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SEATTLE REPUBLICAN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1904 [Name not provided in the image] The Seattle Republican has been authorized to announce the candidacy of David W. Bowen of the Third ward for councilman-at-large, subject to the approval and ratification of the next nominating Republican municipal convention. In doing so advantage is taken of the opportunity to say a word commendable to Mr. Bowen's candidacy. He has been active in the political affairs of this city county and state for a number of year, but never before aspired to an elective office. For three years, however, he filled the position as deputy collector of internal revenue in this city, and resigned from the position to go into business for himself, at which he has been a most brilliant success. While Mr. Bowen has from time to time been identified with the politics of the county, and aggressively so, yet he has always been pronounced by all factions and parties as being fair in his dealing as well as fair in his opposition to the "other fellow." It can be safely said that no man in the Third ward is more popular, nor more generally liked, than Dave Bowen, who aspires at this time to the nomination of councilman-at-large. He has always been one of the leaders in the party and no campaign, regardless of the faction, that won out in the convention was fought him in consultation with the party leaders and the party nominees, and his counsel and advice have always been given the most careful consideration. It is predicted that if he is nominated, and it seems that he will be, he will be one of the popular candidates on the ticket. If nominated and elected he will make an ideal councilman judging from the success he had in his own private business. "Yes sir, I am a candidate for Councilman at large, and propose to continue being a candidate until defeated by a majority of the Republicans in convention assembled. If defeated however, I will be heart and soul for the winner. I realize that all of us can not win in the convention, and, if the defeated aspirants sulk in their tents, it forbodes no good for the party and I therefore take advantage of this opportunity to flatfootedly declare: I will work for the ticket whether myself or the other fellow is nominated. Republicanism always takes the precedence of personalism and for that reason I am for my party, first, last and all the time," is what Charles H. Burnett of the Ninth ward had to say about his candidacy one day this week. Charles Burnett was born in Seattle and has been living in the Ninth ward for the past fourteen years. He is a stalwart Republican and a faithful party worker. He is a prominent business man with offices in the Bailey building and would be a credit to the city in the capacity of councilman. Such energetic young business men should be encouraged in their political aspirations for ninety-nine out of every hundred who get an office always make ideal officials. Burnett and Bowen seems to be a popular chord for the councilman-at-large nominations, though there seems to be no lineup between the two popular young political aspirants. For Corporation Counsel—George E. Wright, attorney. For Councilmen-at-large—H. H. Kulies, cigarmaker, Third ward (single taxer). Thomas Navin, agent Renton Coal Company, First ward (single taxer). Ward Councilmen— First—James Conway, liveryman (single taxer). Second—James M'Namara, contractor. Historical Society The SEATTL VOL. X. NO. 36 TWO CANDIDAT DAVID W. BOWEN. The Seattle Republican has been authori-candidacy of David W. Bowen of the Third at-large, subject to the approval and ratification Republican municipal convention. It is taken of the opportunity to say a word of Bowen's candidacy. He has been active in this city county and state for a number of years aspired to an elective office. For three years, his position as deputy collector of internal revenue resigned from the position to go into business; he has been a most brilliant success. While at time to time been identified with the political aggressively so, yet he has always been pronounced and parties as being fair in his dealing as well as to the "other fellow." It can be safely said Third ward is more popular, nor more general. Bowen, who aspires at this time to the nominat- large. He has always been one of the least no campaign, regardless of the faction, that wention was fought him in consultation with the party nominees, and his counsel and advice had the most careful consideration. It is predicted, and it seems that he will be, he will be candidates on the ticket. If nominated and if an ideal councilman judging from the success of private business. The Democratic convention last Wednesday nominated a full municipal ticket and practically every name thereon was dictated by L. C. Gillman and his friends. The ticket is as follows: For Mayor—Wilmon Tucker, attorney. For Comptroller—Gibson Taylor, retired attorney. For Treasurer—Leander Miller, drayman. (Continued on page 2) UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 29 1952 UBLICAN Y 12, 1904 PRICE FIVE CENTS LMAN=AT=LARGE CHARLES H. BURNETT. a candidate for Councilman at large, and propose a candidate until defeated by a majority of the convention assembled. If defeated however, I will for the winner. I realize that all of us can not win, if the defeated aspirants sulk in their tents, and for the party and I therefore take advantage of a flatfootedly declare: I will work for the ticket the other fellow is nominated. Republicanism al- ccedence of personalism and for that reason I am last and all the time," is what Charles H. Burnett had to say about his candidacy one day this week. He is born in Seattle and has been living in the Ninth Fourteen years. He is a stalwart Republican andaker. He is a prominent business man with offices long and would be a credit to the city in the capacity which energetic young business men should be en-political aspirations for ninety-nine out of every office always make ideal officials. Burnett and a popular chord for the councilman-at-large nominee seems to be no lineup between the two pop- Third—Walter J. Beattie, blacksmith. Fourth—J. W. Godwin, commission merchant. Fifth—P. J. McQuaid, contractor. Sixth—Harry B. Drees, clerk. Seventh—T. M. Daulton, carpet dealer. Eighth—J. H. Hemer, secretary grand lodge, A. O. U. W. Ninth—William H. Murphy, grocer. ```markdown ``` POLITICAL POT=PIE Dr. J. J. Smith's formal announcement as a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, subject to the actions of the next nominating Republican convention, which formal announcement appeared in the "P.-I." one day last week, clears up a much-befuddled political atmosphere that has been hanging over King county for the last six months or more. Neither the advocates nor the opponents of Dr. Smith knew for sure whether he would be a candidate for governor or not as he kept his own counsel in the matter, and it was being hinted that he had withdrawn from the race under promise of being unanimously nominated for lieutenant-governor, but he has set all doubting Thomas' on the right road, as he announces that he is in the fight for the gubernatorial nomination to win. The Dr. Smith announcement is the beginning of a fierce three-cornered scrap in King county, the outcome of which the shrewdest and most sagacious politicians are unable to even surmise or predict. Dr. Smith, it is generally conceded, will have the south district of King county solid in the county convention; he will have a strong following in Seattle, which his advocates make bold to declare, even at this time, will give him sufficient votes to force the county convention to both endorse his candidacy and send the delegates to the state convention instructed for him, which would go a long way towards assuring his nomination, as Pierce county would lend his candidacy a willing hand, that is, in case the county is anti-McBride, in order to injure King county's chances of getting a United States senator. Those advocating the nomination of John