Cayton's Weekly

by State Library Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS 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 grievances. 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 TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 PATRIOTISM No person has the right to claim the protection of the United States and be disloyal to its principles and he or she guilty of making treasonable utterances or publishing papers that incite rebellion either by open declaration or injuendo should be taken in hand by the officers of the law and backed up by the patriotic citizens and said officers of the law should in the language of King George exclaim: "Lav on. McDuff and to hell with him who cries enough." Treason is a most reprehensible crime and while we do not favor capital punishment, yet to the person guilty of it, death seems to be the only punishment adequate for the crime. Who will betray a land and country from whence an existence comes. is "A monster of such hidedeous mein To share in the glory and emoluments of an organized government and then for selfish reasons refuse to go to its rescue when it is in trouble, is evidence of one's absolute lack of manhood. It's not for the citizens of this country to argue, why we are in the war, but the thing for all to do is to help get out of the war. Our masters at present may be more or less cruel, but we are not certain what we will get in case we change masters. Then let each and all of us use our best efforts to suppress treason and sedition. But, the acts of last Saturday's mob in wrecking the printing plant of H. C. Pigott & Co. under the guise of suppressing sedition and promoting patriotism is one of the most dastardly acts that has ever been committed in the Northwest. There probably is not a person connected with that printing concern who is not as intensely loyal as the president of the United Sttaes himself, one even being a Spanish-American war veteran, and the concern is patronized by many of the most loyal citizens of the state, even to the Red Cross. This mammoth printing concern was wrecked because for sooth a paper was printed on the concern's presses whose utterances bordered dangerously close to sedition. Carrying out the se principles the City of Seattle should be totally destroyed simply because multiplied hundreds of red-handed anarchistic I. W. W.'s live in the city. There is no excuse under the sun for the wrecking of the Pigott printing plant and every one connected with the outrage should be sent to prison for ninety-nine years and one day after. Recalling similar outbreaks said to be in the interest SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JAN. 12, 1918 of the government we are moved to exclaim, Oh, Patriotism! O, Patriotism! What crimes are committed in thy name. However, the managers of the Pigott printing plant are not wholly blameless for they know during these exciting times how little it takes to move men to form into a mob and once formed and moving, how much it takes to quiet them down. While the paper in question, by keeping just in the bounds of the law, was able to continue to get by, yet no one could pronounce it a patriotic publication and it should have been kicked out of the office. The Boston Branch of the Equal Rights Libertty League has appealed to the colored folks of the country to put on silent parades and wear deep mourning for thirty days in memory of the thirteen soldiers that were hung in Fort Sam Houston, to all of which the editor of Cayton's Weekly takes exceptions. In our opinion it is unpatriotic for the colored folk of this country to do either of those things, for the reason, that those men admitted that they shot up the town of Houston and supposedly took human life in so doing. Regardless of what their provocation may have been, it is a well known fact that two wrongs never make a right, and they therefore took the law into their own hands and committed acts, which the law has said, who commits such must be hanged until dead. And for ten million or more people to go into mourning for men who wilfully violated the law and took human life, because, forsooth, they had been treated unjustly in the way of being given their public and political rights, would be admitting that the whole of them are condoners of crime, which might encourage the commission of even more heienous offenses in order to get even. May, perhaps, the findings of the court martial were but appeasing the prejudices of the South against the colored folks, but there is no denying the fact that the soldiers did, contrary to army orders and regulations, violently seize the firm arms of the camp and marched into the city and attempted to kill every white person in sight, which thing even the Liberty League itself must admit was a crime aand if a crime, those who committed it should be punished. The colored folk in the United States, in the opinion of the writer, will not get very far practicing retaliation and as said above, two wrongs never make a right. Let's act well our part, just and square, and, as in the case of slavery days, the day will come sooner or later when the white folks will come almost in a body to our assistance. We think the hanging of the colored soldiers under the circumstances was ridiculously severe, but according to the letter of the law it was just and fair. Within the past thirty-two years, according to a statement made up by George B. Vashon of St. Louis, Mo., and carried by the Associated Press, twenty-five hundred colored men, women and children have been lynched in the United States for crimes and alleged crimes, and in many instances crimes that would have been looked on as petty