Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. 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 "GEORGE MORRIS" IS DEAD Death after a lingering illness, has claimed Judge George E. Morris and his remains were cremated yesterday in the presence of hundreds of friends and those of his relations as could be present. He had lived in and near Seattle for the past thirty years and had a wide circle of friends, admirers and acquaintances, the most of whom dropped a tear of regret, when his earthly career closed. The editor hereof was intimately acquainted with him, when he was a practitioner, and was the recipient of the most of the work that he had to give to publishers, owing largely to the fact that both of us were members of the same church and frequently met at the residence of the pastor, Dr. W. P. George. Among the first ones he took into his confidence, when he wanted to go on the bench, was the editor hereof, and the old convention system of nominating judges being in vogue, George Morris was promised "our" delegation, we being successful in the primaries, we were and the solid vote of the Fifth ward was cast for George Morris at our earnest solicitation. He was nominated and elected at that time and many times thereafter and we continued to be the best of friends, for, as we saw him, he was a most excellent "fellow." But suddenly our friendship of long standing was rent assunder and therafter we barely spoke as we passed by. In granting a divorce to a white woman from a black man a reporter put an ugly insinuation in the mouth of Judge Morris, which we now believe he never thought of saying, and we being identified with the black man, flew to his defense without first talking the matter over with the judge. He, of course, took exceptions to the severe criticism and our friendship was at an end. Time, however, softend the situation and he in after years often said, "Cayton labored under a gross misunderstanding, as I never said what the papers said I did say." Neither of us, however felt called upon to right the wrong and so it continued to the end. Last Saturday we were very desirous of seeing him, but knew it would be useless to try, for no one knew our feelings. This is recited to show how easy it is for life-long friends to become bitter enemies over misunderstandings. When inexplainable things arise between persons the first thing for the aggrieved party to do is to meet the other party and calmly talk the matter over, and if they do nine times out of ten they will part the same good friends as of yore. The longer one cultivates a grievance or an imaginative one the more aggrivated it becomes until it develops into a first class feud. We earnestly believe that George E. Morris was a consistent Christian gentleman and that at SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MAR. 9, 1918 heart he bore us no ill-will on account of the hard things we had said against him, because he took into consideration our loyalty to the class of citizens, with whom we are identified. Judge Morris was one of the very able jurists of the state and his record on the bench is a proud heritage for his son and the community at large. Peace to his ashes. "L'ENVOI!" (To the Judiciary) The following little parody was suggested while reading Kipling's "I'Envoi": When Earth's last lawsuit is ended, When the prisoners have all been tried, When the final decision is rendered, Till the High Judge of all our decisions Shall call us to practice anew. And those that played fair shall be happy, They shall sit in an office of gold, And each have a thousand clients And no claim shall ever grow old, And have real Saints for their jurors Joseph, Peter, and Paul, And hold Court for an age at a sitting. And never grow tired at all. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Uncle Sam judging from the war news coming from our own southern states, seems to be waging as relentless a war against Sambo Ebenezer as he is against Kaiser Wilhelm. If some of the primary candidates had have had larger expense accounts they doubtless would have gotten a great many more votes than they did. Penny wise and pound foolish persons never get very far from the hitching post. Those bible students who are opposing the Red Cross work because it saves the lives of wounded soldiers, who may perhaps return to the battle field, come a whole lot closer to being damphools than followers of the meek and lowly Jesus. If Japan controls Siberia former Czar Nicholas might embrace the faith of the Mikado and thereby get a vacation from his wintry quarters, and we suspect he is ready and willing to embrace any old thing that will guarantee him that much desired vacation. "Dry Squad Busy" is a daily head line, and well it might be, for if rumor be true, booze is still pouring into Seattle in "car load lots." In our opinion the dry squad could be a plagued sight "busier" than it is and then not catch half the "stuff" leaking into this city. Petitions are being circulated in this city under the auspices of the Seattle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People praying that the president of the United States extend executive