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The SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Historical society NORTHWEST VoL VII., NO. 35 ITEMS OF INTEREST ITEMS OF INTEREST Culled and Collected from Reliable Sources. World Notes Condensed to Readable Form—Items Concerning Various Congressional Doings—Deep Sea Fish Carry Searchlights. There are 5,400 square miles of coal fields in Great Britain. Italian macaroni is now made by machinery instead of by hand. Exports from the United States to Denmark have trebled since 1896. One year's sweepings of the British mint, yields about $5,000 in gold and silver. In Alaska a serviceable waterproof leather has been made from salmon and cod skins. One of the British cruisers burned 2,200 tons of coal going from England to Australia. Minnesota produces about 80,000,000 bushels of wheat annually and exports about two-thirds. The United States spends more than $10,000,000 a year to maintain the Indian wards of the nation. The utmost speed thus far attained on the Atlantic cable for transmission of dispatches is forty-five words a minute. The Inter Ocean reproduces some of the cartoons ridiculing Lincoln in 1861-1864 which must be interesting to Lincoln Democrats. The richest man in the house of representatives at Washington is Connell, of Pennsylvania, who has a sack valued at $10,000,000. The Inter Ocean says that the railroads of the country last year earned $1,336,096,000 and netted $447,741,044. Not very bad that? Lord Wolseley thinks that sometime China and the United States will fight for the supremacy of the world. But then Wolseley don't know. It is said that only one Chinaman has regularly been ordained a minister of the gospel. His name is Jam Jee, and he lives in San Francisco. Even in old Spain the people have become tired of being governed by Jesuit priests and have risen in their might at Valencia and stoned the Jesuit college. Kentucky is to add to the $100,-000 for the conviction of the assassin of Goebel. It is safe to say they will convict every man arrested, whether he is guilty or not. Blizzards in the Middle States have been very severe of late, and the snow has drifted so badly as to seriously interfere with traffic on the railroads. The poor of Chicago are especially sufferers. Coal briquettes, which has been manufactured for a long time in Europe, is now being made in this country with success. Their chief advantages are their cheapness and freedom from dust and dirt when handled. Europe is filled with spies. Perhaps more in Russia and Turkey than elsewhere. In the latter country even the highest persons are constantly watched by swarms of spies, who come from every nook and corner of the sultan's domain. Many deep sea fish carry searchlights. One species called the Chiasmoclon emits a strong white light, another glows with a rich golden light, like a small incandescent lamp, while yet another carries a lantern on its head that emits bright green rays. One of the sights of the city is a little black and white mouse which has been imported from its native haunts in Japan. As soon as it is old enough, it begins waltzing, and it is said keeps up the practice during the greater part of its life. When two or more are put in a cage, they begin whirling around so that they can hardly be seen. Queen Wilhemina of Holland has embarked on the sea of matrimony, which has given the press something to write about. Wilcox, the Hawaii delegate, was charged with being a traitor to the United States and illegally elected. A committee was appointed to investigate. Senator Sullivan of Mississippi has made himself famous or rather infamous by slapping the face of a girl who was at one time his stenographer. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, whose wife was killed some time ago by an anarchist, is about to wed a retired actress. Good match for both. The Danish parliament has consented to the transfer of the Danish West Indies to the United States. In Marietta, O., some persons excavating for a cellar dug into a Mound Builders' grave which is supposed to be 2,000 years old. When opened the bones of a large man were found, with a copper ax in each nand. The police have arrested two merchants in Manila charged with being traitors to the United States. One was an American and the other a Spaniard, partners and prominent men, who had been for some time furnishing supplies to the insurgents. In 1900 the Baldwin locomotive works built 1,217 engines, of which 363 were exported. These locomotives would form a train forty miles in length. The average length of the locomotive and tender in 1900 was, empty, 158,500 pounds. The average weight in 1890 of locomotive and tender was 106,000 pounds. The Alaska Commercial Company's steamer Bertha, upon her return from Alaska last week, reported severe weather all along the south-western coast. In Iliamna bay she was severely handled by the ice, and was compelled to beach at Kadiak and again at Port Valdes to repair damages before proceeding upon her voyage. The Pacific Steam Whaling Co.'s steamer Excelsior also had several narrow escapes from wreck and disaster on the ice. The congressional committee has made a report on hazing at West Point. The report finds a brutal state of affairs existing and recommends drastic measures for their suppression. It has been claimed by the upholders of the system that it had a tendency to make brave and effective soldiers, but to most people it tends more toward manufacturing outlaws who are almost invariably skulkers and cowards when they face cold steel or the leaden messenger. Nicola Tesla, the great scientist and electrician, says that his electrical instruments are being interfered with by unseen human hands, supposed to come from the planet Venus. He thinks the people of that planet are doing their best to communicate with the people of the earth, and recommends his scientific brothren to give the matter their careful attention. He says he believes the time will soon come when the people of the earth will talk with the people of other worlds. The oil graft has again made its appearance in several counties of Washington, and the promoters are making calculations on having a harvest before the suckers are exhausted. Most of the companies organized by these fakirs go to these susceptible owners of land and secure a twenty-five year iron clad control on each parcel and then return to the larger cities and organize companies whose chief end is to take in the unwary. Of course all the land owners will take a good block of stock in order to help the scheme along. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1901 CURRENT COMMENT CURRENT COMMENT About Things That Transpired Last Week Interesting Foreign and Domestic News Gathered for the Busy Man Useful Information for Everybody. The British are preparing to send 30,000 more mounted men to South Africa. Olympia has had her usual biennial scare on the attempted capital removal. Johann Faber, the famous pencil manufacturer, died at Nuremberg January 15th. Alfred Harmsworth, the London publisher, owns no less than eleven horseless carriages. Gomez is being pushed by his political friends for the presidency of the Cuban republic. That Texas oil well is a whopper, and it is said that our only Piper has a share in the enterprise. The Henry reorganization bill is now a law and the president will have over 1,000 officers to appoint. Dowie and his followers have been affected by the Nation malady and are smashing windows in Chicago. The periodical question, "Did Whitman save Oregon" is again being discussed by friends and foes. Andrew Carnegie has promised a $50,000 gift to Tacoma for a public library. Good for the City of Destiny. The Seattle public library is again open, and patrons can again secure books by going to the old University building. Candidates are appearing every day for the offices which are supposed to be declared vacant by Senator Foster. The great Morgan-Carnegie-Frick deal is one of the most colossal achievements ever attempted in the United States. Paul Kruger is in the sear and yellow leaf, and getting yellower every day. It is said the old man is failing fast. The police of San Francisco claim to have received lessons from our chief o the way to conduct gambling houses. Edward the VII. and sister Beatrice are already at loggerheads, and it is said that Alexandria, the king's wife, sides with Beatrice. A company has been formed to manufacture gun stocks from fiber, which will make the present army rifle much lighter in weight. The bill providing for the restoration of capital punishment in Kansas failed to pass. The agitation for its passage was on account of the burning of Alexander by a mob. Gambling has received a temporary black eye in New Whatcom and Fairhaven. The mayors of both cities have closed all dens and refuse to allow them to reopen under any circumstances. Some of our solons must want to go into the patent medicine busines, and have attempted to gain the formula by the introduction of a bill obliging the proprietors to publish before selling. Every member of the legislature who is afraid of getting roasted by the press is in favor of a strict libel law. They hope to win upon some paper that has shown their past knavery. Another round-up like the one conducted by the police of Tacoma against Funk and his saloon would convince most people that a healthy Nation should step in and close the joint. The Aberdeen Bulletin and Herald are each trying to prove that they saved the county a mint of money by doing advertising for practically nothing. We all know it was the county alone they were looking after. Olympia has suddenly come to the decided conclusion that economy should be enforced in all matters relating to the capital, especially if that capital happened to be removed to Tacoma. Later, liberal appropriations are now urged. Cotton brought 12 cents per pound in New York February 1st, which is the highest price paid for many years for that staple. When Bryan propesied 2-cent cotton in the event of McKinley's election, he evidently made a, well—call it a mistake. The Mormon question, in congress, like Banquo's ghost, will not down. During the vote on the agricultural bill a motion was made to exclude the agricultural college of Utah from its benefits if any polygamist professors were employed in the institution. And now it is said that George U. Piper and Levi Ankency have agreed to dissolve partnership. Some say that George's mode of financeering a campaign was too much for the Walla Walla financier to analyze. George always did know how to pull the long bow in his own interest. The legislature of Washington, in line with every other legislative body in the United States, is making an effort to pass a law fixing a penalty for the offense of kidnapping. The penalty for this offense cannot be made too severe in some cases. The abduction of young Cudahy has brought sorrow to the cowardly spirits of the particular class above mentioned. It is currently reported that a certain deputy in one of the county offices engineers his political schemes by promising or threatening property owners who oppose or support him. We have been given names, and will some time in the future find where he is at. Too many one-horse politicians of the stripe referred 'o think they own the nation when they secure a position that will keep them out of the almshouse. When some of the gambler supporters begin howling to you about the probable costs to the county for prosecuting the gamblers arrested, just tell him that it is money well spent in the protection of the home, but that it could have been avoided had the city council done its duty and ordered that public gambling be stopped and seen to it that the city marshal enforced the order.—The Weekly Capital. Brother Price's politics may not be orthodox, but he is always right on the saloon and gambling question. We know here how it is ourselves. The army of the United States will remain in the neighborhood of the 100,000 mark only so long as the conditions imperatively demand it, as they do now. After the complete and final pacification of the Philippines, which may reasonably be expected in two or three years at the outside, a reduction will be made in the military forces of the country.—Ellensburg Capital. In our opinion the army will never be reduced much below the 100,000 men in this country. If we keep our foreign possessions we will need every one of them. We cannot help but think that the passage of the Gunderson school-book law would do more harm than good. In nearly every state in the Union the people have secured a uniformity of text books, and now to turn back shows that some great interest is behind the reform. The law as it stands at present should be got rid of at the earliest opportunity, but to go to the other extreme seems almost suicidal. We are fully aware of the fact that many honest educators are in favor of the bill spoken of, but there are an equal number opposed to any such reactionary legislation. LOCAL HAPPENINGS LOCAL HAPPENINGS Stud Poker Barred but Black-Jack Largely Advertised—Public Employees After More Money—Reporters' Notes. Pike street is now one of the best business streets in Seattle. Maurice Thompson, brother of Will H., is probably dead at Crowfordsville, Ind. It is said that an ex-politician in King county is interested in a half dozen saloons in the city. Hon. John L. Wilson and wife will be in the city about a month. They have apartments at the Lincoln. Letters are pouring in from every direction asking information of the Queen City. It looks like another overflow. The Frink-Tremper street car line is being rapidly pushed to completion. It will be a great boon to many people. Fred Sander has returned from the East, and says he is now ready to begin his electric line from this city to Tacoma by the 1st of March. H. C. Hartranft has assumed the duties of office of superintendent and will hold it until the supreme court gives a final decision in the matter. Billy Potts has been elected worshipful master of Eureka Lodge No. 20, A. F. and A. M. Since "Billy" ran a race with "Van" he hasn't had much use for politics. We hear some complaint about the neglect of the library commissioners to install a free reading room in the public library. We are inclined to think that a little more time should be given before registering too vigorous kicks. Nearly every one you meet can entertain you with a description of how the grip affects the different members of his family. The disease is no respecter of persons, attacking young and old alike. Senator Hemrich's bill, supposed to be in the interest of blacksmiths of this city, is being vigorously opposed by the journeymen. They unhesitatingly declare that the measure was drafted in the interest of shop owners, and did their best to defeat it. The police arrested some poor devil the first of the week for selling Honduras lottery tickets. He must have been "agin" the gang, as the police and