Seattle Republican

The SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Historical Society SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS Condemning the High-Handed Outrage of the Seattle Police On a Citizen. CHIEF MEREDITH IS HANDLED HARD With But Two Insignificent Exceptions Thronghout the Entire State "County Press" Is He Scored and Pronounced a Momentary Autocrat—His Actions a Disgrace to a Civilized Community—Should Be Removed. VoL VII., NO 42 SPIRIT OF THE Condemning the High-Har- Police On CHIEF MEREDITH With But Two Insignificent Exce- “County Press” Is He Scored and crat—His Actions a D Community—Sh Below the "country press" is quoted at length on the treatment accorded the editor of this paper at the hands of the chief of the police. It is rather notable that outside of the city of Seattle but two weekly papers approve of the actions of Chief Meredith - the Democrat-Sun, Tacoma, and the Island County Times, Coupeville. In this city no paper save the Argus took up Meredith's defense. It is always a pleasure to any decent man to know that the Argus is against him. But hear the voice of the press: Though the press brings us records of brutal lynching of colored men and women in many states of our union for unproved charges, varying in heinousness from brutal assaults to using the money found in a lost pocketbook, we believe that none of these lawless murders of colored citizens outrages the public sense of justice and constitutional liberty more than the disgraceful arrest and imprisonment of the editor of The Seattle Republican on last Saturday night in Seattle. Mr. Cayton, the able editor of The Seattle Republican, is a colored man, who, though belonging to a race which has suffered and still suffers much in this land of equal rights, has conscience and courage enough to speak against corruption, consequently had criticised the police and their management of affairs in Seattle. For this grave offense the chief of police, Meredith, late Saturday night swears out a warrant to arrest Cayton for libel, charging that on the 22nd of March the following had appeared in The Seattle Republican: "Chief of Police Meredith proposes to run quack doctors out of business, which perhaps is not a bad idea, but we suggest that while he is running quack doctors out of business, that he likewise run grafting policemen out of business; then perhaps the city of Seattle would be rid of Meredith himself." Having sworn out his complaint and secured his warrant Saturday night, Meredith deputized Detectives Crane and Barbee to execute the warrant. They came to Cayton's house at about 9:30 p. m. Cayton was then alone with his children, his wife having gone up town with a friend. He pleaded with the policemen to wait until his wife returned, which they refused to do, consequently Cayton was forced to call in a neighbor to take care of his children until his wife returned. He was taken to the city jail and locked up in a dark cell with a tramp and was refused communication with his legal advisor and friends. He and the spirit shown by the Seattle chief of police and his subordinates in Cayton's unreasonable arrest, unseemly treatment, unreasonable bail and refusal of communication with business friends or legal advisors, all indicate malice and a spirit of persecution. "Something is rotten in Denmark" when the city police foster crime and appropriate legal action to intimidate and stifle criticism. This has caused a storm of indignation. Cayton, though a "black" man, has many friends in business circles. The churches and public are aroused. This awakening of public opinion by the high-handed course of the Seattle police may not bring about results pleasing to Meredith and his followers. —Cowltz Advocate. Seattle wears the palm as the widest open town in the state. There is published in Seattle a newspaper by a colored man and in the interests of the colored race. H. R. Cayton, the editor, is a fearless critic of what he deems to be wrong, and has made some scathing remarks editorially on the conduct of the city government. He intimated last week that if Chief Meredith of the police force would run grafting policemen out of business perhaps the city would be rid of Chief Meredith himself. The august chief felt that he was slandered by such aspersions and swore out a complaint and procured a warrant for the arrest of Cayton, as he had a perfect right to do. However, instead of serving it at once, he waited until late Saturday night when banks were closed and business men had retired. Then, in the most brutal manner possible. Cayton was carried off to the city jail and flung into a dungeon scarcely fit for a dog to occupy. Then, when friends of Cayton offered to furnish bail in $500, the sum fixed by the justice, the police arbitrarily demanded cash bail, though bankers and others offered to deposit their checks in any amount. The banks all being closed, there was poor prospect of raising the money before Monday which would require the incarceration of their victim, as the police designed. --- Finally, after an all-night hustle bankers and business men managed to raise the cash and set him free in early morning. Cayton, through his paper, The Republican, has been rather unfriendly to the Post-Intelli-gencer, but when the paper learned of the treatment he had received, it turned loose a volume of dignified invective that would make a rhinoceros finch. If Cayton slandered the character of Seattle's chief of police, he has grounds for action against the P-I. for murdering his reputation. Seattle's police has touched off a volcano, and before they have finished with the matter they will wish they had never done it. -Wilbur Register. Editor Cayton, of The Seattle Republican, was arrested last Saturday night at the instance of the chief of police of that city on a charge of libel. According to reports the chief took advantage of his official powers to give Mr. Cayton a taste of prison life, but he may be made to regret his action. When the case came to trial it was postponed and Mr. Cayton was released on his own recognizance, although it took $500 cash to get him out of the cell Sunday morning—Big Bend Empire. Chief of Police Meredith, of Seattle swore out a complaint against H. R. Cayton, editor of The Seattle Republican, charging him with criminal libel. He was handled more after the style of a desperado than that of a peaceable citizen and the whole proceeding smacks of revenge more than obtaining the ends of justice.—Davenport Tribune. H. R. Cayton, the colored editor of The Seattle Republican, was arrested last Saturday night on a warrant sworn out by Chief of Police Meredith charging him with criminal libel. The cause for the action was an article which appeared in Cayton's paper that week insinuating that Meredith was a "grafting policeman." The arrest in itself would not have caused much commotion had the defendant been treated in a manner characteristic of civilized people; but he was given treatment too severe for a criminal of the lowest type. He was taken from his home at 9 o'clock at night, while caring for his two-months-old baby and in the absence of his wife, who was up town shopping; he was lodged in jail without being permitted to see or telephone his friends, and was refused intercourse with his attorney; nothing but cash bail to the amount of $500 would be accepted and owing to the lateness of the hour that could not be procured till about 3 o'clock the following morning, when he was released. The action of Chief Meredith is being deservedly criticised by nearly every one acquainted with the facts in the case. It was undoubtedly a personal spite that prompted the harsh treatment, and the action should meet with the condemnation of every newspaper in the state. If matters are to be carried on in this way it will not be long before a newspaper will loose its identity as such and be compelled to submit in a humiliating manner to every one who takes offense at the editor's views—Ballard News. Another flagrant outrage, which serves to again direct public attention to the gross misgovernment of Seattle has been perpetrated. At a late hour last Saturday evening H. R. Cayton, the editor and proprietor of The Seattle Republican, was brutally arrested at his home and hurried in a patrol wagon to the city jail and thrust into a cell with a "hobo," upon a warrant issued by a justice of the peace upon complaint of Chief of Police Meredith, charging him with criminal libel in having published in his paper certain words "tending to provoke said Meredith to wrath, and to expose him to public hatred and deprive him of the benefits of public confidence and social intercourse." Cayton was not released until $500 in gold was put up by his friends as surety for his appearance at his preliminary hearing. In form of bond, with the names of induces, the responsible citizens as sureties, was refused, as was also the personal check of the president of the First National bank. From the reports of the affair in the daily papers of Seattle it seems unquestionably to have been a most high-handed and outrageous proceeding. It happens that Mr. Cayton belongs to the African race and that his complexion is therefore somewhat darker than Meredith's, but that fact furnishes no warrant for persecution, and according to Darwin's Origin of Species, cannot even be considered evidence that his ancestors were hanging by their tails in the forest at any more recent date than were those of the august personage now serving as Seattle's chief of police. If the latter's reputation rests upon such a frail foundation as to render it liable to destruction by such a comment as Cayton published he is not deserving of the "benefits of public confidence" and ought to be summarily removed from the position that he now holds by the grace of the "wide open" government of the chief city of the state—San Juan Islander. 