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ARMED NEGROES SAVE MEN.
Men Accused of Killing Indian Police
men Spirited Away After Jail
Doors Were Battered.
WERE GARBED AS MILITIAMEN
Muskogee, Okl., Dec. 26.—While a
mob of several hundred men surround
ed the county jail here tonight threat
ening to lynch two Negroes accused
of slaying a patrolman, 200 armed
Negroes kept silent guard in the un
derbrush of a vacant lot across the
street, with the announced intention
of opening fire to rescue the accused
men should the mob obtain custody of
them.
Company F of the Oklahoma Na
tional Guard was called out early to
night, when the mob assumed seri
ous proportions and which repulsed
two assaults on the jail, waited with
fixed bayonets and rifles loaded with
ball cartridges for another attack.
One of the repulsed attacks resulted
in the battering down of the jail door,
but the men in the forefront of the
mob, carrying a piece of railroad rail
as a battering ram, were driven back
before they could get inside.
Indians Give Aid.
To add to the complicated situation
it was rumored that a pcsse of Cher
okee Indians had organized at Tale
quah and started for Muskogee, twen
ty-five miles away, determined to
avenge the slaying of their fellow
tribesman, Sam Neal, the patrolman
whom the two Negroes, William
Green and Mathis Foreman, are ac
cused of killing while resisting ar
rest.
While the mob still waited before
the jail near midnight the two men
were dressed in the uniforms of mili
tiamen and hurried out a rear door.
Under heavy guard they were taken
safely around the mob to the out
skirts of town where automobiles
were waiting to carry them to another
city, presumably Tulsa.
Mob Disperses.
Later when it was announced to
the mob that Green, the man accused
of killing Neal, had been taken away
the mob dispersed quietly. The armed
Negroes across the street also aban
doned their vigil and thus ended a
situation which had been growing
more serious momentarily, finally,
causing threats from the white men
that they would charge unless the
Negroes went home.
MAJOR CHARLES YOUNG
RETURNS TO AMERICA.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 22.—Cap
tain James Gillespie and Lieut. Wil
liam Roundtree were formally com
missioned last week by Secretary of
State Lansing and Dr. Ernest Lyon,
Liberian Consul-General to the Uni
ted States, as members of the Liberian
constabulary. The ceremony took
place at the State Department.
Captain Gillespie will take the place
of Maj. Charles Young, who has been
ordered home. He will receive $1,600
a year with $250 for quarters. He is
a former member of the United States
army.
Major Young may be placed in
charge of the Haitian constabulary
should the United States Senate ratify
the pending treaty between that coun
try and this.
DR. DAN WILLIAMS
R. R. SURGEONS’ GUEST.
Chicago, 111., Dec. 30.—The ninth
annual meeting of the Surgical Asso
ciation of the Chicago and North
western Railway was held this year at
Rochester, Minn., December 10 and 11.
The program consisted of clinical
demonstrations, advanced bone work,
the showing of slides of interesting
and unusual fractures, and the read
ing and discussion of papers on the
more practical subjects in railway sur
gery. The morning of each day was
devoted to special clinics at St. Mary’s
Hospital, to which all members were
invited. The afternoons were devoted
to addresses, one of which was by R.
C. Richards, general claim agent, and
the reading of short practical papeis
and discussions.
There was a short business session
the second afternoon for the election
of officers. On Friday evening, De
cember 10, a session w as held at which
addresses, illustrated by lantern slid s
were given by Drs. E. C. Rosenow, L.
B. Wilson, W. A. MacCarty, Wm. F.
Braasch, R. D. Carman and Samuel
Robinson. The Chicago ar.d North
western Railway also extended the
courtesy of a luncheon in honor of
the association given at the Kahler
Hotel on December 11, at 1:30 p. m.
Dr. Daniel H. Williams, the well
known surgeon and physician, was
present as a giiest of the association.
He was the only colored surgeon pres
ent. It is at Rochester, Minn., that
the famous Mayo Brothers’ Surgical
Sanitarium is located and Dr. Wil
liams was shown many courtesies and
honors during his visit here, partici
pating in the various clinics and
otherwise contributing to make the
meeting a success.
COLORED WAITERS
USED AS CONDUCTORS.
