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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1919)
Classified i Advertising RATES—2 cents a word for single In sertions; cent a word for two or mors insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 25 cents. Cash should accom pany advertisement. DRUG STORES ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24th and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neb. First-class modern furnished room. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, ilo. North Twenty-sixth street. iTion. Webster 4769. Property for sale. Telephone Web ster 1352. DESIRABLE ROOMS FOR RENT Furnished rooms, strictly modem, one block from 24th street car line. Men only. Call Webster 4012. 4t First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric lights on Dodge and 24th street car line. Mrs. Anna Banks, 924 North 20th. Douglas 4379. FOR SALE—A nice home for Colored family; easy terms. Call at 1809 North 24th st. Neatly furnished room for man in strictly modern home. Mrs. Barker, 2706 Parker street. Webster 1250. 4t LODGE DIRECTORY Keystone Lodge. No. 4. K. of P., Omaha, Neb.' Meetings first and third Thursdays of each month. M. H. Hazzard, C. C.; J. H. Glover. K. of R. and S. Ask the grocer, merchant, etc., with whom you trade: “Do you advertise in our paper, The Monitor?" Snow’s College of Dressmaking Fall term will open September 2. En roll now. Mrs. C. Ridley, 1922 North 25th St. Res. Colfax 3831.' ' Douglas' 7150 ’ AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at - Law 13th and Farnam t 4— • ... 4 FRIEDMAN’S PLACE £ X Fine Watch Repairing. Red 7914 v ?• v We Buy and Sell v y Jewelry, Clothing, Shoes, Trunks X X Suit Cases, Etc. X •> X MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS * Full line of Tuxedo, Full v X Dress and Prince Albert Suits ? for sale or rent. See us first. X I ... |21? Douglas St. Omaha, Neb. •> •x“x“x~x~x~x~x***x~x~x~x~x~> y»-^~-.. . ■ . . ...... Office Phone Web. 2095. f Residence W’eb. 12F9. J JOHN A. GARDNER ! AUTO EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE j Stand at- P. IF. Jenkins’ Barber j Shop, 2122 North 24th St. ♦ i . ■ . ... •:--X":*.x**X"X-X"X“X--X"X-X"X--:--: K. & M. t GROCERY CO. •: T X ? We solicit your patronage. if 2114-16 North 24th St. J. ❖ v :..»:..X"X“X-*x»x-X“:«x-:-x--»x A X .*. W’e Sell Kashmir Goods ! STARK’S PHARMACY | 30th and Pinkney Streets £ X Phone Webster 4225. X Y X"X--X"X"X“X--X--X"X~X“X~X~X' •X"X“X-‘X“X-*X-*X-*X~X~X“X"X**X k DANGERFIELD & VICKERS £ | EXPERT SHOE REPAIR | £ 814 North 24th St. Y Y X Telephone Douglas 7147. v **x—x—x**x-*x—x—x—x—x—x**:—w-y-y-x *«**Wm***Im«K**MmMm«mX*****«***h***JmMhM*4Mh.' I i WATERS f £ BARNHART Z PRINTING CO. | —-a-iKi ;: ' \ ' ii :: i | I f < > : ! ii f < > y < - Y I ’ £ WILL PROSECUTE LEADERS OF MOB Immediate steps to bring the lead ers of Sunday night’s mob to certain justice were promised by County At torney A. V. Shotwell, who returned early Monday afternoon from Lincoln. Mr. Shotwell said: “It is my intention to do my duty in this crisis and that is to see that the law is enforced with every ounce of energy that I have. Everything that lies in my power will be done to prose cute all those connected with this crime, which is the worst that ever was committed in Omaha. I will wel come all information from any person which will throw light on the persons responsible. “We officials have the same feelings as other men,” said the county at torney. “We are just as anxious to prosecute brutes who assault women as any other men are. “The Negro who was lynched would have been prosecuted to the limit of the law, and in the ordinary processes of the law would have been more severely punished than his death pun ished him. “There is not a single instance on record in this county where a man convicted of rape failed to get a heavy sentence, and not a single instance where a man convicted of rape was paroled. “Interviews purporting to come from me have been published in some papers which were ridiculous. One stated that after the police judge bound prisoners over to the district court the county attorney failed to file complaints. That is ridiculous, because the binding of a prisoner over to the district court is in itself a complaint and must be prosecuted. “Another alleged interview repre sented me as saying hearings on such cases would be secret. This, too, was absurd, because under the law all trials must be public. “While I am county attorney I as sure you such cases as these will be prosecuted with all the power at my command.” COURT APPOINTS BANKER GUARDIAN Southerners Make Attempt to Secure $2,000,000 Estate Owned by Mem bers of Race—Court Takes Guard ianship Out of Hands of Mother and Gives It to W hite Banker. Okmulgee, Okla.—Unusual interest is being manifested among our peo ple of this city and county in the mat ter of the guardianship of Zerleasia, Sadie and Charles Loman, Jr., aged 0. 