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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. Cars, Mules, Etc., Have Been Purchased and the Topeka and Indian Territory Land, Coal and Development Co., Will Begin Shiping Coal Next Week! HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL VOLUME V. The Business Manager Points Out a Number of Things in Which the Negro is Successful and Gives Advice for Continued Success in His Paper Before the W. N. P. A. Repairing clothes, cleaning and dyeing is a business in which our race is succeeding. I know of four business concerns within seventy miles of each other, which are making money and employing from twen, ty to thirty of our girls and boys. This is something new for the Negro and we can succeed well with it. With small capital one experienced man is enough to start with. CONTRACTING. Contracting is a business the Negro ought to apply himself to. It will pay, but it will require good judgment and a good stand in with the public men. With a good credit and confidence one can succeed. We sent letters to ascertain the kind of business and amount our people are doing in large cities and small towns. We have received replies to a few. M. LeRoy, publisher of the Florida Sentinel, writes as follows: MR. N. CHILES. Manager PLAIN-DEALER, Topeka, Kas: DEAD SIR:—Yours of the 21st to hand. It would afford no little pleasure to serve you in this matter of business done by Negroes in this state but you are too late to get anything like the information derired. Negroes doing business in Florida are: D. J. Cunningham, grocer, $50,000 a year; Pona and Sunday, builders and contractors, $100,000 a year; D. H. C. Williams, drug business, $20,000 a year; W. H. Harvey, undertaker, $100,000 a year; Sam'l Charles, boot and shoe dealer, $12,000 a year; George B. Green, furniture dealer, $10,000 a year. There are a number of smaller concerns that in the aggregate would probably reach to $100,000. The population numbers 20,000, one half Negroes. I hope this item will be of some service. Very truly. W. E. King, Dallas, ditor of Express, writes as follows: Mr. N. Chiles, Manager Plaindealer, Topeka, Kansas. Dear Sir:—We have about 1,000 colored men in business in Texas with an approximate capitalization of about $5,000.00. Our farmers will reach several millions. Respectfully, W. E. KING, Per. E. The Colored American of Washington, D. C.: Dear Mr. Chiles:—I have your letter of July 21st, and will comply with your request as best I can. The question you ask me is a hard one to answer. I have the acts in pamphlet form or rather in book form, but my copies are limited to just one or two at this time, so that I cannot send you one. The Colored population of District of Columbia in the Census of 1900 was between eighty and ninety thousand, and they constitute about one third of the population of Washington. According to the same source (the Census) 15 per cent of all the colored people of Washington own their homes. The number of colored people in this City owning their homes in 1890 was 2,132, is conservatively placed at fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000). Many of these homes are the center of refinement and culture, and not less than six of them are valued at more than $10,000. There are over five-hundred colored school teachers in the District; there are at least twenty first class hotels and boarding houses, but in Washington every home seems to be a hotel, for needs; every one takes boarders and rooms. The Colored Americans is a national power, and has a circulation of more than twelve thousand (12,000). There is a Steamboat company, owned and controlled by the colored people valued at twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). There are three colored newspapers: The Colored American, The Bee, and The Record. There are over seventy-five practicing physicians here; at least fifty lawyers doing fairly well; eighty-five colored chuches, including all denominations, and while the Capital Savings Bank failed the True Reformers of Richmond, Va., have opened one. There are more than a dozen insurance companies operated by colored men, doing business in the District; there are seven colored drug stores and barber shops too numerous to mention. I wish I could give you more data, but cannot on this short notice. IN CONNECTION with this I must digress just a little. Every nationality has a certain amount of slang, and which they are duped by some Cartoonist or funny writer. We have been the champion Poultry finders and masticators of the feather tribe. It seems from what they say we are originators of them as well as their conquerors, yet the Negro does not apply himself to this line of business as he should: A person with a small capital and a few acres of land with incubators can grow rich raising poultry in a few years. The handling and shipping of poultry is now in control of the white man, although we are dubbed the fowl getter. Let's try and control it. There is no excuse for not doing so. The washing and ironing is ours, the barber business is ours, the poultry business is ours, the watermelon business is ours, the sweet potato business is ours, lets control them. How can we do this? Let the press teach it, let our pulpits preach it, let our secret and private organizations talk it, ostracise all of our indolent class of people who will not work to develop themselves for the race. Don't associate or have any, thing to do with non-progressive street talkers, who never do anything themselves and find fault with those who are trying to do. NEWSPAPER AND JOB PRINTING is a business that can be made to pay, although a majority of our papers just exist and can hardly make expenses. There are several reasons why they do not pay the owner. First, it is hard to procure good conscientious, honest people to work for the success of the concern, others are backward in collecting, others convert the cash to their own use. There is enough job work turned out of white offices for various colored secret societies, including private and personal work to support three Negro papers in any state in the Union. The way for us to do is to go after this business, give as good work as anybody and as cheap. Then wade in and pound them until they show their race pride. Go after everybody that has any printing to do; never let up, for we are not prospering as fast as we ought to. There is money in it, and let us have it. THE NEGRO IN KANSAS. The Negro in Kansas is leading all states west of the Mississippi river in the business world. We have incorporated under the laws of Kansas recently a fraternal insurance order which means thousands of dollars in the banks within the next year. This is a step in the right direction. Old line insurance companies