everybody else knows that for the last five years they are sold as regular as clockwork all over the city. Richard P. Burkman, one of the best known citizens of this city, has had an interesting time with the "sports" below the dead line. To begin with some of the fraternity undertook to blacken his character by accusing him of stealing poker chips and selling them at Nome for profit. "Dick" never claimed to be an angel, so when he heard of the slanderous stories he promptly took measures to clear his good name from the insinuations which the gamblers, or rather some of them, had put in circulation. He employed counsel and tried to get warrants for crimes against the state, but Judge Cann is not issuing warrants unless advised by the district attorney. "Dick" went to Fulton and found the latter had experienced a change of heart and also refused permission. "Dick" went to his legal adviser, to find that some one had been there to insinuate that some particular friends of his must suffer if the black flag was allowed to remain at the masthead. "Dick" finally agreed to wait a few days, but will begin the war again when the truce is up. It LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 28 1952 is but just to Mr. Burkman to say that he is not now, nor has he ever been, a gambler, and has always opposed the nefarious business. The Cedar street car line is now one of the best in the city, and while the service is a ten minute one, it is exceptionally good. If any one doubts the prosperous condition of Seattle, they should take a day off and patronize the several street car lines in the city, where they will see hundreds of houses going up in every direction. Lands are being continually platted and good comfortable homes are going up. Besides this, manufacturing plants, many of them, it is true, are small, are being built and working people find no trouble in obtaining employment at fair wages. John H. McGraw as receiver of a packing company, has been authorized to employ Chinese. This is another instance of what a great friend McGraw and his associates are of white labor. And still this man hopes to succeed again in politics in this state.—Freeman's Labor Journal. This is about as fair as any chronic grafter ever gets. The editor knew, or if he did not know has no business trying to be an apostle of labor, that it was either to employ Chinese or close the shop. A little truthfulness occasionally would command some respect from the members of the press at least. We are always glad when wages go up, but we do not think that because a man is a petty official he should be paid more than others in like conditions. It used to be the complaint that they could not exist without larger salaries, because of their contributions to their party which kept them in power, but this is all changed, since the civil service law prevents grafting. It is a singular circumstance, but every one knows it to be true, that public employees are always dissatisfied with their remuneration. It is also true that they may be receiving more than employees in other lines of business conducted by private interests, and very often receive more than the men who pay them, yet they are always clamoring for a raise. Another storm has broken out among the gamblers of the city. This time stud poker seems to be the bone of contention. The Clancy's and Pincus brothers have been given special privileges in conducting these games, on account of their activity in behalf of the powers that be. But periodically some upstart who believes that all men are created equal and have the same privileges before the law infringes upon the inalienable rights guaranteed the two houses above mentioned. Then indignation follows, and Meredith and Wappenstein hurriedly repair to J. W. Considine for advice, and to do the latter justice he is the best qualified gambler in this city for that business. John does not have to lie awake nights fearing a police visit, nor does he have to opjen his pocketbook every time he sees the grafters approaching, because he knows he is nearer the throne than any or all of the sports, and when he wants one of the dens blotted out a phone call will accomplish his wishes. There is little doubt that there will be a fight in the next senate to exclude senators elected by the four Southern states in which Negro suffrage is restricted. There will be none, however, to exclude senators from Northern states where uneducated and ignorant foreigners are not allowed to vote.—Olympia Standard. The cases referred to are altogether dissimilar. In the South an intelligent colored man stands just as much show and no more than the most ignorant man in the community. A voter when challenged must give an acceptable analysis of the constitution to men in many cases who never read the document. Of course the explanations are never satisfactory unless the expounder is a Democrat. The push has decided that W. V. Rinehart shall stand for the next Republican nomination for mayor of Seattle. His past record will be thoroughly scrutinized by the voters of this municipality and his past acts will be weighed in the balance. Certain corporations will of course work for his advancement, because they are not dissatisfied with his past record. The telephone war has eliminated party lines in a great measure and there is no telling where the affair will end before the matter is settled. It is safe to say that the major has not lost any money since he obtained his position on the council. It is currently reported that A. T Van De Vanter has announced his candidacy for sheriff of King county two years hence. It would appear to the average voter that the reception he received last November would preclude the very idea of his submitting himself to the tender mercies of King county suffragists. Much has been said and written in regard to the side or family entrance to saloons, but the subject has not been exhausted, nor will it be until the question has been eliminated from future discussion. Only a few days ago the writer was standing near a side entrance of a Pike street saloon on a Sunday evening and witnessed the entrance of three young couples to one of the vilest dens in the city. Some of the parties were well known and tried to hi'e their faces from recognition, but their efforts were unsuccessful. One of the girls was a virtuous, capable, innocent girl when she entered the den, but who wil say that she was the same when she emerged from this place of sin and shame? The only wonder is that the people have suffered this vile octopus to fasten its tentacles upon the public with such a grasp that heroic measures are essential to their disentanglement. The Preston bill has gone the way of so many buncomb measures which are introduced for the purpose of throwing dust in the eyes of the voters. Preston is a competent lawyer, and well knew that if he succeeded in securing its passage, the courts would pronounce it unconstitutional. Mr. Preston has been a very devoted Ankeny adherent, but even his friends helped to down the bill. That Mr. Preston did have any serious illness on account of the way the farmers were used, is well known to all who are familiar with him, and another fact that is equally well known, and that is that a senatorial bee has been buzzing in his hat for some time, and if he could only make those Eastern farmers believe that they were his true friends he could depend on some of his friends to attend to the voter west of the Caseades. There is a story