Cayton's Weekly

PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South THE PASSING THRONG Was a Mighty Money Maker. Andrew Carnegie is dead and thus passeth to the great beyond another mortal who achieved world-wide fame in getting the money. He was simply a genius at making money and once he got it coming his way he could not consistently give it out as fast as it came to him. Some years ago he went on record as declaring, "I mean to die poor," but if he meant to say, "I will succeed in giving all of the money I now have away before I die," we fear he flat-footedly failed. However, after he retired from active business he and a bevy of assistants spent their entire time finding deserving institutions, from his viewpoint, on which to place large endowments. As with Mr. Carnegie so with a majority of the world's greatest money makers, they are not men of extensive educational qualifications. Yea, verily, it looks very much like the educated man is hopelessly handicapped of ever becoming one of vast wealth. In acquiring his immense fortune Mr. Carnegie may have taken advantage of the more or less prevailing corrupt legislative conditions of this country, but, as the end began to approach he seemed to have seen the error of his ways and begged to be "delivered from the body of this dead man." It is hoped that his family will continue distributing his ill-gotten gains to institutions that have for their object, the betterment of world conditions and the uplift of degenerate humanity. He bitterly opposed the late world-wide war and came dangerously close to losing his mind when his influence was unavailing. The Grand Jury Struck. Many kinds of strikes have been pulled off in the United States, but the strike of the Chicago grand jury because the state's attorney was seeking to put the whole blame of the bloody Chicago riot on the colored citizens, was the first instance on record of such a body going on a strike, and it had its desired effect. This paper some time ago said a great majority of the white citizens of this country favored giving the colored man a square deal and the stand taken by that Chicago grand jury and the public approval thereof is verification of the statement. Even with the grand jury taking the stand that it did a biased state's attorney, as in the East St. Louis trouble, will find ways and means to give to the colored man the dirty end of it. That state's attorney belongs to that 25 per cent. minority that will resort to any kind of violence to "keep the niggers down." Until the troops took charge of the city the colored folks were but defending themselves against the intolerant whites, but the colored fighters made a mistake in firing on the troops, and those who did so should be severely punished. The troops should SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919 have been the flag of truce, but even this is said without knowing the facts. They Are Waiting for You. And now President Wilson threatens to take his food fight to the people, which is wholly unnecessary, as the people are heartily in favor of lower prices for food commodities. If he had taken the bull by the horns when food prices first began to soar skywards, as did England's officials, he would not now have to go before the people for relief, but no, he was "holding with the hare and running with the hounds" on the proposition—in other words, the trust hogs knew they were perfectly safe under the Wilson administration, and they went the limit. It was but a few weeks ago that this self-same President Wilson threatened to take his peace pact to the people of this country, by making a speaking tour thereof, but he suddenly changed his mind when he learned that the people were prepared to give to him a warm reception in the shape of an old-fashioned political heckling. The people know of President Wilson's backing and filling between the trust hogs and the organized labor leaders, and if he leaves Washington City on a speaking tour he will be so badly worsted before he gets back that he will wonder. Is there any use of me even going back? Jealous of Each Other. "In my division while in France," said Major John E. Carroll, "there were 6500 colored men, and I am here to say they were the best workers of the entire division. Whether their lot was hard or otherwise, they were always cheerful and when it came to patriotism I always knew the colored man was a full hundred per cent American. I saw none of the colored troops in action, but those who did see them have the same commendation to say of their fighting as I had to say of their working. The colored man who drove my car was a black prince and as true as steel. It was always a pleasure for me to assist in the promotion of one of the colored workers, but one thing, however, I observed they were always unduly jealous of each other's success. If one was promoted a hundred or more of the rank and file would be Johnny on the job, knocking the promoted man. If you would let it be known one of them was likely