clemency to the five soldiers condemned to death as well as the forty-one already condemned to life imprisonment and confined in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas. We truly hope that every VOL. 2, No. 39 reader of this paper will go out of his or her way to sign one of these petitions that all of them may be forwarded to the president within the next ten days. A petition may be found at the most of the places where the colored citizens meet, frequent or congregate and if you do not see it ask about it. Life is cheap in the South, if it happens to be in a black body, but unless some steps are taken to give even a black person a show for his white ante a state of chaos will reign in every state of the South. Of course the black man will eventually come out at the little end of the horn, but it will be at an awful sacrifice of human life and destruction of property. The Mississippi delegation to the Republican National Committee which recently met in St. Louis, had a bad case of Booze, which made every Northern Republican sick unto detah on getting a whiff of it. Booze, by the way, is the name of a colored man, who fought the seating of Perry W. Howard, another colored man. Just why such skunks are permitted to live is a problem. Ships will win the war, is a pretty well circulated slogan in this country just now. If that be true, and it is not doubted, the United States having both the men and the material, the ships should be built at once if not sooner. At present Seattle is a great ship building center and the shipyards in Seattle ought to be able to build them faster than the Germans can sink them. Uncle Sam's war department has definitely decided to use colored chaplins only for colored troops and in that case something like seventy new colored chaplins will soon be mustered into the service. Here is one instance where it will pay well to be a well educated colored preacher and a thousand and one are hoping that service lightning will soon hit them. In the recent Chicago primaries friends of Mayor Thompson were invariably defeated, thus foreshadowing the defeat of the mayor in the coming senatorial contest, all of which we very much regret, owing to the fact that, we believe the mayor is an ideal American, though he some times says things that give his political enemies opportunities to question his patriotism. Had the Slavs fought the Germans, when fighting was good, instead of fighting themselves, they would still be fighting the Germans instead of being smothered out by the Germans like so many rats in a hole. Though the war was begun in their interest yet they were the first to begin dickering for a separate peace. Who diggeth a ditch for his neighbor may be the first to fall therein. To a number of colored men at the White House a few days ago President Wilson declared he had not heard of the bruital burning of a colored man at Estelle Springs, Tenn., a few days prior. Such a calamity was not considered of sufficient importance to attract the attention of "our president" and yet he "wants to make the world safe for democracy." In other words, if the papers containing the startling headilnes of "A Negro Burned at the Stake and Viewed by Thousands of White Men, Women and Children" reached his sanctum the article 9 ```markdown ``` was not of sufficient importance to attract his attention. No wonder Chairman Wilcox of the National Republican Committee was moved a short time ago to say: "This country never was so much in need of the Republican party having charge of the government as at present. However lamentable from the standpoint of the Entente Allies Russia is getting just what she richly deserves and the Central Powers can not grind it as a nation in too fine bits. The country is made up of dirty, double-crossing scoundrels, who merit every punishment that comes their way. Go to it, you Dutch devils, and hell to him who cries enough. An opportunity presenting itself for the Japanese government to grab much valuable Russian territory with Vladivostok as the commercial and seaport center, she suddenly wakes up from the lethargy in which she fell immediately after grabbing much valuable German territory in China, and takes on active war operations. The Mikado moves when there is something in it for the Mikado. Heatless days as yet have not been ordered for Seattle, but, owing to the unaccountable shortage of coal, more heatless days have been experienced in Seattle than in those cities in the East where regular heatless days have been ordered. Just why there is a coal shortage on Puget Sound with hundreds of operating coal mines in a stone's throw of the entire Puget Sound basin is the unexplainable question, unless the operators are camouflaging the people. Gardening back yards and vacant lots may be a war necessity, but even this is not to be considered with the fact that it is a family necessity. Had families in the past have taken the trouble to have made their back yards profitable instead of ornamental they would not have been so much at the mercy of the American Trust Hogs. A plat of ground 40x50 feet can be made to grow almost enough vegetables, if properly