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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 17. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1911. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. OPENFIGHT ON BANK'S RECEIVERS. RECEIVE AGREED These records have agreed upon a method of procedure, and were it not for the entrance of the energetic man at attorney from Newport News everything would have doubt gone through on schedule time. But when Mr. Newsome came upon the scene of action he changed the aspect of affairs, and he now threatens to undo it of his own, carefully prepared in these statute legal numbers of the bar - Mr Newman, and his associates do not accept the statement without question that the Order owes the Savings Bank and well-night all of the property of the Order. CONVERTING INTO CASH The receivers would have converted all of these assets into cash and then divided this cash among the depositors of the bank, leaving the Order of the True Reformers to "exhibit for itself" so to speak and to reburse itself out of the special fund now being raised by the Order under the leadership of Grand Worthy Master A. W. Holmes or Holmes had taken this office of the matter too, and in this he was candidly reported by the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors which deeded the property to the Savings Bank, Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, on the demand of the receivers of that institution SAVING SOME OFFICIALS Another effect on the part of the receivers will be to show that at the time the True Reformers Bank failed, it did not appear that it was hopelessly insolvent on the face of the returns. If this can be shown, it will prevent criminal prosecution of the officials, who are alleged to have received money after the bank was known to be insolvent that is, unable to pay its debts. For an officer of a bank to receive deposits after a bank is known to be insolvent is a penitentiary offense. THE SALE OF THE PROPERTY The following extract from the Washington D.C. Post explains it self TRUSTEES' SALE OF REFORMERS' HALL SOUTHWEST CORNER OF TWELFTH AND U STREETS NORTHWEST BY VIRTUE A certain deed of trust dated December 26, 1904, duly recorded in Liber 2769, folio 239, et seq. of the land records of the District of Columbia, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned trustees will sell at public auction in front of the premises, on FRIDAY, the 17th day of March A D 1911 at 1 o'clock P M., the following described land and premises, with improvements thereon, attuate in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and designated as follows: That lot of land with improvements thereon which consisted formerly of two lots, viz. Lot U, in F. M. Stringfield's subdivision of lots in square 274, as per plat recorded in Liber C. H. B. folio 207, of the records of the office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia, contained within the following motes and bounds, viz: Beginning on north U street, at a point distant 28 feet 8 1/2 inches; from the northeast coast per of said square, and runnethence west along north U street, 28 feet, 8 12 inches; thence south 100 feet to an alloy thence east along said, alley 28 feet 8 12 inches thence north in a straight line 100 feet to the place of beginning. Also all of lot 46 and part of lot 45. In George W Cochran, John W Boteler, and others' subdivision of lots in square, 274, as per plat recorded in Liber R W, foll 137, of the aforesaid Surveyor's office records, contained with in the following meters and bounds, viz. Beginning at the northeast corner of said square and running thence west along U street 28 feet 8 12 inches thence south 100 feet to an alloy thence east along said, alley 28 feet 8 12 inches to Twelfth street, and thence north along said street to the place of beginning. All of the above-described property being now embroiled in lot 131, in subdivision made by the Reformer Mercantile and Industrial Association, as per plat recorded in Liber 26, foll 183, of the records of the aforesaid Surveyor's office, together with all improvements, ways, easements, rights, privileges, and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, and all the estate, right, title, interest and claim, either at law or in equity or otherwise in and to the said place or period of ground and premises to the magnificent four story brick building above basement. A fine location for business, and also in a growing section of the city. There is a fine drug store in this building. TERMS Cash, sufficient to pay n't costs of sale taxes and insurance to day of sale and $25,000, with interest from July 26 1914 and the balance at one two and three years with interest at 6 per cent, payable quarterly, secure l by a mortgage on the above property A deposit of $500 will be required at time of sale. All conveyances receiptrate 627 the cost of purchaser Terms of sale to be compiled with within fifteen days from date of sale other conveyances receiptrate 627 to recoil the property at the rick and cost of the defaulting purchaser after five days' advertisement of such resale in some newspaper published in Washington D. C. HEAVY MORTGAGES Besides this mortgage of twenty-five thousand dollars, the Order is said to have held another mortgage of about $14,000. Attorney J. Thos. Nowsome devoted his energies to the task of stopping the sale of this Washington True Reformers' Hall upon the ground that so sell his would be the only one that could be the Order. Several proprotitions were made to the receivers of the Savings Bunga, United Order of True Reformers all of which were declined. Mr Nowsome seemed to decide the sale postponed with a hope (Continued on Fourth Page ) MARTHA ANN ARMSTEAD Passed from death into life March S. 1911 at G A M Gone where in pure white radiant light His remants serve Him day and night Her departure was sudden and painless a little shortness of breath and then she eased her eyes and her spirit wined its flight. Such a death was hefting a pure and helpless a light and lamented as a child, no evil words ever escaped her life. Since connecting herself with her church she lived a holy happy Christian, doved to her white people, with whom she lived from her girlhood, and by whom she's loved and lamented. A. D. G. Knights of Pythias Arrangements have been completed for the observance of the anniversary of the Knights of Pythias and Order of Calanthe at the First Baptist Church next Sunday, the 26th Instant. The lodges on Church Hill will assemble at the Castle or Blooming Lily Lodge. No 15, at St Lake's Hall, 31st street, and march to the First Baptist Church. The Manchester Lodges will cross Mayor Bridge and come over The other lodges will assemble at the Pythian Castle 727 North Third Street, with the Uniform Rank at 12 o'clock and march to the church. The exercises will commence at 4 o'clock for the knights and for the courts the exercises will commence at 4 o'clock sharp. The members will have an opportunity to hear two able pupil orators upon the work of the Order. The Grand Chancellor will also speak. Has a Gold Medal Now. Rev Scott C. Burrell, secretary of the Y M. C. A., is smiling now as a result of the presentation to him March 16th of a fine gold medal by the Board of Directors of that local organization in recognition of his twenty years' service in Y. M. C. A. work encouraging remarks and a fine supper added to the pleasures of the occasion --- A Colored Sleeping Car Conductor Mr. Albert Ray sleeping car conductor of the D. S. S and A Railway, and who residens in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan called on us. He has been traveling over the country on a three man his furthough. He has created much surprise owing to that fact that no colored sleeping car conductors are known in this section. He relates some amusing incident in connection with his travels. He is a native of Befford county Tennessee collating in 1875 at Nassau County to be Gargent of company of Company F, fifthly of Industry. He left the service in 1890. There are three colored conductors on that line where he is employed. He is of a dark complexion and he stands six feet two inches weighing 220 pounds. WILL SAVE TRUE REFORMERS. Grand Entertainment March 29, 1011 Preparations are now being made by the colored people of Richmond for a grand entertainment to two place March 29th in the City Auditorium at 9 o'clock P. M. Through this medium they hope to realize means by which to aid themselves in caring to the Emergency Fund through which they have in a few days to raise the Order from a financial disaster which it has recently found itself. Its Excellency. Gov Wm Hologe Mann has consented to deliver an address on "Business Comprehension" while Captain Frank Cunningham and Mr. Eugene Flower will participate in the optional program. Members of the captain and friends are expected to be at large numbers. Admission 50 cents, 25 cents and children under 12 years of age, 10 cents. Miss Mart Tancil Pansen Ayer: Mary L. the young daughter of Dr R E T. Fannell and Mary D. Tannell. died Wednesday morning March 22. Funeral service aired 19 years after Memorial day from Bristol Church Friday. March 24, 1011, at 3 P. M. Mrs. Rosa Paepe is quite skier at her home, 815 State Street, Fulton. Shepherds of Bethlehem to the Front. The Improved Order Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem is making its way to the front in the midst of all of the chaos of 1910 On April 6th at 8 P. M. at Samaritan Hall, corner of Sixth and Dewalt streets, the Order will hold a public nass-inserting for the citizens of Richmond All are cordially invited to attend. The rally for one thousand new members is progressing smoothly, and from reports coming in, it seems that one thousand or more new members will be added by beauty 1st. Miss Mary Jenkins, the lady deputy, has reported two more from the rural districts. There are six new Folds in progress of formation in this city and will be set apart soon. REV JNO. T CARPENTER THERE The Rev John T. Carpenter, who has had twenty four years of experience as an organizing deputy for the Order of True Reformers, has linked his fortunes with the Shepherds of Bethlehem and will now be found on the hold gathering the Sheep in the Fold. The Executive Officers, are delighted at being able to serve the services of Rev John T. Carpenter on account of his experience and his association as an organizer and preacher. He will be a general deputy for the State of Virginia. DEATH CLAIM PAID The organization is still proving to the public that it can and will meet its obligations. The following receipt will tell the story $100.00 Glindstone, Va. March 15 1911 Received of the Improved Order Shepherd and Daughters of Bettle him one hundred dollars on account of the death of my wife R H Sparrow who was a member of Bible of Mineral Fold No. 99 (Signed) W. C. SPARROW FROM DRAKES BRANCH VA. A team of horses attached to a mud belonging to Mr Wm Crutcher, ran through this town Friday, having been badly frightened by a househead. The team started in the upper end and ran down Main street to the drug store, turning right anguarly, they crossed the bridge and ran down Mossingfield avenue to the railroad. The frightened animals turned "topsy turvy" everything in their pathway, but heeds smashing to atoms a household of tobacco a gasoline tank and a wagon the latter belonging to G. P. Lee. Little damage was done. The wagon body was left on the porch at Mrs Fannie Porea a restaurant. Makling Spencer the driver who in company with the late Joseph Lee ran from their parcel home to Larchmont on the month and held on firmly to the lines until the torn from Main street. Had the wagon body turned from the other side instead of falling out into Space Spencer we id have been dashed against a brick wall. The remarkable part of the affair is the same day A A Lee Joseph's father was in Larchmont burping his urine son his Joseph's companion barely escaped with his life here. FROM TOLEDO, Q. Miss Edith Howard, of West Grove Avenue, left on the evening of the 18th instant for a six-months' sojourn in New York. Mrs. Ada Ran was called to Detroit by the sudden illness of her sister, Mrs. Nellie Ford. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BRUTALLY ASSAULTED. Woman's Character Questionable. New York March 10 Man- prominent men offered aid and sympathy today to Booker T. Washington the colored educator whose bandaged head is mending from cuts and heals inflicted be charged by Albert Ullrich a carpenter and dog fancier dating an encounter last night. Dr Washington was unable to press the charge of assault in court today, and his secretary said to night that it was doubtful. If he could appear tomorrow afternoon when the case is to be heard. According to his secretary, many sympathhetic telegrams from States and scores of telephone calls were received by Dr Washington today while scores of persons called it the hotel. CARNEGIE OFFERS HIS AID Andrew Carnegie, the secretary said, telephones offering assistance George Foster Peabody, the banker made a similar offer. Seth Low president of the board of trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, conferred at length with Washington Together they prepared a statement which Mr. Low latex made public giving Dr Washington a version of the affair Dr Washington the secretary said would remain here as long as necessary to promote the case. Which was held in court today and held under $1,000 for a hearing tomorrow. Bond was for finished. Attorney Smith, who represents Dr Washington told Margaret Cornell that his client had elbow wounds and that one of the wounds had caused a soffite hemorrhage of the ear. MR LOW STATEMENT The statement given out by Secretary Low follows As president of the board of trustees of the Tuskegee Institute I was shocked to read this number of the assault that had been made upon Dr Washington last night. The facts are: Dr Washington reached New York on Saturday morning from Michigan Monday morning he spoke at the Mountaintop Baptist Church and in the afternoon at the Church of the Pilgrims Brooklyn in the evening about a rock he started out to find Mr. Smith a certified public accountant who is auditor of the Tuskegee Institute a white gentleman whom he asked to find sitting with friend at 11 12 13 third street. This is an apartment house of the time occupied by different students on different doors whose appearance with bells on an index below When Dr Washington first reached the house he entered the vestibule and could not reply to the bell he rang and so he moved up and down the street and around the neighborhood block where the New Theatre stands and returned to the house twice each time entering the vestibule, but not the house. READ TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY On his third visit he entered the vestibule and was leaming over try to find the name he was looking for when suddenly a man rushed from the street and began to ask him. He defended himself and got out into the street when a second man with a stick attacked him. Then he tried to create when both he and the first one of his aides were in to the street home by a policeman who rushed from the time. Dr Washington hit the hotel until the time of the assault he owed to nobody, neither him nor we man. The trustees of the Tarkovie Institute have absolved, concluding Dr Dr Washington and they will give him whatever support and aid he needs." The foregoing statement of Dr Low was read to District Attorney Whitman before it was made public. Urbich and his wife related conflicting stories today in several respects, and neither agreed with Mr Low speaking for Washington Jr. asserted that at 9 o'clock on Sunday night his wife took out one of his dogs for an sinege. When she returned she told him that a man in the hall had spoken to her which told him to go out and face the he said that he passed the man in the hall, and then crossed the street, where he met another man who told him that he had been watching the negro for an hour or so. I Irish said he returned to the house and found the negro asking through a key hole. When he asked him what he wanted there the negro struck him to say, and shouted to run toward Central Parc. Uíchá says that Washington fell over times, and thus was wooed but that no club or stub was used. The man across the street was known to be rich only insuffered as Uíchá knew where he worked. He was looking for him tonight. The man will be subpoenaed tomorrow morning. If he is found CALLLED SWEETHEART, SHE SAYS SAID TO BE IN RAD SHAPE There was to much confusion in the polite station at St. Mary night when Wellington and Luton are rised these that Pollock an Thene who made the arrest at centre Park wot between Stirkhill and sixty-fourth streets could not to call clearly what had been heard. He said the chap that he was unable to find any stol or club which Irish allowed to have used on Mr Waston tortured the new no other man fell into Whiten and was cut to Washington town on a day when Abbot of the Stirkhill served Mr Waston Abbot said that Mr Waston was in jail shalt and that he had been severely cut. He said the Washington was very nervous at most not be disturbed. Mr Abbot volunteered no further information. (N.Y.) Time, March 22, 1911 When Booker T. Washington a L H Kible is no longer required with L H Bartlett W H Johnson and L H Ashby. Rev Dr C H Phillip will be invited well in April in Mount Pleasant. Malacate at the Dealer West Road Church of St. John Dr R Ruddling to pastor. The National Rural Sunday School Conference at Chattanooga will convene June 7 1913 at Meldon Mire. Rev Dr W F Graham and Rev Dr Wun H Stokes of this city are scheduled to be present. Dr Booker T Washington an honoree that an International Conference will be held at Tuskegee Institute Alabama. April 17 18 and 19 18 of all persons engaged in negotiations or otherwise in the work going on in Africa and elsewhere for the education and upbuilding of Negro peoples. APPLE BITING CONTEST The Bazaar at the Globe Theatre on North First Street will be con- tinued. Good music orderly guest refreshments in abundance. Apple Biting Contest Monday night March 27, 1911. Prize will be given to the winner. Admission to Cont. MRS SAL. LIE LIMBELY Manager IN MEMORIAM. MOORE In sad, but loving remembrance of my dear mother, MRS FLIZA MOORE who was held to rest one year ago March 22, 1910. Gone but not forgotten." IN MEMORIAM In sad but loving remembrance of Lacy A. Hawkins, who departed this life one year ago, March 22, 1910: In the graveyard softly sleeping. Where the tree from a gently wave houses a graveyard. In her lonely silent grave by her letters and laughter 2. HOUSSE-PERVALLE The office of M. M. L. A. P. R. V. M. L. A. H. C. H. P. L. A. W. A. C. H. P. L. A. L. C. W. W. A. C. H. P. L. A. 1011 at 9:00 P. M. L. A. H. C. from 10:10 P. M. L. A. H. C. to the friends are invited. No date. WILL SAVE TELL REFORMERS Great Citizens' Meeting March 29 1911. President we are now being made by the people of Redland for a great March 22nd in the City of Toronto at North Park P.M. Through the means which will at the Refinery be in addition to which they have in view 45 years to take the service of the Order which will put it on its feet. His well deserved Governor William Holden will deliver an address on Business and Banking, Cattle Trunk Commerce and Mr. Bengal Chow will participate in the man of the order and Clegg will be expected to be out to know Mr. Bengal Jr. will Maltimore, present at 22nd St. Bridgewater, 100-101 1811 1811 1811 Fifth Avenue, Niles, IL Comp and Bldg to Colored Ways and Gri eway 21 Parks of P.O. Cedar City, IL 60615 US S. Kennesaw City, KY 45051 Who Is the Devil, Anyhow? Prof D. Webster Davis will give his lecture "Who Is the Dell Anyhow" at Fifth Street Baptist Church Tuesday, night. March 28, 1911 at 8:40 o'clock In addition to this new lecture, a literary program will be rendered by some our best talent. Admission. 10 Cents. Come on Hmo. Doors open at 8:00. P. M. The PROLOGUE This story of a young man's honest attempt to "break" the "boss" and the power of the "machine" is an absorbingly intimate portrayal of the working of the "wheels within wheels" in a desperate political struggle of today. The senator, strongly intrigued behind his party "machine," presents an almost invulnerable front, and the conflict between father and son as this young lawyer, single handed, fights for what he honestly believes to be the truth and right holds one with a tremendous sympathetic interest. CHAPTER I. OME one was giving a crush dance at the Country club, and Blount, though he was only a week end guest of the Beverleys, was ill natured enough to be resentful. Whicht right had a gay and frivolous world to come and threaten its light hearted happiness upon him when Patrick had said "No? It was like bullying a cripple, he told himself morosely, and when he had read the single telegram which had come while he was at dinner he went out and found a chair in a corner of the veranda, where the frivolities had not as yet intruded. Blount was a level eyed, square shouldered young man of an up to date world, and the stock from which he had descended was prasonic and practical rather than poetic or sentimental. But just now he was unconsciously giving a very lifelike imitation of the disappointed lover the world over. It was thus, and by the most chance, that Gantry found him. The railroad man at least was unf教ignedly glad. "Pull up a chair," said Blount, not too ungracefully, considering his just cause to be more ungrateful. "I was thinking of you just a little while ago. Dick. I saw your name in the list of transcontinental representatives to the trade meeting, and—well, at the present moment I think you are the one man in the world I wanted most to meet." "That sounds good to me." laughed Dick Gantry, settling himself comfortably in a lazy chair and feeling in his pockets for a cigar "The 'efete cast' has corralled you, hasn't it. Even? I thought maybe it would when I heard you were taking the postgraduate frills in the Harvard law school. By the way, how much longer are you in for?" "I an out of the law school. If that is what you mean," said Blount's out and admitted to the bar. If you get into trouble with the Boston police let me know and I'll ask for a change of venue to the greasewood hills and Judge Lynch's court. "Are you ever coming back to them, Blount? I believe you told me once in the old college days that you were western born." "I told you the truth, and until tonight I never thought much about going back," was Blount's rather cryptogrammatic answer. "But now you are thinking of it?" inquired the railroad man, waking up. "That's good. We're needing a few bright young lawyers might bad, so that why I'm the particular fellow you wanted to meet?" Blount passed the newly come telegram across the interval between the two chains. "Read that," he said. Gantry smoothed the square of yellow paper carefully and held it up to the softened glow of the electric ceiling globe. Its date line carried the name of the chief city in the "greasewood country," the capital of the state, and the time markings sufficiently indicated its late arrival: To Evan Shelby Blount, Blandish Apart- Benck. How did everything that money could buy you, and you owe me nothing but an occasional sight of your face. If you are not tied to some woman's apron string, why can't you come west and grow up with your native state? DAVID BLOUNT. It was characteristic of Gantry that he folded the telegram in the original creations before he handed it back "Well" said Blount when the pause had grown overlong. "I was just thinking," was the reactive rejoinder. "We used to be fairly chilly in the old Ann Arbor days, Evan, and yet I never knew till this blessed minute that Senator Blount was your father." "He was and is," was the quiet reply, "I supposed everybody knew it." "I didn't" Gantry denied, adding, "What you don't tell people about yourself would make a pretty big book if it were printed. Long ago you ad- Honorable Senator Sagebrush By FRANCIS LYNDE Copyright, 1910, by Street & Smith milted to me that you were western born, but you never told me my more." "Perhaps it was because there was so little to tell. I had a boyhood, like other boys-or, no, possibly it wasn't quite the usual. I was born on the Circle Bar when the ranch was a hard day's drive from the nearest shipping corral on the railroad. At twelve I could ride line," cut out and "rope down like any other ranch breed youngster, and I had never seen a town bigger than Painted Hat." "And what happened when you were twelve?" queried Gantry. "The greatest misfortune that can ever come to a half grown boy, Dick. My mother died." "That was hard," Gantry assented, then, "Your father married again." "Not for some years," Blount qualified. "But for me the heavens were fallen. I was sent away to school, and from school I went to college, to Europe and back here to the law school. In all that time I've never seen the Circle Bar or my native state, have never been west of Omaha." "Then the senator—your father—political life has never touched you?" "It touched me on the sympathetic side. Dick. I saw a large hearted, B. H. PATRICIA ANNENBLE open hauded old cattle king wading into the puddy stream of politics to gratify an ambition that wasn't his own—a woman's ambition. In order that the woman might mix and mini- gle in Washington society for a brief minute or two he got himself elected to dilute an unexpired term of two months in the United States senate, bought it. some said. That was three years ago. wasn't it? But Washing- ton hasn't forgotten. When I was down there last winter the 5 o'clock teen people were still recalling Mrs Bounty's gowns and the wild western nature of the Hon. Senator Sage brush." Gantry was chuckling softly. "Land of love, Eran," he said "you're an educated man, all right but you're got a lot to learn yet about the senator and his politics. I mean, the great anthes man, he isn't in it for the social fells and burrowed." He never was. Let me intimate a few things. Politically speaking, David Blount is the biggest man in his state today. He can have anything he wants, from the head of the ticket down. You spoke rather anneerly just now of his two months in the senate. He might have gone back if he had wanted to, and he actually did a much more difficult thing—named his successor. I can tell you the situation out in the greenwood country if you want to know it. "Make it simple," was Blount's condition. "The outlook for us is precisely what it is in a dozen other states this year, everything providing a renewal of the bullheaded legislative fight on the rollroad," said Gantry. "There is only one issue before the people, and that is the Transcontinental railway, also reformers, as they call themselves would like to legislate us out of existence. We shall beat the tomtom and do our best to stay on earth." "Naturally," said Blount. "And my father—how does he mind?" "The one of your having to ask me," exclaimed Gantry. "But really I wish I could tell you. There are a good many people in our neck of woods who would like to know. It will make all the difference in the world when it comes to a showdown." "Why will it?" "Because, apart from the railroad and the anti-railroad factions, there is a very complete and smooth running machine organization." "And my father is identified with the machine?" Again Gantry choked over the singer's lack of information discovering itself in Blouin's question. "Land of glory!" he ejaculated. "Where have you been burying yourself, Evan? Didn't I just tell you that DA is the biggest man in the state. Oh, no—with heavy irony, he isn't mentioned with the machine; he merely owns it and runs it. "Ab," said Blount, and a little later, "Thank you, Dick; I am pretty badly out of touch, as you've discovered." Then he changed the subject abruptly. "How long will your traffic meeting last?" "We practically finished today. An hour or two on Monday will settle it." "After which you'll go weet?" "By the Monday noon train, if I can make it." Silence for a time until Blount broke in upon Gantry's tapping of the dance music rhythm with; "If I can, get ready I may go with you, Dick. Would you mind?" If you to only me this last evening, Patricia. "This last evening?" she echoed. "Why last?" "Because I am leaving Boston and New England Monday. It is the only thing to do." "I am sorry you are taking it this way, Evan, she deprecated in the silvery tone that always made him hotly resentful. "It hurts my sense of proportion." "Sometimes I think you haven't any sense of proportion, Patricia," he said half morosely. "If you have I am sure it is dreadfully distorted." A white-haired old gentleman in the tonneau was calling impatience to Patricia to come and take her place so that he might close the door. "Let's go back to the beginning and start over again. I said that Gordon is going to be the next governor." "I know you did, and I told he wouldn't be not if we can help it." said the railway magnate, with equal determination. "The methods you will take to defeat him will insure his election, McVickar. You fellows are mighty slow to learn your lesson. You don't know anything but bribery. The times have changed, and you have not changed we might all be persuaded tobury the hatchet and live in peace and amity." A slow smile spread itself over the strong face of the railway magnate. "Why didn't you say in the beginning that you wanted a place for your boy?" "I'm not saying it now," was the sober retort. "You forget that you have just been telling me that you don't intend to comply with the condition." "What condition?" "That you turn over a new leaf and meet the people of this state halfway." "There isn't any halfway point in a fight for life. You know that as well as I do. But we'll rise your own minute." "Let's go back to the beginning and start over again. I said that Gordon is going to be the next governor." "I know you did, and I told he wouldn't be not if we can help it." said the railway magnate, with equal determination. "The methods you will take to defeat him will insure his election, McVickar. You fellows are mighty slow to learn your lesson. You don't know anything but bribery. The times have changed, and you have not changed we might all be persuaded tobury the hatchet and live in peace and amity." A slow smile spread itself over the strong face of the railway magnate. "Why didn't you say in the beginning that you wanted a place for your boy?" "I'm not saying it now," was the sober retort. "You forget that you have just been telling me that you don't intend to comply with the condition." "What condition?" "That you turn over a new leaf and meet the people of this state halfway." "There isn't any halfway point in a fight for life. You know that as well as I do. But we'll rise your own minute." "Let's go back to the beginning and start over again. I said that Gordon is going to be the next governor." "I know you did, and I told he wouldn't be not if we can help it." said the railway magnate, with equal determination. "The methods you will take to defeat him will insure his election, McVickar. You fellows are mighty slow to learn your lesson. You don't know anything but bribery. The times have changed, and you have not changed we might all be persuaded tobury the hatchet and live in peace and amity." A slow smile spread itself over the strong face of the railway magnate. "Why didn't you say in the beginning that you wanted a place for your boy?" "I'm not saying it now," was the sober retort. "You forget that you have just been telling me that you don't intend to comply with the condition." "What condition?" "That you turn over a new leaf and meet the people of this state halfway." "There isn't any halfway point in a fight for life. You know that as well as I do. But we'll rise your own minute." "Yes; I would mind so much that I'd willingly miss a train and worry out a few more of the chilly Boston hours rather than lose the chance of having you along. Ever meet your father—or the present Mrs. Blount, Evan?" he asked suddenly. "No." "She is a dine woman." Gantry ventured. "So I have understood." This time Blount's reply was levy. But now Gantry's eyes were twinkling, and he pressed his advantage. "You'll have to rocken with her if you go to the greasewood country, Evan. Next to your father, she is the court of last resort. Indeed, there are a good many who say that she is the court." Blount said nothing. Nevertheless Gantry tried once more. "Not interested, Evan?" Blount turned and looked his companion colly in the eyes. "Not in the slightest degree, Dick. Will you take that for your answer now and remember it hereafter?" "Sure!" laughed the rollroad man. "I didn't know it was a sore spot with you." He found a match and relighted his cigar. When he began again he was still thinking of the "apron string" clause in the senator's telegram. "I can't understand how any man with western blood in his veins could ever be comunit to marry and settle down in this overcivilized neck of woods," he said. "Can't you?" Blount smiled, with large levidence "She is," declared Blount, with the air of one who had lived long enough to know "You say that as if you'd been taking a few lessons." Gantry laughed. Then, with the friendly impudence which only a college courtdresship could excuse, "Is she here tonight?" "No" "Tell me about her," Gantry begged. "I don't often read a love story, but I like to hear 'em" "There isn't much to tell, Dick," said Blount. "I've known her for a year, and I've loved her from the first day. That is chapter 1, and chapter 2 ends the story with one small word. She says 'No.'" "The dickens she does," said Gantry in heart sympathy. "Tough, isn't it old man? What's the obstacle?" "It is Miss Anners' career. She has been studying at home and abroad in preparation for social settlement work in the large cities. Of course I knew about it. But I thought—I hoped"—"You hoped it was only a young woman's fail, which it probably is." Gantry cut in. Yes, I'm afraid that was just what I did hope, Dick. But I couldn't talk against it. Confound it all, you can't go about smashing ideals for the people you love best! It was quite late when Gantry, pleading weariness on the score of his hard week's work at the railroad meeting went to bed. In the long talk with Gantry Ibount had learned many things about the political situation in his native state—things which were enlightening. If not particularly enraging Oddly enough he had not recognized in Gantry a skillful special plender for the railroad interests, hence he was preparing to go to the new field with a rather strong propossession in favor of the defendant corporation. Gantry had intuitively broadly that there was room for an assistant corporation counsel for the railroad, with headquarter in the capital of his native state. Blount saw at once that the requirements would be political rather than legal, and in his mind's eye he saw himself standing firmly as the defender of legitimate business rights in a region where popular prejudice was capable of rising to anarchistic heights. The picture rather pleased him. He would not have been a true descendant of the fighting Blounts of Tennessee if the prospect of a conflict had been other than inspiring. It was after the ashes had been knocked from the bedtime pipe that blunt left the chair and the secluded corner of the veranda to go and wander among the parked automobiles on the lawn. Blonde' had just awakened a sleepy chauffeur to ask him to uncover the engine of a new Italian car when a stir at the veranda entrance told him that at least a few of the dancing guests were leaving early. He drew back when the little group on the veranda came down the steps, preceded by a club footman, who was calling the number of the car. And it was not until he was turning away that he found himself face to face with a very beautiful and very clear eyed young woman who was buttoning an automobile dust coat up under her chin "Patrick!" he burnt out. "For pity's sake, you don't mean to tell me that you have been here all the evening?" Her quiet smile gave the impression not quite of frigidity perhaps, but of that quality of serene self possession which strangers sometimes mistook for coldness. "Why shouldn't I be here?" she asked. "Didn't you know that the Crawford, the people who are entertaining, were old friends of corn?" Mount abook his friend. "No, I didn't know it, and because I didn't I have lost an entire wetland. It was cruel "DO YOU go only into this last evening Patricia?" "This last evening?" she echoed. "Why not?" "Because I am leaving Boston and New England Monday. It is the only thing to do." "I am sorry you are taking it this way, Evan," she deprecated in the slicker tone that always made him hotly resentful. "It hurts my sense of proportion." "Sometimes I think you haven't any sense of proportion, Patricia," he said half morosely. "If you have I am sure it is dreadfully distorted." A white haired old gentleman in the tonneau was calling impatiently to Patricia to come and take her place so that he might close the door. "It is you who have the distorted perspective, Evan," she countered. "Where are you going?" "I am going west day after tomorrow." "How odd?" she said. "We are going west, too-papa and I—though not quite so soon as Mohday" "You are?" he queried. "Whereabouts in the west?" She did not tell him where. The car motor was whirring, the chant fear was swinging up to his seat behind the pilot wheel, and the old gen tieman in the tonneau was growing quite violently impatient. "I shan't any goodbye," she said hastily, giving him her hand at parting. "nor shall I tell you where we are going. Let it be auf wiedershen—till we meet again." THE BOSS In a private dining room in the Intermountain hotel, whose intermountain portico faces the