Seattle Republican

SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Historical Society The SEATTL VOL. X. NO. 33 SEAT POLITICAL POT=PIE [Name not provided] R. A. BALLINGER Is now a full-fledged candidate for mayor and his friends declare he will have no opposition. Chairman John F. Miller, of the Republican Central Committee, called the committee together last week and it fixed February 25th as the time for holding the next municipal convention, and based the apportionment for the convention on the compromised vote of Riplinger, Gilliam and Gormley two years ago. For the past ten days—using the street vernacular—there certainly has been "something doing" in political circles. First of all, Alfred Battle, who had been about decided upon to be the candidate of the Democratic party for Mayor, and to get a large percentage of the Republican vote, finally made up his mind not to accept the nomination, and so announced the fact in the daily papers. William Pigott also declared he would not accept the nomination, thus leaving the Democratic party with no possible candidate around whom it could rally its forces. Not to be outdone, however, H. H. Kulies, the well known cigar dealer, declared that he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for mayor, but it was received very coolly by his constituents, and since that time has not been mentioned a half a dozen times. * * * Among the Republicans things have been quite busy, and after casting about for a suitable candidate, a number of the leading politicians of the city finally centered on Judge R. A. Ballinger, and after much persuasion he consented to accept the nomination, if unanimously tendered him by all Republican factions in the city. Whether or not such a thing is possible remains to be seen, but those who are working on the combination declare that the name of no other candidate will be presented to the convention except that of Judge Ballinger. He is being backed by Mayor Humes, Sam H. Piles, Charles Chamberlain, Frank Paul, and many leading Democrats. ** ** The announcement of Judge Ballinger's candidacy created quite a furor in political circles, nevertheless, Hon. Ellis Morrison has not withdrawn from the race, and still hopes that he will be able to go into the convention with a strong enough following to be nominated for mayor. It transpires that both Morrison and Ballinger live in the same precinct of the Fifth ward and Morrison believed all the time that he had the support of Judge Ballinger in his own candidacy. --- SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1904 Up to the present time those who handle the politics of the Seattle Electric Ry. have not uttered a single word for publication on the political situation of the city, and whether or not they will have a candidate other than Judge Ballinger remains to be seen. It has not been the policy of this company to make an aggressive fight one way or the other in the nominating of municipal officials, and it is hardly probable that it will do so at this time, even though Judge Ballinger might not meet with their hearty approval. Corporation politics is always cold blooded, and those who handle such politics can shift from Republican to Democratic with perfect ease and readiness. If it should happen that a Democrat would be elected mayor of this city and a council of like political persuasion also be elected, the corporations, who would be affected by the change, would at once become Democratic in their politics. ** ** It can be safely predicted even at this early date that Corporation Counsel Mitchell Gilliam will have no opposition for a renomination. Mr. Gilliam has made a splendid official for the past two years, and there is no desire to prevent him from having a second turn. ** It is a foregone conclusion that John Riplinger will be renominated for city controller. In fact Mr. Riplinger seems to have a lifetime job before him if he so desires it. Unless the unexpected happens, Sam F. Rathbon will be nominated for city treasurer, and that too without opposition. ** Unless the Pie-maker is mistaken there is going to be a shake-up in the City Council, and quite a few new members will occupy seats in the next council. The Pie-maker is not too sure but that even if some of the present councilmen are renominated they will not be defeated at the polls, for there is much discontent as to the policy some of the members of the council has pursued for the past two years. ** ** In the First ward there are already two announced candidates for the Republican nomination for councilman, and likewise two for the Democratic nomination. F. W. Comstock will oppose Councilman Fitzpatrick in the next Republican convention, and exState Senator Conway will oppose ex-Councilman in the Democratic convention. * * * Homer M. Hill, who served in the council some two years ago, will bitterly oppose Councilman A. Kistler in the Republican convention for Second ward councilman, and the Democratic candidates for the same place are legion, and they hope to be able to defeat the Republican nominee whether it be Kistler or Hill. ** ** No one has definitely decided as yet to cross swords with Councilman H. C. Gill from the Third ward, and though the air is full of war and rumors of war to be made on his highness, who has been councilman for the past two years, no direct blow has much for his constituents, but all are not been made. Mr. Gill has done much for his constituents, but all are not pleased with his past acts and he will have to fight. ** Some weeks ago Councilman James A. James of the Fourth said he would not be a candidate for the honor of councilman again, but subsequent developments has LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 29 1952 JBLICAN PRICE FIVE CENTS HON. IRVING T. COLE Announces his candidacy for councilman from the Fourth ward to succeed Councilman James A. James. No cleaner or abler man could be found than he, and owing to his popularity in the Fourth he will give his opponent a good, hard race. made him change his mind, and he will be a full fledged candidate before the next Republican convention. Two or three prominent business men have been mentioned to oppose him, but neither of them has decided as yet to make the fight, and it is barely possible that he will be unanimously renominated. ** There promises to be an old time squabble for the nomination for councilman in the Fifth ward. Scott Benjamin, who was in the council two years ago, J. W. McGuire and others, who have not yet felt called upon to announce themselves, are aspirants for the position now filled by Ellis Morrison, who is a candidate for mayor. Perhaps the powers that be will persuade Mr. Morrison not to go into the fight for mayor, but to accept a renomination for councilman, in which case he may win hands down. * * * A three-cornered fight is promised in the Sixth ward, in which Councilman W. V. Rinehart, John Megrath and Arthur Zebendin will all take active parts. There seems to be no disposition to renominate Major Rinehart among the workers, and the real fight will be between Megrath and Zebendin. The former is a well known contractor and builder, while the latter is a prominent saloon man. *** The candidates for councilman in the Seventh ward are too numerous to be mentioned in so small a paper as the "Seattle Republican." The leading ones, however, are J. C. Redward, Jed. G. Blake and Austin E. Griffin, all of whom are among Seattle's best citizens. Mr. Redward has made a very acceptable councilman, and ordinarily speaking, there should be no opposition to his renomination, but the other fellow thinks different, and if he can get votes enough he has the right to be a candidate. * * * As usual the Eighth ward will be unanimous in renominating Councilman J. E. Crichton, who has represented that ward in the council for the past fourteen years, and it begins to look as if he will continue to do so until he gets ready to "shuffle off this mortal coil." ** The Ninth ward, which has been the battle ground for factional fights among the Re- (Continued on page 4.) SEATTLE SPIRIT Seattle's Monied Men. Speaking about the folk who furnish the local money for local business, it will be seen from the list below who the Blue Book thinks has the money. It says the persons who are worth over $300,000 in Seattle are: E. W. Andrews, M. F. Backus, Frank D. Black, Charles H. Black, Amos Brown estate, Thos. Burke, Herman B. Chapin, C. H. Cobb, William Pitt Trimble, J. M. Colman, John Collins estate, C. L. Denny, Mrs. Mary A. Denny, O. O. Denny, A. W. Denny, Charles Frye, George Frye, Jacob Furth, E. O. Graves, H. C. Henry, W. C. Lewis (Hill estate), W. D. Hofius, J. A. Moore, James D. Hoge, Dexter Horton, H. B. Kennedy, George Kinnear, T. S. Lippy, J. D. Lowman, Robert McCormick, J. H. McGraw, Mrs. Elizabeth Sackman, Rufus H. Smith, A. B. Stewart, Charles D. Stimson, Fred Stimson, E. F. Sweeney, Moritz Thompson, G. Poncin, John B. Agen, Frederick Schmitz, William Pigott, J. M. Frink and J. J. McGilvra (estate). There are over a thousand men in the city who are worth over one hundred thousand dollars, which they have made in business enterprises within the past ten years, thus proving Seattle to be one of the best business centers on the Pacific Coast. * * * Denounces Lynching Spirit. Speaking at the meeting of the bar held in memory of Senator John B. Allen, one of Washington's most highly respected citizens, Judge Thomas Burke used the following words condemnatory to the