10 o'clock on Saturday night, Cayton was run into a cell with and all attempts of his attorney friends to see him were denied, which was fixed at $500, was o with some of the best sureties in the, and refused, cash bail be manded by order of the chie some of the leading business r the city, including the president First National bank, were con to peddle their checks around to However much may have been the aggravating circumstances, it would seem that Chief of Police Meredith went two or three steps too far in incarcerating Editor Cayton of The Seattle Republican in the city jail and refusing to admit him to any other than cash bail, although the best of personal security except cash was offered. No doubt the continued harsh criticism of the Seattle city government in Cayton's paper was cause for a feeling of great resentment on the editor's behalf but he was not justified in refusing to accept responsible bail for the appearance of the editor in court to answer to the charge for which he was arrested—Port Orchard Independent. The arrest of Editor Cayton Saturday night was an uncomfortable experience, but Cayton is too shrewd a newspaper man not to take advantage of the notoriety gained by the publicity the act has given him and The Republican. We venture the assertion he will be ready a month hence to count out many shekels as the result of his experiences. Many a newspaper man has courted such an episode for the sake of publicity. Shekels cannot cannot compensate for harrowed feelings, but in this mercenary age the suggestion is made to The Republican man that he sees to it his hosts of sympathizers subscribe for The Republican while they are in the mood; and let them see what rich brown roasts of the police department can be served a la mode.—Daily (Seattle) Bulletin. The arrest of Editor Cayton, of The Seattle Republican on last Saturday night was the most culpable and diabolical act that Seattle has wrought upon an honest citizen for a long time. It was wholly and solely the work of spite, and should be sufficient cause for the removal of the chief of police. The citizens of Seattle should demand this. The best retribution for such want of rectitude by the police is removal. We hope to see Cayton get justice at the bar—Buckley Banner. Under orders from Chief of Police Meredith of Seattle, H. R. Cayton, the colored editor of The Seattle Republican, was thrown into jail at a late hour on day night on an alleged charge of babeling in police. Friends, newspaper men and attorneys, alike denied admission to his cell, according to reports. The warrant for his arrest was issued by a justice of the peace while that official was in attendance at a theater. The whole proceeding smacks of high-handed outrage and gros misuse of power by the police department.—Colafax Gazette. Chief Meredith of the Seattle police force, must aspire to the infamy of infamous, terrorizing Capt. Dan McCarthy (a character in the March number of McClure's magazine). H. R. Cayton, editor of a Republican weekly in Seattle, was arrested last Saturday night at the instigation of Meredith upon a charge of criminal libel against the latter, and thrown into jail. Cayton was taken from his home at a late hour, placed in the patrol wagon like an ordinary criminal, shoved into a damp, filthy cell occupied by hoboes; his lawyers were refused admission, even snubbed, and $500 cash bail was demanded. Mr. Hoge, of the First National bank, proffered a check, but it was refused—nothing but cash would be taken. About 3 o'clock Sunday morning the $500 was raised and Cayton was released. A majority in leading citizens are indignant at Meredith's chained proceeding; and it is believed that he has stepped a little too fast in the his venom and it will be "vanked" pretty lively in a suit for damages. The whole is the outcome of a factional rumpus among Republicans in Seattle. At the trials to follow, in the language of Sir Roger de Coverly, "much may be said on both sides," and all hands will be "piped" to scrub dirty linen.—Argus Mount Vernon. Nothing, perhaps, more quickly betrays the individual of shallow mind and blind prejudice than an attempt, when "clothed with a little brief authority," occupying a temporary official position, to use that position in "getting even" with people against whom he may have a real or imaginary grievance, and such attempts invariably result in confusion to the short-sighted people who make them. A glaring case in point is Chief Meredith, of the Seattle police, in his treatment of H. R. Cayton, the colored editor of the Seattle Republiccan. Editor Cayton had called down the wrath of Chief Meredith by lodging his official acts in The Republic to such an extent as to cause the lodgment of a complaint for criminal libel under the state law. So far the chief was clearly within his rights, and a person with mental vision strong enough to see a hole in a ladder would have left the matter in the hands of the sheriff, where if thenceforward belonged. Not so, however, with this doughty chief, who fondly imagined his official position was given him for the special purpose of affording an outlet for his personal spleen, and he had the editor arrested by two of his police officers and taken to the city (instead of county) fall at 10 o'clock on Saturday night, where Cayton was run into a cell with a hobo and all attempts of his attorneys and friends to see him were denied. Ball, which was fixed at $500, was offered, with some of the best sureties in Seattle, and refused, cash bail being demanded by order of the chief, and some of the leading business men of the city, including the president of the First National bank, were compelled to pay the bailmen known to the early Sunday morning to raise the cash arbitrarily demanded by this misfit official. To say that a wave of popular indi nation swept over Seattle when the affair became public is drawing it mild and we greatly mistake the Seattle spirit if it does not quickly return the chief to private life, from whence his emergence appears to have been a mis take. This case may serve to remind other officials elsewhere that the swell head always results disastrously, and thus be the means of checking some incipient cases that are already discern able at a closer distance than Seattle —Aberdeen Herald. Last Saturday night H. R. Cayton, editor of The Seattle Republican, was arrested at a late hour on a warrant issued on complaint of Chief of Police Meredith. Cayton asked for time to see his wife or at least turn over his two-months-old baby which he was holding in his arms, but this request was refused and he was taken to jail in charge of two detectives in a patrol wagon. He asked to see his attorney, but was refused this privilege. Perform an internal security check of a reputable Seattle banker, and not until $500 in cold cash was deposited with the chief did he allow Cayton his freedom. It does not seem possible that such an abominable state of affairs as this could exist in Seattle, notwithstanding the awful reputation which she has gained abroad through the incompetence of her police force. Meredith is unfit for the place he occupies. It is a disgrace to a decent city to allow such a man to serve at the head of its police department. Every citizen's life and liberty is in peril with such a man at the head of the department of justice. Mr. Cayton is a colored man, the editor of one of the brightest weeklies in the state. He is a good, law-abiding citizen, a gentleman of culture and refinement, but because of his color and because he dared to criticise Meredith's official acts he was treated as a felon and and cast into a dungeon with common hoboes. Certainly the good people of Seattle will not suffer this man Meredith to longer remain in the position he now occupies.—Weekly (Olympia) Chronicle. H. R. Cayton, the colored editor of The Seattle Weekly Republican, was arrested for criminal libel on Chief of Police William J. Meredith by two detectives of the police department and taken to the city jail in the patrol wagon like any common criminal. Cayton runs a hot paper, in which he keeps up a continuous fusilade on prominent men in politics. The politicians have made a big mistake in causing his arrest. A political libel suit not only makes a paper famous, but doubles its receipts.—Chinook Observer. The arrest of H. R. Cayton, editor of The Seattle Republican, by the Seattle police Saturday night, and their subsequent treatment of him is the worst example yet brought to light of the high-handed doings of a police system which has become proverbial for the wide latitude they take in enforcing the laws. It makes one wonder whether he is living in the twentieth century or the days of the Inquisition. The chief of police must be afflicted with the hallucination that he is the caar of all the Russians—Sultan Journal. Editor Cayton, of the Seattle Republican, published in the interests of the colored voters of this state, ran up hard against the powers that be in that city Saturday night, and in consequence spent the night in jail, communicado. Not even his attorney was admitted to see him, nor could his friends find out from the police upon what charge he had been arrested. His offence was the writing of an editorial offering the suggestion that as Chief Meredith was in the business of running quack doctors and the like out of town, that "likewise run grafting policemen out of business; then, per hap, the city of Seattle would be rid of Meredith himself." Cayton was charged with criminal libel, but the manner of his arrest caused a mighty howl, the echoes of which made Meredith's hair stand on end. Such high-handed procedences don't go in this state, even when the victim of them is a colored man. Meredith should lose his job—Everett News. Chief of Police Meredith, of Seattle, lost his temper last Saturday and arrested Editor Cayton of The Seattle Republican on a charge of libel. It appears that Mr. Cayton, who edits the only African paper in the state, is not particular who he criticises, and inferred in an article that the chief was a "grafter." It also appears that The Republican delights in showing up some of the imbecile actions of the present administration, and is consequently not in favor with some of the present officials. To get even with him for attacks previously made, and especially for the charge of "graffiting," Meredith caused his arrest at 10 o'clock at night, thrust him in a damp cell at the city bastile and absolutely refused admission to him by his friends. He further exhibited his astuteness and kiddish imbecility by refusing to accept any but cash bail although some of the best citizens of UNION DEPOT'S LOCATION Is Shown From the Map Below and the Same Is Urged by Seattle's Business Men. JACKSON ST. STREET RD. GNRR GNRR KING ST. 326 RESERVE THIS 21 200 SEATTLE CIRCLE OF FAME BOULEVARD 326 AVE. FOR BUSINESS AVE. 284 DEARBORN ST. PLAZA HEAD OF UNION PASSENGER STATION AND RAILWAY TERMINALS OCCIDENTAL ORIENTAL 