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.Cream and Milk.
DEPOT 203 SECOND ST.
JOHNP. HOFFMAN, Manager
Milk Delivered to All Parts of the City.
Oregon Fhona North 9011.
EAST PORfliRHD WOOD GO.
E. M. LAMBERT.
Dealers In All Kindt of
WOOD AND COAL
Wood Raffed to order In yard or on street.
.i ' Oregon Phono Union 491
Columbia 1'hone 6228
' ' YARD AND OFFICKl
Cor. past Morrison and Water Streets
PORTLAND, OREOON.
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Fire Insurance
Real Estate
Loans...
Rents.,.
264 STARK. STREET
A, W. ALLEN
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OREGON.
Strong's
PORTLAND
THOMPSON
cPhotpirraphs
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Superior in Style
and Finkhj-jl
STUDIOj
la Goodnoogh Buildine.
ST. CHARLES HOTEL
IOHN GIBLIN, Prop.
Flrst-Class Accommodations and Prompt serv
ice. Large Sample Qooms for
Commercial Travelers.
Phone 7. Oor: rirst&Wtiliiiigton Sts.
ALBANY, OREGON.
BUTTERFIELD BROS.
JOBBERS IN
x DIAMONDS, WATCHES
WmM M M' W&
, Manufacturlnr Jewelers, Optician
and Watchmakeis.
Silversmiths
1621 2 First St. PORTLAND, OR.
C. A. STOKES LIQUOR GO.
WHOLESALE DEALERS.
PABSTMILWAUKEE BEER
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Bottled by Pabst Brewing Co.
Milwaukee, Wis.
1130 Pacific Avenue
tacoma - Wash.
Salem Store, instate St.
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NEW YORK FURNITURE CO.
Dealers in Furniture. Carpets and
Household Goods
IE? A. COVELL, Manar. n Phone Oak 341
V" tUjmsr STREET, fOKTLAND, OREGON. '
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GROCERS
COFfWE AND TKA A SPECIALTY.
39a Washington Street, Corner Tenth
TRY OUR CE1.KBRATED COrFKK.
Hoth'Fhonaa S3S. rOKTXAND, "OR.
OLYMPIC
STEAM LAUNDRY
407 South
J Street
MIOIIBL J. BJORR 4 LOUIS .. BJORH
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FROPRIBTOK8
TACOMA, WA8H.
W. I,. McCabb,
Beattle.
E. 8. HAMILTON,
Tacoma
M'CiBB & UAMILTOM
.. STEVEDORES ..
PUCET SOUND
Alio Honolulu, H. I.
Haad Office: Taoomi, Wash.
Cable Address: McCABK
GRACIE, BEAZLEY tc CO., Aftsts
14 ITsier Stre UvtrpooL
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...THE OLYMPIAN...
148 Firth St, Near Morrlion
BLUNDEN & VELTON, Props.
THE FAMOUS
OLYMPIA BEER
ON DRAUGHT
New Building, New Fixtures, Cholco Goods.
The Popularity of
RED SfAL BRAND
Hams, . "
Bacon,
Lard, Etc.,
Is Won on Merit.
TRY RED SEAL BRAND.
56-60 E, Water St., Portland, Or.
-THE-
Multnomah Trunk Co
MANUFACTURERS OF
TRUNKS
TRAVELING BAGS
and SAMPLE CASES
Salesroom 143-145 Sixth Street
PORTLAND, OREGON.
Custom HoDse Exchange
S3 Flaalsra Cor. Savaath SU .
McCROSKEY&EMMEBT
PROPRIETORS.
frlvate Entraaoa a ftasdera Street
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
1 Ml fill.
The UsrlvaUd Piss, ef the Wsrlt
KRANIGH & BACH
Establfsrvid I8S4.
Vlak) ovt Wareraoea aai be canviaeaaT.
Maay etacr staaianl aai rtHiafc aaakas ef
Pianos aasi Orna. We saH eat EASY
TERMS. No large first Payment raysieW.
C. A. WHALE riUSIC HOUSE
M. C. MATTWEU, Manager,
138 Sixth Street
HAYES & SHORT
. AUTISTIC PHOTOOlfAPUERR
New Studio
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Seventh and Washington Streets, Orer
Dresner's New Grocery.
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milK OKKdOtf 1 1VKRY, FKED, BOAKDINQ
AND BALE 8TAD1.E8. ' '
Columbia Phono 687. 0:egon Thono Hood Ml
JMRR1K $ 1M11HIK, Props.
Bpe clal attention jtlven to boarder. Our car
r I re meet all trains, Cor. Sixth and Couch
Htrcetn, Portland, Oregon.
pHOTO 8TUDIO
5tf First Street, Bet. Falmon and Main,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
hototraphs taken any site or Mylcl alo
Photo lluttous made from life or any picture,
Out door vlewlni
ik done, amo ntutninR ki
done, also MtilshlnR Kodak's
for amateurs.
