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Show SCHOOL FARM FOR NEGROES Bookor Washington Has Scheme for Educating- His Race. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 21, Bookor T. Washington, principal of tho Tuskegoo school for negroes, has an option on 1C0 ncres of lsjid about llvo miles from Montgomery, Mont-gomery, and It Is said he will establish thereon a school farm or experiment station sta-tion for negroes Slnco this has becomo known, white residents of the 'lclnlty aro up In arms acalnst such sale. Every resident of tho vicinity has signed a petition pe-tition to Bookor T Washington, asking him not to consummate tho purchase. This petition has been forwarded to him. Many of Montgomery's most prominent citizens llvo in tno vicinity. |