conserved, to feed a moderate sized family a whole year. Why not? Now that the ground hog is nothing short of a grand weather witch deceiver, why not make the same use of it that you do of any other hog—slaughter it for meat—and no longer rely on it as a weather forecaster? It has been almost six weeks since Mr. Ground Hog is alleged to have come out and was unable to see his shadow, which meant the winter had broken, and yet the six weeks since have been the worst weather of the present winter. Arguing that organized labor means to be fair to colored folks is about as uncertain as a prediction that some time hell will freeze over and the unfortunates intsead of being shoved into it, can skate over on the ice. Organized labor is always fair to colored folks when it can use them for its own selfish agrandizement. As long as organized labor is domineered as it now is the thing for the colored man to do is to never lose an opportunity to give it a black eve. If the black man in this country is not in one 'hell of a fix'', using the vulgar vernacular of the streets, then, from our view point, it is utterly impossible for a human being to get in such a state of affairs. "Our President" had not heard of the burning of black men at the stake on suspicion and the governor of the state of Tennessee says he was without authority to interfere and did not know what he could do, if he had the authority to have prevented the burning of a black man at Estelle Springs in the state of which he is chief executive. Between the ignorance of the President and the "without power to interfere" of the governor, the colored folks of this country are about in the same fix as would be a jack rabbit on an open field with a pack of hungry gray hounds approaching. Might may make right from the view point of a majority of the citizens of this country, but --- if they practice that doctrine as they are now doing in the South, sooner or later chaos will pravil and even it does not is it humane to tolerate such brutality. Though technically guilty we believe the death sentence of Tom Mooney the San Francisco bomb thrower, should be given a life prison sentence in lieu of the death sentence. To hang Mooney at this time would serve no good purpose, yea, not only serve no good purpose, but would alienate a great many persons from the government support, who really and truly believe that Mooney has been railroaded to the gallows. Here is a time when justice should be tempered with mercy. Despite the fact that many of the train porters in this country realize as much as $200 per month in the way of tips from the traveling public, yet a great majority of them would much prefer a fair salary of say $100 per month in lieu of what they get by tips. The colored porter, who realizes large sums of money from tips does so by making a complete lick spittle of himself and no man with an ounce of manhood in him desires to have to undergo such an ordeal to get the money. Train porters should be paid regular wages as are the other train employes and be relieved of the humiliation of having to grin in every passenger's face that he may realize a compensation for the work he gives. Porters are as necessary on a train as are breakmen and why make a lick spittle of the former and gentlemen of the latter. Let every porter in the United States join in the move to dignify the work and let the railway magnates cease to compel the porters to russle among the passengers for a living and more honorable, as well as reliable colored men will seek the train porters' job. Two thousand colored persons paraded up and down the principal streets of Nashville, Tennessee in silent protest against the brutality the colored folks of Tennessee are subjected to from time to time at the hands of the white citizens and it ended up at the governor's mansion and wih J. C. Napier as spokesman, the governor was appealed to for legal protection and Mr. Napier said in part: "The black man in this state is the most unprotected being that breathes the breath of life. The fish in the waters are protected; the birds of the air are shielded; your horse and your cow are cared for by statutes and no one dares mistreat or abuse them, lest the game laws, or the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or the humane commission will be after him. If either of these were purposely burned to death in a public place, it would arouse such horror and indignation in the minds of the people as that the immediate punishment of the offender would be demanded and he would be forced to pay the penalty that the law prescribes. Yet. public announcement may be made that a human being is to be burned; he is burned and no law can be found to punish the men who burn him." TO THE PUBLIC Local happenings and Personal mention are and will be published free of charge in Cayton's Weekly. If you have such and will call Beacon 1910 you can report the same and they will be carefully edited and published. Cayton's Weekly will give you and each of you a square deal. Beacon 1910 REVIVAL SERVICES At Grace Presbyterian Church, 22nd Ave. and East Cherry St, beginning March 10, 1918 and lasting five