going the rounds to the effect that in the "deal" entered into by Mayor Humes with the Foster crowd, by the terms of which Humes agreed to throw George Piper overboard, it was finally arranged that Piper might continue to be the King county manipulator for the combination, but that he must have nothing whatever to do with managing affairs outside of King county. There is either a mistake in this report, or else Piper has run up against the most innocent crowd of amateur politicians anywhere on earth. It the apportionment bill passes King county will have twenty-five members of the next legislature, and if they are all Republican, as they should be, they can control the election of United States senator. Suppose that Piper is allowed to have charge of the combination's interests in King county, and that combination should win out. Does any one who knows George Piper suppose for a minute that he would then quietly surrender and turn over all his secrets, and his influence with the King county delegation, to his personal enquiries? There was a row between George Piper and the other Ankeny-Humes managers during the last primary fight in this county that illustrates Piper's independence. Piper was HOUSES AND LOTS FOR SALE AND TO LET WHALLEY & EASTMAN PHONE MAIN 611 5-6 COLMAN BLD. You don't know what is the very best possible deal to be made on a piano until you have enrolled our piano department. You are an excellent instructor. makes and beautiful finishes at really extraordinary prices. Credit is given on terms to suit your convenience. SHERMAN, CLAY & CO 711 SECOND AVE. handling the money, and some of the other managers were dissatisfied with the way the finances were being handled. Several times requests were made on Piper for money to meet what were considered imperative demands, but most of them were turned down by Piper with the statement that he "had no money." Finally this became an old story, and it was at last decided to bring Mr. Piper to account. A meeting was held, Piper was sent for and an accounting demanded. Piper listened to the remarks made by the other members of the cabal, and when all had spoken George calmly folded his arms and declared that "By G—he didn't propose to account to anybody for the way he had spent that money." And he didn't. An effort was made to keep the matter quiet, out it leaked out from half a dozen sources, and no effort whatever was made to deny it. This is the man it is suggested will go in and win a fight that involves landing twenty-five members of the legislature for a certain combination, and then turn those twenty-five men over to his own personal enemies in that combination. W. H. Paulhamus is Piper's particular friend and confident, and these two men stand closer to Levi Ankeny than any others, politically, in the state. No matter what future combinations or arrangements may be made with Ankeny, they will always be subject to the secret approval of Piper and Paulhamus. Such men as Grosseup and Senator Baker fully understand this, and as the representatives of Senator Foster they will be mighty careful about making a combination that involves turning over the federal patronage to their bitter personal enemy. The fact is that nearly all the leaders of both the Foster and Ankeny combinations are men who are extremely selfish and jealous, politically, of others who aspire to leadership or control, and in the very nature of things a perfect combination between them is impossible. Ankeny will never be elected senator with the help of Ben Grosseup and Senator Baker and their real friends, and without their help he cannot be elected at all. It looks very much as though Grosscup was trying to play one of his smooth games with Piper and his friends. It is the opinion of nearly every one, except Piper himself, that no faction in King county, with Piper at the head of it, will ever again win a primary fight here in Seattle. Grosscup is of this opinion, and it is suggested that it is his intention to allow Piper to think he is standing in with him on the King county management, and at the same time have an understanding with some otter crowd here, by which the Piper crowd is to be down in King county by some combination that Grosscup can deal with. By this means Grosscup hopes to be able to stand well with the Piper crowd up to the very minute Piper goes down to defeat, so that in the event of his winning it will be possible to deal with him also. But it is certainly Grosscup's desire to be able to do business with an anti-Ankeny, anti-Piper crowd in King county. An Olympia correspondent of one of the Tacoma papers remarked that Tom Fisk might be the compromise manager of Ankeny's next senatorial fight, and then proceeded to the effect that Fisk is recognized as being true, and not a grafter. It is not known whether the correspondent referred to was sober when he made this statement, or whether he deliberately indulged in some irony for the benefit of his Tacoma readers. Because if there are two distinct characteristics that Tom Fisk possesses, they are those of a grafter and a false friend. Can any of Fisk's friends specify a single instance of his having made a dollar in King county, except as a grafter in politics? Before coming here he lived in some county in Southwestern Washington, where he had the same reputation, and it is said he left there owing money to all from whom he could borrow. No friends mourned him on his departure, either, and in leaving Seattle he was careful not to return to the place from which he came. He went to Olympia two years ago as Ankeny's manager without a dollar in his pocket, but immediately after opened up expensive law offices in Seattle and maintained them for nearly two years without any law practice whatever. He appeared to be entirely successful as an Ankeny grafter until the Frink forces won out in the King county convention, and then Fisk began borrowing money again. Pickings became shorter and shorter, however, until finally he was compelled to leave Seattle, and he went to Shelton, where his father and brothers reside. He appeared to find it hard to graft there, also, for when the legislative session opened recently he went to Olympia practically in rags, and actually exhibited the patches on the seat of his trousers, and his solemn shoes, to the members of the state senate, from whom he begged for an office. As Ankeny's manager two years ago he invited different members into his rooms as friends, and proceeded to try to deal with them on the senatorial election. If he did not succeed, he did not hesitate to circulate the story that a certain member, mentioning his name, had offered to sell out to him, giving all the details of the man's alleged offer. The test of a true friend is to be called on to stand by a man who needs his friendship, and Tom Fisk is the sort of friend who stands by a man in time of that man's prosperity, but when adversity comes he is among the very first to give a former friend a down-hill kick, no matter how much he may be obligated to him. Any man is better off without the so-called friendship of men of the Tom Fisk stripe, because that kind of friendship is of no use to the man who don't need it, and the man who is in need of friends will find that Fisk is the very first to desert him. But he has doubtless reached the end of his rope in the politics of this state, for a man who is too lazy to earn a living at anything but grafting in politics usually finds that he is of no value even as a grafter. Fisk