are refusing to carry negro risks. By the above method we can carry our own policy at half rate. They charge and employ half rate they charge and employ hundreds of our people for clerks and agents. This order will extend all over the United States. It is a sure winner. And we recommend it to all of the race as a safe security, and a better investment could not be had. This business has been needed for years. We have incorporated a coal, land, cattle and mining company under the laws of Kansas to own real estate, raise cattle, wheat, corn, and other products, and to operate a mercantile concern, and carry on a general business, and mine coal. We have leased our coal land and began operation. We struck a $200,000 coal deal last week. Our mine is located at Ben TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MORNING, SEPT. 11, 1903. ryette, I. T. Capitalised at $30,000, divided into six hundred shares of fifty dollars per share, assessed one dollar per share each month until paid. We have sold close onto 150 shares and just collecting the third assessment. We propose to make this one of the best Negro corporations anywhere. Of course we have our doubting Thomases and Judases, but business men pay no attention to that class of people. We will move right along as though they were dead. Confidence is what we need to succeed. This Indian country is the place for the Negro who wants to do business. Negroes are land rich in the Creek nation; hundreds of successful merchants with large stocks of merchandise and owners of large brick buildings. LAUNDRIES. Our people own and operate six large laundries, besides a number of hand laundries all successful. The five NEWS PAPERS and OFFICES are too well known to mention. FARMERS. The farmers and truckers of Kansas are the leaders in business in the State. Cattle is being shipped and poultry marketed by them every day as well as wheat, corn, and potatoes. This runs into thousands of dollars annually. Grocerymen are innumerable. Undertaking is something they are just awakening to. One successful concern is being operated in Kansas City, Kansas. DYING, CLOTHES CLEANING AND TAILORING. Dyeing, clothes-cleaning and tailoring is growing in favor fast in this state. CONTRACTING. Contracting and house moving is a successful business carried on by some of our people who are doing several thousand dollars annually. DRUG BUSINESS. The drug business is a profitable one, and they make money notwithstanding the prohibitory law. The colored brother was slow catching on, but he is succeeding. There are hundreds of business interests among colored people in Kansas that I cannot mention that they have out-grown my memory, and are too numerous to mention, other states do likewise. Our political orators and secret societies should talk business, and that kind which tends to the up-building of the race who are in need of wealth and how to acquire it. The time is now at hand when every one ought to be astir as to the future prospects of THE NEGRO IN BUSINESS; for that is where he is expected to be a beacon light in order to cope with other races. The negro is not rejected so much on account of color as he is on account of his business qualifications. The business we engage in the more manly and courageous we become. Cowards do not make business men, nor are business men cowards. It is the business man who ventres into the skies, in the earth beneath, and who fathoms the waters of the briny deep; who builds railroads, telegraph and telephone lines, who capitalizes combines and corporate their brains and dollars together in order to control and dictate the policies of the government. No selfish, bigoted suspicious knocker who stands on the street corners and finds fault with every progressive undertaking which some one is trying to make successful has ever been known, nor ever will succeed in providing comforts for their own bodies. Let us associate ourselves in a business way by combining our dollars with confidence that some one is capable of engineering the route with our assistance. Let us not take time to argue or discuss with the fault-finder who never does anything or ever has a good word for those who are trying to do something. Pass them up as you would your most rabid enemy. Life is too short, time is too precious for progressive men to lose time trying to educate that class to associate with them in business. They are more or less a hindering cause, a hardknocker and serve the purpose of driving away a few unthoughtful people who imagine they are being duped at every turn of the road. COLUMBUS KANSAS. Mrs. Lilly Bedell came in from Springfield, Mo., last Friday. She expects to make this her permanent home. The basket meeting of the A. M. E. church last Sunday reminded many of the old-fashioned kind. After a touching sermon at eleven o'clock by Rev. Parks, the congregation was dismissed to reassemble around the temple feast that was spread on the greed sward. I like to see our people subscribe for and read newspapers, but let some of them be of our own publication. I notice a few or our people here taking papers, and not one of them are of Negro publication. Brethren, you are not doing justice to your race. I don't mean that you should not read white publications, but do justice to your own industries by subscribing for one or more Negro journals. Mr. Clifford Photos arrived home last night from White. Galla Man of Character and Standing Fakir Because They Refuse to Build up a White Man's In- In their greed to mislead the colored people of this state, the Orient secretary is trying to throw discredit upon the only real Negro fraternal insurance society, to build up their own. Through these columns from time to time the PLAINDEALER has unhesitantly endorsed the Knights and Ladies of Protection, a fraternal society especially for the Negro. This society was launched by Negroes for Negroes, and every officer and member is a Negro. Knowing as we have that the officers were men who have made successful business men and who have promptly with their own means (not some white man's) put up the necessary funds to the insurance department and procured their charter to do the business of a fraternal beneficiary order, is it any wonder that having for its object the meritorious one of issuing fraternal insurance at cost; that this publication as an organ devoted to the interest of the race should fully endorse its effort and do its share toward making the same a success. WE STAND FOR RACE ENTERPRISE We cannot build up our own enterprises if we give preference to those fostered and maintained by a white man. The Knights and Ladies of the Orient may be all right, in fact, we make no accusations against them, but we do not believe that it answers the exigencies of the occasion