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The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-26
Physician Dragged
From Pullman Car

n KLAHOA1A CITY, Okla, May IL,
-"Get down out of there, boy,
and come with me-" yelled a po-
lice officer at Vinita, Okla, at Dr. E.
Crosby of Detroit, Mich, travelling a
la Pullman from Kansas City, Mo-, to
this city. The doctor was driven out
of the Pullman berth with only his
lice flivver to jail.
At the Jail he was fed white meat,
flat-size biscuits and thick gravy in
tin pan pushed into him under the
cell door.
Visited by Chief.
Later he was visited by the prose-
cutting attorney of the county and
then by the chief of police, who Sc
cured his release and let him con-
tinue his journey minus his baggage.
DR.. Crosby bought passage from
Kansas City to Oklahoma City. When
he had crossed the state line the con-
ductor of the train woke him in his
berth and informed him that he had
entered Jim Crow territory, asking
him if he wanted to go into the
segregated day coach. The physician
told him that he would go If he was
ordered, but without an ordtr he
would not. The conductor did not
give the order.
That was at 8 80 in the morning
At 5 80 Crosby was awakened again,
the conductor explaining to a police
man he had sought at Vinita that
the object of their search was in
certain berth. The officer drew the
curtains back and ordered the doctor
to get out. AS soon as he had put on
his trousers he was seized and rushed
to the police Ford and thence to Jail
Demanded Warrant.
Three hours later the prosecuting
attorney of the county came to the cell
and asked DIR. Crosby if he wanted a
trial. The attorney was told that a
warrant for arrest was what the ply
sician would rather have, whereupon
the prosecutor assured him that such
would be Forthcoming, also an attor-
ney.
An hour later the chief of police
called at the cell and instructed the
doctor to get his belongings and ac-
company him to headquarters. He
told the prisoner that he had had a
HI of a time getting the state
charges against him erased. When he
found DR.. Crosby had a ticket for this
city, the chief of police informed him
that train for Oklahoma City would
leave Vinita in another hour and that
he could in all safety leave on it.
Crosby left.
DIR. Crosby is brother of Mrs. Fan
ME Coleman of Chicago.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-26
BY VIM. Anthony Aery

TT AIPTON, Va, May 22-The
n State agents for colored schools
in fourteen Southern states, who
recently met for a threeday confer
ence at Hampton Institute, were in
troduced by Principal J. E. Gregg as
''the group of men who are doing the
most important work that is being
done in the South for the improvement
of colored public schools"
Leo NJ. Favrot, Baton Rouge, La, re-
ferred to Hampton's service to the
South through it's graduates. He stat
ed that in Louisiana the colored school
population had increased per cent in
nine years, while the number of col
ored teachers had doubled and the sal
aries paid to colored teachers had
quadrupled. In 1913 two-thirds of the
white school children were enrolled,
while only one-third of the colored
children were enrolled. In 1922 three
fourths of the white school children
and two-thirds of the colored children
were enrolled. "There is growing
he Sulu, lHdl We ihuol W.
more for our colored children"
n. C. Newbold, Raleigh, n. c., stat
ed that North Carolina is now spend
ing between S3,500,000 and S4,000,O0O
annually on it's colored schools. eve
have built" he said, "2S7 Rosenwald
schools at cost of over S1,0O0,OOO.
Forty more Rosenwald schools must
be completed by June l. These schools
will cost S12O,OOO. Three years ago
North Carolina had 1000 colored
teachers with state certificates. To
day the state has $3.50. North Caro-
lima is making an earnest, sincere, and
faithful effort to do its duty by its
colored people. Some of us have
hope and an ambition that we may
live to see in our state-not only
there, but all over this country-such
conditions obtain as will make of the
races friends and helpers and cooper
ators for the upbuilding of our coun-
try"
W. T. B. Williams, Tuskegee Insti-
tute, Ala, field secretary of the
Jeanes and Slater Boards, said:
american Negroes have had stimu-
lated within them the sense of respon-
sibility for those who have been less
fortunate than they are. That i'm
pulse has sent hundreds into the work
for the uplift of Others"
Taxes Must Support Schools
DR.. James Hardy billiard, Char
lottesville, Va, president of the
Jeanes and Slater Boards, declared
that he discovered many years ago
that all the millionaires in America
could not educate the people. "There
is only one way to do the job" he said,
''and that is by public taxation. That
is the way it must be and ought to be-"
Doctor Dillard said that the Hampton
Institute students are chosen ones who
must through service give their less
fortunate brothers and sisters a fair
chance. "These state agents." he said,
"are making it possible to bring the
school out to the little child in the
country, and, please God. we are GO
ing to keep at this work until every
child shall have a good school to go
The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-26
Mark Thrash, 1O2
Years, Is Oldest
u. S. Prisoner