days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Dr. F. L. Hayden in charge. The program which we expect to follow is: WINTER WEARINESS I'm tired of snow, I'm tired of sleet, I'm tired of both together; I'm tired of storms that save the wheat, I'm sick of wintry weather. I try to be a cheerful guy, I strive to chirp and chortle, and hand some glee, as I pass by, to every sighing mortal. To find some joy in everything is always my endeavor; but how can one rear up and sing, when winter lasts forever? How can a minstrel swat his lyre to glad and pleasing numbers, when he has naught to feed the fire and freezes while he slumbers? Each day I think the cold will break, the winter be exhausted, and every morning when I wake I find my whiskers frosted. Each day I see some hopeful sign that spring at last is coming, and in the night, at half-past 9, I hear a blizzard humming. I'm tired of chilblains in my toes, I'm tired of influenzy; I'm tired of every wind that blows from back of the McKenzie. I'm tired of ice in sheets and peaks, of ash piles large and dirty; I'm tired of every blast that shrieks from up around Alberty. I'm tired of grates and easy chairs, when I'd be out choo-chooing; this climate's built for polar bears, and hence my loud boohooing. —WALT MASON. THE CHOICE BETWEEN TWO FLAGS Past weakness and future strength are disclosed by the fact that so many of the volunteer and drafted soldiers are not voting citizens of the republic. It weakens the political structure of a nation to have so many of its permanent population who have not been vested with or trained in the rights of citizenship. It weakens these men themselves to be allowed to live so long and share so much in America without becoming Americans. It expatriates them. They are citizens neither of the old country nor of the new. Without the rights, they lose the sense of the duties of citizenship. This will be demonstrated dramatically on a country-wide scale if by treaty agreement the absent citizens from one country are drafted in another where they now live. Then, if the chance be given to choose which flag they will follow in the ranks of the army, a new premium will be seen to have been placed on American citizenship. If this choice between the flags be denied, then "the man without a country" will realize the plight of his own neglect or of being neglected. In either event America will awake from the strange heedlessness with which it has ignored the problem of its vast alien population. And every adult inhabitant will be either a citizen or will be preparing to become one, or else an alien permitted to abide for a specified time under specified conditions. Thus we can prevent the abuse of our hospitality and at the same time recruit our citizenship under a wiser selection and with a more adequate training.—Chicago Commons. HIT OR MISS The Optimist I am an optimist, because I know the might of right, And, safe within its perfect laws, I go right on and fight. Men must be decent, by and by, Excepting not the foe— Him, I will swat him in the eye And help to make him so! Believing always in the best, My duty I can't shirk; With cheerful heart I do my best, In love or war or work. This sad world daily better grows, Shakes off the gloomster's curse; It must, because, well goodness knows It couldn't well grow worst! Job work in the latest and newest styles turned out in this office. POLITICAL POT BIE Seattle's mayoralty election is now history and some days ago Ole Hanson wired his friends: "I met the enemy and he is mine." In other words, Hanson defeated Bradford by nearly 5000, and the former is delighted while the latter is badly disgruntled. The citizens of this city after its trouble with the United States government, resulting in the soldiers from Camp Lewis being barred from coming to the city on a visit, took it into their heads to clean up the city from stem to gudgen, and at the primaries they began the good work by eliminating Gill and at the general election they completed the job by eliminating Bradford and Duncan. The American people are slow in getting aroused to the situation, but once done, they make a complete job of it. It's really amusing to hear Bradford amid his briny tears denounce the Star as a disreputable rag, in which Cayton's Weekly fully agrees, but for years the Star has been the political cesspool from which Jim Bradford has daily fed and he fumbled and fondled over it as a thing near and dear to his heart. When it was championing his candidacy as against that of Hugh M. Caldwell for corporation counsel, it was then that this same Jim Bradford declared from the rostrum that it was the only fair daily paper published in Seattle, but when it opposed him for mayor because he was the candidate of I. W. W.'s it at once, so far as he was concerned, became a dirty rag Summing it all up, Jim Bradford's entrance into the mayoralty race, his campaign, his anti-election speech and the over-dose of grouch, from which he is now suffering, conclusively proves that he is a demagogue of the deepest dye and will stoop to anything to get an office. Demagogues, however, flourish for a time and then fade away and, it is