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ior the Pacific Express Company under Mr. G. F. Johnson, superintendent«
After that, I worked for the v^uapaw Club during its heyday when Johnie
Boyle, Hollenberg, Acie Bragg, Will Mitchell, Mr* Cottman, Captain Shawf
end oodles of others were members. Mr. Moorehead White was secretary.
.liter that I went to doing my own work.
"Now I am past my prime and I do the best I can with what little help
I get from the government. I get eight dollars a month and commodities*
I.Ir. Roosevelt has got guts. Mighty few men would attempt to do what he has
done. He is the greatest huraanitarian president the country has ever had.
from
"But Vve got a pile of recommendations. I f ve got recommendations
Thomas Essex, Land Commissioner, St. Louis, Iron Mountain,
and Southern Railway
V*. S» Thomas, Geologist, St. Louis, Iron Mountain, Southern
J. R. Harvey, General Foreman of Bridges and Building
G. A. A. Deane, Land Commissioner succeeding Essex, St. Louis,
Iron Mountain, and Southern
S, W. Moore, General Secretary, Railway Y. M. C. A.
Arthur B. Washburn, Superintendent, Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute
A. C. St* Clair, Manager of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
(Note comment)
You can read these for yourself, and you see what they say. They can f t get
m work now, but it f s great to know you did good work and be able to prove
it.
"The same commodities they give now were given in 1870. They
.vid what they called the Freedman f s Bureau. They used to have what
they called the LICK SKILLET on Spring Street from Fifth to Seventh.
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