lynch law now so common in this country: "Mr. Allen was by birth and by inheritance an American with the true American's love of law and order. By precept and by example he inculcated the lesson that there is no true liberty in the world but that which is regulated by law. Unless men in their collective capacity have sufficient self-control in moments of passion and excitement to resist the savage impulse to take the law into their own hands, there can be no such thing as free government. Respect, reverence for the law in this free country was with him not merely a principle; it was an instinct, a passion. He was fond of quoting Lord Chatham's famous declaration, 'Where law ends tyranny begins.' He had a clearer vision than most men of the dangerous consequences to our national character of the present alarming tendency (now becoming almost chronic in some parts of the country) to resort to mob law under the sense of indignation and outrage produced by the commission of some shocking crime. Members of our profession especially owe it as a great duty to the state to exert all their influence, in season and out of season, against the greatest peril to our institutions—the tyranny of the mob. In a letter to Voktaire, Frederick the Great once wrote, 'Every man has in him a ferocious beast; few know how to chain him; the majority let him loose when fear of the law does not restrain them.' There never yet was a mob in any age or in any country that did not furnish an absolute demonstration of the truth of these words. In a free country where the people make their own laws, where they can amend them or repeal them, where as jurors they sit to enforce them, where directly through their votes, and indirectly through their representatives, they select the judges who expound and administer these laws, there are, there can be, no circumstances that can justify a resort to mob law. Whenever a community in the United States surrenders to the spirit of mob law and suffers the mob in its mad and bloody passion to trample the laws of the state or the nation under foot, that community thereby confesses its incapacity for self-government. It stands condemned before the world as a community unworthy of citizenship in a free republic. It stands convicted of having violated what the ancients [Name] THOMAS BURKE Who is one of the leading citizens of the Northwest and is one of the wealthy men of Washington. He is a leading lawyer and foremost promoter and builder. As will be seen in another column hereof, he is financially rated very high. called 'the conscience of the human race.' Mob law and free government are incompatible; or there is no higher or more important duty laid upon American lawyers today than to impress this truth upon the people." * * * Are You Among Them? Merchants doing business in the West must think the average citizen the most gullible mortal on the face of the earth. Pass up or down the streets of Seattle today and every place of business thereon has a great white and black cloth sign hanging out in front telling of some kind of a special sale which makes it possible for the vendor to sacrifice his or her splendid new stock of goods at half their original cost. If they are actually selling their goods at half the price they sold the same goods three weeks ago for, then they shamefully robbed the people in prices, and if not, then they cunningly prevaricate in their signs. The fact of the matter is that there is not a word of truth in the fake sign for if there was they would loose so heavily on every article they sold that the loss in the cut-prices and the regular expense would soon bankrupt every mother's son of them. Made Princely Gifts. The year 1903 was notable for princely gifts made by wealthy men and women for charitable and educational purposes. In round numbers it is estimated that $100,000,000 were given during the past year for these purposes. While it is impossible to enumerate the smaller gifts that go to make up this gigantic sum, the larger ones are here enumerated and are as follows: Mrs. J. W. Winthrop, to Princeton Seminary, $2,000,000; John D. Rockefeller, to Chicago University, $1,850,000; John D. Rockefeller, to Secondary Schools of Chicago, $1,250,000; Harvard University, Cambridge, additions to endowment, $1,655,000; Miss May P. Ropes, to many colleges, $1,000,000; Mrs. E. M. Anderson, to Barnard College for Women, $1,000,000; the Wyman gift to John Hopkins University, $500,000; Mrs. F. F. Thompson, to Teachers' College, New York, $350,000; M. Hartley Dodge, to Columbus University, $300,000; Orthodox Jewish Seminary endowment, $500,000; Isaac M. Wise, Memorial Hebrew Seminary endowment, $275,000; Andrew Carnegie, to Mechanics' and Tradesmen's Institute, $250,000; John D. Rockefeller, to Vassar College, $200,000; H. M. Hanna, to Western Reserve College. Cleveland, $100,000. STATE PRESS STATE PRESS Some notable changes have been made among the weekly newspapers of this county since the ushering in of the New Year. The Mail and Herald, owned by Edgar L. Hampton, will after February 1 be operated by Hampton and Anderson, Nathan Anderson, who for the past five years has been connected with an undertaking establishment of the city, having bought a half interest in the paper. The Commonwealth, which was owned by Fowler and Colman, is now owned by Colman and Sheffield. * * * The Colfax Commoner dubs those papers who do not support the policy advocated by Governor McBride as repudiators, which to an extent is quite correct, and it is surmised that the Commoner will likewise be a repudiator next fall, even if Governor McBride is nominated. *** Editor Reed of the South Seattle News has sprung George Brown, E. E. Teachnor, Jack Rice and Judge Griffin, all of South Park, as candidates for county commissioner from the South district. That's right, brother, trot out as many candidates as possible, for the more candidates you have for the same position the better it pays. * * * A proposed electric railway through Issaquah is not taken to very kindly by the Independent of that city, and it hints at a deal in which one of the county officials is interested that is not just the thing for a county official to be mixed up in. Brother Webster generally knows where he is at when he goes gunning, and we feel pretty sure that he is barking up the right tree just now. * * * According to the Harteline Standard, Col. William Ridpath of Spokane is an avowed gubernatorial candidate and will be groomed by S. A. Wells and E. C. Whitney, both of whom were members of the last house of representatives. Col. Ridpath is said to have the sinews of war with which to make a campaign, and if reports are true both Wells and Whitney know a good thing when they see it. *** And now comes the Enumclaw Courier relating its experience in conducting a weekly newspaper for a country clientage. One subscriber comes in and almost breaks up the office because his name was in the paper, and another follows and stops his paper because his name does not appear in the social columns thereof. We agree with the Courier that under the circumstances it is hard to know just what to do. * * * This is January and our business men fail to notice any depressions that usually attend the month.—Auburn Argus. And that naturally means good grazing for the editor, and the columns of the Argus show it. "Deep Creek Jones" is, it is learned from the Columbia Dispatch, being importuned to enter the gubernatorial race on the Democratic ticket. "Jones," it says, "is one of the strong party war-horses, and would come as close to winning as any man the Democrats could name." It never occurred to us that Jones was half as strong a partisan as he is a "josher," but as there is no show for any Democrat to be elected, we would as soon see Jones as Johnson. ** ** The Star and the Times have both ignored the State Federation of Labor convention, as far as telegraphic service is concerned. Both of these papers have thousands of union readers, who are doubtless proud of the fact that they pay for papers which cannot treat as "news" a convention representing a third of the voters in the state.—Union Record. And yet your kind always go out of your way to abuse the P.-I., the only paper that did publish your news. SEVEN DAYS' CURRENT COMMENT and OBSERVATION Call It Off. Senator. Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio has introduced a bill in the Senate to provide for the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers in Northern cemeteries by the government. It is always humane to be charitable to a defeated foe, but this seems to be carrying the charitable spirit a little too far. Those men fell trying to destroy their country, and they can be pronounced nothing less than traitors to their country's flag, and it does seem rather out of the ordinary to want the government to care for the graves of her traitors. The wretch who murdered our beloved William McKinley now sleeps in a grave utterly unknown to the public, and it would be just as well if the Confederate traitors occupied similar graves, especially in the North. If their memories are to be kept green, then let it be done by their kith and kin of the South. * * * Democrats' Big Vote. With a 151 electoral vote from the "Solid South" almost assured, it certainly gives the Democratic party a good strong boost toward electing its candidate for President this year. From a political standpoint the South is as much arrayed against the North today as it was immediately after the close of the Civil War, and if the Republican party expects to elect its candidate for President it must do so by confronting the "Solid South" with practically "Solid North." Should the factional differences now existing in New York be the means of the Republicans losing the state, and should Utah, Nevada and Rhode Island all go Democratic, which is not improbable, the Democratic nominee would be successful, and this country would again see a national administration like unto what Grover Cleveland gave us, and want and poverty would again go stalking through the land. It behooves the Republicans therefore to buckle on their armor and do their duty by carrying every Northern state for the Presidential candidate. ** ** Heavy Fine Imposed. Ex-Congressman Edmund H. Driggs, who was recently convicted of defrauding the government in a contract, which he himself admitted that he had profited to the extent of $12,500, was fined by the courts $10,000 and sentenced to one day's imprisonment. Senator Deitrich was not convicted in his trial on a similar charge, but the evidence was of such a nature that it is reported that he will resign his seat in the Senate, all of which goes to prove that the American people are not wholly blind to corruption and fraud, even though some of their leaders are mixed up in it. However, Driggs should have been sent to the penitentiary, and he doubtless would have been if he had not used more than the amount which he claims to have made out of the deal in his defence. * * * She Marries a Mulato. Last Sunday's press dispatches told of a Buffalo millionaire's daughter eloping with her father's Mulato coachman. The young lady was quite of age and had a perfect right to select her own life partner, his complexion and nationality to the contrary notwithstanding. On the other hand, there is nothing in her having selected a Mulato for her husband for even the colored folk to be proud of, and that, too, despite the fact that her father possessed his millions and she was heir apparent to them all—the American man's only Christ Jesus—for money per se makes neither the man nor the woman. However, it is but another demonstration of race affinity, and that, too, despite of a blinding race prejudice so common to this country. That young white society belle has lawfully done what her society gentlemen friends illicitly and immorally do—find their inamorita in an ebony-hued belle, and instead of honorably marrying her she is induced to lead a life of shame and thereby give to the world a mongrel race without either beginning or end. She herself only followed in the footsteps of some male degenerate of her race and married one of his offsprings, who, perhaps, is a hundred times more honorable than his father. The only reason more such marriages do not occur is due solely to the fact that the females do not have as many opportunities to get acquainted with the good qualities of the "black princes" as the men do with the shady-hued queens. Abandon Civil Service. Civil service in Congress has been under fire for the past ten days, it being attacked by Congressman Hepburn of Iowa, declaring it to be of no real service or benefit to the country, owing to the fact that its privileges were being abused by those who were beneficiaries of it. There is no doubt but that civil service has been reduced to a complete farce, and the sooner the farce is abandoned the better for the entire country. This is not only true of the national government, but it is likewise true of municipal governments. The theory of "to the victor belongs the spoils" does become rather objectionable when politicians are permitted to put worthless characters into responsible positions, but it seems that a few years of civil service makes the best of characters worthless as far as work is concerned, and not only worthless but insolent as well. It was but a few days ago that 30,000 civil service clerks almost threatened a strike because at a cabinet meeting it was decided that they should work one-half hour longer in order to give the government something like value received for the money paid them. It is said by those who have made some observation of the clerks at Washington City that they do not earn a third of the money that is paid them. They are supposed to be at the Capitol only from 9 till 4, and the most of them while there work harder to keep from working than they actually work, all of which is proof sufficient that civil service is a complete farce. Black Republican Platform In reply to a letter received not long since importuning him to become a candidate for the presidency on the Black Republican ticket, Dr. Samuel Burdett replied as follows: Seattle, Wash., Jan. 16, 1904. Bishop J. A. Edmonson, Nashville, Tenn.: Sir—Your communication of the 4th inst. containing the request that I allow the use of my name as a candidate in the coming nominating convention of the Liberty League of America received. That you should consider me fit and worthy for the honor that your letter mentions is indeed very complimentary, and yet I'm in a very puzzled state of mind with regard to it. The position which you are urging me to try for is a very high one; in fact, the most august one there is in this green-carpeted world of ours. And it being such, carrying with it as it does the cares and burdens of sovereignty, and calling for the exercise of ability in the discharge of the duties of government and in the shaping of policies that in their effect will promote the prosperity and well-being of all our people, your suggestion demands careful and prayerful consideration. Such as I have been able to give it, it has received, and while I am not ambitious to be at all the white light that beats fiercely upon the heads of rulers of great nations and would be content to remain as I am in humble position, performing such labors as I can for the benefit of neighbors and people, scattering—we pass this way but one—upon the path of life a little sunshine, I yet know that no man should hold himself aloof from making a sacrifice when that sacrifice when offered would result in great good to the many. I have been a Republican, I am a Republican, and as such have affiliated with the party of the martyrs—the party of Lincoln and of McKinley—and while I am not blind to the faults which it has and have not had my eyes closed to the fact that it has within it the "white lily" Republican element that like a stench is in the nostrils of all good people, I yet conceive it to be my duty, in the interest of justice to both black and white in this country and elsewhere, to do what I can to assist in harmonizing the bitter political difference which now obtain. Political parties are not always what they should be, and perhaps never will be. But certainly in my opinion the dominant political party in our republic should be one that is adorned with such good citizenship that it will give to the body politic harmony and beauty; to the soul, justice; to its acts, virtue; and to its speech, truthfulness. The practice of anything but these virtues tends to disgrace and constitutes a menace to good government. We should ever be honest and if government, either in nation, state or city, be good or bad, we ought to praise it if praiseworthy and blame it if blameworthy. Wrong and stupid it is to censure that which is commendable and commend that which is censurable. Hateful to me, even as are the imps of hell, is he who, hiding his own thought within his own heart, uttereth another that is a lie. And for me to cajole myself into the belief that either of the present dominant political parties in this country are the political friends of my people would be as absurd and as ridiculous as for me to presume that Venus could exchange place with Mars without disarranging the whole solar system. We as Republicans have a right to have a black Republican party. We have been loyal to the principles of Republicanism, and so long as we have the opportunity to vote, our constant endeavor should be to be in harmony with our fellow-countrymen who have espoused Republican principles and who will work with us for the amelioration of our people and who will accord us the right of suffrage without molestation. The organization of a black Republican party requires careful and cautious effort on the part of its promoters. Much of the success that will come to it will depend upon how wisely and well the foundation is laid. Its labors should be characterized by good temper; its counsels by wisdom and the measures, demands and concessions which shall be considered or which may be proposed as a sort of framework for the party must be reasonable; otherwise when the declaration of principles is published the whole scheme might be declared impolitic, working a pernicious influence against all our future efforts, besides producing immediate friction and perhaps mischief and danger in the organization itself. The caution and necessity therefore it seems to me should be a very cogent reason for vesting the power of organizing a new party in the hands of a competent committee chosen from the people who have the interest and welfare of the organization and our people at heart. Such a committee should be clothed with full power to formulate a plan that would carry the organization into every state and municipality in the land, to the end that conventions could be legally called for, placing men, without regard to race or color, in nomination for every office in the gift of the American people. An organization that would accomplish that result, that would obliterate the color line and make all in politics, as they are now in law, equal, would be, in my humble judgment, a panacea for the so-called race troubles of our time. To your request that you would be pleased to have my ideas as to the platform, I would state that the present Republican platform. (Continued on page 6) THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN 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 Office, A. W. Denny Bldg., 1414 Second. Telephone Main 305. A crazy paragrapher suggests that Rockefeller and his son take for their Sunday school text a verse like this: "Our great men burned the midnight oil in use o'er tasks severe, but that was in the good old days when oil was not so dear." Scat, you skunk! At the time referred to oil was sold for $1.00 a gallon, and almost as much was used then as now, when it is only 20 cents a gallon. If the Oil King would reduce oil to 10 cents a gallon such pessimists as wrote the above would find equal cause for complaint. * * * The St. Louis exposition is promised as an art curio a photograph 50 feet long by 5 feet high. It must have been taken for Colonel Blethonibus to demonstrate Billy Brynabus and Hearstabus as popular political candidates, and, incidentally, to increase the circulation of the Times over the P.