E. Humphries declare Dr. Smith will not be able to control a solid south district, that Humphries will get some votes from it and a sufficient number to offset any votes Smith may get in the city; that Humphries will get the bulk of the north district, and, finally, he (Humphries) will control the county convention and name the delegates to the state convention. Humphries and his friends have been active since last July, and he should have some considerable following by this time. The McBride contingent will be on hand and found in the thickest of the fight. Some of Seattle's most sagacious politicians are handling McBride's interests here and should the McBride advocates join issues with one or the other of the senatorial aspirants of the county, Henry G. McBride would stand an excellent show of at least dividing the King county delegation, if not actually capturing it soul and body. McBridism has gained in supporters in King county very perceptibly since Christmas, and if his interests are handled as judiciously in the future as in the past, who will control the King county delegation to the nominating Republican convention, the actual polling of the delegation will only reveal. Of all the aspirants for the gubernatorial nomination before the coming Republican state convention, the Sentinel prefers Hon. John D. Atkinson. He cannot be placed with either faction of the party. Mr. Atkinson is from Eastern Washington, would make an excellent governor and, if nominated, would receive the undivided support of his party. We believe Klickitat county could not do better than support him in the convention.—"Coldendale Sentinel." It is with a view of absolutely controlling the next nominating Republican state convention that has prompted the advocates of the one convention idea to become bold in their demands. The same men hope to control the nominating Democratic convention, and when the candidates will have [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. Austin E. Griffith. been nominated on both tickets favorable to their ideas of state government they will then say to the people, "Fight it out among yourselves, we are on top, it matters not which party wins." This is simply a rule or rufin policy, and the Republicans should see to it that it is not forced upon them regardless of what powers are trying to do it. Let's not split hairs over the real promoters of this proposition. The railroad folks of this state are the real advcates of the one convention, and in that convention they hope to not only nominate men that are favorable to their kind of legislation, but to have decided action taken against putting a "Railroad Commission" plank into the platform. Inasmuch as the Republican convention will be held before the Democratic one, if, perchance, the railroad folks succeed in defeating the nomination of McBride and the "commission" plank, it is very apparent that the Republicans will be up against a hard proposition at the polls next fall, should the Democrats insert a "commission" plank in their platform, and will stand a most excellent chance of being defeated. "The Seattle Republican" has been and is favorable to the railroads of this state, and most decidedly against McBride's proposed "railroad commission," but it hardly believes it is the proper thing for the railroad folk to place the Republican party in a compromising position before the public. In other words, put it on the defensive in the very outset of the coming state campaign. This they will do if they persist on having one instead of two conventions, and proscribing every one a "Republican renegade" who does not openly wear a railroad collar The people of this state are most decicedly in favor of two conventions, one in May and the other sometime within the coming summer, and, if "snap judgments" are taken to defeat that will, as has been previously said in these columns, something will surely happen in political circles before the battle of the present year is ended. This game of "hide and seek" is being played by the railroad folk not only in the politics of the state, but in the city of Seattle as well, and, if the Republicans would but stop and think for a minute for themselves, they would soon see that they are being worked overtime in the political lineup that is now going on in this state and city. It has been the railroad folk from start to finish that have pushed the nomi- nation of Judge Ballinger for mayor, and while naught can be said against him as a man and a gentleman, yet he is the political creature of the railroad people, and but a link in their great chain. Not satisfied with having complete control of the political machine in the Republican ranks, they are now making equal efforts to control the machine in the Democratic ranks, and to that end Wilmont Tucker is being groomed by them for mayor in opposition to Ballinger. Now if they should succeed in nominating both Ballinger and Tucker it will be another case of "fight, you devils, fight," the railroad people will be successful whichever one wins. The Pie-maker is inclined to think that the railroad influence in political circles in general and Republican, especially, just now is carrying things rather too highhanded, and he at this time advises those fostering such, to "go slow," or a revolution might be the result. The Pie-maker is of too sure but that if both Ballinger and Tucker are nominated, the people of Seattle will become so politically incensed that an independent candidate will be sprung, who will get the rank and file of both the Republican and Democratic party, and especially those who believe that corporate influence in this city is too much in the control of the political affairs of both the old parties. "The Seattle Republican," it is repeated, is in favor of the railroad politics of this state in Republican circles, but as has been said, that particular kind of politics is being greatly overdone. When one party is played off against another, and the railroad folk put up the job and then stand off at a respectable distance and disinterestedly watch the fight to see which one of the warring parties is going to win, ready and willing to support the one that comes out on top, it is making monkeys instead of men out of the party workers. In other words, the railroad folk have no politics, and will wreck the Republican party, if it thinks it can get more out of the Democratic party or vice versa. If one convention is decided upon by the Republican central committee it will be done at the direct behests of the railroad folk of this state, and it will be done with no other object than to wreck the Republican party in order to make it all the more easy for them (the railroad folk), to continue masters of the political situation of the state, and dictate to the people what they must or must not do. There is not a single office seeker in King county who desires the next Republican nominating convention of this county to be held either in April or the first of May, as would necessarily have to be done, if there is only one state convention. Then why should the will of the people be so overridden as to force them to have an April convention, willing or unwilling? The Piemaker has consulted hundreds of the leading Republicans of the county, and has the very first one to find who wants the nominating county convention to be held in April, and but one office aspirant who was totally indifferent as to whether we have one or two state conventions. Yea, the people at large are against an early county convention, and those opposing such are by no means all of the McBride brand. No candidate has yet been found by the Preston folk willing to cross swords with Ballinger for the mayoralty, but there is a distant rumbling in the air, which is growing more pronounced every day, and it would be no great surprise to those with their ears to the ground, if it broke loose in one great storm before the convention, and even on the convention floor. The Ballinger folk have succeeded in keeping the opposition badly scattered, and that fully explains why a candidate has