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The SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Hamilton's Tacoma VOL. 1X. NO. 13 A SLAP AT M'BRIE AND WHY IT WAS ADMINISTERER; Or a True Story of the Pierce County Convention. Pierce county, the second county in the state in population, importance and size, was the battle ground for the McBride and anti-McBride forces, thus making this convention of general interest. The governor exhibited a bit of "strenuous aggressiveness" when we forced the fighting in Pierce, as this county has long since been regarded as thoroughly identified with railway interests, hence no one was surprised when Stanton Waburton opposed and voted against the Preston bill in the last session of the legislature. He was simply in line with his constituents. That Pierce county recognized or mentioned the commission was not due to the influence of the governor, Stanton Waburton or any of that following. It may have been the "irony of fate" that Waburton lost his own (the Twenty-seventh) district, but it is a fact, nevertheless, just how Waburton is to deliver a solid delegation to Preston, minus the Twenty-seventh, is entirely past the understanding of mathematicians. That the convention recognized the commission plank at all was due entirely to Cushman's effort. When the McBride people forced Cushman on the platform to plead the cause it was there the governor played the role of a politician. The convention was in the mood to give Cushman anything he asked. ```markdown ``` The convention was controlled entirely by the anti-McBride men, an overwhelming majority showing in favor of the railroad policy on the ballot which elected E. N. Parker temporary chairman over H. S. Huson. The anti-McBride men controlled 459 votes against 222 for the administration. Later in the day, after Cushman had explained his position to the convention and showed the light in which he would appear should the convention endorse him and sit down on all commission plans, the anti-McBride men still refused to accept the administration resolutions and were strong enough to have hung up the question indefinitely. --- The compromise on an elective commission was made at the suggestion of State Senator Ed S. Hamilton, who declared he would be willing to accept an elective commission. When the convention had turned down a strong McBride resolution instructing the members of the legislature from this county to vote in favor of a commission bill, Jesse Jones offered a resolution in favor of an elective commission and Senator Hamilton promptly seconded the motion, which passed. Since the convention considerable feeling has been shown on the part of anti-McBride men who made this concession to Congressman Cushman. It is a notable fact that though the commission men made long arguments the anti-McBride men did not speak on the question. They had gone into the convention loaded with information and prepared to show the commission scheme was a shrewd political maneuver which would work against Pierce county, but after Cushman's appeal to stand by him they decided not to insist upon a complete overthrow of the commission idea. Since the convention, however, Congressman Cushman has announced the names of the twenty-four delegates he was permitted to select. Not one of these men were taken from the ranks of the anti McBride workers. This faction be lieved it was entitled to some recognition in view of the fact that it had conceded so much to Cushman. The convention was notable for the complete victory of anti-administration leaders in the legislative districts. There i s a question regarding the position of one representative, but aside from this man all the other nominees were picked by anti-McBride men; and though the fight in certain districts was sharp, they won out handily. . . . In the Twenty-fifth senatorial district McBride men were in control, but it is a question whether more than one of the nominees will be with the governor. In the Twenty-sixth district State Senator Ed S. Hamilton had things his own way. He had formed one of the most complete organizations ever perfected in this county to go into a political fight. His friends were organized in each precinct, and when the convention met he had the entire district with him so solidly that he was not only renominated for the senate, but Representatives Mark White and E. R. York were carried through. State Senator Stanton Waburton, in the Twenty-seventh district, attempted to carry the legislative ticket for McBride. He is the recognized McBride leader in this county and had promised Evan M. Hamilton. HON. ED S. HAMILTON. Renominated for state senator from the Twenty-sixth senatorial district. Senator Hamilton is the champion of the railroad interests in Pierce county, and it was only through deference to Frank Cushman that Mr. Hamilton permitted McBride's commission bill to be mentioned. to deliver the entire county. Waburton lost the district by a big majority. J. H. Easterday and Fred Eldemiller, who were nominated, have been outspoken in their opposition to McBride. There has never been any doubt about the Twenty-eighth district, and the nomination of N. B. McNichol and S. A. Crandall followed as naturally as had been expected. work in the conorer's office during the past two years has been characterized by a thorough knowledge of the wants of the position. Dr. Brown is a native o. Oregon. He was born at Forest Grove in 1857, and his education was obtained in the schools of that state. He graduated from the Portland University and studied medicine in Portland and San The Twenty-ninth district was saved by the anti-McBride men on a narrow margin. It had been figured against them, but they were at work while the McBride leaders were asleep. Dr. S. M. LeCrone was renominated for the state state and J. B. Lingerman and W. H. Fletcher for state representatives. While the Pierce county convention has passed into history, the rebuke administered to the governor should teach him a wholesome lesson. When he entered Pierce county politics his first attack was upon Senator Ed Hamilton, one of the ablest men in Pierce county, a man who plays the game of politics for pleasure and not profit, a sort of a Mark Hanna or Charley Hopkins species. When voters believe that a man has no sinister motive in politics they choose to follow him rather than those who are continually proclaiming themselves patriots, ever ready to be sacrificed for the dear people, and have no occupation save what has been secured by them through their official positions. That Ed Hamilton controlled every legislative district in Pierce county save one speaks volumes for a man who was made the center of one of the bitterest fights ever pulled off in the county. That the people of Pierce county understand themselves was clearly proven in the vote of confidence in Hamilton and the fitting rebuke given a man who mixed up in a local fight of his own volition, and, in the language of the street, "got all that was coming to him." JOHN H. RYAN For the past two years Dr. E. M. Brown has been county coroner. Dr. Brown is one of the best known practicing physicians in the Northwest, major and surgeon in the Washington National Guard and a veteran of the Philippine war. His . . . . . . F. M. BROWN. work in the conerer's office during the past two years has been characterized by a thorough knowledge of the wants of the position. Dr. Brown is a native o. Oregon. He was born at Forest Grove in 1857, and his education was obtained in the schools of that state. He graduated from the Portland University and studied medicine in Portland and San Francisco. He came to Tacoma in 1885. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war Dr. Brown was a surgeon in the National Guard. He enlisted with the First Washington and served as captain and surgeon in the Philippines. Veterans of the First Washington spoke enthusiastically of his services for Dr. Brown was always on the firing line and caring for the men as promptly as they needed his services. Aside from his special fitness for the position, his first nomination was intended as a compliment to the regiment and to him for his work in the islands. N. B. M'NICOL. The constituents of N. B. McNicol marked out a field of work for him that would have discouraged many men. He was elected on the Republican ticket two years ago as state representative. The railroad employees of his district demanded a fellow-servant act, something that other men had attempted to put through the legislature but had failed in the attempt. Mr. McNicol pushed his bill faithfully, carried it through the house and had pledges of enough to have put it through the senate. However, the bill went to the sifting committee, at the head of which was Lieutenant Governor McBride, and this committee refused to put it on the calendar. Mr. McNicol was nominated in the Thirty-eighth district, and his acquaintances with the workingmen of the district, and the assurance they have that he will look after their interests, together with the confidence in him held by a majority of the voters, indicates that he will be very strong candidate at the polls. publican convention and later before the people. Mr. McNicol was born in Canada, but raised in Michigan. He is a graduate of the public schools of the state, and a railroad man of wide experience. His first work was as a member of Michigan train crews, and ever since he has been in Tacoma—more than thirteen years—has been a railroad employee. First he was a brakeman, but twelve years ago he was given charge of a train, and is now one of the oldest conductors on the Pacific division of the Northern Pacific. He has been on the Portland run most of the time. HARRY WINCHESTER. Captain Harry Winchester of Balch's Cove, who is completing his first term as county commissioner, has been renominated for a second term He has been in the state — on the Sound, in fact — since SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1902 --- [Name] HON. FRANK W. CUSHMAN. Who was permitted to name twenty-four of the delegates to the state convention, a majority of which are well known McBride men, though the convention said implicitly that they wanted none of the Governor's "pet measures." N. B. M'NICOL. 