Seattle Republican

SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Historical Society POLITICAL POT - PIE VOL. IX., NO. 31 Next Monday week the eighth legislature of this state will convene and the politics of the state, which have been slumbering since the close of the last campaign when the state went overwhelmingly Republican, will break loose again and will for the sixty days following and even perhaps for sixty days more, be the sole topic of conversation not only among politicians, but among business men as well. What the next legislature does in the way of passing bills and who it elects United States senator will have considerable bearing on the future mineverings of the politicians of this state. If Harold Preston is elected United States senator and if the railroad commission bill is passed it will mean that Gov. McBride and his friends will domineer the politics of the state for the next ten years or more, or at least the indications point strongly in that direction. If on the other hand Levi Ankeny is elected United States senator and the railroad commission bill is defeated, it means that Ankeny and the railroad people will domineer the politics of the state for the next ten years. Then again, if a compromise is made and John L. Wilson is elected United States senator and the railroad commission bill passes in a modified form then the struggle for supremacy will continue in a similar condition as it now is and will be settled at the next state convention and when the ninth legislature of this state shall have completed its work. It's barely possible that the railroad people have the commission bill defeated in the senate, but whether they dare defeat the bill outright or not is a question. To defeat the bill outright might mean the defeat of the Republican party in 1904 and that neither the railroad people nor the McBride people are anxious to see done. * * * "Already," said a well known Olympia politician to the Piemaker one day this week, "Gov. McBride sees the handwriting on the wall and realizes the utter defeat of his railroad commission bill, and being a shrewd and sagacious politician he is making efforts to hedge on the entire situation in order that he may safely land his political aspirations. Rumor has it that the governor is considering a compromise and out of that he expects to either land as governor of the state or secure the federal judgship, which will be created either by the present or the coming congress. I am certain," continued the politician, "that the governor will not enter the senatorial fight because if he did he would be branded as an ingrate to Mr. Preston and as throwing his eastern Washington friends down. If therefore he can bring about a compromise by having his political enemies give to him their absolute promise of support for the governorship on the judgship without the general public knowing that he willfully abandoned his fight against the railroads and the cause of the people I predict that he will do so." A pretty political fight is being waged in Thurston county between what is known as the Scoby-Madge ring and the Weir-Deckebach opposition. Scoby, who has had undisputed control of the politics of the county for the past decade or more, is being made the central point of attack. In discussing the relative positions of the two factions a well known politician of that county was lead to remark: "If Ankeny wins and does not forget the boys, Scoby and Madge, backed by the Olympian, will continue to run things in Thurston county, but, if Wilson or Preston wins or any one SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1903 else except Ankeny, the Scoby followers will lose out completely, their paper will go to the wall sooner or later and their political power broken and Weir, Deckebach and their friends backed by the Daily Recorder, will direct the political affairs of the county for a good many conventions yet to come. Deckebach is a splendid organizer, a shrewd politician and proving himself to be a magnificent newspaper man, all of which will aid him greatly in his fight against the Scoby-Madge ring. . . . It means something for a few men without money to burn and without official positions to back them in their journalistic ventures, which are losing ones from the beginning, from an official standpoint, to oppose men who are aided from the outside financially and who hold official positions to aid them at home. Both Scoby and Madge hold federal positions which they work for all there are in them. If the Olympian does not pay a single cent they can yet run the paper and make it have the appearance of a healthy sheet, for the reason that the salaries of both proprietors are paid and paid well in another direction. They can devote their entire time to the paper and still draw their salaries, as each of them employ clerks to do the work of their respective offices and they are free to do as they please with their own time. I am told that it's the exception and not the rule to find either one of them in their federal office during the day, but they can be found on the streets doing politics or doing the people day in and day out. Already Olympia is beginning to fill up with politicians and lobbyists who are preparing to swoop down on the legislature and have it do things that will be of material advantage to either them or their friends. Gov. McBride is watching the politicians as they take rooms in the city for the legislative season with an eagle's eye. He has already threatened to have the lobbyists arrested if they try in any way to influence any members of the legislature. Of course it would be a hard matter for the governor to prove his case and a jury would think a good long time before it would convict a man on such a charge, and even if it did the Supreme Court would knock out such a verdict in a wholly minute. It will be impossible even with the aid of the National guards of this state for the governor to prevent men from lobbying, for whatever measure they may see fit or are inclined to do. Such a course, if pursued, would be unprecedented and it would meet such a storm of disapproval that the man who inaugurated it would be driven from the public eye in utter disgrace. . . . Seattle has a reputation throughout the state, yea the entire country, for being the home and rendezvous of thieves and thugs, that is calculated to do it no good in the future and all because the mayor of Seattle has personal reasons for permitting all the renegades, murderers and thieves on the Pacific Coast to congregate in this city. Because forsooth they can be pulled by the police periodically and fined heavily and because they have the money, which they got by holding up some man, woman or child to pay their exorbitant fine seems to be his chief reason. Much money , it must be admitted, flows into the coffers of Seattle from the fact that it is a wide open town and the same might be said of a town which is the home of pirates on the high seas. It is all illgotten gains, it is all blood money and will at no distant day rise up in our faces as living condemnations against the toleration of such crimes and criminals. Now is the excepted time to call a halt on this wide open procedure that has run rampant in this city since Tom Humism made its first advent herein. Lets show to the outside world that Seattle after all is not a second Sodom and Gomorrah. When Seattle is mentioned to an outside man he begins to shiver and shake and involuntarily grasps his pocket-book lest the very name of Seattle sets it to moving. There is a remedy for all this and the coming grand jury is the first course of the remedy and the people themselves is the other part. If the people will demand the enforcement of