Cayton's Weekly

State Library Cayton's Weekly CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. It is open to the towns and communities of the state of Washington to air their public grienvances. Social and church notices are solicited for publication and will be handled according to the rules of journalism. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Office, 513 Pacific Blk. Telephone Main 24. SEATTLE'S STREET CAR STRIKE Not for more money nor for shorter hours, but for the official recognition of the union did the sixteen hundred Seattle street car men strike and thereby demoralize the traffic and traveling conditions of the entire city. The public should consider well this situation before giving the strikers any moral support. If men are under-paid and over-worked for what they are paid to do, they have just cause for complaint and should get the complete moral support of all patriotic citizens, but to quit work in a body because those paying the wages refuse to permit their walking-disturber, better known as delegate, to dictate to them as to whom they shall employ to perform the work they have to do, is absolutely ridiculous. Such would be taking the rights and prerogatives completely away from the employer and delegating them to the employee. In other words, who pays the money has no say as to who does the work. No more arbitrary and pernicious precedent could be established than this and the public, as said above, should be slow to sympathize or in anyway recognize it. The principle underlying organized labor is not wholly or even partially condemned by us nor is organized capital. If, however, each of them would be just and fair and, "do unto others as you'd have them do to you," there would be no need of either organization. Capital first extorted from its laborers and when its laborers organized and hit back then the two got their heads together in most instances, and extorted from the consumer and divided the swag. Investments are entitled to legitimate profits and labor is entitled to a reasonable wage, but its highway robbery for the two to combine and systematically bleed the man between. Its an undeniable fact that all over this country the rich is getting richer and the poor getting poorer and the most of the strikes that are daily occurring just now are due to the extortionate prices the trusts have unjustly imposed upon the people by raising the prices of the necessities of life. Organized labor's complaint against this and its demand for higher wages are often granted, but the complaints of the man between go unheeded. But all this is only incidental to the strike for official recognition of the union, which we reiterate is not only tyranical, but damnable and should receive no moral support from the great rank and file of this community. WHAT OF THE NEGRO In another column hereof is reproduced a letter from a white man, who advocates the deportation of the black folks of this country, and giving his reasons therefor. In still another column is reproduced an editorial from the Portland Advocate, which is published by a black man, and giving his objections to the idea. Both of these men have spoken well and said many things that are worthy of much consideration. While the Advocate stated facts, yet it did not answer the writer's argument. However humane, just and right it may be to deport the black folk from this country, the scheme is absolutely impossible for it would bankrupt the government to reimburse the colored for the property and valuables they own in this country and to at the same time send twelve million to a foreign country, and aside from the monetary consideration, it would require the presence of two million white soldiers to enforce the work, even though the money was forthcoming. The Advocate is correct in its allegation that the black folk are here to stay, and that there will never be any deportation scheme attempted, but as unadulterated colored folk we take issue with the Advocate, and make the prediction that they are going and going very fast. Mr. Seaberg asks: "Is this nation to be half white and half black or is it to be mulatto?" In the United States there are upwards of five million part white and black folks and the mixture is rapidly on the increase. To be more definite, the "colored people" in the United States are almost equally divided between black and tans and blacks. At the close of the war there were about 900,000 mixed bloods against three million blacks, about thirty per cent, but in the course of fifty years the per cent of mixed bloods had increased to fully fifty. A long story short, the black folk are to stay as part black and part white, and there is no doubt but that the future people of this country will be a complete mixture of all the races and classes now living here, and, if you please, a race like unto the Latins of Europe. America is doomed to be a one-race nation, which will be made up of the bloods of all nations. For either the black man or the white man to worry over such dreams as presented by Mr. Seaberg is wasted energy for whatever is to be wil be. The black folks are here and apparently here to say, but after many changes and alterations, and the same will be true of the white folks. Because the white folks are temporarily in the majority is no excuse for them using the brute and savage