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The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
Former Slave
Awarded $3,212
For War Service

Parkersburg, w. Va, Jan. Am.
drew Clark Mennentree, former
slave, today is awaiting receipt of a
check for $3,212 from the federal gov
ernment, which has finally recognized
his claim to n pension for the services
he rendered the Union army during
the Civil war. He also will receive
$50 month for life.
well, it has been a long time COM
ing he said when he was asked by
the pension agent here to sign the
government vouchers.
Mellentree was in the service of a
family here when the war began. He
made several efforts to enlist here, but
was unsuccessful. Then he escaped
to Ohio and enlisted in II Negro regi-
ment at Dayton, but changed his
name Nine claims for Il pension were
rejected before he submitted satisfac-
tory proof.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
Professor Says Race
Prejudice Increasing

New Haven, Conn, Jan. 5,-Increas-
ing discomfort among Negroes was dis
cussed before the American History
Professors Association today by Prof.
Holland Thompson of the College of
the City of New York. He said
changed conditions had given rise to
more apparent hostility to Negroes as
"a race north of the Mason and Dixon
line than south of it,
For years, he said, the Negro had
been urged by certain members of his
race, backed by white sympathizers, to
demand all the rights of citizenship
and to oppose every form of segrega-
ton and discrimination.
This advice" he continued had
more effect in the north during the
world war than in the south and Ne
gro populations in northern cities
more than doubled. Large numbers
of Negroes came from the West In
dies, and as these latter had not been
accustomed to racial discrimination,
their resentment influenced the native
Negroes in the cities
Prof Thompson described the en-
couragement given by Negro publica-
tions that Negroes must resist oppres-
sion by force, if necessary. In poll
tics, the speaker said, the Negro was
beginning to vote as Il Negro and not
as member of political party. Race
prejudice, he said, was increasing and
not diminishing. In short, he de
clared, the Negro question has become
a complex and national one.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA, NEWS.

The Christmas program and Christ
mas tree that was put on by the Sec
ond Baptist Church Sunday School
was indeed a splendid affair. The
children were trained by Mesdames j.
r. Muse and Mary Earl. Superintend-
ent w. ]. Keith, on account of the
rainy and wet weather, went around
in his auto and gathered up the kid
dies of the Sunday School and took
them to the church for the program
and Christmas tree. Many beautiful
presents were put on the tree for the
children and friends. Rev. and Mrs.
Muse were presented with a beautiful
set of silverware from members of
the church Missionary Society and
Sunday school. The set is valued ut
about SO Mrs. Darindo Mansfield
was the leading spirit in working up
the gift.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. O. Gather and
children of Auburn, Calf, were here
Christmas attending Sunday school
Christmas exercises. They spent the
week of Christmas in Esparto, Calf,
With Mr.. Gathers parents, Mr.. an
Mrs. Guss Gather.
The Second Baptist Church is now
in receipt of a check of $500 as gift
from the late Mr.. C. Q. Nelson's
(wihte) estate as per his request be
fore his death.
Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Muse went TO
Oroville. Calf, Christmas day to at
tend wedding of Miss Esther Cannon
of that city and Mr.. Louis Minor OF
Pittsburg. Calf, at which Rev. Muse
officiated.
The Second Baptist Church had
great meetings Sunday, known as Roll
Call and Homecoming Day, for all the
members of the church. At both
morning and evening the services
were attended in large numbers ana
those that were not able to be ou'
sent verses of scripture expressing
their hearts.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
Man Arrested as
Negro Proves
To Be White

Pueblo, Colo, Jan. 5.-Orville Carr,
arrested here recently and charged
with an assault on white woman, Is
not a Negro, but white man who is
now suspected of being the creature
who has been molesting women in
lonely thoroughfares for several weeks
past. Women who have been the vic
tins of these attempted attacks are
to be brought to the suspect in the
hope that he will be identified as the
culprit. Negroes here have been
much exercised over the efforts to
connect the race with this latest out
rage on public decency.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
Leila WaIker-W Wilson
Defendant i'm Suit