-I. Some time ago the editor hereof said the editor of the Times periodically "had 'em," but he is of the opinion now that he "has 'em" all the time. Perhaps Collier's Weekly is correct in stating that Mr. Bryan's demeanor while abroad was most admirable, but if it was, as much cannot be said of his demeanor at home. We have been told that in order to hear the news you have to go away from home. * * * We quite agree with the editor of the "Red Man" of the Carlisle Indian school that "it is truly impossible for the Indian to become a civilized individual unless he is given a civilized individual's chances," and we further agree "it would spoil immigrants coming to us from any country in the world to treat them as we treat our Indians," but it seems to be the way of our Christian AngloSaxon civilization toward the members of a weaker race, and what is true of the Indian can likewise be said of others. * * * What in heaven's name has the city of St. Louis done that the political rag-tags, bobtails and pug-uglies of this country are to hold their quadrennial Kilkenny cat-fight there? Just why the heathens do not go South amongst their kith and kin even they themselves do not seeem to know. * * * That cigars are frequently made out of something else besides tobacco many of us have good and sufficient reasons to know, because we have frequently stood beside some dude who was puffing away at a rotten cabbage leaf, just the same as if it was a "Hacienda." * * * Last Friday Judge Tallman granted thirteen divorces, and during the same week not half as many marriage licenses were issued—and yet there are those who still insist that marriage is not a failure. *** Senator Reed Smoot declares that he was never a polygamist, which, for the sake of argument, it admitted; but he cannot truthfully deny that he has been an aider and abettor of that accursed institution ever since he has been at the head of the Mormon church. ** Bryan has a new idea, which, if true, will be very refreshing to those who have listened to his rather fogy old ideas for so long. California's gold output has very perceptibly decreased within the past few years, but her fruit crop increase has been most marvelous, which has brought to California from other states more gold than she herself ever produced. * * * The parents of the present citizens of Chicago must have been very short lived if the present citizens live twice as long as their parents, for, unless we have been deceived, between the cold and the heat one has never been able to exist but a very short time in Chicago after he arrives at the age of maturity. * * * That one can learn from reading magazines enough about the counterfeiting business to himself become a successful one is proof sufficient that the newspaper man of today is actually the only true public educator. *** The Penitentiary Echo is the name of a new paper that is to be issued from the prison near Honolulu. This country for the past few years has been overrun with "yellow journals," but it is now to have a dose of "striped journals!" * * * The prosperity of this country, as declares Congressman Williams, may be independent of Republican measures, but we seem to have a faint recollection of the fact that under Democratic administrations this country had a different kind of prosperity altogether than under Republican administrations. * * * Monday morning all dealers advanced coal 25 cents per ton. Talk about "money to burn," but if the present rate continues he who uses the black fuel at all in Seattle will burn money whether he has it to burn or not. *** One of the professors in Clark University has been making a scientific investigation of the love question for the past fifteen years. This investigation embraces 1,700 cases, and he affirms that the love period extends from three years to old age. Under this condition of affairs the fever is inevitable, and he who escapes it at one period of life may fall deeply in it at the next turn of the wheel. In other words, so long as there is life there is danger. * * * The editor of the New York Sun has been ordered to pay $500 because he said that a certain Prof. Trotten was "off his nut." He will learn better some day than to use slang. In other words, he will "cut it out" or the courts "won't do a thing to him," "ring off" or "lose his dough"; in short, "get on to himself enough to know when to butt in." * * * A writer on "Delsarte for the Mind" advises the hungry, cross man who gets home and finds the fires low and the dinner not ready to stand in the hallway and say aloud, "I am in a pleasant frame of mind" until he can meet his wife with a smile. Doubtless this would be a wise thing to do, but what a departure! The facial expression of a cold, wet, hungry Seattle man monologuing thusly in his hallway baffles our most vivid imagination. * * * The recent report of the secretary of the United States Senate discloses quite a varied list of articles purchased by the government for that distinguished body's use. One item is, "Two dozen corkscrew knives, $21.00," and then follows considerable amounts of "Attar of Roses," oil of bergamont, glycerine, bay rum, a gallon of cologne, fourteen different kinds of soap, etc. Those two dozen corkscrew knives seemed to have required quite a bit of sweet smells to put them out of evidence—but then the "contingent fund" must be used. ** ** Mississippi's governor says educating the Negroes is making criminals of them. Is not the same thing true of the Caucasians in the South? for no less than 75 per cent of them are red handed murderers and defrauders. POLITICAL POT-PIE (Continued from page 1) publicans for a number of years, is as badly divided this year as ever. There is no end to the aspirants for the nomination of councilman, but who will be the lucky man is a fifteen block puzzle. Hon. A. J. Goddard, however, is now being talked of as a compromise candidate, and he may be nominated without opposition, their squabbling to the contrary notwithstanding. *** Two councilmen-at-large are to be nominated this year, and already Captain John Taylor has announced that he will be a candidate to succeed himself, and having been quite successful in previous conventions, it is predicted that he will again win out. Whether or not Councilman Will H. Parry will ask for a renomination remains to be seen. He has said nothing one way or the other on the subject, but if the nomination is unanimously tendered him it is believed that he will accept it. C. W. Clausen, of Kitsap county, who was mentioned last week in connection with the next Republican nomination for state treasurer, announces that he will not be a candidate for office, but is a candidate for state auditor, and to that end herewith announces himself. *** "Permit me to inform you, Mr. Pie-maker, that one of the Republican nominees for supreme judge will come from western Washington. I have no idea whom it will be or from what county he will come, but he is going to come from somewhere in Western Washington," came from a prominent Republican one day this week. *** Chairman Ellis Morrison has postponed the time of the assembling of the State Central Committee from February 13, to February 27th, in order, as he says, to give the leading Republicans of the various counties of the state ample time to consult with their constituents as to the advisability of holding one instead of two conventions. The Piemaker is inclined to believe that it will be a great mistake to force one convention on the party this year, and he therefore enters a protest, believing that in doing so he is voicing the sentiments of many if not a majority of the leading Republicans of this state. * * * Contrary to expectations, George M. Holloway, so comes the report, has shied his castor into the political arena again, and will be a candidate for State Treasurer in opposition to S. F. Rathbon, who, it was thought, would be without opposition before the coming municipal convention. Holloway is a mixer, and being at the head of the Order of Eagles of this state and city, will doubtless come into the convention with much strength. Kensington and Rogers-Peet Clothing NOTHING BETTER W. B. HUTCHINSON CO. 1401 Second Av. and Union St. 