force to vent their feelings of opposition to the black folks, for not picking up voluntarily and leaving here, which thing should no more be expected of the blacks than of the whites. As the editor of this paper has repeatedly said in these columns as well as from the rostrum, its absolutely out of the question to build up a white and a black race in the same territory, the one or the other must fall, and its always the weaker that goes to the wall. The black folks of the United States, in the opinion of the writer, will either be absorbed by the whites or killed by them, for they (the blacks) will not stand for deportation. The absorbtion process is already far under headway and the killing process is only making haste very slowly. Solcmon, so it is said, was the wisest man, and he should have been, for did he not have a thousand wives and each one of them told him something new every day. VOL.2, No.6 WILL ANARCHY PREVAIL? These are exciting days in Seattle with strike-breakers trying to work and strikers trying to prevent them from working, and if riot and blood shed is not the outcome of the intense excitement that prevails from morning till night then we will be mightily surprised. As you watch the hundreds and sometimes thousands of excited men and boys gather about the strike-breakers of the express companies, while they make their deliveries to the various business houses, in a more or less threatening attitude and often hurling missels at the men, and then remember that the strike-breakers have orders to shoot, and to shoot to kill, if any one lays hands on them, its easy to realize and understand that its only a question of a short time, unless an adjustment is made, before the streets of Seattle will be drenched with blood and, perhaps, like in East St. Louis, a general conflagration in the city follow. The struggle in Seattle is but another clash of organized labor and capital with the latter leaning on unorganized labor to back up its contentions. Of course in this case it is white men pitted against white men, while in East St. Louis is was white men pitted against black men, and in this latter case sympathy is always with the white men right or wrong, but the excitement of brow-beating the strike-breakers, as it has proceeded in Seattle, can not go on much longer before a fatal clash will follow and, once begun there is no telling when and where it will end. The authorities are foolishly allowing these excited men and boys to disturb the streets and work the citizens up to a state of frenzy, and each day it has grown more bold and defiant, and it may be but to morrow when the authorities will be powerless to control the situation. The whole matter ought to be taken in hand now, yea it should have been done some three or four days ago, and the strikers prevented from rushing about the city in auto trucks by the multiplied hundreds and assuming a war-like attitude, which, as said above, can but result in a bloody riot sooner or later. All of this will dangerously disturb the industrial conditions of Seattle and the Puget Sound country, and the mushroom prosperity that had apparently rested in the city for a moment, comparatively speaking, will take the wings of the morning, and will vanish just as completely as did Banquos' ghost. As to the dispute between the express companies and the drivers we know nothing and care less, but nothing is accomplished by turning the city over to maddened throngs, whose minds, under the excitement of the moment, completely lose their balance wheels. We suggest as a remedy for the whole controversy that the express companies give up the idea of making deliveries and allow the patrons of their concerns a certain amount to call in person for their parcels. This would eliminate the strikers as well as the strikebreakers, which would save the city from more days of excitement and probable riot and blood-shed. IS CITY OWNERSHIP HERE? It is now being bruted about the streets that, the majority stock holders of the street car system of Seattle engineered the present strike on its system, with the view of forcing the city to take over its plant Do You Need Bills, Letter Heads, Cards, Posters or any kind of Job Work If so let us figure with you. Doing this kind of work is a part of our business, and we are prepared to do your work At Once if Not Sooner Ten thousand are as easy for us to handle as one thousand. CAYTON'S WEEKLY 513 Pacific Block Telephone Main 24 Residence, Beacon 1910 and operate the same. Since the appearance of the jitney in Seattle the street car company claims that it has lost heavily on its investment and public sentiment being favorable to the jitney it apparently being impossible to drive it out, though it has been badly hampered. The stock holders, it is argued, see even worse conditions for them in the future than in the immediate past and to dispose of the entire street car system and lighting plant to the city, would mean no further loss of money on their part. The move on the part of the city authorities to throw the company in the hands of a receiver has not been discouraged by the local authorities of the company and this has given color to the allegation. If there be anything in this and if it should happen to come about then Seattle would be in municipal ownership up to its head and if there be any merit in the