Cayton's Weekly

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 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South FIGHTING MISCEGENATION Down in Mississippi a colored preacher was arrested and convicted for having sold copies of the Crisis, a magazine published in New York City by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The excuse for that high handed proceedings was that that particular issue of the Crisis carried an article which advocated the marriage of white and colored folks. The man was convicted and appeal denied and he is now serving a six month's sentence in the chain gang. In reply to a telegram of inquiry as to whether the man would be permitted to appeal his case, the acting governor replied "no appeal would be considered." To advocate the legal marriage of white and colored citizens may be an unpardonable crime in the eyes of the white men of Mississippi, and under the circumstances, it may not be just the thing to perpetuate peace, but in the state of Mississippi the colored population verges dangerously close to being a fifty fifty shot between actual colored black folks and white and black colored folks. More particular speaking, one half of the colored citizens of Mississippi are half white, the products of white and black parents. The white parent in all of those cases is the man. In other words, white men, associating with colored women, have given to this country an heterogenious class of citizens, better known as mulattoes. Of course, its an unpardonable crime for white and black folks to marry, but its right, just and proper for white men to debauch colored women, in most instances by main force and violence, and produce a class of mulattoes, who are burned at the stake if they cohabit with white women. The white man of Mississippi must be the missing link between man and monkey, and we verily believe that, if monkeys, in great numbers, were taken to the state of Mississippi, and in a way domesticated, it would but a very short time before a white man-monkey breed of children would be common thereabouts. If the present governor of that state is not the father of a number of mulatto children then he is the Mississippi white man exception and not the rule. The white man who does the most talking against the marriage of white and black folks is, for the most part, the white man that has exhausted his bestial passions in the arms of one or many black women. Hundreds and thousands of Mississippi's Mulattoes have left that state and come North, East and West and passed for white, yea, verily, some of them have but gone to another section of that state and changed from colored to white. And yet in the face of all this white man debauchery, the acting governor froths at the mouth for the gore of "any nigger that would advocate legal marriage for black and white folks." Water will not rise higher than its level and, if the white men of Mississippi find such great pleasure in cohabiting with colored women, then why expect the white women to do different than the men? SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920 How can it be that white men become enamored and infatuated with colored women and yet white women never become enamored with colored men? We are no specific advocates of the marriage of white and black folks. Yea, not only no advocate of such a modus procedure, but we absolutely refused to do so, in spite of the fact flattering opportunities presented themselves to us to do so in years gone by, but if the white man of Mississippi is so violently opposed to the miscegenation of white women and black men, then it would seem he would be just as violently opposed to the miscegenation of white men with colored women, but not so, and so long as long as he finds pleasure in such illicit relations with colored women, he ought to be equally liberal minded and offer no objections to the women following his example and cohabit with colored men. Then, if both do so, it follows as night does day, that legal marriages will come nearer maintaining a stable government than will promiscuous cohabitation. You strain at a gnat governor, but swallow a camel. STILL AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY Despite the fact the colored man of this country has proven himself an hundred per cent American in divers ways, and, for the most part, makes good when given an opportunity, yet the sentiment against him standing on an equal footing with the white man whether in a menial positoin or a place of trust and responsibility, is almost as pronounced today as it was fifty years ago and this anti-black man sentiment ramifies every section of this country. The captains of industry employ colored men as a last resort and in case of labor troubles the captains of industry will not consider the application of a colored man, "because," he argues, "the public will look upon our fight as lost, if we put colored men to work." So long as white men can be had they seem to think they have as good a show to win as the strikers, but if colored men are employed, they again seem to think the general public will rise up against us and we will have no standing in court. And thus does the color bugaboo intimidate, brow beat and prevent men, in other respects broad guaged and liberal