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. R. H. Denny, Vice-President. J. 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Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $L. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D. C. The protracted effort was closed. There had been two weeks of prayer and hard work for the conversion of sinners, and the few faithful willing workers who night after night had trudged some two, some three and some six miles, counting both ways, after hard day's work in the fields, for it was cotton hoing times, were rewarded with ten new candidates for baptism, which meant ten new members for their much beloved church. The day for the baptizing had arrived. A beautiful, clear, calm Sunday morning, when the barking of a neighbor's dog travels with peculiar distinctness and the blows from an ax, as a lazy brother cuts his Saturday night's wood on Sunday morning, are caught by the surrounding cane swamps and sloping hillsides and formed into an echo which misleads the new teacher's unaccustomed ear as to where the transgressor usually is. By time the sun has dried the dew from the morning glory vine which covers the low, zig-zag garden fence, the chickens and ducks have been fed till they walked unheeding over the big yellow grains of corn; the pigs have long since ceased to squeal and look toward the small kitchen window; the cows have been milked and fed, the bars let down and they have tramped down the narrow cows' path, single file, to the tinkling of the lead cows' bell, on to their grazing fields. Then comes the start for the church; the farmer and the teacher sit on the spring seat, the busy wife, whose face reflects the happiness in her heart and whose eyes are big with the expectations of the day, occupies a chair behind them, the mammoth dinner basket beside her; an old blanket covers the bundles of hay and fodder for the team in the back of the wagon, and upon this David, the small boy of the family, sits. The public road is soon entered and many there are upon it—wagons new and old, big and little, which the various members used in their wagons have been pressed into service. The sun's rays is falling almost vertically upon the time-worn church. The day is "scorching hot." The teacher thinks to slip out and sit beneath the shade trees just back of the building, but there she found six women, each contentedly holding a baby in her arms, and they discuss the news of several plantations. These creatures, perhaps coarse in a way, yet honest and womanly, only faces the side of life called duty, seldom saw each other and so proudly exhibited what the stork had brought them since the last "protracted meeting." During such impromptu mothers' meetings she who had the youngest and therefore newest baby was the most important. A New York belle who sports the "very latest, don't you know," could not be more elated than this honest woman of the soil, whose brow is oft wet with honest sweat, whose hands are not strangers to the hoe handle. The pond where the congregation has assembled is a shady pool, just off from the dusty roadside. The members surround its banks. The candidates form in two lines; the women in one line, the men in the other. A solemn stillness pervades the air. The minister advances in the water above his waist line and reverently raising his hands above his head says, "Let us pray." Then they kneel and they cry "Amen," as honest tears roll down their faces—tears of joy! O season of rejoicing! Hearts which are earnest, for their possessors live and love, speak and act in accordance with the light which they have. As the teacher took in the scene, those kneeling people at the water's edge, the minister whose voice rose and fell in tones twice as loud as needs to have been, the candidates, the women with their heads bound in large red handkerchiefs, their skirts tied down just above their knees, the men barefooted, each with a folded handkerchief around his head, she breathes a prayer that the children of these people may some day possess intelligence equal unto the earnest Christian devotion of their parents. Then her heart swells to its utmost and she wishes the hard workers for the race could witness as the church rises and the first candidate is led out into the water and handed over to the minister and his assistant. They sing! Is it the water or the cancevered hills just back of the pond, or is it the exceeding great joy of the people finding vent in their voices? "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand and cast a wistful eye To Cannia's fair and happy land, where my possession lies." The return to the church is soon made. The baskets are spread and not a person present but has as much dinner as he wants—perchance more than he needs. The minister, the teacher and the ten new accessions to the church are the guests of honor, and such roasts of pork, brown and well seasoned, such chickens, stews, bakes and fries, the home-made pickle, some even bring buckets of white-head cabbage, yellow corn bread, flaky flour bread and biscuits, great and small. Last comes the watermelons—a whole wagonload, bright green melons as large as some of the small children who stand open-mouthed around, the wagon wrapped in melon admiration. Juicy red meat with black seeds, sweet white meat with dark seeds, so cool, palitable and refreshing! "Look!" cries the man who donated the melons, and he holds in air one of the very finest specimens of his patch. "I brought this here one for our new teacher!" Against Negro Education JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 19.—In his inaugural address delivered today before a joint session of the Mississippi legislature, Governor James K. Vardaman declared that the growing tendency of the Negro to commit criminal assaults on whites is no more or less than the manifestation of race desire for social equality. In strong terms he declared that education is the curse of the Negro race, and urged an amendment to the state constitution that will place the distribution of the common school funds solely within the power of the legislature. Continuing his discussion of the Negro question, Governor Vardaman said: "As a race he is deteriorating every day. Time has demonstrated that he is more criminal as a free man than as a slave; that he is increasing in criminality with frightful rapidity, being one-third more criminal in 1890 than he was in 1880. "The startling facts revealed by the census show that those who can read and write are more criminal than the illiterates, which is true of no other element of our population. "I am advised that the minimum illiteracy among the Negroes is found in New England, where it is 21.4 per cent. The maximum is found in the black belt, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, where it is 65.7 per cent, and yet the Negro of New England is four and one-half times more criminal hundred for hundred, than he is in the black belt. "In the South, Mississippi especially, I know he is growing worse every year. You can scarcely pick up a newspaper whose pages are not blackened with the account of an unmentionable crime committed by a Negro brute, and this crime, I want to impress upon you, is but the manifestation of the Negro's aspiration for social equality, encouraged largely by the character of free education in vogue which the state is levy- ing tribute upon the white people to maintain. "The better class of Negroes is not responsible for this terrible condition, nor for the criminal tendency of their race. Nor do I wish to be understood as censuring them for it. I am not censuring anybody, nor am I inspired by ill will for the Negro, but I am simply calling attention to a most unfortunate and undeniable condition of affairs. What shall be done about it? "My own idea is that the character of the education for the Negro ought to be changed. If, after years of earnest effort and the expenditure of fabulous sums of money to educate his head we have only succeeded in making a criminal out of him, and destroying his usefulness and efficiency as a laborer, wisdom could suggest that we make another experiment and see if we cannot improve him by educating his hand and his heart. There must be a moral substratum upon which to build, or you cannot make him a desirable citizen." The governor also declared that the people of the nation should rise up and demand the repeal of the fifteenth amendment. BLACK REPUBLICAN PLATFORM (Continued from page 3) upon which our lamented friend, the martyred McKinley, died, would be a fit and proper one for the new party to adopt. I would suggest, however, that there be added the following amendments: 1. Increase the navy to five times its present strength. 2. Increase the regular army to 300,000 men. 3. Build the Panama canal at once. 4. Stop fooling the people in the Oriental islands. 5. Annex at once Japan. 6. A protectorate over China. 7. Keep the open-door in Asia. 8. Send Russia back home and consign her to wallow in the pool of her pollution for a thousand years. 9. Blow up the Trans-Siberian railroad. 10. Demand respect for this nation in every part of the world. 11. Enforce every law that we have on the statute books. 12. Suppress crime in this country if we have the law to do it with. 13. The constitution of the United States should follow the American flag wherever it goes, and it should never be removed or hauled down without our consent. 