theory, it would have to be brought out or the city would herself soon be in bankruptcy. With the city operating the street car system the question is, would the jitneys be permitted to operate as they have been; or for self protection, would the city council force them completely out of business? which should be done, whether the street cars are operated by the present, some other company or the city. The jitney is an interloper and merits no consideration at the hands of the public. THE JITNEYS IN CLOVER Since the mind of man runneth not to the contrary it has been said, "Its an ill wind that blows no one good," and the street car strike has proven so to the jitney men. Not only those jitneys that were already in service took a fresh lease of life, but hundreds of others went into the business, and during the few days the street cars have been tied up, they have each realized hundreds of dollars from the business of conveying passengers to and from the business center of the town. Some of the Ford car owners have made on an average of fifty dollars per day and the big truck operators have doubled and trebled that amount. William Chandler the fuel dealer at once threw one of his big trucks into the game and it has simply been coining money for him ever since. Other colored machine owners also went into the business and they have done exceedingly well and we are not so sure, but that they are really glad that the car tie up happened. CHIEF BECKINGHAM RIGHT! In discharging a policeman, who refused to obey orders and protect the strike-breakers, while they are making their deliveries for the various express companies, Chief Beckingham has done his duty and his whole duty, and in case others assume a like attitude as did the one already discharged, then they too should be fired immediately, if not sooner. An officer must obey orders though he has to do things that he himself thinks absolutely wrong. In another column hereof we have taken the same position on this strike as has the chief of the police, that is, clear the streets of excited strikers, who sooner or later would cause untold blood-shed, if permitted to terrorize the streets as they had for a number of days. It will be remembered that the police last summer in the water front strike took the same attitude as did the man discharged by the chief last Thursday, and we have always suspected that the mayor and the chief also shared in the same attitude, and they stood silently by while the mobs beat up and in one instance, killed the colored strike breakers. In taking the oath of office as a policeman or an officer of the law you are no longer yourself. You bury sentiment and your personal sympathies then and there. In the performance of your duty not even those near and dear to you, guilty of wrong, can appeal to you. An officer of the law must do his duty as laid down by his superior and his failure to do so should be the signal for his immediate discharge. THE PASSING SHOW The week ending has been fraught with strikes and rumors of strikes not only in Seattle, but all over the country. The street car men of Tacoma opened the week with a general tie-up of all the lines in the city. The company refused to recognize their union as well as to grant other demands and so a general strike was ordered. From the stubbornness on the part of both employer and former employe the trouble promises to be of long duration, though the city authorities may step into the breach and demand a settlement for the benefit of the patrons of the various lines. A general strike among the loggers and shingle weavers has been on for the past week and unless the same be settled in the very near future it will involve the various saw mills of the state and in that case the entire lumber industry will be paralized. The I. W. W. all over the country have become exceedingly active and fomenting trouble whenever and wherever they can and if they continue at the gate they have been going it is only a question of time when the whole country will be gurgling like a seething kettle and a condition like unto civil war will prevail throughout the United States. The story sent out by the Associate Press to the effect that four German submarines were sunk by American men of war, while convoying the U. S. troops to France, the same eminating from a German source, sounds so fishy that, it was foolish to send it out in the shape of news. Such may have happened, but the Germans themselves would hardly have reported it. In the death of Bo Sweeney, assistant secretary of the interior, the Northwest loses another of its prominent national officials. Some weeks ago Will H. Parry died and owing to political squabbles that are going on no one has been named as his successor and the probabilities are that none, at least from the Northwest, will be. The vacancy made by the death of Sweeney will but add another place to fight over and it looks as if the Northwest is in line to be completely overlooked. Germany (Monday) seems to be facing a genuine crisis at home, arising from the peace party now gaining strength all over that country, but the Kaiser is defiant and insists that Germany fight it out if it takes all summer and all of her men. Austria is reported sick of the game and her people are demanding a break away from the Kaiser and his armies. How much of the reported German