minded, from doing the square thing with a class of their fellow citizens, because they vary in color and complexion from black to white. Be it remembered the working white man has ever looked upon the colored man with scorn and contempt, and to hold up a white a captain of industry to public ridicule he points to him, if it so happens that he has done so, as being a "nigger lover" as he gives them work. A captain of industry who will employ colored men as strike breakers is doubly contemptible, yea even odious in the eyes of his fellow white men than the captain of industry who will employ white strike breakers. The threat of putting colored men in industrial plants and thereby supplant white labor have prevented hundreds of strikes in this country, and such a threat is still given more than a passing consideration by the dissatisfied white workmen. And all this in the face of the fact that fully half of that class of the citizens of this country that are designated as "colored" are more white than black and whether white or black in compelxion not one has been known as having ever betrayed his country's flag. Treason, strategem and spoils at the expense of his country are foreign to his mind. He VOL. IV., NO. 47 has fought nobly and well at the front in defense of his country, when his parents at home were being burned at the stake because they rebelled against being "regulated" by white red handed murderous brutes. In the black man patriotism, love of country, good citizenship and square dealing seem to count for naught. Where are we going from here? EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Bluebeard seems to be about as big a liar as he is a criminal. Perhaps the reason Mars did not speak to us is, "the line was busy." Prohibition in this country has had an accumulating effect on the policemen of the various cities. If harvest hands this year do as well financially as they did last year, there surely will be a golden harvest. Fashions for ladies are apparently coming from Africa instead of from Paris and should be labeled, "see more." For a poor salaried army officer, Gen. Wood seems to be spending quite a bit of money to get an army promotion. Every city in this country feels that the census report has not done her justice and she may be correct, but its the fault of her own children. Gen. Wood may be correct in saying, "the American people are as sound as a nut," but lets hope they have more sense than a "nut." After a reign covering twenty-two years, the president of Gautamala has been overthrown. We had our suspicions that his rule would come to an end. Bluebeard seem sto have done just as much killing as he says he did, and, if he has, God only knows how many women he has killed, but they just would have him. Hiram Johnson like Henry Clay may never be president of the United States, but if not, like Henry Clay, he will go down in history as making a "hell of a row" about it. Seattle continues to be the hot bed for labor strikes and in that she is a twin sister to Butte, Montana, all of which means that Seattle will soon be a city of past greatness. If the male admirers of that beautiful Russian Red Cross nurse have their way, she will have plenty of nursing to do at home, but Beauty is absolutely silent and gives them all the same marble heart. As a woman stood before her admirer, he feasted in her beauty and told her so, whereupon she replied, "you are too flattering. It’s only my new gown that looks nice," but he insisted that its you, because he had not been able to discover any gown on her. The framers of the federal constitution probably never dreamed that there would be a president who would refuse to poin the Senate in giving peace to the United States. Probably this is why in the instrument they omitted any reference to the establishment of peace after war.—Asheville (N. C.) Times. ```markdown ``` THE PASSING THRONG The address of Dr. Suzzalo of the University of Washington delivered before the Seattle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a talk and such a one as white men seldom, if ever, make to colored persons. No, he offered no specific solution for whatever troubles and anoyances the colored people may meet in this country from time to time, nor did he in any way discuss the situation, but he did portray, in language so simple and plain that all present fully understood, the manner and method man had to proceed in life to reach the goal of success. From all he said those present were left to make their own inferences and draw their own conclusions. He himself did not seem to think the colored man any different from the white man and just as capable of mental expansion and moral application as any other class of human beings. From his way of thinking the color of one's skin had nothing to do with the inner man. The Negro was in line for anything the Caucasian was in line for and yet he did not say any of this in so many words. If the words of his lecture last Tuesday evening had have been put in print it would be next to impossible to read the same and glean therefrom the idea that he was talking to colored people. In a nut shell, his premises and his conclusions from start to finish were magnificent, grand and sublime, and no one could have listened to what he said and