14. Extend the Anglo-Saxon civilization in the Orient and throughout the western hemisphere. I have every reason to believe that this construction agrees with the ideas entertained by the state conventions when they were debating on the constitution of the United States of America. I cannot see the necessity of digressing therefrom. Thanking you and your committee for past favors, I am, respectfully yours, SAMUEL BURDETT. Everett's postoffice receipts for 1903 show an increase of 16 per cent over the receipts of 1902 and are over $1,900 in excess of the receipts of Whatcom, Everett's only real rival among the dozen second-class postoffices of the state.—Herald. * * * When the Green Lake News speaks thusly—"For the next sixty days the 'glad hand' artist will be very much in evidence. The average voter will receive more friendly grips in the coming weeks than he has had in the past year"'—it certainly sizes up the situation to a tyty. — — NOTICE 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 Iting Gounty, on the 5th day of January, 190: by the Clerk thereof, in the case of Ella M. Ward, Plaintiff, versus Fred S. ‘Twitchell and Mary ‘Twitchell, his wife, Defendants, No. 37102, and to me, as Sheriff, directed and delivered: Notice is hereby Bee that I will proceed to sell at public auction, to the ighest bidder for cash, within the hours prescribed by law for Sheriff's sales, to-wit: at 10 o'clock A. M. on the 20th day of February, A. D., 1904, be- fore the court house door of said King county, in the state of Washington, all of the’ right, title and interest of the said defendants in and to the following described property, situated in King county, state of Washington, to-wit: ‘The south halt (44) of Jot g, and all of lots 4 and 5, in block 9, Young's addi- tion to the ‘city of Seattle, levied on as the property of defendants to satis- fi a judgment, amounting to _ three thousand eight ‘hundred forty-five and 37-100 dollars, and costs of suit, in fa- vor of the plaintiff. Dated this 12th day of January, 1904. ED. CUDIHER, Sheriff. By WM. CORCORAN, Deputy. IN_ THE SUPERIOR COURT VF ews State of Washington for the County of ing. S. P. Willis, Plaintiff, vs. B. H. Cox and Jane Doe Cox, his wife, whose true christian name is’ to plaintiff unknown, ‘defendants. No. ——.—Summons by publication, ‘The State of Washington to B. H. Cox and Jane Doe Cox, his wife, whose true christian name is’ to plaintiff unknown the above named defendants: You and each of you are hereby sum- moned to appear within sixty (60) days after the first publication of this sum- mons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after the 8th day of January, 1904, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the under~ signed 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 plaintiff's complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of the above entitled court. The object of the ahove entitled action is to exclude the defendants, and each of them, from any lien, claim or interest in the following described real. estate, to-wit: Block four of Shinn’s Addition to Kent, King county, State of Washing- ton, in which the defendants claim some right, lien or interest, and to quiet the title to said premises ‘in the plaintiff. MARTIN J. LUND, Attorney for Plaintiff, Office and postoffice address: 830 Ar- cade building, Seattle, Wash. Date of first publication, January 8, 1904: last February 19, 1904. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. No, 5131. In_the Superior Court of the State of ‘Washington, for King County. In probate, In the matter of the estate of Carl Gass, deceased. Notice is hereby given that all per- sons having claims against the estate of Carl Gass, deceased, are hereby re- quired to present the same, with vouch- ers in support thereof, to Joseph Steiert, administrator of said estate, at his resi- dence in Black Diamond, King County, ‘Washington, within one ‘year from, the date of the’ first publication hereof. JOSEPH STEIERT, Administrator of the estate of Carl Gass, Black Diamond, Washington. Date of first publication Dec. 25, 1908; last, Jan. 22, 1904, ———————— NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN. In_the Superior Court of the State of ‘Washington, for County of King. In probate, No, 5091. In_the matter of the guardianship of Ww. C. Roedigger, an insane person. To All Whom It May Concern, this no- tice is herebyb given: ‘That on the third day of September, 1908, the undersigned was appointed guardian of the person and estate, of . C. Roedigger, an insane person, and all persons having claims against the person and estate of the said W. C. Roe- digger, are hereby notified to. present the same within thirty days from the first publication hereof, at the offices of the undersigned, 2313%% First Avenue, Seattle, King County, State of Wash- ington. ‘Dated at Seattle, Washington, — this 25th day of December, the date ‘of the first pubblication hereof. WILLIAM RITTERHOFF, Guardian of the person and estate ‘of W, C, Roedigger, an, insane person. Dec. 25, '03—-Jan. 22, 04. IN. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. No. 41443, Summons. Eliza Cooper, plaintiff, vs. Howell 8. Cooper, defendant. ‘The State of Washington to the said Howell §. Cooper, the above named defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to- wit, within sixty days after the 25th day of December, 1903, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court and answer the complaint of the plaintift at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judg- ment will be rendered against you ac- cording to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. ‘The object of this action ts to dis- solve the bonds of matrimony hereto- fore and now existing between plaintiff and defendant on the ground of defend- ant’s willful failure to support plaintiff. ‘Date of first publication November 20th, 1903. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintist, P, 0. Address. Seattle, King County, Washington. Office address, 327-328 Pa- cific block. Dec, 25, Feb & pete NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In_the Superior Court of the State of Washington for King County. In the matter of the estate of Edwin VY. Schick, deceased, Notice is’ hereby given by the under- signed administrator of the estate of jsdwin V. Schick, deceased, to the cred- itors of and all’persons having claims against the said deceased, or against his estate, to present them, with the neces- sary vouchers, within one year from the Gate of the first publication of this no- tice, to the said administrator, at room 12, Roxwell Block, situate in the north- east corner of First Avenue and Colum- bia Street, in the City of Seattle, King County, Washington, the same being the place of the transaction of the business df said estate in the City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of the first publication the 8th day of January, 1904, ‘W. 0. PINGREE, Administrator of the estate of Edwin 'V. Sebick, deceased. BRADY & GAY, Attorneys for Administrator, NOTICE OF HEARING. Notice Superior Court of the State of ‘Washington in and for King County. In the matter of the application of the R. T. Shannon Grocery Company, a corporation, to dissolve and disincor- porate. State-of Washington, County of King, ss. Notice is hereby given that the R. T. Shannon Grocery Company a private pusiness corporation, organized and ex- isting under and AG to the laws of the State of ‘ashington, with its principal place of business in the city of Seattle, King County, Washington, made and filed herein on December 12, 1903, its petition and ities for dis- incorporation and dissolution of said cor- poration and. accompanying the same with a certificate of its president and secretary, attested with its corporate seal, to the effect that at a meeting of the stockholders of said company called for that purpose at Seattle aforesaid, it was decided by the unanimous vote of all the stockholders of said company to disincorporate and dissolve, and that an order has been duly made and entered herein fixing: March 6, 1904, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock A. M. of that day, in the equity department Number 4 of the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for the County, of King, at Seattle aforesaid, as the time and place for a hearing upon said peti- tion and application, and that said peti- tion and application will be heard at the said time and place fifixed therefor as aforesaid, In witness. whereof.I. have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of aa Superior Court this December 12, Cc, A. KOBPFLI, Clerk of the Buperae Court. By J. M. BREWSTER, Deputy. Jan, 8-March 4. EMBREE & COLE, Attorneys for Petitioners, 415 Pioneer Building, Seattle, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King. In the matter of the estate of Ed- ward John Brown, deceased. ‘No, 5285.—Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given by the under- signed, Annie Gard, the administratrix of the estate of Edward John Brown, deceased, to the creditors of, and ali persons having claims against the said estate, to exhibit the same with all necessary vouchers attached, within one year after the date of the first pub- lication of this notice, to the said ad- ministratrix herein, at the law offices of L. N. Rosenbaum, 304 New_York Block, in Seattle, King County, Wash- ington, the same being the piace for the transaction of the business of said estate in King County, Washington. All claims not presented within the period of one year from the date of the first publication of this notice will be barred according to the laws of the State of Washington. Dated Seattle, Washington, December 16, 1903, ANNIE GARD, Administratrix, L, N, ROSENBAUM, Attorney for Administratrix. 