New York, Jan. 3.-Dr w. NJ. Will
son today filed counter claim in Su-
preme Court asking permission to re-
tain a house at 10S and 110 West One
Hundred and Thirty-sixth street,
which his wife. Mrs. Leila Walker
Wilson, heir to Nine. G. ]. Walker
founder of the famous Nine. Walker
Company, of Indianapolis, has en-
deavored to have returned to her
through legal action
The counter-claim states that DR..
Wilson wishes to establish a sanitor-
ium in the both street house and
asked that it be turned over to him
free of a mortgage of $4,000 and with
$4,000 additional to pay for the re-
modelling necessary.
Mrs Wilson alleged that her hus-
band purchased the property in his
own name with her money and has
refused to return either the money or
the property to her.
The Wilson's have been separated
nearly a year and Mrs. Wilson has
spent much time abroad.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
$4,000 Gift for
Children's Clinic
To Be Established for Negro
Children at Wheatley-
Provident Hospital.

Kansas City, AIo.-Through the eff
forts and initiative of DR.. Richardson,
the founder and presiding genius of
Mercy hospital, there is given $4,000
which is to go to carry on among the
Negro children at Wheatley-Provident
children as has made Mercy hospital
internationally famous. Some time
ago DIR. Richardson told Dr. ]. Il.
Perry that she wished to get such Il
tunate colored children. The color
was an incident, the care and correc
ton of physical defects was duty,
and she felt impelled to see that the
Mercy should be ut the disposal of all
childhood. She thereupon sought the
gift of $1,000. On Thursday she gave
out the information that the gift was
available. AS result, under Negro
doctors and nurses at WheatleyProvi-
dent hospital there will be the same
work done which has made Mercy hos
pital the unique institution of child
betterment. Mercy hospital will make
available all it has, so that the af-
flicted Negro child will have the best
1t is significant of the reputation
this Negro hospital, that offers to help
from many sources are coming to Il.
Its facilities have been worked to the
limit, and those who study health mat
ters konw that it needs funds and
larger equipment to do the work that
falls to it, hence the offers. Some
day, and not far away, its work will
be detailed with view to interesting
the public in its enlargement.-K. G.
Call.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
Educator Is Dead
Bed-ridden Wife Unable to
Attend Funeral of ]. D.
Bowser, K. C.'s First
Teacher.

]. Dallas Bowser, n years old, 240O
Poseo, the writer and educator, died
early Monday in his home. He was
born in North Carolina in 1876 and
came to Kansas City in 1868. His
teaching service included one year in
Westport Landing (now Kansas City,
and eleven years as principal of Lin
coin High School and the Attucks
Ward school He also published the
Gate City Press, Negro publication.
The growth of Kansas City has had
in Mr.. Bowser its one most stirring
actor from early days down to now.
1t was just few days ago he made
the trip South with the business men,
vet he was the first school teacher
here Besides his activities in a lit
erary way he was a strong minded
to the school system did not deprive
him of the right to buy and occupy Il
home wherever he pleased.
The tragedy of his death is the Sc
rious illness of Mrs. Bowser. For sew
eral years she has been afflicted, and
is now confined to bed with paralysis.
The deceased was Il member of the
Presbyterian Church. He was prom
inent Mason. The funeral was held
Thursday afternoon with John Lange
n of L. and the e. +. F. lodges also
epresented.-Kansas City Call.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
YASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. "a
w call for a nationwide confer
ence of all the religious, social