286 FOURTH CONNECTICUT ST. OVERHEAD The suitable point for the location of a depot in this city which will accommodate both of the roads running herein, which will be to the most advantage to the city in general is still an unsettled question, both in the minds of the railroad companies, as well as in the minds of the citizens in general. It is the opinion of the firm of H. H. Dearborn & Co. that the depot should be located as far south as Atlantic street, which is but one block north of Connecticut, and between Occidental and Oriental avenues. This would relieve the congestion that the crowding of the depot up to King street, as has been contemplated by the Great Northern Railway Co., would necessarily JACKSON KING 326 RESERVE SEATTLE 326 AVE FOR DEARBORN FIRST AVE ELECTRIC RY 324 OCCIDENTAL HEAD OF PASSENGER AND RAIL TERMINAL CONNECTI make. Should the depot be placed on the location which has been selected by Mr. Dearborn it will leave valuable business property along King street, as well as other streets in that neighborhood, for business blocks. It is the history of all cities that Union depots placed too close to the business center of the city always become an elephant on their hands and in the long run costs them twice as much money to be properly located, as it would have. If ample attention had been given to the matter in the outset, and located accordingly. If the Union depot is situated in the southern part of the city, around which there would be a vast amount of tide lands suitable for build- Seattle offered their checks to the amount demanded. Seattle does some queer things, and has some mighty queer officials, but evidently the queerest at the present writing is his assiminity "Hemp Big Chief" Meredith. The question now arises as to the possibility of the city having a damage suit on its hands, Mr Cayton was kept in a cold damp cell, and his health was impaired, and it is stated that he has ground for damage against the city. The citizens of Seattle are rightly indignant at the treatment accorded Mr. Cayton, and denounce the police department in strong terms—Snohomish Tribune. One of the vilest abuses of power in the Northwest occurred in Seattle last week, when H. R. Cayton, the colored editor of The Seattle Republican, was arrested and confined in jail by Chief Meredith. The cause of this was an editorial written by H. R. Cayton, in which he questioned the good conduct of the chief of police, Meredith. Upon the grounds that this article was libelous Meredith had him arrested and imprisoned. Not content with this, he had heaped upon the unfortunate prisoner all the abuses he could. The officers sent to arrest him late Saturday night, found him at home with his two months-old baby, his wife being in town. While serving the warrant one of them defaced the chairs, treated the man as a criminal, would not allow him to see his wife or telephone to any of his friends. On being dragged forth --- LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 28 1952 ICAN PRICE FIVE CENTS Y'S LOCATION Below and the Same Is s Business Men. ing all kinds of warehouses and freight sheds, it would make that property doubly valuable. To place it on King street would necessitate so much heavy teaming that the street would be all but impassable during business hours. Should the South canal ever be built from Lake Washington to the bay, it would enter the bay at a point not far from the present proposed depot site, and then it would become not only a railroad point of vast importance, but likewise a wharf point of equal importance, thus bringing the ocean navigation and the railroad transportation in close proximity to each other, one taking it up where the other laid it down. Mr. Dearborn is of age BNRR BNRR ST. THIS 21 200 BOULEVARD BUSINESS AVE. 284 STREET AVE. PLAZA ORIENTAL 286 FOURTH CUT ST. OVERHEAD M. H. DEARBORN & CO. opinion that Seattle will make a sad mistake if the proposed Union depot be placed too close to the heart of the city. The accompanying map will give the reader some idea of where he thinks is the best place for the location of the Union depot. Mr. James J. Hill, who is now on his way West, should be told of this matter carefully and considerably while he is contemplating a site for the depot, and it is more than likely after H. has been given to him as it should be, he will agree with the Dearborn and place the depot on the title flats. By addressing a letter to H. H. Dearborn & Co., room C Haller building, a more complete explanation will be furnished you. he was forced into a patrol wagon, thrust into a cell with a hobo, where there was no bed or even a chair to sit on. Within these damp walls, reeking with dampness and filth, he was kept until cash bonds were given. A number of people offered to go his bail, but all were refused. Such an abuse of power is unpardonable, and unworthy any citizen, much less an officer. The editorial in question was no libel, and Chief Meredith's conscience, if he has any, probably told him that the editorial was right; at least his action would confirm the justice of the piece in question. The action of the chief aroused bitter indignation among the citizens of Seattle, and they were free in expressing it. As the case must needs come up before the courts any way, there is no excuse for such rank abuse of power, and, indeed, the chief could make none when interviewed. We cry shame on an officer that will allow such abuse to be heaped upon an American citizen, and he should be stripped of his robes of office and put amongst savages, where he rightly be longs.—Winlock Pilot. The account of the arrest and retention of Editor Cayton, of The Seattle Republican, on last Saturday night, reads like a chapter from the medieval ages. Chief Meredith being the complainant, used all the power he had, and more, too, to make it hard for the prisoner. Meredith charges Cayton with criminal libel, but the fact that (Continued on third page) T e Pupblian Pub. Co., Publishers OFFICE 714TH AVENUE H. R. Cayton, Editor Susie Revels Cayton, Associate SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year ..... $1.00 Six months ..... $1.00 Three Months ..... 60c Advertising rates Furnished upon application Entered at the Postoffice at Seattle as Second Class Mail Matter. Mr. Hunt is now hunting his Korean hold. Now that Uncle Sam has "Aggy" in the box, Johnny Bull should lose no time in getting out of De Wet. Spring municipal elections all over the country show that Republicanism is standing the test of being in office to a most remarkable degree. Hungary has one town at least that gets an American move on itself, as Buda Pesh shows a gain of 223,388 population within the last ten years. "Southern tea raising" may be a most dismal failure, but there is one thing absolutely certain, "Southern hell raising" is still a burning success. There are Republican officials in this city that are so conducting affairs as to make a non-partisan ticket in this city not only a common necessity, but an absolute actuality. Carter Harrison will not now deny that he has an immortal cinch on the mayoralty of Chicago, and last Monday's re-election is proof sufficient of the allegation, even if he should. From the signs of the times, there is every reason to believe that Russia will soon be up against the real thing in China; that is, if she still insists on her pound of flesh proposition. New York state will doubtless furnish the United States with her next president, and Governor O'Dell seems to be in direct line for the honor, although, we must admit, there are others. "To rebel on my part being now out of the question, I most heartily approve of my taking the oath of allegiance to the United States government, and forthwith do it," is evidently Aguinaldo's confinement conclusions. In Judge Cann binding the editor of this paper over to the superior court he has done no more than it was expected that he would do, and just what those citizens opposed to the present misruling policy hoped he would do. Now the fur will fly Christians all over the world will commemorate the memory of the rising of their Lord and Savior some two thousand years ago, next Sunday. All the churches in this city have made extensive preparations to celebrate the occasion in a most elaborate as well as devotional style. Golden Rule Jones, of Toledo, proved himself a rather poor presidential probability, but he seems to be a splendid Toledo mayoralty possibility, as he was re-elected mayor of that city last Monday by an overwhelming majority. Mr. Jones is an independent Republican in politics. Mr. Hunt's old guard enjoyed themselves as of yore when they dined their old chieftain last Saturday night, and, we are told, that the bland and childlike smile that was wont to come to Leigh Hunt's face, once more made its appearance as the toasts were being spun off by the "faithful." "Forever" is a long time to designate as the lifetime of a franchise, but that is just the limit that Judge Hanford has placed on the gas franchise which the Seattle Gas & Electric Co. has in this city. The dollar gas agitators, from this decision, would seem to be rather badly in the fumes. There seems to be no doubt but that the directors of the Northern Pacific Railway Co. are ardent advocates of "expansion," as they have so expanded within the past few days as to absorb two distinct railway systems heretofore only nominally conducted by them. Expansion is the rage of the age. Heirs for the Sullivan estate, who died intestate in this city some few months ago, seem to be as thick as the hairs on a dog's back. We had always thought the Sullivan family a rather gigantic one, but had never dreamed of it being so large as it is proving to be in the form of claimants for the $400,000 estate. "Sun Do Move" John Jasper, the famous Virginia Negro preacher, died Saturday in Richmond. Perhaps no man, save the president of this country, has been visited, talked and written about as much as was Rev. Mr. Jasper, all because he preached from time to time his famous sermon entitled, "The Sun Do Move." "The spirit of the state press," given space at length in this issue of The Republican, is especially gratifying to the editor hereof, owing to the fact that with but two exceptions the entire country press is a unit in condemning the way a member of the gang was brutally handled by men more brutes than human. North Yakima is to enjoy the privilege of a thirty-minute