hoped, that this community has heard its last of Jim Bradford and he will go into the same state of "innocuous desuetude" as is one Otto A. Case. Cayton's Weekly feels like patting itself on the back after reading the returns of the late election. It supported neither of the mayoralty candidates in the primaries and though from the very outset it believed that one of the nominees would be Ole Hanson, yet it had not the remotest idea that the other would be Bradford. Not having supported Hanson and realizing from whence Bradford got his chief support there was nothing left for it to do but support Hanson, which it did with a vengeance and in doing so its editor not only used the columns of the paper in a most telling way, but the editor himself made the candidacy of Hanson a personal matter and pointed out to those he met the danger of electing Bradford. At the meeting of the King County Colored Republican Club, called to consider the municipal election, an overwhelming majority of those present were inclined to either favor Bradford or indorse no mayoralty candidate, but after a careful and thoughtful ten minutes talk, pointing out the class of support backing Bradford and how he was tied up to organized labor, by the editor hereof, the Club unanimously indorsed Hanson and each one left the room pledged to work overtime for his election, and the Rev. W. D. Carter became so thoroughly interested in the election of Hanson that he indorsed his candidacy from his pulpit. Dr. Cardwell took up the cross and worked day and night for the election of Hanson, even inducing the editor of the Searchlight to change his attitude and indorse the candidacy of Hanson. In sticking a torch to the Bradford camouflage the editor hereof was not moved to do so either from selfish or personal motives, but from a broad humanitarian standpoint and in the interest of a class of citizens with whom he is identified, believing that if Bradford was elected their opportunities in this city would be greatly handicapped. The colored citizens of Seattle did not take kindly to the candidacy of Ole Hanson, owing to previous utterances on his part concerning them, but after many of the leading citizens had talked with him they were thoroughly convinced that his bark was considerably worse than his bite and that he had done no more than the thousand and one other real estate sharks of the city were daily doing, only he told them so and the others beat about the bush. In Ole Hanson this paper believes that while mayor of Seattle the colored citizens will be accorded the same treatment as the white citizens. If he makes up his mind to run the undersirable citizens of the city out of town, he will not make fish of the whites and flesh of the blacks, but will say, "to hell with all of you, get up and git." When Ole Hanson has taken his seat as chief executive of Seattle we believe it will be the first instance almost in the history of Seattle for the past thirty years that a real independent man will be in the mayoralty chair. As to the councilmanic election, Cayton's Weekly was not so deeply interested as in the mayoralty election, because it thoroughly believed that any three of the six nominees would make good councilmen, though its C. W. OLE HANSON preference was Hanna, Haas and Blaine. The returns show that Bolton, Cotterill and Haas were elected. It favored the most of the amendments and propositions, the exception being the civil service pension amendment, which was overwhelming defeated. Per se the editor hereof was against the recall of Anna Louise Strong, but he was silent on the subject because she seemed to rely on organized labor to save her cause at the polls. Miss Strong, like her admirable father, is always for the under dog, vulgarly speaking, but when she sought such disloyal reprobates as Hulet M. Wells and boasted of the company she kept, she got what she richly deserved. Every one is liable to make mistakes, but to make mistakes and then do nor say nothing in the way of amends gives the world to understand that you do not regard them as mistakes and you rest your cause and the public has your consent to take whatever version of them it may so desire, which in our opinion fully explains why a majority of the citizens voted to recall Miss Strong last Tuesday. VAUDEVILLE AND DANCE Keep the date. The Apha Tennis and Outing Club will give its annual entertainment March 20th, at Washington Hall, 14th avenue and Fir street. Cayton's Weekly publishes legal notices at current rates. Main 24. PERSONAL PERSONAL Dr. J. E. Porter of Oklahoma, who once seriously contemplated settling in the state of Washington and actually did come to the city and begin to prepare himself to take the medical examination, has settled in Los Angeles, Cal., according to a news item in the Eagle of that city. Sunday evening, March 10, Dr. Hayden. Monday evening, March 11, Dr. Hayden and Dr. Johnson. Tuesday evening, March 12, Dr. Hayden and Dr. Carter. Wednesday evening, March 14, Dr. Hayden and Dr. Forbes. Good music and inspiring songs. "Come with us and we will do thee good." Mr. Randolph, who some years ago was a mail carrier in Seattle, but went