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...rude interruption. In the eyes of an approaching conductor, as well as of the Arkansas law, which provides fines for trainmen who neglect to separate Negroes from whites, Congressman Mitchell was just another Negro. The conductor ordered him to take his bags and get up to the Jim Crow car behind the baggage car. He protested, showed his ticket, pointed to a number of unoccupied sections. Vacancies or no vacancies, the conductor informed him, the only place he or any Negro could ride in Arkansas was second-class, in the Jim Crow car. When the conductor threatened to stop...
...darkened by this incident, ended in something of a personal triumph with his speech at Little Rock before a mixed audience to which he was introduced by U. S. District Attorney Fred A. Isgrig. But he was not ready to forget. On his return trip he rode the Jim Crow car of another railroad without being told. When he got back to Chicago, Congressman Mitchell, a lawyer himself, hired another lawyer to see what could be done about...
Last week in Cook County's Circuit Court Congressman Mitchell sued the Illinois Central, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Pullman Co. for $50,000. Plaintiff Mitchell's description of an Arkansas Jim Crow car: ". . . The car was divided by partitions and partly used for carrying baggage, . . . poorly ventilated, filthy, filled with stench and odors emitting from the toilet and other filth, which is indescribable." His description of the language a Southern train conductor used on a member of the U. S. Congress: ". . . Too opprobrious and profane, vulgar and filthy to be spread upon the records...
...champagne may be extremely narrow and is frequently bridged on the pungent name of a northland mine. Last year the best bet among the pennies was O'Brien Gold which soared from 34? to $14. In the past few years MacLeod-Cockshutt climbed from 10? to $5.40; Pickle Crow from...
...account he has won and lost eleven fortunes. He was among the first in the great Cobalt silver rush, but his first big money came from the Flin Flon, which he sold to the late Harry Payne Whitney. Since then he has had a hand in Pickle Crow and Red Lake. At 60, he still prospects by plane, summer and winter, is sometimes called "the gentleman adventurer of the mining world," sometimes "Crack-the-North- Open" Hammell...