visit from President William McKinley as he passes through that section of the state on his "swing around the circle." And for this favor gigantic preparations are being made by the citizens thereof for his entertainment. For genuine push and pluck the citizens of North Yakima are not discounted anywhere in Uncle Sam's domain. It is in this city that we find the famous "Yakima Jones," and we suspect he is the real milk in the cocanut after all, for President McKinley's staying condescension. Recently Richard Mansfield, the actor, was compelled to pay $500 for whacking a menial over the head. Now, would it be holding Mr. Mansfield up to public ridicule, for which a libelous proceeding would follow, to designate him as a "whacking actor?" An exchange goes into hysteria over the fact that Boston has railway street car conductors who are college graduates. We see nothing remarkable in that, for college graduates should be just as anxious to make an honest living as any other class of citizens. From reports it seems that Uncle Sam proposes to be remarkably lenient with John Chinaman and will demand but $250,000,000 as damages done to his subjects in China during the late Boxer disturbances. The old man in stars and stripes always prefers a mission of mercy to one of mercenarism. If it be true that Gov. Beckham of Kentucky has impeachment proceedings staring him in the face on account of his too liberal criminal pardoning propensities, it is more than likely that he now wishes that he had let Gov. Taylor continue in the office. "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown." Bubonic plague seems to have San Francisco where the hair is short. We suggest that the government's Pacific coast business in the future be transacted through the gates of Puget sound rather than the famous Golden Gate of San Francisco, if for no other reason than to avoid the exposure of the men in the service from bubonic plague. Perhaps the most remarkable hold-up that has come unedr the observation of the public is reported from South Carolina, where a storekeeper held up his own store, which, by the way, was a government dispensary, and robbed it of $2,000. He is now accused of having turned the same trick three times prior to this one. Lest "trusts" completely entwine their political tetacles about the vital points of our government and throttle its progress some of the citizens of this country are becoming fearfully alarmed. Now, brethren, while you are so fearfully alarmed, let us suggest that you go right to work and deal trusts a death blow, and then your alarm will be the more readily pacified. A man whose life has been largely spent in gambling houses and saloons, and with frequenters of such places, would seem to be a rather peculiar kind of an expert to pass upon language used by persons who have never seen inside of such places nor was ever thrown into contact with frequenters of such places as to the criminality of any language the latter might have used. Poker playing is a social diversion being resorted to for the Lent monotony among the "smarter sets" in many of the Eastern cities, especially among the ladies of society, who are indulging in it to an alarming extent. Recently a lady who gave $500 at a regular Sunday service confessed the next day to a friend that she had won the entire amount the night before at poker playing. It is to be regretted that the city of St. Louis went Democratic by 10,000 majority. The city is generally Republican by 15,000, and so it can be truthfully said that there has been a change of heart of some 25,000 voters since the last election. Owing to the difference between the last Republican mayor and the colored voters it is said that they went against the Republican nominee almost in a body. Our imports from Latin American countries increased in value, in the calendar year 1900, nearly 11 per cent, while our exports to the same countries increased 21 per cent. The volume of trade between the United States and Latin America, which was $197,861,949 in 1899, advanced to $227,023,184 in 1900. But our imports exceeded our exports by $49,300,000, while our exports to Europe exceeded our imports by $674,890,063. Our imports from Central America were $3,059,075 in 1899, and $8,740,733 in 1900, while our exports were $5,286,209 in 1899, and $6,467,905 in 1900. Here is a decline in imports and an increase in exports. But our imports from South America in 1900 increased $10,000,000, and our exports there increased $3,500,000. From Mexico we imported $24,641,804 in 1899, and $28,179,820 in 1900. Our exports to Mexico were $29,309,802 in 1899, and $38,270,933 in 1900. We imported from Brazil in 1900 products valued at $64,914,507, and sold her American products to the value of $11,516,681. For the twelve months with September 1900, we paid Brazil $14,915,564 for coffee and $16,917,485 for crude india rubber. South America sent us in the same year $10,626,802 worth of crude material in the shape of hides and skins, and $3,934,000 worth of sugar. We buy what we need from South America, but we do not sell our share of what South America needs. AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS The excellent impression made by the Jessie Shirley Company during their engagement at the Third Avenue theater has justified the management of that popular house to re-engage them for another week. In order to do so it was necessary for the company to cancel other engagements, which they have done at the solicitation of the Third Avenue management. Next week, opening with Sunday matinee, the company will be seen in several new plays and one or two old favorites. "Tribly" will be given on Sunday and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the very latest New York dramatic Country Girl" and the latter part of the week will be given over to "The Ugly Duckling" and "A Sheaf of Arrows." The last named three are new plays to Seattle. Last season Miss Shirley and her company produced "Tribly" at the up-town theater and gave the best performances of that prises in the aggregate the most famous legitimate organization taken in tour in many years. Among the players of her own sex Mme. Mojeska has been conceded the highest place on the English-speaking stage for the past two generations, and with the exception of Edwin Booth and a few others, she has had no equal among her male contemporaries. That a genius such as she had not included this city in her present tour would have been regarded by the more cultured element of our play-goers as a calamity. She will appear at the Seattle theater next. The Frawleyes are to begin their four weeks' engagement at the Grand Opera House tomorrow afternoon with a production of "Chimmie Fadden," the famous Bowie play, so successfully exploited by Charles H. Hopper some years ago. It is replete with comedy of the most entertaining order and also contains some thrilling situations and touching pathos. Harry Cashman, a farceur of reputation, will be seen in the title role and will introduce a number of specialties of a taking kind. Alice Johnson will play The Duchess, and will also introduce some songs. Among these will be the songs making, entitled "Coax Me," which is at present a great favorite in the Eastern vaudeville theaters. Mary Van Buren, the beautiful leading lady of Mr. Frawley's company, will have what is technically the leading role in "Chimmie Fadden," and Phosa McAllister will be seen as Mrs. Murphy, the part created by Mary Bates. All the other favorites of the Frawley company will be in the cast, which is a large one. IN NUMBER MINE BY AM ENDEY TO THE KING T. DANIEL FRANLEY IN FOUR GREAT HITS IN THE DANCING GIRL FRAWLEY GREAT HIT IN FORU FRAYHD IN NUMBER MINE IN THE DANCING GIRL DAN AN ENERGY TO THE KING T. DANIEL FRAWLEY IN FOUR GREAT HITS IN FORD FRAYHB T. DANIEL FRAWLEY—Grand --- Why not Save Time, Money and Labor by using A Gas Range Gas ange Terms easy enough to suit anyone Seattle Gas & Electric 214-216 CHERRY STRRET & Electric Co. CHERRY STRRET ```markdown ``` Per Acre. Adjoining Car Line. Overlooking Lake Washington. Fifteen Minutes From Pioneer Square McGRAW & KITTENGER Room 6 Bailey Building celebrated play ever witnessed in Seattle. Mr. McQuarie's Svengali is the equal of any other actor ever seen in the part. The selection of plays for the engagement of Mme. Modjeska next week was put to the popular vote with the result that King John and Mary Stuart are announced for her appearance on this occasion. The play will be presented on a scale in keeping with the reputation of Messrs. Wagenhals and Kemper, the well-known firm who is directing her tour. R. D. MacLean and Odette Tyler, who have already been MODJESKA—Seattle successfully exploited as stars by Mr. Charles Frohman, will be at the head of the supporting company, which has been very carefully selected and com- ATTORNEYS AT LAW. E. D. Benson George F. Aust Benson & Aust Practice in all the courts. R. 22 Boston Bldg James A. Kellogg Legal Practitioner 219 Bailey Block, Seattle. Wash J. P. 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Portland, Or THE NORTHWESTERN'S FAST MAIL THE NORTHWESTERN LINE Have added two more trains (the Fast Mail) to their St. Paul-Chicago service, making eight trains daily. BETWEEN MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL and CHICAGO This assures passengers from the west making connections. The 20th Century train, "the finest in the world," leaves St. Paul every day in the year at 8.10 p. m. F W. PARKER, General Agent, 606 First Avenue. Seattle Wash Seattle & International Railway Train No. 1, for Snohomish, Arlington, Seattle oolley and Vancouver leaves Seattle 9:30 a.m.; arrives with Canadian Pacific railway connecting with Canadian Pacific railway for all points east; arrives at Vancouver 5:50 p. m. Train No. 2, leaves Vancouver daily at 8:50 a.m.; leaves Sundays at 11:45 a. m; arrives Seattle 5:10 p. m. Train No. 3, "daily," leaves Seattle 4:40 p. m.; arrives Woolley, 9:00 p. m., con- necting with Snoqualmie and Everett branches. Train No. 4, daily, leaves Woolley 6:00 p. m.; arrives Seattle 10:10 p. m., con- necting with Everett and Snoqualmie branches. "Daily, except Sunday." Coal all Coal The Best Coal NEWCASTLE Lump Coal Only at the Bunkers of the PACIFIC COAST GO. Phone Main 92 WASHINGTON IRON WORK CO. Founders, Machinists and Boilermakers. HOISTING AND LOGGING ENGINES A SPECIALTY J. M. FRINK, President. SEATTLE, WASH. Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Retrimmed by Practical Hatters SEATTLE HAT FACTORY A Full Line of New Hats at Factory Prices. 1111 Second Ave. Phone Green 182 --- After a hard fought battle both Tacoma and Spokane go republican by handsome majorities. Judging from last fall's election and from the recent municipal elections in this state, it is very evident that Republicanism is very much in collusion with political success, and that there is no danger of the state again going against Republican doctrine for many years to come. The Ple-maker predicted this same thing after last fall's election, and, if the Republicans will themselves do justice from a Republican standpoint, and no reason for factional standpoint, there is every reason to believe that they will continue to hold their own and elect every man that their convictions name for office for the next decade or more. Be true to yourself, is what every Republican should carefully observe in the coming political contests in this state. % % % Speaking about municipal elections prompts the Pie-maker to comment at length on the political situation and outlook in this city in its present conditions. It is very apparent just now that the next mayor of Seattle will be a non-partisan one. There seems to be no other way to rid this city of the vice and evil with which it is now infested but to elect some man as its mayor who will not figure as a partisan in the conduct of its affairs. Heretofore the voters of this city have been blindly partisan, and have preferred to vote for the proverbial "yellow dog," should such get the nomination on their party ticket, rather than vote for the opposite party nominee; but the affairs of the city have been so loosely as well as illegally conducted for the past three years that patience has ceased to be a virtue, and in the opinion of the Pie-maker, next year the citizens of this city will revolt from party faiths and vote for some good man, regardless of what party he has previously affiliated with either in state or national elections. A municipal reform ticket will be the result of all this agitation of the wide-open policy, and the nominees of that party will be overwhelmingly elected. % % % Those persons who have watched the municipal affairs of New York City will remember that all of the reforms that it has ever had have come through non-partisan administrations. Affairs there always went from bad to worse until the citizens would tire of the whole and rise up in their might and overthrow partisan influence, and then for a while thereafter that great city would enjoy decent government; but no sooner did it fall back to its partisan blindness than it became crime-ridden once more. The success of Tammany's candidate for mayor of that city some two years ago, meant the return perhaps of all the evils ever praecised by Boss Tweed and his gang under Boss Croker and his gang. There is perhaps no other city in the world, and especially in the United States in such a horrible municipal condition as is New York City, save and except Seedman's Boss Tweed and his gang rule the room and the before, be plainly seen that in large coopernbopan cities it is absolutely necessary to have non-partisan municipal administrations in order that the citizens may be protected from crime and vice, which are so often the fruits of partisan administrations, and that, too, regardless of the party that is elected. Ex-Chief of Police Charles S. Reed, of this city, has been appointed to the long term on the board of audit and control of this state, and though that appointment was dictated by the Humes faction, it is by no means meeting the approval of the faction's political followers in the past. The Pie-maker has been informed that this position was intended for ex-State Senator John Wooding, of Auburn, but no amount of pressure brought to bear on Mayor Humes would make him consent to name Mr. Wooding for the place. Some time ago, it will be remembered, the Pie-maker intimated that Gov. Rogers and the Humes-Ankeny factions were in political collusion with each other, and wherever a Republican was to be appointed Gov. Rogers made that appointment from the Humes-Ankeny side. The subsequent appointments substantiate the theory then advanced, but just why Mayor Humes should turn Mr. Wooding down is a question that is hard to be explained, for it is certain that no man did more yeoman service for Mr. Humes than did Mr. Wooding in the last campaign. Now, on account of Mr. Reed instead of Mr. Wooding getting the appointment mentioned above, it is declared by men who seem to konw that there is an awful row on in the camp of the Humes faithful, and as a result the men who supported Mr. Wooding for the place have declared war to the knife, so to speak, on the Humes faction, which played them double in this appointment. The Pie-maker has learned that even George U. Piper has declared war on Mr. Humes and his followers, and will do all in his power to defeat him, or any candidate he might name, in the next campaign. Washington state has at last a state capitol. The court house of Thurston county has been bought for $350,000, and the same will be converted into a state house at once. The voters of this state truly hope that this is a final settlement of this state house question and that no more legislatures will determine the amount bill. It is to be regretted, however, that the $550,000 was not expended on the present foundation, which was started for the capitol building, which HOUSES AND LOTS FOR SALE AND TO LET WHALLEY & EASTMAN PHONE MAIN 611 5-6 COLMAN BLD. ```markdown ``` You don't know what is the very best possible deal to be made on a piano until you have visited our piano department. It's an excellent showing of standard equipment that is really extraordinary prices. Credit is given on terms to suit your convenience. SHERMAN, CLAY & CO 711 SECOND AVE. amount would have finished at least one-story of the building, and thus preserved the excellent foundation that has been erected, and at the same time for the next twenty years give ample service to the state for all of its purposes. The purchasing of the court house of Thurston county was a policy of penny wise and pound foolish on the part of those who advocated it, as subsequent years will prove. Martin J. Maloney has done his work well, and now has a commission in his inside pocket for the place held by John B. Catron as warden of the state penitentiary. There is no doubt but that Mr. Catron has served his political chief, Gov. Rogers, entirely too faithfully in the past, which accounts for him being politically beheaded, as it is ever thus. Gov. Rogers is responsible to Senator Turner for his renomination and responsible for the Ankeny-Humes push for his re-election, and despite the fact that he (Gov. Rogers) was given permission to retain Mr. Catron he was given to unrepentant those to whom he was politically obliged to the re-election of Senator Turner was to be considered and his (Roger's) personal feelings were not to be considered, hence Catron had to go and Maloney was named to succeed him. Those Republicans who voted for Rogers instead of Frink last fall will yet see the error of their ways. Special Correspondence. Spokane, April 2, 1901. The subject of this sketch was born in Pennsylvania, came to Spokane in the year 1898, at which time he was employed by the City Street Improvement Co., having come from St. Paul with this company. Alonzo, as he was commonly called, was a genial, jovial, honest fellow, who numbered his friends by the score, a hard working man, a devoted husband, a good provider, and by his amiable disposition he made many friends and his horrible death by drowning was a shock to his many friends. Up to this time his body has not been recovered. Mr. Simmons ALONZO SIMMONS. had a premonition of this catastrophe several months before it happened and wisely insured his life for $500, which was promptly paid the widow on proof of his death. Mrs. Simmons now has a suit pending against the contractors for neglect and carelessness. It appears that the scow which took Mr. Simmons to his certain death was an old conveyance and out of repair. Mrs. Simmons' suit is for $32,000, and the concensus of opinion is that she will get a verdict for a large sum. The deceased was a member of Company F, Twenty-fifth infantry, stationed at Missoula from 1899 to 1894, and it is said by all of his comrades that he made an exemplary soldier. While Mr. Simmons had not profess religion, he ways lived up to the Golden Rule, and as Our Father is very very merciful let us live in the hope that the soul of Alonzo Simmons is at peace with its maker. The A. M. E. Singing Society tendered their organist, Mr. Frank Harris, a surprise reception at his residence last Wednesday night. The following musical program was rendered: Duet, Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Harris; guitar solo, Mr. C. H. Harvey; quartette, Messrs. Harris, Gordon, Gayton and Harvey. Mr. Harris furnished those present with a number of excellent piano selections, while all joined in singing a number of familiar songs. Those present were: Rev. M. Scott, Mr. John Willie, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Washington, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Hrose and Mrs. William Grose, Mrs. John T. Gayton, Mr. and Mrs. Wells and the members of the society. Mr. J, F. Cragwell celebrated his thirty-eighth birthday anniversary at the residence of Mr. Richard Davis, 506 Twenty-seventh avenue south, on Tuesday, March 26th, at which a most elaborate repast was served to those present. A number of Mr. Cragwell's friends were invited, and were present on that occasion, and a most pleasant evening was spent by them. Among those present were: Dr. Samuel Burdett, Mr. John T. Gayton, Mr. Benjamin F. Tutt, Mr. Will Taylor, Mr. Austin Anderson, Mr. Clark Miller, Mr. Walter Strothers, Mr. Will H. Henderson, Rev. Brice Taylor, Mr. E. H. Walsh, Rev. R. R. Taylor, Mr. Richard Davis. Toasts for the occasion had been arranged by a number of the gentlemen, with Dr. Burdett acting as toastmaster. After many nice things had been said of Mr. Cragwell, Rev. Taylor spoke of the "Progress of the Race," Mr. Gayton the "Host and Hostess," Mr. Anderson "The Ladies," Mr. Strothers "When Young Men Should Marry," Mr. Miller "When You Should Marry," and Shakespearean reading by Mr. Robinson. Labor has advanced from two shillings a day to two shillings an hour. Spirit of State Press (Continued from page one) he was the complainant should not have caused him to treat Cayton with any more severity than if some one else had made the complaint. A storm of indignation has been aroused, and there will be some interesting developments.