y~ call for a nationwide confer
Z w ence of all the religious, social
and political organizations among col
ored people is suggested by Dean Kel-
rly Miller of Howard University in n
statement issued this week. Dean Mil
Ter says:
The demand for Il nationwide con-
ference is imperative. This conference
should not be fostered by any one or
}ganization, but every type OF agency
or interest now at work should unite
,upon a call to consider THE State of
the Race"
Political movements such as the n.
IA. A. c. P, the Equal Rights League
the Lincoln League, the Race Con
cress: religious bodies like tie Ma
tional Baptist Convention, the African
Methodist Episcopal, the A. M. E.
Zion. the C. NJ. f. and the NJ. Il.
Churches, as well as those of smaller
numbers business and economic agen-
ties like the Business League, the Ur-
ban League; educational associations,
fraternal organizations, the Federation
tSf Women's Clubs, the Press Associa-
ton, and all well established move
ments of wide ramification should be
represented.
The time has come for all to pull to-
gether. If we continue to pull apart,
we will pull to pieces. The whole is
greater than any of its parts. The
members of the body can never coop
crate properly unless they become
consciously Subordinated to the well
fare of the body as whole.
1t may be just as well to anticipate
,the objection that several such abor-
= tive attempts have been made before
4 While no one of these efforts has been
permanent each endeavor has left a
\ residuum of lasting good. The race
today has more maturity and sound
Judgment than ever before. Many will
recall the effort of Mr.. Joel Il. Sping-
arm at a race conference at his sum
mer home. If an alien to the group
! saw the necessity of formulating a
common program, surely we must heed
the self call to conference.
&Cannot Be Carried Further by Whites.
The Negro can no longer look to the
mite man for intimate advice and di-
ection. No one outside of n group
an regulate the intimate procedure
or the inside. The white philanthro-
Dists have done good part. The peo-
15le who must be helped forever are
not worthy of being helped at all. Self
aggression on part of the Negro will
encourage our white friends to extend
the necessary assistance. But they
Eskin not be expected to carry him on
their shoulders any further. The Ne
gro henceforth must walk with his own
legs. The white man can only furnish
him crutch.
! Lynching and lawlessness of which
the Negro is the chief victim, the shift
kkof population, congestion in cities and
Phe acute situation resulting there
from, the moral aloofness and relig-
.ous Indifference of the abducted class
les, the downward moral tendency of
the times in which our young people
Fare being carried away, the necessity
for cooperation in business and trade,
kshe growing apathy of the white race
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
COlOred Woman Has
Job in Law Dept.

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 5.-Miss Violette
n. Anderson was appointed assistant
city prosecutor, which took effect jan
uary /, 1923. Miss Anderson is a
graduate of North Division High
school, Chicago Athenaeum and Chi
cago Law school. She was admitted
to practice in 1919 and is the only
colored woman in active practice at
the Illinois bar.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
KELLY MILLER SUGGESTS
CALL OF CONFERENCE
kRelieous Political Social Organizations Urged to
Unite on National Program
VOTE is ASKED FOR
,If We Continue Pull Apart We Will Pull to Pieces
Says Educator

and the need for concerted endeavor to
stem the tide all unite in demanding
date. The situation calls loudly for
the requisite race craftsmanship. Will
it be Forthcoming?
Lo, l have made the suggestion and
''All who are in favor, signify by
saying L"
(Signed) KELLY MILLER,
Howard University
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
PACIFIC COAST HAS
LARGEST LUMBER SUPPLY

The largest remaining supply of
softwood timber in the United States
is in the three states of Washington,
Oregon and California, which contain
more than half of all the saw timber
in the country and more than two
thirds of the nations entire supply
Of coniferous woods, according to the
U. S. Department of Agriculture. In
Guiding the coastal forests of south
ern Alaska, this Pacific Coast region
is credited with 1,214 billion board
feet, nearly half of which is Douglas
fir, followed by Western yellow pine,
Western hemlock, the true frs of
several species, California redwood,
spruce, Western cedar, and sugar
pine. The amount Of timber in these
three states too small for lumber
manufacture probably aggregates
400,OO0,00O cords.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

milk figures in four Western Wash
ington counties that it took about
1902 pounds Of grain, ton and an
eighth Of hay, ton and two-fifths of
succulents, and 1856 days pasture to
produce 5000 pounds of milk which
is the yearly production of milk
from many of your cows.
Take an ordinary mixture Of grain
made up of barley, oats, millrun, and
oil meal of LOOP pounds, which this
6,000-pound COW will consume in a
year, and ton and an eighth of hay.
You will grow your own succulents.
If this material were bought during
the low points in the market rather
than the higher points, on the aver
age about 1928 would be saved on
this cows feed. For Is COWS this
would be about 1924. But part of
this feed will be consumed during the
period of low prices so we will have
to cut this down to at least $1OO saw
ing.
Again let us examine some of these
charts. Bran can usually be bought
to advantage from June to October,
and during your heavy feeding
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
WashingtonNames