internal disturbance be actually true is hard to say because the news comes from an anti-German source. Monday's report declared the Russian soldiers had the Austrian army on the run and that too in a demoralized condition. Seattle, like Tacoma, is now paralized with a complete stret car tie up. The men did not strike for more pay, but for a recognition of their union, which the company's officials declare they will never do. Sympathy eminating from the people in general seems to be with the strikers, though that is liable to change at any minute. The much dispised jitneys on the part of the traction company is in the meanwhile enjoying a financial harvest. Striking for principal and not money will work for a time, but the fellow needing the money will get tired pretty d——n soon. It is fun to watch the strikers trying to force the other fellows to strike. From their view point this is a case where two wrongs make one right. Germany has been given three months more to continue the fight. Judging from the past, she is likely to take three years more, and then get a draw decision. Editor Bone may not be a very effective editorial writer for a metropolitan paper, but he is pulling off a master essay stunt which appears in the P.-I. every morning. Roosevelt denounced the East St. Louis outrage, charged it up to organized labor and dared Gompers to deny it, but he took the dare, though he sputtered and spewed about it like a tom cat after eating an overdose of wild onions. "Frame up politicers" have already begun to work over-time in King county and the next county officers so far as the frame upers are concerned, have already been nominated and elected, and the people be damned. WOULD DEPORT THE NEGRO Ilwaco, Wash., July 6.—To the Editor of the Telegram:—Your editorial of Thursday, "East St. Louis Shame" is lacking in that it does not take recognition of the fundamental fact that this nation cannot endure half white and half black. Grant foresaw this great truth and advocated the purchase of Cuba and the deporting of all Negroes. The honest but mistaken people who established equality in law of people who are not by race on an equality are responsible for such outrages as the East St. Louis shame, which is but the beginning of the great strife. This is a country of the white race and whenever and wherever the black race multiplies and comes in conflict with the white race just such scenes as the East St. Louis shame may be expected. It is easy to assume a virtue when we are not in direct touch with an evil. We of the white race who are not being crowded by the black race wrap our virtuous robes about us and cry "shame." And it is a shame, but we are responsible because we are trying to force people of the white race to accept the black race on equality. Late as the day is the steps must be taken to deport the Negro. They are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but in a country of their own and by themselves. Africa offers today the land for such a country. Establish the Negro there; deny them all political and property rights here. Let the government, national, state and city, purchase the property of all the Negroes, treat them leberally, but deport them. The question is, shall this nation be white or mulatto? All who have seen the great film "The Birth of the Nation," ought to realize the seriousness of establishing social equality between the white and the black. Because if you ask the black man to dinner, he has a right to want to amry your daughter. So safety to the nation lies only in the plan of maintaining a status of unequality between the white and the black, and then we will have no East St. Louis riots. Unless we do, our shame is just beginning. In time the East St. Louis shame will be Portland's shame. To avoid this, deport the Negro. WALTER SEABERG DEPORT THE COLORED RACE There appeared in Monday's Telegram an article entitled, "Would Deport the Negro," which we re-print elsewhere in this issue. The writer of the article was one Walter Seaberg, some obscure foreigner living in Ilwaco, Wash. Perhaps his object in writing the article was to gain a little notoriety and show his prejudice and hatred for the black man. Deport the Negro, says he. Who is going to say who shall be colonized or deported—the black man or the white man? Who has the authority? The scheme is ridiculous. The black man has a better right to be in this country than the white man; he came to this country many years before the white man. The white man has no ancestors here, but the black man has thousands. The writer further speaks of social equality and intermarriage, and holds up the picture play, "The Birth of a Nation," as being treu to life. We quote Eugene V. Debs, who says for every white woman raped in the South by a black man, a thousand black women have been seduced and outraged by white men. This "The Birth of a Nation' fails to show. Mr. Seaberg's letter is characteristically Southern regardless of the fact that his name would indicate that he is a foreigner. But we suppose that he has been schooled in Southern methods as he has made use of two arguments which the people of the South usually put forth. First, the Northern people do not know the Negro, and, second, "Would you want your daughter to marry a Negro?" When they have put forth these two wonderful arguments, they