the laws and will demand that the murderers and the thugs be driven out of business it will be done and done at once. Let this be done by the people and let us have a decent city. The big fight between the two gas companies of this city promises many new things under the sun. The Seattle Gas and Electric Company seems determined that their competitor shall do no business in Seattle except under grave disadvantages, and therefore has given all gas consumers in certain districts eighty cent instead of dollar gas, which they have been praying for, and it gives regular coal gas instead of "water gas," as does the other company. The water gas, it is claimed, is dangerous, but it is extensively used in all of the largest cities of the East, and it is surmised that there are those in Seattle no less timid along this line than their Eastern brethren and they will use "water gas" as quickly as coal gas if it comes a bit cheaper. The indications at present smelis strongly of a great gas war in Seattle that will for a time at least give the citizens gas to burn. There is at least one man in Seattle mighty pleased to see that the state auditor has called upon the Pan-American commissioners or this state to make a show down for the $25,000 spent in Buffaloing the state last year. It is reported that ex-Executive Commissioner Moore has been contemplating appealing to the coming session of the Legislature for some consideration of his treatment by the commission, and it is possible that this demand of the state auditor will open up the way. While the commission kept within the appropriation, it is generally conceded that Mr. Moore is entitled to as much credit for that fact as any one. Through his firm stand at least two of the original appointees were left at home, and had they been taken to Buffalo, as the board of commissioners commanded, their salaries would have overrun the appropriation, if it had not been exceeded in any other way. It is recalled that, at the outset, the election of Ankeny as president of the board was the part and beginning of a scheme to exceed the appropriation and allow Mr. Ankeny to square the account, as he could better afford to do it than let a deficiency stand as a weapon to use against him in his candidacy for the U. S. senate. Mr Moore stood firmly against that scheme and several others. One phase of the Buffalo affair which has never seen newspaper light is the fact that at least four of the appointees named by the board of commissioners were at Buffalo in direct conflict with the constitution of the state—a clause providing that no member of a legislature making an appropriation should share in the disbursement of the fund thus provided, Senator Andrews, Senator Paul Land, and Representative La Wall (secretary) and Thompson, of Kitsap county, were each under pay during the exposition—although the final report of the board—signed by all the members—states that Senator Andrews gave his services to the state, when, in fact, he received $75.00 per month from the first of April till near the close of the exposition, when he and Representative Thompson resigned and came home. CURRENT COMMENT From the recent Pan-American conference it was learned that the population of the various South American republics are as follows: Brazil ..... 18,000,000 Mexico ..... 14,000,000 Argentina ..... 5,000,000 Chile ..... 4,000,000 Colombia ..... 4,000,000 Peru ..... 3,500,000 Venezuela ..... 3,500,000 Bolivia ..... 2,000,000 Ecuador ..... 1,800,000 Guatemala ..... 1,500,000 Haiti ..... 1,500,000 Santo Domingo ..... 1,000,000 Uruguay ..... 1,000,000 Salvador ..... 1,000,000 Paraguay ..... 800,000 Nicaragua ..... 500,000 Honduras ..... 450,000 Costa Rica ..... 300,000 Total ..... 62,850,000 It will be seen that the United States represents fifty-five per cent of the population of the western hemisphere, exclusive of the Dominion of Canada. It may be added that the population of the recently acquired territories of the United States is larger than all Central America,Hayti, Santo Domingo, Bolivia and Ecuador. America's Public Debt. Another interesting figure is the public debt of the nations represented in this conference. According to the Statesman's Year Book for the current year, 1901, the public debts of the Latin-American republics are expressed in the following figures (gold): Argentina ..... $437,000,000 Brazil ..... 193,000,000 Chile ..... 90,000,000 Colombia ..... 14,000,000 Costa Rica ..... 10,000,000 Ecuador ..... 2,500,000 Guatemala ..... 9,000,000 Haiti ..... 13,000,000 Honduras ..... 91,400,000 Mexico ..... 115,000,000 Nicaragua ..... 1,400,000 Paraguay ..... 5,000,000 Peru ..... 157,500,000 Salvador ..... 3,600,000 Santo Domingo ..... 21,500,000 Uruguay ..... 106,000,000 Venezuela ..... 13,500,000 Representing a total of. $1,284,000,000 Representing a total in gold of ..... $1,284,000,000 The greater part of this immense amount of indebtedness is held in Europe, mainly by England, Germany and France, and a very small fraction in the United States, where $25,000,000 of Mexican gold bonds were taken in 1899. And this immense sum shows the ratio of the financial, and as a natural sequence, the material interest these three European nations respectively have in the republics south of the Rio Grande, and explains the alertness and vigilance with which these same three nations, each one for itself, watch the course of events on this side of the Atlantic. TO KING COUNTY: HAVE A LIT: TLE SENSE. (Pt. Angeles Tribune-Times.) There is a golden opportunity at your feet today, king county! What are you going to do with it? Not only is it your opportunity, it is your only show in the world to save your white alley. If you will quit flying kites on minor and personal considerations and seize the main chance, the whole ball of political wax is in your hands. Just have a little sense now for once and work your graft. You want a senator. You've got a show to get two—one this time and one the next. But you've got to fire up the Seattle spirit and be quick about it at that. You can't elect Preston. He's out of it now. He's got a dead horse about his neck. You got off wrong with him UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 29 1952 ICAN PRICE FIVE CENTS COMMENT anyhow. Besides he's new. He'll keep. Two more years of training will do him good. Winter him. Get him started right two years hence and we'll all butt in and help you bring him down the pike. You can elect a man who isn't hitched to any dead horse. A man who is your friend; whose largest interests are with you, altho' his home is not. A man who knows your peerless city, who is familiar with its needs, who knows how to do things for you, who will be a bulwark of strength between you and your commercial enemies when time is called on the second round of your big battle with San Francisco. By pulling yourselves together, and going down the line in a bunch, you can do two things in the opening week at Olympia that will save the session, clear a murky atmosphere, prevent the possibility of a boodle stain upon our state's proud name, avoid a needless badgering of the railroads—to which we must look for much before our future is secure—and, incidentally, fix yourselves solid for the next twelve years in the United States Senate. Puget Sound doesn't want any railroad commission. You haven't any use for it, neither have the rest of us, and yet your man stands for that and nothing else! When we get all the railroads we want it will be time enough to begin figuring on a commission. Even then we won't want it to be a little private machine or the governor's. The Governor hornswaggled us last August. He slipped up on a whole lot of us while we were a-fishing or asleep. Henry is too much like