Instructions In
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Copying sud Enlarging
E. KRAFT, Artist.
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l)calcrs In
Dlsmonds. Watches, Jewelry, Silverware
(Spectacles, Etc. '
RKPA1RI.S0 A HPFCMLTY, ALL WORK ,
V WAHllANTED.
t: Third St. llct. Pine and Ash.-. , v
Old Oold and Silver Bought. Portland, Or.
pORTLAND CLUB AND CAFE
130 Fifth 8lri)ct.
Our Specialties: II Monogram and HI Cyrus
Noble Whiskies.
A RESORT FOR GENTLEMEN.
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Kepalrlns and IlccoterltiR of Fine Umbrellas
Now on Johnson fllreet. Opposite a Hpeclah),
Union Depot.
i 313 Washington Str.
Three doors aboie Olds A King
LURCHES POT DP FOR TRAVELERS mmi.onw,
THE METROPOLITAN BANK
CAPITAL
BLOCK,
FRENCH
HULir V. CAE8AB, President; TRUMAN W. EKOP, VKe-Presldent) O. B. BKLVIO, Cashier
JACOB H, VANDKRBII.T, Assistant Cashier. '
, GENERAL BANKING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES
Interest allowed on deposits la Sarlna Department. Circular Letters ot Credit lss4oa
Hong Kong, Cbloa, and Yekohoma, Jaiau: aleo Drattsand Blllsot Ksclisnge Issued en China
and Japan, and tae prlDelpal cities ol Surope. Foreign monejrs eichanged.
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CHEIROMA, THE GREATEST AUTHORITY
scEirnnc palmistry
Who ever vkitast the Pacific Ceaat.
be worth kuaifii to you. Sac fur
Sixth Street. Hours from JO A. M.
On the Inside.
of a collnr, shirt or cuff done tip nt
this laundry tnenna thnt on mo nil
Tiyht, nnd that your linen looks as itn
nmculato Hud of as smooth nud flue a
finish aa if it jnat came from tho fur
ulsherB, Comfort and ealiRfnotioii wo
Kivoyuuin oror; ploco of linen that
wo launder, nud our prices nro trifling
for it. The Domestic Lnuudrj, J. 1
Kobiusou, i'eudletoii, Oregon.
ANN ARBOR
.HOME BAKERY.
One of the most complato bakerys In
the Northwest. ,
Bakes the Best Pullman Braid In the West
M. SHIELDS, Prop.
.147 Morrison St. l'OKTt.ANI), OR.
And 493 Union Avenue, corner Raeramcnto,
Allilim. Homemade bread, cakes and pies.
1 11 I a at lA. da .ml ,ln .itd IIuiuih llimalal !.
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Saturday. 7cl. (ted 1842; Tel. Rod S41.
50,000
TACOMA, WASH.
ON
What she charge pennies for will
at her Parlors, Ralelah Buildine,
to 9 P. M.
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General Information Concerning
the Afro-American.
TAKEN FROM OUR VARIOUS EXCHANGES
Showing the Projrta of (he Various Unta
ot Human Endeavor Being Accom
plishtd by the Race.
Tho grand total paid Negro soldiors
during tho Spaulsh'Anioricau war was
$4,761,702.
According to tho census of 1800
there wero in eleven tanthorn states
103 suuuties in which the Negro popu
lation oxooedod tho white by tnoro
than 20 to ouo.
J. P. Colo, editor of tho IUslna Sun,
published at Kansas City, Mo., has
been appointed by tho sheriff elect,
S, routing, as his stenographer and
private nonrotary. ,
Jnekponvllle, Flit,. Jan. 6.-rTho
flrt international council of Grand
Matter Masons, colored, mot at noon
today in Masonic temple, with colored
Mason dignltarlon presont front all
parts of the world.
Hou. F. L. Harnett, of Chicago, has
been re-uppolnted na assistant state at
torney. Kuoh positions ro rarely
given to members ot tho tace. Mr.
Harnett's re-appolntment bespeaks
volumes for tho ablity with which he
has discharged tho dtitlosof this inn
portaut and coveted ofllue,
When will tho young men of the
race learn that the only hope for them
or any other race to rise is by the way
of hard, honest toll and employment
of some kind? Idlenova is a curse to
a'ny race or Individual, It is tho
mother of poverty, criuio uud immoral,
ity. the evil from which so many of
the ruco are lufTerug.
HoHton, Jan. S Jnst before
Hooker T. Washingtou loft llostou.
whero he has beeu raising fuuds for
the permanent endowment of tho Tus
kegee rchool. ha received a letter from
Andrew Carnegie to the effect that thn
latter had decided to give 430,000 for
the erection of a library building for
th Tuskegee Institute. The building
Mill be erected entirely by student
labor.
In Oklahoma thero are 00,000 col
ored people, men, women and children,
or 111,000 colored vottrs; from careful
compilation ot statistics tueru aro
7,000 colored men owning farms, which
will strike an average at 800 each,
which is a very low average, us there
are a number of colored farmers who
oau CHh their farms today lor 3,tt00.