to whom he said it without reaching the conclusion that the colored man of this country is rapidly attaining that educational and citizenship stage of life which is enjoyed by the most favored of her citizens. I have heard distinguished white men speak before white audiences and then I have heard the same men speak before colored audiences and they prove themselves to be the veritable Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde. Before the white audiences they were educators and logicians who foretold the future with elegance and eloquence but before the colored audiences they but uttered a conglomeration of disconnected generalities and solved great problems with the sweep of their hands and the roar of their voices. Not so with Dr. Suzzalo before his recent colored audience, but he served to it the same profundity of thought and the same high or low conclusions of the mistakes of life as he would have to a white audience. Its refreshing to the progressive colored man to have progressive white men exchange ideas with them and the same not based upon the fact that the one is white and the other is black. God has created all men equal though they widely differ in mind and matter. * * * I did not witness the recent King County Democratic Convention, but I read of it and if half I read about it were true I am of the opinion that distance lent enchantment. There not being a sufficient number of colored men in this city and state for the Democrats to feel justified in precipitating a rough house with them, and feeling duty bound to get into a scrap with somebody on such occasions, they jumped onto each other's necks. I intimated in my last issue that the Democrats would make no mistake to pass a similar resolution as did the Republicans, condemning mob violence, but instead of condemning mob violence they seemed inclined to practice the same on themselves and I reached the conclusion that it is as impossible for a Democrat to be other than a rough neck as it is for the Etheopian to change his color or the leopard to change its spots. But discussing Democratic shortcomings is a waste of time and words for Democracy is at the end of its row. * * * May 23rd instant is the day that has been fixed by the Rev. W. D. Carter and his congregation to lay the corner stone of the new Mt. Zion Baptist Church and to that end all hands and the cook are working. Someone wrote in times past, "where there is a will there is a way." Tomorrow the sun may be shining although its cloudy today," and it is quite appropros so far as the efforts of the above congregation are concerned. Not like the community that was sadly in need of a new school house, met and passed a preamble resolution as follows: Whereas this community is sadly in need of a new school house, therefore be it resolved, that we build a new school house. Be it further resolved that we retain the old school house until we get round to building a new school house," but these people wanted a new church and in order to be sure to get what they wanted they tore the old one down and began the immediate erection of the new one, hence this coming corner stone laying May 23rd as stated above. It was Ben Butler who said, "the way to resume is to resume." * * * No, Mr. Officer, Governor Lister did not drive Felix Crane out of the state when he caused him to be paroled from the state prison, but Crane himself requested of the governor that he be permitted to leave the state, visit for a time his relatives in Texas and then live in Los Angeles for one year after his release, which request was granted and Crane acted accordingly. In due course of time Crane was fully pardoned by the governor and all restrictions as to his going and coming were removed. Since last October he has made his home in Seattle and has operated a pool hall. During that time whether he lived up to the mandates of the law deponent verily doeth not know, but if he has not he should be punished for breaking the law, but it is unfair and un-American to harass and annoy him for what he may have done in the past but paid the penalty. In other words Crane sinned and suffered and so far as that is concerned it should be wiped off the slate. If reports be true he is being constantly annoyed not for what he is doing, but for what he did do five or more years ago, and, as said above, the slate should be wiped clean. * * * John H. Ryan was in Seattle last Tuesday and I got it into my head that he had a political bee in his bonnet, owing to the fact he spent a good deal of his time at the office of J. A. Roston the realty dealer out on East Madison. Mr. Ryan loves the game of politics and I am inclined to think he will play it as long as he is able to wiggle. Though he loves the games and always holds a hand, when it is being played, yet he does not seem to make progress at it, but, like all games of chance far more fail than succeed at it. The reason I suspected Mr. Ryan had a political knife up his sleeve when in Seattle the other day was I remembered he of recent months has been much interested in the political success of the Triple Alliance and also remembering of Lieutenant Roston's activity along that line—his struggle to elect Jimmie Duncan mayor of Seattle—I reached the conclusion that the two of them were making