Caesar anyhow. What he handed us at Tacoma is a great big brick, of the kind that acids eats. It's a load, but has to be packed, until it can be dumped. You are the biggest and huskiest packer in the lot, and it is for you to say when. You can dump it, and dump it good and hard. You can cut Henry Caesar's little lariat and turn us loose. You can save the party from enacting into statute a mistake. If you don't do it the other fellows will, and then you'll have to swim for it or let the soup close over you for keeps. You can, at the same time, save the state from a disgrace like that in Delaware or Montana. You can also do a good and speedy stunt for the whole of Puget Sound as against the Columbia river and the Golden Gate. You can send a friend to Washington instead of an enemy. You can defeat Levi Ankeny. If he is elected—as he will be if you fly kites any longer—it will be by your enemies. They are leagued against you, and stand ready to stick it into you and break it off—both this time and the next. You don't need a diagram and a directory to tell you who they are either. Your salvation lies in doing things, and being quick about it. Get together. Cement yourselves. Amalgamate. Agree to go down the line like a foot-ball bunch. Pull down the man who doesn't stand for you. Put him in the stall till the next running. Frame up solid for a man who does stand for you, who can help you get your own man two years hence. Do these things before your strength begins to melt, before the full glow of the golden sun of Walla Walla is turned on at the capital. It will then be too late. Men's eyes get batty in a light like that They don't see good. Their vision dims. Their spirits shrivel, their back bones begin to limber—and they quit. Make a big switch. Do it and do it now, or your enemies will do you. Fill up the Wilson wagon, take the ribbons in your own hands, start the band and bring her down the stretch a winner. It is up to you to have a little sense. The Seattle Republican Established May, 1894. H. R. Cayton.....Editor Susie Revels Cayton.....Associate SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 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 Write it 1903. Happy New Year, we wish to you. What the Spokane caucus did not do is what pleases the Ankeny oppo- sition best. Silverton boasts of a nice new weekly paper, which entails it to begin at once to put on city airs. Mr. Monroe had a doctrine once, but our later day officials seem wholly ignorant of its teachings. "Color cuts no figure with me," declared Ben Tilman's son. Certainly he is not a true son of the old man. And now The Hague's white winged dove of peace is to do Venezuela for the benefit of England and Germany. Grays Harbor country evidently believes that politics is a splendid medium in which to get in the public eye. "What can we do to be saved," asks Judge Winsor. Have you tried serving God. If not, we recommend the remedy. Europeans, who saw the battle of Waterloo come and go similar to those Americans who shook hands with George Washington. "Tempus fugit," says an exchange. How do you know whether Tempus fugits or some one else does it. What are you talking about any way? The Maryland Casualty Company is being casually censured by the citizens of Snohomish in a way that won't be of any financial good to the company. Many compliments are due the proprietor of the Mali-Herald for the elegant holiday number that it issued. It thus far has skinned all local competitors. If a few of the so called private detectives who operate in this city were administered a hot dose of lead perhaps the divorce mills would not run so regular. There is not much talk about "darkhorse" candidates for the United States senate at present. It must be because we are willing to be so styled and considered. More old bills that are now laws should be killed by the coming legislature than new bills made laws. Washington is seriously troubled with the too much law. The Willapa Harbor Pilot did the nice thing by its townsmen by issuing a most excellent descriptive as well as illustrated holiday number. It was certainly a hummer. In deserting the pulpit to become proprietor of a saloon as did a New York divine, it plainly proves that human polecats are often cloaked in the garb of pious preachers. Senator Foster upholds the Evergreen State before the New England society," says the Tacoma New Herald. In doing so did he use a phonograph or a graphaphone? From the facts leaking out one by one the lawyers in the Bussell divorce case on both sides agreed among themselves to get whatever either the husband or the wife might have for their fees. We believe the co-education of the sexes breeds gentleman instead of brutes; we believe it breeds men who respect the mothers of their offsprings. Now, if you do not believe the self same things you are unworthy of being a father. --- "But the public still as a whole is not corrupt," says the Green Lake News, all of which is correct, but there are exceptions and of course the "News" is one of the exceptions to the "whole." "The inferiority of woman may be only imaginary," as thinks an eminent professor, but he will find on inquiry that there are a very few men that believe as he writes, and yet he is correct. Mark Hanna objects to being dramatised though he interposed no objection at being cartoonized. The difference, we surmise, is that the former speaks for itself, while the latter only looks wise. If Mayor Humes had have presented Seattle with a promise of freeing the city from its licensed holdups and thugs during the coming year no better or more valuable New Year's gift could have been given her. Germany is inclined to ridicule our Monroe doctrine ideas. Well it may be sleeping, but the Dutch devils had better not tantaize it into wrath lest it awakes and gives them what Dewey and Sampson did the Spaniards. A great many Anglo-Saxons in this country are deadly opposed to being placed in the dark people category, and yet a hundred and one of those fellows are willing to become the "dark man" for the United States senatorship. Jule Reidelsheimer is no believer in Mormon doctrines, but he has easily given one-tenth of his profits of the past year to not "the church," but to the poor. It was always thought that Jules' heart was in the right place, but now there is no doubt of it. Good boy. Any woman who has no more business sense than to give up $4,800 for anything without knowing something of the facts about the concern she is investing her money in ought to lose it. In such a case it is a true case of "a fool and his money soon part." Because a millionaire banker in New York refused to testify in court he was sent to jail. If some of the bankers that we know should testify about certain things they do know they would not only go to jail, but they might go to state prison as well. So its hell it you do and hell if you don't. That 2,000 business men with two million dollars invested, who petitioned the city council to grant licenses to variety theatres to operate in the business districts of Seattle were all men doing a business whose very life depends on the running of such vile resorts. Frank Clancy is a brilliant example of such business men. Seattle's Negro population bought real estate during the past year for which they either paid or contracted to pay between $75,000 and $100,000. He who thinks the black man a mere sincere so far as becoming valuable and self sustaining citizens does not know whereof he speaks. There are not to exceed 600 colored families in this city. We admire the nerve of the Seattle Republican man in coming to a city as well supplied with newspapers as is Olympia to do the "write-up" act. We wish him success all the same. Our city cannot be too well advertised for she can deliver the goods. Here's looking at you, Bro. Cayton. May your Seattle spirit achieve its just reward.