1eD3ts,0f first publication, December NOTICE TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE PIDDUCK-ROSS COMPANY. Notice is hereby given and extended to any and all persons in any way_in- terested in or concerned with the Pid- duck-Ross Company, a corporation, that a meeting of the stockholders of said corporation will be held at the office and principal place of business of said corporation, No. 720 Second Avenue, in the City of Seattle, King County, ‘and State of Washington, on February’ 16th, 1904, at the hour of ten o'clock A. M.; the ‘object and purpose of which said meeting 1s to increase the capital stock of said corporation from $14,000.00, which is its present capital stock, to $20,000.00, at which time and place a vote of the stockholders of said cor- poration will be had for the purpose of determining whether or not said capital stock shall be increased; and any and all persons interested in’ such proceed- ings are requested to be present then and ere. Dated, December 16th, 1903, J.T, ROSS, GEO. A. PIDDUCK, W. BE, TALLENT, Trustees. First publication, Dec. 18, 1903; last Feb. 12, 1904. H. & B. IN THB SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King. State of Washington, King County.—ss. In the matter of the estate of Joseph Cicero, deceased. anne Probate.—Department No, 4.—No. Notice of settlement of final account. Notice is hereby given that Dora B, Cicero, administratrix of the estate of Joseph Cicero, deceased, has rendered to and filed in said Court her final account and report as such administratrix and that Thursday, the 21st day of January, 1904, at 1:30 p. m. of said day at the Courtroom of the Probate Department of our said Superior Court in the City of Seattle, in said King County, has been duly appointed by said Court for the settlement of said account and re- port at which time and place any persons interested in said estate may appear and file his objections in writing to said ac- count and report and contest the same. Witness the Honorable Boyd J. Tall- man, Judge of the said Superior Court, and the seal of said Court hereto affixed this 12th day of December, 1903, Cc. A. KOEPFLI, Clerk. By D. K. SICKELS, Deputy Clerk. IN. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King. In the matter of the Estate of James E. Boyden, deceased. No, 3144.—In Probate. Notice of sale of real estate. Notice is hereby given that the un- dersigned, administratrix of the estate of James E. Boyden, deceased, in obedi- ence to an order of the superior court of the County of King, State of Wash- ington, made on the 27th day of Novem- ber, 1903, will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, for cash, on Saturday, the 9th day of Januaty, 1904, between the hours of 10 o'clock in the morning and the setting of the sun, be- ginning at the hour of eleven o'clock a. m., all of those lots of land particu- larly bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Lots nine (9) and _ten (10), in, block thirty-four (34), in Washington Central Improvement Company’s Knob Hill Ad- dition to Kent, King County, State of Washington, : Lots i5 and 16, in block 9, in Wash- ington Central Improvement ‘Company's First Addition to Kent, King County, State of Washington. Lots twenty-two (22) and twenty- three: (23), of block thirteen (13), of Landes, Kitsap County, State of Wash- ington, 'as shown by the plat now on file in the Auditor's Office of said Kitsap County. Said lands will be sold either in one parcel or in sub-divisions. Terms of sale will be fifty per cent. cash to accompany bid, and the remain- ing fifty per cent. upon confirmation of gale and delivery of administratrix’s eed. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 28th day of November, A. D. 1903. ALICE M. BOYDEN, Administratrix of the Estate of James EB, Boyden, deceased. PRESTON, CARR & GILMAN, ‘Attorneys for Administratrix, Dec. 11-Jan. 8. IN_THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King. In the Matter of the Estate of C. W. King, deceased, In'Probate.—No. 4622. Notice of Executor’s sale of real estate. Notice is hereby given that the un- dersigned, executor of the estate of C. W. King, deceased, in obedience to an order of the superior court of the County of King, State of Washington, made on the 30th day of November, 1903, will sell at public auction, to the high- est and best bidder, for cash, on Satur- day, the 9th day of January, 1904, be- tween the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and the setting of the sun, be- ginning at the hour of eleven o'clock a, m.,, all those lots of land, situate, lying and being in the County ‘of King, State of Washington, and particularly bounded and described ‘as follows, to-wit: An undivided one-half interest in lots 12, 18 and 14, in block 2, H. C. Pettit’s Addition to the City of Seattle. An undivided one-half interest in lot 6, block 102, D, 'T. Denny's First Addi- tion to North Seattle, Said lands will be sold either in one parcel or in sub-divisions. ‘Terms of sale will be 50 per cent. cash to accompany bid, and the remain- ing 50 per cent. upon confirmation of sale and delivery of executor’s deed. Dated Seattle, Washington, this “ist day of December, A. D. 1903. EDWARD G, KING, Executor of the Estate of C. W, King, deceased. JAMES B, MURPHY, Attorney for Executor. Dec. 11-Jan. 8. IN_THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING County, State of Washington. No, 39,151, In_ the Matter of the Peti- tion of the City of Seattle, a city of the first class, that just compensation for the private property te be taken or damaged by the opening, widening, al- tering and changing the grade of Second avenue and Second avenue north, in the City of Seattle, from Pike street to John street, and of the vari- ous streets crossing the same, so far as they may be affected by the pro- powe. changes to be made in Second avenue and Sec- ond avenue north, as pro- vided by Ordinance No. 9311 of said city, approved March 3, 1903, be ascer- tained by a jury, or by the court, in case a jury be waived. The State of Washington to-— J.C. Hayes and —— Hayes, his wife; K. ©, Hayes and —— Hayes, his wife; S. Perry Mills; Mary lL. Macdonald; Jennie 1, Page ‘and —— Page, her hus- band; Abbie D, Preston; Frank Stander and —— Stander, his wife; Nina E. Stewart and —— Stewart, her husband; George Taylor and —— Taylor, his wife: Mrs. M. A. Shimoty; Savings and Loan Society; Security Savings Bank of San Francisco, California; B. ©. Tilden and —+ Tilden, his wife; Nellie White and ——_White, her husband; Ingebright A. Wold and —— Wold, his wite; J. Y. C. Kellogg; Louisiana DeW, Whittlesey. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publicedon of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 11th day of December, 1903, and defend the above entitled action’ and proceeding in the above entitled court, and answer the pe- tition of the petitioner, and serve a copy of your answer upon’ the undersigned attorneys for petitioned at their office below stated; and in case of your fail- ure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the petition, which has been filed with the clerk of said court; That the object of said petition and action is to condemn the lands, property and property rights necessary to be taken or damaged in altering, opening, widening and changing the grade of Sec- ond avenue and Second avenue north and of the various streets crossing the same, between Pike street and John street, in the City of Seattle, King Coun- ty, Washington, and to ascertain, in the manner provided by law, the just com- pensation to be made and paid to the owners thereof and others having any interest therein, for the taking, dam- aging or injuriously affecting any such land, property or property rights, and for a release from all liability to’ such owners or others having any interest therein, MITCHELL GILLTAM, Corporation Counsel. JOHN K. BROWN, SHERWOOD F, GORHAM, Attorneys for Petitioner, Office and postoffice address: Room 40 Haller Building, Seattle, King Coun- ty, Washington, Dec. 11-Jan, ‘22, IN, THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King. No, 40582. Summons for Publication, Frank P. Church and Eliza A. Wales, Plaintiff, vs. Lydia Christine Nelson, a single woman, Defendant. The State of Washington to the said Lydia Christine Nelson, the above named defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this. summons, _to- wit, within sixty days after the 27th day of November, 1903, and defend the above entitled action in the above en- titled court, and answer the compan’ of the plaintiffs and serve a copy of your answer upon the uaderaigned attorneys for plaintiffs, at their office below stat- ed; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according. to the demand of the com- plaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. - The object of the above entitled ac- tion is to exclude you from all interest in and to lots two (2) and three (3) in block one hundred and ninety-one (191), in the Town of Kirkland, in King County, Washington, according to the plat thereof as filed for