not been found willing to make the sacrifice gainst (Continued on page 7) Seven Days' Current Comment and Observation GOVERNOR VARDMAN. A few weeks ago a new Governor was inaugurated in the State of Mississippi, and he took occasion to make some very unkind remarks about the colored population of this country, and attempted to verify his statements by the late census reports. One thing above all others that he said, which has been taken up by the press all over the country is found in the following extract: "As a race the Negro is deteriorating morally 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 a frightful rapidity, being one-third more criminal in 1890 than he was in 1880. "I am advised that the minimum illiteracy among the Negroes is found in New England, where it is 21.7 per cent. The maximum was found in the black belt Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina where it is 67.5 per cent, and yet the Negro in New England is $ 4 \frac{1}{2} $ times more criminal 100 for 100, than he is in the black belt." Before any figures are given touching the criminal condition of either race we quote from the census report the combined white population of the twelve Southern states and the six New England states as well as the combined colored population, as well as the prison percentage the two races bear toward each other: TWELVE SOUTHERN STATES. 1870 1900 Total population.....10,808,397 21,122,839 Colored population.....4,101,242 7,471,323 Percentage colored population..... 38.5 35.3 Percentage of white population..... 61.5 64.7 1870 1890 Total prison population..... 7,389 24,906 Colored prison population 5,208 17,947 White prison population.. 2,181 6,950 Percent colored prisoners 70.6 72.0 Percent white prisoners..... 29.4 28.0 1880 1900 Illiterate colored population..... 2,874,521 2,602,191 Illiterate white population. 1,392,542 1,235,013 SIX NEW ENGLAND STATES. | | 1870 | 1900 | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Total population ... | 3,477,924 | 5,592,017 | | Colored population ... | 31,705 | 59,099 | | Percentage colored population ... | 0.9 | 1.0 | | Percentage white population ... | 99.1 | 99.0 | | | 1870 | 1890 | | Total prison population ... | 3,743 | 7,548 | | Colored prison population. | 224 | 298 | | White prison population.. | 2,519 | 7,250 | | Percent colored prisoners. | 5.9 | 3.0 | | Percent white prisoners.. | 94.1 | 97.0 | | | 1880 | 1900 | | Illiterate colored population ... | 5,894 | 5,681 | | Illiterate white population. | 192612 | 265,287 | That our readers may be better informed on the subject the actual white and colored populations of the Southern and New England states are herewith given. SOUTHERN STATES. NEGROES IN PRISON Having shown the population of the two sections, we further quote from the late census report showing the actual number of colored prisoners in the twelve Southern states and the percentage they bear to the whole prison population of the respective states: Negros in Prison Percent <table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2"></th><th colspan="2">Negros in Prison</th><th colspan="2">Percent</th></tr><tr><th>1870</th><th>1890</th><th>1870</th><th>1890</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="5">SOUTHERN STATES.</td></tr><tr><td>Virginia</td><td>901</td><td>1,618</td><td>73.1</td><td>80.9</td></tr><tr><td>North Carolina</td><td>330</td><td>1,625</td><td>70.5</td><td>79.9</td></tr><tr><td>South Carolina</td><td>584</td><td>1,061</td><td>79.7</td><td>89.6</td></tr><tr><td>Georgia</td><td>597</td><td>2,596</td><td>81.0</td><td>88.3</td></tr><tr><td>Florida</td><td>156</td><td>567</td><td>87.1</td><td>85.0</td></tr><tr><td>Alabama</td><td>436</td><td>2,096</td><td>73.3</td><td>81.2</td></tr><tr><td>Mississippi</td><td>203</td><td>1,058</td><td>65.2</td><td>89.7</td></tr><tr><td>Louisiana</td><td>358</td><td>1,241</td><td>42.3</td><td>77.1</td></tr><tr><td>Texas</td><td>365</td><td>2,288</td><td>49.8</td><td>48.2</td></tr><tr><td>Arkansas</td><td>185</td><td>906</td><td>51.1</td><td>61.5</td></tr><tr><td>Tennessee</td><td>560</td><td>1,718</td><td>57.0</td><td>70.0</td></tr><tr><td>Kentucky</td><td>443</td><td>1,173</td><td>41.5</td><td>55.5</td></tr><tr><td colspan="5">NEW ENGLAND STATES.</td></tr><tr><td>Maine</td><td>6</td><td>11</td><td>1.6</td><td>2.1</td></tr><tr><td>New Hampshire</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>0.7</td><td>0.6</td></tr><tr><td>Vermont</td><td>2</td><td>10</td><td>1.0</td><td>5.0</td></tr><tr><td>Massachusetts</td><td>139</td><td>170</td><td>5.5</td><td>3.2</td></tr><tr><td>Rhode Island</td><td>12</td><td>37</td><td>6.6</td><td>6.6</td></tr><tr><td>Connecticut</td><td>63</td><td>68</td><td>14.6</td><td>6.1</td></tr></tbody></table> NEW ENGLAND STATES. CAUCASIANS IN PRISON. That the reader may be able to make a thorough comparison between the two races the following table is given and will show the whites in prison in the twelve Southern states and the New England states, and the percentage and the relation which they bear to the whole prison population of those states: SOUTHERN STATES. <table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2"></th><th colspan="2">Whites in Prison</th><th colspan="2">Percent</th></tr><tr><th>1870</th><th>1890</th><th>1870</th><th>1890</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Virginia</td><td>343</td><td>382</td><td>26.9</td><td>19.1</td></tr><tr><td>North Carolina</td><td>138</td><td>408</td><td>29.5</td><td>20.1</td></tr><tr><td>South Carolina</td><td>148</td><td>123</td><td>20.3</td><td>10.4</td></tr><tr><td>Georgia</td><td>140</td><td>342</td><td>19.0</td><td>11.7</td></tr><tr><td>Florida</td><td>23</td><td>100</td><td>12.9</td><td>15.0</td></tr><tr><td>Alabama</td><td>157</td><td>422</td><td>26.7</td><td>18.8</td></tr><tr><td>Mississippi</td><td>156</td><td>119</td><td>34.8</td><td>10.3</td></tr><tr><td>Louisiana</td><td>486</td><td>367</td><td>57.7</td><td>22.9</td></tr><tr><td>Texas</td><td>367</td><td>2,459</td><td>50.2</td><td>51.8</td></tr><tr><td>Arkansas</td><td>177</td><td>567</td><td>48.9</td><td>38.5</td></tr><tr><td>Tennessee</td><td>421</td><td>733</td><td>43.0</td><td>30.0</td></tr><tr><td>Kentucky</td><td>624</td><td>937</td><td>58.5</td><td>44.5</td></tr></tbody></table> NEW ENGLAND STATES. Maine ..... 365 501 98.4 97.9 New Hampshire ..... 265 319 99.3 99.4 Vermont ..... 191 190 99.0 95.0 Massachusetts ..... 2,387 5,057 94.5 96.8 Rhode Island ..... 168 523 93.4 93.4 Connecticut ..... 367 598 85.4 93.0 That this statement made by Gov. Vardaman is absolutely false, and, if not absolutely false, so wide of the fact it was intended to convey, that it becomes ridiculous, the illiteracy of the colored folk in the twelve Southern and the New England states is likewise compared: SOUTHERN STATES. <table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2"></th><th colspan="2">Negro</th><th colspan="2">Percent</th></tr><tr><th>1880</th><th>1900</th><th>1880</th><th>1900</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Virginia</td><td>315,660</td><td>213,836</td><td>73.6</td><td>44.6</td></tr><tr><td>North Carolina</td><td>271,943</td><td>208132</td><td>77.4</td><td>47.6</td></tr><tr><td>South Carolina</td><td>310,071</td><td>283,883</td><td>78.5</td><td>52.8</td></tr><tr><td>Georgia</td><td>391,482</td><td>379,067</td><td>81.5</td><td>52.4</td></tr><tr><td>Florida</td><td>60,420</td><td>64,816</td><td>70.6</td><td>38.4</td></tr><tr><td>Alabama</td><td>321,680</td><td>338,605</td><td>80.6</td><td>57.4</td></tr><tr><td>Mississippi</td><td>319,753</td><td>313,312</td><td>75.1</td><td>49.1</td></tr><tr><td>Louisiana</td><td>259,429</td><td>284,028</td><td>79.0</td><td>61.1</td></tr><tr><td>Texas</td><td>192,520</td><td>167,138</td><td>75.4</td><td>38.2</td></tr><tr><td>Arkansas</td><td>103,473</td><td>113,453</td><td>75.0</td><td>43.0</td></tr><tr><td>Tennessee</td><td>194,495</td><td>147,784</td><td>71.6</td><td>41.6</td></tr><tr><td>Kentucky</td><td>133,895</td><td>88,137</td><td>70.3</td><td>40.1</td></tr></tbody></table> Maine ..... 412 155 24.8 14.2 New Hampshire ..... 