Washington, d. C.-The oldest en-
ploye on the retirement rolls of the
government is Mark Thrash, Negro,
of Rossville, Ga, who is 102 years old
and has been in the federal employ
for twenty-eight years. He was re-
tired last year as labOrer in the
Chickamauga and Chattanooga Ma
tional Military park at Chattanooga.
Mark was born in Louisa county,
Virginia, December 15. 1920.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-26
Garvey Announces
Fourth Convention
of u. N. /. A.
for Liberia

New York, May 1S.-NIarcus Car
vey, President of the Universal I'm
proyement Association, has announced
that the fourth convention of the or
ganization will be held in Liberia,
Africa, next year, instead of in this
city as previously announced.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02
BISHOP SAYS REV. GRANTS
REPLY is TOO AMBIGUOUS
TO WARRANT HERESY TRIAL
Manning Acknowledges Rector's Facility in Obscuring
the Divinity Issue in His Letter But He Adds That
the Minister'S Sermons and Advocacy of
II Easy Divorce" Are Shocking"

ing to Christian believers, you have
cast doubt upon the teachings, the ser.
vices and the sacraments of your
church, as you did in your recent SER
mons. BY your own utterance, you
have seemed to the church to deny the
essential faith for which she stands.
The suggestion that this is differ.
ence between low church and high
church is merely an attempt to con-
fuse and obscure the true point at is
sue. There is here no mere issue be-
tween parties in the church. The real
issue is that of belief in the power and
Godhead of Jesus Christ.
This issue is far larger than the
Episcopal Church, as the letters which
| am receiving from ministers of other
churches amply testify. The time has
come for all believers to stand openly
together upon this matter of life OF
death TO the Christian religion.
You have, by your own utterances,
caused grave doubt in the mind of the
church at large as TO your belief in
the deity Of our Lord Jesus Christ
You have been given opportunity to re-
move this doubt, but you have not done
so. You have made your reply TO me
in words which fail TO make clear your
belief in this essential truth. There, for
the present. the matter rests.
Sincerely yours.
civilian T. MANNING"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02
WOMEN in CHARGE
Provide Program for Wednesday Session
of Salemmanship Club.

A meeting Of the Salesmanship Club
in the Gunter Hotel Wednesday, an
amendment was adopted limiting the
membership to 125. Another amend
ment provided that any member missing
three consecutive meetings without an
excuse of sickness or absente from the
city, will be automatically dropped.
Women members, with Miss Harriet
+. Powell as chairman. were in charge
of the program. Mrs. Stone McQuillan
was in charge of the entertainment
features and she presented Miss Pearl
Currey, accompanied by Miss Mildred
Gates, in number of folk songs. Miss
Bernice Duggan entertained with three
readings.
A discussion of the topic, "The
Psychology of Salesmanship' was made
by Miss Marion Taylor in which she
stated that salesmanship is divided into
three divisions, personality, knowledge
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02
Log Road to Ell Paso.

Inquiries concerning the road between
San Antonio and Ell Paso are 50 fire..
quent at the highway department OF
the Chamber of Commerce, according
to W. II. Furlong, director Of the de.
partment, that il has become necessary
to compile more complete log of the
route. He is writing towns on the
route for full information on hotel and
garage accommodations, and also the
facilities in the way of free camp sites.
As soon as this information is received
it will be put into a log. to be dis
tributed free the anyone making the trip.
A similar log has been made Of the road
from San Antonio to Amarillo, Mr.. Fur
long said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02

