand dollars de-
posited as a forfeit, and, following
legal procedure which entaiied many
DELAYS. the case comes on now to be
heard
The compliments take the grounds
| that the purchase of the bonds was
tentative, resting for the completion
of the proposal upon the opinion vi
experts regarding their validity, as
set forth in the stipulations attached
to the original bid, and which was
apparently accepted by the board as
the board furnished such matters as
were requested, although there was
long delay in the final forwarding
The plaintiff will also contend that
all proffers for the bonds contained
like stipulation regarding the cues
ton of validity; and will endeavor tn
show that such stipulations are the
custom in all transactions OF this
kind. g a.,
1t is understood that one OF the
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-12-17

There was request made by Mass
Itch upon the school board for infor-
nation which was lacking, and a re-
quest also made on the county for ex-
ecuted bond No. l, but the board no.
titled the Sawyers company that the
bond could not be Immediately for
warded, as the clerk of the court was
absent from the state. Correspond
ence was frequent between the school
board and the bond buyer, and on
Nav 6. through the Putnam National
bank, the executed bond desired was
forwarded to New York. lnforma-
ton desired by the bond examiner be-
ing still unsatisfied the county board
was notified on June that the pur-
chaser would not pay accrued inter-
est beyond the date of the communl-
cation, and the proposition was con-
firmed on June s, and on June 9 the
board notified the bidder that such
proposition was accepted, whereupon
the board was informed that the
proposition did not include the ac-
ceptance of the bonds without the ap-
proval of some bond expert. On June
lis Masslich received all data that
had been requested. He then declin-
ed to approve the bonds, and the
county board was so notified.
Sawyers & Co. at once refused to
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BOND BIDDER ASKS
REF IND IN SUM Of
THOUSAND BUCKS
Check Cashed and Held
Illegally, Plaintiff
Alleges

Commencing Tuesday, next, Will be
heard the case of G. B. Sawyers q
Co. of jacksonville, versus the Board
of Public Instruction of Putnam
Couytv-T. B. Dowda and j. j. Can
non representing the prosecution, ana
the county being represented by D. "
Walton and J. N. Blackwell
The suit is brought to recover
s1O00. the face value of a certified
check which was deposited by the
,,Iaintiff with the school board on
March ,, 1920, together with interest
on the same and the costs Of suit Be
cause of the disqualifications OF CIR
emit Judge Lodg the case will be
herr6 before s. J. Hilburn, referee,
whose decision will carry the same
right Of appeal will remain as II the
ease was heard in open court.
On January 80, 1920, calls were
published by the school board for bids
on an issue of school bonds of the par
value Of $4,000, carrying interest OF
5h per cent. The bids were opened
on March 9, following, and were three
in number.
John Meuven & Co., of Chicago
bid $50, 700; A. T. Bell & Co., of To-
Iedo, bid $42, 75O; G. B. Sawyers q
Co. of Jacksonville, bid $42,SOO Eacf
of the bidders forwarded with the
preffer a certified check for $1,000
as an evidence of good faith and as
surety that if awarded the bonds the
deal would be completed. Aware
was made to the later named firm.
The bonds had been previously val
idated, and considered to be pertec
in every way; hence the bids wer
made on blanks furnished by tn
county, school board, plainly printec
that each firm of bidders shout
stand upon an equal footing,
Attached to the bid Of Sawyers
Co. was condition that the bidder b
furnished q complete transcript OF a
actions pertaining to the issue an
sale ii the bonds, including the val
dalton. with the additional provls
that the same must be approved b
some attorney of national reputation
In accordance with this stipuIatlo
the transcript was forwerded to pun
chaser on March 5. The transcrlF
being incomplete additional informs
ton vas asked on the day followin
and was furnished on March II.
This data was forwarded to a Oh
cago firm of bond experts, but be
cause If illnesl of one Of the eXamir
ers the transcript was forwarded
c. Z. Masslich, bond expert OF Ne
York. whose opinions are UNIVERSAL
accepted as authentic, and the couI
tv board was notified to that ettet
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Motor vechiles were curiosity II
Western Samoa seven years ago.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-12-17

American passenger cars sell at
prices ranging from 1910 to $l1,ooo'
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FILED FOR RECORD