East and was connected with an insurance company in Louisville, Ky., has given up that work and has joined the U. S. Army. Mr. Randolph is a very intellectual young man and in the army we predict he will make his mark. That was a most magnificent audience which greeted Roland W. Hayes at the Y. W. C. A. auditorium, which meant that Mrs. W. D. Carter had scored a great financial success in bringing him to Seattle. Mr. Hayes is one of the noted tenor singers of the United States and he did himself proud on this occasion. Mrs. M. B. Stone of Ft. Flagler, visited with friends in Seattle for a short time this week. Mrs. Stone lived in Seattle a few years ago and still owns valuable real estate on Beacon Hill. She was the first colored woman to reach Dawson City in the gold rush and came out with quite a sum of money. She conceived the idea of living in Africa and disposed of her belongings in Seattle and sailed for Southern Africa. She did not like the country and returned to Seattle at that time she was Mrs. Con A. Rideout. She says she and her husband are doing well at Fort Flagler. LET'S SMILE "Generally run down? Want a tonic?" said a chemist on being consulted by a customer. "I've the very thing for you—Thomson's Topcure. Four times a day, and in two days you'll feel like another man. Half a dollar a bottle." "No, no, no!" said the customer, energetically. "But it is the very thing for you. All the doctors are recommending it. We can't get it fast enough for our customers." "I believe you, but I would prefer something else." "Nonsense! I tell you the Topcure will do more good in one day than anything else in a month. It cures everything. What is your objection?" "Only I'm Thomson." The occasion was a working class funeral. The usual crowd had gathered to see how it was done, and evidently the verdict was favorable. It was no ordinary funeral. The flowers would have "done a duchess proud" and the coaches were "numerous and costly." Three workmen passing along the road stopped to see the show. One of them summed up the situation in a lambent phrase: "While she were livin' she were nowt, she 'ad nowt, an' she did nowt; and now she's dead she's the bally queen of Sheba." "What a brilliant conversationalist young Mr. Jenkins is! Do you know him? Really, it's an education to listen to him talking." "Yes," said gentle Mrs. Smith, "I have "You must have found him very entertaining. He can talk cleverly and wittily for an hour at a stretch." "Then when I met him," said Mrs. Smith, "it must have been at the beginning of the second hour." --- --- CALL ON THE PRESIDENT (Indianapolis Freeman) Recently President Wilson received a delegation of four members of the New York Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People by special appointment. The delegation placed before the president a petition signed by twelve thousand citizens of New York in which the president was asked to extend executive clemency to five Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry now under sentence of death by verdict of the court martial which tried the Houston riot cases, and requesting the president to cause to be laid before him a review of the cases of the forty-one soldiers of the same regiment who were sentenced to life imprisonment by the first court martial. The delegation consisted of James Weldon Johnson, Field Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Rev. George Frazier Miller, Rector of St. Augustine's Church, Brooklyn, Rev. F. A. Cullen, president of the New York branch. Mr. Johnson, who acted as spokesman of the delegation, said: "We come as a delegation from the New York branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, representing the twelve thousand singers to this petition which we have the honor to lay before you. And we come not only as the representatives of those who signed this petition, but we come representing the sentiments and aspirations and sorrows, too, of the great mass of the Negro population of the United States. "We respectfully and earnestly request and urge that you extend executive clemency to the five Negro soldiers of the twenty-fourth infantry now under sentence of death by court martial. And, understanding that the cases of the men of the same regiment who were sentenced to life imprisonment by the first court martial are to be reviewed, we also request and urge that you cause this review to be laid before you and that executive clemency be shown also to them. "We feel that the history of this particular regiment and the splendid record for bravery and loyalty of our Negro soldiery in every crisis of the nation gives us the right to make this request. And we make it not only in the name of their loyalty, but also in the name of the unquestioned loyalty to the nation of twelve million Negroes—a loyalty which today places them side by side with the original American stocks that landed at Plymouth and James-town. "The hanging of thirteen men without the opportunity of appeal to the Secretary of War or to their Commander-in-Chief, the president of the United States, was a punishment so drastic and so unusual in the history of the nation that the execution