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The SEATTLE REPUBLICAN NORTHWEST VoL VII., NO 43 Of the World's Important Happenings. Gen. Clay's Fancied Vendetta Leads Him to Battle with Sheriff — Lake Washington Gets Favorable Mention—Russia Recedes From Manchuria—Boers Making Grave Mistake—Funston's Rapid Reward — Civil Government for Philippines. GEN. CASSIUS M. CLAY. If. Gen. Cassius M. Clay is not the human inigma of the age, then, unquestionably such a person has not as yet been located. His recent battle with the sheriff and his deputies who wanted to serve papers on him for the restitution of property in his possession belonging to a daughter, whom he had a few days prior driven from his house because he thought she, too, was a part of a vendetta which he has talked and written about for the twenty years as plotting to take his life and property, is one of the most remarkable things that has ever actually occurred outside of Rider Hagard's mind. It equals the escapes of the most imaginative novel writer, and certainly confirms the allegation that Gen. Clay, though at one time one of the nation's strongest and most able statesmen is now a mental and physical wreck. What a history has Cassius M. Clay, the famous Kentuckian, made for himself. His life truthfully and carefully written would make a dime a dime novel hide its face behind a hyperbolian sham. With the ambition and fire of a Caesar, he threw his whole soul into the cause of abolitionism, and it can be truthfully said that he did as much during that fearful struggle between the shackles from the limbs of 4,000-000 Negroes and bring about a more perfect union of the states as did any formerly man. For such all services President Lincoln tendered him all kinds of honorowed singularity of which he filled with singular credit to his country and honor to himself. But, tired of having honors thrust upon him, he withdrew to private life and hied himself to his Kentucky home and assumed the role of a recluse, where he lived many years in peace and happiness owing to his great wealth. Such a humdrum life became monotonous to him: he conceived an idea, put the same into operation and married a 15-year-old girl, and that, too, after he had reached the octogenerator milestone. But to such a match no real happiness could ever come, and soon his unpretentious little country child-wife, Dora Richardson, deserted him, and after securing a divorce, married one of her country associates more congenial to her own walks of life. Gen. Clay, however, has never given her up, although she is married to another, and although he has made her comfortable for life, he still has a desire to leave all of his wealth to her, to which his children seriously object; and this is the real cause of his fancied vendetta and recent fight with the sheriff and his deputies. What a pity that such strong-minded men in their earlier days of life should live to see the day when they would become as weak-minded and erratic as they formerly were strong-minded and stable! LAKE WASHINGTON. The many national embroglios that the United States are having with countries lying on the Pacific waters and the determination of the war authorities of this country to keep a large fleet in the Pacific waters, has prompted such authorities at Washington City to order an investigation of the great Lake Washington fresh water harbor as to the advisability of it being made a rendezvous for the warships not actively engaged in war or on patrol duty in the Pacific when such are needing repairs and overhauling. For many years the citizens of Seattle have endeavored to convince the government that Lake Washington was the most excellent fresh water harbor for just such a purpose that was to be found anywhere in the United States, but to no avail. When the Lake Washington canal will have been built by the government (money for which has already been appropriated, and the work on which will be begun in June), that lake will be able to accommodate every naval vessel that will be stationed on the Pacific coast, and all at the very same time. This is no idle fancy, Western fish story or Seattle real estate boom, but an undeniable fact, and one that will bear the closest investigation on the part of any committee appointed by either the government or by even a rival city. RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA. After much diplomacy on the part of the United States Russia has consented to not push matters in the province of Manchuria, China, but will allow the situation to remain as it is under the circumstances and wait for developments. Russia, it is said, a few days from the attempt to withdraw from the union of allied forces in China, and act independent of them in the Chinese settlement. and if she should have done so it would have meant immediate war in China between the allied forces and Russia, for already Japan was strongly urging the opening of hostilities upon Russia, and should that nation have done that she would have been followed at once by Great Britain, and Russia would have been supported by France, while Germany would have tried to remain neutral for the time, but would have eventually been drawn into the contest and doubtless supported Great Britain. The United States could not long have remained neutral under the circumstances, and would have soon herself been compelled to espouse the cause of Japan as against Russia, and there is every reason to believe that had all of this happened there would have been a "hot time" in the old empire thereafter. Now that Russia has consented to neither withdraw from the powers, nor to longer upon the immediate partition of China, but will protect her frontier by keeping armies in the province of Manchuria, it is very evident that the danger of war has for the time being been averted, and the "white winged angel" of peace once more futters over the allied armies which are maintaining decorum in the Chinese empire. THE BOERS' MISTAKES. President Oom Paul Kruger is still hopeful that the Transvaal republic will be successful in its struggle for independence with the British government. Though he is now in Urtrecht, he says he is convinced that all is not going well with the British in South Africa from the fact that they are reporting all kinds of fish stories about the patriots against whom they are fighting. That the Transvaal be free, he declares the soldiers now fighting for that cause will keep up a war with Great Britain for the next thirty years. Neither Gen. Botha nor Gen. D wet has made any concessions or overtures to Great Britain for peace, but each proposes to fight it on the line of peace if it takes all summer. Such persistence for an honest cause is strongly to be admired on the part of