to be promoted, then bedlam would break lose among the others, and I wondered why was it, and I further wondered if that spirit of jealousy prevailed among the colored civilians back home." Five Miles Per Hour. I saw the light of a human being snuffed out on Second and Columbia last Saturday like that of a lighted candle put into a gust of wind. Probably the pedestrian had his mind on something before him and was not using the precaution that is necessary on a down town thoroughfare, but granting all that, in my opinion, the motor cyclist was wholly at fault and should be severely punished. At the time he struck the unfortunate man no other vehicle was near, nor was the crossing over crowded with other pedestrians. In other words the motorcyclist could not help having seen the man long before he got to him, and had he used VOL. IV.. NO. 10 due precautions he could have dodged him, but the motor-cyclist was traveling at such a rapid gait that he was doubtless on the man before either could realize the impending danger. It ought to be a penitentiary offense to drive up Second avenue between Yesler and Pine streets at a more rapid rate than five miles per hour. If it is necessary for one to go faster one of the less crowded streets should be used. After all Sam Hill, of Washington good roads fame, seems to have the European situation more on the tip of his tongue than any man I have talked to since the war, so far as the United States is concerned, begun and closed. "The situation, to say the least, is foreboding and I fear that the end is not in sight," said he in briefly discussing the war and its aftermath." Bolshevism has run riot throughout Europe and has even jumped the wide expanse of old ocean itself and is getting in its deadly work in the United States. Working men are demanding wages that business concerns cannot pay unless the consumers are robbed, which must result in something happening—God only knows what. The farms are being deserted and the families are coming to the city to get big wages and the falling off of food production means a higher price for what is produced, which high price the mechanics in the industrial centers have to pay, and thus they realize no more than if they were working for half what they are now getting. Back to the farm is the only salvation of the United States of North America and the sooner the better." City Official's Grave Offense. "Murphine Defies Organized Labor" was a stud horse headline in the daily Union Record. And suppose he did, 'who the hell' is organized labor any more than any other aggregation of human beings? When did it get to be a crime for one man to defy another? To whom does this city belong, the people or organized labor? Has organized labor decided to destroy any one that does not bow to its behests, and if so, how far does it expect to travel along that road? Did not organized labor first defy Murphine in the shape of an ultimatum? And thus does the spirit of intolerance grow in this country—a demand is a threat and a threat a signal for open violence. May, perhaps, the capitalists have been guilty of many wrongs in the past and are still not free from them, but two wrongs never made a right, and if the man with the money and the man with the might do not reason together and settle their differences amicably this alleged "land of the free and home of the brave" will be converted into the "land of the blood and home of the dead." For the laborer to destroy the country to prevent the idle rich from enjoying it will be of little consequence to the destroyer. A half a loaf is better than no loaf. The toilers have the votes, why do they not control the legislation? Don't all answer at once. Chicago is going at it in her usual big style by indicting twenty-nine Negroes by the grand jury and $50,000 has been voted the state's attorney for investigation. What of the Future. Chicago Race Riots. --- ```markdown ``` It appears then that the riots were only among the blacks, for no whites seem to have been indicted. We had supposed that the whites started the riots and finished them; but here, as so often, the newspapers have misled us. There was a report of a black being stoned at a bathing beach, but evidently the wires got crossed and it should have read "white." Of course the grand jury being partly made up of blacks, the black men and women indicted received fair treatment and will have no complaint. We expect to have it brought out that the rioting was confined to the "black colony" on the South Side, that the fighting was between the blacks and that whites only came in to preserve law and order. There were reports of blacks being attacked by whites, in the Loop and on the North Side—but doubtless they were false. Great is white-robed Justice with her evenly balanced scales! The black man will get his just deserts—even more. The white man is generous and holds no grudge; he is even willing to tax himself to enforce the demands of justice!