4 and 2, respectively, heirs to the estate of Charles Loman, valued at more than two million dollars. Mr. Loman died near Beggs, in Okmulgee county, about a year ago, leaving an estate then valued at $25,000, em bracing about 300 acres of land. A few months later the mother of the children, and their natural guardian, was appointed guardian by Judge Cleveland, county judge of Okmulgee county. Since that time the estate has developed valuable oil property and has consequently attracted the attention of the white grafters in this county. Recently, the county judge ' cited Mrs. Loman to appear in court “within 24 hours” to show cause why she should not be removed as guar dian of her children. She appeared with her lawyers and protested against her removal, but the court appointed J. E. Whittinton, a banker (get the connection?), of Henryetta, an exclusive white town, 12 miles -outh of Okmulgee, where our people are not allowed to live. VERDICT OF JURY IS JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE Recommend Three Men Be Released Who Protected Themselves. Chicago, Oct. 1.—“Justifiable homi cide” was the verdict of the coroner’s jury recently in the case of Joseph Scott, charged with the killing of Nicholas Kleimark, white, 3451 Ash land avenue, July 28. Scott stabbed Kleimark with a pocket-knife as the latter attacked him with a club on an Ashland avenue street car. With him the jury exonerated Wil son Brown and Harry Simpson, also Colored passengers on the same street car, which was stopped by a mob of white men. The jury recommended that the three be released. The ver dict said in part: “It is the sense of this juiy that the conduct of the police at the time of the riot at this point, during the sub sequent investigations and at the pre liminary hearing at which Joseph .Scott was bound over to the grand jtjry without counsel, was a travesty on justice and fair play." PITTSBURGH ELECTS ALDERMAN Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 2.—The Fifth ward elected Robert H. Logan aider man and Otto Simonson was chosen ( constable. The electors in many cities are beginning to show their apprecia . tion for real merit and Negroes are ' being elected to official positions. At the Other End of the Lynchers’ Rope 1-—-1 FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF LYNCHINGS AND RIOTS Washington, D. C., Oct. 2.—Con gressional investigation of race riots over the country proposed in a reso lution by Senator Curtis, republican, Kansas, was considered Monday by the senate judiciary committee, fol lowing the announcement of a lynch ing and race riot at Omaha, but action was deferred. Acting Secretary of Labor Post wrote the committee en dorsing the resolution, but opposition in the committee developed and the resolution went over for a week. Op ponents said they believe race clashes were matters for the states to deal with and doubted whether congres sional investigation would be helpful. Senator Curtis filed with the com mittee a statement from the National Association for Advancement of Col ored People, declar ing men had been lynched and eight Negroes burned to death this year up to September 14 and that from 1889 to 1918 2,522 Ne groes and 702 whites were victims of lynch law, with less than 24 per cent of the Negroes charged with attack. on women. “The states have proved themselves unable or unwilling to stop lynching," the statement declared. "Even at tempts to prosecute are so rare as tc lx* exceptional. Lynching and mot violence have become a national prob lem. The extension of lynching tc northern states with white men at victims shows it is idle to suppose mot murder can be confined to one sectior of the country or one race. “Disregard of the law will inevitabl> lead to more frequent clashes anr bloody encounters between white mer and Negroes and a condition of poten tial race war in many cities.” GOVERNOR HOBBY ANGERED MEXICC Dallas, Sept. 28.—Because of Gov emor Hobby’s recent public advo cacy of armed intervention by the United States in Mexico the Mexi can government has cancelled it; plans to send an extensive exhibitior and a delegation of business men tc the Texas state fair next month, Mexican Consul Flores of Dallas haj informed the fair management, it wa; learned today. Leon Salinas, acting secretary o the department of industry and com merce in Mexico in instructing Con sul Flores to take this action, de dared Governor Hobby’s recent re marks at El Paso were "harmful tc the sovereignty of Mexico and hur the feelings of the Mexican people.’ We must deal with pleasure as w< do with honey, only touch them witl the tip of the finger and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.—Ven erable Bede. PLAN TO ORGANIZE “OPPRESSED PEOPLES” New York, ,Sept. 28.—Representa tives of eight peoples—Ireland, India, China, Korea, Persia, Syria, Egypt, and Russia—whose governments, it is alleged, will be “held subject in per petuity under the terms of the peace treaty to dominate power” have been invited by a number of American edu cators, ministers, publicists and busi ness men and women to attend a meeting here next Sunday afternoon to organize a “league of oppressed peoples.” Dudley Field Malone will be president. r NEGRO PRISONERS DECLARE JAILER SHERMAN CLAYTON GAVE BROWN TO MOB Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 30—Under the security of the state penitentiary walls, colored prisoners who were brought here Monday from Omaha for safe keeping, today declared it was Jailer Sherman Clayton of the Douglas county sheriff’s force who turned William Brown, negro pris oner, over to Sunday night’s mob. 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