—Everett Times. Chief of Police Meredith, in the high-handed manner in which he proceeded to punish the editor of The Seattle Republican for alleged criminal libel, committed an outrage against civil rights and liberty that demands his prompt removal from office. The alleged offense was committed Friday, but no notice of it was taken until nearly midnight Saturday, when the editor was arrested and hustled off to jail, being arbitrarily refused bail. The manner in which the thing was done would indicate that the chief feared that there was no case against the editor, and was trying to get a little private revenge until the courts interfered. The whole transaction smacks of the days of the Bastile and lettres de catchet.—Fairhaven Herald. Seattle was set agon the first of the week by the arrest of H. R. Cayton, the editor of The Seattle Republican, a Negro paper, on the charge of criminal libel. Chief of Police Meredith was the complaining witness, and considerable comment was indulged in, especially by the P.-L., over the way the arrest was made. Cayton should have been arrested long ago. Any newspaper that will call every man it happens to take a dislike to a "graffter," a "soundrel" or "thief," should be made to prove its statement or else receive the full penalty of the law. The Times thinks that Cayton got just what he deserved, and that the editor of Seattle's morning daily should receive similar treatment.—Island County Times. Rooms for rent. Call at 1223 Seventh avenue. Do you need a nice quiet room or suite of rooms? If so call at 1223 Seventh avenue. VESTIBULE BOOTBLACK PAR- LORS Marcellus Thomas, Prop. Dexter Horton Bank Building. Ring up Buff 1004 Seattle Clothes Pressing Go. Ladies' and gents' clothing cleaned, dyed and repaired We call for and deliver promptly. 1007 Third Avenue MEYER HIGH GRADE PHOTOS Colonial Block. Second Ave. and Columbia St. UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS Telephone Main 009 149 198 108 SAT AT 11:30 Economical Housekeepers Take half the money you use for meat, hard and other fatty foods and buy Kritaferson's Pastuerized Cream with it, and then use it carefully and intelligently in the dressing of many vegetables, as the body of salad dressing, in cakes and cake filling, cookies, dumplings, deserts, etc., and so be rewarded not only by the attractiveness of your table, but the renewed health of your family. SOLE AGENTS Louch, Augustine & Co. 815, 817 First Avenue REMOVED 803 Second Ave. TO 908 Second Ave. Opposite Burke Building, between Marion and Madison Sts. Great American Importing Tea Company For the Value of the Lot We can sell a good two-story frame house and lot, 60x100 ft., in the best residence locality in North Seattle. Sizer & Benton 31-32 Starr-Boyd Blk. The Queen Oil Co. HE PROPERTY of this company is situated in the midst of the great oil producing district near Bakersfield, Kern county, California, and consists of 70 acres of oil land. This district is now producing daily eightth to ten thousand barrels of oil. The vein is unlike most oil veins, in that it is a great "blanket" vein; it lies almost horizontal, slightly dipping to the west and south. The oil sand is from three singularly dipping to the west and south. The oil sand is from three to five hundred feet in thickness, thus assuring a continuous supply for an age to come. The wells are from four hundred to twelve hundred feet in depth. The area of this justly celebrated district, so far as it has been actually exploited, is about four by eight miles; and upwards of four hundred derricks dot this district. A trustee of this company is one of the principal owners of three wells that are producing daily upwards of four hundred barrels of oil. He and another member of this company have driven carefully over this district and failed to see or hear of a non-producing well within the territory above named, but on the other hand whenever a well has been sunk on this ledge, oil to the amount of seventy five to six hundred barrels per day has been obtained. The Standard Oil Company has taken an active interest in this district, and has spent upwards of five hundred thousand dollars, not in the purchase of lands or wells, but in providing convenient means for taking care of the oil. The improvements consist principally in a number of great iron tanks, with a capacity of about one hundred and forty thousand barrels each, and a system of pipe lines to these tanks from private wells and tanks. The oil as it is pumped is measured by means of a meter, which is read every morning. The oil in its crude state is shipped east for refining. There is a small refinery at Bakersfield, and the kerosene there produced will compare favorably with the best standard oil. The most valuable product, however, is the lubricating oil; the refined article is a first-class sewing machine oil; the residue is printers' ink and asphaltum. THE QUEEN OIL COMPANY is incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington, and capitalized at $500,000. Shares, 500,000; par value, $1.00 each. The stock is not assessable; 200,000 shares are set aside for development; a limited number of shares will be sold for 15c per share. The stock will advance as the property is developed. We have every confidence that all who invest in this enterprise will be most liberally rewarded. We certainly don't take more than one chance in ten of losing, for the field is thoroughly exploited; we know the trend and dip of the vein and we know its thickness or body. It is not our intention to do something new and startling, but we propose to follow in the footsteps of others who have been abundantly successful in this district in which we enter. We have presented facts, not fancies. For further information and to subscribe for stock, call at the office or address Queen Oil Company OFFICES: 1221 First Ave., next to Post Office Seattle, Wash. Bakersfield, California Tacoma, Wash. President, GEO. M. STEWART, postmaster, Seattle; Vice President, GEO. A. DAMRON, Bakersfield, California; Secretary and Treasurer, H. A. BIGELOW, Seattle; Counsel, HON. JAMES A. WILLIAMSON, Taoma; Manager, J. N. PRATHER, Seattle. Seattle Tel. Main 671 --- C Means May Flowers Likewise does money invested in TIDE LANDS Today Means Money Tomorrow H. H. DEARBORN & CO. ESTABLISHED 1865 TIDE LAND KINGS Room C Haller Bldg. ADAMS 18 POUNDS GRANULATED SUGAR FOR $1.00 Adams Cash Grocery Phone Main 482 1428 SECOND AVE. Hair Cut AS YOU LIKE IT, STYLISH AND UP TO DATE. Frank's Place | 807 A Railroad Avenue Buy a White and Be Happy 1006 Second Ave. Phone Main 705 After two years of use in Seattle it stands alone OFFICERS and TRUSTEES : T, postmaster, Seattle; Vice P etary and Treasurer, H. A. BIGE oma; Manager, J. N. PRATHER, S Roslyn Coal ```markdown ``` Time Tried AND Fire Tested Once Tried Always USED IS Our Maxim Tel. Main 588 For deliveries south of Pike Street D. B. SPELLMAN Practical Plumber and Gasfitter. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty. 212 Columbia St. Pease-Johnson Co. Millinery Opening Is Still In Full Bloom. Exquisite Easter Hats, Our Store Is A Blooming Beauty. Of every design, pattern and texture are to be found in our BRAND NEW STOCK. We will be pleased to show you through our store, that you may examine for yourself. My old Seattle customers appreciate the fact that I am again actively engaged in the millinery business, and they are calling every day. Whether a former customer or not come and see me. You are welcome. Pease-Johnson Co. 1107 Second Ave. --- Pease-John Millinery Opening In Full Bloom. Easter Hats, Our A Blooming Bea Stylish S Suits Of every design, p are to be found in our BRAN We will be pleased to show store, that you may examine My old Seattle custom the fact that I am again gaged in the millinery they are calling every o a former customer or no me. You are welcome Pease-John 1107 Secon --- ```markdown ``` PERSONALS Mrs. M. A. Smith and Mrs. M. Banks. of San Francisco, visited with Mrs. W. H. Johnson last week. The trustees of the A. M. E. church will give a benefit for the church May 10th, which will be known as the "Young Men's Concert." Mr. and Mrs. George H. Grose leaves for Spokane, where Mr. Grose will demonstrate his business for two weeks. From there they go to Helena and other Montana points. The Clover Leaf Whist Club closed its season last Tuesday evening with a splendid musical, after which lunchon was served and dancing followed. Quite a number of visitors were present to participate in the evening's pleasantries. Miss Lawhorn, sister of Mrs. H. P. Lawhorn, of Tacoma, was married last Wednesday to Mr. L. C. Copeland. Both are well known in this city and have a host of friends here who wish them a most happy as well as pleasant voyage down life's river. Number of telephones in 1860, none; number of telephones in 1899, 1,124,846. The first lectures ever given by a woman were delivered by Fannie Wright in 1828. Estimated national wealth at beginning of twentieth century, $100,-000,000,000. The railroads today employ as many men as America contained in 1800—900,000. Total number of Indians who have survived until the new century, 250-000. In 1800 the first patent ever issued to a woman was granted—for straw weaving. A century ago farmers reaped their grain with sickle, two acres being a good day's work. Of the cities having over 100,000 population only thirteen had a post-office in 1800. --- And now comes the report from Maryland, one of the border line states, of the passage of a law which disfranchises some 50,000 colored voters. Ever since reconstruction days Maryland has been a battleground for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and each of them has alternately held power therein, but at no time did the colored vote of that state ever show numerical strength sufficiently great to cause that hue and cry so common in the South of 'nigger dominance,' for there are not voters enough among them to control any particular county, precinct or locality, and the wanton disfranchisement of them by the Democratic party is done for no other reason than because those people voted the Republican ticket instead of the Democratic. For a time it was thought by many of the Northern apologists that perhaps the South would be better off were the illiterate colored voters disfranchised, and hence when the subject was first agitated it rather met tavor in the North among the leading statesmen of the age, out now that they realize that when such states as Virginia and Maryland, where there is no more probability of the Negro becoming a dangerous ruling factor in their politics than there is in Illinois, New York or Massachusetts, the real cause of the Democrats for disfranchising the Negro becomes doubly apparent to the Northern apologists; he sees that it is but a Democratic coup to strengthen that party in the national congress and in the respective states where the colored vote would swing the states to Republican nominees if permitted to vote, and for the most part knock the Democratic party out of existence. No wonder that the Northern apologists, like St. Peter of old, deny of ever having known such an abortive creature. Fifty-two years ago was held the first woman's rights convention in history. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. W. Curtis, Plaintiff, vs. E. A. Strowt and W. Curtis, Plaintiff, vs. S. C. Calderham, Gibbon, Jr., and S. C. Calderham, Receiver of Guarantee Loan and Trust Company, a corporation. Defendants. No. Notice and Summons. The State of Wyoming above named defendants, E. A. Strowt and Mary Doe Strout, his wife, John Gibbon, Jr., and S. C. Calderham, as Receiver of the corporation, who are the owners, or reputed owners', of, and all persons unknown, claiming or having an interest or estate in or to the hereafter described You and each of you are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff, W. K. Crawford, of the City of certain delinquent tax certificates, to-wit, number 8017, number 8020, number A 674 and number A 729, issued by the Treasurer of the State, interests and costs, on the following described real property situated in said King County, Washington, and more particularly described as follows: to-wit; west quarter (%) of section twenty (20), township twenty-five (25) north of range west quarter (%) of section twenty (20), cates numbers 8017, A 674 and A 729 being for taxes, penalties, interests and costs on the whole of said southeast quarter west quarter (%) of section twenty (20), said tax certificate number 8020 being for the delinquent tax, penalty, interest and cost on an undivided one-half (%) of said southeast quarter (%) of southwest quarter (%) of section twenty (20). That said certificates were respectively issued on the dates and for the sums of the taxes, all other matters and costs for the years following, that is to say: Said certificate number 9017 on the 31st day of January, 1888, for the sum of $25.58; for the deferred taxes, etc.; for the year 1885; said certificate number 9020 on the 31st day of January, 1888, for the sum of $25.58; for the deferred taxes, etc.; for the year 1894; said certificate number A 674 on the 20th day of March, 1898, for the sum of $25.30; for the delinquent taxes, etc.; for the year 1894, for the 31st day of March, 1898, for the sum of $25.32; for the delinquent taxes, etc. That as fees and costs for each of said tax certificates, number A 674 and number A 729, plaintiff paid said County Treasurer for which said tax certificates respectively were issued and mentioned, have been paid by the plaintiff to the said County Treasurer, therefore, and that as fees and costs for each of which said tax certificates respectively were issued and mentioned, have been paid by the plaintiff to said County Treasurer, to-wit: For the year 1888 the sum of $25.11, all of which above mentioned several sums respectively bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent, per month, and payment thereof by the plaintiff as aforesaid. You and each of you are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days of the date of the summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service, in the above entitled court, and defend this action, or pay the summons to the court, or in case you fail so to do, plaintiff will apply for judgment and judgment will be rendered foreclosing the lien of said taxation, lands and premises hereinabove mentioned, and the plaintiff will apply for judgment and decide further and other premises due to the premises as shall be according to law. GREENE & GRIFFITHS, Lawyers for Plaintiff. Office Address, 232 Washington Building, Seattle, Washington. Date of first publication. April 6, 1901. DIVORCE SUMMONS. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington in and for the County of Washington, plaintiff vs. Violette Bates, defendant No. 31,831. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, towithin sixty days after the 5th day of publication of this summons, to take action in the superior court of the State of Washington, for the county of King, and answer the complaint of plaintiff 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 law of the State of Washington, will be filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this suit is to procure an absolute divorce by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of desertion. W. H. BUTTNER. Attorney. **Pamille** Postoffice Address: Seattle, King County, Washington, 513 Third Avenue. Date of first publication, Friday, April 5, 1901. LAND NOTICE. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. - DEPARTMENT FOR THE INTERIOR Land Office at the Western Front. partiment of the Interior. Land Office at Wash. Va. March 29th, 1918. Notice is hereby given, the following named named送信 has filed notice of the intention sent to him, and that said proof will be made before the Register and Receiver settler. on May 24th, 1918, viz. J. Dernhard, J. Dernhard, J. Dernhard, Nash, homestead No. 16, 182; for the SEK $f$ SEK, S. T, Sep 26, N, R. 7 E. He names the following witnesses torove his continuous residence upon and after August Denoff, of Cherry Valley, Wash. mas Emerson, of Cherry Valley, Wash. am Emerson, of Cherry Valley, Wash. wm Cook, of Cherry Valley, Wash. first pub, March 22; last May 14. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. United States Land Office, Seattle Wash., January 24, 1901. In his hearings that in compriswith the provisions of the act of congress of June 3, 1878, entitled "An act to prohibit lands in the State of California, Oregon and Washington Territory," as extended to all the Public Land States by act of August 4, 1878. JAMES B. ADAIR. of Seattle, county of King, state of Washington, has this day filed in this county the purchase of the southeast quarter of Section No. 18 in Township No. 23 N Range No. 7 East, and will offer proof to the judge for its timber or stone than for agricultural purposes, and to establish his claim to said land before the Register. Receives of this office at Satt Wash, on Wednesday, 11th day of April, 1961. He names as witnesses: Benjamin Price of Isaiah Wash, the officer of Seattle Wash; Robert Thompson of Isaiah Wash; J. D. Butler, of Seattle Wash. and all persons claiming adversely to the above-described land, requester to file their claims in this office on or before said 11th day of April, 1961. EDWARD D. TREMPER. Register. This notice must be published weekly for ten consecutive weeks in a newspaper nearest the land, and must be suspended in place in the land office for the 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. 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You and each of you are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty (60) days of your release from this duty, you, exclusive of the day of service, in the above entitled court, and defend this order or pay the same amount together with your failure to pay the same amount, do judgment will be rendered against you forceclosing said lien for said certificate of delinquency, taxes, penalty, interest and costs, against the claims and premises hereinbefore mentioned. Any pleading or process may be served upon the undersigned at the address hereinafter mentioned. M. D. D. RAINEW, Plaintiff, F. H. MURRAY Office and postoffice address: 40/ Equitable Building, Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash. First pub., March 29; last, May 10. DIVORCE SUMMONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King. George E. Kimball, Plaintiff, vs. Martha Kimball, Defend- ant. No. 31.611. Summons. The State of Washington to the said County. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the hearing, and to appear within sixty days after the 1st day of March, 1901, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff, at his office below stated; and in case of failure to appear, you may render against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been served. Said action is brought and the object thereof is to obtain a judgment of divorce from the bond, and matrimony against the defense. Martin, for cause of desertion and abandonment. JOHN B. AULT, Plaintiff's Attorney. P. O. Address: $ and $6 Sullivan Building. Seattle, County of King, Washington. NOTICE AND SUMMONS. That each of said twenty certificates was issued and dated on the 5th day of January, 1891, and each for the sum of twenty-one cents on each said lot, in the leuquent taxes for the years 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885 and 1886; that the taxes on each of said lots for the following years have been paid in the same leuquent taxes for the year 1897 the sum of twenty-six cents on each of said lots; the year 1898 the sum of twenty-two cents on each of said lots; the sum of twenty-five cents on each of said lots; the sum of twenty-one cents on each said lot; the bear interest at the rat of fifteen per cent. per annum from said date of payment. and each of you are hereby directed and sumoned to appear within sixty days after the service of this notice and summons upon you, exclusive of the date of payment, to a entitled court, and defend the action or petition and together with the costs. In case of your failure so to do, plaintiff will apply for the assignment to render foreclosing the letter issued to costs against the real property, lands and premises herein named. ROOT, PALMER & BROWN, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Postoffice Address: 553 Pioneer Building, Seattle, Wash. Date of first publication, March 22, 1901. **TIDE LAND NOTICE.