New York, Feb. 2.-Rev. DR.. Percy
Stickney Grant will not be tried for
heresy because of recent sermons be.
fore his pastorate in the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of the Ascension, he
was informed last night, in a letter
from Bishop William L. Manning.
The bishop, who had requested Rev.
Grant to "recant or resign" because of
his professed doubt of the deity OF
Christ, said he would let the matter
rest for the present because the pas
tor, replying to the request, had not
made clear whether he really doubted
Christ's diety or not.
Bishop Manning's letter began: my
Dear DIR. Grant, and read in part:
The real issue which you have
raised by your own utterances is wheth-
/ er you believe that Jesus Christ is
Lord and God, for, if you do not so
{believe, it is plain that you cannot,
with self-respect, continue to hold your
Iplace as minister of a church whose
life teaching is founded on this be-
I.isf.
alt is this faith in the Lord Jesus
|Christ which you refrain from clear
" expressing in your letter. You rath-
er confirm the impression that you do
not sos believe, but you do not say so
plainly and definitely. There is no
statement in your letter which indicates
any belief on your part in Jesus Christ,
the eternal son of God, the second per-
son of the Holy Trinity.
"The suggestion that young men of
intellect and vigor will be repealed
rom the ministry if they are required
10 believe the faith of the church is
irrelevant. No one can. with honesty,
inter the ministry of this church unless
be believes in Jesus Christ as God.
Full belief in the gospel of Christ
loes not repel yeung men il they are
christians. What may we'll repel
foung men of high character and sound
mind is any doubt as to the sincerity
With which the ministers of the church
believe and teach the gospel.
II do not wish to say anything that
Is unnecessary or that is needlessly Sc
'ere, but, in view of your reply to my
letter, it is my duty to tell you truth
[ully what the situation is in which
-ou have placed yourself before the
hurch.
"For years past your words and
lotions have given grave concern to
he bishops of this diocese and to the
hurch. BY your advocacy of easy di-
orce, you have shown your contempt
or the law and the teaching of the
hurch. In terms offensive and shock
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02
Fire DESTROYS Horne.

Sabinal, Tex, Feb. Fire of un.
determined origin totally destroyed the
home of ]. Z. Butler Tuesday night.
The fire gained good Roadway before
being discovered. and high wind spread
the flames rapidly. Sparks from the
flames ignited another home, but this
was evtinguished before any damage
resulted. The loss is covered by in
surancc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02
DISCOVER TRACES OF
EARLY CIVILIZATION
ON THIS CONTINENT
Ancient Maya Cities May
RiDal "Valley of Kings
in Egypt.

New York, Feb. 2.-DiScoveries that
may rival the recent finds in the Val.
ley of Kings at Luxor, Egypt, and
which may throw light upon carly races
on the American continents, are expect
cd in the Iucatan Peninsula, the
Egypt of America" four American
psychologists announced yesterday
when they sailed for Progresso, Mexico.
They will be joined shortly by a num-
Der of other scientists.
Ancient cities of the Mayas, through
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02

Iucatan, Mexico, and Central America,
will be visited and excavated, it was
announced. Special study will be made
of two cities recently discovered in the
jungle wilderness. Uxmal and Shichen-
liza. Efforts also will be made TO
translate hieroglyphics unearthed from
the ruins Of these and other cities. the
strongholds Of the Maya race. which
vanished more than u thousand years
ago. The earliest Maya date fixed is
100 b. &.
The main party will leave in a week.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02

of the product TO be sold and work
Miss Taylor said that good salesman
is like a rubber ball, always bouncing
back when thrown down, and she DEM
onstrated this by throwing a tennis ball
at the members of the club.
Thirty-six members were present
Horace Cox won the attendance prize. a
gallon of ice cream. donated by the
Mistletoe Creameries.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02
Even Cross, FeveriSh, Sick Children Love its Taste
and it Never Fails to Empty Little Bowels

Hurry mother! A teaspoonful of
California Fig Syrup today may pre-
vent a sick child tomorrow. If your
child is constipated, bilious, fretful, has
cold. collie, or if stomach is sour, tongue
coated, breath bad. remember good
liver and bowel action is often all that
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-02
is necessary,

70 HVVVcSUTN'
Ask your druggist for genuine
California Fig Syrup" 1t never
cramps or overacts. Full directions for
babies and children of all ages are
printed on each bottle. Say California"
or you may get an imitation fig syrup.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-01-21
HO|TON RUSE TO THROW
PURSUERS OFF HIS TRAIL