Okanogan, Indian word meaning
rendezvous" was first applied to
the district about Lake Okanogan,
according to the book on Washington
Names, recently published by Prof.
Edmond S. Meany of the University
of Washington. In this region the
Indians of British Columbia and
Washington often gathered for the
annual potlach and to lay in sup
plies of fish and game. The name
has since been given to the river
which flows south from British Co
lumbia to the Columbia river, and
to the county through which the
river flows, and to it's county seat.
The name has had many spellings
such as Oakinacken, Ookenaw, Okin-
akane, all of which aim at the orig
inal Indian sound.
Brewster, in Okanogan county, was
named for John Bruster, the orig
inal homesteader there. Capt. Alex
ander Griggs named the place in
1896. When the postoffice was being
SeCuIeu III 1000, -. L. Glll0Sple, lie
postmaster, sent in the name spelled
Brewster instead of Bruster and it
was accepted by the postoffice de-
partment.
Methow, also in Okanogan county,
The tribe of Indians known as Met
how formerly living on lands be-
tween the Okanogan river and Lake
Chelan, now has some survivors on
the Colville Reservation.
Oroville, another town in the north
central part of Okanogan county, had
it's beginning in placer mines, for
which reason the Spanish word orc,
for gold, was selected as the name
In 1892, when establishing a post
office, the postoffice department.
asked that willie" be added to avoid
confusion with Oso, another postof-
fee in the same state.
Omak, near the central part of the
county, was named for lake about
eight miles east of the town. 1t is
claimed that the Indian word "Om
ache" means great medicine, refer
ring to the supposed curative quail
ties of those waters.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
AFTER MANY YEARS DULLNESS
MINING AGAIN PICKS UP IN
PINE CREEK DISTRICT.

The Pine Creek section of the
Occur d'Alene district in Idaho is
again the scene Of mining activity.
The advancing price of lead and the
ready market for zinc offered by the
Anaconda company have combined
to infuse new life into the mining
situation on the creek, with the re-
suit that there is more activity ia
that section now than there has been
in many years, and there is feeling
of confidence that a returning pros
perity has arrived. Two companies.
the Constitution and Nabob, are
making changes in their mills for the
recovery of zinc and both expect to
be in operation at an early date.
The new mill at the Amy-Matchless
is nearing completion for which a
carload of machinery arrived at KEEL.
logg last week, and is now being
transported to the mine. Leasers
are shipping from the Highlands
prise, and it is probable that the
output will soon be increased by dis
posal of the zinc product to the Ana.
conda. These conditions have ma.
turally given substantial encourage
ment to development, with the result
that Pine Creek is now a very busy
section.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
FARMERS vs.. LABOR

Translated into food, at the prices
the farmer gets, it takes 631a dozen,
or 762 eggs, to pay a plasterer for
one day of eight hours work in New
York City. 1t takes TN bushels Of
corn, or years receipts from half
an acre, to pay a bricklayer one day.
1t takes % chickens weighing three
pounds each to pay a painter for one
days work in New York. 1t re-
quires AZ pounds of butter, or the
output from IA cows, fed land MIXED
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

price each spring. But let us study
the attached charts.
If you have to buy hay it is evil
dent that from July to December
is the right time and to wait beyond
that into January usually means
much higher costs.
All of you dairymen can save at
least from $75 to $500 on the grain
and hay you buy for every Is cows.
You will do better than this some
years and less other years, but figur-
ing it very conservatively you will
make enough above this to pay in
terest on your invested feed and
granary overhead.
The college found in the cost of
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

taken advantage Of this fact and your
COWS are freshening in the fall. You
get some of your greatest milk flow
in the fall by the use of plenty of
grain, good hay and silage or roots.
That's right, you say Surely it Is,
and here comes the second part of
the story: You are not all buying
your grain feeds and hay at the right
time. Many Of you are waiting for
your cream and milk checks to pay
for your feed as you need it. You
know where feed usually goes in
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
differ from those of oil meal and you

differ from those Of oil meal and you
dairymen can take advantage of this
difference.
Many of you are making mistake
by letting supply Of feeds like oats
and barley slip out Of your commu-
nifty this fall, only to be freighted
back again to you at much higher
prices in the spring. Cut these charts
out and pin them up where you can
look at them often. They will save
you some money.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
FAMOUS SHOW TEAM