—State (Olympia) Capitol. Norman G. Armstrong, a white man from Dallas, Texas, was reported as saying to a Seattle, Washington, reporter: "The miscegenation laws of the South were passed because the white women of that section were marrying to an alarming extent colored men." This is a new reason advanced for a mischievous and unnatural restriction, which is only productive of evil in its results. We would like some good Texas authority to determine how much truth there is in Mr. Armstrong's statement, as the author of it will probably have to do a lot of explaining if he expects to return to Texas and live.—New York Age. SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT The National Bank Of Commerce H. C. HENRY, Pres. R. R. SPENCER, Cashier. Second and Pike. Capital $100,000. Deposits received from $1 to $10,000; 4 per cent interest allowed on savings deposits. E. C. Neufelder, President. James R. Hayden, Manager. J. T. Greenleaf, Ass't Cashier THE PUGET SOUND NATIONAL BANK OF SEATTLE. Capital stock paid in.....$528,000 Surplus ..... 35,000 Jacob Furth, President; J. S. Goldsmith, Vice President; R. V. Ankeny, Cashier. Correspondence in all the principal cities of the United States and Europe. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SEATTLE, WASH. Paid up capital ..... $150,000 JAMES D. HOGE, Jr., President. LESTER TURNER, Cashier. MAURICE M'MICKEN, Vice Pres. R. F. PARKHURST, Asst. Cash. A general banking business transacted. Letters of credit sold on all principal cities of the world. Special facilities for collecting on British Columbia, Alaska and all Pacific Northwest points. We have a Bank at Cape Nome. THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK. Capital Paid up ..... $ 100,000 00 Deposits ..... 2,250,000 00 Interest on time and Savings Deposits. Drafts and money orders issued on all parts of the world. Cor. Yesler Way and First Ave. South. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE With which is amalgamated THE BANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Head Office Toronto. Established 1867. Capital paid up.....$ 8,000,000 00 (Eight Million Dollars) Surplus .....2,500,000 00 Assets, November 30, 1902 .....72,825,632 56 Accounts of Banks, Corporations, Firms and Individuals solicited. Drafts issued available in any part of the World. Interest allowed on Time Deposits. Having established branches at DAWSON, WHITE HORSE, SKAGWAY and ATLIN, this Bank has exceptional facilities for handling YUKON and ALASKA business. Seattle Branch G. V. Holt, Cor. Sec. Ave. and James St. Manager. Attorneys Root, Palmer & Brown, lawyers and practitioners Pioneer Block. Accident Get a $10,000 accident insurance policy for $25 per year. J.A. Kellog, 219 Bailey bg. Contractor And Builder. First class workmen. Address 2022 Eighth Av. Phone Buff 1267. Kodaks Of the latest and best makes. Photograph supplies. Washington Dental Co., Seattle, Wash. Frames Walker Portrait and Picture Co. 1424 Third ave. Frames made to suit you. Agts wanted. Machines BUILDING MATERIAL Of all kinds. The very best. delivered on short notice. STETSON POST MILL CO. Established 1875. Tel. Main 3. John H. McGraw Geo. B. Kittinger REAL ESTATE Fire and Marine Insurance Boom B, Bailey Building Telephone Main 695 J. M. Frink, Pres. and Supt. WASHINGTON IRON WORKS Founders, Machinists and Boilermakers. Works Grant Street Bridge, Seattle Wash. Telephone 94. THE TOGGERY CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING Suit Pressing Club, $1.50 per Month. Phone Main 1269. 722 Third Ave. Lighting and Power Rates ...Reduced... IN EFFECT DECEMBER 1. THE NEW LIGHTING RATE. owatt hour for the first 30 hour and 5c for all additional consum- per cent. for prompt payment. THE NEW POWER RATE. owatt hour for the first 60 hours and 3c for all additional consum- schedule of discounts for prompt up to $50. up to $100. up to $150. up to $200. up to $300. up to $500. The discounts are determined by for further particulars call at offi Seattle Electric Co 20c per kilowatt hour for the first 30 hours per month use of the lights, and 5c for all additional consumption, subject to a discount of 10 per cent, for prompt payment. The Seattle Electric Company 909 First Ave. best Xmas new Crop Orange orange Blossom Honey at DIEGO FRUIT 415 Pike Street SAN DIEGO FRUIT CO. 415 Pike Street J. Redelsheimer & Co. 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Agne "The Printer" 214 Spring Street Seattle, Wash --- Phone John 1031 517 Second Avenue Hair Cut PHONE BUFF 642 the first 30 hours per month use national consumption, subject to a prompt payment. POWER RATE. the first 60 hours per month use of national consumption, subject to ents for prompt payment. 10 per cent. 20 per cent. 25 per cent. 30 per cent. 35 per cent. 40 per cent. determined by interpolation. Call at office Electric Company First Ave. mas Apples Oranges Blossoms ney FRUIT CO. Street Coal all Coal The Best Coal Newcastle LUMP COAL. Only at the Bunkers of the Pacific Coast Co Phone Main 92. YOUR PIANO OUR PRICES ARE THE LOWEST Pianos sold as low as $6.00 Per Month Sherman, Clay & Co. STEINWAY DEALERS E. R. Butterworth&Sons UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS Telephone Main 949. 1426, 1428 Third Ave. SEATTLE. Barrett Sign Co. R. F. Barrett J. O. Rockwell 213 Cherry (Grand Op. House alley) Telephones: Ind. A1344. Sunset Black 7133 Call on us for TERMS TOPICS OF THE TOWN * In the reappointment of R. H. Thomson as city engineer Mayor Humes has given pretty general satisfaction. While Mr. Thomson is opposed to some extent (and what public man is not), nevertheless a great majority of the citizens are quite satisfied with the service he has rendered the city for the past eight years in the capacity of city engineer and likewise a member of the board of public works. Mr. Thomson as city engineer laid the plans on which greater Seattle is to be built, which is already beginning to loom up in the distance. It was, if no mistake is not made, under the J. T. Ronald administration as mayor of Seattle that Mr. Thomson first became conspicuous in the upbuilding of the city and since that time no improvements have been made by the city without his consent and approval. Many in the city still remember when Mayor Ronald's board of public works removed Mr. Thomson from the city engineer's office, because of his insisting that a "stick had been cut," which meant a great loss to the city in the construction of the sewage system which was then under headway. The stormy times which followed, when the mayor put Jesse Cochran and J. M. Wolf, each members of the board of public works, on trial with the view of removing them from office, which, after a long and tedious trial with George Donworth as corporation counsel, looking after the city's interest was done and a new board appointed, which at once reinstated Mr. Thomson as city engineer. Ever since that time he has been closely identified with the growth of the city and been instrumental in expending millions of dollars in the way of public improvements. Be it said to Mr. Thomson's credit and honor, not a breath of suspicion or a whisper of wrong doing has been uttered against him during his long career of public service, which is of itself the highest compliment that can be paid to him. WHO SWORE OFF. Sam Thorn from being a policeman B. F. Tutt from singing his "fond" song. John H. Ryan from playing second fiddle. Sam H. Nichols from building state houses. Chief Sullivan from looking the other way. Sam Hill from peddling gaseous air for fuel. John Wooding from swapping horses in the rain. Frank