1866, and in Pierce county since 1879. He has had an active business career since reaching Washington, and his experience as a logger, coupled with his services on the board of county commissioners, gives him a thorough acquaintance with the needs of the different sections of the county. Captain Winchester is a native of England, having been born in Tunbridge, Kent, in 1845. He attended the schools of that country and afterward engaged as a ship carpenter. He signed in that capacity in the old ship Clio, which made a run out to Honolulu and Panama in 1866. From Panama Captain Winchester came to Puget POLITICAL POT - PIE POLITICAL POT - PIE Congressman Jones, who was recently in Seattle, and who more recently has been in most of the counties in Western Washington, is advocating, so it is said, that Jones and Cushman be nominated by the next state convention by acclamation, but that the nomination for the third congressman be a free-for-all fight, and then Jones can stand on a pedestal and watch it from afar. From a W. L. Jones standpoint there is no doubt but such a course on the part of the state convention would be highly gratifying, but Mr. Jones should not overlook the fact that he has troubles of his own, and whether or not he has troubles of his own at home, the state of Washington as a whole does not feel in duty bound to give him the nomination without his working for it any more than anyone else. If any unanimous nominations are to be made for congressman, then the Pie-maker wants them all unanimously made. Let the steering committee go in and decide who are to be the nominees and then let them be unanimously nominated. Perhaps it will be Mr. Jones, and perhaps not; but there is no need of making fish of one and fowl of another. There are a number of candidates for congress in this state, and those candidates are not particular whether they get Mr. Jones, Mr. Cushman or the third place—they simply want a nomination and they are not caring who gets left so long as they succeed. It therefore behooves Congressman Jones to bring in his delegation and go in the steering committee room and solve the problem, and when it is solved let three congressmen be unanimously nominated by the convention. If there is any effort to shut King county out of one of the congressmen on the part of Mr. Jones and his friends there is going to be a hot time in the old town from the time the nominations are made until the election, and then perhaps somebody won't go back to congress who thought they would do W. CUSHMAN, name twenty-four of the mention, a majority of which men, though the convention wanted none of the Gover- HARRY WINCHESTER. Sound and he decided when he reached this state to remain here. For thirteen years he was in Kitsap county and then he came to Pierce, first engaging as a logger. He bought a place at Balch's Cove, intending to engage in the manufacture of bricks, but the clay did not turn out well. Subsequently he purchased the steamer Messenger and for five years was her owner. He was once master of the boat. At present Captain Winchester is living at his handsome home at Balch's Cove. He is visited annually by scores of Tacomans who seek a cozy resting place during the summer months POT - PIE so. Let it be distinctly understood, as has been previously said in these columns, that King county is going to have representation at Washington in the next congress and she is going to have representation in the lower house at that. Pierce has held its Republican county convention and Cushman won out in spite of the Foster-Grosup opposition, and he was permitted to name twenty-four out of the forty-nine delegates to the state convention, while the other twenty-ve were pledged by resolution to support him until he himself should voluntarily release them. Mr. Cushman deserves such a home endorsement as that, and the Pie-maker hopes that it will have a salutary effect on his opponents in Pierce county and force them to cease their fighting, as they have been doing in the past. The success of the anti-McBride forces in Pierce county and the nomination of Ed. S. Hamilton, whom McBride swore eternal vengeance against and said that he should not be nominated, was the most stinging rebuke that the governor has received in the whole campaign. Governor McBride and hisenchmen have visited the most of the county conventions in the state and personally appealed to the delegates to pass resolutions endorsing his administration and instructing the delegates to the state convention to vote for a railroad commission bill plank, which meant the placing of Governor McBride at the head of a political machine in this state through which the governor hopes to dictate the politics of the state for the next quarter of a century. Since the Tacoma convention it is very doubtful if the governor will succeed in having his railroad plank placed in the next Republican platform, and if he does it will be done with so many strings to it that it will be of no force and effect in the governor's getting together a political machine. --- Convention. --- 1 [Name] HON. LOUIS D. CAMPBELL, Mayor of the city of Tacoma, who leads the Cushman delegation to the state convention. Mr. Campbell is the only prominent Hamilton man on the delegation. The question now being asked is: "Did Cushman appoint him because he was the Mayor?" Whatcom, which held its county convention the same day as did Pierce, and Chehalis, which held its county convention the same day, went against McBride's railroad policy, and all of the legislative nominees, if elected, will vote against the railroad plains when it comes up before the next legislature. But as to that, all of those counties in Eastern Washington that passed strong resolutions endorsing McBride's railroad policy nominated legislators who under no consideration will vote for a railroad commission bill in the next legislature. The governor may be able to go before the people in 1904 as a bolter and defeat the Republican party on that ground, but his hope of shaping the Republican party of this state into a McBride machine has vanished like a summer's dream. It is currently reported that W. H. Lewis, who was nominated for the lower house in the Thirty-seventh senatorial district, will not make the race but will, as soon as the central committee gets down to business, tender usi resignation. Mr. Lewis is finding so much opposition to him in the Republican ranks, from which he has repeatedly bolted, that he prefers, so it seems, to step down and out rather than be defeated at the polls, as he would be if he should conclude to make the race. He perhaps is the weakest vassel in the shape of a nominee that the Republicans named at the last county convention, and it is very remarkable that such "critters" as he could get following enough among Republicans to be nominated for an office, but he shows his good sense in refusing to make the race. Commenting on the senatorial forecast, which appeared in the columns of The Seattle Republican last week, a prominent politician was prompted to discuss the matter to use Pie-maker one day this week, and he said many things which will be of general interest to the Republican politicians of this state. It will be remembered that the Pie-maker asserted last week that only three candidates had been announced for United States senator in the persons of Mr. Wilson, Mr. Ankeny and Mr. Preston, all of which was quite true, but there are dark horses who are being groomed here and there either by themselves or by their friends who are hoping that in the legislative mixup senatorial lighting will strike them and, Phoenix like, they will rise up out of the ashes the political star of the occasion. "There