94 70 15.8 11.9 Vermont ..... 156 99 19.3 14.6 Massachusetts ..... 2,322 2,853 15.0 10.7 Rhode Island ..... 1,249 1,063 23.5 14.1 Connecticut ..... 1,661 1,441 17.4 11.5 After carefully going over all of these facts it will be seen that the colored man is no worse on general principles than the white man. In fact human nature, after all, differs but very little, whether it be shut up in a black or a white hide. Governor Vardaman, the author of the erroneous as well as pernicious statements quoted above, hails from that class of white folk in the South that is known all over the country as "poor white trash." he is nothing more or less than a "piney woods clay-eater," and knowing him and his family personally, it is herewith stated, without fear of successful contradiction, that his origin is low and his associations and co-habitations are of the very lowest stripe, and he himself is not free from outrages against nature that would make any decent man in a decent country blush with shame. Governor Vardaman is a cohort of that class of red-handed murderers in Mississippi that will burn a Negro man and his wife at the stake, who will defend themselves against the brutal attacks of vicious white men, as happened in Mississippi last Sunday. Those are the kind of moral degenerates, cowards and bushwhacking criminals that hold the Negro race up as deteriorating. Just think of a man, his wife and a score of innocent Negroes killed because one Negro shoots a white man in selfdefense, which in no Northern state would be even pronounced man slaughter, and such barbarity committed by educated, refined and Christian gentlemen—the lights and leaders of the land. If Congress would turn Mississippi into a convict camp it would give it its proper social position in life. * * * Baltimore's Great Conflagration. The greatest conflagration that has visited this or any other country since the great Chicago fire, swept Baltimore last Sunday night, and as a result, over $300,000,000 worth of property was destroyed. Baltimore was one of the most beautiful Southern cities, and unquestionably was the best built town in the whole South. The remarkable thing about this conflagration was that not a single life was lost. So large a fire never before occurred in this country without being attended with great loss of human life, but as said above, not a single human being lost their lives in the Baltimore fire. * * * War Has Been Declared. Last Monday saw the beginning of hostilities between Japan and Russia over disputed territories in the Orient. A decisive clash came Tuesday, and, according to the latest reports from there, the Russians were defeated and lost three of their most powerful naval ships, and in the neighborhood of six hundred lives. Persons well versed on the Russian-Japanese situation in the Orient, predict a long war, but unless Russia puts up a better fight in the future than she did last Tuesday she will soon have no naval forces in the Orient to assist her land forces, and that being the case the war may come to an end, and that, too, at Russia's expense. There seems to be no favorable excuse for this bloody war, except criminal negligence on the part of the powers, for, if the powers, who chastised China, had have acted toward Russia in the proper way, Russia would have withdrawn her troops from Manchuria at the proper time, and having lost Port Arthur, she would not have dared to make any efforts to strengthen herself in Korea. There is absolutely no excuse for war in this age, and to a casual observer, certainly no excuse for the present war between Japan and Russia, for it is nothing more or less than a spirit of territory grabbing on the part of both nations, and Russia having gotten the better of Japan, a resort to arms was the result. The powers now declare that Chinese territory shall be preserved, even if they have to combine and drive Russia out. Had they taken this same stand before the war was declared there would have been no need of war, but war has been declared, and where it wil lend is problematical, for before peace has been finally declared every European nation, and the United States as well, may be involved. 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. Office, A. W. Denny Bldg., 1414 Second. Telephone Main 305. Codwin's "do not want any office," is doubtless prompted more from "because I cannot get any office" than his actual opposition to holding an office. Johnny Bull and Uncle Sam both favor Japan in her war with Russia and for that reason the Czar had better be careful where and whom he shoots. Seattle has five weekly newspapers of more or less political influence, all of whom try to do the same fellow the same week for the same amount. "A long, bloody struggle will be the result of the Russian-Japanese war," predicts a well-known Chinaman of Portland, Oregon. More good news for the merchants of the Northwest! "Want to advertise the county," comes from the Snohomish county folk. What more advertising does that county want than that she already is getting by Everett being conducted as a "wide open" town? The Socialist paper of this city asks: "Is Liberty Dead?" No, liberty is not dead, but if the Socialists persist in abusing the government as it has in the past there will be a certain Doctor dead before many more moons. There have been but sixteen delegates elected to the Republican national convention, and they are all enthusiastic for Roosevelt. Dollars to doughnuts there will be no other kind of delegates elected to the Republican national convention this year, except Roosevelt ones. A $300,000,000 fire visited Baltimore last Sunday night, and a large percentage of her citizens are today homeless. While Maryland's aristocracy is depriving the honest toiling citizens of their civil rights, He who "moves in mysterious ways His wonders to perform," is depriving them of their property rights. "Chickens will come home to roose." THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN OFFICE: 1414 SECOND AVENUE Phone Main 305 After another month's hard work in the cause of education, the "new teacher" has made out her school report and was ready, on the morrow to go to the county seat in order to turn it in to the county superintendent's office, and receive her pay. What young woman whose step has not quickened as she smiled over the waiting salary? Perhaps, owing to the fact that mother's new jacket can be paid for; a little put aside to help father pay the mortgage on the farm, and yet something sent to help towards the younger sister's education. The early morning found the teacher, Mrs. Wilkins, and the ever present small boy Davy on the way to town. The sun was just peeking up from behind the hill tops; the dew still lay upon the fallen autumn leaves, and moss covered underbrush, instinctively one inhaled and exhaled the glorious God given air. As the heavy wagon wheels creaked as they rumbled down the slopes, and were slowly drawn up the hill sides, there was much time for sober meditation. Each occupant of the wagon seemed lost in his or her own web of thought and conversation languished. "What a lovely country after all! What a wonderful Father to have thus created it and then peopled it," mused the teacher. Then memories of the unjust discriminations which her race had to undergo came to her. Enthused with her work in the country, putting forth the best that within her lay to elevate the race of which she was a member, she had forgotten, for the time being, the darker side, which causes thousands of hearts like hers to ache-to bleed: Like unto an infant who every time it tried to walk alone its older sister spanked unmercifully; that same sister refusing to see any wrong in the act, while the mother, whose duty it was to protect them both, helplessly holds up her hands and asks "How shall I solve the problem? No wonder was it that living far out in the country studying their ways, entering into the doorway of their lives with the key of love, she saw the bigness of their hearts, the possibilities in their lives and forgot that there were others who saw none of those things because they closed their eyes when they perceived in the human complexion the slightest shade of black. Then the sun came out brighter,—it warmed the glad earth; early birds, the fore-runners of spring, chirped from the leafless trees and crooked fence tops. The teacher caught the inspiration which the bright and beautiful always inspires and from the remotest depths of her woman's heart humanity hoped, prayed for a broader life, a freer liberty and a truer justice. Yet the prayer that was softly whispered amid the din of those rattling wagon wheels was such as none heard save the Father, for the lips move not, but the soul's voice beseeches the throne where sits a Ruler whose good pleasure it is to answer such prayers, and the purport of her plea was "Father let right rule! Let right rule!!" The town reached, the teacher walked to a friend's home. She noticed that a strange stillness prevailed in the air, the blinds of most of the houses were closed, the town lay for the most part, as if it slept. There was an unmistakable yet inexpressible air of awe as when a great calamity befalls a household. The teacher knocked on the friend's door. It was at first but slightly opened, then she was hastily led inside while her friend whispered: "Come in quickly. There's a mob in town and they are coming this way!" "What is the trouble about?" asked the teacher, for being in the country, she had heard nothing of this. "A fight took place, one white man was killed and seven colored shot permiscuously. The colored man who killed the white man in self-defense, undertook to leave the country, and fearing for the life of his wife, he took her with him. They had not means to go by rail; even if they had, dared to do so, and so walked by night as far as they could and hid in the swamps by day. The bloodhounds located them and now they are at the mercy of yonder mob," explained her friends. And so it was. A peep through the blinds disclosed the horrifying fact that the mob had come that way, in fact had halted on the commons in plain view of the window where the two women then stood. "No wonder that the streets seemed depopulated, for every white man and boy in this town must be present," said the teacher. "I think the town schools must have been dismissed, also," replied her friend, "for there are more than a hundred small boys there of school age." What a typical assembly of broad shouldered, able-bodied American citizens they were! For miles and miles around the farmers, sturdy and manly, as far as physique is concerned, swelled the crowd. "I would give years from my life to change the purpose of that mob," whispered the teacher, as the blows followed the falls of the ax on the two stakes which the men were driving, fell upon her ears. Then the crowd parted; a dozen men grasped a rope and dragged a forlorn human being—a man—towards the first stake. What little remained of his clothing was saturated in blood, his flesh was lacerated until the sight of it harrowed the marrow in one's bones. He was bound to the stake while each man, pressing closer and closer, struggled to get a better view of the evidence of his bodily torture. The small boys climbed trees and telegraph poles so as to get as good an impression of the death agonies as possible. "Oh, if he were only a wornout horse turned out on the commons to die ahat the humane officers might stop it!" cried the teacher, as the crowd piled the debris around the man and saturated it with oil, "or even the scrubby, sick poodle that the women of the town might rise up and demand the cruel treatment to stop!" exclaimed her friend. Then he crowd of eager watchers again parted, and a woman—the man's wife, was jerked forward. She was pushed against the stake and cords were wound around her body, so tightly that as the men pulled them they were buried in the flesh and her life's blood dyed them scarlet. And still the men work on, while the crowd holds an approving silence. Not one is there to cry out in remembrance that he was conceived in the womb of woman, that he has a mother, a wife, and perchance a sweetheart to whom this agonized, bleeding, dying woman is kin by the indisputable ties of motherhood and womanhood. The men then bring armfuls of shavings and dry brush, someone raises the oil can above the woman's head, a flood of oil covers her throbbing, aching body. Simultaneously the two watchers at the window cover their eyes with their hands, and turn their backs to the window. Silence almost unbearable, and then the sickening smell of human flesh burning comes to them. The teacher slowly extends her hand towards her friend as one groping in darkness, then drops on her knees and seeks the presence of one who has said: "Not a sparrow falleth but your Father knows." As a general thing, Russia is pretty cold, but she got thawed out pretty thoroughly last Tuesday. Invoking divine favor on the part of the Russian Czar that Russia can get her heel of oppression on another weak nation will be answered—nit. "Fighting" Bob Evans' fleet is in the Orient and keeps close to the seat of war. Uncle Sam's interests have a watch dog worthy of his steel calmly looking on as the foreign dogs of war tear each other up. ```markdown ``` Angus W. Young Candidate for Nomination as Councilman from the Eighth Ward Subject to Ratifcation at the Republican Primaries Delegates will be nominated at the caucuses held February 20, at 8 o'clock p. m., and elected at the primaries held on February 23, between 1 and 8 o'clock p. m. The convention, according to the call, will be convened at 11 o'clock on the morning of February 25. FIRST PRECINCT—Eight delegates. Place of meeting, 420 Denny Way. SECOND PRECINCT—Eight delegates. Place of meeting, Old Episcopal church, corner Warren avenue and Republican street. THIRD PRECINCT—Seven delegates. Place of meeting, city pumping station, near Fourth avenue north aud Ward street. FOURTH PRECINCT—Ten delegates. Place of meeting, Fitch,s bakery, 700 Queen Anne avenue. You cannot vote at the primaries unless you have registered since January 1, 1904. Be sure and register early and attend both the caucus on the 20th and the primaries on the 23rd of February, and help nominate the men you want to vote for at the city election. The registration books are now open at the city hall up to and including the 2nd day of February, when they will be moved to the precincts, where they will be open on February 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. The books will then be returned to the city hall, where they will be open from the 8th of February to the 16th, inclusive. CUT THIS OUT FOR REFERENCE. HOTEL WASHINGTON PEOPLES' SAVINGS BANK Second and Pike. Capital $100,000 Deposits received from $1 to $10,000; 4 per cent. interest allowed on savings de- posits. E. C. Neufelder, President. R. H. Denny, Vice-President. J. T. Greenleaf, Cashier. THE NATIONAL BANK of COMMERCE H. C. HENRY, Pres. R. R. SPENCER, Cashier The Canadian bank of Commerce Head Office, Toronto. Established 1867. Capital - - $8,700,000 Surplus - - 3,000,000 London Office - - 60 Lombard St. New York Office - - 16 Exchange Place Over 100 Branches in Canada and the United States, including DAWSON CITY, ATLIN, WHITE HORSE, VICTORIA, and VANCOUVER in Canada, and SAN FRANCISCO, PORTLAND, SEATTLE and SKAGWAY in U. S. Accounts of Banks, Corporations, Firms and Individuals received on favorable terms. Drafts, Letters of Credit, and Commercial Credits issued available in any part of the world. Interest allowed on Time Deposits. Seattle Branch G. V. HOLT, Manager The Puget Sound National Bank Capital stock paid in.....$528,000 Surplus ..... 35,000 Jacob Furth, President; J. S. Goldsmith, Vice-President; R. V. Ankeny, Cashier. Correspondence in all the principal cities of the United States and Europe. The Scandinavian American Bank Capital Paid up.....$ 300,000.00 Surplus ..... 150,000.00 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. JAMES A. MURRAY, J. P. GLEASON, President. Manager. M M. MURRAY, Cashier. American Savings Bank & Trust Co. Corner Second and Madison. Capital Stock $200,000.00. 4 per cent interest paid on deposits. A general banking business transacted. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SEATTLE, WASH. Paid up capital.....$150,000 LESTER TURNER, President. C. P. MASTERSON, Cashier. MAURICE MMICKEN, Vice-President. F. F. PARKHURST, Asst. Cashier. A general banking business transacted. Letters of credit sold on all principal cities of the world. Special facilities for collect- ing on British Columbia, Alaska and all Pacific Northwest points. We have a bank at Cape Nome. CITIZENS LIGHT & POWER CO. L. C, SMITH, Pres. J. W. CLISE, V. Pres. C. R, COLLINS, Gen'l Mgr. Up-to-Date Gas Up-to-Date Methods 1425 FIRST AVENUE Phones: Sunset Main 1186 Independent 75 John H. McGraw Geo. B. Kittinger REAL ESTATE Fire and Marine Insurance. Room B, Bailey Building. Telephone Main 695 Building Material Of all kinds. Delivered on short notice. STETSON POST MILL CO. Eastablished 1875. Tel. Main 3. R. M. Kinnear. A. L. Brown Phone Main 822. Kinnear & Brown INVESTMENT BROKERS Real Estate and Mining. 205 Cherry St. SEATTLE, WASH. UNCLE JOE'S Has Barrels of Money to Loan on Valuables. Phone John 1031 517 Second Avenue --- J. M. FRINK, Phone, Main 94 Prop. and Supt. Washington Iron Works Founders and Machinists Works, Grant Street Bridge SEATTLE Albert Hansen Jeweler and Silversmith Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Rich Cut Glass, Etc. BONNEY-WATSON CO. UNDERTAKERS THIRD AND COLUMBIA Preparing bodies for shipping a specialty. All orders by telephone or telegraph promptly attended to. Telephone Main 13. Diamond Ice Leaves no slime in the refrigerator, because it is is made from distilled artesian water . . . . . . TELEPHONE PINK 159 LOOSE - LEAF LEDGERS DENNY-CORYELL CO. 716 FIRST AVENUE MORAN BROS. CO. Manufacture and Sell LUMBER For All Purposes SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Printing We are better equipped for turning out satisfactory printing at satisfactory prices than any other office in Seattle, and we do it. Acme Publishing Co. Phones, Red 1971. Ind. 130 214 COLUMBIA STREET R. W. BUTLER CONTRACTOR and BUILDER All work guaranteed and all contracts lived up to. Phone Buff 1267. 2022 Eighth Ave. D. B. SPELLMAN Practical Plumber and Gasfitter. Sanitary Plumbing a Specialty. 212 Columbia St. SEAT SEATTLE Walker Portrait and Picture Co. 1424 Third Ave. Frames made to suit you. Agts wanted. Wheeler & Wilson and Domestic. H. Hanson, 215 Columbia. Phone Blk 1621. BREWERY YES SIR! HERE'S THE BEER, SIR! RAINIER- THE ONLY BEER, SIR! SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING GO. SEATTLE // WASHINGTON. TELEPHONE RAINIER JO. POLITICAL POT-PIE (Continued from Page 2) the powerful influence that is backing Judge Ballinger. And, then again, Judge Ballinger is a clean, popular gentleman, who, if nominated and elected, would give the city an ideal administration, that is, if let alone in his official duties. If John Riplinger's name should be mentioned in connection with the mayoralty nomination on the floor of the convention there certainly would be something doing in a jiffy. It is perhaps the first time in the political history of Seattle that the saloon element is making a determined fight for a part of the official spoils of the city. Their rights, according to their views of the matter, have been wilfully and maliciously trampled upon within the past year, and they propose to name straight out saloon men for certain wards, even on the Republican ticket, that their rights be not too badly lost sight of by the city council for the next two years. With that end in view they are making strenuous efforts to nominate a straight out saloon man in the First ward, and, not being successful in that, to nominate a man who will be favorable to them on almost every important saloon issue. The Second ward proposes to nominate another straight saloon man, and failing in that, a second saloon man, is to be fought for, and failing to get him a semisaloon man who has been favorable to them in the past is to be helped through. In the Sixth ward the saloon element will again step to the front, and bend its every effort to nominate a straight saloon man for councilman with no second choice. It again shows its hand for councilman at large, and Lewis Gilbert of the Ninth ward has been selected as their standard bearer. In case the above line-up gets there the saloon element will have four out of the thirteen members of the city council on whom it can absolutely depend under all circumstances, which will give it quite a working force in the city council for the ensuing two years. SUPT. BRYAN A CANDIDATE. It seems that State Superintendent of Schools Bryan is likely to again receive the nomination for that office. The Aberdeen Bulletin has the following regarding it: "An inquiry comes to The Bulletin from the Sound as to what the attitude of Cha- [Name not visible in the image] Prof. R. B. Bryan halis county will be with reference to the candidacy of State Superintendent Bryan for re-nomination. The Bulletin takes it for granted that this county will cordially endorse Mr. Bryan for a second term. He is the only representative from this county holding a state office, and has made a model superintendent of public instruction dur- from all factions and attended to the duties of his office in a manner which has won for him the high regard of the entire state. We understand that both Pierce and King counties have aspirants for the position, but the logic of conditions will doubtless prevent the nomination of either, and secure to Superintendent Bryan that which his faithful services deserve, an easy renominatiod and re-election." There, perhaps, never, in the history of partisan politics of Seattle was such an outpouring of genuine good men seeking party nominations for councilmen from the various wards as at the present time, and it seems as if no mistake can be made by the Republicans in naming the ticket unless the convention refuses to consider a great majority of the aspirants who are seeking such nominations. Among the long list of good men seeking a nomination for councilman at the hands of the next Republican convention not one stands higher or more generally popular than Austin E. Griffith, the well-known attorney, who is a candidate for councilman from the Seventh ward. He is a most excellent gentleman as well as a most splendid type of man. During his long business career in this vity he has proven himself the embodiment of veracity and straightforwardness and has made a host of friends thereby. Few law firms in the Northwest is better patronized than the firm of Green & Griffith, of which Candidate Griffith is the junior members. Mr. Griffith is not moved to seek this nomination and election for what there is in it, for he enjoys a lucrative practice, but he seeks it because he believes he can be of some practical service and benefit to the City in general. As an active member of the Chamber of Commerce he has already rendered the city much valuable service and as a councilman he can widen his sphere of usefulness along the lines he has been working in the Chamber of Commerce. He is an ideal young man and the Seventh ward would make no mistake in nominating and electing him and that, too, in view of the fact that there are others. Naught can be said detrimental to Arnold Zbinden, who is a candidate for councilman for the Sixth ward, subject to the endorsement of the Republican convention, except that he is saloon man. For the past twelve years he has been a resident of Seattle and during all of that time he has been a faithful party worker of the Sixth ward, who always willingly helped out the Republican candidates irrespective of factional difficulties and always contributed liberally to the various campaign funds. If now a majority of the Republican voters desire to give him the nomination for councilman from the Sixth ward there is no reason why he should not be liberally supported by the party all over the city. Persons good enough to help the other fellow get an office every campaign is certainly good enough to some times himself be helped to an office if he so desires and is qualified to hold the same, and is as good a citizen as Arnold Zbinden. The leading politicians of the ward are working for his nomination and the odds seem quite in his favor. Zbinden is the only candidate that has been mentioned for councilman that will come anyways near defeating Harry B. Dreese, who has been nominated for councilman from the Sixth ward by the Democratic party. SEATTLE SPIRIT King County's Supremacy. The following are the counties having the state officers, with the population and assessed valuation of each: Officer and County. Population. Valuation. State Supt. Chehalis. 18,148 $7,793,694 State Auditor, Chelan. 7,549 2,278,965 Justice Sup. Court, Klickitat. 8,788 3,192,805 State Treasurer, Lewis. 21,626 5,047,346 Attorney General, Pacific. 7,544 2,488,820 Governor, Skagit. 20,744 6,200,751 State Secretary, Snohomosh. 45,102 11,989,512 Justice Sup. Court, Spokane. 74,804 32,139,395 Justice Sup. Court, Walla Walla. 24,000 10,832,209 Justice Sup. Court and Land Counsellor, Whatcom. 43,259 10,735,278 Total. 313,064 $106,144,095 King County 200,000 73,276,137 Total. 113,064 $ 32,867,958 It will be seen from the above statement, that King county has almost two-thirds as much population as is contained in all of the counties holding the state offices; and she lacks only $32,867,958 of having as much taxable property as all of the counties now controlling the state offices. Yet for eight years, King county has not had a Republican state officer. For eight years she has had no voice in conducting the Republican state offices of the state. The state now has a population of 800,000, and an assessed valuation of $282,370,941. Yet King county, with over one-fourth of the taxable property of the state and one-fourth of the population of the state, is entirely without a state officer. If the Republican party of the county conducts itself in the future as it has in the past, she will not get a governor before 1913; and probably not for years after that time. A glance at the above statement will show to the voters that there has been something radically wrong in the management of the Republican party, that has deprived the county from having a state officer representing the party for eight years. If King county should get one-fourth of the state offices in the next Republican nominating convention, she would only get her proportionate share in proportion to the population and taxable property. In equity and good conscience, King county is entitled to as fair treatment by the Republican party, as any other county in the state. * * * Are the Judges Side-Stepping? If the daily papers are to believed, the Superior court judges have been dodging the labor temple suit, which has been ready for trial for some weeks, none of the judges caring to try the case, lest they in some way antagonize union labor, and thereby jeopardize their chances for being nominated and elected judges the coming fall. One of the boasts of this country is the judiciary is absolutely unbiased and free to try any and every case that comes before it and render decisions according to the law and the evidence, and yet make no enemies thereby. If this is not the actual condition of the bench, it should be, and, the sooner it is made so the better for the entire country. If cases are permitted to hang fire on the dockets, the judges not caring to try them because in trying them they must loose some of their political popularity and prestige, then it is a sad state of affairs and justice has gone glimmering. The judge that will try the cases brought before him and render opinions honestly as he seems to see them, will gain the respect of even those against whom the opinion is rendered. On the other hand, the judge who "side-steps" on matters of this kind will be considered by the general people as "playing to the galleries" and more bent on self-aggrandizement than the administration of justice. Kensington and Rogers-Peet Clothing NOTHING BETTER W. B. HUTCHINSON CO. 1401 Second Av and Union St. es The following aphorisms from the Chicago Conservator are timely and to the point: : Don't be a dummy. Be a man or a mouse. Don’t doubt; what ought to happen will happen. ‘ The best way to have a true friend is to be one yourself. Don’t fret. Do what you can and let the rest go with a smile. Education is not only to make peo- ple do right, but enjoy doing right. Believe that life is worth living and your faith will create the fact as to you. Don’t forget that wherever you can live there you can live well if you will. If the world is no better by reason of your being in it, your birth was a mistake. It is every person’s duty to be healthy and strong where it is possible to be so, If you have certain great advantages you are thereby udner certain great obligations. On the principle that it is easier to be witty now and then than every day, it is easier to be a lover than a hus- band. 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Trave Marks DEsicns CopyricuTs &c. Anyone sending a sketch and ener peg may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable, Communica- tions 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. T.nrgest cir. culation of any scientific journal. ‘Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1, Sold byall newsdealers, MUNN & Co,26*2ro.0y, New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D.C, ne Ne ere oe EOE Having been appointed Admimstratrix of the estate of Albert Clawson, deceased, I hereby give notice to all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, to present the same, together with proper vouchers therefor, to me at my residence at Olympla, Washington, within one year from the date hereof. Dated February 12, 1904, MRS. SARAH CLAWSON. NOTICE In the Superior Court of King County, State of ‘Washington. In the matter of the application cfGrifn Chemical Company to be dissolved and disincorp rated. To whom it, may concen: Netice is hereby given that Griftin Chemical Comp ny. acorpora- tion org nized under the laws of the State of Washington and having its office and principal place of business in the City of Seattle. King County. Washington. has presented to Hon. Boyd J. Tallman, one of the Judges of tne said court, a petition for the dissolution and disincorpora~ tion of said corporation arcompanied by a cer- tifleate of its proper officers setting forth that at a meeting of the stockaolders ca'led forthe pur- pose, it was decided by unanimous vote that all the stockholders to dissolve and disincorporate the said corporation, and the covrt having fixed April 8. 1904, for the hearing of said petition, notice is therefore given that the said application will come on for hearing pursuant to the order of said Judge on the fth day of April 1904. at 9:30 o'clock A. M., at. the Court House in ihe said City of Seattle, County of King, State of Wash- ington. In witness whereof, Ihave set my hand and seal tuis 4th day of February, 1904, C A. KOEPFLI County Clerk and ex-nflicin Clerk of the Super- for Court of King County, Washington. By J. M Brewster, Deputy February 4, April 8. NOTICE SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. State of ee County of King. ss. Sheriff's Office. By virtue of an execution issued out of the Honorable Bupericr Court of ae County, on the 5th day of January, 190: by the Clerk thereof, in the case of Bila M. Ward, Plaintitt, versus Ired 8. ‘Twitchell and mary ‘Twitchell, his wife, Defendants, No. 37102, and to me, as Sheriff, directed and delivered: Notice is hereby given, that I will roceed to sell at public auction to the Righest 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 cing county, in the state of Washington, al 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 gouth half (44) of lot 3, and all of lots 4 and 6, in block 9, Young's addi- tion to the city of Seattle, levied on as the property of defendants to satis- fy 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 OF THE 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 fled 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: Rlock four of Shinn’s Addition to Kent, King county, State of Washing- ton, in which the defendants claim some richt, lien or interest, and to quiet the title to said premises in the plaintiff. MARTIN J, TAIND,. Attorney for Plaintiff, Office and postoffice address: 330 Ar- cade building, Seattle, Wash. Date of first publication, January 8, 1904; last February 19, 1904. State of Washington, for King County. No. 41443. Symmons. Eliza Cooper, plaintiff, vs. Howell S. Cooper, defendant. The State of Washington to the said Howell S. 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 sixtv davs after the 25th day of December, 1903, and defend the above entitled action in the abnve entitled conrt and answer the complaint of the nlaintiff at his office below stated: and in case of vour failure so to do, judg- ment will he rendered against vou ac- cording to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The obiect of this action is 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 suport vlaintift. Date of first publication November 20th, 1903. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P.O. Address. Seattle, Kine County, Washineton. Office address, 327-328 Pa- cific block.» Dec. 25. Feb i In_the Superior Court of the State of Washington for King County. In_the matter of the estate of Edwin V. Schick, deceased, Notice is hereby given by the under- signed administrator of the estate of Edwin 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 date 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 of said estate in the City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of the first publication the 8th day of January, 1904, W. O. PINGREE, Administrator of the estate of Edwin V. Schick, 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 business corporation, organized and ex- isting under and pursuant 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, 19038, its petition and application 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 5, 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 applicaticn 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 said Superior Court this December 12, Cc, A, KOEPFLI, Clerk of the Superior Court. By J. M. BREWSTER, Deputy. Jan, 8-March 4. EMBREE & COLE, Attorneys for Petitioners, 415 Pioneer Building, Seattle, Washington. 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 15th, 1904, at the hour of ten o'clock A. M.; the object and purpose of which said meeting is 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 here, 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. ptate Of Washington, i % County of King. in the Matter of the Peti- tion of the City of Se-| attle, a city of the first class, that Just compensa- tion, to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged by the laying off, extending and establishing of a public street and highway, in the City of Seattle, through and across a por-| tion of Block Seven (7), Kaufman's Addition to the City of Seattle, and! Block Seven (7), Burke's Second Addition’ to the City of Seattle, the same being @ connection be- tween Twenty - seventh Avenue South, as platted in Kaufman’s Addition to the City of Seattle, with| said ‘Twenty-seventh ave- nue South, as platted in Burke's Second, Addition to the City of Seattle, as provided for and specified in Ordinance No. 10021 of said City, approved Au- gust 10, 1903, be ascer- tained by a jury, or, by the court in case’ a jury, be waived. No. 41595 IN. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for the County of King. S. P. Willis, Plaintiff, vs. James Mol- ler, Jane Doe Moller, ‘his wife, whose true christian name is to plaintiff un- known, defendants. No. ——.—Summons by publication. The State of Washington to James Moller and Jane Doe Moller, his wife, whose true Christian name is to plain- tiff unknown, the above named defend- ants: 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 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 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: 330 Ar- cade building, Seattle, Wash. Date of first publication, January 22, 1904; last Marc? 4, 1904, 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 sum- moned to appear within et (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 ac- tion, in the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for ling County, afore- said, and serve a coe of your answer upon the undersigned, attorneys for pe- titioner, at their office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judg- ment will be rendered according to the demand of the Betltion, 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 eminent domain, necessary for the lay- ine off, enone and establishing of a public ‘street and highway, in the City of Seattle, through and across a portion of Block Seven (7), Kaufman's Addition to the City of Seattle, and Block Seyen (7), Burke's Second Addition to the City of Seattle, the same being a connection between Twenty-seventh Avenue South, as platted in Kaufman’s Addition to the City of | Seattle, with said wenty- seventh Avenue South, as platted in Burke's Second Addition to the City of Seattle, as provided for and specified in Ordinance No. 10021 of said city, ap- proved August 10, 1903, and for a release from all liapuity to the owners of such property, or others having any interest therein, as may be damaged or injuri- ously affected by reason of the appro: priation thereof by satu sity. as provided he speicfied in said Ordinance No. 1 : MITCHELL GILLIAM, WM. PARMERLEE, HUGH A. TAIT, Attorneys for Petitioner. Office and Postoffice address: Room 40 Haller Bidg., Seattle, Washington. Jan, 22-March 4. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County —tIn Probate. No. 5290—Notice to creditors. In the matter of the estate of Joseph Livengood, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the under- signed, W. M. Livengood, administra- tor 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, with- in one year after the first publication of this notice, to-wit, within one year after the 22nd day of January, 1904, to said administrator with the will an- nexed, 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 busi- ness of said estate. Dated January 19, 1904. W. M. LIVENGOOD, Administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Joseph Livengood, De- ceased. James McNeny, attorney for adminis- trator. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING County, State of Washington. Theodore Haight, Plaintiff, vs Ellen mene Haight, Defendant. (0. —.—_—— No. —.———Summons by Publication. State of Washington to the said Ellen Jane Haight, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of said summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 30th day of January, 1904, and defend the above en- titled 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 the plain- tiff, 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 filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this action as set forth in the complaint is to dissolve forever the bonds of matrimony existing be- tween you and the said plaintiff. KENNETH MACKINTOSH, Attorney for Plaintiff, Office and postoffice address: Room No. 201 Marion Building, Seattle, King County. Washineton, Jan, 30-Mar, 12. IN THE SUPERIOR. COURT OF THE State of Washington. for King County. Annie J Taylor, Plaintiff, vs, Thomas. J. ‘Taylor Defendant. The State of Washington to the said Thomas J. Taylor, Defendant : You are hereby summoned to appear with- in sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after the 6th day of February, 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 attorneys for plaintiff at their office below stated: and in ease of your failure so to do judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object for which said action is brought is to secure a divorce upon the grounds of desertion and failure to support. ROO'T, PALMER & BROWN, Attorneys for Plaintim. Postoffice Address: 683 Pioneer Building, King County, Washington, Webruary 6, 1904.