The following instruments have
been filed for record in the office OF
the clerk of the courts of Putnam
county:
Lis pendus: United States Trust
Company-C. E. Mcleod ct al.
Warrenty deed: Palatka Develop
ment Company-H. G. Post
Mortgage: Minnie Hinson ct TX
T. F. Baker.
Satisfaction mortgage: William
E. Stranz, administratorE1Ed
Taylor.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-02-11

GOOD IRON BEDS S4.25
We have many slightly used and refinished
beds in this department that will go at al
most no profit prices. Prices range up
ward from 20
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years he had lived a life that reads
like an incredible fairy story, he
had come, to be the first man of
an alien race to put his feet in the
tabled lands of Arizona and New
Mexico. He had discovered the Zuni
Indians, and their cities of the cliffs.
From their experience with him, they
believed that all Mexicans are black.
Friar Marcos, after hearing of his
tragis end, would have pushed on,
but the terrified attendants would
not go, even threatened to kill him
If he would persist. So he slipped
to the edge of the plain, where
spread out before him, he could see
he seven cities of Cibola, rising
from the mesa, the cliffs of Hawi-
kuh looking indeed, like the tower
ing battlements in the clear light
of the desert. He fancied that from
the spires and roofs he could hear
the savage cries which threatened
death like unto Estevanico's to
any invader.
But the Zuni Indians respected
the brave eXplorer--the black Mexi-
of Zuni land are MeXicans). with
Chilli lips meaning lips that APP
peared swollen to them from having
eaten the hot chill pepper. From
this we can infer that Estevanico
was typically Negroid in appearance.
to this day, three hundred and sixty
years after the death of the va
liant explorer, the Zunis chant an
epic lay of his death:
at is to be believed that a long
time ago, when roofs lay over the
walls of Kya-ki-me, when smoke
hung over the. housetops, and the
ladder rounds were still unbroken
in Kya-ki-me, then the black MeXi-
cans came from their abodes in
Everlasting Summerland. Then the
Indians of So-no-li set up a great
howl, and thus they and our an
clients did much i'll to one another.
Then and thus was killed by our
ancients, right where the stone
stands downs by the arroyo of Kya-
kline, one of the Black Mexicans,
a large man, with chilli lips"
References: Spain in America, by
Edward Gaylord Bourne.
Pioneer Spaniards in North Amer
lea, by William Henry Johnson.
Spanish Settlements by B. Low
cry.
The Colonization of North Ameri-
ca, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene
Bolton and Thomas Maitland Mar
shall.
Social History of the American
Negro by B. Brawley.
Negro Year Book by Monroe N.
Work.
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CHARLES GILPIN TOLD STAY
OUT OF SOUTH.