is no doubt in my mind but that Congressman Jones is an avowed candidate for the United States senatorship. He does not announce his candidacy, nor do I think he will do so until he sees how the land lies after the legislature has assembled. If Mr. Jones sees there is danger of eaquelock he will forwish leave Washington and hurry to Olympia and an . . . --- on. ads the Cushman delegation to the only prominent Hamilton man on asked is: "Did Cushman appoint nounce his intention to entering the fight for the senatorship. Thus, I think, has prompted Mr. Jones to make the unique campaign that he is making in his own interest, advocating that the state convention unanimously nominate him for congressman. Of course he includes Mr. Cushman, because he has a delicacy in asking that he be the only one unanimously nominated." "I think I can say without fear of successful contradiction that the idea which has gone abroad that Jacob Furth, the Seattle corporation king, is a dark horse candidate for United States senator is without foundation. Mr. Furth has no political ambitions, in my opinion, at present. If he ever thinks of trying to get to the United States senate it will be some time in the distant future, perhaps two or six years from now, but under no circumstances will he permit his name to be used before the coming legislature, even though he would feel that there was a show of him being elected. He has matters in hand at present that would prevent him from accepting such an election even if it was tendered to him." ... Now, there is one man in Seattle who has a stable in which dark horses are being groomed, and that man is none other than Will H. Parry, who is grooming Sam H. Piles, the man who is playing fast and lose between the McBride and the railroad forces, for the United States senatorship when he finds it utterly impossible to elect Harold Preston. Piles, it will be remembered, was responsible for the announcement of Frank Brownell of the Northwest for congress and went so far as to promise Mr. Brownell the support of King county, but the county convention would not have it that way. Still Piles believes that he can manipulate the next state convention so as to nominate Mr. Brownell, and thereby get the Northwest to support him for United States senator. It is claimed that Governor McBride is a party to this dark horse combine, but with the understanding that he is to be looked after two years from now. Mr. Preston is not considered a strong candidate by Mr. Piles nor Mr. Parry, and under the lash of the Seattle spirit they believe that they can prevent the King county delegation from going to pieces even if there is no show for Preston. This they may do, but it is seriously doubted, for there are men who have been nominated by the Republicans for the legislature who will support Preston, but who will do as they please when Mr. Preston gives up the ghost. When you subscribe for the Seattle Republican you get a weekly paper that's always full of newsy news. No weekly paper will be of half so much interest to you for the next six or eight months as The Seattle Republican, and you should have it sent to your address at once. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 28 1952 PRICE FIVE CENTS --- The Seattle Republican H. R. Cayton ..... Editor Susie Revels Cayton ..... Associate One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... 60 Entered at the Postoffice at Seattle as Second-class Mail Matter. Bona Fide Circulation ..... 2,500 THE TICKET Indorsed for United States senator ..... HAROLD PRESTON Indorsed for congress ..... WILL E. HUMPIREY Call for Republican State Convention The Republican state convention for Washington is hereby called to meet at the city of Tacoma on Wednesday, September 10, 1902, at the hour of 10 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of placing in nomination three candidates for Congress and one candidate for the State Supreme Court, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before said convention. The basis of representation will be two delegates at large for each county and one delegate for each Tacoma vote or fraternity member in each county for J. M. Frank Republican candidate for governor at the general election of 1900, the apportionment for each county being as follows: County— Frink vote. Dele gates. Adams 333 6 Asotin 350 6 Chelan 485 7 Chehalis 1,648 18 Clallam 622 8 Clarke 1,517 17 Columbia 355 10 Cowltz 1,104 13 Douglas 444 6 Ferry 350 6 Franklin 39 2 Garfield 452 7 Island 240 4 Jefferson 599 8 King 8,801 90 Kitsap 807 10 Kittitas 946 11 Kilkittat 850 11 Lewis 1,762 20 Lincoln 1,130 13 Mason 483 7 Okanogan 412 6 Pacific 787 10 Pierce 4,734 49 San Juan 410 6 Skagit 1,611 18 Skamania 165 4 Snohomish 2,578 28 Spokane 4,613 48 Stevens 987 12 Thurston 1,347 15 Wahkiakum 355 6 Walla Walla 1,907 21 Whatcom 2,652 29 Whittman 2,060 23 Yakima 1,364 16 It is recommended that the several county conventions, in electing delegates, also elect alternates. It is recommended that the basis of apportionment for delegates to Joint Senatorial Districts be the same as that for the State Convention. The State Central Committee recommends that all voters who are willing to support the Republican Congressional nominees at the November election be invited to participate in the primaries. J. H. SCHIVELY, Chairman. Attest: J. W. LYSONS, Acting Secretary. County conventions are keeping Governor McBride pretty busy these days. He now knows that there is something doing. Tracy only cost Pierce county $45.51, while it cost King county in the neighborhood of $4,000, and cost Cudhei his job for sheriff. --- Oyster Bay has charms for others besides the president and his family, and especially since there are hopes of a fat job coming from it. Within the past eight months Jackson, Kentucky, has had thirty-six murders, and yet some people will insist that Kentucky is a civilized community. Even the White House has not been free from its skeleton in the closet, though the one discovered there the other day had by some means gotten under the floor. "Tacoma is a dead one," so think the Seattle crooks. Well, ellows, so far as you are concerned, it would be well for Seattle if she was in a similar condition. --- A shortage in the salmon packing of the Northwest is predicted, which means that canned salmon will be as high next winter as canned beef, and that's saying a good deal. --- The report of Fitzsimmons weeping when the Examiner cried out "fake" in the recent Jeffries-Fitzsimmons fight recalls to mind that even the devil weeps when he is caught at his own game. Japan and Johnny Bull are figuring to leave Russia out in the cold when the final division of Korea has been made. We always thought that that unholy alliance would bring forth a monstrosity. Because a Pueblo Indian buck committed suicide because his mother-in-law flogged him on account of his having flogged his wife some unkind critic has seen mean enough to say "there is no use trying to civilize the Indian." Paint may not make an old woman look young as it makes an old house look new, but it makes any old woman look a darn sight better when she uses it properly, and with this most any man will agree. Dillon and McRae, the two Davenport men who secured a plaster mold of Harry Tracy, are not exactly ghouls, but they are ghoulish enough inclined to do most any old thing from which they can get a dirty dollar. --- And now comes the census commentators and declare the farmers of the United States are the richest class of citizens in the country. First thing you know J. Pierpont Morgan and Jim Hill are going to turn farmers in order to get rich. The Ballard News boasts of having "a new head." It, however, made no reference of having any new brains for its new head, and for that reason its readers need not expect anything out of the ordinary on account of its new head. Any man who would predict to Col. Lindsey the next Democratic presidential nominee would be considered crazy by the colonel, because he (the colonel) knows that any man who sees the next Democratic presidential nomination will himself be crazy. --- Puerto Rico is said to be drunk from financial prosperity. If the Panama hat craze in this country continues another year Puerto Rico san be lending money to Uncle Sam at 3 per cent, interest and still consider it a splendid investment. Someone says "strikes are like lawsuits, if you win you lose," and to this we heartily agree, but only those labor unions that have gone through strikes realize it. Experience is a dear teacher, butools will have no other. --- "Official patronage is the oil used to lubricate political machines," so says the Mount Vernon Argus. That fully explains why John L. Wilson has been so successful in politics. He has always distributed his patronage among those who support him and not among his enemies. --- For the first seven months of the present year the fire loss in this country was $97,133,850. While this showing is something better than