plans for the coming campaign. Am I right? *** For the past two weeks or more the Fisk Jubilee singers have been in the state of Washington filling engagements here and there in the various churches and wherever they have appeared they have simply taken the town. I missed their engagement by a few hours in Bellingham and I was disappointed in hearing them in Seattle last Sunday, although I made effort to do so. In the churches of Tacoma and Seattle where they sung standing room was at a premium and those who heard them declare them to be the most wonderful musical aggregation they had ever heard. These singers are traveling in the interest of Fisk University and the net proceeds of their travels are turned over to the school authorities for school extension work. Whenever it is necessary to erect a new building or to purchase new apparati for the school these singers take to the road and they get the money. The N. A. A. C. P. wants you, to be a member of its crew, and help the bunch save the day, for those down South who have no say, about who will rule this land, for which they take a stand. A buck it costs this club to join, and it surely needs the coin, for it to make a mighty fight to keep intact the black man's right. This drive's to get six hundred men, in the Association pen, where they can talk of rights and wrongs and sing our patriotic songs, "My country 'tis of thee, land of the noble free, the old flag never touched the ground, but always watch the world go round." Four minute men will glibly talk, to you and each of you for chalk. Therefore come through like men and women too and show your colors good and true and then this story you'll not hear until the drive in June next year. STOLEN FROM THIEVES "Don't you consider the new play rather fatuous?" "I thought it rather thin."—Baltimore American. "But how did you get her to believe such an outrageous lie?" "I told it to her in strict confidence."—London Blighty. "They had a hard time in that piece with the actors representing the elements of the storm." "How so?" "The lightning struck."—Baltimore American. First Profiteer—In spite of the high prices, people aren't dying of starvation. Second Profiteer—No. sir! We've got to put on the screws harder.—Toledo Blade. Director—The hero fell off his horse during one of the scenes. Friend—Did it make you angry? Director—Not at all. I simply made a comedy of the picture.—Film Fun. "Tell me truly why you gave up drink." "Well, dear, the last time your mother was here I came home late and saw three of her. The shock cured me."—Detroit News. Director—Charlie, we're going to take a movie of your laundry this afternoon. One Lung—You clazy man! Nobody can makee me movee; me gotta lease.—Film Fun. Returned Soldier—And every Sunday evening our chaplain always—Little Sister (interrupting)—Oh, did you have Charlie Chaplin over there, too?—New York Globe. Clergyman—I was sorry not to see you at church yesterday. Parishioner—I wish my hearing was no better than your sight. I was there and heard your sermon.—Toledo Blade. Hook—Oldboy is the most melancholy fellow I know. Crook—You're right. He proposed to a girl once by asking her how she would like to become his widow.—Stray Stories. “What's the matter with Flivver?” "Been playing the races." "What happened?" "He started out to try and win a winter overcoat and lost a brick house."— Louisville Courier Journal. 1000 1000 Thousands of Barrels of Refreshing, Exhilerating, Intoxicating Music Poured Out Nightly at the Entertainer's Cabaret 1238 Main Street By the Best SYNCOPATED ORCHESTRA on the Coast DON'T MISS IT ENTERTAINER'S CABARET --- REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA W. J. B. is the only presidential candidate that we feel quite sure about. He will not get the nomination.—Hood River (Ore.) News. Attorney General Palmer must think that Lenine is the real super-man of this sphere. He blames everything on him.—St. Louis Times. The man who would be next president of the United States is the one who can talk most intelligently about America.—Baltimore American. For the present Col. Bryan contents himself with an occasional explicit mention of who will not be the next president.—Washington (D. C.) Star. Slowness of the president in naming a railway labor board was in accord with the administration tendency of letting home problems drift.—Moline (Ill.) Dispatch. When we think of the last seven years, it occurs to us that it is not the original cost of electing a president so much as the up keep that hurts.—Minneapolis Tribune. The navy department has a payroll of 104,000 civilians, which exceeds the total of officers and men in the navy. Some day a Daniel will come to judgment.—Albuquerque (N. M.) Journal. If Mr. Palmer knew the Reds were becoming so actvie in their efforts against the country, why did he keep on with his electioneering tour up to the very last moment?—Detroit Free Press. Fifty cities show an average increase in the price of chuck steak of four per cent in three weeks, proving that the meat men, at any rate, are responding to the chuck steak campaign.—Arkansas Democrat. The League of Nations could effect nothing in the Italy and Jugo Slav contention over Fiume. The two countries finally took the matter in their own hands and quickly arrived at a settlement.