G. e. Hoiton, who skipped out with
81, 300 of company money after being
agent one month for the Nevada
Northern railway at Kimberly. tried
to throw pursuers off his track by
playing dummy. He had a phono-
graph and typewriter which he went
through the formality of checking or
billing to Seattle, but IL such ship
men. was made it probably did not
contain the articles mentioned
This clew was sifted down and the
ruse exploded to the satisfaction OF
the officials. but another one was
found showing that the shipments
went to New York. in which direction
it is possible that Hoiton headed
The phonograph belonged 10 the
Wilson-Bates furniture house and
had been purchased on the INSTALL
ment plan after his arrival In KIM
berly. Hoiton made one payment on
1t. o. G. Bates says the sale was
made by reason of the position held
by Hoiton, little if any consideration
being given to other facts bearing
upon his responsibility. Hoiton was
accompanied hither by woman sup
posed to be his wife and they set up
an attractive home at Kimberly,
which proved to be CT short tenure
When he was preparing to go he
offered 500 to an informant of the
White Pine News to take him by au-
tOmohila IN Cobrp The offer was
declined Hoiton then hired a Greek
automobile man to take him to Mil
ford and the trip was made, leaving
here late at night two weeks ago.
John E. Graves, an old employe of
the company. has been transferred
from Cherry Greek to take charge of
the Kimberly Office. Prior t. the
shutdown of two years ago Mr.
Graves was agent at East Ely.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-01-21
BLACK SMALLPOX TAKES
HEAVY TOLL IN SALT LAKE

Smallpox has become so prevalent
in Salt Lake and other places in
northern Utah and 1t Is of such a
deadly type that persons going or
coming through there are placing
their lives in jeopardy, according to
reliable reports received within the
last few days by the White Pine
News
1t is called black smallpox and is
more fatal than the lighter forms
that have appeared in previous years
In the vicinity of Ely. which were
little IL any worse than scarlet fever
Utah papers, particularly those of
Salt Lake. are accused by persons ar
irving here of attempting to suppress
the facts for fear of injuring travel
and business there. The News has
information that a certain physician
having official relations with the gov
ernment visited the Offices of the Salt
Lake papers, requesting them to
print a notice urging vaccination, but
that he was fatty refused on the
gr3usd that knowledge of the exist
ence of the disease must not he al
lowed to get out.
Yet the facts have not been sup
pressed even by the papers in ques-
tion, for in several issues during the
week death notices have been pub
lished with smallpox given as the
cause But smallpox has not been
mentioned in the news columns or
the headlines of the same newspa-
pers.
The same doctor displayed a pho
tograph of a victim. 1t is described
as having been one of the most re-
pulsive and pitiable sights mag
Unable.
Suppression of the facts upon the
part of the newspapers presumes
nonenforcement of the quarantine
laws of the state The information
received verifies that presumption.
II is said that the chances of infee-
tion are enhanced by laxness and
that persons knowingly going into
Salt Lake at this time, when they
could be safe about their homes or
business in Ely, are flirting with
death i'm one of its most dreaded
forms.
II may reduce traffic temporarily
and interfere with railway earnings
for the facts to be known, but 1t will
save lives, so it is claimed by those
persons furnishing the information
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-01-21
COMMISSIONERS WILL
ACT ON ROAD PROJECTS

White Pine county road projects
for 1923 will be the main topic for
discussion and action at the semi
monthly meeting of the county COM
missioners Tuesday Commissioners
Fred NJ Clark and Robert A. Baird
have drawn up a tentative program
for the consideration of the board,
which by reason of Commissioner j.
J. Gubler not being here has not
been considered by him as yet.
The first and most important prof.
ect is that of the road between Key
stone and Ely, a distance of four
miles to the city limits. Keystone is
the point where the new Lincoln
highway DIVORCES from the Ruth and
Kimberly road. In this construction
heavy rock work will have to be
done. In one place the roadway will
be changed from the south TO the
north side of the railway tracks, this
being at the limekiln. and will elm
mate the first crossing below and
the one near the Boston-Ely mine.
The tunnel under the railway at
the upper edge of town is within the
city limits and not in the jurisdic-
tion of the county.
The second project is from Pan
cake summit, on the Lincoln high
way, to the Eureka county line, a
distance of fourteen miles
The third will be the starting of
permanent work on the Ely-McGill
road. This will involve the question
of its location. The commissioners
will contend for the present location,
which crosses the fiat at the bridge
northeast of East Ely and traverses
the dry benches from the farther side
of the fiat to McGill. Besides the
natural drainage and dryness OF the
road. the commissioners contend that
the gravel to be had without haul
ing constitutes a distinct advantage
over the route down the hardpan
fiat and along the telephone line,
which is advocated by the state high
way commission.
The fourth project is on the Ely
Phoebe road. The southerly end of
this road in White Pine county is at
the Geyser ranch and extends north
erly for a distance of twelve or if
teen miles over the Lake valley sum-
nit.
The commissioners will ask the
state highway commission regarding
the status of the Currant creek sum-
nit road. on the Midland trail. Six
miles of this is in White Pine county
and the members of the county board
are anxious to have it completed and
kept In repair.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-01-21
EIGHT ELY MEN ARRESTED
ON FEDERAL INDICTMENTS
FOR LIQUOR VIOLATIONS