when a white man's company although organized regardless of color should make such strenuous effort among our people claiming to be working for the interest of the race, when in fact it is financiered by a white man who is in it for what he thinks he can get out of it. THEY GET DESPERATE. The spectacle of an enterprise conducted under these circumstances and handicaps, denouncing through the mails such men as compose the Knights and Ladies of Protection, as a gang of fakirs who are no good and will bust, is amusing indeed. In their desperation that this laudable Negro enterprise will succeed in detriment of the white man's Orient, many letters have been sent out, typewritten on the official letter-heads of the Orient, containing thereon the names of J. M. Wright, Press.; W. W. Fisher, Vice Pree.; A. P. Smith, National Sentinel; Paul Jones, National Secretary; J. R. Ransom, National Prclate and W. E. Jackson National Medical Examiner. Notice: No National Treasurer. Why? Because he is a white man. Would it not seem more proper to call an organization fakirs who keep the name of the man who handles their funds off their literature? Does it not look as though there is a "scheme" to skin the Negroes qut of their hard earned cash; and if not, why do they withhold the name of their treasurer; and why does this white man insist upon handling the cash? One of their letters reads thus: "GEORGE WALLACE, Esq., Yale, Kas. * * That gang of fakirs who went through Yale, calling themselves Protection are no good and will soon bust up. Mr. Lee can tell you all about those fellows. We do no blowing in the newspapers. * * and hope with the aid and assistance of all honest and fairminded colored people to build up an institution for the accomplishment of great good among our people. WHO IS HE? Who is Paul Jones, National Secretary of the Knights and Ladies of the Orient, and upon what authority does he base his statement that J. G. Groves, the wealthiest Negro in the west, Col. Jas. Beck, a substantial business man, Dr. O. A. Taylor, one of the best physicians in Kansas and Hon. James H. Guy, an attorney at law of high repute, are fakirs? These gentlemen are well known throughout the state, and for honesty and integrity stand above reproach, and to be thus accused by a man who might practically be called a loafer, is more than the people of this state will stand. The secretary of the Orient who is so keen to term people as fakirs has not accumulated a solitary thing in this world's goods and imagines because he lives in a rented house, and next to a scheme that will cost the colored people their hard earned cash, that every man is after the same thing he is looking for. When people are termed fakirs, the man who makes such accusations should be a little careful and see that the beamin taken out of his own eye The Negroes of Kansas, when they are made acquainted with the facts and the merits of these organizations will quickly decide which one it is their duty as well as interest to support and can do so feeling assured that their interests are in the hands of men who will give a strict account of their stewardship of the same. In connection with the above letter our only surprise is that the names of several good citizens appear on the letter heads making them accessories to the crime of assassinating character. We do not believe these gentlemen know anything about the low, ditty, mean, contemptible manner in which their secretary is attacking the officers of the Knights and Ladies of Protection, and do not want the public to lay the blame at their doors. They are good, clean, honest, honorable men, but unfortunately have been led into the hands of bad company. The gentlemen whose names appear on the letter heads with this man's, are far too diguised and honorable to knowingly permit their names to be used in connection with the dirty fight waged against such noble men as are at the head of the Knights and Ladies of Protection. NEGROES WILL BE CROWDED OUT. The Knights and Ladies of the Orient does not prohibit white people from becoming members, but at present no work is being done among the whites. They are working to get as many colored people as possible to join and after the organization is placed on a good footing with the hard-earned dollars of the Negro—like all other concerns where a white man is head, it will be swallowed up by the whites and the Negro left out in the cold. As soon as the number of white members become sufficiently strong, the rate will be advanced, death claims contested in the courts and when the costs are paid to fight the case, the beneficiary will receive about one-fourth of the policy. This and other schemes will gradually close the Negro out and in a few years, the Knights and Ladies of the Orient will be a matter of history with the colored man, who can only stand and gaze upon the white man enjoying that which he has built up. They frankly say that the reason they have a white man at the head is because he has the money and is paying the freight. Does it not seem reasonable that when a white man is so willing to do all this that he is going to conduct the order to suit himself? Is it not a fact that he has figured whereby he is going to increase his money three fold? Why is this white man so anxious to push a Negro organization if he can't see large profits for himself? Will a man who has been a Shylock for years back a concern wherein he can't see his usual enormous profits? This man has been a loan shark in Lopeka for years, and his generosity has consisted of charging a substantial rate of interest, and now to try and convince the people that he is going to put up his cash without seeing whereby he will receive the "long end" of the returns is silly. ASSERTING NEGRO'S RIGHTS Dear Sir:—You no doubt recall the case of H. T. Johnson, pointiff, (Editor Christian Recorder) vs. the Pullman Company, recently tried in the Federal courts in New Jersey, a civil rights action for damages on account of plaintiff being refused and denied the full and equal accommodations, privileges and facilities accorded other persons by said Pullman Company in that, he was refused a breakfast in on of the said company's dining cars. The case was tried to a Court and a jury which awarded plaintiff a verdict for the sum of $500, the highest sum they could award, on the 18th day of May, 1903. The Hoh. Kirkpatrick, before whom the case was tried, entered an order setting aside the verdict and giving the Pullman Company judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The case is now in charge of the above named bureau and the necessary steps have been taken to carry the case on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. The facts are these: Flaintiff was a passenger on the train of