—Union Record. Johnson Hasn't a Chance. Recently the editoir hereof received the following inquiry from Wesley C. Peoples of San Francisco, Cal., who is the publisher of the California Free Lance: "Would you please submit to us a statement as to what in your opinion will be the attitude of the voters of the State of Washington on the nomination of United States Senator Hiram Johnson as the Republican nominee for 1920? We have a very high regard for your knowledge as a political forecaster and we are endeavoring to find out what the sentiment of your section of the state is in this connection. Under separate cover and by this mail we are sending you a copy of the California Free Lance. We would like to publish a statement from you in our Hiram Johnson edition." Senator Hiram Johnson has not a look in in the State of Washington. The delegation to the next National Republican Convention will be instructed to vote for Miles C. Poindexter, and in case of his defeat the delegation will itself decide as to its second choice, but that will hardly be Senator Johnson. There is little or no sentiment in this state for Johnson for president, though here and there a supporter of Johnson is to be found. Leonard Wood seems to have the ear of more of the voters of the state than anyone else after Poindexter. In our opinion Johnson will never get a Washington vote for the presidential nomination and yet he will carry the state by 100,000 plurality if he happens to be nominated. A Royal Weakling Coming. Uncle Sam is making ready to prostrate himself at the feet of one, Prince of Wales, who for some unknown reason has decided to put himself on public exhibition in many of the eastern cities of this country, that our citizens may fall all over themselves to do him honor. Now this Prince of Wales is probably one of the most insignificant mortals, if mortal he is, in all England, and, if by some means his royal title could be snatched from him and we could see him as he is, the average restauranter would COLORED LITERATURE Books, Magazines, Eastern Periodicals. High-brow Toilet Articles. First Class Tonsorial Articles at Tutt's Shop, 300 Main Street. DR. C. J. ALLEN, Dentist. Examination free. 211 Globe Bldg., 1st and Madison. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 6 p. m., Sundays by appointment. Residence 1830 24th Avenue. East 6419. CAYTON'S WEEKLY wants two columns of classified adds made up after this style and fashion. Rates very reasonable. Beacon 1910. P. FRAZIER Real Estate, Insurance, Collections. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle Main 4554. I. W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D., Graduate Op- Eye Specialist. Personal attention given in Eye examinations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. consider him too insignificant, from a man viewpoint, to employ him to sweep the kitchen floor and pare the potatoes, but no, he is of royal blood, and our hard-headed business men will leave their places of business and all but kill themselves for an opportunity to prostrate themselves before a "suit of clothes." There are a million young men in the United States who are a million times more deserving of public consideration than this English weakling, all of which prompts us to conclude, "What fools we mortals be." Looking Over This Republic. We suspect that De Valera, the president of the would-be Irish republic, and the Abysinian ruler, both of whom are in this country with the view of bettering, the prospective republics with which they are connected, as they viewed from afar the riots at Washington City and Chicago, said to themselves, truly this is a republic, for only in abnormal conditions does such outbreaks occur in monarchical forms of government. If the United States has succeeded in making the world safe for democracy, in her excitement she has overlooked herself. This model republic, to which the world governments have been invited to look over and take pattern thereafter, comes nearer being a government of anarchists than a republic, the chief corner stone of which is, "All men are born equal with certain unalienable rights." Doubtless after thus pondering to themselves they are willing to return to their homes with "No republic for me." Mississippi's Senatorial Buffoon. John Shap Williams, United States senator from Mississippi, who in temperament and disposition is of the same breed of poisoned pups as was the vulgar buffoon who assaulted Senator Sumner from behind, denounced Senator Lodge in the senate using language that only Mississippi roughnecks use in public, thereby making a spectacle of himself that called for many hisses from the galleries. The Mississippi bombast argued for the peace pact on the grounds that it would assure world peace, but in that he is mistaken because the state of Mississippi would never go Democratic if a state of civil war was not constantly in action. Mexico is a Sunday school picnic in comparison to Mississippi. World peace, I say! Williams and his murderous cohorts keep the state of Mississippi in