those directing the affairs of the Transvaal, and had they men enough it is more than likely that it would result in success for their armies; but such is not true, and President Kruger is but making renegades and highwaymen out of men who otherwise would be good citizens, in talking thus. Had Mr. Kruger and his fellow-citizens treated the natives in that country as they should have done, they would not now find enemies among them, but, on the other hand, allies, able and strong, brave and brawny, and they would have been fighting in the ranks of Gens. De Wet and Botha for Transvaal success, instead of being allies as they now are with the British government. In this respect the Boers evidently see the errors of their ways, as they will learn to see the errors of their ways in continuing a useless war. A QUICK REWARD. It is said that it is only one man in a thousand that receives the due and proper recognition at the hands of the government for any act of bravery or gallantry displayed while acting as a soldier of the United States. Generally these things linger on from time to time until they become a public nulsance, and the person for whom such favors are wanted are considered in a like sense, if they persist in fighting for them. This, however, was not true of Fred Funston, the daring young soldier that captured Aguinaldo, for he was at once promoted to a brigadier generalship in the regular army by the president for that act of bravery, and a more commendable deed William McKinley has never done since he has been president of the United States. Meritorious deeds in the government service should receive immediate consideration at the hands of the government the same as of private individuals, for after all the government is but one great overgrown man, and should be filled with the same cup of human kindness as an individual and be as ready to remember persons serving it faithfully and well, the same as a private concern. FARMER FUNSTON'S PLUCK If there is one thing for which the Funston family is to be commended it is for their tenacity of purpose, their iron will and their everlasting determination to accomplish whatever they undertake. It required a brave man to move into Kansas when old Mr. Funston went there, a half a century ago, and it required a man full of courage and determination to rear children as did Mr. Funston in the wilds of the "woolly West." "Farmer Funston," as he is commonly known, the father of Col. Fred Funston, is a no less conspicuous public character than his son. Though not possessing the polish of a city politician and the primary slate fixers which sent delegations to state conventions that nominated candidates for office, yet Farmer Funston outgeneraled those willy politicians for a number of years and succeeded in both nominating and electing himself to congress. Owing to the fact that he was but an everyday farmer, the politicians of Kansas did not consider him in their class, but they found they had run up against the real thing on closer investigation, and that Farmer Funston would have to be nominated if anybody else was nominated. Neither Farmer Funston nor his son Fred, was ever considered "brillianteens," but they proved themselves "constanteens," which has resulted in both of their earning names for themselves that their children's children will be proud to boast of. No, the Funstons never gained (Continued on page 2.) SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1901 Prof. Barnard Beheaded by School Board—Gamblers Getting Gobbled—Law and Order League at Work—Petition to Move the Court House—Mayor's Call for More Policemen—Battleship Iowa to Be Visited by Chamber of Commerce. PROF. BARNARD DROPPED. After having served the city in the capacity of superintendent of public education for eleven years without cessation, Superintendent Frank J. Barnard has been unceremoniously dropped from that position by the school board and his place filled by Frank B. Cooper, who is now a resident of Salt Lake, Utah. It can be truthfully said that no city in the West has a better educational status than has Seattle, and all because Mr. Barnard has labored incessantly that Seattle might boast of just such a public school record. He has given his time and his talent to the bettering of the school conditions in this city and has succeeded most admirably, and it is with many regrets that a great majority of the citizens of this city learn that he is to be dropped from that position July 1st next. All men have their faults, and it is more than likely that Prof. Barnard has his, but no man, woman or child can deny the fact that he has made made Salt Lake the city where he and placed the public schools in this city on an equal footing with that of any other city anywhere in the United States, whether it be East, West, North or South, and perhaps ahead of any in the West. The Republican has no comments to make on the dropping of Prof. Barnard on the part of the school board, but it is of the opinion that if it was efficiency as well as proficiency that the school board wanted in a superintendent it could not have done better than to have had Frank J. Barnard succeed himself as superintendent of the public schools of this city. GAMBLERS GETTING GOBBLED. GAMBLERS GETTING GOBBLED. It is very gratifying to see that the Law and Order League has finally arraised itself and have sworn out warrants for the arrest of the gamblers and divekeepers in this city. During the week many gambling houses have been closed up, owing to the fact that the Law and Order League has been making a relentless war upon them, and the proprietor of every house that attempted to run public games has been arrested. A very remarkable point in this closing up of the gambling houses in this city lies in the fact that the chief of police absolutely refused to take the steps towards closing up gambling stores, which were being run contrary both to the laws of the state and the city, when a citizen of the Law and Order League upon him and asked him to do so. Instead of making some pretence to close up gambling when he was appealed to by the committee, he absolutely laughed in their faces, treated them with cold contempt, which so aroused Mr. Blaine, who was spokesman of the committee, that he told him that gambling was stopped, and be stopped at once, even though he (Mereana) would not interfere. What Mr. Blaine said proved to be true, for the sheriff was appealed to and the warrants placed in his hands, and the gamblers were at once earreasted and their property seized. The Republican cannot see why the chief of police, whose duty it is to protect the citizens from lawbreakers, should absolutely refuse to arrest men that are daily breaking the laws. An official who does not