the Seaboard Air Line from Florida to Washington, D. C., and went into the dining car at the second call and asked for breakfast and was told that they were not ready for him and on the third and last call, he went again and asked for breakfast and was by the superintendent refused on account of his color. There are three points involved: On the first we contend that the acts complained of are clearly against the 13th and 14th amendments of the Constitution as these amendments clearly mean and indicate that persons of color are to have equal rights with white people especially in all matters of Inter-State Commerce as distinguished from state law. Second: The civil rights act of 1875, under the construction put upon it by the Supreme Court in the case of Robinson vs. the Memphis and Charleston City. Company, 109 U. S. 4, clearly asserts that, that act is only unconstitutional as applied to the several states. In this case it is not a question of state law, but the question of a train running from one state to another and therefore, comes under the head of Inter-State Commerce, and the decision in the Robinson case expressly reserves this question and does not declare the act of 1875 unconstitutional in this respect, and further, as this train was running in the District of Columbia, the Robinson case is not in point because of the decision expressly says "it is not decided whether the law as it stands is operative in the Territories and the District of Columbia." The Hon. Kirkpatric set aside the verdict and ordered judgment for the defendant upon the express grounds that the Robinson case did not apply notwithstanding the act that at the trial he held otherwise and refused to allow the defendant to go to the jury on that theory of the case though it was expressly set forth in the pleading. Third: The Common Law of England is the law of this country so far as not altered or emended by the statutes or decisions, of the courts of this country. It cannot be denied that the defendant by holding itself out as a public caterer of refreshments, etc., are bound by the common law to treat all citizens alike and without discrimination so long as they are willing and able to pay. The record in this case is undeniably in favor of the plaintiff and squarely raises the point as to whether or not under the laws, constitutionally or otherwise, a Negro has a right on an Inter-State train to refreshments served to the general public. There are no side issues in the case but simply a request for refreshments and an admitted refusal on account of color o. en.yWiv.lpthtre- shridu etaoliu thereby raising the question of law whether the defendant company was within their rights in doing so or whether plaintiff was denied a right and privileges due him as a citizen. The case, too, presents the question of the rights of interstate passengers and all matters of interstate commerce is exclusively under the control of federal legislation, and whether or not the Negro as an Inter-State passenger can be discriminated against by an Inter-State carrier is a point never before squarely raised in the United States Supreme Court. We feel it our imperative duty to have this case go to the Supreme Court of the United States, if not, then the decision of Judge Kirkpatric will stand as the law throughout the land and there will be no place where the Negro can secure accommodation from the Pullman Company unless that company or its employed choose to accord it to him. The rigor of the "Jim Crow Car" now being adopted by nearly all of the NUMBER 36. The Afro-American Council Will Push H. T. Johnson's Case Against the Pullman Company Will Do Everything Available to Assert the Negro's Rights. Southern and border states has been modified to the extent that those of the race who wanted to could secure accommodations in the Pullman cars. If this decision stands, this escape is no longer open to us. It means just this: that the Pullman Company can deny the Negro accommodation and he is without remedy. In its effect it reaches all parts of the country, north, east, and west as well as the south and even into the District of Columbia and the Territories. Special attention is called to the fact that Federal Statutes have at all times been held to apply to the District of Columbia and the Territories, but this decision of Judge Kirkpatric reverses this holding and takes them entirely from under the operation of the Federal Statutes in so far as those statutes give the Negro equal rights on public carriers and public caterers. If the Pullman Company can refuse to serve a meal, it can refuse to sell a seat or a berth. We are happy to announce that we have not relaxed one fractional part of our zeal and effort to bring before the Supreme Court of the United States the cases involving the suffrage question and that the decision in the Giles' case (recently decided, and known as the Alabama case) does not decide the points involved in the cases we have pending. One of these cases will be argued in the Supreme Court of Louisiana early in October next, and from that Court will be appealed to the United States Supreme Court and we feel assured that when these cases come before the United States Supreme Court with the points involved, raised and presented we will have from that court a decision squarely on the question whether or no a state can actually disfranchise a citizen on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude without violating the Federal Constitution. We have associated with us in these cases some of the best lawyers in the country and we are confident of winning a victory. We also wish to especially emphasize and call attention to the following: Section I of the XIV amendment of the Federal Constitution by express declaration creates and confers as a primary right citizenship of the United States; and there is no dispute, but that the duty to protect the lives and property of its citizens is an inherent duty of every government; and where there is a duty to protect the power to protect is correlative. The citizen then is of right-entitled to claim at the hands of the Federal Government protection, and the XIV amendment expressly provides that "No state shall * * * deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." Prohibiting the state to deny protection is in every sense a direct requirement to provide it. We therefore conclude that when a citizen is put to death in any manner or is in any way deprived of his property, except by due process of law and in default of the protection required by this amendment there is denial of equal protection by the state—a violation of the amendment, which Congress may prevent and punish by legislation. Section V of the XIV amendment expressly authorizes Congress to enforce its provisions "by appropriate legislation." The Bureau is charged with the duty of securing such legislation and we will seek to have a measure passed by the 68th session of Congress that will afford to the citizens federal protection against mob violence and secure to him peaceful enjoyment of the rights guaranteed by the Federal government. Situated as we are we cannot surrender any one of our civil or political rights without suffering a loss, we therefore appeal to our brothers throughout the country to furnish the necessary money to carry these cases through our courts. We may do collectively what will be impossible for us to do individually to bring these cases to a final determination and to secure such legislation as will work better protection to the citizen. We therefore ask you be good enough to contribute guch amount as you feel you can and urge that a failure to respond now may mean a prolonged disregard of both our political and civil rights. Yours very respectfully. J. MADISON VANCE Director. FREDERICK L. MCGHEE. Vice Director. JESSE LAWSON. Financial Secretary. Contributions may be sent to the o..ce and to the Financial Secretary. THE BLACK MAID. The following significant poem written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is taken from the National Progress of Chicago. It is said that the poem was written more than a year ago and dedicated to Paul Lawrence Dunbar, by the author, but that she could find no magazine or great paper that would publish it until the National Progress Company was organized in Chicago. This company gives the poem a prominent place in its August or initial number. The poem is grand because it so clearly exhibits the white man's honor. Read it carefully and think it over. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. To the coal black maid The white man said: "You must yield your honor to me. For I am king Of everything. Ay! king of land and sea!" Now a beast or a bird mates but with its kind Yet a man will follow the lust of his mind. The pithless skies Heard the black girl's cries And men turned an ear of stone. For the good God gave To the king his slave And the world should let them alone. And why should it talk of the white man's sin When the black girl's child has a tawny skin? The black man said To the snow white maid: "You must yield to my brutal will. I am morally blind And I hate your kind, And I know how to throttle and kill. "I have no brains, but my sinews are strong With the grudge of a hundred years of wrong." The white girl"s cry Rose wide and high. It hurt the ears of the world; Then blind and stark Out into the dark A blundering soul was hurled. For woman's honor all men will fight And avenge her wrongs—if her skin be white, KINGFISHER, O. T. The Bazar given at St. Mark A. M. E. church, commencing August 24, and ending the 31st, was a grand success in every particular. Monday night, Aug. 24, all enjoyed listening to an instrumental solo rendered by Miss Mae Caesar. After which the evening program concluded with a spelling match conducted by Prof. N. J. Caesar, one of the teachers in our public schools. Tuesday evening was the musical and literary evening. Wednesday evening the members of the Kingfisher orchestra took their places on the stage and opened the program by playing a march. Prof. Wm. E. Guy, of the Langston university, very ably lectured to the people for about one hour. All listened with great interest, and felt themselves much benefited by hearing this noble young man. Solo by Miss Mae Caesar. Trio by Oretha Porter, Mable and Bertha Harding. Bass solo by Dr. Washington Faust, Blend march played by the orchestra concluded the program. Thursday Evening. Music by the orchestra. Solo by Mrs. Eliza Jordan. Dramatic duet by Mrs. M. L. Brookins and J. E. Harris. Solo by Miss Mae Caesar. Bass solo by J. E. Allen. Recitation by Edgar Harris. Female quartette by Miss Mae Caesar, Mable Harding, Bertha Harding and Mrs. M. L. Brookins. The program ended with a rain-bow drill, which was a beautiful sight, and all the girls performed with such perfectness that they did great credit to themselves and their instructor, Mrs. Brookins. Friday Evening. Managed by Mrs. H. B. Downs, was laughable from beginning to end. It was called the "Crazy Bush Concert." Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock the Sunday school jubilee bagum and con- Business Opportunities. TO THE PUBLIC: Owing to other business, I shall retire from the hotel business on or before January 1, 1904. I will rent the building to the right parties, and sell the hotel furniture and fixtures for the continuance of the business. Parties who can cook and manage well can earn money. Topeka has good schools, colleges, churches and society, which makes it an ideal city in which to live and conduct business. This hotel is located in the heart of the city, and within 100 feet of the Auditorium, the pride of Kansas, and the new Vinewood electric line passes the door. It is also handy to the State House and theatres. Remember, if this hotel closes, it means a loss to our people who need a public place to stop. This hotel has been conducted in first-class order, and if a person cannot continue it, we advise them to save stamps. For further information, address, Passing through the "Land of the Big Red Apple," the line enters the Indian Territory, near Westville, crossing the Cherokee Nation, and traversing the Creek Nation, a country that has lately attracted attention all over the United States by reason of Congressional legislation permitting the acquirement therein, by outsiders, of Indian allotments. The Creek Nation is known to possess as great (if not greater) proportion of available land to square mile as any other of the Indian reservations that have been opened to white settlement. The character of its soil and climate is almost identical with that of Oklahoma. Wheat, corn and cotton grow side by side, and all yield crops calculated to astonish, by their abundance and excellence, farmers from the older states. Subscribe and A number of the towns shown in the appended list are of recent birth, and all are in a condition of rapid and substantial development. 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Carpentry, Painting, Printing, Book-blinding, Tailoring, Sewing, Dress making, Laundrying, Banketry, Domestic Science, Agriculture in its varied phases, Stanography, Type-writing, Architectual and Mechanical Drawing. ADVANTAGES donable. Self help encouraged. Very careful the training of young women. Rigid discipline of 105 acres. Location and sanitation the led by ministers of every denomination. begins Tuesday Oct. 13. Try to be present for further information address N. R., CARTER, President. Topeka, Kansas. The lad who desires some fun can get an air rifle from the Kansas City Journal as a present. The name of this gun is "The Daisy," and it is well named. This gun is thirty inches in length from the end of the barrel to the end of the stock. Here is a gun that the boy can have fun with. This Air Rifle is the finest rifle on the market, as it is modeled after the latest target rifle. It has a genuine walnut stock and is provided with improved sights, a feature everyone will appreciate. The barrel and a working parts are made of steel, and the metal parts finely nickel plated. It is simple in construction and shoots the strongest. All partisan interchangeable; shoots B B shot by compressed air, with sufficient force to kill sparrows, rats, etc., at a considerable distance. The rifle is safe in the hands of a child. It weigh over two pounds. Our proposition: Any boy who will get TEN new subscriptions for The Kansas City Weekly Journal is 25 cents each, making a total of $2.50 and will send us a list of the names together with the money, we will sho- to his address, express charges paid, this handsome air rifle. Send money by postoffice order or dra- and advise us of the name of your express office. Boys, here is a chance to get the fun of your life. Rustle a little and get this gun as our proposition one holds good until June 1, 1903. Address all communications to The Kansas City Journal, Kansas City Mo. Send for sample copies of the weekly for canvassing. ATCHISON, KANSAS. A Daisy Air Rifle for the Boy SAVE DIAMONDS SOAP WRAPPERS FOR Premiums THERE IS A TRIPLE ECONOMY IN USING DIAMONDS SOAP. THE ECONOMY OF BETTER SOAP FOR YOUR MONEY. THE ECONOMY OF LESS WORK AND THE ECONOMY OF SECURING SOMETHING OF USE AND VALUE FOR YOUR WRAPPERS. Complete catalogue showing over 300 premiums that may be secured by saving the wrappers, furnished free up on request. Send your name on a postal card, and we will mail you the catalogue. PREMIUM DEPT. THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY, KENTR OMANA, MN. The Hirbour Steam Dye Works and Topeka Pantatorium. Steam and Dry Cleaning of Fine Garments For Ladies and Gentlemen. Feathers, Furs, Gloves. (FrenchDry Cleaning.) Goods Called for and Delivered. Pantatorium Membership $1.00 per Month. YOU NEED A SUMMER SUIT! Come In and Look Over Our Line of MADE--TO-ORDER Goods. Prices Lower Now Than Ever Before. Both Phones 872. [No. 115 W. 7th Street. Reynolds & Childers Reynolds & Childers. SOUTHWEST SYSTEM Traveling the States of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska Colorado, Cansas, and the Indian Territory. Five (5) Daily Passenger Trains are run on this k each direction, between Kansas City and St. Le COURSES—Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, Carpentry and Architecture, Printing and Book Making, Dressmaking and plain Sewing, Tailoring, Business Course and Stenography, Farming Stock Raising, Truck Gardening, Cooking and Laundering. Piano, Organ,Voice Culture. YO A SUMM In and Loc of MADE--T Prices Lower N Both Phones 872. Reynolds MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Traveling the States Colorado, Cansas, and Five (5) Daily Passe in each direction, betw D T! Come On Our Line ER Goods. u Ever Before. 15 W. 7th Street. Childers. Missouri Pacific Route THWEST SYSTEM, Missouri, Nebraska Territory. Society in the U. S. Our society is similar in character and management to the KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF SECURITY; A. O. U. W., and MODERN WOODMEN. No intelligent Negro should be without INSURANCE. The protection of our families warrants no delay in the matter of insurance. Good agents wanted. For further information write P. C. THOMAS, Natl Sec. Handquarters: 117 West Fifth street, Topeka, Kansas. DONNER K. L. L. O. PROTECTION Society in the U. S. Our society is sit to the KNIGHTS AND LADIES MODERN WOODMEN. No inter Insurance. The protection of our matter of insurance. Good agents war. P. C. T. Headquarters: 117 West Fifth street DENVER, COLO. Little Tommie Dennis, the wonderful boy preacher, who has been preaching at Shorters A. M. E. church the past week, will continue through the present week. Great crowds of both white and colored being turned away from the door each evening. Mrs. L. L. McMahan visited the frontier celebration at Cheyenne, Wyo., last week. Mr. L. C. McCullough will devote his entire time to his grocery store after this week. On account of the increase in business. Dame rumor accuses a young Topeka gentleman of leading a young lady of this city to the altar during the month. Mrs. Anna V. Freeman, who sold her home in South Denver, a few weeks since has purchased a home at 2350 Ogden street. The sisters, Mesdames Alice Smith, Travers, and G. A. McCullough, received, last Wednesday amidst a bower of ferns, smilax, white and red asters, with oriental decorations. The darkened rooms, beautifully illuminated by gas, shed its radiance over seventy-five elegantly gowned ladies as they arrived, and departed. Those assisting in receiving were Mesdames S. W. Overton, S. A. Roudurant, L. E. McCullough, Albert Ball, L. G. Travers and sister of the hostess, Mrs. Lelah Smith-Black; Misses Tennie Montgomery and Lillian Craddock, daintily presiding at the punch bowl under a Japanese canopy festooned with smilax. Among the guests present were Misses Hester Hawkins, of Topeka, Kan.; Minevra Matlock, Kansas City, Mo.; Bessie Singleton, Omaha, Neb.; and Mrs. Scott, of St. Louis; Miss Grenley, of Atchison; also Mrs. Hinkle. Miss Carrie Barnes, who graduated from the Manual Training school in the class of 1902, attending the Tuskegee instrtute, winning New York scholarship. After completing the course, has a permanent position offered her in the Tuskegee institute. Miss Barnes is a general favorite, and her many friends are rejoicing at her success. Miss Mable Bohannan, who has been visiting her mother in Denver, left for her school in Prairie View, Texas, last week. LINCOLN. NEB. One of the prettiest weddings ever witnessed in Lincoln, was that of Miss Luetta Gardner and George Macklin, of Omaha, Neb., which occurred at the home of the bride's sister, Mra, B. J. Roberson, Monday evening, August 31. At 8:30 the bridal party entered to the sweet strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march, played by the colored mandolin club, which was completely hidden behind a bank of palms and other tropical plants. First came the Rev. Underwood by whom the beautiful ring ceremony was performed. Then proceeded little Fay Roberson, a neice of the bride, daintily gowned in white and carrying the ring in the heart of a beautiful illy. Then followed Miss Mabel Bush, the maid of honor, handsomely gowned in pale pink silk muslin and trimmed with rows of antique lace. Next came the bride leaning on the arm of the groom. Her costume was a dream. It was of white crepe de chene, with rows of fagoting and clusters of fine tucks. She wore a long vell of bride's velling, caught with sprays of orange blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet of orange blossoms, sent by the bride's brother, from California. The ground wore the conventional black. Next came the bridesmaid, Miss Estella Coll, attired in a lovely costume of pale blue silk linen, and L. P. Gates, as best man, also in the conventional black. The house was beautifully decorated with cut flowers, and ropes of smilax. The chief feature of the decorations was the double horsehoe, under which the couple were married, wishing them good luck. Punch was served in the drawing room by Miss Marie Houston, of York, Neb. of Protection A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANCE SOCIETY Issues policies for the sums of $250, $500, $1,000, also $75, $100, $150 and $200 for children over 6 years of age. This is the only colored Fraternal Insurance city is similar in character and management DIES OF SECURITY; A. O. U. W., and no intelligent Negro should be without n of our families warrants no delay in the ents wanted. For further information write C. THOMAS, Natl Sec., with street, Topeka, Kansas. lations followed. Many handsome presents were received. Mr. and Mrs. Macklin left Tuesday morning amid a shower of rice and old shoes, for different points in Iowa, where the honeymoon will be spent. They will be at home to friends after September 20, at 2530 Burdette street, Omaha, Neb. The out-of-town guests were: Madames Lulu Burkes, of Omaha, Mrs. A. M. De Prade, Lima, Ohio, Mrs. T. B. Gardner, of Warrensburg, Mo.; Misses Estella Douglas, Missouri Valley, Ia., Marie Houston, of York, Neb.; Messrs. Frank Horn, of Omaha, Romeo Lytle, Omaha, Tanner Booker, Trenton, Ia., John Jouglas, Missouri Valley, Ia. The Sorosis Clubentertained Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. W. Bush, in honor of Miss Luetta Gardner and her attendants. Miss Gardner is one of the most active members of the club, which regrets to lose her. Miss Lula Johnson entertained at dinner Friday in honor of Miss Luetta Gardner. Covers were laid for five. Miss Estella Douglas, of Missouri Valley, Ia., attended the Macklin-Gardner wedding and was the guest of Miss Mable Bush. ST. JOE, MO. A teachers' institute is in progress at the colored high school this week. Prof. Bruce is the instructor. Presiding Elder Beale conducted services at A. M. E. church Sunday. The singing by the choir was excellent. The solo rendered by Prof. Perkins was a very pleasing feature of the services. Mrs. Aliver, of Macon, Mo., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Smith Crews. Mr. Albert Hicks was painfully injured by being thrown from his wagon last week. Mrs. Charles Phelps entered her daughter, Pansy, in Drake university last week, where she will finish her studies on the violin. Mrs. Peeters and Mrs. Garrett, of Kansas City, are guests of Mrs. Chas. Phelps. Miss Edna Lee will attend Jefferson institute this year. Miss Ethel Gross goes to Lawrence university; Misses Mildred Jackson and Mana Cohron go to Atlanta. Another colored paper has made its appearance under the editorship of Lawyer Knox. Mrs. Sydney Bradley, of Atchison, visited her niece, Mrs. Riley Whitney, last week. S. M. Holt, of Wathena, was in the city Monday. FORT MACKENZIE. WYQ. Edward H. White, having recovered from the almost fatal injuries received here some time ago, by his horse falling upon him, has re-enlisted in D company Twenty-fifth infantry. White was born in Topeka, where he resided until his father was killed on his farm a few miles west of that place. He washes to be remembered to all his friends. He left Thursday for Fort Harrison, Mpnt. Clarence E. Langston was appointed trumpeter, September 1, vice Garfield Brown, relieved. In the field day exercises for June G and H troops made an excellent showing, H standing second, and G fourth in the entire department. Henry Rains left the first to attend Tuskegee Institute. Quite a bit of costly fixtures for the post gymnasium arrived last week. The last game of a very successful ball season will close Sunday with a game between the post team and the Deity boys. They seem to put up the strongest front of the surrounding teams, and desire to close the season. The post team has played 20 games losing 8 and winning 22. Captain Geo. Lee is now putting trim for the gridiron. He has some good material to choose from, and expects to field on of the best eleven in this department. Corp. Stafford, manager of the H troop eleven has bright hopes of a strong team, and between the two teams is good work. Did it Ever Occur to YOU That When a Man Gets Old and the Days Grow Cold He Will Need A FEW DOLLARS to Prolong His Life. The Topeka and Indian Territory Land, Coal and Development Co. Have extended the time in which you may purchase shares thereby making it possible for you prepare for those cold days. Buy before it is too late. Buy Ere it be too Late. EMPORIA ITEMS. In Order to Give All a Chance BOYNTON, I. T. The past month has witnessed quite an influx of our people from the states who have come to stay, having cut the bridges behind them. Prof. Geo. T. Robinson, A. M., L.L.B., of Nashville, Tenn., is one of the new arrivals. He, accompanied by his wife, reached here August 1, bought a lot and built a house and is now comfortably located. Capt. Robinson resigned the deanship of Walden university in order to cast his lot with the colored Creeks. In addition to his law practice, he has embarked in the mercantile business, and is becoming identified with the people. He was an officer in the volunteer service of the Spanish-American war, and was honorably discharged. He comes highly recommended by business, professional and Christian men. He began at once to let his light shine, by taking up the work among the young people. Last-Sunday he was elected superintendent of the Union Sunday school. He was the orator of the day at the Fourth of August Emancipation celebration, and made a great speech. His malden speech was made before a jury here in defense of a white physician, and he made a favourable impression. He and editable wife were tendered a reception the night following their arrival. Music oratory and refreshments were in evidence. Hon. P. Taylor delivered the welcome address, which was responded to by the guest of honor. Other newcomers, introduced were Dr. Alston and Mr. N. G. Trout, of Langston. Mrs. Robinson is quite a helpmate to her husband, and is also a worker in the elevation of the girls. We welcome such people. Another desirable addition for August is Dr. A. J. Alston of Langston, O. T. He has erected the best business house in the town which is to be used as his drug store. The doctor comes well recommended as a skilled physician, and surgeon. He has ample means to begin work. He has two rigs and three splendid horses. Already his practice keeps him on the go. Dr. Alston is a quiet, but successful man, both as a doctor and druggist, and comes to Boynton because he sees a great future here for the Negro. Mr. R. E. L. Mitchell, of Alabama, has bought a business lot and will erect a store house. After he put the building material on the ground, he was called to the sick bed of his wife. Capt. Robinson is a native of Mississippi. He met a lady who resembles his mother. On investigation, this Choctaw lady, Mrs. Lena Peters, proved to be his second cousin. His mother was part Indian. A few days ago, Mr. Wm. Peters, a law graduate of Dean Robinson, came down from Muskogee, and on being tintroduced to Mr. Wm. Peters, a native and husband of Mrs. Lena Peters, it developed that father and son had met for the first time. Mr. Peters was separated from wife No. 1 years ago, and they were to meet in Leavenworth, Kan. She failed to meet him and after the lapse of several years, Mm. Peters married again. On meeting and becoming acorth every effort to put the boys in quainted with his son, the old man said: "I have been expecting my long lost son, and have had him enrolled." Homesekers continue to come. Langton City has furnished seven men during the past month. Among them are a doctor, a blacksmith, mechanic and farmers. The greatest infux is from Texas. The last tribal election took place yesterday, and after March, 1906, the Indian will cease absolutely to be a ward of the nation. I mean those of this territory. No more tribal relations. All will become cliff-seas on equal footing. At this time it is not definitely known, who has been elected chief. The race is between Pleas, Portus, the present incumbent and L. C. Peryman. Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges. TEXT-VI-SIXTH SESSION (1963-1964) will begin October 1, 1963 and continue through DAY SCHOOL FOR NEW MARTICULANTS Tutition for Medical and Dental Colleges each $10.00. Four years' graded courses in Medicine and Dental Surgery. Well equipped libraries in all departments. Useful medical services. All students must register before October 1, 1963. For catalogue of further information apply to F. J. SMADD, A. M., M. D. Secretary. 901 R Street, N. W. Washington, D.C. CORN Harvesters. It cuts and throws it in pile. One man and one horse cuts equal to a corn binder. Price $12, circulari free. New Process Mfg. Co., Lincoln, Kansas. The Crescent Hotel EUREKA SPRINGS. (St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company Lesser.) ANNOUNCEMENT. St. Louis, 6-24-1903 Mr. W. M. WALKER, late of the Planters, Saint Louis, has been appointed Manager of this hotel, vice Mr. E. E. SUMNER, resigned. Effective July 1st 1903. BRYAN SNYDER. Passenger Traffic Manager, St. L. & S. F. R. R. Notice Notice State of Kansas, Shawnee County, SS. No 22375 The State of Kansas to Pearl M. Hatton, Greetings: You are hereby notified that James H. Hatton has filed in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, his suit asking for a divorce against you and that unless you answer said petition on of before the 22 day of September, 1903, the petition will be taken as true and judgement recorded accord- ingly, divorcing the said plaintiff from you. W. S. M. CLINTOCK, (SHAIL) Attorney for Plaintiff. (Attest:) J. S. Curtis. Clerk of District of Court. Notice. State of Kansas, Shawnee County, SS: Notice is hereby given to all creditors, heirs distributees, and all others interested in the est state of W. C. Trapp, deceased, that the under- signed Administratrix of the estate of W. C. Trapp, intends to make final settlement of said estate, and apply for an order of final distribu- tion thereof at the next, to-wit. The August 1903 Term of the Probate Court of Shawnee County- Kansas, on Saturday, the 15th day of August 1903, at 10 o'clock A. M. of said day. C. T. TRAPP, Administratrix of the estate of W. G. Trapp, deceased. W. B. McCLINTOCK, Attorney for Admrx. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. George T. Flemming, plaintiff, va. Jennie L. Flemming, defendant. No. 22293. The State of Kansas to Jennie L. Flemming, Defendant. Greeting: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the plaintiff, George T. Flemming, and that you must answer the petition filed by said plaintiff therein on or before the first day of August, 1903, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered in accordance therewith, divorcing said plaintiff from you, and for all other proper relief. GEORGE T. FLEMMING. Plaintiff. By James C. Salyer, his Attorney. Attest: L. R. Curtis, Clerk. [Seal] VICTORIA TABERNACLE—meets every Friday near the corner of Fourth and Charles streets, Leavenworth, Kan. DT. LAURA BRIGHT, C. R. 32 Olsen Ave. DT. SALLIE COX, H. P. 35 Fifth Ave. St. Marie Tabernacle No. 19—Meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Hour of meeting 2:30 p. m., Lawrence, Kan. DT. MAGGIE FISHERACK, C. P. DT. MARIE R. BROWN, C. R. Wichita Tabernacle No. 36—Meets the first and third Thursday afternoon of each month. Hour of meeting 2 p. m., Wichita, Kan. DT. LES ANDERSON, C. P. DT. L. COVINGTON, C. R. Rebecca Tabernacle No. 11—Meets the first and third Mondays, afternoon, at M. and O. Hall, corner Eighth and Washington streets. Mrs. Katie Miner, C. P., No. 11 Nebraska Ave., Kansas City. Tabernacle No. 20 and Daughter Alice Tucker of Victoria No. 10 of Leavenworth, Kansas, transferred to Golden Sheaf Tabernacle No. 11, Omaha. Golden Sheaf Tabernacle No. 12—Meets first and third Wednesday nights at Sees of Protection Hall, corner Birth and State streets. Mrs. Bettie Johnson, C. P., No. 12 Stewart Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. Golden Sheaf Tabernacle No. M was visited by Mrs. I. Ingram, a nurse from Douglas hospital, author and for that institution; $1.00 was given her from the society. Guard of the West Tabernacle No. 1—Meets the first and third Wednesday afternoons, at M. and O. Hall, corner Wichita and High Street, from Cora Crayton, G. P., No. 12 Furnished Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. RED RIVER VALLEY COLONY Home Opening 20,000 Acres in the Famous Red Valley—Special Trians Via Frisco System Leaves St. Louis at 2:30, 8:35 and 10:00 p. m. Leaves Kansas City, Mo., at 7:15 and 11:30 p. m., SEPTEMBER 15th, 1903. From St. Louis and Kansas City to Vernon, Tex., return—proportionate rates from all other points. This rate applies to all intermediate points on the Frisco System and to all points in Texas as far south as San Antonio and East thereof. Full particulars cheerfully given. Jas. Donohue, A. G. P. A., KANBAS CITY, Mo. as =e SS