guerilla warfare year in and year out, and in our opinion if he had his just deserts he would be in the penitentiary instead of in the senate for murder after the fact. Organized Labor's Inconsistencies. White organized packing house workers, who threatened to strike if the packers employed colored workers, did not strike. They thought better of killing the hen that laid the golden egg on sober second thought. What more like "God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more, than the following organized labor creed as taught by the Union Record of this city: "If all members of labor organizations would spend their earnings only for goods bearing the union label, they would in a very short time be able to obtain the conditions they desire without being forced to strike to secure justice." In other words organized labor wants no one to exist except those who belong to its various branches. It is safe to say that in the United States not to exceed one person in twenty is a member of organized labor and yet the pernicious doctrines above would have the one dictate to the twenty. If that is not autocracy in its vilest form, then what is it? Prohibition may have a long, long trail to travel ere it finds a resting place, but it is on its way. G. U. O. OF ODD FELLOWS Will Give Their Fifteenth Annual Picnic August 18th, 1919, Don't Miss the Biggest and Best Picnic of the Season. Plenty Refreshments of All Kinds, Fried Chicken. Plenty of Jazz Music by the Best Jazz Band in Town. Lots of Sport. FISHING, BATHING AND BOATING. Take the Yesler Way Cable to Leschi Boats for Wildwood. Admission, including fare on boat and grounds, 75 cents. Tickets for sale at Tutt's Barber Shop. LISTEN! Are you going to the Grand Dancing Entertainment given by the Efficiency Club MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1919, 8:30 O'CLOCK You Know Us.—At Renton Club House, 18th and Madison. COMMITTEE. J. T. Gayton, A. Hartsfield, S. Young, C. Miller, Ed. A. Pitter, W. H. Wilson, Arthur Williams. Watch for announcement of formal complimentary entertainment. Leave your name and address or card for invitation. WHERE TO EAT At the Diamond you will find everything as you like it. Chaffen Dishes Our Specialty. So long as you eat, so long will you live. If, therefore, you want to live long, come to the Diamond to eat. Boxes for ladies. WE NEVER SLEEP GEORGE SIMMONDS, Proprietor William McHinton, Manager 1207 Jackson Street The Grand Opening of the ATLAS POOL HALL Is Announced, with BOB DISHMORE, Proprietor, M. C. HARRIS, Manager Every Accommodation 1212 Main Street Seattle Phone East 179 Calls Made Promptly Day or Night PENN UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS H. Alfred Lewis, Funeral Director 1215 East Marion St., Seattle RICHARDSON'S UNDERTAKING PARLORS Embalmer and Funeral Director 1216-18 Jackson Street Office, Beacon 103; Res., Main 5610 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS That anti-Japanese meeting held in Seattle must have struck a Puget Sound fog, which chilled its enthusiasm. That government bacon was high at 34c and we have our suspicion that it was another case of "rotten beef" for the soldiers. No, President Wilson's name is not exactly a hiss and a by-word, but it is like unto salt that has lost its savor. Death puts the rich and the poor one alike on the same level. Carnegie dead is no more than Sam Henry in a like state. If Uncle Sam puts millions of suits on the market at cost he is liable to insult the Trust Hogs and that would just be horrible. If a policeman is not permitted to steal and graft nor to lean against a lamp post and finally to abuse a 'nigger,' then, pray, what's the fun in being a cop. Politics in this state has begun to warm up in spite of the fact that the King County Colored Republican club is taking its summer vacation. Billingsley's wire to Sheriff Stringer seems to confirm the intimation of Cayton's Weekly last Saturday that the sheriff and Billingsley understood each other as to the latter's getaway. The public would like to hear from you, Jack. In Seattle there is a Hill, from which many things of vital interest to the republic may be seen and yet it is not visited a hundredth part as often as it should be by those deeply concerned in the public weal. The local branch of the Equal Rights League wired the parent body $75 to assist in the defense of the colored persons in Washington City and Chicago charged with rioting. Arresting the big four packers will worry them about as much as it would worry a rabbit to be thrown into a briar patch, and when they stand convicted all America will doubtless be as mad as a March hare. Wages to employes of Seattle have been boosted almost a million and a half dollars for 1920 and for an excuse for the same the city council pleads the high cost of living. Instead of boosting wages, the high cost of living should have been lowered. Autos to the contrary the horse has not materially decreased in number in this country, so says an agricultural report. It