record in the office of the Auditor of said County, and to cancel and set aside of record a Treasurer's deed for said property to George M. OBradovich and a deed from George M. OBradoyich to yourself. And to have the pie declared to be the owners of said property against yourself and all persons claiming by, through or under you. > BROWNELL & COLEMAN, Attorneys for plaintiffs; office and Post Office address, Everett, Snohomish County, Washington, Nov. 27—Jan. 8, "IF I WUS PRESIDENT.” (Kansas City Star.) “If I wus only President,” Said Little Billie Searles, “I wouldn't ‘low no schools to start, Exceptin’ fer the girls, They ain't no use to edercate A kid with any sense, He'll learn hisself; they’s something wrong With all our Presidents. “Now what's the use o’ breakin’ in On all a feller’s fun, An’ pen ’im up in school jus’ when The nuttin’ time’s begun? An’ what's the use to load 'im down With things like 'rithmetics? He'd great deal ruther be outdoors, A-fishin’ in the cricks, “Now, what's the use of grammar? Pshaw! They ain’t none, I kin see, An’ as fer spellin’—why, it comes Jes’ natural fer me. I wisht thet I was runnin’ things, You bet yer bottom cent They wouldn’t be no schools fer boys If I wus President.” THE EDITOR’S MODEST HOPES. (Ritzville News.) The average editor secretly hopes that sometime, somewhere, somehow, some- body may come to him and unselfishly commend him for something he has said or done, but most of us do not expect it, on the other hand, he will pret) ny gO down to the end dodging swipes, ignor- ing cutting personal sarcasm from jeal- ous minds, edging away from ill-natured criticism, and in other ways steadfastly endeavoring to avoid as many of the faeries and unpleasant things in this life a possible, ginceraly trusting that when Ke. finally comes and all in life’s fitful fever is over so far as worldly af- fairs are concerned nobody will take the trouble to cast stones or other meas missiles at the conveyance that is hi: to haul him on a trot to the nearest cem- etery. PERSONAL Mrs. George Selby, residing at 2608 E. Valley street, is on the sick list. The Fiske Jubilee Singers were in the city this week and gave two recitals. Mr. Frank Smith was reported on the sick list last week, but is out and around again. Mr. Edward F. Meyer, of Bremerton, visited in this city last Saturday and reported Mrs. Meyer much better. Rev. F. T. Walker returned last week from Spokane, very favorably impressed with the eastern metropolis and her people. Mr. E. L. Letcher read a very creditable and instructive paper before the Booker T. Washington Literary Society, January 13th. The Roosevelt Invincible Club will meet in the Young Naturalists' Hall (Mt. Zion Baptist Church) next Monday evening, 25th inst. The Haymakers' Cantata Club tendered a very interesting and creditable concert last Thursday evening at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Editor J. E. B. Reed, of the Georgetown, South Seattle, News, is now publishing a very creditable paper, and contemplates, in the near future, issuing a tri-weekly. Mrs. D. Johnson and Mrs. Will Duncan were married Wednesday evening, January 20th. The contracting parties are well known and will reside in this city. Rev. S. S. Freeman officiated. Help Yourself To Delicious Vienna Coffee Always Always 30c. Per Pound We Will Give You A Dainty Thin Austrian China Tea-Cup and Saucer with Every Pound Arcade Baking Powder Leads them all. One pound can for 25c.One of the above cups and saucers will be given with each pound. SPELGER & HURLBUT SECOND AND UNION Mr. Lawrence Sledge, the popular Tacoma Afro-American attorney, was a visitor at the Evergreen Literary Society January 15th. Mr. Sledge will deliver an address before this society on the 29th inst. The severe elements, coupled with their "goose feathers," having driven the hobos to shelter, the police officers had little trouble in rounding up thirteen of the gentry, who are now boarding with the city. The Unique Social Club held its first entertainment at the residence of Mr. J. T. Gayton last Wednesday evening, and the same was well attended. With one or two exceptions the entire membership was present. Monday evening, January 18th, at 7:30 o'clock, Miss Lillian Duval and Mr. George W. Brown, were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Bryant, 1306 Seventh avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Brown will reside in Portland, where they are both well known. On Wednesday night the police made a raid on the downtown saloons and arrested forty gentlemen who were unable to give a good account of themselves. Their worldly possessions consisted, barring the clothes worn, of an average of 7 cents each. Mr. John Quincy Adams died on the morning of the 16th at the home of his adopted niece, Mrs. W. L. Smith. Mr. Adams was 64 years of age and a native of Kentucky. He was buried from Butterworth's parlors Sunday. Rev. Freeman conducted the funeral services. The Evergreen Literary Society held their first meeting of the new year on the 15th. Never has the audience been treated to a real treat as on that occasion. The talent was the best the city affords—such reciting and singing was never better, each participant being an artist in his part. The audience were well paid for coming out through such stormy weather as on that night. The program as arranged for the 29th is as follows: Address, Mr. L. Sledge, Tacoma; duet, Mrs. Rideout and Mrs. Steel; reading, Miss Myrtle Warmack; dialogue, Mrs. Walker and Mr. Simms; duet, Misses Clarke and Selby; reading, Mrs. Wells. Nicely Furnished Rooms, by the day or week. Rates reasonable, at 515 James Street. Mrs. Sarah Grose, Proprietress. If you want to borrow money on your diamonds, jewelry or watches at low rates, don't hunt up your "friends." Go to the American Watch and Jewelry Co., 908 First Ave., private offices, and business strictly confidential. *** MANAGER WANTED. Trustworthy lady or gentleman to manage business in this county and adjoining territory for well and favorably known house of solid financial standing. $20.00 straight cash salary and expenses paid each Monday by check direct from headquarters. Expense money advanced; position permanent. Address Manager, 610 Monon Bldg., Chicago, Ill. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County —In Probate. No. 5290—Notice to creditors. In the matter of the estate of Joseph Livengood, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, W. M. Livengood, administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Joseph Livengood, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against said deceased, to present them, with the necessary vouchers, within one year after the first publication of this notice, to-wit, within one year THE BON MARCHÉ THE BON MARCHÉ THE BON MARCHÉ THE WHITE FAIR Now In Progress ALL CARS TRANSFER TO THE BON MARCHE MAIL ORDERS FILLED JOHN DAVIS CO. John Davis JOHN DA Real after the 22nd day of January, 1904, to said administrator with the will annexed, at his office, No. 1211 Western avenue, in the city of Seattle, King county, Washington, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate. Dated January 19, 1904. W. M. LIVENGOOD, Administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Joseph Livengood, Deceased. James McNeny, attorney for administrator. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION. The State of Washington to James Gallagher and —— Gallagher, his wife, and I. L. Cole: You and each of 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 22nd day of January, 1904, and defend the above entitled action, in the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for King County, aforesaid, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned, attorneys for petitioner, at their office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered according to the demand of the petition, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The object of this proceeding is to procure land, property and property rights by appropriation and right of --- F. K. Struve AVIS CO. Estate Downs Block Attorneys for Petitioner. Office and Postoffice address: Room 40 Haller Bldg., Seattle, Washington. Jan. 22-March 4. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for the County of King M. Willis, Plaintiff, vs. James Moller, Jane Doe Moller, his wife, whose true Christian name is to plaintiff unknown, defendants. No. _____ Summons by publication. The State of Washington to James Moller and Jane Doe Moller, his wife, whose true Christian name is to plaintiff unknown, the above named defendants: You and each of you are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after the 8th day of January, 1904, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint 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 you according to the demand of plaintiff's complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of the above entitled court. The object of the above entitled action is to exclude the defendants, and each of them, from any lien, claim or interest in the following described real estate, to-wit: Block four of Shinn's Addition to Kent, King county, State of Washington, in which the defendants claim some right, lien or interest, and to quiet the title to said premises in the plaintiff. MARTIN J. LUND, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and postoffice address: 330 Arcade building, Seattle, Wash. Date of first publication, January 22, 1904; last March 4, 1904. 1.