Hut placing all at $800 eauh, that
would make u great total of at least
S 6,1100,000 owned in farm pro petty by
o ilorod men of Oklahoma. ,
There aro about ouo hundred bust
ness establishment among the
colored people iu Bt, Louis, among
which ate eight well-doing grocerlos,
three extousivo dealers in general mer
chandise, besides a goodly number of
paving uud mechanical businesses con
ducted in the must creditable manner,
One corporation with a capital stook
of 00,000. They have 10 dentists aud
physicians who have a nourishing
practice, and who urn rapidly acquir
ing a competency. These Negro doc
tors aro learned and skilled, mi recog
ulzed by Itoth race, among which
their practice extends. Iu legal pro
fession twelve lawyers find a lucrative
field for their talents, One is a prose
cuting attorney for the olty, aud others
hnve represented celebrated cases be
fore the state aud federal supreme
courts.
CITY NEWS
C. A. Rlttcr. Society Editor.
We shall know' no favorites, and
hIihII be Absolutely impartial. To in.
Bnro publication, all local news must
reach us not later than Thursday morn,
ing of each wook.
Full account of the Emaa'ucipaticm
ball 'in our next Issue
Mr. Fanuio Herman is confined
to
nor room by n sovero illucss.
Mr. Itobert Draco is at Ot. Vincent'
hospital with n severe attaok of pneu
monia, Mr. Virgil
an oporatlou
improving.
Keeuo, -Who uudorwont
on his hand, is rapidly
Tho pancako snoial at tho Dethol A.
M. K. church wawoll attended, on
last Wodnoiday evening, ,
Mrs. Fntnkle AJltchHll, of Tacoma,
is quito ill at tho rtinidcnco of her
mothof, Mrs. C. Ilcusor.
nil ii
Mr. Jamos llotnaus is in tho oitr
after an absenco ot "over two months
visiting Chicago and 8t. Taul.
Mrs. Emily Davis, of Oakland, Cal.,
who rniB beeu stopping with Mrs. L.
Ii. Lejouno for Mime time past, left
last Tuesday (or her home.
Tho many friends of'Mr. Win. Tark-
er, who used to be a resident of this ,
city, will be paiued to learn of hU
death, which ocourred la South Afrloa.
ritev. E. Swan deilres to extend his '
sincere thanks to thefeauy friends who
so kindly remembered himself, wife
and baby on Christmas and Maw
Years.
i
Miss liortlo MoDaniels, of Fresno,
Cal., is in the olty. fiho halls from
the Ebouezor Baptist church, of that
city, fiho is living at 302 Front St.,
tip etalrs.
Last wook wo spoke of an approach
lug wedding. Again we hint at an
otlior, this tlmo thu contracting par
tios aro n 1'ortlautl hollo aud it Call
forma groom. ,
Mr. F. Frits Keohlo, who latoly
established tousorial mirlor at' I'OS .
Morrison Br,, has found it ueceisar
to iucicaHo his staff, another proof that
merit will win
The JRov. T. F. Smith, of the Mount
Olivet llautist church, has onoued an
ouTce,,whore he will be pleased to meet
those who are sick nun afflicted. IU
treats all kinds of chroulo diseases. '
The Star Social Olab gave a recep
tion to the members of the Colored
Aristocracy show on the 4th, at ' tk
re)eHjlML)06 0f Vf MMs) MM Tfi'H
A larae namber wan .in. ait
andjaa enjoyable timewaa.paiaaalT
Mr. and Mrs. F. p. Thomas gaye a
delightful parlor seals! at their iul-;
deuce, No. SO Seventh St. N., Friday
evening as a reception to Mrs) V. II.
honlor, of Seattle, aud Mrs. J. Laus.
of Rod Muffs.
Tho free reading room which was
opened on last Monday to the pnblio
tor tho distribution of books was nut.
ronlzod by so vera I of our noonle.
Many moto ought to avail thomsohes
ol tho privilege offered, Many au
othorwlso idle hour may be profitably
speut,
There is a young man iu this olty
whp is courting trouble, if Dama
Rumor is correct, and ho would da
woll to lake hoed of tho old adage to
"be off with tho old love hoforo ho is
on with the uew" Further develop,
ments are anxiously awaited, as one
young lady has ma'de some very grave
threats.
On last Monday evening Mrs. Dorn
Newman was (he recipient of a uleas.
ant surprise party, when her frieuda
to the number of two seora took pos
session of her home, aud being bouuti
fully supplied with refreshments, eta.,
procoadod to enjoy themselves with
sinuiug, intuia aud dancing until the
weo small hours of tho morning, when
tho company bade adieu to their host
ess aud sought their several homes:
M. I'eok, dealer in flue groceries,
cigars aud tobaccos. 08 N. Third
street. a
BOOTS, SHOES, CLOTHINd,
HATS, CAPS, DRY QOODS
AND FURNISHINQ QOODS.
229 Morrison Street
Ilclween first ajid Hccond
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PORTLAND
OREGON.'
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If You Want
Qood Shoes
Goto
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