may be smooth skidding in an auto, but a prancing steed is still the charm that allures. Prohibition is beginning to brew in Mexico, but Old Man Booze says it can't be did! However, if we remember correctly he said the same identical thing about the United States, but it was. Dollars to doughnuts the New York thief who stole the savings of a seventy-year-old woman was a white thief and the reason we are so positive that he was white a colored thief would have left her a part of the swag. To Secure COFFEE PERFECTION—Use ONE POUND NET WEIGHT GOLD SHIELD THE COFFEE TINKS ALWAYS GOOD PACKED STEEL CUT COFFEE SCHWABACHER BROS & CO. INC SEATTLE WASH Sold by All Best Grocers Roasted, Packed and Guaranteed by Schwabacher Bros. & Co., Inc., Importers and Roasters of Coffee Seattle's Oldest Business House Established 1869 HOW SHALL THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN BE LIFTED? (Current Opinion.) "The Habit of Torture" and "Protecting Southern Womanhood" are the titles of recent articles written, respectively, by Prof. Edward Raymond Turner, of the University of Michigan, and by Herbert J. Seligmann for the New York "Nation." They raise the entire Negro question in its most sensational aspects and indicate that relations between the races are getting worse rather than better. Professor Turner's method is historical. With a broad sweep and a grasp of detail that at times is gruesome, he traces the history of torture throughout the ages, culminating in our Southern lynchings. Mr. Seligmann confines himself to contemporary events, which he treats in a spirit of indignation tinged with irony. He tries to show that passion is aroused over mob murders not because they are committed in defence of Southern womanhood but because the entire relations of white and colored races are involved. He tells us that in casual conversations in Mississippi Delta cities the following stimulants to mob murder were cited to him: '1. The nation-wide campaign for equal rights for Negroes. This is specifically referred to in the editorial of the Vicksburg Weekly Herald of May 16. 2. Induction of Negroes into the United States army, 'putting them on an equality with white men.' Cheap politicians, of whom Senator Vardaman is typical, refer to 'French-women-ruined Negro soldiers,' using every resource of this kind to foment race hatred, which is their chief stock in trade. 3. Survival of the fear of Negro domination inherited from carpet-bagger days. 4. The economic motive in all its variants, based upon the determination to deny the Negro his rights, to 'keep the nigger in his place.' 5. The sport in torture: Page 1 of the Vicksburg Evening Post, recounting the murder of Clay, had this passage: 'Have you had enough fun, boys?' a leader asked. 'Yes, cut him down.'" Unfortunately, Mr. Seligmann proceeds, racial animosity is exhibited not only in lynchings. Race riots are constantly threatened. "Not one Negro to whom I spoke in the Delta region but wished to get away. Daily life for them is almost intolerable. Negroes are subject to every insult and abuse, not to mention Jim-Crowism, and they have had too much experience of the courts to rely on them. It is not surprising that they have purchased arms in a number of Southern cities with the intention of defending their lives and the lives of their families if conflict is provoked. A disastrous race riot was narrowly averted in Memphis, Tennessee, on the nights of Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24. Says the Commercial Appeal of May 27: 'There was a powder train all over Memphis Saturday. That there was no explosion was due to sheer luck. Somehow we have drifted into a tense racial relation. It is nobody's fault and yet it is everyone's fault.' Open threats of attack had been made by white men, to avenge the death of a street-car conductor. The mayor and city officials in conference were informed that the Negroes of Memphis had arms and ammunition, and proposed to use them in self-defence. Police and sheriff's deputies were posted, and what might have become a bloody race conflict was averted. With every lynching, the danger of such a conflict increases. Convince men that they have no stake in society and the courts, and no refuge in an enlightened public sentiment; insult, injure, and degrade them without redress and you create the desperation out of which springs violence." Many influential Southerners see the danger that Mr. Seligmann points out. Many of the best Southern newspapers are trying to create strong sentiments against lynching. Many Southern emplovers have worried over the exodus of Negroes to the North. But the Ku-klux have begun to ride again. On a single morning, recently, they burned in Putnam County, Georgia, five Negro churches, two schools and a lodge hall. Colored soldiers have returned from the war unnoticed, while the streets have been beflagged and whole cities turned upside down to greet their white brothers-in-arms. At the recent convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, held