than to pull off the kind o stuff that
a lot of youse does.
Tom came back with some equally
cutting Irish wit.
Damn a stool pigeon, anyway" "
said Mickey. referring to the myste-
rious person who gathered the evil
dence.
Plummer said he knew nothing
about the party in question, but he
had been told since his arrival here
that ne was an elderly man passing
under tie name of Roberts, who wore
brown suit and was here in October
pretending to be looking for a busi-
ness location--a rooming house or
something on that order. A man who
knew him personally but did not sus-
pect him of being a prohibition gum
shoe operative says the mans true
name is Rankin. The man had a
woman with him and she is under
stood to have been dry sleuth as
WELL the two doing team work.
Rankin wore an Elk's pin and used
his membership in the order to get
in the confidence of the men of whom
he caused the arrest.
Asked how it felt to have to arrest
lot of old friends like this, Plum
mer said 1t was hard proposition to
go up against, but that he could say
one thing, which was that IL it had
been a stranger instead of him the
men would have gone to Jail until
Monday. His knowing them and
their bondsmen as he did made it
possible for them TO have their lib
erty pending the signing of the bonds
For first offenses where pleas OF
guilty have been entered Judge Far
rington has been giving sentences of
thirty days to four months. that Is,
for one-count indictments. Where
the counts have been more the SEN
tences have included fines. Four
counts are the maximum, being pos.
session. sale, manufacture and trans.
portation of liquor.
The recent federal grand jury
returned eighty-two indictments in
all against yiolators of the prohibit
tion act and other offenses in the
state of Nevada
Mr.. Plummer left Carson City Men
day and made similar visits at Bat
tie Mountain and Austin before com
ing TO Ely. He also stopped off in
Elko but made no arrests there
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-01-21
MIDNIGHT FIRE DAMAGES
ROBERT bRADY'S HOUSE

4 midnight fire last night seriously
damaged a house in the restricted
district belonging to and occupied by
Robert Brady.
As the alarm siren blew the de-
partment. under Fire Chief Earl
Bath, was instantly on the ground
with the hose truck. the chemical not
being brought out. 1t took a few
seconds to string the hose from the
hydrant at the corner of Second and
Aultman to the fire. which was =on
the upper side of High street at the
intersection of Second. The pressure
was excellent and in less than thirty
seconds from the time that the noz.
zle started to play its little tune the
flames gave way to dense smoke and
had done their worst
The blaze came up from the back
part of the house mostly and did not
reach the front rooms. The roof OF
the kitchen was burned out com
pletely and the interior under that
much of the covering is a ruin.
Brady says he left fire in the
kitchen range about o'clock and
went across the street, remaining
there until the alarm, which was at
IL o'clock. He believes the stove
fire was the cause, but says IL was a
new S110 range. with no cracks OF
holes In 1t. and he could not under
stand the manner of its getting out
He had been cleaning house yester-
day. which may have had something
10 do with 1t.
Another house adjoining II on the
west is occupied by a woman. Some
of her effects were moved out, but
no damage was done. The second
house west is vacant 1t was dam.
aged by fire few months ago
The one burned last night Brady
says was insured for a small sum.
The three belong to him.
This was the first fire since Bath
was elected chief, though he handled
two previous ones as acting chief aft
er the departure of former Chief Ma
thias