look up with an air of triumph as if they had put up an argument that is unanswerable. Mr. Seaberg and all of his ilk can talk and write as much as they please about colonization and deportation of the black race, but they are here to stay. They are here for harmony and for the most cordial race relation; they are opposed to riot and anarchy, insurrection and rebellion. They do not ask for social equality. They ask no favors and beg no quarters. They ask for equality before the law and the opportunity to be men. They want an equal chance in the shops and in commerce; at the trades and in every field of human endeavor. Any white man with the right principal and a Christian heart is willing to accord them these rights and privileges. Mr. Seaberg continues, The question, Shall the nation be white or mulatto? Our answer to that question is that there are five million mulattoes in this country, most of whom were born out of wedlock and all of whom have a white father, or grandfather, and these white gentlemen are always ready to fight at the drop of the hat for white supremacy and against "Nigger Equality." And as for eating at Mr. Seaberg's table, there are thousands of white men we would not allow to eat at our table, and Mr. Seaberg is one of them.—Portland Advocate. RACE TOLERATION: A PROBLEM It is to be feared that we are yet children in our attitude toward the world-old problem of race toleration, and that our thoughts about it are crude and elementary. Facts are facts, and the first step toward solving problems of fact-content is to get away from make believe, concealments, and attempts to ignore. The race problem has been made unnecessarily difficult by assumptions of "race equality," "human brotherhood" and "natural goodness." These assumptions have been inevitable reactions against the opposed and long-accepted assumptions of "total depravity" and a God-decreed inferiority of an "accurst" race that should forever be subject to its superior brethren. Nevertheless, they are assumptions working hypotheses at the best, and the only way to prove them true is the pragmatic one. It is time to find out whether they work. Is it true, for example, that the races are "equal" in specific things that are worth talking about? Are they equal in qualities that have economic value, or political value, or intellectual value? They are not equally tall: even subdivisions of the same race are not equally tall, for example Scotchmen and Greeks. They are not equally heavy, in statistical average, median or mode. They are not equally effective in sustained physical labor. Why, then, should we inject into the problem of race relations within a nation the purely sentimental assumption (for it is nothing more) that races are equally capable of profiting by education, equally fit to hold public office and to make laws, equally fit to run locomotives, or banks, or churches "But what harm does the assumption do, even if it is false?" This is the question always asked by the fact-shirkers, and it is peculiarly mischievous. The harm done by false assumption is twofold. First, every time it is discovered that one race actually cannot, as a usual everyday performance, do a particular thing as well as another race can, it confirms prejudices far more seriously than it could if no false assumption had been made. Second, it diverts educational and opportunistic endeavor into wrong channels, gives inferior men and women "the big head," and thereby calls down on them further prejudice, discrimination and abuse. The war is mixing the races and nations up as never before. There will be need of wisdom as well as of good intentions. Assumptions of race values of every kind should be thrown over. The only way to arrive at a working equilibrium and peaceful relations is to 't'ry out" with system and patience the specific capacities and abilities of each racial variety, and accept in good faith the experimental results. The (New York) Independent. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS The deputies of the sheriff's office of King county are reported as looking for trouble with the I. W. W. If they happen to find what they are looking for it will be the first thing those deputies have found since they took office, except their pay checks. Our state supreme court has decided that picketing shops "unfair to organized labor" is illegal and the union doing so is subject to pecuniary damages. Coming as it does at this particular time, when strikes are common, it will prove a sad blow to organized labor's most effective method of warfare. Bickering between capital and labor threatens to kill the hen of prosperity that lays the golden egg. The world and his family however, seem to have their fighting blood up and nothing but fight to a finish will bring them down to normal conditions. The riot in Arizona was to the mind of President Wilson a horrible affair and he shuddered at the thought of it. Why does not some one call the President's attention to the East St. Louis horror, where one brute boasted of having killed seventeen black men, women and children (mostly children) and may perhaps he would be moved to at least speak about it, though he took no steps to inquire into it. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Bertha Wiggins, Plaintiff, vs. Taylor Mill Company, a Corporation, and Lee McKinstry, Receiver for said Taylor Mill Company; The Mercantile Company, a Corporation; and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the real property hereinafter described, Defendants.—No.…… Notice and Summons. The State of Washington, to the above named Defendants, and each of them: You, and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the real property hereinafter described, are hereby notified that Mrs. Bertha Wiggins is the holder of ten certain delinquent tax certificates herein below more particularly referred to, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Burke's Second Addition, Fractional Part— That the several sums hereinabove set forth bean interest at the rate of 15 per cent per annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. And you and each of you, (including said persons unknown, if any,) are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after the first publication of this Notice and Summons, to-wit; within sixty (60) days after the 21st day of July, 1917, exclusive of the day of said first publication, and defend this action and serve a copy of your appearance or answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at the office address below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. And you are notified that in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered, foreclosing the lien of such taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against the same as hereinabove set forth. Any pleading or process may be served upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at the address below stated. ANDREW R. BLACK. Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Washington. First Publication July 21, 1917. Last Publication Sept. 1, 1917. IN THE PUBLIC EYE Mrs. Thomas R. Wilson leaves within a few days for a visit with her parents and friends in Denver, Colorado, and will be absent a month or more. Oscar Collins has just completed one of the most up-to-date garages in the rear of his home to be found in the city, which but adds to the splendor of his already magnificent home. The Negro Business Men's League of Seattle met last Sunday afternoon and enjoyed a splendid meeting. Sufficient money was raised to mail out the most of the 2500 copies of the booklet recently issued by the League. Thomas Jefferson of Everett, who was re-elected grand secretary, is one of the best informed men on Masonry in the state and his public addresses in the past have demonstrated that beyond a question of doubt. He left for his home Sunday evening. Major R. R. Wright, who is on the Pacific Coast attending the National Educational Association, which was held in Portland a few days ago, will occupy the pulpit of the First A. M. E. church Sunday evening. He was a paymaster in the Spanish-American war. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Slater left for their ranch, which is near Kittitas City, this state, last Monday morning. In spite of the glittering opportunities to get work in the city Mr. Slater thinks he will eventually be money ahead by improving his ranch. He is in one of the fine farming valleys of the state and as soon as water has been put on his land it will be worth anywhere from $100 to $200 per acre. Miss Vivian DeMirl Austin and Mr. Elihu E. Spearman, both of this city, were married last Tuesday evening at the First A. M. E. church, the Rev. D. A. Graham officiating. A reception was held in honor of the bride and groom at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Austin, 1807 Twenty-sixth Avenue South, at which there were about 200 guests present. The happy couple left the same evening for a week's honey moon trip, when they will be home to their friends and acquaintances in North Ballard. You, who have put in gardens with the view of reducing the high cost of living, so far as you and your family are concerned, had better not overlook the sprinkling stunt or you will have had your labor for your pains. Remember this soil is nothing short of a light sandy loam and will begin to burn the vegetation two days after a down pour of rain and for gardens to do well they must be thoroughly watered every night and as much as is convenient in the early morning. Potatoes in bottoms do not need irrigating, but on high sand hills they must be given plenty of water or you will get little or no results. Emett H. Holmes of Spokane, who was recently elected grand master of the Masons of the Washington-Oregon jurisdiction, spent a few days in the city this week and left for his home by the way of Portland last Saturday evening. Mr. Holmes has been a prominent figure in the public and political affairs of this state for the past twenty odd years and is still climbing higher. He served as grand secretary of the grand lodge for a number of years, but desiring to reach the top of the ladder he gave up the secretaryship and got in line for the grand mastership, which came to him at the last meting of the grand lodge. LOANS $10 TO $100 $10 TO $100 Made on Furniture, Planos, Household Goods, Storage Receipts, Live Stock, Etc. SANDERS & COMPANY 1003-4 L. C. Smith Bldg. Elliott 4662 ASSOCIATION DOING WELL The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met last Monday evening and transacted routine business. Messrs. Shepard and Taylor were elected new members. Mr. Chandler made a report of the Fifth