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Show IOWA'S CITY OF NEGROES Has 4500 People, and They Govern Themselves. Nowhere ele in the Northern State can a city like Ruxlon. la., be found. It Is an exclusive nesro city, Kovernod entirely b lieicri-.- It ! an experiment end If It (troves euc- i -rul II mav lead to 'he MBTegS.tlon Of the colored race In other towns. Fully 4JO0 colored I.e., pl make up the town s population. The town lias never been Incorporated, but the colony works on lb self-government plan Whenever It In found that nn.. offense In com-mltte.1 com-mltte.1 the EUllty one Is welted upon by a committee and told to behave himself or leave town K he persists In his badness ha Is g n live dayi to g"-t out mid fhrn tf he han not compiled he Is taken to the edire and shoved over He I sure not to come back. Die government proper la In he hands of two nf(;ro Justices of the Peace, Spencer i'rry Biol George Terrell Two colored "onstable. John Brown ond Nelson Walker, and a colored col-ored deputy sheriff. A. Ferklne, form the police circle Buxton's colored postmaster, sir Morgan. Is the only negro to hold the position In Iowa In addition Buxton has the only colored lu-dUMtrlal lu-dUMtrlal V XI C A In the world Moreover. It Is eecond In point of attendance only to the colored Y M C. A. In New York City, o'.d Secretary .lohnson expects to pees that inork thl3 winter A ten-room public school building ts presided pre-sided over b) Superintendent Jiiiiains. a cii- cdu ulcd colm ed ni.in The men 01 the town are employed In coal mines. Most of them are prosperous, and the town hoH a touch belter appearance than the negTO quartrrs In hirger iltl. Ii has grown i from a tVId to a city of i'JK In Juet four years I New York Wrirld |