got his job as Ankeny's manager two years ago on his assurance that he could "handle" Judge Grossecup, and asserted that he could simply twist him around his little finger when it came to manipulating politics. We are not particularly stuck on political investigations because they seldom return any dividends to the tax payer, but they provide two or three members of the legislature and a lot of hired rounders with a few weeks' or months' fat jobs. It is said that Gov. Rogers has a card up his sleeve which he proposes to play at the right time, and that piece of pasteboard is supposed to have on the back, just for books of course, a complete history, of Bobby Bridges' conduct of the state land office. Bob, as every one knows, has been more than kind to his friends in leasing school lands, about the city at any rate. The Times says that our James Hamilton Lewis refused an offer of $6,000 a year from some large railroad which enters Seattle. He quotes several object lessons, and winds up by sayin that Jim may enter the presidency route on that principle. Give the name of the railroad, colonel, and we may swallow the story. After Mr. and Mrs. Stanford had given or were giving all they possessed to establish an educational institution of the colossal proportions of the Stanford university we think she had a perfect right to protect her husband's memory from the assaults of Prof. Ross and his sympathizers. The allegation that Ross was discharged because he opposed Oriental immigration and bi-metallism has not a leg to stand on. Mrs. Stanford objected to the continued insinuations and open charges against her deceased husband, and we think she was justly entitled to be indignant. Even David Starr Jordan has never been accused to our knowledge of being a Republican, and if he has the disease is not yet become chronic The North American Review had an important article last month entitled "Past and Coming Problems." by M. De Blervitz, for a great many years the Paris correspondent of the London Times. While he does not desire to enter the role of a prophet, his long experience in the politics of Europe and his mature years entitle him to a respectful hearing at least. After handling the efface monarchies of France without gloves, he says: "I am not a chiromantist. I am simply noting here the existence of an evil extremely rife in France, which exists as well throughout Europe to a greater or less degree, namely, the growing evil everywhere of social parasitism, which it will be the mission of the twentieth century to combat, to repress and to extirpate." His idea is that the nonproducing noble parasite who lives on the wealth produced by labor is the real danger which confronts France and Europe today, and in order to escape the infliction and save society heroic measures must be used at once. He writes extremely pessimistically of the death of Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and Hungary, which he believes is liable to set Europe on fire. He says: "Just how the war will occur it is impossible to foresee for the very reason that it is inevitable, and any and every circumstance may light the spark. He thinks war is certain because of the fact that Roumania, encouraged by Russia, will try to seize Transylvania from Hungary, which Hungary will never give up. It will break out for the reason that the Slav countries receiving encouragement from the same source will refuse to live under the shadow of the Germans or Hungarians. It will will break out because Russia nor France will permit the six millions of Austrian-Germans to be brought under the fold of the German empire. He further says if arbitration was not a mad chimera it would indeed be the place to apply it on the death of Emperor Francis Joseph. Political students have time and again expressed themselves on the Austrian question, and all have been exceedingly pessimistic of the result of the emperor's death. But no such plain note of warning has been sounded as this. The Cuban patriots (?) have already shown their appreciation of the generosity of the people of the United States, and shown it in such a manner that no more of it is desired. Of course, the rascals desire to be let alone by this country, and if they were every one of the old-time brigands would begin robbing the people where they left off. The very idea of leaving well meaning people to the tender mercies of these scoundrels is simply ridiculous. The Democratic party, up to the time of the civil war was constantly working for the annexation of the island, and many of the strongest Southern leaders were in favor of capturing it at all hazards. Look at the Democrats who in 1898 spoke and wrote in favor of annexation and where are they now? Even Col. Lewis frequently scored the administration for even harboring a thought of separation. But William J. Bryan about faced, and all of the lesser lights tumbled over one another to get on the band wagon. Bryan, in his Commoner, commends the action of Mayor Van Wyck in refusing to place the flag at half mast on the city hall. Even France and Germany, which have been bitterly hostile to the South African war, paid their full measure of attention to the grand woman ruler of the century, if not of all time. They did not deem it beneath their dignity to express their profound sorrow for the demise of the wife, mother and queen. It is said that Mr. Bryan was offered $10,000 for the first copy of his paper. We have one of our first copies that we will sell for half that amount.—Starbuck Signal. If Mr. Bryan was ever offered such a price, dollars to doughnuts he closed the bargain then and there, for Bryan is no amateur financier. Sulzer, the second edition of Pettigrew, again slopped over in the house. He read an anonymous letter attacking the character of Perry Heath, late assistant postmaster general, who he claimed had circulated the story about the meeting to help the Boers. Sulzer gets het, but he is not dangerous. DRUGS Perfectly Com- pounded at PIKE STREET PHAR- MACY, 419 Pike. Tel. Main 933 Per Acre. Adjoining Car Line. Overlooking Lake Washington. Fifteen Minutes From Pioneer Square McGRAW & KITTENGER Room 6 Bailey Building Daylight arrives late and leaves early these days WELSBACH Is the cheapest artificial light on earth Bright White Light Handle Power, one-half cent per Hour We Deliver It. BETTLE GAS & ELECTRIC CO. 214-216 Cherry Street electric Light is the best Artificial Light Bright White Light 60 Candle Power, one-half cent per Hour We Deliver It. 