The great 100000 show team Of
Wilson G Co., packers-six Clydes-
dale geldings, which has won every
event in which it has been exhibited
in the horse show ring, will be on
exhibition at the American Livestock
Show at Kansas City in November.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

BY II. WI. UrHeT, ASSISteHI O11oCIo1
MANY of our farm granaries are
M not used to their fullest extent
or to advantage. You dairymen can
make a really substantial saving in
all the feed you buy if you get it
and feed it at the right time. That's
where the granary comes in.
Feeding and buying are two big
subjects. The first is Illustrated in
the chart on the wholesale prices Of
butter by months. Butter and milk
are cheaper from May to August and
reach their peak price during October
to December. Many of you have
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

A manicurist is always in attend
ance to care for the hands of the
maidens who work in the de luxe
food plant of the Beechnut Packing
Con: pany at Canajoharie, New York.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

for "a hours, to pay a plumber $14
a day. To pay carpenter for one
days work it takes hog weighing
IT'S pounds, representing eight
months feeding and care.
In the light of those facts what in
terests have farmers and laborers n
common?
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
BRAN
MONTHLY AVElAGE Price PEP ION
MINNEAPOLIS
1916 1922

low from August to October, and
reaches it's high point in April.
Oil meal hits the low mark in May
and June and is highest in August
and January. Cottonseed meal is
low in September, October and Feb
ruary and March. These low points
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

vember. They will very probably
make big advance after that. Corn
meal does not go up until March and
reaches the peak price in August.
Barley is put into a large number
of dairy ration mixtures in the North
west in place of corn meal. 1t is
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
Buy Your Dairy Feed
At The Proper Time

State Extension Service, Washington.
months of December to April it
moves at a higher figure.
Oats should be in every dairy feed,
if not too high. Put in your supply
during September, October and No
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

When digging the potatoes, store
all you dig on the same day you dig
them.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
Worlds News

At Saginaw, Mich, a passenger
train struck an automobile at a sraoe
crossing and killed six persons.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

LLOYD George, in his speeches IN
America, reiterated again and again
that Europe is completely exhausteo
as 4 result of the great conflict.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

Good ventilation in the spud stor-
age bins will help keep the potatoes
this winter.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

Cougars are increasing in numbers
along the banks of the Lewis river
and are becoming a real menace,
slaughtering deer, calves and even
full-grcWn cattle.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02
Washington News

The annual sale Of Christmas seals
is being arranged for by the Wash
ington tuberculosis Association. The
seals will be on sale from December
LIST to 22nd, inclusive.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

A native of England holds the
worlds motor speed record. Driving
a S50-horsepower car, he attained
speed of 126 miles an hour
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

A few days ago Thomas G. Keep,
Washougal banker, ran to catch a
train and died suddenly, shortly after
the train pulled out of the station.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

A new clay product factory has
been erected in South Vancouver by
company from Seattle. They are
producing flower pots, an article
which heretofore has been imported
from Ontario and Alberta. The plant
mas capacity Of 10000 flower pots
at one baking. The raw material.
clay and small portion of sand
Is obtained from Fort Haney and the
Fraser River.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

twenty-five thousand dollars was
paid at the Stadium Of the Univer-
sity of Washington by the crowd
that witnessed the great victory OF
the "Huskies" against the Univer-
sity of Southern California-the sec
ond largest crowd in Washington
gridiron history.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-02

Logging operations will be brisk i'll
the North this year, one company,
the Northwest Lumber Company,
laying plans to cut 80 million feet.
They cut 16 million feet this yea.
This company operates at Edmonton
one of the most modern lumber mills
in Canada