Anniversary entertainment. Some fifty-one dollars were taken in and after the expenses had been deducted about twenty dollars were turned over to the treasurer. Mr. Chandler as chairman of the entertainment committee is planning a drama to be pulled off some time in the month of August. It was voted to hold emancipation exercises September 22nd and to invite some prominent persons to address the audience on that occasion. The members seemed quite enthused over the future outlook of the branch and President Stone declared, now that his hands had taken hold of the work there was no turning back. DR. MATTHEWS TALKS TURKEY To a letter sent out to the various preachers of the city by the secretary, Mrs. W. L. Presto, of the Association, the only one to reply was the Rev. Dr. Mark A. Matthews, which was read at the meeting, and is as follows: My Dear Madam: "Yours received and contents carefully noted. "I am astonished that you have not heard nor have seen reports of the sermons I have preached denouncing lynching, mob rule, inhumane and other improper treatments of mankind in general and especially of the colored men. In one sermon I put the lyncher on the same plane with the man who had committed the crime for which he was being lynched. In other words both are beyond the pale of law and stand equally condemned before the bar of justice. "There is no excuse for a lynching law. I have spoken from my pulpit here and have spoken throughout the country against the inhumane treatment that has been administered. Of course, it will do more good when I make a trip through the sections affected by the violence of the mob. I shall gladly speak on the subject when visiting the East and the South. You may rest assured I will do everything in my power to establish law and order and that I denounce with all the power I possess the rule of the mob. I am, Respectfully yours, M. A. MATTHEWS." Dr. Matthews is the foremost divine of this city and has been one of the greatest powers for good that Seattle has ever had. He it was that closed open gambling, the slot machines and sent a chief of the police to the state penitentiary and came very near sending a mayor and other police officers to a similar institution. Cayton's Weekly Main 24 Residence 1910 Office 513 Pacific Block W. H. Paulhamus, the berry king of Puyallup, advocates that all of the judges of the superior court appoint a board of arbitrators to settle the disputes between capital and labor, to which we would gladly say, amen, if the great middle class did not have to eventually pay the freight. The letter written by Dr. Matthews to Mrs. Presto has the right ring to it and when he has preached his doctrine to his Southern friends much good will result therefrom. Other ministers of the gospel (white) would do well to follow in the wake of Dr. Matthews. Cayton's Weekly publishes legal notices at current rates. Main 24. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of William L. Jones, Deceased—No. 21754 Notice to Creditors. Deceased—No. 21784. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administratrix of the estate of William L. Jones, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said administratrix or her attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said Court together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication July 7th, 1917. JANNIE M. JONES, Administratrix of said Estate. Address: 7008 Aurora Ave. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Lulu Young, Deceased.—No. 21738. Notice to Creditors. By order of said court made herein on the 13th day of June, 1917, notice is hereby given to the creditors of, and to all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate, to present them with the necessary vouchers to the undersigned administrator of said estate, at No. 316 Pacific Block, the place of business of said estate, in Seattle, in said county and state; within one year from and after the date of first publication of this notice or same will be barred. Date of first publication June 23rd, 1917. JOSEPH YOUNG. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE of Washington, for King County. In the Matter of the Estate of David Cole, Deceased. No. 21679. Notice to Creditors. By order of said court made herein on the 29th day of May, 1917. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of, and to all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate, to present them with the necessary vouchers to the undersigned administratrix of said estate, at 315 Pacific Block, Seattle, King County, Washington, the place of business of said estate, in Seattle, in said county and state, within one year from and after the date of first publication of this notice or same will be barred. Date of first publication June 2nd, 1917. Last publication June 30, 1917. HATTIE BOWSER, As Administratrix of said Estate. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate, 315 Pacific Block, Seattle, Washington. ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Fancy and Staple Groceries. Vegetables and Fruits in season. Bakery in connection. Free delivery. Tel. Main 2923. 1036-40 Jackson Street. TUTT'S BARBER SHOP "He wants to see you." High-class Tonsorial Work. 300 Main Street, Seattle. Latest race papers. All kinds of toilet supplies. 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