Clancy from voting repeaters at elections. Andrew R. Black from the publishing business. Wilson R. Gay from monkeying with local politics. E. C. Hughes from being a candidate for Congress. Stanton Waburton from talking out of his mouth. J. P. Ball, Jr., from winning big damage suits. J. P. Howe from running bum theatrical shows. John D. Atkinson from doing the wedding march. John T. Gayton from having enemies in any faction. I. A. Nadeau from supporting any commonwealth. I. F. Norris from worshiping Republican politicians. John T. Cragwell from being a Negro—it don't pay. Harold Preston from being yoked up with a dead one. Jacob Furth from getting the other corner of the earth. J.E. Hawkins from cussing Cragwell —"he's my brother." Jule Reidelsheimer from having fire sales—"oxcoose me." Lawrence Sledge from smiling at female window figures. Will Turner (Tacoma) f... being a lady's man (old age). Col. Blethen from running a news- paper only for the family. F. A. Wing from keeping posted on politics. E. L. Blaine from fostering political boomlets. T. C. Collins from asking any man for a job. Tom Woods from living single—too expensive. R. W. Butler from employing union carpenters. Carson Miller from making money—its no object. Billie Bushell (printer) from drinking balk beer. C. H. Harvey from painting houses that will wear. E. C. Neufelder from supporting John L. Wilson. Ed Cudihee from running for sheriff of King county. H. P. Dunbar from smiling when a pretty girl passes. "The Searchlight" from lighting up the dark shadows. Dr. Burdett from paying rewards for convicted lynchers. J. W. Gregory from supporting Ed. Palmer for senator. James D. Hoge from looking for honors on the quiet. John L. Wilson from living in Spokane—its no good. George Piper from embracing McGraw every morning. C. R. Collins from doing good to unappreciative citizens. Frank Anderson from shaving his customers for nothing. The Times from bragging about its cheap rate adv. space. Ralph Schoenfelt from declaring "your credit is good" (nit). Post-Intelligencer from employing Democratic stiffs on its staff. Judge Burke from saying he is a Democrat (its only a dream). W. L. Presto from posing as a Cuban—Louisiana is good enough. The city of Olympia is much concerned at present lest the Northern Pacific gets control of its tide lands and improves them. Remembering that Olympia is some twenty years older than Seattle and further remembering that Olympia has only about one twenty-fifth of the population that Seattle now has, notwithstanding the disparity of years between the two, it seems to one not interested one way or the other that Olympia would make money to help some corporation to purchase those mud flats, if it means that they are to be improved. This thing of refusing to let the other fellow get hold of a proposition because he will make lots of money when you can not do so is puerile and a game at which Olympia has played too long. Corn is still king in the Prairie state of Illinois. The crop of 1902, despite the wet season last summer, is the largest in the history of the state, aggregating 320,000,000 bushels with a value of $115,217,000. Iowa does not fare so well, the floods of last spring having destroyed nearly a million acres of corn, cutting down the Iowa crop to 296,000,000 bushels and the value to $83,432,000. In 1901 the corn crop of Iowa was 227,000,000 bushels, but, uninjured by floods, had a value of $113,000,000. In the better year of 1900, the Iowa corn crop was 345,000,000 bushels, but it had a value of only $93,000,000, or $20,000,000 less than the value of the comparatively short crop of 1901, the season of the great drought. It would appear from these figures that there is money in corn, dry seasons or wet, and that our 130,188 square miles of corn fields give us a product every year having a value of $750,000,000. Iowa, Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska lead in production, and of these Illinois this year stands first. —Inter-Ocean. The State of Washing on to the said Lillian H, Rose, defendant; You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after the 5th day of December, 1902, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitlement. of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is that plaintiff may obtain a divorce from the defendant by reason of defendant's willful abandonment of plaintiff. fll P. D. HUGHES, Plaintiff's Attorney. P. O. Address, 533-5 Burke Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Dec. 5. Jan. 9. UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. Seattle, Wash. Dec. 4, 1902. To whom it may concern. Notice is hereby given that the Northern Pacific Railway Company has filed in this office a list of lands situated in the townships described below, and has applied for the lands to be opened to the public for inspection and a copy thereof by descriptive subdivisions, has been posted in a convenient place in this office, for the inspection of all per- Within the next sixty days following the date of this notice, protests or contests against the claim of the company to any tract or subdivision within any section or part of section, described in the list, on the ground that the same is more valuable for mineral than for agricultural purpose will be received and noted for report to the General Land Office in Washington, D. C. Lots 3, 4 and W. $ \frac{1}{2} $ of S. E. $ \frac{1}{4} $ of Sec. 5, Twp. 23 N., R. 5 East, W. M. J. HENRY SMITH, Register. Paper designated at Seattle, Wash.: Republican. SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court of the State of Washington for the County of King, N. 962670. Constance Braine French, plaintiff, vs. Edwin Lewis French, defendant You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit: sixty days from the 31st day of October, 1902, and deed the plaintiff in the Superior Court of the State of Washington for the County of King, which county the plaintiff designates as the place of trial; answer the complaint of the plaintiff in said action, and serve a copy of your answer to the Court of the State of Washington, at his office and postoffice address below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the plaintiff, and the court has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The nature and object of which said action is to obtain a decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore existing between you, the said defendant, and the plaintiff, and for the costs of this action. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 31st day of October, 1902, the day of the first publication hereof. D. B. TRETFETHEN, Attorney for Plaintiff. D. B. TRETFETHEN, Attorney for Plaintiff. Room 77-80 Safe Deposit Building, Seattle, King County, Washington, U. S. A. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT PUBLIC AUCTION. In the Superior Court of the State of Washington for the County of King—In Inmate. No. 426. In the matter of the estate of Madge O'Brien, deceased. To all persons whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given and extended, that I, the undersigned, administrator of the estate of Madge O'Brien, deceased, per the terms of the above entitled court, in the above entitled matter and estate, duly made and entered on the 27th day of October, 1902, will sell, at public auction, on Saturday, the 29th day of November, A. D. 1902, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the morning, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the King County Court House, in the City of Seattle, King County, State of Washington, to the highest and best bidder for cash, all of the right, title, interest and estate of the said Madge O'Brien, deceased, being a community interest therein, in and the following described real estate, to wit: Lot 23 in block 6 of Ross' Second Addition to the City of Seattle; also lots 1 and 2 in block 4 of Williams' Addition to the City of Seattle; also lots 3 and 4 in block 17 of Madison Street Addition to the City of Seattle, all in King County, State of Washington. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this the 27th day of October, A. D. 1902. W. T. O'BRIEN, Administrator of the Estate of Madge O'Brien, deceased. NOTICE OF THE SALE OF REAL ES TATE AT PUBLIC AUCTION. TATE AT PUBLIC AUCTION. The above sale will be held and is hereby continued to the 13th day of December 1902. W. T. O'BRIEN, Administrator of the Estate of Madge O'Brien deceased. ANCE OF SALE held and is hereby day of December and place. NOTICE OF CONTINUANCE OF SALE. The above sale will be held and is hereby continued to the 27th day of December 1903, at the same hour and place. W. T. O'BRIEN, Administrator of the Estate of Madge O'Brien, Deceased. NOTICE OF CONTINUANCE OF SALE. The above sale will be held and is hereby continued to the 8th day of January. 1903, at the same hour and place. W. T. O'BRIEN, Administrator of the Estate of Madge O'Brien, Deceased. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King. In the matter of the Estate of Nicholas Long, deceased No. 3913. Administrator's Notice of Sale. Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the 10th day of January, 1903, commencing at the hour of 11 o'clock, A. M., of said estate, to do thereafter until completion of the sale, the undersigned administrator of the Estate of Nicholas Long, deceased, will, pursuant to an order of the above entitled Court, made and entered on the 10th day of November, at the estate for auction to the highest bidder, in one parcel, the following described lots and parcels of land, situated in the County of King, State of Washington, and particularly described as follows: Lots 12 and 13 in Smith's Supplemental Plat of Block 12 of Burke's Second Addition to the City of Seattle, property of said Estate. The hours of said sale will be fifty per cent, thereof must accompany the said bid, and the remaining fifty per cent, of such bid to be paid upon the execution and delivery of a deed. The said sale will be had at the west door (it being the main door) of the King County Court House in the City of Seattle, King County, State of Washington. Dated this 12th day of December, A. D., 1903. Date of first publication, December 12th, 1902. Administrator of the Estate of Nicholas Long, deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given to creditors and all other persons having claims against the estate of Samuel C. Hall, late of South Park, in the county of King, State of Washington, to present the same with the proper vouchers, within one month from the date of this notice, to the undersigned at 306 Globe Place, Suite 1, in King County, Sta. W. PRENTICE, state of Samuel C. JOHN E. RYAN, trator, 303 to 306 Wash. ssh. Dec. 5th, A. D. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. No. 37271. Notice of Hearing. In the Matter of the dissolution and disincorporation of the Maple Valley Logging corporation, for King County. Notice is hereby given that the petition of the Maple Valley Logging Company, a corporation, of the disincorporation and dissolution of said corporation, will come on for hearing before the Hon. Boyd J. Bulman, one of the judges of the above en- titlement, to show that one or more on-going Court of King County, on the 20th day of February, 1903, at 9:30 o'clock in the morning of said day or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard. The petition hereinabove referred to said corporation have been on-going by said corporation have been paid in full and that all of the monies and other assets belonging to said corporation have been divided among all of the stockholders of the said corporation in proportion to the number of shares held by each, except the costs and charges of disincorporation said company. Dated this 26th day of November, 1902: (Seal) C. A. KOFPFLI. SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE STATE OF WASHINGTON, COUNTY OF King, ss.-Sheriff's Office. By virtue of an execution issued out of the Honorable Superior Court of King County, on the 1st day of December, 1974, the court issued to M. J. Atkinson and David Zerwekh, formerly partners doing business as Atkinson & Zerwekh, plaintiffs, versus John H. Nesary and Jane Doe Nesary, his wife, whose real first name is unknown, during the first day of January to make her plaintiff, directed and delivered; Notice is hereby given that I will proceed to sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, within the hours prescribed by law for sheriff's first day, to January 4, 1973, before the Court House door of said King county, in the State of Washington, all of the right, title and interest of the said defendant, John H. Nesary, and to the following county property proceeds to the King county, State of Washington, to-wit. Lot twelve (12), in block four (4), in H. E. Holme's Addition to the City of Seattle, levied on as the property of defendant, John H. Nesary, judgment mounting to eighty-eight and 254 dollars, and costs of suit, in favor of the plaintiff. Dated this 18th day of December, 1902. ED CUDIHEE, Sheriff. By Wm. Corcoran, Deputy. Dec. 26-Jan. 23. PUBLICATION OF NOTICE FOR A COM MUNICIPAL TASK DEPARTMENT MISSION IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King, No. 36975. Constance Braine French, plaintiff, vs. Edwin Lewis French, defendant. The State of Washington to the above named defendant: You are hereby notified that the plaintiff, Constance Braine French, will on the 20th day of December, 1902, at the coming in of the court on that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard in Department No. 4, ask the above court to grant and issue a commission to a su- itable person to be named at said place by the court, for plaintiff hereby suggests the name of L. R. Cole as such suitable person, in the City of Seattle, in King County, State of Washington, for the purpose of taking the deposition of one M. E. Bray, for use on the trial of the above cause in behalf of the plaintiff, suggests the name of L. R. Cole, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and P. O. address: 77-80 Safe Deposit Bldg, Seattle, King County, Washington, U. S. A. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. In the matter of the dissolution and disincorporation of the Kent Agricultural Company, a corporation. Notice of Hearing. No. 31716. No. 31716. It is hereby given that the petition of the Kent Agricultural Company, a corporation, of the disincorporation and dissolution of said corporation, will come on for hearing before the Hon. Boyd J. Tallman, one of the judges of the above entitled court in Department 4 of the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for King County, 1903, at 9:30 o'clock in the morning of said day, or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard. The petition hereinabove referred to shows that all calamus due or owing by said corporation have been paid in full and that that corporation has been retained by said corporation have been divided among all of the stockholders of said corporation in proportion to the number of shares held by each, except that enough money has been retained to pay the costs and charges of disincorporating said company. Dated this 10th day of November, 1902. C. A. KOEPPLI. Washington. (Sent.) By J. M. BREWSTER, Deputy. Nov. 14, Jan. 9. SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for King County. Washington, for King County. Alex Smith, plaintiff, vs. Mary Smith, defendant. The State of Washington to the said Mary Smith, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear with in the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty (60) days after the 21st day of November, 1902, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and serve a copy of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against the plaintiff of the plaintiff, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is that plaintiff may obtain a divorce from Mary Smith, defendant's willful abandonment of plaintiff. P. D. HUGHES, Plaintiff's Attorney. Postoffice address, 533-5 Burke building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Nov. 21. Jan. 2. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for the County of King—Anna Johnson, plaintiff in v. Johns- son, alas that Harper, whose true name is to plaintiff unknown, defendant. Summons by Publication. No. 37104. The State of Washington to the said Harry Johnson, alias Harry Carter, whose true name is to plaintiff unknown, defendant. You are hereby summoned to the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 21st day of November, A. D. 1902, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the defendant for answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been made to the court. The object of the said action, set forth in the complaint, is as follows: That plaintiff may obtain an absolute divorce from defendant upon the grounds that the marriage was obtained by frum of the marriage, and inhuman treatment, and for other relief demanded in said complaint, fll A. A. ANDERSON Attorney for Plaintiff Office and P. O. address: 426 Pacific Block, Seattle, County of King, Washington, Nov. 21-Jan. 2, fll 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE DATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communication strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 & a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newdealers. 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SCHOENFELD & SONS 101 in SEATTLE_____ TAC TACOMA WHATCOM The musical on Xmas eve night was not largely attended. Miss Mable Walker returned home last Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Norris entertained a few friends New Year's night. Mr. G. B. Aldrich passed through Seattle Wednesday en route to British Columbia. Mr. I. I. Walker leaves either Saturday or Sunday for Dawson City. He expects to be absent two years. Mt. Zion Baptist Church services Sunday, 11 a. m. New Years covenant meeting. Lord's supper 8 o'clock. The Baptist Literary will have a debate between the barristers of Tacoma on the third Thursday in January. Mrs. J. H. Ryan will return to her home in Spokane tomorrow after a week and a half's visit with her husband. The New Years musical at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church was largely attended. An elaborate program was given. Mrs. Lymus Smith, of Roslyn, has joined her husband, Deacon Smith, and will probably make Seattle her future home. Miss Emma Houston Cayton will return to school in Portland next Sunday, after spending a pleasant Christmas at home. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bagley, of Roslyn, Wash., spent the Xmas holidays the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brown, of this city. Mrs. William Grose, Mrs. George H. Grose and Miss Carrie Dixon, who have been visiting in California for the past six months, have returned home. The Xmas tree exercises at the Methodist and Baptist churches were well attended and old Santa Clause delighted the children with many valuable presents. Rev. J. Gordon McPherson is planning for the big $1,000 rally at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church the second Sunday in January. A fine program will be rendered. It is with many regrets that the death of Miss Cora Lawrence is here with chronicled. She has been sick for a long time and while her death has been expected, yet it gave her host of friends much pain when it did occur. She died last Wednesday morning, not living to learn of the benefit her young friends got up for her the evening before. She was a most estimable young lady and her untimely death will be generally mourned. She was buried from the A. M. E. church last Friday at 10 o'clock, of which she was an ardent and useful member. The benefit given by Miss Alma Clark for Miss Cora Lawrence on last Tuesday at the A. M. E. church was a flattering success. It certainly is en- --- The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale image with no discernible content. Beginning Monday PERSONAL. (Communicated.) A BIG EVENT OUR JANUARY SALE 1012-14-16-18 First Avenue WHATCOM couraging to know that the community possesses such a human angel. Miss Clark wishes the public to know that she was ably supported by the Misses Georga Selby, Margaret O'Brien, Daisy O'Brien, B. Davis, M. Brown, Ida Hays. The instrumental solo rendered by Miss Clara Threet was such as could only be executed by a musician in soul as she. Miss Barbara Davis's voice was never heard to a better advantage. She is easily the "Black Patti" of Seattle, and as her voice is improving we may expect much of her in the future. Miss Hays sang very sweetly. Miss G. Harvey plays in a manner that brightens up and promises to her a very brilliant future as a musician. Miss Mable Dixon, though a little lacking in confidence at the start, brightened up after the first verse of her rendition of "The Polish Boy," and blended it into a perfect dramatic rendition. We hope her parents will not overlook the possibility of a first class elocutionist in her. Miss Lida Clark is following close behind Miss Dixon. Seattle will be proud of her if she continues to improve as rapid in the future as in the past. Miss Margaret O'Brien's bass solo in the "part song," by the young ladies, was one of the more pleasing features of the evening, as well as a surprise. Mr. Clifford C. Hancock rendered Stephen Adams "Island of Dreams" and Neildinger's "Serenade" in a very pleasing manner. He has a pure Robuss Ten voice, of good range, unusual sweetness, power and flexibility. The program throughout was of great excellence. The amount realized was $24.70. The amount cleared $22.70. Among the Xmas dinners given last week Mr. and Mrs. John T. Gayton entertained his brother, Mr. Jenning, whom he has not had the privilege of seeing for more than 20 years. Also Mr. I. I. Walker and C. C. Hancock, among old friends of the early days of Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Gayton efficiently filled the role as host and hostess and proved themselves second to none as entertainers. Dinner was served from 3 to 5 o'clock, followed by a reception from 8 to 11 o'clock. Miss Barbara Davis entertained Mr. C. C. Hancock on Tuesday eve last. Miss Barbara Davis entertained a large party of friends at her home on Wednesday evening in honor of her brother-in-law, Mr. I. I. Walker, who will leave for Dawson next week. The home was very tastily decorated in green and pink, which blended in harmonious contrast with the beautifully dressed ladies and gentlemen present. Miss Davis was voted a charming hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Selby kept open doors on Thursday in honor of their daughter, Miss Georgia Selby. Mrs. Hays has moved into her home. Seattle has added to her list of energetic young men another charm for society in the person of Mr. Edward F. Meyer. SPOKANE PERSONALS. For the past two weeks Spokane's social circle has been quite busy. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Carle entertained Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lolles at dinner Sunday afternoon. The perseverance Club of the A. M. E. Church gave a butterfly social last Friday eve. The social was a success. Christmas trees were in order at both the A. M. E. and Calvary Baptist churches Christmas eve and Christmas night. Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Knight and Miss Blanche Knight entertained Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Jones and family at dinner Christmas day. Christmas day Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ryan entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Mash and Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds Robinson at dinner. The young men gave a swell dancing party at College hall in honor of Miss Grace Hall, of New York. The ladies were beautifully gowned. The gentlemen were in conventional evening dress. The affair was voted the most delightful one given for many a day. Mr. Harry Brown, who has been quite ill for some time, died Friday night at the Sacred Heart Hospital. The funeral services were conducted at Smith's undertaking parlors by Rev. J. B. Beckham, of the Calvary Baptist church. Mr. Brown has been a resident of Spokane for a number of years and was a member of the Knights of Pythias of this city. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Surrey entertained Miss Bertha Porter and Mr. S. A. Harris at dinner Christmas day. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jordan gave a delightful dinner Sunday afternoon. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Mash, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds Robinson, Miss Minnie Brown, Mr. John H. Stafford and Master Walter Parker. BROTHER IN BLACK. "If the Negro continues to accumulate wealth in the South as he has for the past eighteen years since I left South Carolina, I am convinced that the time is not far distant when the race will own the bulk of the land and do a large part of the business of that section," said I. I. Walker who recently came from Dawson City, whither he went during the first mad rush for the far North, and who more recently visited parts of the South, returning to Seattle a few days ago. In families, say, of five children I noted that you could always count on at least three of them buying homes for themselves and becoming useful as well as valuable citizens in the community in which they reside. In speaking to a prominent white man of South Carolina about the disfranchising acts, he declared to me that the educational qualification act passed by the legislature of that state ostensibly for the disfranchising of the colored voter, would, if rightly enforced, actually disfranchise more white than black men, as the Negroes have learned to read and write. The opening up of cotton factories in the South, which employ white children to the complete exclusion of colored children, is a godsend to the latter. The colored children go to school and there learn to farm on the most improved plans and are doing so, while instead of going to school the white children go to the factories to work, where they are growing up in complete ignorance, and, in my opinion, the whites and blacks of the South will soon change positions in life. I was well pleased with the progress the race is making in the South, and despite the wholesale disfranchising of the Negro that has been and is going on in the South, I seem to see a most brilliant future for him. The Negro in the North is likewise doing well and even here in Seattle I can see many signs of prosperity among them. Nowhere I have been have I found my colored brethren doing better than right here in Seattle. I am told that during the past year they have bought real estate that is conservatively valued at $75,000, and that is very commendable for a community in which there are n than there are in Sea the North in a few day the news to those of which I am certain w them." Cresent Cream Coffee TRADE CRESENT MARK CRESENT CREAM COFFEE Installed and Packed by Crescent Milling Co. Importers of Fifth Avenue Coffee'S Seattle, Washington Strictly High Grade; Used by all Lovers of Really Good Coffee and Recommended by the Leading Chefs. A GOOD RULE in Looking for Work is to prepare yourself beforehand THE ACME prepares students and secures positions for its graduates. : : : Write or phone us to-day Phone Main 591 McLaren & Thomson, SEATTLE, WASH. MORAN BROS. CO. Manufacture and Sell SURETY BONDS When you want a bond as Administrator, Guardian, Executor, Receiver on the Business, or Our business is to arrange bonds of this kind without delay. Bonds are executed here in Seattle. JOHN A. WHALLEY & CO. GEN. AGT. Fidelity & Deposit Co., of Maryland Phone Main 611. Colman Bldg., Seattle AMUSEMENTS Taken all in all the company that will present "Down by the Sea" at the Third Avenue Theatre next week is one of the very best on the road this season. This beautiful play makes no attempt to idealize or transfigure human nature, nor is it a play of deep motive and entangled plot. It is a comedy-drama of absorbing interest, a tender and diversified picture of life "Down by the Sea." Humor and sentiment are effectively commingled and the situations and climaxes, while surprising and thrilling, still possess a great degree of heart interest. The scenic effects are unusually magnificent and realistic, especially the great storm scene in Act 3. The company contains the names of some of the most prominent actors in the profession and the production has the endorsement of the critics of all the large eastern cities where the attraction has appeared. "The Princess Chic." The sale of seats began this morning for the engagement of Kirke La Shelle's dashing and romantic opera comique, "The Princess Chic," at the Grand, starting Sunday night. The piece is said to be notable not only for the quantity but the quality of its music, as well as the dash and swing of its lyric lines and the genuinely romantic atmosphere of its libretto. The opera is rather unique among contemporary comic operas in that the plot is really consistent and has much dramatic power. The chorus of fifty people is used to represent huntsmen, retainers, men-at-arms, peasants, cavaliers and courtliers. The time of the opera is 1460, and the place the Chateau of Charles the Bold, in Burgundy. Stanford Clubs. Variety is the spice of entertainment, and the Stanford Glee and Mandolin Clubs are giving your money's worth this year. They are joyful. 1307 Second Ave. Arcade Building Over 1,000 Umbrellas sold the first week our prices do the work. We will save you one-quarter your money Each and every umbrella guaranteed. Repairing and Covering a Specialty. COLE'S HOT BLAST SAVES ONE-THIRD YOUR COAL BILL We are the Seattle Agents for the Cole's Hot Blast Original Coal Stove. Ernst Bros. 506 PIKE STREET Phone John 2831 Ind. 1151 Here's Another Sample List Today's Special We will today (prior to taking stock) sell our regular $6.00 Guitars for $3.35. WE WILL ALSO SELL TODAY AT VIRTUALLY HALF PRICE MANY LINES OF OUR MUSIC BOXES, VIOLINS, MANDOLINS, BANJOS, ACCORDS, MUSIC INSTRUMENTS AND SCRIPTURE, SO AS TO REDUCE THE STOCK TO OUR REGULAR LINES. Talking Machines for Presents We are sole aents for the Columbia Phonograph Co. Cylinder machines from $10 to $100. Flat-disc machines at $15, $20 and $30. Records, 30c, 30e and $1. Grapho- phones sold on easy terms. D.S. JOHNSTON COMPANY GENERAL MUSIC DEALERS. 903 Second Avenue, Burke Building. We Must Move We must be out of the building we are in before the end of three weeks. Our stock is so large we do not want to risk moving it—we would rather give our customers the benefit of prices that are a sacrifice to us. You will never have another such chance to get good every-day needfuls at so low prices. Spelger & Hurlbut 1215-17 SECOND AVE. Roslyn Coal... 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 of Pike