** **NOTICE OF SALE OF SECOND-CLASS Tide Land. Application No. 3172. Notice is hereby given that on the 20th day of April, 1901, at the hour of 2 o'clock the court house in King County, Washington, the following described tide public auction to the highest bidder therein. All tide lands of the second class owned by the State of Washington, situate adjacent to, or upon that portion of the government meander line described as follows: Lots 1 and 22, Sec. 24, T. 22 N., R. 2 E., being 27.4 chains, being 20.76 chains; lot 1, sec. 8, being 17.81 chains, and lot 1, sec. 6, being 15.8 chains, lot 4, sec. 4, being 31.56 chains, and lot 3, sec. 28, being 26.25 chains, and lot 3, sec. 29, being 26.25 chains. The southerly 15.16 chains on the west side of lot 3, sec. 9, T. 22 N., R. 3 E. Also, beginning at a point that is 15.38 chains northerly measured along the U. S. government meander corner between sections 9 and 16, T. 22 N., R. 3 E., thence from said point, beginning along said meander line as follows: 16.00 chains, and N. 40 deg. W., 3.78 chains, being a total of 10.00 chains. The descriptions taken together having a total height of 153.59 chains, measured along the U. S. government meander line. Appraised at $5 per chain, or a total of $24.50. Said tide land will be sold for not less than the appraised value and subject to improvements built on the ground, and as appraised by Bureau of Land Management Commissioners in the manner provided by law, a statement of which is now on the office of the auditor of said county. Terms of sale are: Under contract, one-tenth to be paid on the day of sale, and on the annual thereafter on the day of May of each year. A credited interest on balanceance at 6 per cent. per annum; provided, that any purchaser may make full payment at any time. The purchaser of such land will be required to pay at the time of sale the appraised value of any improvements or valuable material on such land in full in accordance to the one-tenth of the sale price. The above described land lands are offered by virtue of an order of the Board of State Commission made on the 5th day of March, 1901, duly certified and on the 5th day of office of said county auditor. GEORGE B. LAMPING. County Auditor. Date of first publication, March 22, 1901. SUMMONS. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. Amend the bill to K.K. wife, plaintiffs, vs. Geo. W. Trimble and Blanche Trimble, his wife; William H. Llewellyn and Janet G. Llewellyn, his wife; Summons for Publication. No. 31238. The State of Washington to the said Geo. W. Trimble and Blanche Trimble, his wife; William H. Llewellyn and Janet G. Llewellyn, his wife. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the first publication of this summons to-wit: within sixty (60) days of February, 1901, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and the demand of said complaint according to the undersigned, attorneys for plaintiffs, their office below stated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be received. The court may be axed against the demand of said complaint which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this action is to obtain a plaintiff's action of five (5) acre tract no. fifty (50) of West Seattle Five (5) Acre Tracts, King County, Washington; and that the plaintiff may be axed against the parties hereinafter in respective interests in said described premises, the plaintiffs herein claiming to own farmers in an undivided one-half interest therein. First publication of summons Feb. 8. 1901. NOTICE OF THE INCREASE OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE GERMAN-AMERICAN INVESTMENT COMPANY. To Whom it Concern: Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the holders of the German-American Investment Company will be held at the office of that company, 513 Third avenue, Sedan, at 8 p. m. on Saturday, May 4th, 1901. The object of said meeting is to consider a proposal to increase the capital stock of the company to the sum of Fifty thousand Dollars. Witness the signatures of a majority of the trustees of sain company this the 7th day. TIMBER LAND NOTICE. TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 3, 1878- Notice for Publication J. R. McLain, Land Office, Seattle, Wash., March 16, 1901. Notice is hereby given that in compliance with the provisions of the act of June 3, 1878, the Land Office for the sale of timber land in the states of California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington Territory," as extended to the sale of timber land for the purchase of the SW4 of Section No. 10 Township No. 25 N, Range No. 8 E, and will proof to show that the land be owned by the Register and Receiver of this office or stone than for agricultural purposes, and to establish his claim to said land be the Register and Receiver of this office on Thursday, the 6th day of June, 1901. He names as witnesses: J. R. McLain, of Snoqualmie, Wash. J. R. McLain, of Milton Prescott, of Clover City, Wash. A. L. Rutherford, of Fall City, Wash. A. A. Rutherford, claiming adversely the above-described request to file their claims in this office on or before said 6th day of June, 1901. EDWARD P. TREEMPER, Register. Date of first publication, March 22, 1901. PUBLICATION SUMMONS. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County, Burke County, Burke County, Green, Plaintiffs, vs. Mrs. M. KJE, J. S. Naught, Defendants. No. 31,189. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to the said Mrs. Nickels, J. F. McNaught, Defendants. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to the day 10 of January after the 5th day of April, 1901, and defend the entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiffs, and serve a copy of your answer upon the defendant. The complaint, at his office below stated; and in case of failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the deed of the complaint, which has been filed with the court, and is the object of the above entitled action is to clear title to plaintiffs of the north ½ of lot 1, block “F,” A. A. Denny’s addition to the town now city of Seattle. W. W. WHITE. Plaintiffs’ Attorney. P. O. Address, Bailley Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. F. L. WHITE. First publication April 5, 1901. May 17. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDER NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE TREasure Gold Mining & Milling Company: Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the stockholders of the Hidden Treasure Gold Mining & Milling Company is held on the 21st day of Mav. A. D. 1901, at the o'clock p. M. 1901, at the 28th Pa. cific block, Seattle, King county, Washington: the object of said meeting is to determine the location of the Hidden Treasure Gold Mining & Milling Company from $1,000,000.00 to $2,000,000.00. H. L. BAYLIS, M. E. HAYNES, Trustees of Hidden Treasure Gold Mining & Milling Company. First pub. March 2: last, May 17. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE County of Washington in the County of Peteket in McCaskie plaintiff, vs. Edward F. McCaskie, defendant. No. Summons by Publication. The statute of Washington to the said Edward F. McCaskie, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear with your attorney days after the first publication this summons, to wit: within sixty days after the 2d day of March, 1901, and defend the above entitled, the superior court of State of Washington county of King, and answer the complaint of plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at ease if your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the county, will be held with the clerk of said court. The object of this suit is to procure an absolute divorce by the plaintiff from the defendant and to have the sole care and custody of the children. JOHN L. NEAGLE, Attorney for Plaintiff. Postoffice Address: Seattle, King County, Washington, 306 Bailley block. Date of first publication Saturday March 2, 1901. TIMBER LAND APPLICATION. NOTICE OF SALE OF TIMBER ON AGRICultural College Land. Application No. 774. Notice is hereby given that on the 13th day of April, 1901, at the hour of 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the door of the court house in King County, Washington, the timber on the following described Agricultural College land will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder. GEORG B. LAMPING, County Andorid DECOY Olympia this 3rd day of March A. I. 1900 FOR COUNTY PRINTING CALL FOR BIDS FOR COUNTY PRINTING.—Notice is hereby given, that sealed bids will be received by the Board of County commissioners of King County, Washington, until 2 o'clock p. m., Monday, May 6th, 1901, for the county printing for one year from and after July 10th, 1901. Bids must be submitted as follows: 18th price must state a given price per inch for county notices inserted by any county officer. 2nd. For each description of property advertised for delinquent taxes. advertised for delinquent taxes. Each proposal must be accompanied by a copy of the bank on some Seattle bank, in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be forfeited to King County by the successful bidder in case he fails to contract and file a good and sufficient bill. The bidder must pay the dollars ($500.00) to fulfill the conditions of said contract within five days from date of away. Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Dated this 25th day of March, 1901, at Seattle, Washington. SEO, B. LAMPING, County Auditor and ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners of King County, Washington. P. A. AGNEW, Deputy. April 1, April 8. SUMMONS You and each of you are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty (60) days upon you, exhibiting this notice and summons upon you, exhibiting this service, in the above entitled court and defend this action or pay the amount due, for the loss of your property or your failure to do, to plaint will apply judgment and judgment will be rendered foreclosing the lien for said certificates of mortgage, the penalty, interests and costs against the lands and premises hereinbefore mentioned. Any bleeding or process may be served upon the undersigned at the address hereafter mentioned. M. D. RAINBOW, Plaintiff. FREDERICK H. MURRAY. Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and postoffice address: 407 Equitable Building, Tacoma, Pierce County, Wasl. First pub. March 29: last May 10.