offenses, if they had been committed by white persons, and yet those persons were lynched without having an opportunity to prove their guilt or innocence. This number, be it remembered is made up from the reported lynchings and it is safe to say that fully as many more were lynched without the record makers knowing anything of them. The lives of hundreds of colored persons have been taken by the vicious white folks of the South since the war, and no record of which was ever made public. Even but yesterday, comparatively speaking, a man was burned at the stake by the Huns of Tennessee, around whose burning pier thousands of white men women and children gathered and enjoyed an old fashioned Indian war dance and similar crimes against nature have been periodically pulled off in the South. Colored men, women and children have been lynched in the South for daring to walk on the sidewalks of the southern cities and down in the state of Mississippi some thirty years ago a colored man was shot and killed for asking a white man who lived in a pine log hut for a drink of water "the impudence of a nigger riding up to a white man's door and asking for a drink of water" so incensed the man that he rushed into the house got his gun and shot him, and he was not so much as tried before a coroner's jury. To dispute a white man's word in the South is almost certain death for the black man and many of them have gone to an untimely grave or burned at the stake for such an offence. We suspect that this long list of crimes against black folks had something to do with the Houston tragedy in which the soldiers played the game of get even. No other class of citizens in the United States would have submitted to these abuses and vet remained loyal, but the black man, and, we thank God that he has, because we believe it means a brighter day for him. We are unable to see any relief, but we truly believe it tis coming, and the day will yet come when this will truly be the land of the free and the home of the brave." Lincoln's birthday the Republican National Committee will meet and discuss the political situation and make preparations for the next presidential campaign and, as on many similar occasions, the question of the recognizing of the colored vote will be the all-absorbing question. There is but one colored man techniaelly a member of the committee and the committee has it within its power to oust him. The regular committeeman from Mississippi died and Perry W. Howard was selected in his stead, but his confirmation by the committee is being bitterly opposed by the Lily White Republicans of the state and the Lily White members from the other southern states are lining up against Howard. Owing to the disfranchisement laws there is no colored vote in any of the southern states, but fully a half million colored persons have left the South and settled in the North, East and West and have become full-fledged voters and if the committee goes on record against the confirmation of Howard it will cost the Republican party multiplied thousands of colored votes. We do not think this advisable on the part of the colored voters, for it would be a true case of cutting off their noses to spite their faces, but these voters, since the Taft administration, have labored under the belief that the leading Republicans of the North were trying to unload them for the sake of breaking into the Democratic party in the South and thereby establish a Lily White Republican party in the South, which was responsible for many of them --- voting for Woodrow Wilson as against Taft, but after Wilson gave them the grand goy, they were up a stump for a Moses. If now some liberal Northern Democrat should be nominated for the presidency, one in whom they could place implicit confidence, and in case the Republican committee at its next meeting kicks Howard out, then a majority of the colored vote of the country will support such a liberal Democrat. Rumor has it that the daily newspaper combine of Seattle has picked Oly Hanason for mayor and will turn their dogs of war loose to drive off all other candidates. Oly Hanson has done nothing since he has lived in Seattle to commend him to the voters for the mayorality, except to sell wild-cat real estate and make a fortune for himself out of unfortunate investors. Oly Hanson is an absolute false alarm and, in our opinion, would rattle around in the mayor's office like a mustard seed in a tin can. But should Hanson and Gill be the nominees we would support Hanson at that. We are still hoping that the daily press will see the folly of supporting a political demagogue like Oly Hanson and instead, line up behind Claude C. Ramsay or some other equally good man and he will be nominated and elected, hands down. All of the members of the law firm of Gill, Hoyt & Frye have been suspended from the practice of law for one year for unprofessional practices, which is more trouble for Gill. If his parents could have foreseen his future life it seems to us that they would have named him More Trouble instead of Hyram Charles. Gill has been recalled as mayor of Seattle, tried in the U. S. court for conspiracy, threatened with impeachment and a hundred and one other lesser offences have been laid at his door, but he has never before been absolutely caught. He is now a candidate to succeed himself as mayor of Seattle and should he be re-nominated and elected he will be able to snap his finger in the faces of his accusers and say go to. Since Gill has been mayor his law firm and his close personal and political friends have corralled the most of the business of the underworld and while it meant much money for all concerned as long as it lasted, yet its a