New York, Feb. 9.-The tour of
Charles Gilpin, the Colored actor,
has been abandoned, so far as the
south is concerned, temporarily at
least.
The famous. Colored actor, has
been threatened with violence and
death should he fail to take instant
heed to a warning issued by the Ku
Klux Khan.
Much excitement and bitter feel
ing has been stirred up among the
theatpical people here. vhe manage
ment will see If there be any way
to reach the would be assassins by
law.
Adolph Klauber, under whose
management Gilpin was playing in
THE Emperor Jones'" sent him into
Virginia and had planned to send
him further south. In Richmond the
show did well and it began to ap-
pear the south would overlook the
fact that Gilpin is a Colored man.
But now Broadway hears a quick
change in plans came about.
A letter with a Ku Klux Khan
signature was received by Gilpin
while in Virginia. 1t advised him
not to attempt to continue in the
south with his company, which con-
tains a number of white players. 1t
was then that the route was changed
and the troupe is now in Ohio.
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wilderness-ths time with the Friar,
to find the tabled Seven Cities, tow
ering to the skies.
Their journey lay to the north
ward and west. Through the desert
plains of Arizona, and back east
ward to the borders of what we
now call New Mexico, the tall, silent
dark man and the friar, and their
Indian attendants, threaded their
way over stands and through mes
quite often satisfied with food from
the cactus plant. ever lured onward
by the strange tales of the Indians
with whom they fraternized.
There came a time when the Friar
could go forward no longer, and
the temptation to rest a while. He
WEAKNESS forced him to succumb to
called Estevanico to him, and babe
him go on, find out what he could,
and come back to him. They were
on the borders of Cibola-the buff
falo country-where the "hunch
back cows" which so amused Cabe-
ca, roamed in furious herds.
Estavanico threaded his way thru
the arid wastes of Arizona toward
the country of the Zuni until he
came to Hawikuh, the southernmost
of the seven towns. Fearlessly he
advanced toward the pueblos of the
Zuni Indians, who called to him to
halt. He was not afraid. Had he
not dared the most outrageous ad-
ventures for the past eleven years,
and what was the displeasure of a
few Indians in sun-baked village?
Again the warning came to him, but
remembering the methods he had
employed when he and his three
companions had been slaves to the
InG ans in Texas, he raised his hands
to heaven, made the sign of the
cross, and pushed on. His very auda-
city inspired momentary awe in the
breasts of the Zuni, who had never
seen a man other than one of their
own, and to whom the black man
with Chilli lips" was a strange be-
ing from another sphere.
The sign of the cross seemed an
open sesame. Estevanico thrust his
way with firmness into the very
heart of the peublo, and there rails
ing his hands 10 heaven, demanded
that the village, the wonderful cities
of Cibola, be given over to the pow
er of the Most Christian King of
Spain 1t was dramatic moment.
His tall, slim dark figure, powerful
with repressed vitality, his fare
alight with enthusiasm and religi-
Gus fervor, his Indian and Mexican
attendants crouched near him, the
Zuni chieftains watching him craft
| ly. There was pase; he waited for
| his answer 1t came; shower OF
arrows. The fearless Estevanico
! lay dead in the Zuni village, and in
the attending confusion, the three
remaining attendants slipped away
and fled back to the edge of Ari-
IONA, to tell the fearsome news tc
the waiting Friar Marcos.
Thus ended the life of the most
gallant adventurer. From Northern
Africa, whence he had been captured
by Dorantes. to Spain, and to the
New World, where for eleven
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BLACK SAYS HIS
CHILDREN ARE WHITE.

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 9.-Spe-
cial-Jefferson Black. a white man
of Montgomery County has petition
ed the Arkansas Supreme Court in
an effor to prove that his children
have no Negro blood in their veins
The laws of the state of Arkansas
hold that any person having even
the faintest trace of Negro blood in
their veins are of the Negro race.
Five school district No. Is, has ex-
cluded Blacks children on the
ground that they have small
amount of Negro blood. In Blacks
suit it is contended that the children
have small mixture of Cherokee
blood from their mothers side of
the family but that there is no evil
dence of Negro blood at all.
There are many witnesses and
much evidence in the case. The
wealth of Black and the beauty of
the children in question has created
a wide spread interest. No one to
see the children would ever imagine
that they were any other but pure
white, like many other Colored
children of this section, but never
theless if the school district can
prove its contention that they are
in any degree colored there will be
no recourse for their white father
other than to send them to Color
ed school if he wants them to at
tend school in this state.
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Spaniards. Their fame spread far
and wide. The sick from every
where came to them to be healed,
and they were healed The stran-
gers were regarded as gods, with
power over life and death. Food,
presents, clothing, gifts innumer-
able were lavished upon these di-
vine Notwithstanding was too pre-
cious. Their journey was a grand,
triumphal procession throughout the
country. Rumor spread aboard that
they were coming, and the sick and
injured were laid at their feet for
healing.
Always, as they moved, the adj
venturers shaped their course to-
ward the north and west, for it was
there that they haped to find their
countrymen. The Indians opposed
them, wishing them to remain with
the tribe. There came a recurren-
ence of the strange epidemic, and
some deaths, and the red men,
thinking that this was a manifesto
ton of the displeasure of their gods,
begged their guests to life the heavi-
ness of their anger and go as they
willed
So the strange procession moved
through many lands, over arid de-
serts, through mountains, speaking
many different dialects of the In
dian language, seeing many strange
sights. They passed through a re-
gion, where they found strange
kind of COW, "hump-backed cows"
Cabeca called them, where the peo-
/ pie, the Cow Nation" loaded them
with gifts of buffalo skins, much
needed, when the cold nights came in
the mountains. Food became more
plentiful, fixed habitations began
to appear, cultivated fields. They
crossed what is now known as the
province of Sonora in Mexico, NOV
ling towards the Gulf of California,
and one ver-to-be-forgotten joyous
day. as they travelled toward the
coast, they saw among the orna-
ments on the neck of an Indian,
the buckle of q sword belt. 1t was
| like the first signs of land which
had joyed the soul of Columbus.
| Evidence that they were nearing
white men began to increase. LIE
gends of bearded men, who hunted
for Indians, in order to make them
slaves, because prevalent, and finally
they hit the trail of the Spaniards,
found a party living in the upper
part of the country, and from them
secured guides to the City of Mexico
where to be found their country
men, the remnants of the voyaging
of De Narvaez. They reached the
end of their journey IN July, 1886.
Ten months had been consumed
in this last wandering, since Cabeca
had met with Maldonado, Dorantes
and Estevanico, and eight years
since they had set sail from Spain,
in the fullness of pride, with De
Narvaez and his live gallant ships.
In the last ten months, they had
traversed the great state of Texas,
moving westward TO the Rio Grande,
near where the River Pecos joins
it, along the Rio Grande to a point
near the mouth of the Conchos, then
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URBAN NEGRO WELFARE.