in Cleveland, Ohio, speaker after speaker arose to tell of persecutions and barbarism, of denial of justice in the courts, of contract systems and terms of employment for Negroes, amounting virtually to slavery. White and black, bishop and commoner, army officer and minister of the gospel have contributed to the depressing mass of testimony, until the impression was conveyed that, as Bishop John Hurst said: "Negro slavery was abolished over fifty years ago and yet today there is worse than Negro slavery in the South." At the same conference, a former officer of the United States army, Major J. E. Spingarn, assailed the treatment of Negroes in the army to which they were called to die in behalf of democracy and freedom. He had found that having gone abroad to fight a foe that was accused of having "burned and robbed and dishonored," he had left behind him "a foe that commits even more despicable outrages." "When you read of Valdosta, Ga.," said Major Spingarn, "where a woman about to become a mother was ripped open; when you read of Dyersburg, Tenn., where a man stood and had burning gimlets gouge out his eyes and his body; when you say that a duty calls you today to right wrongs, by God, they call you twice as strongly here." The moral that this officer drew was as follows: There are three ways for Negroes in this country to meet the intolerable conditions which are forced on millions of their race. The first is gun in hand. But that is always a bad argument. Then there is the ballot. But the ballot is denied Negroes in those parts of the country where they most need it. The third answer to terrorism, despotism and subjection is the economic strike, "the weapon that all the oppressed workers have learned to use, and to use well on occasion." "If you want to accomplish freedom," said Major Spingarn, "you will never succeed until first you have marshaled all the 3,000,000 black men so that they can wield the ballot, and all the 2,000,000 workmen of the South so they will strike and stop wroking the minute the word is given. Then the Southern autocracy will listen when there is not a single black man who is doing a stroke of work." Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois writes in the Crisis that the Negroes are coming back fighting for their rights and that they will continue to battle for them. He and others exault that there are now 100,000 black Americans trained to arms. The new Kuklux, they SANDERS & COMPANY LOANS NEGOTIATED 1003-1004 L. C. Smith Building Office Hours From 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Seattle, Wash. Elliott 4662 GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL ? TLE Iz Re et a A ee eee Seer bi Mi Re eee sie 0 Me ate g Te ah Seen i. 5 aes 8 po Pat aes eee ea: a) SM Sg say, will not find the Negroes cowed as were the freedmen of 1865-70; they will find men ready to die for their liberties. “This is the counsel of madness,’’ says the Nation; ‘‘it leads nowhere but to bloodshed without result.”’ Yet the editorial in which the Nation makes this comment is entitled “The Negro at Bay.’’ The same editorial intimates that Bolshevism already has_ its Negro spokesmen, and prophesies that ‘‘ex- tremists, anarchists, preachers of sabotage and violence of every type will find many recruits if the Negroes’ just grievances are not immediately put in process of removal.’’ A little more of such presentation of the race situation, exclaims William Marion Reedy in the St. Louis Mirror, may precipi- fate what everyone would avert; but that, he goes on to say, is only one side of it. The other side is that it is folly to dodge facts, to hide truth. Mr. Reedy comments further: “The problem can cnly be solved by fae- ing it understandingly. It is not insoluble, either. It can be solved by assuring the black man of his rights and confirming him in them—even as the way to meet the men- aee of Bolshevism is to redress the just grievances of the oppressed and exploited white workingmen. Lynehing will not settle the race question, as espionage acts, deportations, suppression of public meetings, will not settle the question of the white workers’ right to work under decent condi- tions. “There is no question of social equality of races, 1f such a thing can ever pos- sibly be, it must be won by the presently inferior race through activities other than armed rebellion. ‘It can only come through moral development. But the nation must in honor assure the Negro other things. It must see that he is given justice in the courts. Denial of justice must not be eon- tinued to help out the economic exploitation of the Negro, Tle must not be tricked out of his pay for his labor. Tle should have the vote, with whatever honestly applied qualifications may be devised, All that is required is that the Negro be recognized as a human being with the same legal rights as a white human being and no more. Sueh treatment supplemented, of course, by edu- cation, will eventually generate in the Negro that