long lane that has no turn and Gill and his cohorts have reached another abrupt turn in the lane of political life in Seattle. Your sins will find you out. While we have never though seriously of the candidacy of Austin E. Griffith, yet for real ability and for true manhood in our opinion, he has Gill, Hanson and France skinned a block and a half. Mr. Griffith is totally devoid of personal magnetism and you have to get thoroughly acquainted with him to know his real worth. He is by no meaens a politician and yet he is always in the game, and the unfortunate part of it is he is either too penurious or too conceived to turn his candidacy over to men that could make his election almost certain. Cayton's Weekly is between the devil and the deep blue sea for a mayorality Moses and it is of the opinion now that of the four announced candidates it will be compelled to support Griffith for the nomination. Unless we are sadly mistaken. Chief Warren has not cleaned the police department of its bootleggers and grafters as yet, though he has given the force an awful jolt. Talk to men who are more or less interested in the booze game and they will tell you that a good many more of the members of the force will have to lose their stars before bootlegging will be a hazardous game in Seattle. Its a sad commentary on our civilization when the officers of the law stand in with the crooks, if they will split even with them, but it is so and has been so for years in Seattle. It is said that the office of chief of the police of Seattle is more valuable than the governorship of the state. In other words, the salary that he gets is a mere bagateelle in comparison to the actual cash he gets on the side. There must be much in the charge that the Americans are money-mad, for to get the money many of them will sell their souls to the devil himself. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS High rents are to be stopped. Is thasso? No, the town is not as clean as it can be, but it is much cleaner than it has been. Charles Hyram Gill having been disbarred can now play the political game to his heart's content. Booze in car-load lots continue to pour into the city, the new chief of police to the contrary notwithstanding. Lynching able bodied colored men as is being constantly done in the South, seems to us to be a waste of much needed strength. And now organized labor has taken up the fight of Miss Anna Louise Strong and we fear that means her complete annihilation. Organized labor has been losing so many fights here of late that it looks as if it has been bluffed from entering the municipal campaign. Oh, joy! A California woman was divorced and in two minutes thereafter she had secured a marriage license and was wedded to another man, and now she stands a chance of being arrested for speeding. The psychological moment for springing the mayorality candidacy of W. A. Blackwood, the Sancho Pansy of the Minute Men has not arrived as yet but the public is awaititing for it with bated breath. According to an exchange, there is no color prejudice in the French army, there being generals, colonels and all grades of officers, even commanding white troops. That's democratizing the world along the right lines and let the good work go on. Freedom For All Forever, is a Seattle Star motto, which is likewise our desire and praver to God, but the Star does not want that to include the colored folks of this country and if it does, it never talks like it. It is our advice to you and each of you to buy yourself a home, now, while buying is good, or you will be sorry for it. January thus far in Seattle is some month, more like early spring than dead of winter. Chairman Wilcox of the National Republican Committee is absolutely cororect. "this country was never so much in need of the Republican party as at present." If a Democrat ever did anything but mess things up then we are not aware of it. If there comes to Seattle in the near future twenty or thirty thousand men to work in the shipyards and they bring their families with them the newcomers themselves and not the land lords will raise the rents in the hotels and apartment houses of the city. It is perfectly natural to be on the lookout for one you have repeatedly mistreated and that is why so many white persons in this country are watching the colored folks so closely just now. Just be square with the colored folks and you will find your suspicions of him not being loyal will pass away like snow in June. If the "big ones" of the city and the newspapers get behind Claude C. Ramsay for the mayorality nomination there will be nothing to it, all the same R. H. Thompson. Seattle is no longer under the army ban and the soldiers may now visit the city as often as they can get a permit to leave the --- camp. Now let Seattle arrange for a special every Saturday morning from Camp Lewis to the city and for a day there will be nothing to the old berg, but soldiers. PURELY PERSONAL Lymus Smith an employe of the N. P. Commissary department, is seriously sick at the hospital. The ban having been raised as to the soldiers at Camp Lewis visiting Seattle, Tutt's shop is all smiles and it has grounds to be. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Washington was buried last Monday and the parents have the sympathy of their many friends. The funeral services for the late Boston Holman were largely attended at the First A. M. E. church last Sunday and the floral offerings were many. Mrs Ethel Stone Lewis, whose husband is at Camp Lewis and so far as he knows, making preparations to go to France, has apartments in the Douglas Annex. Cayton's Weekly has been highly complimented by many of the leading citizens of the city for the stand it took as to driving Felix Crane out of the state. Mrs. Emma Houston Hancock is the first colored woman to put her hand to the elevator wheel. She is trying out at the Gotstein building and she will soon be regularly employed. Ex-Sheriff James H. Woolery was there, representing his young son, Corporal Woolery, who is no won his way to France, and who was a warm personal friend of Mr. Holman. Mr. Pittiter, who is connected with the Fire Insurance Adjusting Board of Seattle was injured one day last week and has been unable to be at his post of duty the most of the week. The Negro Business Men's League will meet next Sunday afternoon at 300 Main street and the members are urged to be present as matters of importance will be discussed. Burr Williams, so comes the report from San Francisco, was recently injured in an automobile smashup, but just how badly he was hurt no one seems able to find out. His wife left the next day after receiving the telegram. The firm of Frederick & Nelson, through the influence oef Mrs. W. D. Carter, has put fifteen colored women in the store as ianitresses to fill the places made vacant by the men employed there going to war. There are four other colored women employed in the store, making a total of nineteen and it was through the intercession of Mrs. Carter that they hold the places. The janitresses each receive fifteen dollars per week. FOR SALE—the furniture of a ten-room house with seven rooms occupied by good paying tenants and a large and commodious well furnished dining room and kitchen, where meals can be served to the roomers. The rent of the house is very reasonable. It is an exceptionally good buy. It is well furnished throughout and you will not have to buy a thing to take up the business where the present owner lays it down. The present owner wants to move to another state, which is the cause for offering it for sale. If you are interested, call at 303 Twenty-second Ave. South or telephone Beacon 1910 and ask for Mr. Cayton. The price is very reasonable and some terms. Job work in the latest and newest styles turned out in this office. --- Copyright 1917 By ORLANDO BELKNAP POND (All rights reserved) CHAPTER VIII. The Upper Dog and the Lower Dog The struggle of the under dog is to keep breath in his body ;to maintain his existence; and to do as much injury as possible in his unfortunate predicament to the upper dog. There are two kinds of extreme efforts being exerted in opposite directions in this struggle. One is the effort of the upper dog to maintain his position and hold the under dog down. The other is the effort of the under dog to obtain some advantage over the upper dog anad free himself from the power that holds him in such undesirable submission. This illustrates the human race. There seems to be two important parts or divisions among all the people of the world. The lines though imaginary are distinctly drawn. This is so found in every section of every country in the world. It extends from the highest and most influential in the most important capitals of every country down through all the more important cities, even to the smallest and least important towns, or villages in the land. One of these parts or divisions is always holding down the other part or division either consciously or unconsciously. One part is always on top; the other part is always at the bottom. Those at the bottom are either submissive, or else making strenuous efforts to gain a position with those on top. It never enters the mind of the bottom fellows to bring about a readjustment of conditions by a readjustment of the principles and methods governing in the commercial fields of action, in trade dealings, in financial matters, in transportation, in all the transactions and dealings of men, and in governmental functions. The present methods and principles governing mankind in all these subjects have never failed to develop classes. one subordinate to the other. represented in many countries by titles of nobility; but more particularly in our country by wealth. and control of vast inetrests of various kinds. These are the ones that represent the top follows. It is the lessor number. the few: while those at the bottom represent the many. the great mass of mankind. This condition has existed during all the known past. And fragmentary records of the human race have been discovered and made known that seem to take us back into a remote past much anterior to our own history and indicate that the same conditions prevailed then, though more marked and under different circumstances. Occasionally one of the bottom fellows has been able through some favorable circumstances and by superior gifts to gain a position with the top fellows. Even then he finds himself a tool. oftentimes a willing tool. in the hands of those in whose domain he is only an intruder, to bind more firmly, and to impose greater burdens upon those of whom he was one. There have been times too when some of the top fellows have enlarged and increased their own rights and powers at the expense of the governing head and such enlargement and increase of their powers has eventually worked more or less benificially for the bottom fellows. The circumstances that eventually worked the greatest advance in this direction was the discovery of America. The discovery of America, however seemed for a time at least to bind more effectually the bonds that held the great mass of mankind in submission to the will. the power and the ferocious and determined grasp of those who then weilded the governmental powers of the world. This possibly was at a time when mankind everywhere was brought down to the low- est verge of despair; when