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There are many other members of the company who have a national reputation in this particular line of comedy. People who visit the Third Avenue theater next week will find that Murray and Mack will remove that tired feeling and send them home happy. Seabrooke in "The Rounders." The attraction at the Seattle theater next Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 17, 18, 19 and 20, will be Thomas Q. Seabrooke in the New York Casino's latest and greatest success, "The Rounders." Mr. Seabrooke has been seen here several times, and always has left a host of friends behind him who will be glad to hear that in the present production he has achieved one of the greatest successes in his career. Always original and humorous, he reputation of being one of our very best comedians. "The Rounders" is by Harry B. Smith, with a musical setting by Ludwig Englander, produced by Manager Lederer in gorge JEANNETTE LOWRIE ous style, and interpreted by one of the strongest organizations ever sent out from the New York Casino. A glance at the list of principals in this company will attest the truth of the latter statement, for in addition to Mr. Seabrooke there are such well-known people as Bertha Waltzinger, Jeannette Lowrie, W. C. Mandeville, Nellie Lynch, Harry Stuart, Emma Naylor, Francis Tyson, Mabel Blake, Jack Bernard and Herbert C. cripps. The Grand Opera House. The offering at the Grand Opera House for next week will be the great meio-drama "The Angel of the Aley," presented by Sulivan and Harris. This really marvelous production is without a parallel upon the stage today. It is brimful of startling scenes and unique situations and has held high place in the public interest since its initial presentation in New York. The play deals with the adventures of a young officer who is lured to an underground gambling resort in New York, and portrays in a number of vividly realistic scenes the life of a class who inhabits a certain section of New York and who have caused the police much trouble. The scenery used in the play is a representation of the most familiar streets and alleyways of this quarter and is correct in every detail. There is also used in one act scenery representing the condemned cell in Sing Sing; no expense was spared to procure a perfect reproduction and the naturalness of the scene is startling. The action of the play is swift and powerful, and there is no lack of interest from start to finish. An exceedingly capable cast interprets the piece and brings out the light and shade in a finished and artistic manner. The popularity of the play throughout the East predicts for it an immediate success here. Many of the Democrats who have seen Bryan's paper, the Commoner, are very much dissatisfied with it. They say that a more commoner lot of editorials could not possibly have appeared in any paper. Perhaps the Democrats will take a tumble to what Bryan really is after a while—a grafter.—Columbia Chronicle. When the novelty of the scheme wears off the Commoner will be as common as the other weeklies of the country. In the meanwhile Bryan will take in a desirable lot of silver which he can exchange for gold. Missouri was organized as a territory December 12, 1812, and admitted as a state August 12, 1821. The famous Missouri compromise which resulted in its admission as a state limited the extension of slavery to that part of the Louisiana purchase south of the Missouri line. The population of Missouri increased from 2,679,184 in 1890 to 3,106,665 in 1900. And exportations will increase as people become acquainted with the excellencies of the cereal. Senator Gamble, of South Dakota, will not be new to congressional life, as he served two terms in the house, where he made a good record that will doubtless be improved upon in the senate. He succeeds Pettigrew, who made such an exhibition of himself by his traitorous attitude since our occupation of the Philippines.—Tacoma New Herald. Gamble is as far ahead of Frank Pettigrew as Pettigrew is behind Sulzer in everything that goes to make a decent man. President McKinley's notice to congress to observe economy has borne fruit in appropriations that will certainly run up to $1,600,000,-000 for the next two years. But then this is a business administration—strictly business, in fact.—Coulee City News. We have run across that same item in at least a half dozen exchanges, which either denotes a press bureau, or there is a lot of stealing done without giving credit. Many people and newspapers are giving circumstantial accounts of the way in which Queen Victoria poured oil on the troubled waters and saved war between the United States and England over the Mason and Slidell incident. We concede the fact that her influence at that time was used against war, but the real credit belongs to Thurlow Weed, who did not happen to be in England, but was sent there for the very purpose of averting hostilities. Weed's biographer gives a detailed account of his interview with Lord Talmerston upon the matter of the seizure, and finally the premier showed Weed the offensive dispatch, when the latter replied that if the dispatch as worded was sent, that nothing was left but a war that would astonish the world. The paper was modified not wholly at the instance of the queen, but at the forcible representation mad by Thurlow Weed. There were many, yes, very many, Englishmen, especially the working classes who were always in favor of the Union. The Republican club of Spokane is about to open permanent headquarters in a central part of the city, and steps are being actively taken by its leaders to extend and perfect its organization in every precinct in the county. Organization is power; by its acts it binds a great body of voters, who as individuals could hope to accomplish little, into one homogenous mass, which with wise leadership can make itself felt in any direction with irresistible force. So long as a political machine is conducted for the good of the party as a whole, without regard to the special interests of individuals, it is a good and necessary thing. Such we believe to be the Republican club of Spokane county. So long as it continues upon these lines it shall receive our heartiest support.—Spokane Outburst. There is one commendable feature of Republican politics in Spokane, and that is, their industry. They are in politics the year around. Mr. H. R. Cayton, editor of The Republican, started last Saturday for Holly Springs, Miss., where he will engage for several weeks in settling up the affairs of ex-United States Senator Revels, who died a few weeks ago. If the paper does not come up to its usual excellence while he is absent, the cause is apparent. LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES publication in Tel. Main 305 Tel. Main 305 714 Third Avenue M. A. GOLDMAN Keeps best WATCHES, finest JEW- ELRY, and does best repairing. Burke Block, 901 Second Ave. Always on hand at the SAN DIEGO FRUIT CO., 415 Pike Street Uncle Joe Plenty of money to loan on diamonds, watches and all kinds of jewelry and valuables 514 Second Ave. ....FOR..... DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOAKS, MILLINERY AND MEN'S FURMISHINGS ....GO TO..... WILSON'S Second Avenue and University Street Basement Mutual Life Bldg. Phone Malh 548 D. B. SPELLMAN Praecrical Plumber and Gasfitter. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty. 2:2 Columbia aSt. WM H. FiNCK Pioneer Jeweler, Established 1882. Watches Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks, and Optical Goods, Scientific Optician, Watch Repairs 816 Second Avenue, Seattle, Wash. Washington Dental and Phonological Company Kodak and High Grade Cameras, 211 Columbia street, Seattle IN THE JUSTICE COURT, BEFORE T. H. Cann, Esq., a Justice of the Peace in the City of Seattle, Precinct King County, Washington. George W. Fischer and F. T. Fischer, copartners doing business as Fischer, Brothers, Pilfrich Jeffrey, John Pilfrich, Richard Roe Bartlett, copartners doing business as Tillson-Bartlett Grain Co., Defendants. No. Summons for Pleadings. State of Washington, County of King-ss. To John Doe Tillson and Richard Roe Tillson, the president of the Tillson-Bartlett Grain Co., defendants. In the name of the State of Washington you are hereby notified that the above company against you which will come to be heard at my office, Room 317 Pioneer Building, in the City of Seattle, in King Harbor, Washington, on a day of March, A. D. 1901, at the hour of nine o'clock a.m., and unless you appear and then answer, the demand of the plaintiff will be made to Salem, Omaha, a man certain merchandise, which trip and examination were made at your request and upon your agreement pay expenses as has been issued and directed to the Puget Sound National Bank of Seattle. february 13th, 1801. T. H. CANN, Justice of the Peace. SUMMONS. And which said deed was executed on the 18th of September, 1882, and thereafter duly filed the deed with the County Auditor of said King County, and thereupon on the 21st day of September, 1882, only recorded and indexed in Volume 1882, only recorded, page 314 of the records of said county. And further object of said action is to make the interest of you, the said defendants, to the amount of said premises and to sell the same under such foreclosure and apply the process thereof to the amount found the plaintiff, and for the costs of said action. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 8th day of February, 1901, the day of the first publication hereof. IRA BRONSON, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and postoffice address: Rooms 77-80 Safe Deposit building, Seattle, King County, Washington --- SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. State of Washington, County of King, ss. Sheriff's Office. By the commission, a discretion issued out of the honable Superior Court of King County, on the 7th day of February, 1901, by the clerk thereof, in the case of Seattle Hardware Company, a corporation, defendant, No. 31,333, and me, as sheeriff, directed and delivered: Notice is hereby given, that I will pro- ceed with the investigation of the best bidder for cash, within the hours described by law for sheriff's sales, to-wit, at 10 o'clock a.m. on the 16th day of March, 2001, before the court house of said King, Washington, all of the right, title and interest of the said defendant Emil Kriegel in and to the following described property situated in King County, State of Wash- ington, lot one, Seneca Street Addition to the City of Seattle, levied on as the property of defendant Emil Kriegel, to satisfy a judgment amounting to $8,200 with inter- est in the property of said King, for the plaintiff and against said defendant. Dated this 8th day of February, 1901. ED. CUDIHEE, Sheriff. By WM. CORRIDOR Deputy. Attorney: Ira Ronson SUMMONS. CLISE & KING, Attorneys for Plaintiffs. Postoffice Address: Room 317 Pacific Block, Seattle, Washington. Block, Seattle, Washington. First publication of summons Feb. 8, 1901. SUMMONS. GEO. E. MORRIS. Plaintiff's Attorney B. E. MORRIS. Plaintiff's Attorney van block, Seattle, Wash. Wash. 1961 1961 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, KING CouCity, Washington. In the estate of Hans C. B. Wilms, deceased. No. 3498. Notice to creditors. Notice is hereby given that John P. Jacobson has been appointed administrator of the above estate, and all perjury cases against him have been Hans C. B. Wilms, the deceased, are hereby notified to present the same to said Jacobson, at his place of business. No notice of publication from State, Wash, within one year from the date of the first publication hereof. John P. JACOBSON, Administrator. Goe. B. Morris, Attorneys for Administrator. Date of first publication, Jan. 25, 1901. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING County, State of Washington. In the matter of the estate of August Magnus, deceased. No. 3656. Notice to creditors. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against August Magnus, deceased, are hereby required to present such claims, with the necessary vouchers therefor, within one year from the date of the first publication of this notice, to E. F. Sweeney, the undersigned, in the Bailley building, Seattle, Washington. E. F. SWEENEY. Administrator with the will annexed of the estate of August Magnus, deceased, Dated at Seattle, Washington, this December 8, 1900. DATE of first publication Dec. 14, 1900. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. United States Law Office, Seattle, Wash., January 24, 1900. Notice is hereby given that in compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress of June 3, 1898, entitled "An act to the sale of time land in the States of California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington Territory," as extended to all the Public Land States by act of August 4, 1900. JAMES B. ADAIR, of Seattle, county of Knng, state of Washington, has this day filed in this county a short state Tax No. 7,258 for the purchase of southeastern Section No. 18 in Township No. 23 N, Range No. 7 East, and will offer proof to show that the land sought is more valuable than the cultural purposes, and to establish his claim to said land before the Register and Receiver of this office at Seattle, Wash., on Wednesday, 11th day of April, 1901. He names as witnesses: Benjamin Prce, of Isaquah, Wash.; J. W. Upper, of Seatue, Wash.; Robert Thompson, of Seatue, Wash.; J. D. Butler, of Seatue, Wash. Any and all persons claiming adversely the above-described lands are requested to file their claims in this office on or before said day of April 1980. EDWARD, P. TREMPER. Register. This notice must be published once a week for executive meetings in a newspaper nearest the land office must also be posted in a conspicuous place in the land office for the same period. NOTICE is hereby given that the annual stockholders' meeting of the West Side Copper Mining Company of Seattle, Washington, will be held at the office of the company, Room 85 Sullivan Building, in the city of Seattle, Washington, at the hour of 2 p.m. Monday, January 7th, 1901, for the purpose of five trustees for the ensuing year and the transaction of such other business as shall legally come before said meeting. DAVID KELLOGG, A. H. WINTROD, President Secretary TAX CERTIFICATE You and each of you are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after the service of this notice and the day of service, in the above entitled courts and defend this action or pay the amount due, together with the costs. In case of your failure so to do, plaintiff will apply for judgment or judgment rendered foreclosing the lien for said taxes and costs against the real property lands and premises herein named. A. W. YOUNG, Plaintiff. B. KING, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Postoffice Address: 33 Boston Block, Seattle, Washington. First pub, of summons, Dec. 14, 1900. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for the County of Kingston, Patterson, plaintiff, vs. Emma Patterson, defendant. No. — Summons by publication. The State of Washington to the said Emma Patterson, defendant: Emma Patterson, defendant: You have summoned to appear with sixty days after the date first publication of this summons, to-will with sixty days after the 7th day of December. A. D. 1900, and defend the above and answer the complaint, and answer the complaint, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff, at his office below stated; and in case of rendered against you, argument will be rendered against you according to the hand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the said action, set forth in the bonds of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and the defendant and to award the community property to plaintiff. J. P. BALL, JR. attorney. P. O. Address: Rooms 16, 14 and 18, Rox- well block, Seattle, County of King, Washington. SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION the northeast quarter (N, E. $ \frac{1}{2} $) of section three, the northwest quarter (W, $ \frac{1}{2} $) of N, W. $ \frac{1}{2} $ of section twenty-six (26), and the southwest quarter (W, $ \frac{1}{2} $) of N, W. $ \frac{1}{2} $ of S. E. $ \frac{1}{2} $ of section twenty-two, the township twenty-six (26) north, range five, the county township in living in all two hundred eighty (340) acres. (5) To have the mortgaged premises sold, conveyed under foreclosure by the sheriff, Krug, according to law, and the net proceeds thereof applied upon the said judgment. (6) To arm and foreclose the defendants above named and all persons and all persons claiming under them or any of them, of and from all interest in and right to the said premises, excepting the right of defendant to claim any of them. (5) To obtain any other and further relief in the premises that may be just and equitable. SHANK & SMITH Attorneys for Plaintiff. Postoffice Address: 524-5-6 Balley Building, Seattle, Washington. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. In the matter of the estate of Dotha A. McKelvey, Notice is hereby given to the creditors of Dotha A. McKelvey, deceased, requiring all persons having claims against the deceased to present them with the necessities teachers with a year after the date of publication of this notice, first published on the 14th day of December, 1900) to the undersigned, administra- tors teachers with his transaction of business to wife of nummer Washington building, Seattle, Washington. ROGER S. GREENE, Administrator of the estate of said deceased GREENE & GRIFFITHS, Attorneys. First publication December 14, 1900. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington in and for the County of King. H. G. Struve, plaintiff, vs. D. T. Denny, John B. Denny and D. Thomas Denny, defendants. No. 29, 31. The State of Washington in the said county said the You are hereby summoned to appear witten sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit. Sixty days after the 14th day of December, you are summoned to give an entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, by take a copy of your answer upon the undersigned, and answer the complaint of their once below stated, and in case of your failure so to do judgment will be made, you are summoned to the mand of the complaint, which has been heigned with the clerk of said court. You are summoned as to recover a judgment against said plaintiff D. T. Denny, D. Thomas Denny and you, the said John B. Denny, for the sum of four, thousand, eighty-100 dollars, together with interest at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the 31st day of March 1833, upon the certain promised payment, writing must be delivered to you herein by said defendants on the 31st day of March, 1833, for said sum, payment with said plaintiff's costs and disbursements in said action. STRUVE, ALLEN, HUGHES & McMICKEN, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Postoffice Address: 520 Bailey Building, Saint Louis, Missouri Date of first publication, Dec. 14, 1900 TO SHOW CAUSE. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for the County of Kingston, the estate of William T. Wickware, deceased. No. 2899. Order to show cause on sale of the property. Lizzie S. Wickware, administratrix of the estate of William T. Wickware, deceased, having filed her petition in this case for the sale of the estate of this court for the sale of all the real estate of which the deceased died seized for the purposes herein set forth, pledged. Done in open court this 13th day of December, 1900. WM. HICKMAN MOORE. Judge of Said Superior Court. Date of first publication, Dec. 14, 1900. DIVORCE NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE THEATER of Washington for King County. Grace S. Naismith, v. John M. Webster, defendant, n. 31.097. Summons for Publication. The Sttae of Washington to the said John M. Webster, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of this summons, to wit: Within sixty (60) days of day January, 1901, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of plaintiff and answer the complaint of defendant, unresigned attorneys for plaintiff at their office below stated; and in case of your office below stated; and in case of your judgment will be rendered against your judgment action is to dissolve the bonds of matrimony, existing between plaintiff and defendant. ROOT, PALMER & BROWN, Postoffice Address: 529-533 Building, Seattle, King County, Wash. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE state of Washington, for King County. In it is the matter of the estate of Edwin B. Shank, deceased. No. 3738. To notice Creditors. Notice is hereby given by the under- signed Edwin B. Shank, deceased of the estate of Edwin B. Shank, deceased of the estate having claims against said deceased or against his estate to present such caimis, with necessary vouchers, within one (1) day of his death. The application of this notice, to me at the law of Morris & Southard, room No. 51 Haller oulding northwest corner Columbia street King County, Washington, the same being of the transaction of all business of said sale, or they will be forever barred. ETHBL A. SHANK. Administratrix of the Estate of Edwin B. Shank, deceased. Dated this 15th day of January, A. D. 1901. Date of first publication, January 18th, A. D. 1901. DIVORCE NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. Elsie Clement, plaintiff, vs. William Car- ter Clement. No. — Summons for publication. The State of Washington to the said Washington for lee endang. You are hereby required to appear with sixty (60) days after the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixteen (6) days after the day of De- cember, 1990, and before the third de- action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and even in copy of your answer on the unde- signed complaint, in office below stated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against, according to the demands of the plaintiff, that has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this action is to obtain a divorce and dissolution of the bonds of matrimony between the plaintiff and the defendant upon the grounds of desertion and abandonment and negation of the defendant to make suitable provisions for his family, and that the custody of infant children of the parties be awarded to the defendant. We have her costs and general equitable relief. CLISE & KING, Attorney Faces, Room 53 Boston Block, Seattle, Kin County, Washington. First publication December 14, 1989. NOTICE TO CREDITOR IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for the County of King, Wash., on February 14, 2014, Edwin A. Kilbourne, deceased, No. 376. In Probate. Notice to Creditors. Till date. In concern: The notice is hereby given extended to the creditors of Edwin A. Kilbourne, deceased, and to all persons having claims said, acquired, or his estate, that they are required, with the necessary vouchers, within one year after the date of this notice, to the Administrator of the estate of Edwin A. Kilbourne. In rooms 77-80 Safe Deposit building, in the city of Seattle, in King County, State of Washington, the same being the place for the transaction of business for said estate. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 5th day of February, the day of the first publication thereof. IRA BRONSON, Administrator of the Estate of Edwin A. Kilbourne, deceased. Last publication: March 15th