Easton, Pa., Dec. 30.—For the last
three months the Lehigh Valley Dis
trict Commissary Department has
been using waiters as conductors in
place of the regular white conductors.
The men have made good and there
are six colored waiters now running
as conductors.
Their names are Joseph Hortman of
Philipsburg, N. J., R. C. Hoff of Eas
ton, N. S. Spurlock, M. C. Dalney, C.
Oliver and T. M. Jones of Jersey City.
The new superintendent, A. Ellaman,
who was formerly traveling chief, and
who is responsible for giving the col
ored men the opportunity, is pleased
at the showing the men are making.
CHIEF ENGINEER OF BIG FIRM.
Toronto, Can., Dec. 30.—The Ontario
Aeroplane Company, Limited, has ap
pointed as their chief engineer and
technical adviser, Mr. Daniel F. Cole,
a prosperous and hustling young race
man of Detroit, Michigan. This com
pany will make flying machines for
the British Army and is promoted and
financed by capitalists of this city.
ROMAN CATHOLIC
SCHOOL OPENED.
Phiadelphia, Pa., Dec. 30.—A school
for the Negro Roman Catholics was
opened at 432 Queen Lane, German
town, on Monday, December 20, with
an attendance of 146. The archbishop
blessed it on Saturday and called it
St. Catherine’s School.
U. S. GOVERNMENT FIGHTS
ENTRY OF FILMS
Johnson-Willard Bout Pictures to be
Kept Out of This Country—
Government Lawyers File
Answer to Appeal.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 10.—There
was filed in the supreme court to
day by Assistant Attorney General
Warren the government brief in re
ply to the appeal of the Jack John
son prize fight film case, in which
the constitutionality of the law of
1912 against the importation for pur
poses of public exhibition of prize
fight films is involved. The owners
of the films assert that they only
wish to bring the films in for their
own use for exhibition and not for
sale, and therefore congress has not
the constitutional power under the
foreign commerce clause to enact a
law against them.
The films were taken at the fight
at Havana last April between Jess
Willard and Johnson. The contention
is that showing pictures of a fight
is not commerce in the sense that the
word is used in the constitution.
The government compares prize
fight films with the importation of
women under the white slave law,
and insists that there need not be
sale of the actual objects imported
in commerce, but that the use of them
after importation constitutes com
merce, although ownership is retained
by the importer.
The government argument goes
-still further and holds that even if
the thing imported should not be
used for public exhibition and should
be used only for private enjoyment
by the owner, if the law says films
“that may be used for public exhi
bition,” that forcloses the whole
matter.
Seals Again Plentiful.
Under the precautions taken to pre
vent the extinction of the fur seals in
Alaska and the Pribilof islands the
species has multiplied so rapidly that
the bureau of fisheries now recom
mends that the killing of male seals
be resumed.
Ever since the signing of the pe
lagic treaty between Russia, England.
Japan and our own nation, prohibit
ing the destruction of cow seals upon
the high seas, the government has
taken an occasional census of the
seals. The last of these fixed the
number of seals owned by the United
States at 301,844, as against less than
twenty thousand in 1906.
Besides fur, other possible use of the
seal is being considered by the bureau
of fisheries. The scarcity of the
world’s meat supply and the tremen
dous increase in seals as revealed by
the last census suggest the shipping
of seal meat to the United States for
food. Those who have tasted it say
*hat meat, from a young seal is deli
clous in flavor and that seal steak
would be a popular addition to a fash
ionable hotel menu.
English Writer's Ignorance.
Duke Chalmers, the essayist, was
talking about war writers.
“A great grist of English literary
hacks,” he said, “were thrown out of
regular work when the war began,
and so they all turned themselves into
‘our military correspondent.’ and la
dled out optimistic soothing sirup to
the public in the daily press at a
guinea a column.
“One writer reminds me of the
young lady who once carried on a
glib naval argument with Admiral Ma
han at a dinner. A third person said
to her In some astonishment:
" ‘Why, how well you talk up to the
ndmiral on these abstruse naval top
ics!’
’’ ’Oh,’ said the young lady, T’ve only
been concealing mv ignorance.’
“ ‘Not at all,’ said Admiral Mahan,
gallantly. ‘Quite the contrary.’ ”
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