men were tried to the breaking point; when the governing powers of the world were so applied and enforced upon its subjects as to deprive them of all hope of an improved condition. Expiditions of conquest and discovery had penetrated the interior at various points and at divers times in the northern Hemisphere; and various attempts without success had been made to establish settlements in the northern portions of the country. The Spanish indeed had been in some instances more successful in the southerly parts but they brought no new principles of government. They offered no new hopes to mankind for an improved condition. It was as late as 1620 when a few men, women, and children, crossed the Atlantic ocean in a frail barque, seeking a home in the wilds of America and landed upon the cold and inhospitable shores of New England. Before landing they had drawn up articles of government for themselves which contained the seed of future growth. In spite of the cold wintry blasts and deep snows, chilling frosts; in spite of poverty and hunger; in spite of sickness and death, and the many other discouraging circumstances, their numbers, followed from time to time by new arrivals, gradually increased. Other settlements were made and colonies established at intervals along the coast at various points. The earliest permanent settlement having already been established in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia. Some came fleeing from the tyranny and burdens of the old world, others to worship the Divine Peing in their own way, unmolested by church or state. Some came expecting to find the wealth that his native land refused to give him, while others were more adventurous. The colonies, one and all, continued to grow in numbers and in population and strength. The forests were cleared, homes built, land subdued, corn, tobacco and the various crops of the field raised; hogs, cattle and fowls made up the stock depended upon for the use of the family, and oxen and horses took the part of burden bearers. Some engaged in trapping, hunting and fishing and every man was an expert with the rifle, the old flint lock, and was always prepared and ready to protect his fields and stock from the depredations of wild beasts or the universal foe and defend their homes and little ones against the treacherous attacks of the red man of the forests, the native inhabitants of the land, and the cruel and deadly enemy of the white man. Notwithstanding all of these discouraging elements the seed of freedom that was brought from the old world was planted everywhere in the new. Its principles had already been set forth in the first articles of self government, drawn up before the first settlers landed upon New England's rock-bound coast. This precious seed of freedom took deep root; and under the constant and continued watchfulness of the colonies, flourished, and grew in the rich soil of the hearts of the people; freedom to own their own homes: freedom to worship God in their own way and manner; freedom to make their own laws, and freedom to govern themselves. Long weaery yeaers in growing was this plant of freedom for mankind. Long weary years these colonies endured the trials, the hardships and the tribulations of the pioneer's life. Though continually harassed with both white and red foes, they became hardened and thoroughly fitted to endure and cope with the still greater hardships that were soon to overwhelm them in a more extensive and a more terrible undertaking. Though their numbers increased, and though they endured almost unbearable burdens and though difficulties beset them on every side, that old enemy, the tyranny of the old world from which they had so reluctantly fled, and from which they had hoped to have finally escaped still pursued them, to conquor, to subdue, and to enslave; but they could not be conquered, or subdued, or enslaved. This enemy, hideous though he was, relentless and determined as he at all times was, pursued them with arms, and was met in the war of the revolution by these colonies, that sturdy band of yeoman, our revolutionary fathers, patriot in the cause of human freedom who to a man, rose with his armor of faith on, though poorly equipped for the terrible encounter which was to follow. And though these patriots were often defeated, driven from post to post, and though they suffered every hardship, famine, cold and fatigue, yet they endured to the end; finally conquering and establishing a new nation, founded upon new principles of government, based upon the broad privileges of freedom: freedom for mankind, freedom for the world; offered freely to all who would seek its folds. It was the promise and the offer to whomsoever will might come and partake of the waters of life,—freedom,—freely, and freely to enjoy all of its privileges. It was the stone hewn out of the mountain that is taken from out of, or away from, the nations and rejected of men. For long ages the builders of nations had rejected this stone, freedom; but it is no longer rejected, for it has become the head of the corner. (To be Continued) Mrs. W. D. Carter entertained in honor of Miss Loretta Sawyer of North Yakima and those present pronounce it one of the most complete entertainments that has been given in the city for many months. It was in the form of a musical and the color feat was poinsetta. It was a full dress affair and a number of invitations were issued and the most of them receiving invitations were present. The program of the evening was as follows: Piano selection, Mrs. Henry Williams; vocal solo, Mrs. Lorenza Cole; reading, Mrs. J. N. Drake; vocal solo, Mrs. Belle Tyler; piano solo, Miss James; vocal solo, Mrs. Estella