of additional members of the twenty-fourth infantry would to the colored people of the country savor of vengeance rather than justice. "It is neither our purpose nor is this the occasion to argue whether this attitude of mind on the part of the colored people is justified or not. As representatives of the race we desire only to testify that it does not exist. This state of mind has been intensified by the significant fact that although white persons were involved in the Houston affair and the regiment to which the colored men belonged was officered entirely by white men, none but colored men, so far as we have been able to learn, have been prosecuted or condemned. "We desire to also respectfully call to your attention the fact that there were mitigating circumstances for the action of these men of the twenty-fourth infantry. Not by any premeditated design and without cause did these men do what they did at Houston, but by a long series of humiliating and harrassing incidents, culminating in the brutal assault on Corporal Baltimore, they were goaded to sudden and frenzied --- action. This is borne out by the long record for orderly and soldierly conduct on the part of the regiment throughout its whole history up to that time. "And to the end that you extend the clemency which we ask, we lay before you this petition signed by white as well as colored citizens of New York; one of the signers being a white man, president of a New York bank, 72 years of age and a native of Lexington, Ky. "And now, Mr. President, we would not let this opportunity pass without mentioning the terrible outrages against our people that have taken place in the last three quarters of a year; outrages that are not only unspeakable wrongs against them, but blots upon the fair name of our common country. We mention the riots at East St. Louis, in which the colored people bore the brunt of both the cruelty of the mob and the processes of law. And we especially mention the savage burnings that have taken place in the single state of Tennessee within nine months; the burnings at Memphis, Tenn., at Dyersburg, Tenn., and only last week at Estill Springs, Tenn., where a Negro charged with the killing of two men was tortured with red-hot irons, then saturated with oil and burned to death before a crowd of American men, women and children. And we ask that you, who have spoken so nobly to the whole world for the cause of humanity, speak against these specific wrongs. We realize that your high position and the tremendous moral influence which you wield in the world will give a word from you greater force than could come from any other source. Our people are intently listening and praying that you may find it in your heart to speak that word." The president received the delegation very cordially and granted them an audience lasting half an hour. He assured them, in effect, that he would carefully examine the record in the case of the condemned men and would give the whole matter his sympathetic attention. A surprising incident of the interview was that the president declared he had not heard anything about the Estill Springs burning. He asked the committee to state the facts for him, which the committee did. The president expressed the opinion that he could hardly believe it true that such a thing had happened. The delegation assured him that not only was it true in the case at Estill Springs but that similar incidents had hap- IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County—In Probate. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Executrix of the estate of Mollie Anderson (formerly) Mollie Anderson, deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Executrix 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 February 23, 1918. MOLLIE LaFONTAINE, Executrix of said Estate. Address: 316 Pacific Block ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Feb. 23; March 16, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of James Golden, De- posed, No. 39903. Notice to Creditors. released.—No. 1028. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administratrix of the estate of James Golden, 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 Administratrix or her 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 February 23rd, 1918 ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Feb. 22; March 16, 1918 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 BARPER SHOP "He wants to see you." High-class Tonsorial Work. 300 Main Street, Seattle. Latest race papers. 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Main 1185. BURR WILLIAMS RUSSELL SMITH President Secretary DUMAS CLUB, INC. 209 Fifth Avenue South CAFE IN CONNECTION Phone Elliott 3763 SEATTLE WASHINGTON IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Hattie Tanner, Plaintiff, vs. James Tanner, Defendant.—No. ..... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said James Tanner, 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 decree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the ground of desertion. 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. 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