arrest lawbreakers when he knows that they are breaking the laws is no less criminal than the lawbreakers themselves. It is a fearful state of affairs when the citizens are compelled to leave the chief of police's office and go to the sheriff for official aid that lawbreakers may be brought to justice and their practices squelched, and yet that is the exact condition of affairs in this city at present. MOVE THE COURT HOUSE. A petition is being circulated by some enthusiast with the view that the same be signed by a large number of property owners, voters and taxpayers for the purpose of inducing the county commissioners to purchase the Yesler property for a county court house and to erect thereon a building to cost not less than $550,000, and to pay $220,000 for the property. The present court house, the petitioner says, can be used either for a public school house, or some other kind of a public building, all of which is quite true, and it also might be used for a private residence, or a hotel, or a hospital, or any old thing—all of which is quite true; but the entire scheme is so impracticable and so void of any business propensities that it seems a waste of time to further impose upon the citizens the visionary idea of undertaking such a change. That it was a mistake to have the court house placed in the location that it now occupies is quite apparent to everybody that has to attend to business up there, but it is up there, and thousands of dollars have been expended upon it there, and it is more than likely that it will remain there for the next century. This thing of shifting public buildings from one place to another after they have been once located for the express purpose of booming property thereabouts is carried on to too great an extent in Western towns, and a move like that in this city at present means but the imposing a greater amount of taxes upon the already over-burdened taxpayers. As still as it is kept, there are taxes on the United States where taxes are higher than in Seattle. It therefore behooves the citizens to make some move toward the reducing instead of the increasing of taxes in this community. Leave the court house where it is. MAYOR'S POLICE INCREASE Mayor Humes some ten days ago declared that an emergency existed and that it was absolutely necessary to increase the police force some twenty-five members. The city council did not agree in this with the mayor at the time, but last Monday evening a compromise was effected, and the force was increased ten members. There should be no objection toward the increasing of the police force, if it means that the laws which are so flagrantly violated in this city by persons doing business in the tenderloin district, and in some instances even in the residence districts, are to be enforced, but does it mean it? The Republican would suggest that the police force be increased to thirty-five, yea, fifty-five, if it means that the laws are to be enforced; but instead of that the increase of the police seems to cut no figure toward the decrease of crime that is to be found in this city. Gambling houses run wide open just the same; in fact, all manner of vices that were practiced before any increase in the police force was ever made, is still being practiced, and yet an emergency exists, so says the mayor, and asks an increase of the police force. When some decrease in vice and crime is shown there will be no objection to the increase of the police force to maintain law and order in this city to the number of 100, if necessary. BATTLESHIP IOWA. The splendid battleship Iowa is now undergoing repairs at the Bremerton naval station and will be on the Sound for a number of days yet. During her stay in these waters the chamber of commerce has planned to make an official visit to her and show their respect to the officers thereof, and to lay before the chief officer, who has been made one of a committee to look over Lake Washington with a view to making it a rendezvous for naval vessels and the advantages of it being selected as a fresh water harbor. It is the duty of the entire membership, or a majority part thereof, of the chamber of commerce to join in this excursion and the advantages of the front start to finish. The Republic of the opinion that it will not require very much talk on the part of the chamber of commerce to convince the committee that Lake Washington is all that it has been held up to be and a critical view of the lake on the part of the committee will likewise convince it of the self same facts. M'KINLEY'S VISIT HERE. There are but few cities that lie on the line of travel that has been mapped out by President McInley in his swing around the circle to be made at an early date but that are making extensive preparations to receive him, even though he is to be in such city, but a comparatively short time. Seattle is one of these favored cities, and as Seattle never does things by halves or is never surpassed in its efforts to entertain visitors by any rival city, she will entertain President McKinley as no other city between Washington City, his beginning, and Washington City, his ending. Preparations for the entertainment of the president during his day's visit in Seattle are already taking definite shape and are being carefully planned and prepared by the citizens of Seattle without regard to politics, creed or religion, and when he will have left Seattle he will have been convinced of the fact that it is not only the Queen City of the Northwest, but the Queen City of the entire West—a second New York, the coming second city of the United States. The A. O. U. w. order of this state is holding its annual conclave in Spokane this week and many of Seattle's most prominent citizens are in attendance. "SHORE ACRES." Charles F. Craig is a popular man in Chicago and has received the praise of press and public all over the United States. Come and hear him at First Methodist Episcopal church, April 16, 8 p. m. You will like "Shares Acres." The late census shows as to the ranks of the common wealth as to population in the United States, which consists of fifty-two states and territories, not counting Porto Rica or the Philippines, New York is first, Pennsylvania second, Illinois third, Ohio fourth, while Hawaii is forty-eight, Arizona forty-ninth, Nevada fifty-first and New Mexico fifty-second. The population, however, is shifting very rapidly, as Hawaii has doubled her population within the past ten years. Oklahoma is six times as large as in 1890, while Nevada has actually lost population. The spirit of "come west and grow up with the country" is becoming quite a mania in the East and it is more than likely before another decade has passed California and Washington will rank among the populous states of the Union. PRACTICALLY A UNIT New Age, Portland—Colton Newsletter—Palouse Republic Talks—Assotin Sentinel Criticises—Index Miner Joins In—Kendrick Echo Outspoken—Aberdeen Bulletin Says, "It Was Highhanded"—Dissenting Opinions Quite Scarce All Over the State The manner in which Editor Cayton, of The Seattle Republican, one of the most influential weekly publications in the state of Washington, was treated by representatives of the chief of police's office at his home in Seattle on Monday night is outrageous in an extreme degree; and The New Age will predict, without having full knowledge of all the circumstances leading up to and attending it, that it will be remembered sorrowfully by those who so brutally and vulgarly mistreated a man, although colored, of Mr. Cayton's prominence and popularity in the politics of the state.—New Age. H. R. Cayton, editor of The Seattle Republican was arrested at his home at a late hour Saturday evening, and without opportunity to see any friends or to consult his legal advisor, he was locked into a foul cell in the city jail; here his friends and attorneys were denied admission, and his bond of $500 was demanded in coin of the realm, some of the best men of the city being refused as bondsmen, and their checks being declined by the police; and all this fuss on account of a pointed editor's complaint. Meredith caused his arrest, and evidently planned to keep him in jail over night. Friends raised the cash bond required and released Mr. Cayton at 3 o'clock next morning. Such in brief is the story of the worst police deal that has come to our notice for many a day, and that, too, in the largest city in this state. Public sentiment, outside the mayor and police, is with the editor. The facts as revealed show that Mr. Cayton did not tell half as much as he ought to have told about the chief of police in that so-called "criminal libel." We extend sympathy, Brother Cayton, if that does you any good, and advise you to camp on Meredith's trail until you drive him from Seattle.—Colton News-Letter. The editor of The Seattle Republican was arrested a few days ago on a charge of criminal libel brought by the chief of police of the virtuous Sound city. The editor was kept in jail several hours, and not even allowed to communicate with his friends. His treatment was unjust and uncalled for, and all because he mentioned unfavorably a city government so rotten in sin and vice that it smells to high heaven.—Palouse Republic. The Seattle police seem to think that they are the whole thing, judging by the way they handled Editor Cayton last Saturday. Nothing has happened in Seattle for many years that seems to so thoroughly arouse the Seattle people as the treatment Mr. Cayton received. Because Cayton is a Negro is no reason why he is not entitled to decent treatment at the hands of those administering the law's demands.—Ascot Sentinel. Chief of Police Meredith, of Seattle, seems to have "put his foot in it" when he caused the arrest of H. R. Cayton, editor of The Seattle Republican on a charge of criminal libel and put him in jail, refusing to allow him an interview with his attorneys, and also refusing to release him on anything but a cash bail, which he knew would be very hard to obtain Saturday night after 10 o'clock, at which hour the arrest was made. It seems as if everybody in Seattle is taking the matter up, and requests for the chief's resignation are quite numerous.—Index Miner. A Seattle editor was arrested at an unseemly hour one night last week and thrown into a cell with a lot of hoboes, just because he dared to criticise the police of that city. This is no doubt a precedent calculated to muzzle the press. But it won't work. The editor in question is now vicious in his attacks on the chief of police. Other papers in the city have taken the matter up, and now the chief is sorry for his rashness. Seattle is pictured by her own papers as the worst governed city in the United States. The police are openly accused of standing in with gamblers, bawdy-house keepers thugs thieves and all that is immoral, and unless the present chief is stripped of his authority pretty soon Seattle will stand disgraced in the eyes of the world. A corrupt police force is a stench in the nostrils of all decent people, and it is a shame that city like Seattle should be given over to lawlessness and debauchery simply because its police force has been turned into a corrupt political machine, manipulated by men apparently devoid of all blamance of honor or decency.—Kendrick Echo. The city of Seattle seems to be all stirred up over the action of the chief of police in arresting the editor of the Republiclean, who is a colored gentle LIBRAR UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 28 1952 man, on the charge of criminal libel, for an article appearing in his paper reflecting on the chief of police. The arrest was made last Saturday night at a late hour, and the editor was confined in the city jail and refused any but cash bail, which was very di-, cult to raise at that late hour. The president of the First National bank and several other equally responsible citizens offered to go his bail, but these offers were declined by order of the chief of police. In addition to this, the editor of The Republican has been a long time a resident of Seattle and has considerable property interests there, and the charge against him is really trivial—for the article published was unimportant. T the action of the police department in this matter was high handed in the extreme and a gross invasion of the rights of citizenship. The press, the pulpit and the business men of the city have all taken the matter up, and a thorough investigation will be had, and it is not unlikely that Chief Meredith will be forced to resign his position if the facts are as have been published, and be voted for president at the right time, and its people can be depended on not to tolerate such injustice as has apparently been done to the editor of The Republican although he may be a colored man.—Aberdeen Bulletin. One H. R. Cayton, colored editor of a disreputable paper, The Seattle Republican, was arrested last Saturday on a charge of criminal libel sworn to by Chief of Police Meredith, of Seattle. From the blackmailing, slanderous character of articles appearing ceah week in this foul rag, incarceration was evidently what the coon had been stinking for for some time. But the Post-Intelligencer and a sensational preacher or two of the W. H. G. Temple breed of bigotry and bile have proceeded to elevate the colored gentleman into martyrdom. It makes little difference to them that this rascal, in exchange for the patronage of the federal land office and such minor perquisites as could be thrown to him by the "gang," has slandered every man in public life in this state not in good odor with a certain repudiated politician who wears a boy's coat, a number six hat and weighs 112 pounds, and whose name is John L. Wilson. That cuts no ice whatever. Regarding the status and the circumstances of the case the Post-Intelligencer has lied most studiously and assiduously. Cayton was very properly arrested and equally properly placed in jail with other law-breakers. To be sure, the other fellows there might have stolen money, jewelry or even bread; but as Cayton was only robbing men of their characters, according to John L. Wilson—a shining example of what a high standard of morality, virtue and integrity in the individual in either private or public life should be—there is a distinction between the man who gets drunk and boisterous and a nigger publisher of other books. So the Post-Intelligencer threw heroes in black-faced types; it had ap perfect hemorrhage of editorial rot and rant; exorcised the chief for daring to arrest a Wilson man for the perpetration of a characteristic piece of Wilson villiany; wept large weeps and howled its sympathy in its huskiest tones. But no one is deceived. The character of Cayton and his rag are both well known—North West Republican. Perhaps a "white man" wrote the above, but we cannot believe it. White men are altogether too refined and cultured to use such language, and we are constrained to believe that some irresponsible person slipped it into the paper after Editor Thomas had gone fishing. No "white man" would be guilty of using such verbiage regardless of his condition. Senator Foster has begun to sow his seeds for re-election and the Republican editors of this state have received them in lump lots for the past two weeks or more. This was the first consignment of seeds that Senator Foster has sent to the Republican editors in general, and especially those living in cities; but as he will be before the Republican editors for endorsement in a few more months, it is quite natural that he would now begin to plant his seeds that they may sprout and come forth before that time. Men running newspapers in cities cannot utilize seeds sent out by the department to any great extent, but they do occasionally have friends in the country that can do so, and if some friend of The Republican will call at this office his wants and demands will be supplied to his heart's content. Not much headway is being made in the disposal of the federal appointments for this state at the present time. There are a number of applicants for each place, and it is very likely before the appointments will have been made much bitter factional feelings among the Republicans and much antagonism to the man who has the giving of them out will be engendered. This thing of dividing the spoils seems to give those having power to divide them much worry and trouble, and in every instance such a person makes more enemies in his division than he does friends. It is not the evil-doers of this city that need have any fear of police prosecution, but it is those persons that oppose the evil-doers that should fear both the police and the surething men. Backed up by the police the gamblers snap their fingers in the face of the order and shout: "Yes, we are gamblers open, broad and above board, now what are you going to do about it," and that, no after the mayor had put his increase of policemen to work. T e*B publican Pub. Co., Publishers OFFICE 714 THIRD AVENUE H. R. Cayton, Editor Susie Revels Cayton, Associate Advertising rates Furnished upon application Entered at the Postoffice at Seattle as Second Class Mail Matter. If hazing did not kill Boze, then there seems to be no doubt but that Boze killed hazing. It is a case where killing had to be done. Easter Sunday seems to hit the same place only periodically. For instance, Easter Sunday has not fallen on the 7th day of April since 1844. Murder may be struggling hard to out in the New York Millionaire Rice case, but the money sharks on both sides seem to be doing all in their power to prevent it from so doing. We suggest that the government send Aguinaldo to South Carolina, and there is no doubt that Pitchfork Tillman will soon settle the question as to what the government will do with him. Had Chief Meredith consulted a fortune teller or so, he probably would not have made the mistake he did in going off half-cocked and having a man thrown in jail who dared to criticise a most damnable state of affairs in this city. If any paper can get any comfort out of misquoting The Republican, as did one of Seattle's weeklies last Saturday, then it has our unqualified consent. The editorial writer who will lie in one instance will lie in another, and in fact he will lie in general. Seattle may be a very wicked city, as says Dr. De Soto to the Minnesota newspapers; but it does not behoove Dr. De Soto, who has been kindly treated at the hands of Seattle, to take special opportunities to advertise that fact in Eastern papers. A Washington correspondent is of the opinion that Russell Harrison, son of the late Benjamin Harrison, is a nuisance. Perhaps he is, but if he is, we think we are safe in saying that he didn't inherit it from his father or any of his paternal ancestry. King county may not be ably represented at the Walla Walla penitentiary, but owing to the fact that Seattle, her principal city, is a wide-open town, she is numerously represented there. More numerously perhaps than her actual population would warrant. The state of Washington should feel very proud of the fact that nine-tenths of all the homeseekers who leave St. Paul in quest of homes in the far West finally settle down within her borders. A decade more and few states in this Union will discount the Evergreen State in the matter of population. It begins to look as though some of the late pioneers of this city will yet live to see the day come when the United States government will perfect their long-cherished hope in making Lake Washington the naval rendezvous for the warships on the Pacific coast. When Attorney Titlow, of Tacoma, declined to accept a nice position, which he would have jumped at four years ago, on account of his business saying good to be sacrificed at present, it showed what a splendid financial condition this country is in, and it further proves the fallacy of the Bryan argument in 1896 and 1900. This country after all is a charming success under McKenleyism. Perhaps the editor of this paper is guilty of saying some pretty mean things about law-breakers and human defamers, but it surrenders the palm in that direction to the Northwest Republican, printed at Whatcom, in its criticism of this paper. It is so remarkable that it is given space in full in another column. That Tacoma newspaper wonder who fights his morning paper in his evening paper and his evening paper in his morning paper is certainly a genius in his own queer way. We believe that it was P. T. Barnum that said: "The American people love to be hoodwinked better than any other people in the world and always paid better money for it." It is very evident that the people of Tacoma are being hoodwinked, and they are paying well for it. Grand Opera House The first week of the engagement of the Frawley company at the Grand Opera House has proved very successful and large houses have greeted every performance of "Chimmie Fadden," which will receive its two closing performances Saturday afternoon and evening. For the coming week two plays are promised, each of which is at the head of its respective class. During half of the week, beginning with the halfway Sunday, afternoon and continuing until Wednesday night, "The Middleman" will be produced, with Harrington Reynolds in E. S. Willard's famous role of Cyrus Blenkarn. --- (Continued from first page.) that amount of notority as did John J. Ingalls, but when he will have been forgotten and his memory lost in the shuffle of time the Funstons will be left as brilliant examples of men who stuck to their purpose and made history and success for their families and their country. According to reports sent out from Washington City, a form of civil government is to be established in the Philippine Islands by July 1st next, which is to consist of a governor, his cabinet and a council, which will be made up for the most part of Filipinos. This is very gratifying to the citizens of this country in general, and it is to be hoped it will meet the approbation of those Filipinos who have some idea of self-government and that they will take advantage of the opportunity and exhibit to the world that they are capable of becoming not only citizens of those islands, but capable of forming a government of their own which will finally develop into an independent republic. It has been a rather troublesome question in this country to know just what disposition to make of the Philippine islands, but if a civil government is to be put under headway there, it is likely that, like all other difficult questions, it will solve itself. Had Aguinaldo and it followed him looked at this subject through the proper prism when the Spanish power was first broken, there is no doubt but by this time those islands would now have been in as good condition as are the Porto Rican islands at present; but encouraged by such men as Billy Bryan in this country and a few other "aunties," they made a fight for something they knew they could never get, hence the useless Philippine war. AMUSEMENTS "The Little Minister. At the Seattle theater, commencing Monday, April 15th, for two nights "The Little Minister" is to be presented by Charles Frohman's company. This is the play adapted from the well-known novel of the same name. Those who have read the book and have had the pleasure of seeing the play, state that Mr. Barrie has made a remarkable and highly entertaining play. He has retained many of the strong incidents and introduced all of the peculiar types of characters made known in his novel. We have received reports that the company presenting the play has been accorded praise of the highest order wherever it has been seen. There is a THE FOLK STAGE great desire shown by regular theater-goers and also by those who seldom if ever attend the theater, to see this performance. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that the story is a popular one. It is pleasant to be able to announce that Mr. Frohman's efforts to provide a comedy and a company of the highest merits will be appreciated here. This is shown by the numerous inquiries already made as to when the sale of seats will be commenced. "The Telephone Girl." "The Telephone Girl," teeming with feminine beauty and all the elements which go to enthrall the public, will be seen here for the first time at the Third Avenue theater one week, commencing Sunday matinee, April 14. The Telephone Girl" is one of those gutta-percha productions which may be made perennially interesting by reason of M. H. H. the fact that it is susceptible of change of cast. For three seasons past it has steadily coined money for its owners, acquiring the reputation of being one of the most valuable theatrical properties in the country. Fir this reason that it must be produced in London next season, this will be its final appearance in America. HOLMES' GOOD FURNITURE Iron Beds Iron Beds Special for Two Days METAL BEDS are an important feature with this store, and many of them are exclusively shown here. Elegant creations of brass vie with handsome products in iron, and there is richness and beauty in both. We offer a goodly variety to choose from, 117 separate and distinct patterns and as many different prices, up to $135. G. L. Holmes Furniture Co. ```markdown ``` METAL BEDS are an important feature with this store, and many of them are exclusively shown here. Elegant creations of brass vie with handsome products in iron, and there is richness and beauty in both. We offer a goodly variety to choose from, 117 separate and distinct patterns and as many different prices, up to $135. G. L. Holmes Furniture Co. 1101 to 1105 Second Ave. HOLMES' GOOD FURNITURE --- Why not Save Time, Money and Labor by using A Gas Range Terms easy enough to suit anyone Seattle Gas & Electric Co. 214-216 CHERRY STRRET Per Acre. Adjoining Car Line. Overlooking Lake Washington. Fifteen Minutes From Pioneer Square McGRAW & KITTENGER Room 6 Bailey Building VESTIBULE BOOTBLACK PAR- LORS Marcellus Thomas, Prop. Dexter Horton Bank Building. Ring up Buff 1004 We call for and deliver promptly. 1007 Third Avenue ALBERT HANSEN JEWELER AND SILVERSMITH ...Dealer in... Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver ware, Rich Cut Glass, Etc. Buy a White and Be Happy 1006 Second Ave. Phone Main 705 RUPTURE Does your truss hold you? If not, call at Guy's Drug Store Fine Fresh Fruit Always on hand at the SAN DIEGO FRUIT CO., 415 Pike Street BONNEY & STEWART UNDERTAKERS THIRD and COLUMBIA Preparing bodies for shipping a specialty. All orders by telephone or telegraph promptly attended to. Telephone Main 13. Hair Cut AS YOU LIKE IT, STYLISH AND UP TO DATE. Frank's Place | 807 A Rail- road Avenue Brockman Bros. Pike Street's Leading Grocer Wants Your Trade Gor. Sixth and Pike SEATTLE MEYER HIGH GRADE PHOTOS Colonial Block. Second Ave. and Columbia St. ....FOR..... DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOAKS, MILLINERY AND MEN'S FURMISHINGS ....GO TO..... WILSON'S Second Avenue and University Street Moran Bros. Company Manufacture and Sell LUMBER For All Purposes SEATTLE - - - WASH. DRESSY SHOES At Prices that Appeal to Your Pocketbook. The Very Latest Styles at the Popular Prices of $2.50 to $5.00. See them. 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 1821 WASHINGTON IRON WORK CO. Founders, Machinists and Boilermakers. HOISTING AND LOGGING ENGINES A SPECIALTY J. M. FRINK, President. SEATTLE, WASH. 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. BALL, Jr. Practices in all State and U. S. Courts Rooms 18, 17, 16 Roxwell Block, Seattle, Wash. Morris & Southard Successful Criminal and Civil Lawyers. 51 Haller Bldg., Seattle. Wash. Phone Blue 541 Moron, Fenwick & Lawrence PATENT LAWYERS 40 years' experience— Washington, D. C. G. Ward Kemp, Local Attorney, 138 Burke Bldg., Seattle. Call or write for free guide book. Root, Palmer & Brown Have formed a law partnership. 533 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle. Wn. Tel. Main 476 Z. B. Rawson, Gives Prompt Attention to Court Cases 617 and 618 Pacific Block. WM. H. FINICK Pioneer Jeweler, Established 1882; Watches Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks and Optica Google, Smartwatch, Watch Repair 816 Second Avenue, Seattle, Wash. Washington Dental and Photographic Supply Company Kodaks and High Grade Cameras, 211 Columbia street, Seattle BANKS SAFE DEPOSIT YAULT THE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE H. C. HENRY, Pres. R. R. SPENCER, Cashier FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SEATTLE PAID-UP CAPITAL ..... $150,000 JAMES D. HOGE, JR. President. LESTER TURNER, Cashier. A general banking business transacted. Letters of credit sold on all principal cities of the world. Special facilities for collecting in British Columbia points. TRANSPORTATION NORTHERN PACIFIC YELLOWSTONE PARK LINE Two Overland Trains Daily from Seattle to the East with Pullman Sleeping Cars Elegant Dining Cars Finest Tourist Sleeping Cars SPOKANE BUTTE HELENA DULUTH ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS THE SHORTEST LINE by twelve hours or more to Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, etc. Through tickets to all points East and Southeast. For information, maps and tickets, call on or write to I. A. NADEAU, General Agt. Seattle, Wash. A. D. CHARLTON, A. G. P. A. 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. 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 WAYNE, BER General Agent, 606 First Avenue, Seattle Wash. E. R. Butterworth & Sons UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS Telephone Main 949 1496, 1498 Third Avenne SEATTLE The Pie-maker notes that S. H. Piles has been spoken of in connection with the next senatorial contest from this state, and he is to be the King county candidate, provided that all factions will harmonize on him. Of course Mr. Piles denies this or speaks of it in an unconcerned way, as much as to say that he knows nothing of such a political deal, or move, and that by no means is he a party to it; nevertheless many are the leading Republicans of this city in declaring that they will lay aside all factions feeling their fractional feeling and support Mr. Piles with vengeance, if he has decided upon being the King county candidate or United States senator in 1903. But with King county as a unit it does not always mean success in this latter day condition of the state of Washington, unless King county can get the backing of one of the other larger counties, and, the backing of either the Northwest or the Southwest, without which it is impossible for her t o ever succeed in electing a United States senator. In other words, King county but either Pierce county or Spokane county must always be in line supporting her candidate to assure such candidate being successful. Otherwise it is not the slightest probability that Senator John L. Wilson has in this community, not that such advocate was unfriendly to Wilson, but that he thought Piles could harmonize King and Spokane counties and probably make a bridge for his friend Wilson to cross over to the United States senate on in 1905. It is very probable that Senator Wilson is perfectly willing to harmonize in this way, and he, too, might consent to support S. H. Piles in 1903 if that would mean the coming of a United States senator from Western Washington in 1905. And it is suggested to those persons who are now booming Mr. Piles, that they see to it that Spokane county be taken into this deal or there is much danger of it falling through. % % % A friend of L. S. J. Hunt said to the Pie-maker one day this week: "If Mr. Hunt starts a paper in this city, and he will, it will be an independent Republican paper, and will have no corporation strings tied to it. Mr. Hunt has no idea of becoming identified with any large corporation in this state, and for that reason such paper will be free from corporative influence when once it gets under headway. It will be solid for a King county man for the next United States senator from this city and will work to that end and purpose. It is to be a penny paper and under all circumstances and conditions to champion the cause of the laboring man and the poorer class of citizens in this state and community. % % % Speaking about the starting of a new morning paper in this city, a gentleman said to the Pie-maker one day this week: "There is no probability of a new morning paper being started in this city any time within the near future; there is no probability of such paper, should it ever be started, getting any news only at an enormous expense, and it could not afford to maintain it very long. It is all very well to talk about starting a newspaper, but to start a competitive newspaper in a town no larger than Seattle and with no more facilities for getting outside news than what the proposed paper for this city has, is the height of folly and the sheerest rot. Then, were it possible for such a paper to get all the necessary, it would mean that advertising in this city would be cut all to pieces, and would necessarily paralyze all classes of advertising in this city for the next five years. It would not only hurt the two morning papers struggling for the existence, but it would likewise injure the patronage of the evening papers, and I feel safe in saying that it would take to take a new paper five years to get on a paying basis, under the conditions it would have to labor in this city at present. It matters much, too, when money has to blow in and throw to the birds, not in very probable that Mr. Hunt is going to throw four or five hundred thousand dollars in such a rat, hole as a morning paper that will compete with the Post-Intelligencer. Regardless of the great amount of talk that is going the rounds of the press and the public in general concerning the certainty of this new