Johnson; reading, Mrs. Calvin Armstrong; piano solo, Mrs. Lorenza Cole; vocal solo, Miss Loretta Sawyer. Those in the receiving line were Mrs. W. D. Carter, Miss Thelma Crawford, Miss Loretta Sawyer, Miss Pauline Cragwell, Miss James, Mrs. Vivian Austin Spearman, Mrs. James and Mrs. Sawyer. Mrs. Carter was assisted in the arrangements by Mrs. Calvin Armstrong, Mrs. Minnie Wilson, Mrs. Pearl Miller, Mrs. J. B. Scott, Mrs. James Golden, Mrs. William Chandler, Mrs. Nelson T. Fisher, Mrs. Joseph Williams and Mrs. Geo. Bright. THE DOUGLAS CLUB Now Occupies spacious and elegantly furnished and equipped NEW QUARTERS And will be pleased to meet old and new friends 308 Washington St. Frank Smith, Prop. Main 4930 BURR WILLIAMS President RUSSELL SMITH Secretary DUMAS CLUB, INC. 209 Fifth Avenue South CAFE IN CONNECTION Phone Elliott 3763 SEATTLE WASHINGTON DR. J. A. GHENT, SPECIALIST In Surgery and Gynecology has removed his office from the Marion Bldg. to 221 and 222 Seaboard Bldg., formerly Northern Bank Bldg., corner Westlake and Pine. Tel. Main 1185. 1 A BATCH OF SMILES A bachelor was recently traveling in a tramcar with a married couple of hi sacquaintance. It was a rainy morning. The young wife had her umbrella well out of the way of those who passed down the car, but an awkward boy on his way to the door managed to fall over it an dbreak it. "Oh, I'm so sorry," stammered the lad. "Never mind; I'm sure it wasn't your fault." and the lady smiled up at him without a trace of anger or even irritation on her face. "Well, I must say your wife is an angel!" exclaimed the bachelor, warmly. "Most women would have withered that clumsy fellow with a look, if they hadn't scorched him with words." "An angel, is she?" said the married man, as he picked up the broken umbrella and smiled quizzically at his wife. "She may be—but she's wanted a new umbrella for a month, and now she knows I'll have to get it!" The constable gazed long and thoughtfully at the hole in Mrs. Parkingtotn's parlor window. Then he produced a note-book. "You 'eard the crash at 4 o'clock?" "Four o'clock," echoed the lady. "You run to the door but seed nobody?" "Nobody." After this question Sherlock could think of no more, so he shut up his book with a snap and walked off dreaming of promotion. A few minutes later he was back with a full face smile that was eloquent of triumph. "Jobs like this 'ere don't take a smart chap long," he remarked. "You're sure it happened at 4 o'clock, ma'am." "Yes: have you caught the culprits?" "Well, not yet, ma'am," he answered, "but I'm narrowin' it down, all right. It wasn't Bill 'Iggins, cos' e was killed by a motor car at 'arf past 3." The old millionaire and his beautiful bride, after their quiet wedding, had a quiet wedding breakfast, a deux. Astrakhan caviar eggs pompadour, a truffled chicken fresh California peas ,champagne—so the quiet breakfast ran. "My dear," said the old millionaire, as the fruit course, a superb Florida melon, came on "tell me, dear"—and he laid his withered hand on her young one—"do you love me for what I am or for what I was?" The beautiful girl smiled down from the window into the admiring eyes of a young clubman who was passing; then she bent her clear, considering gaze on the gray ruin opposite and replied: "I love you, George, for what you will be." The farmer alleged a freight train of the defendant company had hit one of his mules. "Now, Mr. Jones," said the attorney for the corporation to the aggrieved party, who occupied the witness stand, "will you kindly tell the court whether or not your mule was on the track ,the property of the defendant, when hit by the train?" "Well, sir," replied Mr. Jones, "I didn't witness the occurrence, but I suppose things must have been about as you say. This was a pretty bright mule and I reckon if that train had took out after him in the woods which fringe the track there where he was killed he would have got behind a tree." Along the Fox river a few miles above Wedrun, Ill., an old timer named Andy Haskins has a shack and he has made most of the record fish catches in that vicinity during forty years. He has a big record book containing dates and weights to impress strangers. Last summer a young couple from Chicago camped in a luxurious lodge three miles above old Haskins' place. A baby was born at the lodge and the only scale the father could find on which to weigh the baby was that with which Andy Haskins weighed his fish. The baby tipped the scale at thirty-five pounds. Wounded Canadian (scornfully, to wounded British Tommy)—"Talk about your trains traveling fast; why, you want cowcatchers on the back instead of the front so that if a sow strays on the line it won't run into the back of the train." Wounded Tommy—"They run faster than yours. What about that man in Ontario who laid himself down on the lines to commit suicide, but died of starvation waiting for the express to come along?" One day, when Dorothy's mother was reading to the little girl, she came to the word "gravitation." She explained its meaning briefly but thought the child would forget it. Consequently she was much surprised when, a few days later, Dorothy came running in exclaiming excitedly: "Oh, mamma, it's a good thing for me there's a law of gravitation, or I'd have tumbled head over heels into heaven just now, when I fell off the ladder." The head of the household wore a worriede, dark look when he beheld the numerous bills that confronted him. "Your extravagance is becoming unbearable." he growled. "When I die you'll probably have to beg." "Well. I should be better off than some poor woman who never had any practice." replied his wife. slowly. "You saw you saw a burglar eliming out of a window in the house next door to you and he had a phonograph under his arm?" asked the tall man. "I did." asserted the short man. "Did you call the police?" asked the tall man. "Police, nothing!" replied the short man "I called the burglar over and handed him a dollar." IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 12th day of January, 1918, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to obtain a decree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the ground of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK. Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Jan. 12—Feb. 23, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Thomas Harris, Plaintiff. vs. Nellie Harris, Defendant.—No. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Nellie Harris, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit; within sixty days after the 12th day of January, 1918, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to obtain a degree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the ground of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK. Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Jan. 12—Feb. 23, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for the County of King—In Probate. In the Matter of the Guardianship of Clarence Haydon, Irene Haydon and Richard Haydon, Minors.—No. 9188. Order to Show Cause on Sale of Real Estate. E. C. Haydon, the guardian of the said minors, having filed his petition in this court, duly verified, praying for an order of this court for the sale of real estate of which the said minors are seized, for the purposes therein set forth. And it appearing to the court from said petition that the personal estate of the said minors in the hands of said guardian is not sufficient to pay the claims against the said estate and the expenses of the administration thereof, and that it is necessary to sell all or a portion of the said real estate of the said minors to pay the said claims and expenses of the administration. And it appearing to the court that said petition conforms to, and is in accordance with, the requirements of law in such case made and provided. It is ordered by the court that all persons interested in the estate of the said minors appear before said Superior Court on the 10th day of December, 1917, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at the court room of the Probate Department of said Superior Court, in the City of Seattle, in said King County, then and there to show cause, if any they have, why an order of this court should not be granted to said guardian authorizing and empowering him to sell the said real estate of said minors, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the aforesaid claims and expenses of administration. Done in open court this 13th day of October, 1917. Judge. KENNETH MACKINTOSH. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of James J. Ryan, Deceased.—No. 21908. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administrator of the estate of James J. Ryan, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to serve the same (supported by claimant's affidavit as required in Sec. 108. Probate Code) on the Administrator or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with proof of such, service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or same will be barred. Date of first publication, Dec. 15, 1917. WM. T. PERKINS, Administrator of said Estate. Address 607 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash. JOHN J. KINNANE, Attorney for Estate. Hotel Seattle, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Cora Green, Deceased.—No. 22412. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administrator of the estate of Cora Green, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to serve the same (supported by claimant's affidavit as required in Sec. 108, Probate Code) on the administrator or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with proof of such service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or same will be barred. Date of first publication Dec. 8, 1917. Date of first publication W. D. CARTER, Administrator of said Estate. Address 316 Pacific Block , Seattle. 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 Sander S. Scott, De- In the Matter of the Estate of Sander S. Scott, Deceased.—No. 22483. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as administrator of the estate of Sander S. Scott, deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said administrator or his 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 Dec. 8, 1917. AL G. GRANT, Administrator of said Estate. Address 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. 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 Guardianship of Della Watts, an Insane Person.—No. 22357. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Guardian of the estate of Della Watts, an Insane Person. All persons having claims against her estate are required to serve the same (supported by claimant's affidavit as required in Sec. 108, Probate Code) on the Guardian or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with proof of such service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or same will be barred. Date of first publication Dec. 8, 1917. Address 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. ANDREW R. BLACK. Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. 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. ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Fancy and Staple Groceries. Vegetables and Fruits in season. Bakery in connection. Free delivery. Tel. 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