previous years, it nevertheless shows that in spite of the improved fire fighting instruments the fires go right on destroying property just the same. North Lansing, N. Y., is said to have the oldest government employee in the world. Postmaster Roswell Beardsley, who is now 93 years of age, .as been holding the postoffice at Lansing tor the past seventy-four years. He was first appointed by John Quincy aams, June 28, 1828. No serious exception can be taken to the German press styling King Edward of England a "fat old fool" but use American press would like to learn from the Germans what kind of an old fool is that at the head of the German government at present. Judging from a distance they are two of a kind. If the late United States census can be relied upon, 1,325,558,094 gallons of whiskey were consumed in the United States during the last year. That's a pretty good showing for cultured civilization, and we are inclined to think that even "narkest Africa" could not make a better showing than this, try as hard as it would or may. England's new premier, Mr. Balfour, is not forming a cabinet with as much ease as he thought he would. Balfour took up the thread where it was laid down by Salisbury, and there is quite a bit of pronounced opposition even in England proper against the Salisbury government, and if Mr. Balfour does not pursue a different course he will, find that his government won't stand the storm many months after it has been formed. Consuella Vanderbilt, the American heiless who married the Duke of Markborough, has finally prevailed on the young fellow to get a move on himself, and he now bids fair to become an important factor in England's political affairs. In "young America" makes up her mind to do something even old England fairly trembles. England is still alarmed at the American invasion of her commercial enterprises. Need not be alarmed, Cousin Ed; just prepare to take your medicine, for your Uncle Sam is going to sell you goods cheaper than you can make them, and for that reason you will be compelled to buy from him. So long as the anthracite coal operators can supply the demand for coal at prices which are at present double what it was before the strike it is plain to be seen that they have nothing to arbitrate, and before President Mitchell and his strikers are able to reduce them to an arbitrating condition the strikers will be in a starving condition. Rose Coghian says: "Men are just as susceptive to becoming gowns as women. That's one time Rose hit the nail on the head. The man who does not want to see his sweetheart or wife nandosomely gowned is a man without the refining touches of higher civilization culture. Clothes never make the man, but they come pretty nearly always making the woman. Handsome gowns do not always make ladies out of women, but they nevertheless make the woman doubly attractive when worn, and make the lady queen or the creation. --- which is "the real issue" is the thing that is causing much discussion in democratic circles at present. Bryan, Waterson and mill are each pleading to Miss Democracy that each one of them represents the real issue, all of which may be true, but to which one of them Democracy will throw the golden apple is the question. It goes to Bryan, then Waterson and mill will fight, and so also if it should go to mill or Waterson the other two will fight. On the whole Democracy is sorely puzzled what to do with her own contending factions. Patrick Henry Winston has broke loose again and is of the opinion that the widow of Harry Tracy should receive the reward for his capture. Winston always gets the wrong sow by the ear. Now, what's the matter with the widows of Tracy's victims getting the reward? Mrs. Tracy has lived without Tracy for a good many years, and we are of the opinion that she is perfectly willing to continue living without him, while the other women have depended on their husbands for their livingss and will live without them under many difficulties. --- in order to prevent being swallowed up by Seattle one Ballard Register wants the business men of that town to call a business men' council to devise ways and means to prevent the absorption. Why kick against the pricks, Brother Hitchcock? The sooner you are absorbed by Seattle the better for both you and Seattle, and this you must know, but you refuse to accept the situation because it would deprive a few men of political jobs. if it is the best interest of the town that you are wanting to bring about you will advocate the absorption of Ballard by Seattle. Lyles, Indiana, is a town on the Wabash which is owned and operated solely by cooled folk. It was settled by Joshua Lyles, a liberated slave of Tennessee, who went North and with the aid and assistance of his former master bought a tract of land on the wabash and settled. After the war he induced others of his race to emigrate from Tennessee and settle in the neighborhood, each buying or renting land, until the settlement was formed and subsequently a town laid out and platted. Soon the Louisville & St. Louis road built their way and anu put in a side track and called the station Lyles, after the owner of the farm. Then the little village began to take shape and has steadily grown until now it is a massive town, with all the modern improvements of the day. Jim Cantrell is the leading spirit, being postmaster, mayor and "it" in general. The government has recently issued orders that a rural delivery be put in operation in that community, and Lyles is to be the headquarters. There is perhaps more wealth, according to the Inter-Ocean, in that colored town and community than any other distinctively Negro settlement in the United States. Summer Excursion Rates To the beach. No more delightful summer resort in this state than at Westport beach. Inquire at the Northern Pacific for special rates. *** IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for the County of K NES You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wait: within July 19th, 1902, and July 1902, and defend the award and act in the Superior Court of the State of Washington for the County of King, which county the plaintiffs designate as the place of plaintiffs, and the plaintiff of the plaintiffs in said action and action. your answer upon the undersigned attorney the plaintiffs, at his office and post office the defendant, for the complaint of of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the which has been complaint of said plaintiffs, court. the nature and object of said action is to recover judgment against you, the said defendant, in the sum of $148.76, upon a balance of goods for goods by the researcher, merchandise sold for the defendant, and interest and costs of suit, sued and interest of attachment has been goods formerly owned by you and located at No. 909 First Ave. South, in the city of New York, where the further object of said action is to have said goods sold and the proceeds applied in payment of said judgment, inter- nally. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 19th day of July, 1902, the day of the first publication here. IRA BRONSON, Attorney for Plaintiffs Office and Post Office Address: Rooms 77-80 Salt Lake Building, Building, King County, Washington ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY SALE OR REAL ESTATE SHOULD NOT BE T. H. Cann, Esq., administrator of sald estate, having filed herein his petition for the sale of sald estate, belonging to sald estate; and it appears therefrom that there is not sufficient personal estate in the hands of sald administration; and the expenses of administration; and that it is the best interest of sald estate to sell the whole of sald real estate in order to close up the assets of sald estate; and to convert the assets of sald estate and to convert the assets of sald estate in order that the residue thereof may be distributed among the heirs; and it appears that court that sald petition should be granted: It is therefore ordered that all persons interested in said estate of George W. Schilling, Superior Court of King County, State of Washington, in the court room of the Probate Department thereof in Seattle, Wash. to send a petition at the hour of 9:20 a.m. of said day, at which time and place said petition will come up for hearing and show cause, if any. The petition must be not granted directing said administrator to sell at public sale to the highest bidder and not being longing to the estate of George W. Schilling, deceased to-wit: An undivided one-third interest in and to the following estate situated in King County, Washington, viz: An undivided one-third interest in and to the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter and the southwest quarter and the southwest quarter of section 30 in township 24 range 6 east, 160 acres at $5.00 per acre. Also an undivided one-third interest in and to the north half of southeast quarter and the southeast quarter and the southeast quarter of northwest quarter of section 30 in township 24 range 6 west, 160 acres at $5.00 per acre. That a copy of this order be published once each week for four successive weeks. In the Republican, a newspaper, published in Seattle, Washington, and of general circulation therein. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Notice is hereby given that the King County Court session three (3) weeks, commencing Monday, August 4, 1902, at the King County Court, and the tax roll of 1902. All taxpayers with abatement of tax are hereby no titled and tax not held. August 25, 1902, or be forever barred. Dated at Seattle this 2d day of July, 1902, August 22nd. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE KING COUNTY, Helen Schuman, Burtte H. Schuman, Defendant, No. - Summons by Pepa L. Schuman. The State of Washington, to the said Eileen Schuman, Defendant: No action was summoned to appear within sixty days after the first publication of this summons, to-wit, the first publication of the 15th day of August, 1902, and defend the titleled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and answer the complaint of the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff, at their office below stated; and in case of any other action against the plaintiff, rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been satisfied, you may be required to give a brief statement of the object of the action is to dissolve the bonds of maturing debt, and to suit the plaintiff and the defendant, on the grounds of desertion and on the ground of failure on the basis of the suit suitable the plaintiff, or the support to this suit, BRADY & GAY, Attorneys for Plaintiff P. O. address Building, Seattle, Kent County, Washington The State of Washington to the said Attorney, defend the court, and you are hereby bound to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, that you may do so in July, A. D. 1902, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff for the unpaid attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated, and in case of your failure to do so, you are hereby bound against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Court of said attorney for plaintiff said action, set forth in the complaint, is as follows: To obtain a decree of divorce dissolving as bonds of the plaintiff, existent and valid, and defend the grounds of abandonment and cruel treatment. J. P. BALL, Attorney for Plaintiff. Postoffice address: 18 Roxwell Block, Seattle, County of King, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for the County of King. DIVORCE SUMMONS. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington in and for the County of King, Eva May McManus placed by King, Eva May McManus defendant an. No. 3595. Summons by the The State of Washington to the publication The State of Washington to the publication William McManus, defendant : YOUR PIANO as OUR PRICES and TERMS ARE THE LOWEST Pianos sold as low as $6.00 Per Month Sherman, Clay & Co. STEINWAY DEALERS Coal all Coal The Best Coal Newcastle LUMP COAL. Only at the Bunkers of the Pacific Coast Co Phone Main 92. Telephone Main 1191. Engineers' Supply Co., Inc. GENERAL ENGINEERS' SUPPLIES. 110 Railroad Avenue Between Yesler Way and Washington St. H. H. DEARBORN & CO. Real Estate BOUGHT AND SOLD TIDE LANDS A SPECIALTY ROOM C HALLER BLDG., SECOND AV. AND COLUMBIA ST. Seattle Clothes Pressing Co. Ladles' and gents' clothing cleaned, dyed and repaired. We call for and deliver promptly. 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Having established branches at DAWSON, WHITE HORSE, SKAGWAY and ATLIN, this Bank has exceptional facilities for handling YUKON and ALASKA business. A General Banking Business transacted. Seattle Branch D. A. Cameron, Cor. Sec. Ave. and James St. Manager. Best Equipped Plant in the City. Phone Main 797 American Dye Works H. M. BARG, Proprietor Dry cleaning a specialty. Lace Curtains, Portiers, Tapestries, Fine Fabrics. We call for, clean, press, repasr and deliver your clothes. Plant and Works 1316 Western Ave. Main Office 216 Union St. Seattle D. B. SPELLMAN Practical Plumber and Gasfitter. Sanitary Plumbing a Specialty 212 Columbia Street. ALBERT HANSEN JEWELER AND SILVERSMITH Dealer in Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry Silverware, Rich Cut Glass, Etc. PHONE BUFF 642 "The Printer" 214 Spring Street Seattle, Wash PORT ORCHARD ROUTE DAILY SERVICE. Effective March 25, 1902. Bremerton (U. S. Navy Yard and Dry Dock) Charleston and Sidney. STEAMERS ATHLON, INLAND FLYER AND PORT ORCHARD. 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TIME TRIED and FIRE TESTED After two years' use in Seattle it stands alone the favorite Domestic Coal. Phone Union 24, Deliveries North of Pike Phone Main 588, Deliveries South o Pike --- M. B. Candidate to succeed himself as county commissioner for the Third district, is one of the pioneers of Cheney. He is an old soldier, and a man 57 years of age. While he resides in Cheney, he owns one of the largest farms near there, which he rents. He was at one time engaged in the sawmill business on the coast and was also a railroad man. The Republicans of Spokane county can congratulate themselves on having men of the type of Mr. Dean, who stand for all that's good and pure in local government. To say that Mr. Dean will be reelected is simply making a prophecy that can not be called extraordinary. SPOKANE, Aug. 20.—Mayer P. S. Byrne for governor and City Commissioner H. L. Lilienthal for mayor. Such seem to be the aspirations of the two leading personages about the city hall. The friends of each are grooming him for the position of his choice, but at the present time the two are not working in harmony. But if they do settle their recent difficulties, which do not seem to be serious, they will be able to form a strong combination which will have an important effect on the politics of the Democratic party in Spokane county. How it would work out is not yet certain. Perhaps Mayor Byrne will ask for a second term and will wish his city commissioner to wait another two years before aspiring to the position of mayor. But if these two men should form an alliance it would be a strong one, for Mayor Byrne represents the active and popular wing of the Democratic party and Commissioner Lilienthal is a Democrat of the old school. The old-line Democrats who denounce Mayor Bryne and the Populist branch of the party would have no such excuses for opposing Mr. Lilienthal. Friends of both these two men say that to run the one for governor and the other for mayor would make a combination which even Senator Turner would not be willing to oppose. On the other hand, whether Byrne and Lilienthal if they go into such a combination would oppose Senator Turner is uncertain. The mayor is very bitter against some of the senator's friends, and while he professes to be for the senator's re-election, as a matter of fact he cares nothing for it. If he thought Senator Turner's re-election would injure his own chances of securing the nomination for governor two years hence because the people would not consent to so large a portion of the honors coming to Spokane he would not hesitate to use his power for the defeat of the senator. If the senator, on the other hand, has any good chance for a re-election he must acknowledge that Mayor Byrne has it in his power to defeat him. Perhaps the mayor and his friends will have enough influence in the Democratic convention to prevent the nomination of any legislative candidates who might be elected; or, if they chose, no matter how strong the men may be who are named for legislative positions, the mayor's friends are numerous enough to defeat them at the polls. But Commissioner Lilenthal may not wish to wait two years for the nomination for mayor. He may ask it of the party next spring. Mayor Byrne's administration has not been as gratifying to the people of Spokane as it might be. In fact a large portion of the people look upon it with contempt, but it is Commissioner Lilenthal who has done the most good work and has done more to win credit for Mayor Byrne's administration than any other man in the city. The commissioner's policy has been vigorous and fearless. He would as soon have the biggest mining king in Browne's addition arrested for a violation of the ordinances of the city as he would to have the poorest laborer. Both he and the mayor have taken unusual methods to protect organized labor and they have the support of that branch of the party in consequence. But Mayor Byrne is not the only man whom Senator Turner is endeavoring to keep from aspiring to high office from Spokane county in the Democratic party. Recently State Senator W. W. Tolman has been mentioned by Democrats for the nomination for . . . congressman. Many of his friends wish him to aspire to the position, but they were unable to get either of the two dailies of the city, both of which are run in the interests of Senator Turner, to mention his candidacy, until some mention of it was made in other papers of the state and even outside the state. Then Senator Turner hastened down to the Spokesman-Review office and a few mornings later that paper comes out with a statement saying what a fine fellow Tolman is, but that he is a hold over senator and that it would be very foolish of him to aspire to a position in congress when he has a so much better place in the state legislature and Senator Tolman could not afford to sacrifice his business interests for a position in congress, and further the paper is sure the gentleman does not want the nomination anyhow! The motive is all so plain that it is surprising the paper would attempt work so course. Certainly it would never do to have Senator Tolman or any other Democrat nominated for congress from Spokane for it would too seriously lessen Senator Turner's chances of re-election. And yet many Democrats think it would be far more sensible to secure either this position or some other on the state ticket, rather than for Spokane county to sacrifice everything to George Turner, when at best his chances of return to the United States senate are so small. John C. Murphy, the politician of Seattle, has been in the city in the interests of Judge John E. Humphries, who aspires to the nomination of justice of the supreme court of the state. Mr. Murphy says he is for Will Humphrey for congress, but that if anything should occur to prevent the latter from securing the nomination he wishes, he believes that the Republican party could not do better than nominate Seattle's candidate for judge. And more than that, he even thinks it would not be bad policy for Mr. John L. Wilson and Mr. Levi Ankney to place both Mr. Humphrey and Mr. Humphries on the state ticket which he admits would lessen the chances of Mr. Preston securing the election of United States senator. More and more is there a growing feeling that it is unfortunate that Seattle did not name another man as its choice for United States senator. A great many people outside of King county think Seattle should have one of the senators, but they do not think the best choice was made when Mr. Preston was endorsed as the man. No one questions Mr. Preston's ability or worthiness, but they feel that he can not win. Hundreds of Republican workers at least in the eastern part of the state wish that the choice of Seattle Republicans had been John B. Allen. It is felt that he would have had almost a walkover. Of course, it probably is too late for the King county politicians to change their plans, but if it could be done and Mr. Allen could be made the leader many legislators from other portions of the state who do not fancy either John L. Wilson or Levi Ankney, would hasten to the support of Mr. Allen. Who will manage the Republican campaign in Spokane county this year is not yet definitely settled, but probably D. T. Ham will be chosen. He is generally and in fact almost universally desired for the place and if he will accept he will be chosen. It is said he has about consented to do the work if he is elected. Mr. Ham is a thorough business man and his choice will . . . assure candidates and every one else that they are to have a fair deal and an honest expenditure of their money. As an example of the bitterness which exists among Populists of Spokane against the Democrats the following is clipped from the Freemen's Labor Journal, printed in the city, which is the organ of the labor unions of the city and which fairy represents the sen.ment among the Populists of the Democratic party: "But those fellows will be attended to when the right time comes, and right here let me say, if Baldwin or any of his gang of sandbaggers should be put on the ticket this fall, we will show them a trick with holes in it. We will repeat the dose of 1898, which was given with very little effort, and some of the victims don't know yet how it was done. . . . "I see some of the old-time boxers are still talking of nominating Freed Baldwin for state senator. I don't think any sane man is seriously contemplating such a thing. In the first place, the district which he aspires to represent is strong Republican. The man to win it on the Democratic ticket must be able to get the solid vote of his party and draw heavily from the Republican votes as well. Baldwin could do neither. He stands in bad odor with liberal Democrats and the ex-Populists. His record as a deputy marshal in the trouble of 1894 would cause union labor to fight him, and his record for treachery to friends would stop him from gaining any Republican votes. If he should be nominated it would be taken as an insult to every old Knight of Labor, of which there are many in that district, and on election day they would pour it into him in coal scuttle bunches. If he is going to be nominated it will be by Senator Turner and his friends, who will be head responsible for the play, and will have to suffer the consequences. For my part, I don't object to him being put on the ticket. I think it will give the labor voters a chance to show their strength, and if they don't bury Baldwin he will never get his political head up again I miss my guess, and will say they are not entitled to any consideration in the future." . . . And yet Mr. Baldwin is the man Senator Turner wants nominated for state senator in the Sixth Senatorial district and the man who writes the article and the paper in which it appears are for Turner! POPCORN. SPOKANE PERSONAL. One of the notable social events of the summer season was the party at which Mrs. J. Houston was hostess, Thursday, August 14, in honor of her husband, who has just returned from Cuba. This was the largest party which has been given this season, and as a pleasant event will be long remembered by the guests. The Houston home, about five miles from the city, is an ideal place for such a party as the one Mrs. Houston had planned. The home was beautifully illuminated and the spacious parlors were thrown open for the convenience of the guest. The porch to the front and side of the residence was crowded with guests. Here they were enclosed by a wealth of vines with which the porch is adorned. Mrs. Houston was assisted by Mrs. Calvin Surry, Miss Porter and Miss Houston. A sumptuous repast was served about 12 p. m., after which dancing was resumed till the week small hours. The gowns worn by the ladies were handsome and together with the flowers and the vines in contrast made a scene which is difficult to describe. The hostess received her guests in a rose pink mousseline-de-soie. Mrs Calvin Surry wore a gown of light blue silk with white trimmings. Miss Porter and Miss Houston wore pink tafeta silks. The invited guests were; Mr. and Mrs. William Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Carle, Mr. and Mrs. Phi Vaughner, Mr. and Mrs. Sam 'nomas, Mr. and Mrs. D. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. B. Lusher, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Mash, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Turner, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Ball, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. M. Stafford, Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Ryan, Madame Holmes, Mrs. John Roberts, Mrs. A. Hagans, Mrs. Smith of Butte, Mont, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. D. F. Washington, Miss Fields, Miss Ines Hadley, Miss Durant, Miss Candace Parker, Miss Blanche Knight, Miss Helen Stafford, Miss Maud Lucas, Miss Louse Wright, Mr. Joe Hagans, Mr. Merrill Washington, Mr. Brown, Mr. Smith, Mr. Saay, Mr. Joe Hazelwood, Mr. Joe Ross, Mr. S. A. Harris. Mr. M. Stafford, an employee at the Great Northern depot, has been very ill, but is improving. The A. M. E. church enjoyed a public picnic at Montrose Park Thursday, the 14th, and if singing, jumping, shouting and eating are indications of a good time they must have had one. SURETY BONDS When you want a bond as Administrator, Guardian, Executive, Receiver of Trustee, phone us office. This business is a large bond of this kind without delay. Bonds are cuted here in Seattle. JOHN A. WHALLEY & CO. GEN. AGT. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of, Maryland Phone Main 611. Colman Bldg. Seattle 5 and 10 Cents a Box In Abundance We Lead in Qu in I SAN DIEGO 415 Pi We Lead in Quality, But Follow in Prices. AN DIEGO FRUIT C 415 Pike Street We Lead in Quality, But Follow in Prices. President, RICHARD OSBORN Former Judge Superior Court King Co. Vice-Pres, AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS Of Green and Griffiths Incorporated April 22, 1902 Incorporated for $600,000. This Company has 40 acre oil fields, California, surroun block of stock is now being After this block is sold the officers of this company are w and have the entire confidence G. H. L. M00RE, Trustee 74 Starr-Boyd Bu Corporated for $600,000. Fully Paid and Non-Assessed. This Company has 40 acres of valuable land in the Kern fields, California, surrounded by flowing wells. A stock of stock is now being offered at 15 cents per share. This block is sold the price will be advanced. Sectors of this company are well known business men of Seville. We have the entire confidence of the community. MOORE, Trustee 74 Starr-Boyd Building, P. O. Box 1275, Seville Incorporated for $600,000. Fully Paid and Non-Assessable This Company has 40 acres of valuable land in the Kern Co. oil fields, California, surrounded by flowing wells. A small block of stock is now being offered at 15 cents per share. After this block is sold the price will be advanced. The officers of this company are well known business men of Seattle, and have the entire confidence of the community. G. H. L. MOORE, Trustee 74 Starr-Boyd Building, P. O. Box 1275, Seattle, Wash. Convenience Electric light tremely low price, e of matches, insures and odor, guarantee The safest mo flame to ignite dra able material. 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Write today for free catalogue and our special offer. J. L. MEAD CYCLE CO., Chicago, III. Does the prosecuting attorney acknowledge his inability to prosecute Rev. Scott, which prompts him to employ outside counsel in order to bolster up what seems to be a pretty bad case o. blackmail? Six gigantic brick blocks are now in the course of erection on Second avenue between Columbia and Pike streets in this city. If that is not proof sufficient that Seattle is the only live town on the Pacific coast, then where would you go to get your proof? Now, if mothers would stop their little baby girls from galavanting about the streets by day and by night and with every Tom, Dick and Harry as many in Seattle are doing, there would be fewer Mary Hall cases to be exposed in the papers and courts. It can be said without fear of successful contradiction that the Afro Americans of Seattle own more value. a real real estate in comparison to their numbers than in any other city on the Pific coast, and yet there is room for more of them to buy dirt. Rev. S. S. Freeman, who has been pastor of the A. M. E. church at Roslyn in this state for the past year, passed through the city last Tuesday, en route to the annual conference, which is being held at Portland. He was accompanied by his wife. They only remained in the city for a few hours. One day last week a young man showed up in the city in quest of typographical work, and for the first time for a good many years a Negro "pulled his card." Whether he got work or not has not been learned at this office, but, from a labor union standpoint, he "was a coon that came all right." Will H. Morris, the well-known criminal lawyer, has been retained to defend Rev. Scott. Unless the state's witnesses tell a mighty straight story Big Bill Morris is going to make them look like 30-cent pieces with holes in them before they leave the witness stand. Another celebration among Afro-Americans in this city is being contemplated, and if they decide to pull it off it will be September 22, the real day on which Lincoln emancipated the slaves of this country, which emancipation proclamation went into full force and effect the following first day of January. Just why a Negro cannot edit a newspaper with sufficient ability to be of general interest to colored folk who read is a problem that you must go farther than here to get solved. However, such seems to be a fact, and it is so despite the fact that the same editor and paper are considered journalistic gems by the leading Anglo-Saxons. When Jerry Doheny returned from New York the other day, whither he went for his fall and winter stock, he was overheard to say to a friend: "...en I get my new goods open and on exhibition I will make the women folks' mouths just waller for me." Perhaps Jerry meant his goods, but his friend thought he meant what he said and wondered why the women would. "Let no one even get the idea into their heads that I intend to give any Negro work in not only the county auditor's office, but in no other office with which I am connected now or at any other time," came, so it is said, from County Auditor George B. Lamping, who is now a candidate for reelection in King county. Now, Mr. Twelve Hundred Colored Voter, how do you like it? Now that the A. M. E. church of this city is in a bad muddle on account of the Scott rape case the bishop of the 'get Sound A. M. E. conference would act wisely in sending Rev. S. Freeman to this charge. He is the only man in the conference at present that has sufficient ability, both educational and otherwise, to hold the work, and he should be assigned to this place. Seattle demands the best in the conference because of the fact that Seattle is the best in . . .e conference. It is rather strange that Rev. Scott should have been arrested, charged with a heinous crime, just a few hours before the appointed time for the burial of the church mortgage was to come off. In view of the fact that a woman who is well known in A. M. E. church circles boasted but a few days prior that Mr. Scott would never burn that mortgage, makes it look a little .ke sue knew what was going to take place on that day. Cresent CRESCENT CREAM COFFEE Brewed and Packaged Crescent Creme Co. Imported of HOLLAND CREME COFFEE LASTING IMPORTANT Cresent Cream Coffee Strictly High Grade; Used by all Lovers of Really Good Coffee and Recom- mended by the Loading Chefs. Ask your Grocer --- The Elks' Carnival which will be the whole thing in Seattle for the ensuing two weeks, will be a busy time for those whose interests or duties will make it necessary for them to work, and a merry time for those who will have little else to do besides looking for amusement. In the latter class will be the thousands of visitors. Never has any city of the Northwest presented to the public such an array of attractions. The Fair proper will be well worth seeing, while the street parades are expected to surpass everything of the kind ever seen heretofore in this region. As it is amusement chiefly, that visitors will be looking for, the management has secured for the Midway one of the best vaudeville attractions in the country, this is the Jabour company's shows, which will give continuous performance all afternoon and evening of each day. Other special features of interest are slated throughout the affair. The entire program is as follows: August 18 Coronation Day. Press Day. August 22 Fraternal Society Day. August 27 Elks' Day. August 19 Seattle Day. Industrial Parade. August 23 Commercial Travelers' Day. British Columbia Day. August 24 Sunday. August 29 Organized Labor Day. August 20 Ladies Day. Children's Day. Babies' Day. August 25 Firemen's Day. August 30 Puget Sound Day Naval Day. Military Day. August 21 Lumbermen's Day. Hoo Hoos' Day. A bad pill of blackmailing is said to be mixed up in the Scott rape case, and a family with no connection with either the Halls or the church seems to be the head push in bringing it to the front. The head of every family in this city, whether white or black, want to see such liberties as Rev. Scott is charged as having been sent to the penitentiary for life, but if it is a case of blackmail then these same heads of families want to see the blackmailers given even a worse dose than Scott will get if convicted. Rumor has it that the two lots on either side of the A. M. E. church of this city on Fourteenth avenue are for sale at half the price that other lots along that street are bringing, and all because the worshipers at the A. M. E. church hold thelir services to late, appeal to the Lord as though he was deaf and finally because Bedlam himself breaks loose when the services are dismissed. There is no need of any of these complaints being registered in this day and generation, and the colored folk attending those services should see to it that neither of them occur in the future, not so much on account of the kickers as for their own edification. The average Seattle citizen, after viewing all the parades that have daily taken place in this city for the past week, naturally wonders what on earth has become of Colonel E. P. Edsen, the well known parade marshal, who has been seen on every previous occasion when there was any parading to be done. Colonel Edsen's pondous figure and prancing footsteps have not been seen one time during the whole week, and just how the carnival has proceeded as far as it has without his being a conspicuous figure is more than the average Seattleite can fully explain. Something must be wrong with the colonel. He must be lost, strayed or stolen, and a search warrant should be issued fortow for his recovery. All will agree that a most noble soul returned to the God that gave it last Sunday when Mr. B. F. Briggs, a well known Seattle pioneer, suddenly passed away. Though Mr. Briggs had passed his three-score-and ten milestone of life his death was wholly unexpected and the sad news cast a gloom over a host of friends, acquaintances and admirers who knew him intimately and otherwise. Without making any pretentious display of life, but acting as a plain, plodding citizen, attending strictly to his own business and leaving the other fellow's alone, the life of B. F. Briggs is one that young America can emulate and learn much there from. For thirty-four years he continuously held the same responsible position, which is proof sufficient that he was as true as steel, as good as gold and at heart as white as snow. Peace to his ashes. Rev. M. Scott, the pastor of the A. M. E. church, who was arrested a few days ago, charged with the heinous crime of rape, has secured as counsel Will H. Morris and Andrew R. Black. Mr. Morris is too well known as an able and sagacious criminal lawyer in this community to need any extended comment in the columns of this paper, and it can be said of Mr. Black, while young in the profession, he prepares well his cases before going into court and has been peculiarly successful with the criminal cases which he has handled. In the trial of six felony cases in which he has appeared as counsel for the defense, the penalty for which on conviction was a term of years in state's prison, three were acquitted and three receiving qualified verdicts, subjecting them to short terms in the county jail, one being only sentenced to the penitentiary for a year. The most important case in which Mr. Black has appeared was that of the state of Washington vs. John Henry, charged with "murder in the first degree." He assisted Mr. Hawkins in the defense, securing a verdict of "murder in the second degree." He was the recipient of many congratulations from members of the bar for his speech in that case, and which at once gave him a standing among the legal fraternity of this city. The date of Rev. Scott's preliminary trial has been set for September 1. BROTHER IN BLACK From a Colorado paper it is learned that there are between 23,000 and 25,000 colored people in the state of Colorado, and, generally speaking, they are said to be doing better from a financial as well as educational standpoint than in any other state in the United States. There are more colored folk in the state of Kansas and they perhaps are doing better on the whole than in any other Western state but the colored folk of Colorado are said to own more property and are more varied in their business enterprises. After all the Western Negro promises to solve the much-mooted race problem and for that reason this paper has maintained from the very outset of its existence that it was expedient for the Negro of the South to scatter, come West, go North, go South, go any old way in order to prevent a race congestion in any one state of the Union. Even the Negroes in all of the Western states are doing better than those in the South. They are even doing better in Alaska than in the South and all because they have scattered and have caught the spirit of pluck and enterprise from their white neighbors, while those in the South continue to pattern after their lazy, good-for-nothing former masters, who do nothing more than eke out a miserable existence year in and year out and from birth till death. An editorial leader in the Tribune, published in Pueblo by a colored concern, advocates that the colored folk of that city form a Chamber of Commerce among themselves. Nothing more foolish could be advocated than the formation of such an organization as the one mentioned above. What the colored folk of Pueblo want to do, if they have business enterprises in operation there, is to become active members of the Chamber of Commerce that is there. Pay their dues and contribute to the various things that go to build up a city and they will find as much to do among the poor "white trash," as they are pleased to term them, as they possibly could find to do among themselves. This idea of always wanting to form some kind of an organization distinctively colored shows weakness, and the sooner the colored folk themselves cast off such weakness the better for them. Granted that the whites to some extent do not want them to become actively associated in their business bodies, nevertheless if they show the proper spirit the whites will not prevent them from joining them, and once in they can make their influence felt by doing as the whites do. It is poor policy for the Negroes to always take the lead in drawing the color line on the white folk, for that's just exactly what the Negro pretends to be fighting. The influence of Booker Washington's school is already being felt in those communities where the students therefrom have cast their lots. Maxey Cooper, a 19-year-old boy of Selma, Alabama, has recently patented an automatic churn which promises to completely revolutionize the dairy business. The patent looks so good to those who have seen it that Cooper has already been offered $15,000 cash for it and a royalty on all of the churns that are sold. He attended Booker Washington's school for two years, and while there studied electricity and mechanism, which gave him the idea that culminated in him patenting this new churn. Editor J. F. Taylor, of the Chicago Broad J. A., was recently found guilty of criminal libel and sentenced to five days in the county jail. Editor Taylor started his paper in Salt Lake, Utah, as a Democrat organ of the Negroes, but concluded Chicago a better field and went there a few years ago. He was a Democrat in his former home and took the same idea to Chicago, but there being other Negro Democrats in the Windy City he soon found much opposition. In a heated primary campaign Taylor denounced Ham Carter and did so in language which prompted Carter to swear to a complaint charging him with criminal libel, which, after a long and tedious trial, ended as stated above. The editor is now out of jail. That colored man in Knoxville, Tennessee, who had no more ambition than to want to sell himself back into slavery for $1,000, and the white man who offered to pay the money for him are both fair samples of the kind of human monsters that are to be found in that country. The Negro was too shiftless and unconcerned to make a living for himself and the white man was too lazy to make a living for himself and having a few dollars at his command he preferred to give it up to someone to wait on him and to work for him rather than to do so himself. Both of them ought to be arrested, fined and convicted for vagrancy and drummed out of the country after a coat of tar and feathers have been administered to them. When you want a fearless journal subscribe for The Seattle Republican. It does not truckle to King Policy and therefore is not afraid to speak out on public questions from a good citi- zen standpoint. Mount Zion Baptist church, old Uni- versity grounds)—Rev. J. Gordon Mc- pherson, pastor. Preaching 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath school 12.30 o'clock. Morning subject, "Saving Grace." Evening, a special sermon to the young people. All strangers are cordially invited to come and worship with us. Special music for Sunday services. AMUSEMENTS. SEATTLE THEATER. Juveniles Commencing Sunday, August 24. A big show by little people, refined and entertaining, unique and unsurpassed is the celebrated Belasco George Juvenile Specialty Company which will appear at this theater Sunday evening, August 24. Their little brass band, all uniformed, makes a tremendous hit whenever heard, especially Master Barton, the smallest drum-major in the world. This little company of vaudeville tots number sixteen. They give fourteen acts of genuine surprise to their audiences. The little band will give a concert in front of the theater each evening at 7.45. Ladies' and children's matinee at 2:15 Saturday afternoon. "Paul Jones." The little favorites, the Pollard Opera Company, are to come back to the Grand for one week beginning Sunday evening next. They will give a careful and elaborate presentation of Planquette's beautiful nautical opera, "Paul Jones," which has not been sung here in some years. Daphne Pollard has a great part in this, and Fred Pollard will be heard in new songs. It seems likely that this production will be the most likeable of all the Pollard offerings. Seats will go on sale Saturday morning. Richards & Pringle's New Georgia Minstrels, will be the attraction at the Third Avenue Theatre all next week, opening with a matinee. The organization numbers 40 people, and presents a choice collection of mirth-provoking and novel acts never seen here before. Every phase of good minstrelly and vaudeville is presented, and the program is crowded with big hits, in the way of the latest songs, dances, acrobatics, comedians, aerialists, quartet, the military sensation, "The Black Drill," a score of funny end men, an original first part, the beautiful scenic settings for which are an exact reproduction of a Japanese village, with its breezy, luxuriant perspective and unique architectural conceits. A special feature of the performance is the troupe of Morocco acrobats, five in number, with Simon Bonomor at their head. John H. McGraw Geo. B. 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