self-respect which will enable him to rule himself and thus command the respect of others. If the South’s peculiar erime persists, the way to stamp it out is by orderly process of law, not by lynechings which cannot but brutalize all the whites who participate in such descents to the level of the creatures who may be guilty of the worst of crimes.” The Nation adds: ‘‘There are now ten millions of the colored people—ten millions of unhappy, discontented Americans. They ask nothing else than to be good Americans, but they will not wait much longer to be led. It is idle to put upon any group of agitators the responsibility for their discon- tent. The moment it was decreed that they should learn the alphabet, it was decreed that there should be discontent. It is a just and divine discontent.’’ SOME OLD ACQUAINTANCES One day last week I was in Roslyn, Washington, and while there met James E. Shepperson, and as T stood talking to him it did not seem to me that he had grown a day older. Tle was a big man then in that section of the state and is still a big man. Twenty-seven years ago, in a way, he was running the mines at Roslyn and while he has of reeent years been absolutely divorced from both the mines and the mine operators, yet ‘Shep’? is still ace high there among both the colored and white miners. He operates a soft drink parlor in Roslyn and impressed me as having money to burn, al- though he did not let any of the hot stuff touch me while diseussing things in general. Ile has always been a cheerful as well as liberal giver to every charitable and needy cause that comes along, though he investi- gates every proposition before he gives. City of Unexcelled Opportunities. Manufacturing City of Northwest. R.R. Centre, where rails and sails meet I am offering nice cleared leevl lots ready to build on for $25 and up per lot on easy payment plan. City houses and lots, farms, improved and unim- proved, cheap and on easy terms. Five nice cleared lots ready to build on for only $150 for the bunch on terms of $25 cash, balance monthly. H. P. LAWHORN, 403 National Bank of Tacoma Bldg., (13th and Pacifie Avenue) Tacoma, Wash. In my rounds of recent date I called upon Walter Washington at his home, where ne has lived for the past twenty-seven years and found him in a more or less prosperous condition. If he is any older than when I was introduced to him twenty-seven years ago, I did not realize it. Walter is making a good living now and is one of the very few men of Seattle that has made his sixty- foot lot help him eut down the high cost of his living. On his lot each year he raises fruit and vegetables sufficient for his family use until those commodities are again in season. When I first met Mr. and Mrs. Walter Washington they had two sons and subsequently a girl was born to them. One of the sons and the daughter have died, the ether son, in rather poor health, is with them. but they are in good health and looking fine. Jim Murray is neither dead nor is he living in another section of the country. as has been from time to time reported and this T know as T met him face to face and saw him as he is, but a few days ago while making my rounds of the city. Twenty- seven years ago, when T first rolled into Seattle Jim Murray was one of the ‘“‘big ones’? and had real money in rolls so large that they gave one the impression that they were flash rolls and believe me he did love to show them. He was a stonecutter by trade and got as high as $10 per day for his work, which was some monev_ those days. Te was a gay bird, but the boys ac- eused him of being older by far than he looked and admitted. But be he as old as he is or as old as the ‘‘boys’’ think he is. yet he is still a pretty lively old boy con- sidering the hard sickness he has undergone. How much money he actually had then and how much he actually has at present the “boys”? always were in doubt: but he had enough to keep them guessing. T write this that the old timers may know that Jim Murray is ‘‘still on praving grounds and pleading terms.’’ Te lives on Harvard avenue and is doing somebody.—The Editor. PURELY PERSONAL Sergeant Roy Harvey is home again after nearly two years in France. George Curtist was operated on_ last Monday for rupture. He is doing well and will soon be home again. Rev. J. P. Brown were among the preachers, who stopped over in the city on the way back from the Everett convention. Rey. Sam A. Franklin of Kennydale stopped over long enough to say “Peaches are ripe, come over next Sunday.’’ Coming. Rey. D. A. Graham left for the confer- ence last Monday evening, which is being held at Spokane. It is rumored that he may be transferred to the California confer- ence. Mrs. J. C. Cogswell of Rochester, Wash- ington, was visiting with her children last Saturday and Sunday. She and her hus- band have a fine ranch near Rochester and she says things look bright for them. Mr. Francis Russell, song leader, ‘‘was on a card that was handed the editor hereof. That he was a song leader we had already learned after hearing him direct a song service at the Grace Presbyterian church last Tuesday evening. He will have a simi- lar service at the Mount Zion Baptist church next Tuesday evening, and we hope the house will be packed. His object is to en- courage community singing, making a specialty of the war songs, sung ‘‘Over There.’’ The services are absolutely free, not even a silver offering taken up. You will certainly enjoy them and again we urge yo uto come out and help to sing the songs you used to sing. IN |THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County, Mrs. Emma _C. Williamson, Plaintiff, vs. J. B. Han- rahan, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the real property hereinafter described, Defendants.—No. 137234. Notice and Summons. The State of Washington: To the above named de- fendants 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. Emma D. Williamson is the holder of 2 certain delinquent tax certificates herein below more particularly referred to, issued by the Treas- urer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Hillman’s Pacific City Add. Div. No. 6; lot 27, block 113; J. B. Hanrahan, owner; Certificate No. B76981; date June 1, 1912; amount $0.95; vear 1910. Hillman’s Pacific City “Add. Div. No. 6; lot 27, block 113; J. B. Hanrahan, owner; certificate No. B76982; date June 1, 1912; amount $0.95; year 1910. That the taxes upon said real property for prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plain- tiff as follows, to-wit: Hillman’s Pacific City Add., Div. No. 5. Lot 27, block 118; Receipt No. 78536; taxes for 1911; amount $0.41;' date paid June 1, 1912; total payment_ $0.41. Lot 27, block 113; Receipt No. 79783; taxes for year 1913; amount $0.64; date paid June 5, 1913; total payment $0.64. Lot 27, block 113; receipt No. 77621; taxes for year 1913; amount $0.76; date paid June 1, 1914; total payment $0.76. Lot 27, block 113; receipt No. 98449; taxes for year 1914; amount $0.73; date paid June 1, 1915; total payment $0.73. Lot 27, block 113; receipt No. 12955; taxes for year 1915; amount $0.69; interest $0.01; date paid June 23, 1916; total payment $0.70. Lot 27, block 113; receipt No. 67774; taxes for 1916; amount $0.59; date paid July 3, 1917; total payment_ $0.59. Lot 27, block 113; receipt No, 131377; taxes for 1917; amount $0.82;' date paid July 1, 1918; total payment $0.82. Lot 27, block 113; receipt No. 134773; taxes for 1918: amount $0.88; interest $0.02; date paid July 29, 1919; total payment $0.90. Hillman’s Pacific City Add., Div. No. 6. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 78535; taxes for 1911; amount $0.41; date paid June 1, 1912; total payment, $0.41. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 79784; taxes for 1912; amount $0.64; date paid June 5, 1913; total payment $0.64. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 77622; taxes for 1913; amount $0.76; date paid June 1, 1914; total payment $0.76. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 98448; taxes for 1914; amount $0.73;'date paid June 1, 1915; total payment $0.73. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 12955; taxes for 1915; amount $0.69: interest $0.01; date paid June 23, 1916; total payment $0.70. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 67775; taxes for 1916; amount $0.59; date paid July 3, 1917; total payment. $0.59. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 131378; taxes for 1917; amount $0.82; date paid July 1, 1918; total payment. $0.82. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 134772; taxes for 1918; amount $0.88; interest $0.02; date paid July 29, 1919; total payment $0.90. Total "$11.10. That the several sums hereinabove set forth bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unre- deemed taxes upon and against said real property. And you and each of you, (including said per- sons unknown, if any), are hereby directed and summoned to’ appear ‘within sixty days after August 15, 1919, exclusive of said date, and defend this action and’ serve a copy of your appearance or answer upon the undersigned attorneys 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 herein- above set forth. MRS. EMMA C. WILLIAMSON, Plaintiff. FERED C. BROWN & Cc. C. DALTON, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Office and Post Office address: 431 County-City Bldg., Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of first publication August 15, 1919. IN_THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Laura M. Proctor, Deceased.—No, 25710. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as administratrix of the estate of Laura M. Proctor, deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Lucy Scott Whitley 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 August 9, 1919. LUCY SCOTT WHITLEY, Administratrix of said Estate. Address 791-703 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash. E. H. GUIE, Attorney for Estate. 701-703 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash.