Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1920 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 WANTS TO BE MAYOR. Oh, Mister Caldwell, how you fell, for that Triple 'Liance shot, which brought you out to see the "lot." From that bunch you got a hunch, that the Reds would take the Teds, and straight way march them to the polls, in great big rousing, rounding folds, which would put you over the top, of our county-city lot. But, Mister Caldwell, can you tell, how the Reds and Teds, can get in beds, with all the rent hogs and their gents in the common circus tents. Once this self same stunt was tried when Jim Bradford fairly cried, "I'll be mayor and have no fear, of Duncan, Dougan or McNair, though I live right in their lair." This the voters would not take, 'cause they thought it was a fake. Now, Hugh Caldwell, you will find, that the unions, though combined, will as usual go astray, on the general 'lection day; and you'll surely meet defeat, which will knock you off your feet, and will blast your highest hopes of walking all the running ropes; and though a mighty man you be, you will find "you're up a tree." I am told a senate bug is hiding in your office rug, and Jones wil surely have to shake, if he gets the senatorial cake in case you reach the highest rail and receive the city mail. You can talk right off the reel, but Fitzgerald is at the wheel, and he'll surely run you down, if you talk upon the ground. Now, Mister Caldwell, its your right to jump into this city fight, but it looks just like to me, as if you'd spied the Dutchmans fea, and, when you reach to grab its rump, it will take a running jump, and leave you wondering where it went for its capture you were bent. So put your ears down on the ground and you will hear the voters' sound an awful dull and sickening thud, and then you'll know your name is mud.—H. R. Cayton. OMAHA For forty yearas Omaha was ruled by a political, criminal gang that was perhaps the most lawless of any city of its size in the civilized world. There had grown up during that period, a powerful group who lived on the proceeds of organized vice and crime. These included about three hundred and eighty-four (384) houses of prostitution, together with saloons, pool halls, organized bank robbers, organized highway robbers, and professional "con" men and burglars. Whenever a plan was made to have an election of officials, certain men in the community would assemble and hold a conference and they would decide what men it would be "safe" to elect, and they would give The Boss for his service a certain sum of money and control of the vice interests, the Police Department, the Police Court, the juries, and then proceed to elect public officials. This condition obtained, without interruption, from the early history of the city until 1908. Reforms began in 1908 by an early closing law for saloons, followed by laws which took the control of juries and elections from the vice-ring. In 1916 statewide prohibition was carried. We thus eliminated the whiskey interests which furnished the most of the money for election purposes, the control of the jury and election machinery, from the gang, and the actual disposition of public officers, but we had not eliminated all of the gang. There was still left the Omaha Bee, which had been the mouth-piece of the vice-ring, the thugs and murderers who had ruled for years, and these combined to destroy the present city administration and regain control of the Police Department, which was absolutely necessary for the continuation of the reign and control of vice. In order to accomplish this, the Omaha Bee, assisted at times by the other daily papers, began a campaign of slander and vituperation against the Police Department of the City of Omaha, and in order to make it effective they chose a line of propaganda to the effect that Negro men were attacking white women, assaulting them with intent to commit rape, and actually committing rape, with the connivance of the Police Department. They made a majority of the people in Omaha believe that all Negro men were disposed to commit the crime of rape on white women. For years there has been much illegal cohabitation of whites and blacks in Omaha, with about fifteen assignation houses where colored men met white prostitutes. Leading colored citizens asked the police to suppress these dens, but when this was begun, it only increased the slander and vituperation of the Omaha Bee, the organ of the vice-ring. This was kept up successfully until the people believed that the police were invading private property without warrant of law and arresting law-abiding citizens. There was still left in the Police Department from the old regime a large percentage of the police officers protected by Civil Service, who were loyal to the old vicing, and they were doing everything within their power to hamper and discredit the honest efforts of the present city administration to enforce the law. The result of this was that together with the campaign of the newspapers, the morale of the Police Department was broken down and the city administration was unable, in the brief space of time that it had been in office, to get rid of these discordant elements. There was, furthermore, in connection with these men, fathered by these same influences, an organized gang determined to wreck the administration at any cost, and they deliberately organized a mob; they furnished it with money and liquor, and the leaders of the old vice-ring stood around in the mob, urging the men to go in and assist in wrecking the Court House, lynch the Negro, and kill the Mayor of the City and other officials. Both Brown, who was lynched, and the woman who accused him belonged to the under-world which met at the houses of assignation. They had quarreled and the woman "got back" at Brown by alleging attempted assault. It is said that at the time she was wearing a diamond ring given her by Brown.—The Crisis. VOL. IV., No. 30 THE POLICE SITUATION The wave of crime in and about Seattle goes merrily on and to combat it Joel F. Warren, chief of the police, has asked for seventy-five additional policemen. The city council is quibbling over giving him the necessary men to patrol the city because it seems to them a wilful waste of good money. In other words, suppose a few persons are robbed and their heads cracked or shot, that does not justify the expenditure of thousands of dollars annually to drive the thieves and stick-up men out of the city. But what is money if it be unsafe to walk the streets of the city or leave your home, lest you be held up or your home burglarizeed, and, worse still, some member of the family killed. What the citizens of a metropolitan city like Seattle need over and above everything else is protection from thugs and thieves and this can not be had without a sufficient number of policemen to do so. The most of the holdups in and about the city of Seattle are being committed by lads under the age of twenty and a majority nearer the age of seventeen years. All night long the streets and moving picture hell holes are full and overflowing with boys, whose parents have no control over them and when they no longer have money to keep up this life of carousing they turn criminals to raise the money. The policemen of the city, and especially the down-town section, should be instructed to order every lad of tender years home after 10 o'clock and if he or they do not go send them up to the headquarters or the juvenile court. Permitting sixteen and seventeen year old boys to carouse all night in moving picture shows and cabarets is but encouraging them to become criminals. If the parents of the boys can not compel them to come home then let the police send them either home or off the streets. It might not be a bad idea for the police to insist on all places down town closing up at 12:30 o'clock. WE SUGGEST THAT: Z. L. Woodson study law and save the expense of hiring lawyers; Harry Leg advertise Mme. Walker's hair remedies as she would do; P. Frazier lay aside $2.000 for advertising purposes especially in Cayton's Weekly; Persons with idle money invest the same in valuable income real estate; Gene Griffin publish the exact amount of his income tax this year; You and each of you go at once and register and not be a voting slacker; Colored boys not only go to school regularly, but work like old Heck in school; You visit the Entertainers' Cafe if you want to hear jazz music that you read about. Noy Pierson get a larger barber shop; Russell Smith put upu a three story brick block; Out of town subscribers to Cayton's Weekly send their subscriptions in at once if not sooner; H. Alfred Lewis give that "bug" of his a less sombre appearance or it will be known as a dead one; ```markdown ``` EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Southern sabbotage was responsible for the Elaine Arkansas massacre, but the massacreed were "only niggers." Registration is going with a whoop, but to register 100,000 voters it will have to whoop both faster and lounder. Some colored voters may have already registered, but save our own ugly mug, we have seen none other getting ready to vote at the coming election. Having to mortgage your home is not a feat that one should feel sufficiently proud as to get a personal mention of the same in the columns of the public press. If Prof. Porta were to be paid at the time of delivery he lost a big fee when the world failed to come to an end when he predicted it would do so. Having gone through the ordeal of meeting the census taker, and having registered we are patiently waiting for the County Assesor. "Under this stone old Booze doeth lie, he's at rest and so am I" is in inscription on the stone that now marks the last resting place of the old rascal. Long ago it was learned that the automobile was an expensive luxury and now the general public is beginning to realize it is a most deadly luxury. Bungalo building in the northwestern part of the city is forging to the front so rapidly that it is becoming a swift second to the shipbuilding industry of the waterfront. Asking a man how he made his money to complete a book being written under the caption of, "Wealth Is a Robbery," may be a leading question to the most of the war rich Americans. Our European Allies may be under everlasting obligations to Uncle Sam, but, they seem to have a darn poor opinion of President Wilson, but come to think our own estimate of him would not land him very high in, "that house not made by hands." Now that Old Booze has no rights the citizens must respect, whoever tries to give him a standing in court will in turn lose his or her own standing and yet do Old Booze no good. He is now a fugitive from justice and you had better hands off. If your auto is in such a fix that it seems necesssary to turn it out to grass, figuratively speaking, then junk it instead and you will realize more out of it. Junking a $2,000 pleasure machinee may appear to you to be a wilful waste, but it pays. Whether shoes, eggs, coal or diamonds is the most expensive luxury these days has not as yet been decided by the commission that is to make the decision and report to the trust hogs, but the report is daily expected. Once upon a time the young men and women of this state, and especially those in about Seattle, could attend the university of Washington with little or no expense, but it is now so that none but the rich, the near rich or the strainers can attend it. A few more street car accidents like unto the one, which occurred in Seattle a few days ago and municipal ownership will become an expensive luxury. It occurs to us the street car men are not using due precaution in operating the street cars. We had supposed that the Rev. Eugene Murphy was too much absorbed in his work of seeking to get rights and privileges for the Japanese in this country that were denied loyal 100 per cent citizens to give any attention to Chief Warren or anyone else, but no, he seems to be as much in the employ of the Triple Alliance as he is the Japanese residents. In order to learn first handed exactly how to curb Bolshevism the English government has invited our own and only Ole Hanson over there to teach them the trick. Just when and where Ole learned to do so is what puzzles us, but he is teaching it just the same. Caldwell's street hanger says he is no politician, which is quite true or he would not have gotten in the present mayoralty campaign, but while he is not a politician yet he is a chronic office seeker, which is almost as annoying as a politician. There may have been times when aliens were more than welcome to enter our ports, but at present many are being booted out while still others are told that they are welcome to leave whenever they feel so disposed. The war made a lot of difference. While the late war may have made the world unsafe for autocracy, yet judging from the number of oversea colored soldiers that have been lynched in the South and the sabbotage committed on eighty colored men, women and children in the South in one year, "the world" does not include the South. What the rich of this country need above everything else is government; that is to say, a form of law and order that will permit them to treble and even quadruple every form of taxation that may be imposed upon them. The man who pays the freight for all increases is the man who consumes. In a well worded editorial the Post-Intelligencer admitted that it had been deceived by the reports sent out from Elaine Arkansas. Now let the Metropolitan Press of this country raise a howl for the doomed Negroes of Phillips County Arkansas and for the punishment of the white murderers of that section. Barber fixing is an expensive luxury, but the patrons of the shops have the satisfaction of knowing the barbers will have to pay a good round sum of their walet into the treasury of the U. S. A. in the shape of income tax, for few barbers there are, who did not take in their thousands the past year. From the political prognosticators it is learned that State Senator French will be a candidate for the nomination of lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket. All that we have to say about French's candidacy, at this time is, he will get a warm reception at the hands of Cayton's Weekly when he does file. Mexicans killed two Americans, was a head line. Too bad, but the Southerners killed eighty Americans last year and there was little or no comment and that too despite the fact the southern whites kiled them by committing sabbotage. The white American always keeps ahead of the procession. Others beside Fitzgerald and Caldwell may file for the nomination of Mayor of Seattle, but one or the other of the above brace of aspirants will, in my opinion, be nominated and perhaps both and the same fight will be repeated at the general election. Both of the above aspirants have opened headquarters and a campaign of eduction will be undertken. In order to justify his world coming to an end cock and bull story Prof. Porta claims that, while things didn't happen just as he predicted, yet the Mexico earthquake is the tail end of the big thing he thought would happen. In other words, he is claiming the credit for everything that is and that will happen during the present year. Was the jury that acquitted Roselius convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of his innocence or was it moved to return the verdict it did because Roselius was represented by counsel and the state was represented by legal novices who have made a record of losing many cases wherein they seemed to have had all the better of it? LAWLESS WAYS OF DEPORTATION In the name of "law and order," 249 "Reds" and "radicals" of varying social, political and economic beliefs have been lawlessly deported by administrative process to Russia. We are confident that many of the deportees are happy to get away from the terrorism, the assaults and the imprisonments to which they have been subjected and that they will meet with tolerance at home. But the deportations, of which these 249 are the