paper being started it is very apparent to my mind that none will be started and none will live if started within the next five or ten years to come." % % % Though experts have been working on Ex-County Treasurer C. F. Whittle-sey's books for a number of days, they show no signs of approaching a balance. Instead of approaching a balance it seems they are getting farther from it, and this has prompted the county commissioners, aided by Mr. Whittle-sey himself, to begin a regular system of checking the books up during his 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 visited our piano department. It's an excellent showing of standard equipment, but it's really extraordinary prices. Credit is given on terms to suit your convenience. entire incumbency of the office, and perhaps go back to Maple's term also. Had such a discrepancy been reported from a Republican administration the Times would have gone wild with starling headlines. Republican shortage, but as it is, it has kept painfully silent and said practically nothing concerning the matter, all of which is very commendable on the part of the Times, for nobody in Seattle, in King county or in the state of Washington believe for a single minute that Mr. Whittlesey knows anything of the shortage, if any there be, nor why there is one. No one in the state of Washington except a few blatherskites, believed that John H. McGraw was ever criminally short in his accounts, and yet when experts balanced his books and found a shortage the Times went wild with delight and tried in every way possible to make a criminal of him on account of such shortage, and it did this knowing the fact that Gov. McGraw had at the time been notified of it and had surrendered real estate sufficient to cover any shortage that might be found against him while sheriff of this county, to the county commissioners; but despite this the Times came out with flaring headlines in a triple column article, that John H. McGraw was short in his accounts and was practically a public defender. No man in the state enjoyed a greater degree of public confidence than Gov. McGraw, and it was a burning shame when the Times tried to besmirch his character. It was a still worse shame when Gov. McGraw returned from the north and the editor of the Times tried to slobber over him, both personally and in his paper, because he believed the governor was well fixed financially and Blethen wanted to hobnob with all rich men. % % % That was quite a political joker than J. A. Meek swung in on the gang in securing the appointment as liquor inspector of this county, and for the time being it seemed that it was going to work like a charm, but it has been suddenly stopped in its wild career by County Attorney Fulton, who has rendered an opinion to the effect that the appointment was illegal. The county attorney being the legal advisor of the county commissioners, they have deemed it necessary to not go further with the matter, but let it drop. This, of course, does not prevent Mr. Meek from going on with the case, but it is hardly probable that he will do so, as he does not desire to back up a case that the county commissioners refuse to substantiate him in. Jack had a fat plum in his fist, and his friends regret very much that he has lost it, but they hope the time will yet come when another equally as fat will come his way. % % % Among the notable guests that have spent the past week in this city was Hon. Henry W. Wilson, minister to Chile. Mr. Wilson is on leave of absence from his post in Valpariso and has not yet decided when he will return, if at all, but makes no bones in saying the president has asked him to accept the position for another four years, but it seems that his interests at home demand his attention, and it is very doubtful whether he will accept or not. "Harry Wilson," as most people in this state know him, is one of the shrewdest politicians that was ever in the city, and if he has decided to return to the state and take up the political udgel, you can put it down that there is going to be a lively scrap on in political circles before the next state convention has convened. Even the enemies of the Wilsons say that Harry is a politician right and will do things to a queen's brown if he decides to get in the fight again. He spoke entertainingly with the Chamber of Commerce on her trade relations with Chile and South America last Wednesday afternoon, and was roundly applauded after he had finished. He left for Spokane Thursday. Seattle was set agog 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.-I., 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 "grafter," 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.—Iland County Times. Chief of Police Meredith, in the highhanded 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. 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. Coal all Coal The Best Coa NEWCASTLE Lump Coal Only at the Bunkers of the PACIFIC COAST CO. Phone Main 92 HEINE PIANO CO. Manufacturers of Coast agents for Mason & Hamlin, Hallett & Davis, Krisl, Behr Bross, Smith & Barnes. Only Piano Manufacturers on the Coast, selling direct to the people without middleness's people. Compare our prices. Courteous treatment when on buy or not. No trouble to show goods at HEINE PIANO CO. Second Avenue and Madison Street. FOR RENT Our mild honey cured "1988 brand Hams and Bacon" smoked meats. Sweet as a nut, fine flavored and delicious. Once used no other as satisfactory. Louch, Augustine & Co. 815, 817 First Avenue ADAMS FOR THE BEST PATENT FLOUR on the Pacific Coast try Adams Best, price 90c sack - $3.50 bbl Adams Cash Grocery Phone Main 482 1428 SECOND AVE. 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 eighth 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 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 1221 First Ave., next to Post Office 303 National Bank of Commerce Bld'g. 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, Tacoma: Manager, J. N. PRATHER, Seattle. Seattle Tel. Main 611 After two years of use in Seattle it stands alone C 2022 Lion After two years of use in Seattle The Favorite Dome Tel. Union 24 For deliveries north of Pike Street UncleJoe Plenty of money to loan on diamonds, watches and all kinds of jewelry and valuables 514 Second Ave. Time Tried AND Fire Tested Once Tried Always USED IS Our Maxim le it stands alone estic Coal Tel. Main 588 For deliveries south of Pike Street D. B. SPELLMAN Practical Plumber and Gasfitter. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty. 212 Columbia St. 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. REMOVED FROM 803 Second Ave. TO 908 Second Ave. Opposite Burke Building, between Marion and Madison Sts. Great American Importing Tea Company