capital grounds in the chief city of the Sagebrush State, two men were finishing dinner. On the guest book of the Intermountain one of the men hall registered from Chicago. The name was illegible, to the cursory eye, but since it was the signature of an empire builder it was sufficiently well known in all the vast region served by the Transcontinental railway system. The owner of the name had finished his ice and was sitting back to clip the end from a very long and very black cigar. He was a unn past middle age, large framed and heavy, with the square, resolutive face of a born master of circumstances. Though he figured only as the first vice president of the Transcontinental company, Hardwick McVickar was really the active head of its affairs and the director of its policy. Access the small round table set the railway migrate's dinner guest, a man who was more than McVikar's match in big boned, square shoulder physique, a man whose half century was written only in the thick grizzled hair and heavy grazing mustaches. "I wish I could convince you that it isn't worth while to hold me at arm's length, senator." McVikar was saying. "You know as well as I do that under the present law in this state we are practically bankrupt. We do a losing business from the moment we cross our state line." "Yes; it seems to me that I have heard something like that before," was the noncommittal reholler. "You have heard the simple truth then. And it is a hold injustice not only to the railroad, but to the people it serves. We can't give adequate service when the cost exceeds the earnings." "And you are unable to convince the members of the railroad commission?" asked the man whom the vice president addressed as "senator." "You know well enough that you can't convince an anti railroad commission." was the half angry retort. "Yet you are still running the railroad," suggested the other. "Yes, luckily the Transcontinental system does not wholly within your state boundaries. If it did we might as well surrender our charter and go out of business." "All of which has come to be a pretty old story, McVickar," said the its tenuity quietly. "You didn't make me motor thirty miles to hear you tell it over again, I know. What do you want?" "We want a square deal," was the curt reply. "So do the people of this state," asserted the man across the table. "You sorted the man across the table. "You bled us, Hardwick—bled us to death while you had the chance. You are justly, if not legally, in debt to every man in this state who had ever shipped a carload of freight or paid a passenger fare over your line before the present rate law wont into effect." The vice president sat up and put his chickens on the edge of the table. "You are too many for me, Blount, and I'm no apprentice at the game either. In all the years we've dickered together you're always been a consistent fighter for your own hand. What's happened to you? Have you acquired a new set of convictions, or is this only a different way of whipping the dirt around the stump?" "Oh, I don't know," returned the guest. "We are all growing older—and when perhaps. You don't deny the debt you us, do you?" "Do we owe you anything. Blount?" asked the magnate pointedly. "If we do we are willing to pay it in spot cash on demand." The big man on the other side of the table was leaning back in his chair with his hands in his pockets, and the smile wrinkling at the corners of his eyes was half genial; half astirical. "It's inky we are alone, McVickar," he said. "A third party might-imagine that you are trying to bribe me." "That's all right, Blount. We understand each other. Nothing for nothing is the accepted rule in this world of ours and we all recognize it. You are ignoring on something. I know you are. Name it. If it is anything, less than a mortgage on the earth and one or two of the planets I'll get it for you." "I am afraid we are more than a pile of two apart yet," said the man who was not ignoring after a long Put your ad in the FLANET. minute. "Let's go back to the beginning and start over again. I said that Gordon is going to be the next governor." "I know you did, and I told he wouldn't be not if we can help it," said the railway magnate, with equal determination. "The methods you will take to defeat him will insure his election, McVickar. You fellows are mighty slow to learn your lesson. You don't know anything but brifery. The times have changed, and you have not changed "A THIRD PARTY MIGHT IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO BRIDE ME." With them I assy Gordon will be it. next governor." Again there was a strained silence. It was the vice president who broke it. "If we had the safest kind of majority in the legislature we couldn't be sure of accomplishing anything with Gordon in the governor's office," he asserted. "You don't need to be told that." "Oh, I don't know," was the calm rejoinder "Gordon is an honest man and a fair man. If you could go to him with clean hands, but you could not do that. McVickar You're too badly out of practice." "You are not putting it quite fairly, senator We are too badly whipped to take any chances." "I know. That is what you always say, and you have said it so much you notat your fellow railroad managers, that you have lost the straight forward combination You don't know how to make a clean fight, and it's your own fault." Once more the man with the square jaw took time to consider "You're so sparing with me, Blount." he said finally. "You are talking to me as you might talk to a committee of the Good Government league. Let's get together. You control the political situation, and we recognize that fact. Meet me halfway and tell me what you want." "I want a square deal all around. Harbwick, that's all. And you've got to make a clean fight this time if you want me with you. A new day has dawned in American politics. I and my kind recognize it, and you and your kind don't seem to recognize it. That is the difference between us. It's the present case it comes down to this. You are going to fight for a railroad majority in the legislature, and you want Reynolds for the head of the ticket because you know that you can depend upon his veto if you don't get your majority. You are not going to get Reynolds or the majority either without the help of the party organization." "We can put it simpler than that," said the railroad man. "We get nothing without your help as the head of the party organization. That is why I asked you here to dinner with me to night." "I have been wondering for the last half hour if you really believe that you need me McVickar. When I gave you fair warning two years ago you wouldn't take it, and we did you up. Are you sure you are ready now to bolter enough?" Once again the vice president refused to be hurried into making an admission. When he spoke it was as the fighting corporation commander. "There is a limit to all things, scam for, and you are pushing us pretty well up to it. I suppose you can sway the legislature, and you can have it and be hanged. We'll have our governor and our attorney general." "You are betting on that, are you?" smiled the man in the opposite chair "Is that your declaration of war?" "Call it anything you like. We are not going to be legalized off the map if we can help it. Strong as your machine is, you can't swing Gordon in against Reynolds if we put up the right kind of fight, and when it comes to Rankin for attorney general you simply haven't another man in the party to put up against him." "You've settled this definitely in your own mind, have you, Lordwick?" was the quiet question. "I'm sorry. I've been hoping you had learned your lesson—you and your tribe. I came here this evening prepared to show you a decent way out of your trouble, so far as this state is concerned." Again the railroad magnate put his elbows on the table edge. "What was your 'decent way,' major?" he asked, using for the first time the courtesy title by which the ex-senator was best known in his home country. "I don't mind telling you, though you will call it an old man's foolishness. I have a grown son, McVicknr. Did you know that?" "He is a lawyer, and a pretty, bright one, they tell me. As I happen to know, he is well up on the corporation side of the argument, and I have been afraid he would marry and settle down somewhere in the east. I'm getting did, Hardwick, and I'd like to have him with me. Out of that notion grew another. I said to myself this: If McVickar could have a good, clean cut young man, representing his railroad, a man who not only knew his business in the courts, but might also know how to plead his client's case before, the public: If McVickar could have such a man as that for his corporation counsel and would agree to live somewhere, within, shooting distances of such a young man's deaths. we might all be persuaded to hurry the hatchet and live in peace and amity. A slow smile spread itself over the strong face of the railway magnate. "Why didn't you say in the beginning that you wanted a place for your boy?" "I'm not saying it now," was the sober retort. "You forget that you have just been telling me that you don't intend to comply with the condition." "What condition?" "That you turn over a new leaf and meet the people of this state halfway." "There isn't any halfway point in a fight for life. You know that as well as I do. But we'll give your son the place gladly." The man who had once been his own foreman of roundups straightened himself in his chair and smote the table with his fist. "No, by thunder, you won't—not in a thousand years, McVickar." Maybe you could buy me—maybe you have bought me in times past—but you can't buy that boy! Listen and I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I telegraphed him this afternoon, telling him to throw up his job in Boston and come out here. If he comes pretty soon he will be legally a citizen of the state before election. You said we didn't have anybody but Rankin to run dog attorney general. I'll show you if we haven't." Mr. Hardwick McVickar was not of those who fight as men beating the dog. What time the deft waiter was clearing the table and serving the small coffees he kept silence, but when the time was fully, ripe he said what there was to be said. "You've got us by the nape of the neck, as usual. Blount," he said "Name your terms." "I have named them. Get in line with the new public opinion, and we'll do what we can for you." McVickur had anticipated the thing which was about to happen, not precisely in its present form, perhaps, but in some form which would involve the providing of a place for the senator's son, and he smiled inwardly when he remembered that he had given Gantry the division traffic manager of the Transcontinental, instructions to look up one Evan Blount, a young lawyer on his next visit to Boston. By all odds it would be better to take for Gantry's report before taking any decided steps in the bargaining with Evan Blount's father, but unhappily the crisis had arrived, and quite probably it could not be postponed. None the less the vice president tried for the postponement "You're asking a good deal, Blount and you don't seem to realize it. If we should agree to meet the people of this state halfway, as you suggest, what guaranty have we that we won't be compelled to go all the way?" The fine lined wrinkles were appearing again at the corners of the heredal itary Blount eyes. "You can't quite rise to the occasion can you. Hardwick" smiled the boss. "You'd like to be good, of course, but you want to be cocksuite beforehand that it isn't going to cost too much." "I'm only asking for a little time in which to consider it," was the vice president's final word. "You have all the time there is between now and election. I've told you what I am going to do." "You know very well that we can't allow you to do what you propose With an unfriendly attorney general we might as well go out of business first as just" "It is up to you. McVickar," was the calm reply. [TO BE CONTINUED.] --- To Electricity Eastern Pennsylvania Plans have been filed with the recordor in Allentown, Pa., giving notice that application will be made on April 3 to the governor of Penn- sylvania by W A Lathrop, Rollin H Wilbur and H F. Baker, of Philadel- phia, for charters for about sixty elec- tric companies. This will be the first public move in the fulfillment of the great power scheme of the Lehigh Coal and Navi- gation company, which aims to elec- trify eastern Pennsylvania, affecting a territory with a population of 2,550, 000 people, including Philadelphia. Immeasured power houses are to built at Lansford, to be run by coal that has heretofore been allowed to go to waste, as well as by water power, and the main high tension transmission lines, 132 miles long, are to run into Philadelphia, with branches to all industries, town, villages and sections that will contract to utilize the power. Society Boxer Nearly Lost an Eye. For more than three days Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, the popular amu a society boxer, of Philadelphia, has been reposing in a dark room, and it was not until Sunday that Dr. Charles B. Turnbull was able to assure him that he wouldn't lose the sight of his right eye. Biddle's injury was sustained last Thursday afternoon in a furious bout with Jack O'Brien. Incidentally the energetic amateur had three tooth broken in the same fight, while Jack O'Brien sustained sovere damage in the way of cut lips and nose. Find Body of Man Tied to Wild Horse. The First United States cavalry, with a pack train, found on the desert 160 miles east of Yuma, Aris, the mummified body of a man attached to a wild horse's tail by a leaso. The larkish had been bound to the man's wrists. The soldiers shot the horse and when they arrived in Yuma notified the coroner. It is evident that the man was tled by enemies, then set the stallion free, allowing the animal to drag the victim to death. Big Locomotive Order. An order for forty locomotives was received by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, from the Illinois Central Railroad company. The transaction will total about $800,000. Delivered Decision Upholding Corporation Tax. COPYRIGHT 1909 BY CLAREDON BARNES CORPORATION TAX DECLARED VALID AN EXCISE TAX ON BUSINESS Decision Insures an Annual Income For the Government of $25,000,000 or More. The corporation tax was declared constitutional by the unanimous decision of the supreme court of the United States. The decision was delivered by Associate Justice William R Day. Washington, March 14. — The corporation tax was declared constitutional by the unanimous decision of the supreme court of the United States. The decision was delivered by Associate Justice William R Day. This upholding of the validity of a new system of raising revenue, made part of the Hayne-Aldrich tariff bill, is a sweeping victory for the administration, as the tax was evolved by President Taft himself. The decision inspires an annual income for the government of $25,000,000 or more, the collections for the fiscal year having amounted to more than $26,000,000. The decision is the first in the three big cases affecting the business world to which financial interests and lawyers have long looked forward with greatest interest. The others are the dissolution suits against the so-called oil trust and tobacco trust. All three have been reargued since the president's recent appointments to the supreme court. Government Loses One Point Of all the objections to the tax raised by suits in all parts of the country none of them was found sufficient to nullify the law. The court did hold that the tax was not applicable to the real estate "trusts" of Boston, which are organized, not under any statute, but under the common law. The law was hold not applicable also to the Minneapolis syndicate, a real estate concern, on the ground that it was not "doing business" within the meaning of the law. Justice Day first announced that it was within the power of the senate to insert the corporation tax provisions in the tariff law, which originated in the house. He said that the court held the tax was an "oxidize tax on the doing of business." This is exactly the basis on which the government defended the law. Justice Day next hold that the tax provisions were not the arbitrary exercise of a power. This was urged in argument as one reason why the law should be hold unconstitutional. By regardling the tax as measured by income rather than being a tax on income, the opinion hold that the law was constitutional, notwithstanding that the law migr. reach the income from sources in themselves non-taxable. Near the outset the opinion sets forth that the tax "is imposed not upon the franchises of the corporation, irrespective of their use in business, nor upon the property of the corporation, but upon the doing of corporate or insurance business, and with respect to the carryfag in thereof in a sum equivalent to one per centum of the entire net incomover and above $5000 received from all sources during the year; that is, when imposed in this manner, it is a tax upon the doing of business with the advantages which inherent in the peculiarities of corporate or joint stock organization of the character described." Chicken a Graceful Quadruped. Elmer Crawford, of Bloomhurst, PA. is the owner of a young chicken with four perfectly formed legs, it handles the four as well as the average chicken handles two Robbins Paymaster's Safe of $50,000. It was stated upon good authority in! Washington that $50,000 had been stolen from the paymaster's safe on the battleship Georgia when she was lying at anchor - last week at Ussrificatioo. Culdee One of the paymaster's clerk on the ship, is missing, his body, for the vessel, is Guantanamo, and Bear, Admiral Schroeder, has asked HIGH GRADE JOB WORK THE PLANET is the Leading Journal in the Country JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. Long Distance Telephone, Monroe-2213. ```markdown ``` We Do Linotype Work for the Trade. We print CALENDARS. Our prices are as low as is consistent with First Class Work. We furnish Invitations for Balls, Weddings and Special Entertainments. We have a Stock Room here in which we carry Book Paper, Bond Paper, Flat Writings, Manila Paper, Envelopes, Card Board Wedding Stock, in fact, Everything in the Printing Line. (Baltimore Times) Dr. Ernest Lyon, former United States Minister to Liberla, with others, appeared before the City Council of Baltimore City, March 9th, to protest against the passage of the West Sogregation Ordinance. As citizens and taxpayers of the city and State, we avail ourselves of the opportunity, which you have granted us, to record our protest against the passage of the West Sogregation Ordinance, for the following potent reasons, to-wit: 1. Because it is unconstitutional. 2. Because it is unjust to the black man. 3. Because it is unjust to the reputation of the city. 4. Because it stirs up unnecessarily bad feeling among the two races. Speaking of the first, we believe the measure to be unconstitutional, and if allowed to become a law, will deprive the colored people, as citizens and taxpayers, of rights and privileges guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. It is a great wrong for any class of citizens, because of numerical strength to take advantage of the other class, because of numerical weakness, and so deprive them of the rights and privileges which are not denied to others. We have every reason to believe that the measure in question is aimed at the colored man, although the white man is bound to suffer largely from the reaction in its enforcement if it becomes a law. It is extremely doubtful if similar legislation would be introduced in this council against any other race in the community except the colored race. And why is this? Surely, not because he represents, either the worst or the most unprofitable element in the community—but because he is numerically weak, and has the misfortune to be if a different political faith. It is a political measure, designed as an infliction of punishment upon defenseless victims, whose only offense is that they have adhered too closely to the political traditions of their fathers. It is not a measure designed to aid a struggling race, but rather to crush its aspirations and to deprive it of sanitary convictions, in its domestic struggles, which will be impossible if this measure becomes a law. Second. It is unjust to the colored people, who in every way have shown themselves to be thrifty and industrious citizens. In few cities in the Union, if in any, can a better record be shown in race progress and development. In his ownership of real estate, in his moral and religious endeavors, in his business and other ventures; and as a factor in labor, he has won his right to recognition and fair play, in those things, which are the common heritage of American citizens. He is quite willing to stand or to fall on the record he is making in these directions. Directly he pays taxes on more than $4,500,000, real and personal estate. He owns $5,000,000 in church property. Indirectly he contributes an appraisal sum to the tax levies of the landlords by rentals. The colored people in the city, at the minimum average of twelve dollars per capita, spend with the white merchants annually, from two to two and a half millions of dollars for subsistence—to say nothing of other expenditures, such as clothing, transportation, amusement, etc. His earnings, deposited in city savings banks, aggregating a neat sum, help to swell the dividends of these institutions. In professional life there are 20 graduated physicians, 12 lawyers, 300 public school teachers, 13,240 school children, two institutions of collegiate grade—namely Morgan College, under the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Clayton Williams Institute, under the auspices of the Baptist denomination. There are 105 ministers of the gospel, 500 business men, consisting of merchants, contractors, builders, undertakers, printers, artisans, etc., and 8 journals. This is but a brief statement of some facts relating to the status of the colored man in Baltimore City, which I am, quite sure contributes to his credit, and renders unnecessary any such legislation on the false ground that he is a thrifless and unprofitable citizen. Does not this element deserve some consideration at the hands of the city fathers, without regard to political affiliation and race connections? Third The measure is unjust to the reputation of the city of Baltimore from the viewpoint of capital. It makes Baltimore an undesirable place for the investment of capital. It would appear from these constant agitations that the city is in danger and is suffering from racial troubles. These are some of the chief reasons why capital is giving Baltimore the black eye. Before the agitation of these measures—so unjust to the black man, and to the City of Baltimore, the former has always prided himself—at home and abroad, upon the friendly and peaceful conditions, which existed between the two races in Baltimore, as well as the liberality of the white races in their support of every inducable endeavor which had as its object, the improvement of the colored population in their midst. Why should that relation be disturbed by the passage of such an unfair and unjust measure? Fourth. The passage of this measure alters up unnecessarily bad feeling between the two races, a condition which should not exist. It is impossible to persuade the colored people from believing that the author of this measure is an enemy of the race and, therefore, wishes it no good. It is impossible to persuade them from believing that the Democratic party is infiltral to the interest of the black man, since all such agitations and unfriendly legislation unfortunately have their origin in its councils, and their sponsors are always men of that faith. Such a condemnation cannot fall to stir up bad feeling, which will in the ultimate militate against both races—for it is impossible, conditioned as we are in the body-politic, under a democratic form of government—to enact any kind of law that will affect one class of the citizens, without affecting the other class in some way or form. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Bill-Heads, Letter and Note Heads, Envelopes, Business & Visiting Cards, Policies, Medical Blanks, Insurance Blanks, Financial Cards, Lodge Books, Labels, Checks, Check Books, Minutes, Pamphlets, Whole Sheet Posters, Handbills, Placards. We have a supply of Fine Commencement Folders for Graduates of our Educational @ Hospital Institutions. They are here for Your Inspection. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. For these reasons, I have the honor, along with other members of my race to file my protest against this enforced aggregation, based upon statutory enactment. The committee of protest headed by Councilman H. S. Cummings included Councilman A. C. Bliwanger, Mrs E. J. Cummings, Mrs. A. L. Galnes, Rev. John A. Holmes, Rev C G Cummings, Messra. John H. Murphy, J. F. Johnson, A. T. Waller, George S. Whyte and H. E Macboth. GERMAN ATTACKS NEGRO EDUCATOR New York, March 19 — Upon complaint of Booker T. Washington, the woll-known Negro educator, a man was locked up by the police tonight, charged with assault upon Dr. Washington. The latter received so severe a blow on his head from a club that he was at the Flower Hospital for over an hour late tonight having the wound dressed. The trouble occurred in front of a Sixty-third street house, at which Washington called about 10 o'clock tonight to see a friend but no one answered his repeated calls on the doorbell. Thinking the man he wished to see might appear any moment, Washington walked up and down in the vicinity for more than half an hour, when his walk was interrupted by a man having the appearance of a jailhitor, who emerged with a big club in his hand, according to the complainant, and struck Washington. Washington said he returned the blow with his flat, and held the man until the police arrived. The janitor acted, according to Washington, "as though he thought I was a burglar." The alleged assailant, who is a large German, gave his name as Albert Ulrich. Ulrich told the police that he came up from the basement with his club when his wife complained that a negro had been hanging around the hallway acting suspiciously. He walked up to the man and asked him what he wanted around there. No answer being given promptly, he grabbed the negro, ignorant that he was attacking the prominent educator. In the mix-up which followed Ulrich wielded his club, and received the return blow which Washington admitted he struck. At the police station Washington made no admission of his own identity, and when he was forced to do so, the officers at the station house were at first loath to believe him. Ulrich demanded the colored man's arrest, and it was not until Washington had proved his identity by cards and letters and given a full explanation of his presence in New York that the educator was allowed to go. Washington was so afraid that exaggerated reports of the affair would reach the newspapers that he called up the Associated Press and rather belittled the fieldman. "Were you badly hurt?" he was asked over the telephone. "Not really hurt at all," was his reply. "May we ask from where you are speaking?" You will receive courteous attention and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of Town Orders Promptly Attended. If our prices are higher, you can go elsewhere if you can better them in the same grade and class of work. If our prices are lower, we stand ready to accept the business. "From the Flower Hospital." This is the only admission Washington made of his injury, but at the hospital later it was said that he had suffered two lacerations of the scalp, each about four inches long; that his right ear was split, and he received several body bruises. Washington came to New York last Saturday to meet the auditor of Tuskegee Institute, where he is president. It was the auditor, D. C. Smith, whom Washington was trying to locate in West Sixty-third street tonight when the attack occurred The Kentucky Strike War. (Washington, D. C., Post.) The strike blockade on the Queen and Crescent system is a new development in industrial strife. The ambushing of trains and picking off of negro firemen and their white bodyguards by strike sympathizers is a resort to violence which the railroad company and the civil authorities did not anticipate, and which they are unable to cone with. Concealed from view by the brush and practically safe from successful counter attack or round-up, the mountaineer friends of the striking whites offer a formidable obstacle to the successful movement of trafic. With both sides of the road picketed with men unexcelled for markaman ship and the marked traimmen exposed to view, the zone of fire is a voritable valley of death. The speed of the train offers no protection from the missiles of the expert Kentuckians. No bullets have gone wild and hit engineer or other traimmen. But the risk was too great, the death toll too heavy, for men of courage tempered by prudence to stand up under. Ponding solution of the new strike problem, the tie-up is complete. 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Honesty is the best policy, at though some of the quick-witted long-fingered gentry seem to be of a different opinion. The 'question of leadership' is still under discussion, and it will hardly be suspended by the happen- ings in New York city. The outlook is gloomy at times but colored men should continue to be polite and oblige to white folks—and to colored ones. If Dr. Bookor T Washington is to be treated as a thug and as a disrespectful character in New York city, what is to be the treatment of other colored men of lesser national prominence? 9 The Republican party seems to have only two available Republican candidates for the presidency. One of them is named Theodore Roosevelt and the other is named William Howard Taft. The average colored voter will have but little to choose between them. 0 Those colored folks who seemed to per- think that Dr. Booker T. Washington re- ton's influence as a political referee man was on the wane at Washington will unb- revise their opinion when they read fact the letter of sympathy, addressed to ried the distinguished educator and po- their litalical leader by the President of the as- United states. Attorney Edward H. for- Morris" and Hon. Henry "Hincoln she- Johnson will evidently be required to case "go way back and sit down." D It will require the advent of a Democratic administration at Washington in order to break the political hold of the distinguished sage of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, and from the passage of segregation laws in Southern cities, it would seem t...at the independent negro vote may remain with the Republican party or go to some other party. --- The Washington (D. C.) Begins a rather gloomy view of conditions as Hon. J. C. Napier found them when he appeared at the Treasury Department to enter upon the duties of the office of Register of the Treasury. It assumes that everything was reduced but his salary, and even this is in question under the rules governing receipt appointments Still, we presume that a satisfactory explanation will be made and the tref of the gentleman from Tennessee appeared Mr Napier is thoroughly qualified for the duties of the position which he has assumed, and Hon Cyrus Fields Adams, who we understand still retains office, will be of much assistance to him. ---O--- The death of Mr Wm Hanhart Secretary of the 'Savings Bank Section of the American Bankers' Association, will shock the financial centres of this country, so far as they relate to this particular section of that great organization. He was a universal favorite and throughout the entire country among the white financiers we had no better friend Pat- tion, big man, eloquent and friendly he won a place in the hearts of his associates which only death could supplant. We knew not that he was ill and the announcement of his death came like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. He was a New Yorker, who was entirely void of race prejudice and he took a personal interest in the work of the Mo hancie's Savings Bank that was indeed sincere and patriotic. He often asked us to contribute to the pages of the Bankers' Journal, and we felt the sincere influence of his letters and his words of timely encouragement. But he has gone to a brighter land. He has laid inside the mantle of earth for the one of immortal Peace to his ashes, rest for his soul. THAT PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT. We must admit that President Wm H. Taft has taken a long step forward when he made a recess appointment in the case of Hon Wm H. Lewis as Assistant Attorney General of the United States. No citizen of color has been similarly honored before. We are wondering what it all means. That this position was obtained through the influence of Dr Booker T. Washington admits of no question. It needs to indicate that there is a reaction in favor of the colored people and that the causes the criticisms of the independent element have had their effect. We are of the opinion that President Taft should be recorded credit for this appointment. He has certainly taken a long step forward. Now let him reverse his position upon the appointment of colored citizens to office in the Southern States. We have insisted and we still insist, that no President of the United States, under his oath of office, can discriminate against a citizen of the United States on account of his race, color or previous condition of servitude. We hope that the distinctions occupied of the White House will continue to look the less seriously in the face and proceed to not in accordance with great principles and not be swayed by the prejudices of the age, which will exist here today and necessarily wilt away tomorrow. DR. WASHINGTON ASSAULTED The brutal assault upon Dr Booker r T Washington by Albert Ulrich a reputed carpenter, was bad enough, but the attempt of the woman with whom he was living to defame the character of this distinguished lender was a deeper assassin-like blow and it has received just what it morified—universal condemnation. This white man evidently labored under the impression that he had corrupted one of the colored sports, for which New York is noted, and he took every opportunity not only to malm him for life, but to have him incarcerated in the prison. It all goes to show, though, how utterly helpless a colored man is in the face of an accusation by a white woman. The prominence of the person charged and his past good record wore the only facts which made this woman's story absolutely unbelievable. Couple this with the fact that Ulrich was not even married to the woman, and that she was, therefore, a person of bad character as his wife was living and had to force him to contribute money for her support, and you have the whole case in a suit-shell. Down here this woman's word would have lilted a less prominent person than Dr. Washington to the timb of a tree, where his life would have paid the penalty for a crime which he never committed. As the matter even now stands, it shows the intensity of race prejudice even in New York city. White people cause forward without knowing the facts other than that Dr. Washington was a colored man and his accuser a white one, and offered aid to Ulrich. The support, though, given the distinguished educator by white men of prominence, headed by the President of the United States is a lasting testimental to his popularity and shows that he stands higher in the opinion of the world's greatest men today than any other leader. Open Fight on Bank's Receivers. (Continued From First Pago.) and a desire that the Order would be given the opportunity to redeem the property in time and come unto its own again. NO CASH IN SIGHT. As there was no cash money in sight on the part of the Order, this was a difficult task. The receivers insisted upon having all of the money over and above the mortgage pay shown by the purchase price. Mr. Bowers looked equally for the time being, and it became evident that the litigation has just been completed and a report filed by G. C. Bassale, State Bank Examiner of Virginia, with the State Corporation Commission of Virginia, showing that the said Savings Bank is hopelessly insolvent; that its capital stock has been impaired, and that it is necessary to wind up its affairs, and, to that end, have a receiver appointed to conserve and administer its assets. REQUIRED TO MAKE GOQD. In pursuance of the said report of the State Bank Examiner to the State Corporation Commission, the said commission, on the 26th day of October, 1910, entered an order, a copy of which is herewith filed, marked "Exhibit No. 1 with bill," and has caused the same to be served on each of the officers and Order of True Reformers. By A. W. HOLMES, G. W. M. Smith, Moncure & Gordon, p.1. THE OATH TAKEN. State of Virginia, City of Richmond—To-wit: Before me, Sarah S. De Jarnetto, A Notary Public in and for the city aforesaid in the State of Virginia, personally appointed A. W. Holmes, who being first duly sworn, made oath before me in my city aforesaid that he is Grand Worthy Master, and as such the chief officer, of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers; that the foregoing bill has been prepared in pursuance of the authority conferred by the Board of Directors of the said Grand Fountain of the United Order. indebtedness to your orator. All of which will more particularly appear from copies of said bill and answer herewith filed, marked respectively, complainants "Exhibits A and B," which are prayed to be read as a part of this bill. THE CO-RECEIVER. By a decree of Your Honor's Court entered October 28, 1910, Wm. A. Moncure was appointed a receiver forth in the decree, a copy of which is herewith filed, marked complainants "Exhibit C" and prayer to be read as a part of this bill; subsequently a decree of October 10, 1911, Edwin M. Pilcher was appointed a co-receiver, with Wm. A. Moncure with like powers, duties and responsibilities. Both of these Still, this unfortunate happening will tend to lend color to the charge of his critics that he has been too optimistic with reference to existing conditions in this country. If this able colored man, whose private life is above reproach, is chased through the streets of New York and forced to divulge his identity after being battered and beaten, what is to be expected of colored men of lesser calibre and standing? Dr Washington will now be called as a witness by his critics to verify some of the assertions made in that famous Du Bois circular which was recently so widely distributed in this country and in Europe Still the happening will result in good to Dr. Washington to the extent of emphasizing the hold he has upon the people, regardless of race or color in this country. It also shows the value of correct and upright living. The damaging reports sent out by this white woman were discounted long before his denials had reached the ears of his friends and the public. There could be no question of veracity between the two parties for Washington's statements would have been taken at their face value without any reference whatever as to what Ulrich and his admitted conubine might have to say upon the subject. We are gratified that the injury to the great leader is not serious, and we hope that in the future he shall have no such misfortune, to overtake him and embarrass him in the great work which he still has to do FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE VIRGINIA 2 BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION This grand old body will meet with the Fifth Street Baptist Church Wednesday, May 10th, at 9:30 A.M. It is expected that about 100 delegates will be present and many discussions will be welcomed by Dr. Davis and addressed by His Excellency, Sigmar Wim Hodgson Mann. There is a large committee composed of members from the various colored churches of the city making preparations for the care and entertainment of the convention. 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(Continued From First Page.) and a desire that the Order would be given the opportunity, to odeom the property in time and come unto its own again. NO CASH IN BIGHT. As there was no cash money in sight on the part of the Order, this was a difficult task. The receivers insisted upon having all of the money over and above the mortgage at shown by the purchase price. Matters looked equally for the time being, and it became evident that the receivers would not yield even a part of an inch of the position which they had taken. As a last resort, an injunction was drawn and submitted to the Chancery Court of this city, restraining the receivers from foreclosing the property at Washington, until the validity of the last mortgage thereon could be determined. It was granted, however, only for 30 days. THE RESTRAINING ORDER. The following is a copy of the injunction. Virgula. In the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond Grand Foundation, United Order of True Reformers of Virginia Order granting injunction J. D. Carnool and J. C. Robertson trustees, under deed dated January 26 1901 E. D Starke and Edwin M Pitcher and W A. Moncurre, receivers for Savings' Bank of the Grand Mountain, United Order of The Reformers and Reformer Mer- cantile and Industrial Association Defendants. An injunction is granted in accordance with the prayer of the bill filed this day by the Grand Four-fun, United Order of True Reformers enjoining and restraining the defendants, E D Sturke and J D Carneal and J C Robertson their agents, servants and employees, and all other persons associated with them from selling and disposing of the property conveyed to the said trustees by the Reformers' Mercantile and Industrial Association by deed of trust, dated January 26, 1901, daily recorded in Liber 2769 folio 269 et seq. in the city of Washington. "In the District of Columbia securing a bond for the sum of $25 000 of same date as said deed of trust, on the 17th day of March 1911 as advertised in front of said premises and from selling and disposing of said property, until the further order of this court. BOND MUST BE GIVEN. But this injunction will not take effect until the Grand Fontain. United Order of True Reformers or some one for it, shall enter into a bond before the clerk of this court in the penalty for the sum of $250.00, with sufficient security, conditioned to pay all such costs as may be awarded against it, and all such damages as shall be incurred by the said E D Starke and the said J D Carneal and J C Robertson in case this injunction shall hereafter be dissolved. But, unless in the meantime enforced this injunction shall not be effective after the 15th day of April, 1911 Enter D G. March 15 1911 The following is a copy of the original application for the Receiverhip for the True Reformers' Bank and the reply thereto APPLICATION FOR RECEIVER SHIP. Virginia - In the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond. To _the Honorable Daniel Grinnan Judge_ Complaining, your complainant, the Grand Fontain of the United Order of True Reformers which sues on behalf of itself and such other creditors as shall come in and contribute to the costs of this suit, showeth Your Honor the following case. Your orator is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Virginia, with its principal office in the city of Richmond and it has been operating since the year 1883 as a fraternal benefit Order, and during that period has issued a large number of benefit certificates and acquired a large membership. In the State of Virginia and other States of the United States. USED THE ORDERS BANK For some years past your orator has been conducting its banking business through the Savings Bank off the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers of Virginia, a corporation chartered and existing under the laws of the State of Virginia, with its principal office in the city of Charleston, and authorized under the charter, to do one general banking business. From time to time, your orator has deposited large sums of money in the said Savings Bank, and has paid its benefi certificates by checks upon said bank. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS At the present time the said bank is indebted to your orator in the sum exceeding One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars, as your orator believes and avers; owing to the complicated nature of the account between your orator and the **kward Savings Bank**, your orator is not able at the present moment, to give the exact amount of the indebtedness of the said bank to your orator. Said bank is also indebted in a large amount to a great number of the other depositors and creditors. STATE BANK EXAMINER'S KINDINGS. Your orator further showeth unto the court that recently an investigation was started under the auspice of the State Corporation Commission of Virginia of the affairs of the said Savings Bank, and the said invest- tigation has just been completed and a report filed by C. G. Barksdale, State Bank Examiner of Virginia, with the State Corporation, Commission of Virginia, showing that the safe Savings Bank is hopelessly inactive that the stock has been impaired, and that it may try to wind up its affairs, and, to that end, have a receiver appointed to conserve and administer its assets. REQUIRED TO MAKE GOQD. In pursuance of the said report of the State Bank Examiner to the State Corporation Commission, the said commission, on the 25th day of October, 1910, entered an order, a copy of which is hereowfiled, marked "Exhibit No. 1 with bill," and has caused the same to be served on each of the officers and directors of said bank, requiring them, among other things, to make good the capital stock of said bank and correct other irregularities, and to send the said bank ten days from date the said State Corporation Commission will apply for the appointment of a receiver to take care of the business affairs of the said bank and to wind up its affairs in accordance with the statute in such case made and provided. HOPELESSLY INSOLVENT Your captor avera that the sale report of the said State Bank Examiner of Virginia correctly sets forth the condition prevailing in the said bank, and that as a matter of fact the said Savings Bank is hopefully insolvent, that it is unable to meet its obligations to its depositors and other creditors and stockholders that it is without the ability to make good its capital stock and that it is absolutely necessary what its affairs should be wound up and a receiver appointed to take charge of its assets and administer them for the benefit of all those who are concerned, as their interests may appear IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTINUE Your orator further showeth unto Your Honor that the said Investigation of the State Bank Examiner of Virginia, and the said order which has been issued against the officers and directors of said bank, have made it impossible for the said bank to continue its business, that the said officers would render themselves criminally liable under the laws of Virginia if they were to continue to receive deposits since the said report has been made and order entered, and that any cessation of business on the part of the said bank, in any of its activities would immediately result in a run upon the said bank, which would enable some of the depositors and creditors of said bank to secure undue preference over others, and especially over your orator, whereby your orator would suffer irreparable loss and damage. CAUSED MUCH CONCERN Your orator further showeth unto Your Honor that the creditors herefore stated have caused such concern to the officers and directors of said Savings Bank and are of such a critical nature, that, as a matter of fact, the said bank has already closed its doors to business and has not attempted to receive any deposits or to pay out any money since the close of business on the 25th of October, 1910, and although your orator, as a depositor in and a creditor of said bank, has large funds with the said bank, yet it is unable to make the said funds available by reason of the cossation of business of the said bank. ASKED FOR A RECEIVER In view of the foregoing facts, your orator avers that it is essential to its interests and to the interests of all the depositors in and creditors of said bank, that a receiver should be appointed to take charge of and administer the assets of the said bank under the direction of this honorable Court and that an injunction should be awarded to restrain the Savings Bank, its officers, directors agents and all other per member, by assigning or encountering, or in any manner disposing of any of the property assets of the said bank, and your orator avers that it and all other creditors will suffer irreceivable loss and damage unless a receiver is so appointed and an injunction so awarded. NO REMEDY ELSEWHERE In consideration whereof, and for such as your orator is rawdeless elsewhere have in a court of equity wherein alone such matters are properly cognizable and relievable, it prays that the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers of Virginia be made a party defendant to this bit and required to answer the same, but an answer under oath is waived that process may issue; that all proper orders, decrees may be entered and inquiries directed that a receiver may be appointed to take charge of all the property and assets of the said Savings Bank and administer the same under the direction of this Honorable Court; that the said Savings Bank, its officers, directors, agents and all other persons may be enjoined and restrained from paying, assigning, encumbering or in any other manner disposing of or interference with the property or assets of said bank. WANTED REASONABLE FEES That reasonable fines be paid plaintiff's counsel and out of the bonus fund; that the affairs of said bank may be wound up; that its assets may be collected; that its depositors and other creditors may be convened in this case; that its assets may be applied to the claims of its officers, creditors and stockholders; our interests may appear and that all much other further and general relief may be afforded your orator as the nature of the case may require or to equity may seem meet and proper. And your orator will ever pray to. THE $ ^{2} $ OATH TAKEN. State of Virginia, City of Richmond—To-wit: Before me, Sarah S. De Jarnetto a Notary Public in and for the city aforessaid in the State of Virginia personally appeared A. W. Holmes, who being first duly sworn, made oath before me in my city aforessaid that he is Grand Worthy Master, and such the chief officer, of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers; that the forgoing bill has been prepared in pursuance of the authority conferred by the Board of Directors of the sale Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, and that the statements contained in the said bill are true to the best of his knowledge and to his belief in the given order, my hand the 26th Given under my hand this 26th day of October, 1910. SARAH 8. DE JARNETTE, Notary Public. 'My commission expires March 1, 1913. THE BANK'S ANSWER. In the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond The answer of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers of Virginia to a bill of complaint filed against it In the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond by the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers. The defendant, for answer to the said bill or to so much thereof as it is advised it is necessary or material for it to answer, answering under its corporate seal, says That it is true that this respondent is a banking corporation as set out in the plaintiff's bill, and that it has been the depository of the funds of the plaintiff. It is true that this respondent is indebted to the plaintiff, but the exact amount of said indebtedness this respondent is not now able to state, by reason of the complicated nature of the transactions and accounts between the plaintiff and respondent. ALL TRUE It is also true this respondent is indebted in a very large amount to a great number of other depositors and that it is at present unable to meet its obligations to the plaintiff and to its other depositors and creditors. It is true that the respondent has recently been subjected to investigation by the State Bank Examiner of Virginia, as set out in the bill that the said Bank Examiner has made the report to the State Corporation Commission as set forth in the bill that the State Corporation Commission of Virginia has entered the order, a copy of which is filed with the bill, which has been served upon the officers of this bank. And this respondent is reluctantly compelled to admit that the report of said Bank Examiner is correct, and that this respondent is now hopelessly insolvent. CRITICAL NATURE It is true that the conditions when nonconfident respondent are of a critical nature, that it is unable to receive deposits, that it has closed its doors for business since the close of banking hours October 25, 1910, that it cannot, with justice, make further payments to some of its depositors to the prejudice of others, and that it has no means to relieve its present embarrassed condition. In consideration of the foregoing admissions, this respondent can raise no objection to the appointment of a receiver and the awarding of an injunction, as prayed for in the bill, and it, therefore, consents to the same, and unites in the prayer of the bill to that end. President Smith, Moneure & Gordon, p q Here is a copy of the application for injunction. Judge Grinnan did not grant however all asked for in the plea: STILL ANOTHER SUIT Virginia In the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond J. D. Carneal, J. C. Robertson, Trustees under deed dated Jan. 26, 1904; E. D. Starke and Edwin M. Pilcher and W. A. Moncure, Recorders for Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers and Reformors' Mercantile and Industrial Association Defendants. To the Honorable Daniel Grinnan, Judge of the said Court: 1 Your orator is a corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the State of Virginia with its principal office in the City of Richmond, and has been operating since the year 1883 as a fraternal benefit order, and during this period has issued a large number of bonafide certificates and acquired a large number of members in the State of Virginia and elsewhere, and especially in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia. STILL CLAIMING MONEY 2. On October 26, 1910, your orator filed a bill in your honor's court against the Savings Bank of the Grand Pointe Bank of the United Order of True Reformers of Virginia, setting up that the said bank was indebted to your orator in a large sum of money, amounting to more than $180,000, and that, the said bank was hopelessly insolvent, and praying for a recurrent. On the same day, the said bank filed its money, acknowledging an indubuted, your question, all of which will, more particularly, appear from copies of said bill and answer herewith filed, marked, respectively, complainants "Exhibits A and B," which are prayed to be read as a part of this bill. THE CO-RECEIVER. By a deocr of Your Honor's Court entered October 26, 1910. Wm. A. Moncurce was appointed a receivers with certain powers and duties set forth in the deocr, a copy of which is herawith filed, marked complainants "Exhibit G" and prayer to be read as a part of this bill; subsequently by a deocr of October 10, 1911. Edwin M. Pilcher was appointed a co-receiver, with Wm. A. Moncurce with like powers, duties and responsibilities. Both of those receivers gave, the bond required by the deocr of the court and entered upon their duties. 4. There is in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, certain valuable real estate, with improvements thoreau, hereinafter more particularly described, which is now used by a large number of subordinate lodges of your orator, and is of large value, and especially to your orator. There are two lions upon this property. THAT TWENTY-FIVE THOURAND The first secures a bond of $25,000, now past due, by deed dated January 26, 1904, recorded in Liber 276, follo 239, in the District of Columbia, and was executed by the Reformers' Mercantile and Instrument Association, the grantor whorlen $D. Carneal and J. C. Robertson are trustees, and the second lien is deed of trust, dated Dec. 4, 1904, duly recorded in the same city, whorlen J. C. Robertson is trustee to secure your orator in the sum of $4,484 evidenced by a bond, now past due and unpaid, held by your orator all of which will appear from "Exhibits D and E," filed as a part hereof. * * * COULDN'T PAY THE MONEY. Default having been made in the first deed of trust, the trustees there in have advertised the said property for sale under the said deed in front of the premises in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the 17th day of March, 1911, at o'clock P. M., for cash sufficient to pay all costs of sale, taxes, insurance and $26,000, with interest, from July 26, 1910, until paid, and balance in one, two and three years, all of which will more fully appear from your orator's "Exhibit P" prayed to be read as a part of this bill. ABOUT TO SELL THE PROPERTY Your orator is advised and so avers that said trustees proposed to sell said property for E. D. Starke, of this city who holds and owns the said bond. Your orator avails that the said property is worth more than the first mortgage; that it will pay the said mortgage and leave some surplus; that said property is worth more to your orator than to any other; but until your orator's rights in this said bond secured by the second mortgage are litigated and ascertained as heresion or sutor a sale of the property would result in a great sacrifice of the same, and especially of your orator's interest theroin. BANK CLAIMS OWNERSHIP The said receivers are assorting ownership to the said bond of $44,484.00, but your orator is advised that the title to the said bond is still in your orator, and that your orator is entitled to the said bond in law and in equity, but until its title and right have been ascertained and fixed by decree of this court it cannot properly protect itself should property be sold. Your orator avers that the said property has been regarded for years as the home of your orator in the City of Washington. In the District of Columbia, and has been so used, that the sale of the said property would have the most depressing effect upon your orator's membership and your prator fears would cause many of its members to default in their dues, that it is vitally important that your orator purchase the said property in order that it may continue its business; that it can easily do so if your orator is decreed to be the true and lawful owner of the bond for $44,484.00. HAD ARRANGED TO PAY It has already arranged to pay on paid mortgage of $26,000, provided it is decreed that your orator is the true owner of the said bond secured by the second mortgage, as your orator averts that it is such owner. Your orator further alloges and avows that if the said trustees are permitted to soil the said property with the ownership of the said bond in dispute and unacertained on the 17th of this month, or at any other time before the true ownership of the said bond is determined by the court, that said sale would be unjust and result in irrepairable injury to your orator, as it would be put in a position in which it could not protect its interest in the said property at the said sale—a thing so vital to its existence that the said property would be greatly sacrificed, bringing nothing like its value. WILL ENDANGER SECOND MORTGAGE. Your orator avens that to sell the said property before the ownership of the said bond secured as aforesaid as a second mortgage is ascertained and finally determined will render the second mortgage of no value, although there is a large equity in the said property over and above the said first mortgage, and your orator further avens that in order to prevent such dissatisfaction consequences, it is how seeking the equitable aid of this Honorable Court. PAN fae aa bce di'h tml te We 2955: Padre gemieetindy sae cet fern se HON oh ener ND nak a haalapienancrted ats it rete ATRESIA nes dns oe toni mag, Ot ey etme og FE a é ers orate Easing anrmeerttyeairinretot w+ _”" TIE RICHMOND REANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA” eae recommen gan en nite RR i i TTC SN SEAT TE RPLORE PCR TET PAO RE. Se ate oe ee pa nae urs 23. . 2 SMAKEVOUR OWN was Saeed ah hs NS Shy fee pe ru aa eniiae Ge ee ee PMAKEVOUR OWN . scammers » 2s 2 Sas eas EAD. " » as tel ple kk Ye Nt YRS edie nity tof POR BEES Bisse Fe, : . “pe ey ges: tats eG = | fairey foecjuch as the) FS ‘ . . bgt nd was ibs 2, Ce ae = ph PES, . s a Bae awn ay taeorae| [PS R eceiv ers: Sale ag MEY @ream of Grand Raplds**" : 4 se fot True Mtetormers and to o d ‘tr Si. 3aate ae: G : S ot et 4 y [Sractir aaa | rcuratvoern FURNITURE 7 BBR | Directors wore the officers af Urol | : : : : By an BAR Series Gee wed mona of Der! | sof Jewelry Store. : . “AT HOME, ——— caer! ma A. : eres : : , Rei | less ovend VnnseOnisr of] | 20 PERCENT. REDUCTION--CASH ONLY, |, completo instraction, tor 31.00.' Hf 1g KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND IN COMPLETE ASSORTMENTS A \ » ® True Ratoicnerns with Mossre. Binlth, YOUR dPrORTUNITY TO PURCHASE ELEGANT “piAMoNDs, | you-buy; costs only a few ponnics, | HORE. : m4 Meme | Moncure and Gordon ex counsel, for! |“ sorry coup WATCHES, STERLING SILVER WARE, ETO, Foquires no special apparatus. Abso- HW vou CaN SELECT IT IN PERSON OR ORDER BY MAI. AB YOU Mo & celverabip for tke Savings Dank 0¢ BIO AP GREATLY REDUCED NeIOES dollar right now. Money back If not ° MAY QESIRB, WITH PERFECT KBSULTS. ; a - ; United Order of ‘ i » delighted. - ~ ene! tyus Metarmers, “of wuleh A. W.| | By Decree of the Ctanery Gout of the City of Richmond, Van | ughted. ee | fl waire us ron prices ano picrunes. SATURDAY.....MARGH 25, 1011.) Holmes te president. « |]. Thave been appointed Receiver of the Assets o 1B CLARK, caso in which equities are such that tho court of equity and consclence 16 bound tor enjoin, and rostrain tho proposed salo of tho sald property on tho 17tB of this qorith in the City of Washington, D. C., aa aforesald, and any further sale of tho said proporty until tho true ownorsbiy and tio of the sald bond have been logally dofined by tris court; that by so doing the intorest of nono of the partion In Interest can possldly bo Injured, as tho value of tho salé property 1s largoly in oxcess of the iirat mortgage, including Intorest tusurance and costs: that tho rights ‘of none of the partlos will bo put tr Jootardy thoroby, but all can be ro apected and. proservod. NO OTHBR RELIEF IN SIGHT. In consideration whereof and for. asnguch as your orator ts romediloss to the promises and can have ade quato relief alono only in a Court of Equity, whore mattors of thts porte :ate alone properly cognizable fod gollovablo, ae to tho end, tbore foro, that tho dofondants horeinafter named may answer tho sevoral mat tors heroinatter aot Torth as * tulls and pasticularly as If tho samo wore agaln hor requested and wero thor unto specifically» IntorroRated, . bu not under oath, anawor under datt doing expressly wotved as to all o tho defendants, your orator pray’ that J. D. Carueal and J. C, Robert son, trustees, ns aforesaid, E. D. Starke, noteholder, and E. Bf, Pil chor, and W. A. Moncure, recelvors an aforesald, and Roformors’ Morena tlo and Industrial Assoolatton ma} bo required to enawor this bill, and that an injunction may be fsaued ou of this court enjoining and probibit fog F. D. Starke, holder of tho aaic bond of $26,000; J. D. Carneal ant JG. ‘Kobortaon, trustees, for th holders of the said bond of $26,000 their agents, servanta and eniployecr from elling and disposing of on the 17th of this month and untll the further order of this court tho said property Boretuatter particularly do weribed. WANT COURT TO GQ FURTHER. Your orator futthor prays that the court will ascertain aud definitel) detormine and define whotbor th sald bond of Dec. 4, 1904, for the sum of $64,484 socured by deed of trust, aa nforesnid, Jelonga to you orator of to the Rgletvers; that the rights and fntorest of all parties fr anid bohd bo determined and fixed and that It may havo auch furthe rollot In the! promises as to oqull may. a¢teauloet and the natura of It ase may roquire and this your orator wIN é¥er pray, and ote. Grand Fountain United Order of Truo Reformers of Virgiata * A. W HOLMES, Grand Worthy Mastor. ’ INJUNCTION GRANTED Grand Worthy Muster A W. Holuics, who had hitherto occupled an opposite position, now. came Across and signed tho upplieation for tho Injunction. It was granted by Judge Gringan, and thin gave tha Or der breathing timo, so to speak. The dolay Is only temporary for the True Noformors’ Hall at Washington muet bo wold undor tho nlortgage This decision will In all probability acttlo the ‘respective rights of the Ordos aud of the Savizgs Bank, Judgo Grin: nanqwill be called upon to docide be- tween hin own recolvers and the at torneya for the Ordor, THE TWO QUESTIONS At Ie a quostion of raving tho Or- dor or saving the depositors of tho bank, If tho recoivera win, then the depositors will get much more moncy than would otberwixa come to them. If the ‘Order winn, then they must walt untll the Order reimburses thom for tho money depoalted in. the defunct Jostitution. In plain lan- RungO, Attorney Nowsomo Jn attorney for the Orier, and he Js looaing fire aftor tho tntereata of tho Order, He has had plonty of exercise, too, [1 doing this. ‘At frat bo could not got Into hi .own office, to which position ho had been elected by the Grand Fountain. Aftor ho got Into the office he could not get any money to do business unt, tho Bureau of Insurance, through Commissioner Joserh But: ton, camo to bis relief, Aa the Bu- reau of Insurance holds tho little life of tho Order which fs loft in tte hands, tho Grand Worthy Master and the Grand Worthy Secretary and all other offjlals must obey oyory ordor omanating from this department and ‘thun the receivers of the Saving: Yank, United Ordor of Truo Reform: ors now find thomsolves in open an- tagoniam to thie branch of tho Grand Fountain, United Order of Truo Re- formers, ‘This condition of affairs will bring the law firm of Christian, Gor don und Christian fo tho limelight ‘They represont the dopositors an¢ they muat go up agalnst.tho abjeat array of logal Talent that has boon ‘seon in this Btate foreleg for a tons time, Dosplte the ‘fact that Speaker Byrd and ox-Governor Montague arc on tho opposite sitea of the politica’ contontion, both bolng Democtats Ir this State, they aro working harmon. fonaly together in this caso of un. Tavelling the tangle of the True Re formers. ‘The quostion which will bo upvor mont in the minds of the observor will be how fone ean -the Orde stand this Ntlgation? It will be 4 Jong timd before a decision is: reach ed. Chancery proceodings aro, neo ‘euanrily atow. The, Soutt Stas ‘akbralt tho whol question €0-a.cotamtealon’er or oz pagel aa me par consums not anly-‘months but yoats, + APPREULIAR coNDERTON, ag etdealntiod! btithes shapes ELA TRS selon foram s enalgn apd. the: eyioas ete Spee See ray ee tne teat ee nm ot selepr} will saw pebiijiar ‘con: Dee ae tue anaes Saviory Bank Ascnwnd by the‘Order of True Reformers and the officers o1 ‘the Grand Fountain and Board 61 Directors -wore tho officers of tte Savings Bank and Board of Dirow tors ‘of the same corporation. A. ‘W. Holmes, Grand’ Worthy Master vi the Grand. Pountatn, United Onter of ‘True Roformers, with Mossrs, Hmith, Moncure and Gordon as counsel, #0 omnly .mnkes application for a re celversbip for the Savings Dank 0} tho Grand Fountain, United Order u ‘True Roformors, of which A. W. ‘Holmes {9 president. * a ee. See eee. Oe Sei Sarees Fountain, United Order of True Re- formers makes an answor, signed by A. We Holmes as prosidont, and with Mouors. Smith, Moncure and Gordon a0 cagprol- getting forth tat all tbat A. Wr holaies~ Grand Worthy Mav- ter anys ogainst that corporation of which A. W. Holmes, president, {s true and concurring in the applica tlon for the rocelvorship, In other words, Holmes. {ho official, suos Holmes Who oficial, and Holmes says that all that Holiwes says {8 truo and ‘should be’ granted by Holmas tc Holmes, Anothor amusing phase o1 the situation ts rocalled when At- torney Newsome’ and his array 1 legal tatent arrivo upon the scone. ' ‘Thoy cannot bring'eult for an tn Junction without the assistance “ot Holines and thoy finally with tho atc and assistance of tho Bureau of In surance succeod in having Holme. tho Grand Worthy Master siga pa: pore which virtually constitute a va Ha sult against Holnios, the Pres dent. Thoro is no wonder ther that all of tho lawyers who havo beot consulted havo bevn puzzled and that tho recelvers may havo lost some sleepless nights in trying to work out thd puztle, At ono time, Holmes aves not know whothor he {8 Holmes the president or Holmes the Grand Worthy Mastor, and at any moment bo way find himsolt Agbting himaol without knowing gp it wilt bo ‘oe tced in this itigition that Grand Worthy Secretary Burrell 1s dolng a: Uttle stgning as possible, Ho ts director of tho Yavings Bank, but fur thor than this, deponont sayoth not, | THAT QUESTIONABLE BOND. | It eooms that twenty-fvo thousand dollars wero borrowed * from Ricé- mond people, roprosented by Mr. E. D, Starke aad Mr. J. D. Carneal and A mortgage on tho Washlagton True Reformers’ Hall given to secure tho amount,. This Is past due. Then about "$58,000 of the bank's casi monoy was expended on the new building, togother with repatrs mado sinco and thf was: represented by this bond for $54,484. Whon tno Insurance Commisatonera got after the Ordor some timo ago, this bond waa given, over tothe. Order by. the Savlage Bank in ordor to show up tho necessary collatoral to enable tt lo do business In the District. of Co- lumbta, A | EXPIRES BY LIMITATION, It subserved [ts purpose, but it has fipyor been returned to tho Savings Bapk. Tho tnjunctton granted by Judo Grinnan to restrcin tho 22 celvers from solling the True Ro- formera’ Hall at Washington is only for thirty days, and unless some tur. ther action fy taken to the oxtent of taining that twenty-five thousand dollars then tho property will again bo advertised for malo and gold ut public auction. ‘Tho property fs sald to have cost approximately $70,000, und 1 will bring about $45,000 un. der favorable conditions, but all of the money reniizod thoroon will go to pay the deponitors of the defunct bank. ‘Tho assets of the bank are admiteeelly tesy than $100,000. — I the Order of Truo Noformors put in a clam of $150,000, tho amount te Lo realized by tho outside depositors Would be comparativoly little | A SHORT STEP. It will bo sech then that thero i but @ short top between the present condition of tho Ordor and a re celvership. If the members tani firny and proceed to raizo money the creditorn will hold off for tho reason that thoy will ket moro If the Orde can regain its feet, ko to spenk, than they would if tho Order Would ‘Re uinder st thin tine. Cheering report continue to be sent ont from the oF ficos of tho Grand Fountain, but n {a ovident that tho Jittgation now tt progrean Je having a very dobilitat fig effect upon tho offictala who arc now in court 1 a mix-up, the like o which hns nover been com in thi sortion of the country. | STIL, LOOKING FoR ASsETS.- | Tho reduction In oxpannon han tor to a reduction in receipts, and if Mugotion Is inaugurated by the efeditors or by tho members of th Order In other Statos, It may ba five ents before tho ond ts even. aight. As tho mattor now atande i ¥ill bo moro than a yoar bofore an} kind of a nottiomant can be expors ed Attorney Nowsomo {a looking ffter the Ordor. “Ho must find ae nets In order to sot tho organtention rtralght bofore tho Buroau of asur anco, and ho fs reaching out. fo eversihing {0 might to onablo him t do thin. Ho fs oven onctonchiny upon the Savings Bank~ -deporitors according to tho recetvorn, and. “battle royal’ from a logal stand polot will yot rosult. 8150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID, Lynchburg, Va., March 22, 1911. . Tals te to cortity that T havo re cotved from John Mitchell, Jr, Grind Chancollor of the Grand Lote ot Virginia, Knights-of Pything, N. A. 8. A., B., A., A. and A. ($160.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars to oayment of the doath claim of Dro thor arthur Murohy, who wae momber of Peak Knob Lodge, No. 84, of Palankl, Va. Blagedtn . LILLE MURPHY, ff hy (Marriags dams Wilson). - toa ey MRI. fas tg BANE TLG RSP eee Merebanty O,D-0,-0, ca Rd So ONE EE Ne Peau Ye ee WE ait oo Bate, nay tay oh aE a eee ieSii Ga le 5 om : a7 a . “Receiver sisate . + of Jewelry Store. : . 20 PERCENT. REDUC TION=-CASH ONLY. YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE ELUGANT ‘DIAMONDS, SOLID GOLD WATCHES, STERLING SILVER WARE, ETO., ETO, AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. By Decree of the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond, Va., - -Thave been appointed Receiver of the Assets of the OLD and RELIABLE Jewelry Firm of . A. M. MEYER & BRO. Located at No. 317 East Broad Street. ‘Their large and well selected up-to-date stock of Diamonds, Watches, Silverware, Ete., is now on Sale at reduced prices: ‘This Sale is for CASH ONLY. Clubs, Societies, Lodges and Other Organizations will find this a fine opportunity to secure Bargains. ELI C. MEYER, Receiver. OF A. ML MEYER & BRO, Dr. Washing- ton Bratally Assaulted. ‘terday to make bly complaint agaiuse Alfred a. Ulrich, the carpenter. Whom ho alleges assaulted blm Sun day night In front of 11 1-2 Wos Siaty-tblfd wtroet, crowds of negrooe filed the courtroom and overdowes tho padssagos. ‘Pho proceedings were brief. At torney Jamey I. Moore, for tho do fondant, walved examination and gavo batt for bis appoaranco in Spe fial Seesions Tho charge was modl fled from felonfous*assault to empte aah In a roar room of tbe court there ‘was @ women who bad beon oxperted to take tho stand. Her Identity was not established until Iast ofgbt, when ‘ono of Dr, Washington's tounsel gavo hor a copy of a lotter recolved by his cliont to a repostes of Tho New York Timos. It appeared that sho was tho wife of Ulrich, who bad been living apart from her. * ‘Tho toxt of tho lottor follows: Childres’s Ald and Protective So: ‘eloty of the Oranges. OMico 124 Essex Avenue, Orange. Ovango N. J., March 20, 1911. Dr. Booker T. Wansblngton, care 07 ‘Tho Armstrong Assbelation, 39 Bast Forty-second Btrect, ow York City. | My Dear Dr. Wasbington,—The at tontion of this society has been galled to nowepapor clippings with regard toon assault mado upon you on Sun- day night, March 19, by a man whose name-appeary 1n-TH6 paper x, All(or Ulrich, 11 1-2 West Sixty:third strbet Now York city. Wo understand tha thie man’s right namo {8 Henry ‘Adam Ulrich, and besides boing 2 ‘carpenter ho ia proprietor of the Wes Side Dog Exchange, 779 | Eleveath ‘Avonuo, neor Pifty-fourth — atroet New York city. (Telephone 3682 Co lumbus ) ‘Thia man at tho prosont time f not living with his “wifo, as she residing In Orange, N. J, with he two cbildren, Estelle und Dorothy aged 9.12 yenrs and 2 years. We aro given to understand by Mra, Ul Tieh today that tho woman with whom ber aurband is Mviog at 11 1-2 Woat Sizty-third streot, was mar ried to Spaniard named Alvoroz hor, maiden nacio being Laura Pago and tho girl who Ie living with ther Is thin woman's daughter and nai Mr Uirfeh’s deughtor. Her namo I auld to be Dolores Alverez, about 1! years old “AL the Fequent of this society. Mra Ulrich apneured against her” hus band In tho Domestic relations Gout New York clty, on Feb, 21, 1911 charging hint with desertion and nor support of herself and two children and he was ordered by tho magintrat to contribute $5 por week toward tho nupport of the ehildren and ale to pay tho rent, amounting to $2: her month fle ia ronding bie. wir the $5 per week, but 0 far bas so pald any rent. If tha ntatementa mado In tho Nov York payere are tru, then Mr. U1 rich @ leading a doubio life, bocaun ho fe not married so far as wo know to the woman living with him ot 11 L-2 West Sixty-third street, and he alwo gave a fctitions “Albert” in tend of ffenty A. Ulrted. The rig Mra, Uleich would bo willing to face her huaband if court, and probabty would bo willing Co bring charge: against hor husband for living witt awotian who tn not hie wife. Wo thought thatsporhaps tho {n formation contained tn this _letto would arsist you or your counsel 1 the prosecutioh of your ean for as fault against this man, Mra. Ul rich’s niimo is Mra, Mary J. Ulrich and sho ronidea at 224 [igh strect Ornuge, N, J. 1€ you dontrod he: autekly at-any time, you could ronc! hor at that addross by telogram o by tolophono through this society our number boing Orange 1847. « Wo shatl bo glad to bo of any fur thor rervice to you In this suatter | you ao desire. Sie Yours very truly, : + A. W. ABBOTT, Agent. An effort was mado igst night t tee Ulrich and the woroan, wbo mud tho charge against Dr, Washitgtor fat tholr Gat in ixty-third streot Iap night, Nolther could bo found. 