—Eagle Grove (Ia.) Eagle. According to news dispatches, the strike of laborers in the sugar industry in Hawaii was brought about by orders from the Japanese Federation of Labor. Perhaps this is just an effort to give America a sort of gentle introduction on the Wilsonian plan of having American labor controlled by foreign bosses under the league of nations. Pendleton (Ore.) Tribune. The Democratic party was never so much alive, wails New Freedom's organ. Correct. Never so much alive with Democrats who are going to vote for the Republican candidate for president in November.—Uniontown (Pa.) Herald. No doubt the entente powers will admit that Turkey in Europe is an anomaly, but are too polite to suggest that the intervention of the United States in the eastern settlement, under the circumstances, is another. Kansas City Times. Now that the head of the Department of Justice is not doing much but running for president, Washington authorities are able to report a drop in food prices of a fraction of a cent. Maybe it will help to bring down the cost of living if the attorney general just keeps on his stumping trips.—Philadelphia Press. David Lawrence's report that President Wilson is really holding himself in reserve for a third term is next to incredible. If it is a fact, it is due to the seclusion with which the president has been surrounded, due to the failure of his sycophants and flatterers to tell him that he has lost influence with the country.—Aberdeen (Wn.) Herald. News dispatches say that the Democratic national committee has dismissed a thou- sand of the employes of its publicity bureau. Now we know how the country learned so much about the alleged achievements of the Wilson administration. And we can guess that less will be heard of them in the future. —Eureka (Calif.) Humbolt Times. It is understood that Mr. Wilson intends to do nothing further with the peace treaty until congress has acted on the proposed peace resolution. There appears to be little doubt that such a resolution will be speedily passed and put up to the president for his approval or rejection. If he cares to deny what everyone knows to be a fact, then he will veto the declaration that the war is at an end, but if he has a vestige of sound judgment remaining he will sign it and add a touch of formality to a condition that everybody has recognized for months.—Visalia (Calif.) Delta. President Wilson is still insisting on taking a hand in the settlement of European affairs while American public business languishes and suffers. The next president, it is to be expected, will have his feet on the ground to such an extent that he will regard it as his duty to attend to America's own pressing problems first. Attorney General Palmer is reported to be busy with the sugar situation again. In the light of what he did with Louisiana sugar prices, the consumer may prepare for the worst. With the passage of the Fuller pension bill by the Senate, the early enactment of this measure of justice to the veterans of the Civil War is assured. The measure had previously passed the House. The repeated failures of the administration to grapple in earnest with profiteering and the repeated forecasts that it is going to do something would read like jokes if they were not so serious for the rest of us. Senator Hitchecock talks like a man who had been tipped off to the fact that the president is not going to favor the nomination of Hitchecock at the San Francisco convention. He has not always spoken so frankly about the president's blunders with respect to the peace treaty. The House will soon pass the pension and retirement measure for government employess, a measure which has already passed the Senate. This will be a step not only in the direction of justice to government employes but in the direction of businesslike efficiency in the government departments. After all his genuflecting to the White House, Senator Hitchcock loses out on the Senate minority leadership and sees Bryan getting on the delegation in Nebraska. The rest of the bitter dose will be given him at San Francisco when the administration influence is openly thrown to some other candidate. More turmoil in Mexico, United States warships sent to both coasts, United States artillery ordered to the border, more American lives and property menaced. What will come of it all, no one can tell, but it is plain the administration lack of policy save the feeble policy of letting things drift has simply helped conditions to get worse. SAVING MONEY I fear me much I'll reach the grave insolvent, a financial wreck; I wonder how some fellows save and salt down roubles by the peck? I wonder how they gather in the franc, the kopeck and the groat, the large round dollar made of tin, the metal money and the note. I often urge the biddy boys to put aside a useful roll, for saved up money makes a noise that's gratifying to the soul. Anon they come to me and say, "We took your fatherly advice; we saved up for the rainy day, and now you see us with the price." And thus they show it can be done, it's not beyond our human skill; but as for me, I have no mon, though near the foot of life's long hill. I buy myself a suit of rags, it sets me back a hundred seeds—for pots must not look like vags, if they would sell their helpful screeds. And when I hang upon my frame this suit, to hide the rolls of fat, I see I cannot play the game unless I have a brand new hat. For one looks silly with a suit that shrieks its newness far and near, and then a hat too bum to shoot, that hangs upon his starborad ear. Then to the hatter's store I wend, and buy a lid that's up to date, and you can hear my groans ascend when I am asked to pay the freight. Ten useful bucks I have to dig when for the bonnet graft I fall; and then the blamed thing is too big, or else it's half a foot too small. And when I've bought the modern tile, and paid for it all kinds of loot, I find my shoes are out of style—they do not match my handsome suit. Then to the leather trust I go, and buy two shoes with non-skid tread; my bank account, already low, by this exploit is laid out dead. Oh, well I recollect the day when I first bought a motor car; it swallowed up a long year's pay, and gave my standoff quite a jar. I thought I'd bought a car complete, all ready for long years of use, and I could teeter up the street, and knock the speed laws like the duce. But soon I bought a set of chains, which took of coin about a peek; you need such things whene'er it rains, or you will skid and break your neck. Then there were covers for the seats, the cost upset my worried brain; I called on all the Mikes and Petes whose names men often take in vain. I had to buy an extra tire, a flashlight that refused to flash, and rims and jacks and coils of wire, and all these measly things took cash. I had to buy all kinds of junk they say a buzz-buzz wagon needs; 'twas here a wheel and there a plunk, anon some beans, again some seeds. I hear of people who can save, and salt their hard-earned kroners down, and tales about them, bright and brave, are always floating through the town. I wonder how they do the trick, I wish they'd send me diagrams; my bank account is always sick, and piffling as three tinkers' dams. And yet I strive, and pinch and slave, to keep some greenbacks on my shelves; I wonder how those fellows save; why do they keep it to themselves?—Walt Mason. FURNISHED ROOMS 317 22nd Ave. So. Rooms large and commodious, on car line, but walking distance. MRS. S. R. CAYTON 317 22nd Ave. So. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for the County of King. Edward Sweeney and Katherine Sweeney, his wife, plaintiffs, vs. May S. Jones, John Doe Jones, her husband, F. P. Kelly and Jane Doe Kelly, his wife, Defendants.—No. 142,329. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington, to the said F. P. Kelly and Jane Doe Kelly, his wife, Defendants: 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 1st day of May, A. D. 1920, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiffs, 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 said action and the relief sought to be obtained therein is fully set forth in said complaint, and is briefly stated as follows: Cancellation of real estate contract for conditions broken and effecting East 187 feet of the North 285 feet of tract 22 of Lake Dell Addition to the City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Z. B. RAWSON, Attorney for Plaintiffs. P. O. Address: 617 Pacific Block, Seattle, County of King, Washington. May 1-June 19. 1920. --- OUR COLORED CITIZENS The senate of New Jersey has passed a civil rights bill which carries a fine of from $150 to $500 against hotels and theaters that discriminate against colored people. Wilberforce University witnessed a student strike not long since, brought on by the passage and enforcement of too rigid school laws. The matter is under consideration, the laws having been suspended for the time being. An ex-member of the Pythian lodge of Florida sued the order for $15,000 damages for having been expelled therefrom. He won his case in the lower court, but the supreme court reversed the same. Aftr a long but bloodless fight E. H. Morris of Chicago has been ousted from the head of the Grand United Order of Odd Felows and J. . Noel declared the legal head. A Portorican seventeen year old lad shot and killed a fifty-four year old woman in the City of Chicago. The woman became infatuated with the lad and became his concubine, but he tired of her and killed her to break the spell that bound. Six colored girls in a New York high school were not invited to a class dance and their parents protested to the superintendent, who decided that the colored girls would be invited or there would be no dance. After thinking it over the dance was held and the entire class was pesent. Between April 29th and 30th Hampton Institute celebrated her fifty-second anniversary and among the distinguished guests present were William Howard Taft, former president of the United States. William Ray of Indianapolis has been sentenced to the electric chair August 5th. Ray is but nineteen years of age, but was found guilty of having stabbed to death a fourteen year old white girl. John Stogling of Pocatella, Idaho, recently shot his wife to death and then surrendered to the officers of the law. He is an ex-soldier and says while he was overseas his wife was unfaithful to him. Ray Smith, Garfield Walker, Eugene Emerick, Carr Dancy, Wm. S. Robbins, Jesse Nero, Ed Burrel and Noah Smith, all convicted by court martial