The Negro urban population of
the United States is now, in round
numbers, about 3,500,000, and even
more when towns and villages of
less than $500 inhabitants are in
cluded; that is one-third of the
Negroes of the United States are
now living in villages, towns, and
cities.
The larger part of the increase
in Negro urban population has been
due to migration. In the past five
years some 100000 Negroes have
moved from rural districts into the
towns and cities. A large proportion,
therefore, of the Negro population
is new to city conditions. 1t is
this more or less sudden change
from rural to urban conditions that
gives rise to the many problems of
Negro urban welfare with which
! we are now confronted.
This movement from rural to ur-
ban centers entails a tremendous
cost Of life, health, and morals
Over against these posses we are
of course able to place a great many
gains. There is distinct advantage
in having a large number of Negroes
living in urban centers. 1t is here
that group leadership is develop. II
is distinct advantage to have a
large number of Negroes living in
in cities. 1t enables them to diversi-
fly their occupations, and to have
all of the activities-industrial, per
sonal, professional, and trading
that tend to make a normal and
well-rounded group.
The real question after all is not
so much the cost of the change
from rural to urban life as 1t is
how this cost can be reduced. The
real function of the increasing num-
Der of welfare workers among urban
Negroes is to assist in helping re-
duce this cost by indicating the
ways in which the problems of en-
ployment, family life, crime, power
ty, health, sanitation, recreation, and
education can be handled so that
the general welfare of the Negroes
will be promoted in the best way
Monroe N. Work in the Southern
Workman.
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F H2"' uNME FyRNIIyRE ELMAD

across Mexico in a southwesterly
direction to the west coast, some
what below the middle of the Gulf
of California. Everywhere, though
deienceless; they had been not only
safe, but hOnored, because of their
apparently God given power of heal
ing the sick, and they had learned
to lean upon power greater than
themselves, which sustained them
through many trials. Just why
these four alone were spared out of
six hundred, which constituted the
original expedition, they knew not;
they were merely grateful.
They had seen no wonderful cities,
but legends persisted among the In
dams whom they had met. Cabeca
de Vaca returned to Spain, hoping
to secure the governorship of Flo
rida, and thence he passes out of
history, pulling political wires for
the rest of his life, in the red-tape
ridden land of his birth, and writing
out his wonderful narrative, which
was received with only half credence
BIZ his envious compatriots.
Estevanico stayed on The City of
Mexico and became an authority on
the north country. Interest quicken
ened to fever heat, and there were
no de lth of tales of the wonder
full cities of the north. The legend
of the Island of Seven Cities was
repeated again and again. There
were not lacking those who had
seen others, who had talked to
others, who knew of the wonderful
cities, with buildings towering seven
and eight stories above the ground.
Doubtless some lad seen the pueblo
of the Zuni Indians, rising above
the lofty mesas, making an i'm
posing and noble appearance. Es-
tevanico had heard of the wonderful
cities during the eight years he
had abode among the Indians, and
added the legends he had hear to
! the stories of his experiences. The
popular Imagination was fired. There
must be a kindgdom far richer than
that which Cortes and Plzarro had
conquered, a city, beside which the
paltry sixty thousand inhabitants of
the City of Mexico dwindled to a
mere village handful. Vasquez de
! Coronado was sent from Spain,
whence the legends had been car
ried, with letters to the viceroy of
Mexico, Mendoza, directing him to
organize the expedition.
Mendoza knew that in all Mexico
there was no man who knew more
of the Indians and Indian lore, than
Estevanico. He was glad to cooper
ate with Coronado, and recommend
ed that EstevanicO lead the recon
NOTHING party, which was in charge
of Friar Marcos, of Nizza. The holy
man was doubtless chosen because OF
the advice of Estevanico, who had
found that Indians reverenced the
strangers God.
In March, 1889, three years after
Estevanico had come to Mexico from
his adventurous journey with De
Waco, and after he had established
himself among the Spaniard In
the city as an authority, he set out
again on an expedition through the
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ROMANCES OF NEGRO HISTORY
Copyrighted by the Paramount
Syndicate Company,
Continued from last week.

Syndicate Company,
Continued from last week.
The four reunited comrades chung
together with a hoperulness born of
the tragic adventures of the past
seven years. Again they were en-
shaved by an Indian tribe, and the
four men waited for three months
for chance to escape, for these
Indians felt the value of their de-
pendents, and forced them to earn
their way. Under the sting of the
lash they did squaw work, and night
time found them too weary to hope.
The hardy boy of Estevanico Injured
to exposure, withstood the
strain better than the others, and
it seemed but natural that he should
take the lead in all things now,
even De Vaca giving him first place.
His willy strategy led him to effect
an escape for the others, when the
older tribesmen had gone into the
interior to gather the fruit of the
cactus which was almost the en-
tire winter ration of the tribe. Wrig-
Cling through the sand, stumbling
over the tangled mesquite, tortured
by the sand thistles, their feet I'M
shod, their bodies almost unclothes,
they managed to elude the vigilance
of the younger men and squaws,
and flee through the darkness of a
stormy night. They soon found re-
fuge with less hostile tribe, and
were able to rest from their past
miserable months.
They had struck a nation of
gentler Indians, made still more
gentle by an epidemic, which had
decimated their ranks It was a
strange illness, which not all the
beating of tom-toms, nor chanting
of the medicine men could allay.
The strangers, so alien in appear
aimee from anything they had seen,
the three white men, hollow-eyed
and grim, the black man, composed
and imperturbable, were undoubted-
ly from another sphere. The Indians
showed them their sick, tossing in
fever and pain, and begged for re-
lief Not all the sufferings of the
past seven years, had destroyed the
adventurers' faith in the Divine
being. They made over the pros
trate forms the sign of the cross,
and raised devout eyes in prayer.
None so eager to show that the
Wise Being is the only dispenser Of
health, as Estevanico. Something in
the pious faith shown in their burn
ing eyes, emaciated forms and worn
bodies, something in the manner of
the gestures which made the sign
of the cross, and invoked the aid
of a mysterious being beyond the
skies, communicated itself to the
sufferers. They felt better; they
ceased to toss in pain; they sat up
on their pallet beds; they stood
erect, and called the medicine men
to witness first a greater than they
had arisen in the land.
Greatness was thrust upon the
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G. U. o. OF knights OF Shepherd
wants one thousand Q,000) or more
lodges n every State of the u. s. De-
puties both men and women are max
ing one hundred (S100.00) dollars to
one hundred and fifty ($l60.00) dol
sary, we will teach you free. 2
We are represented In IIIteen (1S)
states, giving thousands OF men and
women work to do in each state. We
Regular pay For District Deputyship
to set UP lodge anywhere In u. g.,
write Sir l.. w. Davis, s. g. c., no.
1905 Michigan avenue. Kansas City,
Mo. Enclose cent stamps for speedy
4-T-tf
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CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to thank our many
friends for their kindness during the
illness and death of our beloved
sister and aunt, Miss Ellen George.
We are also thankful for the beau
tiful floral offerings. May God bless
each of you.
Mrs. Laura jefferson, Sister
and Mr.. and Mrs. w. C Roberts,
Nephew and Neice and other
relatives.