first, set a precedent which will make for a permanent policy. On the face of it these men and women are not guilty of any crime. If they were even charged with any such offenses they would have been tried in the courts, and it is certain that they would have received long sentences. The vengeance of the reactionary forces of society would see to that. These men and women are deported from the country because of their opinions opinions that are in conflict with the medieval reactionaries who for the time control the political and intellectual life of the nation. Whether the opinions of any one or all of them are sound is not the point. Free discussion and a free intellectual life mean the right to be wrong as well as the right to be right, and correct opinions always have their origin in a minority. Deportation, chains and the scaffold have often been the answer of ruling classes in all countries to the claims of every new idea. Petty functionaries of the administration have been permitted to seize "suspects" and put them through a fire of questioning, often without the privilege of hiring counsel to defend them. There is no trial, no jury, no witnesses. The functionary tries to ascertain the opinions of the victim. It is sufficient if the suspect admits that he desires a complete reorganization of society on another basis. It does not matter if the suspect affirms his belief in education and an appeal to his fellows to bring about the change. He is sentenced to exile by his petty inquisitor, and there is no appeal from this decision. 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Plans are now on foot to buy and build, which will be done unless the members reach the con- clusion that the price of material is pro- hibitive.’’ This is perhaps the strongest secret society, from a financial stand point among the colored citizens of Seattle, and it is now in a thriving condition. *. * * “T have just returned from Washing- ton City,’’ said John E. Ballaine, ‘‘where I have been doing what I could toward getting the Alaska railroad legislation ship shaped.’’ In all my experience I do not believe I have ever met a situation as bad- ly mudled as is the government railroad legislation in Alaska. Between the grafters, the idealists and the ignoranmouses the prospects of building the road seems al- most forlorn. The present administra- tion is such a miserable failure that it is not even discussable. No, I will not be in Seattle very long, but will return to Wash- ington City soon to continue my Alaska railroad work.’’? It is said Mr. Ballaine will be a candidate for representative in Congress from the Seattle-Kitsap district. * * & At the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Janu- ary 2nd the members thereof and the well wishers enjoyed a get-together meeting, which is of an annual occurance. This thing of getting together is one of the most soothing elixers of aggravated discon- tent. If persons will get together and talk over their differences there is a chance of them smoothing out the tangled web, whereas if they never meet and talk it over things will grow worse instead of better. I do not mean to intimate that there are differences between the Rev. Carter and his members, but on the con- trary these get-to-gether meetings he pulls off prevents any serious differences from arising between them. * * & I received a program of a Grand Choral Ensemble given in Tacoma, December 29th, under the auspices of the Coleridge Taylor Society and from the many numbers there- on, I am of the opinion it was just what its title said it would be. ‘‘I have no idea what a Choral Ensemble means, but it must mean a whole lot of talented men and women participating on a program. The musi- eal numbers were as follows: Star Spangled Banner Bridal Chorus (Rose Marden), Cowen. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Folk Song. Led by Brs. E. J. Corbin. Our Yesterday, Lesslie. Mrs. Raay Robinson Viking Song, Coleridge-Taylor Steal Away, Folk Song. Led by Mrs. Raay Robinson Until, Sanderson J. P. Faaulkner O Italia, Italia, Beloved, Donizelli Walk in Jerusalem, Folk Song Led by W. F. Williams Sunlight, Ware Mrs. Cynthia Holmes McCabe Rocks and Mountains, Folk Song Let by J. P. Faulkner Gay Butterfly, Hawley Mrs. James Dupree Inflammatus (To Thy Holy Name), W. T. McCall, Mr. T. J. Saddler, Mr. C. H. Wagner, Mr. W. F. Williamss, Mr. Chas. Carter. * * & “What I do not understand is why Cayton’s Weekly did not let its readers know all about Henry R. King long be- fore it did that the colored voters might have taken a stand against his election to the school board,’’ said S. H. Stone to me one day this week, to which I briefly replied, because I did not know of it un- til a few days ago, when I heard Rev. Graham relate it in a public meeting. Now it does seem to me that those who knew of the incident would have taken it up with the press immediately, if not sooner, but not go on the theory that an editor is supernatural and all such is reported to the editor by the recording angel. Whatever hurts you hurts all and a united effort will come nearer getting justice than individual effort. * «+ * CRAZY Oh, the future’s pretty hazy, with the shadows growing dense, for we all are go- ing crazy; no one has a lick of sense. When the war was done and ended, and the Peace Dove was in view, we should then have straightway wended to the tasks we used to do; shaking off the katzen- jammer that the long drawn conflict made, it was ours to blithely mizzle to the anvil and the loom, and to do things with the chisel, and to make the country bloom. But our souls were sick and yellow, and we said, ‘‘We’ll rant around, and we’ll let the other fellow bale the hay and till the ground. Tabor isn’t to our liking, earnest effort is a frost; so we'll go on striking, striking, shunning toil and blame the cost.’ So the neighbors saw me falter in the work I’d done so long, and I junked my lyre and psalter, and harangued the pass ing throng; oh, I ragged the people hiking up the road where workers roam, urging them to keep on striking till the bob-tailed cows came home. I am sounding frantie sereeches, pawing up and down the street, and I’ve soaked my hat and breeches, and I haven’t much to eat; and my wife is always wailing that she’d rather far be dead, and the hollow kids are trailing to the soupuhouse to be fed. And I find the sledding rougher than it ever used to be, but I'll like a martyr suffer if ‘twill make the people free. I am dippy, batty, nutty, and my rea- son’s been mislaid, and my dome is full of putty, and the putty is decayed. But I’d be extremely lonely if I mani- fested sense; for I fear I’d be the only balanced gent in evidence, All the world is daft and silly, moderation looks like cheese; and a fellow would feel chilly to be sane in times like these. All the boys are busy striking, sending labor galley west, and I’d be a piker pik- ing, if I didn’t join the rest. So I rant and paw and clamor and denounce things call the day, and I yip and yap and yammer in my merry bughouse way; and my wife is needing clothing and her comments are not nice, but I turn from her with loathing when she asks me for the price. And my boys are needing bitters and my girls need cigarettes, but he is the worst of critters who for wages toils and sweats, so I have no coin to hand them, and their tears are sad to see, still T urge them and command them to get out and strike like me. If this. pome is queer and ratty, fli of breaks of divers sorts, just remember T am batty, and my dome is full of quartz.-- Walt Mason. ATLAS POOL HALL Under New Management Wishes You a Happy New Year FELIX CRANE, Manager 1212 Main Street Seattle ALL ABOUT YOU. A health warden for Baltimore, Maryland is being agitated among the colored Citizens. The health commission (white) refused to discuss the proposition with a delegation, which called upon him, for that purpose and it appealed to the mayor and he favors it. According to a statement recently issued by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a determined fight will be waged against lynching in 1920. The membership of the body has increased from 8,247 in 1917 to 88,292 in December 1919. A diving suit made of brass has been invented by George II. Jackson of New York City, which promises to revolutionize deep sea diving. Jackson is a mechanic of merit and this diving suit is the work of many years. It has been tested to a depth of three hundred feet. The budget for the year 1920 of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes amounts to $220,000. The budget for the first year's work of the organization amounted to $2,500. The organization extends from New York to New Orleans. It has an executive secretary and a field agent. During the past year more than a million dollars in legacies were left Tusgee Institute, of Dr. Booker T. Washington fame. Of recent report it is stated that there are seventeen hundred pupils in attendance, which is about four hundred more than any previous year. The school was never more prosperous nod showed more signs of doing beneficial uplift work. Some two hundred leading citizens of Greater New York met at a banquet hall to a testimonial dinner in honor of Dr. Charles H. Roberts who is the first colored man to ever be elected to an Aldermanic seat in that city. The chairman of the evening was Fred R. Moore, editor and publisher of the New York Age. The successful campaign was managed by Ralph E. Langston. "The Negro is entitled to indictment by grand jury, trial before a just judge and twelve unprejudiced jurymen," said Governor Robers of Tennessee before a New Year audiencee. He denounced the spirit of lynching and said there would be none in Tennessee so long as he was governor. This is certainly a long step in the right direction and the governor of Georgia would do well to follow in Gov. Robert's wake. W. H. P. Gibbons of Port Au Prince, Haiti, is out in an open letter advising the colored citizens of the U. S. A. to organize a separate political party. Without going into details of the subject one way of the other, it strikes the writer as being as ludicrous as the proverbial baying of the moon. If the colored citizens will vote effectively in primary election they will accomplish a great deal more than the organizing of an independent party. PURELY PERSONAL Keep track of this date, February 23. Mr. E. A. Wilson has gone to California where he will remain for three months. Subscriptions to Cayton's Weekly may be paid at Tutt's barber shop. Mr. Russell Smith is up from Portland and is looking for other real estate investments. Mr. E. H. Holmes is sojourning in the city with the view of organizing a new Masonic lodge here. J. W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D., Graduate Op-Eye Specialist. Personal attention given in Eye examinations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. EX-SOLDIERS LYNCHED Nine Negro ex-soldiers were lynched in the United States during the last nine months of 1919—an average of one to the month—is the report made by officials of the Nt. A. A. C. P. issued December 24 as a Christmas present to the country. Two were burned to death, two were hanged, four were shot and one was beaten to death. The list, showing the date and cause of each lynching, is as follows: March 14—Castlebury, Fla.: BUD JOHNSON, burned to death. Said to have confessed to attack on white woman. April 9—Pickens, Miss.: _____, admitted he had hired a woman to write an insulting note to a white woman. May 21—Elorado, Ark.: Frank Livingston, charged with killing his employer and the latter's wife: burned to death. July 15—Louise, Miss.: Robert Truett, lynched for having made indecent proposals to a white woman. Hanged. August—Fayette Coutny, Ga.: Chas. Kelly, shot to death by white man because he did not turn out of the road soon enough. August 14—Pope City, Ga.: Jim Grant, alleged to have shot a white man and his son. Hanged. September 29—Montgomery, Ala.: Robert Croskey, charged with having assaulted a white woman. Shot. September 3—Star City, Ark.: Flinton Briggs, accused of having insulted a white woman. Shot. December 21—Smithville, Ga.: Charles West, accused of murder of white man. Shot. LESSONS FROM THE RISE OF JAPAN. Forty years ago Japan was among the insignificant and inconspicuous nations of the world. Today she stands as one among the three formidable powers, which are England, America and Japan. Japan has shown an ability to absorb and assimilate the civilization of other races which is unparalleled in the world's history. In fifty years she advanced from an unimportant semi-barbarous nation to one of the great world powers. Japan sent her sons to German, French, English and American universities. She sent her sons to the rgeat cities of America and Western Europe to study manufacturing, business methods, and the science of war. She invited scholars, scientists, business men, soldiers and saliors to visit her shores. The world knows the result. But just as the dissemination of the Greek civilization and Greek language over the ancient world, the uniting of the world under one government by Julius Caesar, and the disintegration of the Greek and Roman religions, paved the way for the spread of Christianity, so Japan had a period of preparation. Four hundred years ago Japan lived under the feudal system, with different lords and barons ruling over different sections of the island. Then, just as in Europe, the feudal lords finally became merged into one king, so for three hundred years Japan went through the same process, and the result was a Mikado who became the supreme ruler of Japan. The three hundred years in which the spirit of nationality became crystalized in Japan were the most important years in Japan's history. It is to be hoped that Africa wil undergo the same process and that the diversity of the various tribes wil be merged in a racial unity with an objective.—Negro World. FURNISHED ROOMS 317 22nd Ave. So. Rooms large and commodious, on car line, but walking distance. MRS. S. R. CAYTON 317 22nd Ave. So. STOLEN FROM THIENS. But Not Too Good.—"Why did you ask those people to wait, Marie?" "I wanted to see if you were in, madam." "A good maid can always tell from the look of visitors whether her mistress is in or out."—London Opinion. Indulgent Father.—Customer. — "Here what's the meaning of this? I don't mean to be shaved by this kid!" Barber—"It's only my own young let him have a bit of fun to-day, sir, because it's his birthday."—Edinburgh Scotsman. NOTICE—SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. State of Washington, County of King, ss.-Sheriff's Office. By virtue of an Order of Sale issued out of the Honorable Superior Court of King County, on the 15th day of December, A. D. 1919, by the Clerk thereof in the case of John J. Shirley, plaintiff, versus Frank T. Rawlings, and Jane Doe Rawlings, his wife (whose true Christian name is unknown); Jesse W. Rawlings and Mabel F. Rawlings, his wife, and Emmy T. Rawlings, defendants, No. 136289, and to me, as Sheriff, directed and delivered: Notice is hereby given. That I will proceed to sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, within the hours prescribed by law for Sheriff's sals, to-wit: at ten o'clock A. M., on the 24th day of January, 1920, before the court house door of King County, in the State of Washington, the following described property, situated in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: The north twenty and six hundredths (20.00) feet of lot two (2) and the south nineteen and ninety-four one hundredths (19.94) feet of lot one (1), block one (1), Leschi Heights Addition to the City of Seattle, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, levied on as the property of said defendants, to satisfy a judgment of a foreclosure of a mortgage amounting to fifteen hundred and seventy-five and seventy-five one hundredths ($1,575.75) dollars, interest, attorney's fee of $75.00, and the cost of suit, in favor of plaintiff. 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