and sentenced to death at Camp Grant, have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment and sent to prison at Atlanta, Georgia. According to dispatches the A. M. E. General Conference now in session at St. Louis, Mo., will elect seven new bishops and the nominations thus far are as follows: First Episcopal district will present the names of Revs. R. J. Williams of Philadelphia; C. P. Cole, New York; D. J. Brown, Atlantic City; M. W. Thornton, Boston; R. C. Ransom, New York. Second Episcopal District-Revs. A. L. Gaines, Baltimore; W. Samson Brooks, Baltimore, and E. H. Hunter, Norfolk. Third Episcopal District-Revs. D. F. Roberts, Cincinnati; W. H. H. Butler, Washington, Pa. Fourth Episcopal District-Presents its only candidate in the person of Dr. A. J. Carey of Chicago, Ill. Fifth Episcopal District-Revs. J. R. Ransom, Wichita, Kan.; J. C. Caldwell, Nashville. Sixth Episcopal District—Revs. W. D. Johnson, Arlington, Ga.; R. H. Singleton, Atlanta, Ga.; L. H. Smith Sr., Macon; W. G. Alexander, Savannah; W. A. Fountain, Atlanta; F. R. Simms, Atlanta; and H. D. Canady, Atlanta. Seventh Episcopal District—Revs. R. W. Mance, Columbus, S. C.; Sandy Simmons, Charleston. MRS. L. T. GREEN 1101 Washington St., Seattle, Wash. Phone Main 4573. Hair Culture and Scalp Specialist. Will call at your home if desired. Graduate of Oxford College. St. Louis. Thirteenth District—Rev. H. M. Steady, Freetown Sierra Leon, West Africa. Fifteenth Episcopal District—Revs. T. J. Askew, Detroit; D. E. Robinson, Hamilton, Bermuda. PURELY PERSONAL Mr. John H. Ryan of Tacoma attended to business in Seattle last Tuesday. Mr. John T. Gayton is now in the Pullman service and the change from the post-office work seems to be improving his health. Mr. Lee Sanders who has been employed at Roslyn for the past six months, has returned to the city and is again with the Gas Company. Miss Jenneva Coleman, daughter of Mrs. Annie Coleman, left for Cleveland, Ohio, last Thursday morning to be at the bedside of her grandmother, who is dangerously ill. The Seattle Branch National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will hold its regular monthly meeting next Monday evening at Grace Presbyterian church. Mr. Harry Legg spent some time in Casper, Wyoming, in search of cabaret talent. Like any other business the cabarets are compelled to keep the best of talent in order to draw the crowds. Mr. Horace R. Cayton, Jr., is to assist Mr. Gene Griffin in the ship shaping of the Aces. He is taking a lively interest in the league games with the view of strengthening the Aces. He acted as score keeper last Sunday. Miss Mabel Turner has returned to Seattle after an absence covering many months and is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Turner. Miss Turner is not quite, but almost, a native product of Seattle, having come here with her parents when a mere child. Mr. O. H. Winston, president of the N. A. A. C. P., is congratulating himself for You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. Cayton's Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It --- having secured Dr. Suzzalo of the University of Washington to fire the opening gun for the spring drive which he hopes will bring to the organization at least 600 members. Mr. W. D. Slater of Kittitas, Washington, who formally lived in Seattle, visited the city last Saturday on business. Mr. Slater has 360 acres of ground in Kittitas county which he is dry farming. A government ditch is expected in that neighborhood in the near future, which will make the land thereabouts very valuable. Mr. Gene Griffin's base ball team, the Aces, took a well fought game from the Madison Park team last Sunday. Gene is hoping to have his team in such good condition as to be able to successfully meet the best amateur teams of the city. The Aces have been doing some splendid team work this season and they are making good. Mrs. Zella Clemmons recently returned from Idaho whither she went to be with her sister, who was dangerously ill. Since her return she has had the interior of her home sedecorated. Mr. and Mrs. Clemmons have a splendid home, which is elegantly furnished. Mr. Clemmons is superintendent of the garage of Frederick & Nelson and does the hiring and firing for the firm, so far as the auto drivers are concerned. --- Mt. Rainier Lodge 3512 Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, House Hold of Ruth No. 2751, will hold their Annual Sermon Sunday evening, May 9th, 8:30 p. m., at the Grace Presbyterian Church. All visiting members are invited. The general public is invited to be present at the services. ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Distributor of Mme. C. J. Walker's Hair and Skin preparations. Mail, postal and express orders promptly filled. 1201-3 Jackson St., Seattle, Wash. 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 Phone East 179 Calls Made Promptly Day or Night LEWIS & BLACKWELL FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS H. Alfred Lewis, Funeral Director 1215 East Marion St., Seattle ATLAS POOL HALL Under New Management Wishes You a Happy New Year FELIX CRANE, Manager 1212 Main Street DOUGLAS ANNEX 2107 E. James St. Two rooms with bath, $30. Two sleeping rooms, reasonable. All well furnished. DOUGLAS ANNEX 2107 E. James St.