1 waa sald by neighbors that thoy hn dot been fm the Bouse all night, th TAFT'S SYMPATHY FOR WASHINGTON New York, March 23.—Mr. Book- er T. Washington, the negro edaoavor whote-allexed ssssilant of text Sun- day night, Albert Ulrich way heia Zewtordey | for trial obs aut’ apanutt OharRs, was AIL at-bis hotal today TeCOMeHAE TADidly from” the: -effects i ington: was’ | today, te raelre stir ol rent Tart, in the: Progl¢mnt's' own’ handwriting, it, which Tatt exprecsed his eytopathy for and confdenco in Dr. Washine ton, The letter, as given out by Dr. Washington, read: “Tho White House, Washington, March 21, 1921. “My Dear Mr, Washingtoo,—1 am groatly distressed at your misfortun~ and [ hasten to write you of =m) sympathy, my hope that you will soon recover from the wounds In: filcted by insade suspicion or vicious nose; and of my confidence tn you jn your Integrity ond morality o! character and in your highest use: Tulness to your raco and to all the people of this country. *” “It would be a nation’s loss if thre untoward incident In any way im palred your great powor for good tt tho solution of one of the most aim ‘cult problems Sefore us. “I want yoy to know that yout friends .aro standing by you 12 over) ‘trial and that I am proud to subscribe myself as one. * (Signed) “WM. HO TAPT. | "Dr, Booker T. Washington, Hotol Manbattan, Now York City REGISTER OF TRE TREASTRY One Branch Taken Away—WWill Mr, » Naplor Accept. (Washington, D, CO, Bee) When Hon. J. C Napier, of Ten- nesseo, went to tho Treasury De- partment Wednesday morning he was surprised to Oud that one of his divisions, the largest under him, bad been datatled under tho Secretary of the Treasury. OF coursa, the office could not bo transferred under the low. ‘This diviston {s tha Jargest and most responsible divistay, wader the Roglster of the Treasury. Aside from this curtailment of power and office, tho office of the Regieter has been removed from tho spactous rooma that wore heretofore occupied by him to the floor upstatrs in a amall toom. The Assistant Rogister, Mr Adams, who is also a colored amploye—or nathor, ho was appolor- ed as a colordl man from Chicago, ML—bas also been placed ins amall room, much smaller than the one that ho previously occupied hero changes have the sanction o thh Secretary of the Treasury. Ther again, Mr. Robert Holland, of Ohio, who was one of tho committed to Fesuinte the affatra in the Treasury Departinent, will be designated in the Registers office to soe that thoac now changes are carried out. The Bee {a not cortnin that he knew of this change or had anything todo with ft but, however, ft t# done and some ‘ono ‘in reaponalblo. Just why one of the bert divistonn in the Regiater’s offco rhonld bo dotatied to nnothor part of the Trenanry har not been explained It Ie quite Io: Ay that Rogistor Napler will carry thé matter to tho Presitent. Mr. Napler took tho oMco with tho dis inct understanding that ho was to be tho Reginter of the Treasury, with every divivion Intact REGISTER NAPIER, (Wasblogton, DC, Bee) | Mr. J. C. Napler wan’eworn to tant Wernesday morning as Rexister of the Tronsury. ‘To his eurprico, ho found that ona of his divietons had been takon from him—tho loan dt- vinion—tho most tmnortant {nthe Fegistor'n office, Mr. Naffler also found that tho Inrge nnd commo- Atous rooms that hnd beon occunted by formor registors and that of his deputy had ‘also boon taken from them. and both transferrod upataira to rooms too small for tho dignity of tho Offce, ‘Tho President will, no doubt, call tho attention of his Dom- tneratle Soeretary of the Treasury to thero changes and transfors. If Sr Nanler was tho Editor of Tho Boo, and the Editor of Tho Boo Mr. Nn: plor, the President of tho United Stites would be givon Just 34 hours to sitinte fhe order of the | Domo cratic, Secrdtary of” the Troasury oF pho would havo a resignation, A MABTERLY PLRA, pote (Maptist Herald, Now York) ‘We have road with crueh Interest and ‘satistaction the masterly plea mado by Faltor John Mitchell, Jr. of the Kichniond Planet ‘before: the Commitide.. ob, Ofdinanog lt Chatter 50, Retorm, aettlag \torth hie objec lon’ of the.proponed eextexation of the white ‘ahd (blade peovte, ‘in the We eae ha ed ‘wad @ mal reblea it the, de. fencer bt turtles and jot w dtows rs cree waty Sar Of such. a more oa: the part.of 7? bur WANS frieida ee fein (kbc ee Rye A MAKE) OWN ) ‘\ HHISKE . | ! - “AT HOME. | Complete instraction for $1.00. Makes better product than the kind you-buy; costs only a few ponnics, Fequires no spocial separates Abso- lutely lawful and dolicloos, Send ono dollar right now. Money back If not delighted. : J. PF, CLARK, ; Conway, Ark. # te pees, teas @ream of Grand Rapids** "> FURNITURE 16 KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND IN COMPLET ASSORTMENTS HERE, . YOU CAN SELECT IT IN PERSON OR ORDER BY MAI. AB YOU ° way ESIRD, WITH PERFECT XBSULTS. 7 WRITE US FOR PRICES AND PICTURES, ™ Sydnor & Hundley, Inc., 709-711-713 E. Broad St., RICHMOND, VA. Furniture For The-Home Béautiful. For Sale or Nent—An Excellent Up- ~ “right Cable Plano. Do not call on Monday. 805 W. (Lolsh Street. * LkeTURE! ee ea ee Ee RT ee Ng OFFICES FOR RENT. | = | See WELL LIGHTED, WELL VENTILATED OFFICES | > FORRENTIN THE NEW MECHANICS! — | SAVINGS BANK BUILDING. LIGHT, seni AND JANITOR SERVICE INCLUDED AT A | RENTAL OF FROM $6.00 PER MONTH UPWARDS, THIS 1S ONE | -OF THE MOST, PALATIAL AND CONVENIENT STRUCTURES IN | | THE CITY AND THE SERVICE RENDERED 18 FIRST-CLASS, Apply to the AGENTS, or to a MECHANICS’ SAVINGS BANK, .. | 214 East Clay Street, Richmond, Virginia, | i Eugene V. Debs on Socialism and Living ‘Trenes. Eugene, V_Dobs will lecturo at tho City Auditorium Richmond Va_Mon aay, March 27, 1911 at 8:00 P. M. Subject’ “Sociniiam and Living Je sues. Gallory rosorved for Colored Peo- ple. Adminsion, Free. | Behoot, Durham, N. o. . q_The National Rellglous Training School opens the Summer Schoo! aad Chautauqua July sth snd closes August 13th. Teachers and lectitr- fora who aro apecialiste in thelr particutar nes will be tn charge of tho instruction and lectires, Rare advantagen offered {n :hoology. teach: or''- courses, Uternry, domestic sclence. business and industry. Many aoplteattons already led Laat sum: nier's success tells un we will not bo able tq accommodate all of our apnlt cante. Fil your anpitention with us now. Bulletins ready after March 1, TT, announcing. all features, _ For full particutare, addross — | NATIONALS RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL, Durba 3, N.C. Jas © Shepard, President. “Phone, Monrog-2400. - _ RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, Isham [lann Co. 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Vong Distance Phone, North 8259-m, ‘To See Or Not to Seo Is the ree At your eyes feel patntul, bot or neomfortable, or if they row weary whilo reading, sewing , Iron- ‘ng or looking at near objects of any kind, of It print blurs, your eyesight is dotectivo, and should be attended to. The aooner tho bet tor. ¢ | I test eyos freo and ft glasser and spectacics of all kinds Lone: changed Gul ropalr work of al kinds done, Satlgfaction guaranteed Private visita nindo upon request. 1, M. WILLIAMS, JR., Optomotriat, ‘2 graduate from the Nattonal Op cal College of St. Louls, So... alse a .Theologizal student of Virginia Uatou University Omee, 617 N. Second Stroct. Hours, all day Saterday and trom 220 to’ § 30 o'clock other wok days. ‘Phone, Madison, 2817. LAs Is’ Your Hair Beautiful MDp Sots onto Cor oft, Silhy and L. ray brs ong? ie ey ee fs tate mb easlly withoo} Eee cn “ene ESS yy Absa ee area 1 Say Bi i PRG) Ina strlen. ee IN a urate whys ON py cel Nou chet ety 148 1 Ne Toov ueton, he 9 f . ye fe questions, all of the" . ” bo ES 4 4 Nels » then you need CA SE . ‘on's As Gea Hair D: a hed hye? Vs i) uy NELSON'S ressing, ° Sen Xe Dion endear | SISA neler ween ne Sai < f eee sia int nit teem sai este teeta amaunt ef ol Use Nelson‘ ar end pate Nelew eve peat arb wie ns Hair Di a _Relaou's me tan ssing tila Pa coeerieeanrmnenee tees same” SLSON MANU: wnt is trea conus (UFACTURING CO. cutee ac eal 3 Wanted. on Richmond, V: rite Qui . Quick for Terms —Nelson's Hnlr Drossing cao be recured from the Agent. Mr. Joneph Evang. 202 Webster Avenuo, Pitts burg, Pa. WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES OF RICHMOND. 1s being divided Into half-ncro garden lots and sold to colored poople. Thin broad domain porseascn eich pyollm: {nary ‘mprovementa aa lawne and Rroves and rontways, nnd {snow rendy for Afro-Americans who de- sire to bulld thelr homes tm ‘a lovely apot which unites city ed vantages with tho charm and wholo fomeness of country life. For a de- nerigtion of thin entorprina, write to CAPTAIN CUSSONB, ‘Tho Foundor of Glen Alten, Va. WANTS TO LOOATR RELATIVES. Mra. Minty Bell (formerly Mise Allen), of Kenner, La., would like ta locate her relatives, whom she left somo thirty-five or forty yoars ago In Warrenton ond Front Royal, Va ‘Tho names of her rolativon are Marry Allen, hor father: Ano Allen, mother; Henry and Thomas Allen, Charlotte, Eliza and Gracy Allon, vrothora and sisters, If any of thong, aro located, please notlt . MRS. MINTY BELL, Kenner, ba. P, O, Box 137. Lt eR OLDEOEHED ED LEDESODDENPTOYTPORIDHO OD HOOD OPOOOD OS ; PENSIONS! PENSIONS! It you ovor served in any of tho Ware of the U. 8, You ane Entitled ‘tm Pension. If You aro now Drawing a Pension of lesa than $12.00 per month, If You are over O2 yoars of ago, You aro Entitled to an Increane, ‘If you are the Widow or Dependent Binter of a Doceaned Soldier, Sailor, or Marine You are Rutitled to m Pontion of $12.00 per month. If You Want « Penaton, or an Increase, Write mo the Facts, and I Wil File Your Claim and Sedate Your Pension or Increase.’ * ERMAN W. GRANT, Att’'y., Room 009, F'at, N. W., Wash., D. 0. ee gee a ae oe AN OPPeRtivariy FOR COLORED WOMEN, For Fivo Dollara wo will set you ‘up in a good paying dusinose of your own. Largo profits. We have belped othera; why not you. Call or write for particulars, + SOUTHERN HAIR GOODS Co., $10 North Second Street, ' Richmond Va. POO OSOOSCCOOSEDOSESOROSESOOPOVEFODID EDO RONV OTT IOY - D. J. PARRAR, Contractor ano Buitosr, -* ” ALL RINDS OF CARPENTRY. ". * # OFFICH ROOM, NO, 408, MECHA NICS: SAVINGS BANK BUILDING "Phowe Mon roe~ 2087... ae RESIDENCE, 19 N. WIR BYRERT-SHOP'IN BAAR * ‘bdo Atietion Paid te the MORE ok Cosel fo Wig dining et ts ip mY Biyle of Architecture. :,. on Work' 8 Spostaltye 2 3i§ We can prove Eayptien Pomade oem, Cer nga balr, “Gent pow PrAdarose, Paterson Bros.,.¢Td. Thing Avante): New. York Clty. ys ' center it a “ob ae 7 BATURDAX,,.. MAOH 25, 191 BATURDAX,... ‘MANO 25, 1011, uM quEMON ov LEADEHSNIE. Rar, De, Mase Speaks Plainly—No Unirergal Leader in Sight, Bree, tsgior,—t road with much In- forest your suggcstive oditorial on fhe. ay) pf jondorabiy, tn which vou oe. ir. Booker T. Wash- fugton-sattain Ue position of loader 96 ail she polorod poople in, this coun: ait ‘aad What aro the’ chiof ob qacles, ff any, in tho way of tho full fealizalion ofthis hope?” And "Who ‘but Dr, Waakington ona bd named to tho posttioa of unquestioned loader Gtup of the colored poople of thiu eryT” Ree L presume your motive 1s to hotp ceytalles sentiment In fuvor or Ipiting some ono lead who can ton. and thereby stop 80 much crous-Qr- ing and -crippling our lendors to. the hurt of the whole people. If ay poor wards will help verre the pur: Boe of your susgostions, In reilyct etna gpinion of mar hucibio clans, . fou may Use thts article. *, Your fist and socond questions tm- ply that Dr. Washington bas not at- tuned to tho position of leader of nit tho calored pooplo in this country. Your third question, viewed fn tho Might of Use ‘ane, (eplica tat be oringnn tine unaucationed Ieedor of « targe group of Awerican id you destro to know SEE Tee bite Goutd be named nnd sépoptod as tho unquestioned load- er.yador bom the raco could, and should, wait HAVE NOT PRODUCED ONE. * | a my optaton, tho American No! Groce bave'not yot produced a pre: egninontly gront unquostioned loslor af all the colored poopio In Cals opuntry. I moan wo havo not produced a Igndar able to unite the discordant demonis of tho Faco | teager whole the living embodt- moat ani oxpduent of tho higher ores of tho raco along all lues, rests and articulating into life ‘tho béghest hopes and visions of the raco; saying the thing the raco {8 about to ay, moros {0 tha line tho rob qeutres'to more, in its sober bourse [dor who needy nolthor wnalth mor position to draw mon unto hh; a teader with the spirit af prophecy, who recognizes now ruth from’ God, in his day and Spent tt forth to mankind In words ef Bre, 4 man of vision, the strong Urtag eonse which a genorous mind feele; sotting tho heazt-atring; deop and “réidluto to upbold the causo of truth and rigtteouoness, inn mean- ‘ago of eolfishneas and greed. When much a loader says como. tha people Pm and whoa he says co, thoy fo A REPARENOD TO MOSES ‘ 1 1 mons a man itko Motos, who re {used to bo eallod the son of Pha rouh‘a daughtor, choosing rather to saffer affiiction with his parsccuted people than to oajoy tho advantage f nfastica for s seuson. cateeming © Fopraschics of Justice greater rfohes than tho treasures of Euypt— loader who took tho part of hi Oppressed brothron, forsook Exypl Rot ‘Céartng tho wrath of tho king @r ha ondarod as ono who aces Iilm who b Invistblo, a loader who ba GiHth ondugh in'the power of truti make orery Hobrew loavo th Rouge of bondage, march through th wa, suffor forty yours to tho ‘wil doracts and eant thelr seed to th Promized Land, falth oaough {a th uli to overthrow Pharab'a arm: with a walking stick and force hi way to tho Promitsod Land throug! tho combingd opposition of thi {fngs of darkness. That's what | dati o teador. f expaa mén Uke Phaclbn 0 Greceo: Brotus, of Romo, Hamden Gf Mogtaad; LaFasctte, of Frante reo Washington and Lincold, o Amorion. Wo have produced many auccons fat colored loaders of groups. Doug lam, Wesblagton and Du Bola bay Root Udo Leaders of the larger groupe ors have lod groups withia groun Dist 29 Mitoboll loads tn journalism ad banking, ‘Mr. Dougisos was a great Amer! Au, & great man, a goat leador but tho gealua of his leadersiitp wa shown In his ability to load whit mea beforo émaaclpation, rather tha wlack mon a&tor omancipatipn. DIL WASEENGTON'S QUALIFICA. ‘TIONS. Ia my opinion, Dr, Wasbington | A groat and good man, pre-eminent; a@ucceesfut, and“a groat londor 0 white moa, who imagino they ar. ing btm; but to is not a gro ipeaor of colered mon in the sane nets. ls an evidonce o De. Wasbington's ability to leai white men—aot black mon, Otho: men bave Dalit wp ioauitations on of ‘butions, but Mr a Cowpens igpatribetions, bat Mr » ERPIRAUARAGRRAUP , met, font a ce oy SAAT a RICTT SO ALRIEAS GETS PRISE aH ps DAD pet Honslaatonlly prod _.of the. .cnaat jachlovemente, but. thelr entbysleam nermore-meana:that the salorta pee Be ca ie oats seve i ngton.ea sho nas feeder bf the woole taco to 15 ny ate has thelr andi h eh} Sage mn means tha Sera. ee hee aaa jekampion ee.the unguestioued leader of tho REO ‘Phe opposition to Dr. Washington during the past quarter of a century bas not been directed agatost bin industrial idea, but againut the ten- oney of wany of his supporters and tho antl-Nogro prear to mako his speocbes circumscribo overy other tatérert of the ruco ta tho lowe conception of hig industria) {dea. Tho antt-Nogro sontimeM of the country has unfortunately joinod Mr [Washington's true friends and friends of tho taco of Industrial ott cation, and endeavored to foreo Mr Waablogton upon the colored people ay thelr unquestioned leader | Dut, In my opinion, Dr. Washing. ton cannot attain to the position o unquestioned Tendorsbip of all the colored peopto of this counteg. 1s past history le agaloat Bis. 1 how advocated, and over-emphasized Induatrial oducation, to tho detri: mont of that kind of culture whiet frames and balencos people for love nest and power.’ Seero | doctors lawyers, ministers and men of letter [havo never forgotten the wormwoo land the gall which the pronn of the country oxtracted from hin earls apeoches, to deaden thalt ambition to securo a college education Tho: remember how colored collogo met have been dolittled, ridiculed an [discouraged for a quarter of a con tury, Tho Planet woll saya: ‘The: Inever forgot. nor forgave him fo {the eariler declarations upon this all important subject.” i OTHER THINGS AGAINST HIM. Then, too. Dr, Washington's rott conce In the faco of outrages axaton tho raco Is against him Iie has had tho our of the American*white people North, South, East apd Weat, aa no other” man ‘bas had it white o1 black. And the taco bas Hetoned for Jo! thoso twenty-five years, with be Inted breath, to hear him Flog oul clear and true, from his” .yantage Rround, against the great ‘national sin of racial discrimination — bolas enacted In the very constitutions of the States, but In overs caso he has elthor evaded tho teenie, or be has fiFeo an uncertain sound whieh tickled popular prejudice, and could bo used a effectively against us, 02 for un, | The most sertous —Indictivent against Mr Washington over becom Jog the unquestioned loader of the race 1s That in all of hia public Mle he has nover offended the pref udleed clement of the rountry, bul twico in twenty-five years Once tn his Chicaga *Jubiioe Spesrh™ and again when he dined with the Prosi dent And in due tine ho apologized for voth throngh tho publle prow Thnt tt waa necosary for him to a Mt In tho Interorts of Tunkegee In stitute may be true, but st does no change the fact that they “militat against Dr Washington ever becom Ing the unquestioned leader of thi Face. SOT prem wm eg | OTHER DISQUALIRICATIONS. | Dr Washington's present position im agatnut him, | Hie institution 18 to be supported by populer subscription from Amer= jean white peoplo, who are ‘tborough- jy in sympathy with tho South's No- Bro polity Mr Washington is duly bound to the race, and. benofactors of Tuskegeo to ateor ft clear of pracy tical politics, and avoid. arousiog Sonthern prejudice and carry out the Prime purpose of Industrial educa- tlon. Dr Washlagton’s —-motea and bounds aro forever fixed within the compass of Tiskogoe. And if hiw original Tusxegeoian basin ty nox broad enough to permit him to int tain to tho position of unquestioned Ieadorsbip of all the colored people Jo this country, ft fs too Inte to chango his toxt now. Ho cannot afford to offend the shite American sentiment, which has boonted him jo his present ‘dizzy heights If the white people of this country would dincredit. Dr Washinton. ne 2 Jonder ho would aink Into obliv. fon Heras the colored people fnteresta in Dr. Washington on fn Toader, aside from his industrial leadership nro not founded upon the Renuino rack of truth. but upoa his Popularity with white people and his AviNty to Ret favors for hin friende They aro onthustaatic over him and hin work at Tuakogeo, but at heart onposed (4 "tho attempt vf an alien race to thrust bim upon them as \""" unqueationod leador, 13 PRESENT POLICY ANALYZED, aRainat lilm, Ho appeals to the'selNsh motivo of Whito people, when pleading for his taco’ 1 mean. he ts always show: Ing tho white man some new way by wbich ho can make tha Negro of ma- torial help to him Ife never seema to think. White peoplo ara capable of boing moved by tho truth, na It Ja to God—4o deal justly with’ tho Negto for the iar 6 own sake, Hoe ap- peals to tho prean olemont in the Amorican pooplo, instead of tho Christian cloment. In tho compara- tively helploss condition of the No- ro, bis unquestioned toador must of ocosalty appeal to the highest Chris. ‘Uan motive of tho-strongor race with ‘tho view of awakening that Christian consclonsnons which doos not wolgh Sts dobts In tho balance of slmplo rac Iprocty, nor atop to ask how Tough must I do to got quit of this or that claim, It hes # balance aboot In itv 1pg currency of soul: as ‘well as in dead doljare, It recognises various forms of {ndedtednoas tn the roaln of tho immaterial. that cannot be moasurod by the rule of oquivalonts but by the rile of tho infinite, «rhe aagaonttoned. Jester most inehat. or - white people paytug black people't debt, of toupee, ire "gaa taba Mauch a7gty; Child ‘of God owes ano ee, i fore tt eevee and 16 sha [3a is TPP as Se scuh SIAT SEITE PS pases BB abe VATAYEHULE be SAY WA "+ gS 5k A Rid x PAY ERDA NERA SRO ERIS: RIGIIUINNE PLANET) RIGHMONDS: VIRGINIAS EE so BTRS AG ORT et BR eens ai co er Cn age ia he pee ED oF | A D ae he SUMevenoene Oe: BEE WE YR Sees Bi eS Oe BO Pie -ASTAUNCHE RIEND OF THE NEGRO GL Tas, Bowrenpanr was forigded $n 2848 ax “w/Weelty .Afase- zine to secure the freedom pf Ametican glayes.'~In aho alxtteo | years that have followed, it fas’ always been the: {lend and __ champion of the Negro Race, We baverprinted frequent articles ~ {com prominent Negroes and bave cloeely followed thelr activl- tiep and successes, This attitude bas ‘cost us many thousand subscribers, but we have the courage of Gur own convictions, We feel we are publishing a Magazine tbat every Negro should read. SEND $1.00 FOR SIX MONTHS qr acquaint you with the character and policy of Tnx Lxve- rexpsr, we shall be glad (0 accept a six months subscription for one dollar. Our regular price is $3 a year, We believe that by reading Tue Inogvencenr you will realize our fair * attitude and position, Remember, Tae Inverzxogyr is an JJlus- trated Weekly Magazine, and that you will thetelore reserve x6 copies for about four cents gach. Use this blank. ‘THE INDEPENDENT Regular Sadecription Price 420 FULTON STREET 03,000 Year NEW YORK Enclosed find One Dollar for which please send me Tue Inperenvent every week for Six Months. = ys maswerioge pivaso mention The '}? LANET. meee richer he will be jo fellowship ¢ lite : TUE LINE OF THE LEAST RESISTANCE. | Dr Washington's policy 18 to move tn the line of Ieagt Teststance. The colored people do not -balleve Dr. Washington has tho fortitude, of in- clination to bear bis breast to the opposition which awalts the unques tloned lender of the race’ Whenever the unquertioned leader comes, he must by all means storm tho fort, for equal. civil and politico! rights To deny tho Negro all voice tn the mnttor of conducting the sffalrs of State {8 incompatible with the doc trine of ranting the Negro protec: tlon in the matter of holding proper ty nnd falr trial by a Jury of bie peers, Neither fs it compatible with the doctrine of equal sharing In the boneSits of the public rovenuo, self: Teatect and progressive contentment How can Dr. Washington be ou unquestioned political leador, whou he tells us.bo loathes politics anc has preached “‘no-Negro-in-polttics’ for, lo’ these many moons? : And oven now ho tells us how Te luctantly ho complied with tho Pros Ident’s requost for a political confer once, aad that a day In tho Nations Capitol Is always regarded by him ai B day wasted. Tho colored people of this countrs aro not expecting Dr Washfagton t lend in arousing tho Chriutlan sen Unient of this Christian nation ‘agalpet tho un-Christlan “Jim Crow fam’ and segregation acts, which ar growing Worse In proportion an w. progrexs. Tam suro Dr. Washingto feels tho ating and humiljiation of | as koonly as any of us—from th way ho dodges thom. And ho Is do ing oll ho can in his own best Nite way to break it down, knowing tha white and black aro taking him to seriously and over-catimating | hi ability to grapple with those quer Mons and keep bis work going. T'do‘not blame him, ho has don tho best "he could. But it doce no chango the fact that the America Nexro will not accept a leader wh refuses to touch Aimerican pref dire, and refuses to carry tho racio hip across the bar Into the roug political xeas os | In my opinion, the colored poop! /of America can, and should, and at slowly uniting ‘under tho" unqner [tioned ‘leadership of Dr Da Bole, DU ROIS IS IN FAVOR. , I mean that if Dr Du Nols tn not tho unanestioned leader which God tm going to send us, ho ts tho foro Funner, preparing tho way for Him He " represents no particular church, school, Insurance company, or money-making concern. He { almply o “voice crying in the wilder nesn' for ohual ‘opportunttica® for ovorybody. jn everything, sod the fullest Christinn fellowahip for which tho prophet of Nazareth stood. . He Rover sounds a fnleo noto on” an} question. nor givos any uncertalt mound, ho rings out clear and true. And American projudico and racial discrimination sbuttios at his vory name, The demona know bim thoy know Christ, Garrison and Phil: Ups, and they are crying out “why ‘has thou come to torinent us before tho tho?” For moro thon n decade tho af. vanced men af tho rico have acen in ‘Du Bofs tho “foul of Black Folk." And whon wo think of organized op position against Nogro distranchise mont and unjust discrimination, we associate Du Dots with it as | the loading -epirit. HARD TO FIND. ; It Is mighty hard to find any No gto in thip country iliterate 01 Tearned who {s not fonging in hit heart of hearts to sce the travail o Du Bole soul, and bo aatiafod. “God will divido him a portion. with the great, and to shall divide the spo! with the strong, hecango he hat! poured out bis soul unto death.” W. H. MQSEB. Newhorry, & C. ‘To Teach Puplle to Swim - Swimming ts to be taught in the Chicago public schools as @ part of Saeed res, tt : lana Were approve af ocating fae sea Micka eae oot _hullding,..at SouthFs esa sires al fe tia mdb La bere 0 iret Dock m e.constenctod. Rapils ape te-De aie swimming leksons bY A expptt. bie with B18 seit wi yoasa't zea Dbba eB re ere A ee a a ae ‘After looking tnto the tacos of bia mother, Mra, George Bean, and bis alstor, Ning, who were slfot and killed At Maidstone, Vt, on Thursday, AF; thur Bean, the cightecs-yoar-old son and brothor, who is charged with the murders, collapsed and almost foll across the cofting ‘Tho youth had Beea.pormitted to at- tend the funerals, but when the ser- vices were ovor was tahen to the fam- tly bome In Maldstone and locked up for another night with bis guards. « ‘Three daughters and ono other son of Mra. Bean also attended the tu: neral, but ho ln of recognition was exchanged be}ween the accused man and the rost of the family Membera of, tho family told friends that tho’ cus of tho tragedy was the dinposal of the Bean tomo. The house was left to: Afthur by bis fathor, and the grapdfgther rosently sent. the young mana bill for Inbor and ox penses abotit tho house agsrceating more than the house was worth. | ‘Tho youth objected to paying the bill, and members of the family took aldes tn tho mattor. It was sald by one of his sisters that Arthur wont to be house recently and, flourlkbing a -¢ ‘yolver, declared “somgbody will ge hart if thoy don't stop Sagging me.” +e cuehar Goes te Piieen. Robert, Cleveland, charged WO murder in connection with the lynch: fog of Carl Ethoringtos, a Probtbl tion detective, 10 Newark, Obfo, tant July, pleaded ullty to ,nanslaugbtor Ho was sontenced to an Indeterminate torm in the Oblo roformatory. Ho I the third man to bo rentenced fo co nection with the case. AIGHT STO EY . <> 3Gas.2450l_§) “AT A ecais, 675 bog DISTILLERY EXPRESS FAM PRICE PAID. Jf IN HN. 7 BS pe ene Ay | eras mes Brees teeta meee, oa A fees geen an f N Sidi we wil REFUND your money. 14] A) Tin Ac CULE 8 uh HF Sass [as] y Express Feld te a, woe of nee SR Re Smear - Sronewatt Disituine Co 1453HuSt. RICHMOND VA ; Ofigg Howitt, 8, AM. to 6 P.M. "DEB. B. miristy, SURGEON DENTINT. 4 Cet eee eet Sots, be Front. ac 4 ee ar JOHN: POINDEXTER Jon 7a ENTER . 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It requires a membership of ©", shiny perazus to organize a conrt. Its einbers" ate pledged to ckhibit [Fis ity, exercise Barony and prove Love one for the other. It pays : an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It peye $3.00 per week sick * dues, The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, so cents and , arosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions, oF For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, eddree John Mitchell, J ohn Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. 4th Street. | 5 ‘ ' -Fouth tube mock cheom ¢ poer payaaa to try afew oatt woe Sais a cinget [oP ssa‘toald vse en alee weal to mre few dllary when « bat shoot WL ages the vega er caractr and of eis for Ly and peepire ate fer age Fees Co Ona aaa: ama Bit 4 ae ene | ~ 3) poe <] i fi | i ; com me * Docu paper ect taie dived enoeteet 6 5) y gale Seer di 4 . Va. 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After he had convinced the undertaker that interment at this time would interfere with his constitutional rights, "Joff" then found himself involved in international complications, he being told that Germany's ambassador had notified the morgue keeper that he had cabled to the fatherland for instructions as to the disposition of "Joff" body. INVESTIGATION REVEALS TRUTH But "Joff" wasn't going to stand for burial even if as he was informed, it would bring him to wealthy relatives in Germany. He settled his side of the argument satisfactorily, at least to himself, but the under taker was, not to be banked in his hands, to be used by the Society of St. Vincent do Dalhousie, had been commissioned to accomplish the interment of somebody. An investigation that finally straightened out the matter followed. EMBASSY GETS THE BODY. The fact developed that a "Joff" Miller really was dead, but he was a real "Joff"—the abbreviation being that of "Jofferson"—while the live one obtained his title as a nickname, having been baptized Charles. Charles is a protege of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. When the death notice of "Joff" was printed the society consequently called on the undertaker. Jefferson Miller, the one who is really dead, was known to have come from a wealthy family in Germany. Recently he had been given a legacy of 1000, that came to him from one of his family. When this was dispatched Jefferson returned to the Homo for the Aged and Inform. On this death the German embassy took charge of the body, swaiting instructions from the relative about it was knowledge of this fact that caused the morgue keeper to refuse to give up the body, which the undertaker supposed was that, of the other "Joff." LEADERS WANTED (St. Louis, Mo Advance) It is such men as Councilman Harry S. Cummings of Baltimore, and John Mitchell, Jr., of Richmond who have gone to the front in battling against the race segregation measures of these cities that we need commend and support, and not the Negro sycophant who is junketing about the country advancing Negroes to keep quiet and submit. We need "valiant hearted men who are not afraid to die" in a good cause. (Brooklyn, N. Y. Eye) The Richmond Planet presents some quotations from Dr. Booker T. Washington, in which the doctor wants to get on record as being in sympathy with the discharged soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. This expressed sympathy is boiled indoed. An academic discussion of this soldier question in "The World's Work" by Dr. Washington some three years after the act is not interesting. Roosevelt has been silenced, Not, however, by silence, but by the Northern Afro-Americans who opposed him when he was at the height of his years. The Doctor's good word for Taft will avail—he has been weighed and found wanting. Lot Dr. Washington stick to Tuskegee and keep out of politics. THE MOD'S WORK. Louverna, La., March 14. —Word reached her today that a mob of white men had shot to death Jackson Walker, a colored man, who is alleged to have assaulted Mr. John Butts in a remote part of Pike county several days ago. The negro was found eating a lonely breakfast in the woods and was fired upon. Colortd Man Killa Wife Mary Powell, a colored woman, was shot and instantly killed by her husband, Ephraim Powell, at their home in Mifflin, Del. The husband used a shotgun, and the entire charge entered his wife's head below the left eye. The crime was witnessed by a small child. Powell met the father of the dead woman while being taken to fall, torso loose, from the policeman and struck the aged man in the face. Four Fishermen Drowned. Four fishermen, the crew of the gasoline boat Hope, were drowned just outside the breakwater at Gloucester, Mass., when the boat collided with the schooner Haller Heckman. 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My treatment stops falling hair or breaking off, cures split ends, removes dandruff and scalp scurf, causes the hair to grow long, no matter how short; soft, no matter how harsh; thick, no matter how thin; straight from the bulbs, no matter how kinky. First treatment will show wonderful improvement. Do not wait if you are interested in your hair. I give treatments all over the United States by mail. Write me at once. I send booklet of information, and testimonials of those taking my treatment when four-cent stamp is enclosed. I do not have agents. I need a personal history of your hair and scalp and your physical condition. All mail promptly answered when four-cent stamp is enclosed. I am the only woman of the race growing hair today who can show the public the real length my hair was when I first began treating it. Send for booklet if you mean business. You can secure these preparations only from me. None like them made in the world. The T. D. P. Scientific Scalp Preparation, Madam Perkins, Sole Agent. A colored man calling himself, "Captain John R. Simpson" and at times sailing under other names has been, persistently swindling both white and colored people in Norfolk. Portsmouth, Newport News and Phoebus. His plan has been to represent that he has money in a col- ored bank in this city. He gets his victim to write John Mitchell, Jr. President and tell him to send him six hundred and fifty dollars or some like amount at once to the person who is writing the letter or advancing him a small sum of money until he has gotten his money from Rich- mond. The hovel in which the boy was Captain found is a one-room affair, with a times saill small garrot. Because of the fact that been per Willie is an opilieptic he was put in white and the garrot to sleep. The prosecutor's Portsmouth information was to the effect that the child was foul twice a wook, and the doctors say his condition warrants the oved bank the statomont. He alleges that he is captain of a sailing vessel, which according to his letters has been lost near Tinkle Light of Bloody Beach and as he has been carrying on this kind of swirling for about two years, that boat is presumably wrecked every two or three weeks. He asks that the letter be sent to him in case of the person who advance the money. He never comes back to see if the money comes in he directs. We have written continuously to the people, who send these letters, but we have had quite a time to keep up with him. Keep clear of Captain John R. Hippson or anybody who looks like Man. mountaineer to accompany him to Hackonsack, where he was committed to fall, charged with extreme cruelty. Willie Jennings' foot were frozen during the early winter, but the father and housekeeper failed to call a physician. The exposure in the garret, with no fire in the house, was enough to freeze the child to death. There were four other children in the shack, all smaller than Willie. Agent Trainor asked a neighbor to give the child a piece of bread and it was devoured ravenously. Dr Henry Barlows and Dr. St. John closely examined the boy's feet and declared the case one of the worst they ever saw. Dr. Barlows said: "The gangrene has extended so far as a result of the frozen feet that the lad will be lucky if both legs do not have to be amputated eventually, as it is, we believe both feet will have to be amputated in a day or so." Subscribe to THE PLAYER Always Losing His Boat. * We offer you, the Latest and Most Artistic Photos, at a More Moderate Figure than you can obtain elsewhere. * Special Attention Paid to Children. Enlarging and Copying Interior View Work. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All Orders prismply filled at short notices by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and use. Entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. 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