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A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL THE COLORADO STATESMAN 'tiii jouvv yy /.. cov/tri iy VOL. XLV, DEiNVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 11MJ7. NO. 13. Near the stream of water were who think such and such a thing God and nature help those who leafless trees, yet filled with lu- ought to have been mentioned in JOE GANS FINED help themselves. If we had stood cious fruit having neither pit nor such and such away; who have to upas we should have done, we DO IT NOW. peeling, but beautiful like the sur- retain the good will of persons and would not be puopets of degrada- roundings. When plucked otf it yet not allow some of these per- tion or if we had manhood and Baltimore, Dec. 7.—Joe immediately grew again. The sons to impose on the publication Gans. dared to defend our rights there people drank of the stream and hv occupying space for which the lightweight champion of the would be no jim crow cars if the ate of the fruit, but Jesus told me there is no commensurate return. world was given a temporary black man said so, but enough on knockout blow by Justice Grannan for not to eat or drink but to return to Yet in spite of all this, be it said that point for the present. I will Beek Business Ventures and Don’t Wait Opportunities to Fall in Central earth again, warn the people of to the everlasting glory of the at the police station yester- say one more word, and you may Your Path. An Appeal to Young Men to Disregard that day afternoon, when he fined their sins and tell them of this Negro, that week after week and was infer my meaning without the con- costs word “Can’t” and Follow the Footsteps of beautiful place and that He was year after year, the Negro press $2.7 and for speeding his au- cent of the Negro no cars could tomobile faster than twelve miles a coming soon, for them to be ready. carries to Negro homes (alas to too run in Georgia. Successful Career. an hour. The blow from the mag- She did not want to come back, few!) messages of courage and lam sorry to say they are run- istrate was not very effective, for fearing she would have to endure sympathy and hope, for which, de- ning by our cowardice and dismit- the colored champion dug down the same suffering but Jesus said, ny it as we may, the Negro looks ted action. There is so many into his jeans ar.d pulled forth a “I will heal you so that you will elsewhere in vain.—Exchange. among us with no concern about roll of bills that almost staggered not have to suffer any more, and I our rights and the rights of our those in the court room. At first No man ever learned to swin on in so doing making of them use- will give you strength.” In fulfill- children and of our children’s dry land. Without some trials less and worthless characters. ment of this promise, she has been he handed out n SIOO note, but children. drew it back, in place of a SSO. there can be no failures, without There is no surer way to complete able to speak to large audiences We ought to as men, and not He was given the change and de- act some failures there can be no real failure than to have some one to and is gaingng her strength every RACE NEWS as simple human parted. Gans was arrested on a automations in worth. lean on when the road gets hard day. The physicians cannot ac- 4 Qilh«rf.d from Various .^ourau. the of men, without warrant sworn out by Patrollman shape mau- Too many of our young men are and the wheels jolt over the rough count for it. She had been sick hood. standing half scared to death in stones. The blow that is warded for seven months and had a long Durfee of the central distrist. Ac- cording to the testimony of the the presence of a ghost that never otf by some other hand is not the death struggle. The doctors agree Shreveport, Lh., Dec. 17.--A officers, Gans crossed Mount Roy- hurt anybody and never will“That blow that makes the muscle stand that she was totally blind in one Negro member of a traveling min- al avenue and Charles street at a ghost is the thing, that says, “You out like cushion of steel. The eye which was sunken and turned strel troupe, who gave his name as NEGRO MILLIONAIRE rate faster than twenty-five miles can’t do it.” There are numbers young man who says 1 can and by backward in the socket, but she is Homer Rogers, was hanged by r. an hour. The champion said he of accomplishments that might the help of the Lord I will, is the now perfectly restored, including mob in Morehouse parish last did not think he was going faster be done by our young men, if they one who is a success in this life. her eyesight. This account is night and his body riddled with R. G. Owens of Los Angeles, than a ten mile clip. He said he would only have courage to try. The battlefield is the place to fight. given by the “Nnzarene Messeng- bullets. As far as can be ascer- Cal., a successful real estate deal- was in a hurry because he had But whatever they anticipate do- —The Reporter. er,’ having been carefully compil tained, the lynching resulted, is reported to be the wealthiest with him three United States sen- er. ing anything out of the ordinary, ed from witnesses and press re- when Rogers resented a remark colored man in the United States. ators who had been stopping at this lie, like Banquo’s Ghost, ports which all establish the evi- make by a white man declaring It is claimed that he is a million- the Belvidere. He had taken comes to them and says, “You can't dence. This is simply another that he was a “Yankee nigger and aire, and that his personal check TO HEAVEN AND BACK them down to see his Goldfield doit’. And then they like cowards witness to us that the Lord is •lid not take any impudence.” This for $(100,000 in good in Los Ange- hotel and was in a hurry to get believe it. The boy who stands showing signs and wonderß in is the th;rd lynching in Morehouse les banks. Owens' father was one them back to their hotel. When on the bank all day long because Wilson, a these last days, ns a loud call to parish in 10 days. of the forty-niners, going to Miss Eula girl of fif- close])’ questioned by the magis- Cali- he is afraid of the water, willnever teen in Wichita, Kans., had been His people to prepare for His com- fornia that year after the discovery trate. it developed that the senator learn to swim. How do you know given up die by the doctors. img.—Ex. of gold at Sutton's Mills. He ac- to M'Henry, Miss., Dec. 15.—News story was a ruse by which the you cannot do the thing yon wish She die and cumulated a considerable fortune, seemed to was laid reached here to-day of the lynch- champion had hoped to escape to do? You have been looking for- which he invested in real estate in out for burial. Hours after- ing last night of Patrick Husband, punishment. ward to the time when you might Los Angeles. And when he died ward she suddenly raised up and THE RACE PRESS alias Pat Jours, a Negro about five do it. All of your preparation has he left to his son about a dozen said: “Oh mamma I have been in mtles east of here. Husband was been for that particular work, and pieces of valuable property. The heaven and Jesus has healed me charged with assaulting two daugh- yet you are afraid to make the ven- There is an old proverb which sou at first was content to collect and told me to eat, drink and ters of Houston House, a well- ture. Ifyou are really desirous of TURNER ON THE NEGRO and live in comfort, but walk.” She says she was taken to says, “A man usually finds what known planter. About 100 armed rents doing something and being some- he looks for.” The wisdom of drifted into the real estate busi- heaven in a cloud accompanied by men caught the Negro and shot body, make a trial. two this old say may he justified by ness. In the first deal he was op- angels and her brother who him to death. The same Negro beats a trial but a fail- had died two years before. Heaven, anyone who will mark the constant posed by some white real estate Nothing was convicted two years ago at In Amoriens, Ga., before an im- ure. The young man who never she said, was sparkling with inde- upward striving toward better agents, and the opposition only Perkinston. Miss., for assaulting a mense congregation, which includ- expects make a trail, ho scribable beauty and glory. She things by the great majority of seemed to brighten his. He took to and white girl and served a term for ed 400 ministers of the southwest- who never tries will never succeed.