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Historical society SEATTLE REPUBLICAN VOL. XI. NO. 32 The many friends of Hon. Samuel G. Cosgrove truly hope the following bit of political prognostication from the Goldendale Sentinel will prove true: "Four years ago Mr. Cosgrove was on the electoral ticket and had been expecting that he would be chosen to act as the messenger to carry the vote. The electors, however, or a majority of them, voted to make Charles Sweeney, of Spokane, now a candidate for the U. S. senate, the messenger. This time it would appear that Mr. Cosgrove is more certain of going. The electors are Judge L. B. Nash of Spokane, George W. Bassett of Adams county, and A. L. Munson of Mason county. The position of electoral messenger, while carrying with it considerable honor, is worth in the mileage and allowances about $1200." While $1200 is not to be dispised, yet we do not surmise that Mr. Cosgrove seeks the honor for the salary attached, but for the real honor in it that he might be present to see one of Uncle Sam's most noble sons inaugurated as president of the United States, the highest office in the sovereign gift of the electors of this country. It will be remembered that Mr. Cosgrove was one of the presidential electors from this state four years ago and he at that time hoped to be the messenger, and it is claimed had been promised the honor, but Sweeney at the last minute came forward and was able to bear away the coveted honor. It was openly said at that time that McKinley would probably be the last veteran of the Great Civil war that would ever be elected POLITICAL POT=PIE POLITICAL POT=PIE The Speakership contest seems to have narrowed down to a fight between Hon. J. G. Megler and Hon. C. S. Gleason, with the odds greatly in Megler's favor. Owing to the fact that Megler is the political patriarch of the legislature, having served in both branches, it is being conceded that Gleason will have to wait another time as Megler is now quite aged and Gleason only in his prime, with plenty of time to wait. The southwest, it is reported, will give Megler a united support and it is claimed the Foster-Sweeney forces will go for him simply because they do not want it to come to Seattle. Megler is well up in parliamentary usage and, if elected, will give the state a splendid administration. In view of the fact that the next session will be one of the most important legislative meets the state has ever witnessed it will require some one with experience to handle the situation with dispatch. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1905 [Name not visible in the image] HON. SAMUEL G. COSGROVE t othe presidency, and being a veteran himself Mr. Cosgrove was exceedingly desirous of having the privilege of having the honor to be among the number that paid such a repect to the last of the G. A. R. presidents. Charles Sweeney, who was politically ambitious for the very honor that he is now aspiring for, it is claimed, bought the honor at a very high price. The resignation of Warden Dryden of the state penitentiary means a mad scramble for his shoes, but, if political rumor is correct, Gov. Mead already has a man slated for the place in the person of Hon. A. F. Kees of Walla Walla county, who was a member of the legislature ten years ago. Those serving under Mr. Dryden have expressed their intention of not serving under Mr. Kees in case he is named for the place, and it is further reported that Mr. Mead and his advisors have also named those who will take their places and as soon as the governor is inaugurated he will name Mr. Kees and his co-workers and a clean sweep at the penitentiary will be the result. *** The Daily Belzebub's rather remarkable editor having most signally failed to disrupt the Republican party prior to the late general election, it having lost every point it fought so hard to carry, is again to the front to disrupt the Republican legislature by (like a sick man) "lying on all sides." The Pie-maker does not believe there is a single PRICE FIVE CENTS member elect of the next legislature that will be influenced in a single instance by the dirty vituperations of the old money grabbing montebank of the Daily (Times) Belzebub. That the game of that miserable journalistic gold brick is to conduct the editorial columns so as they will bring unearned money to its counting house coffers is quite plain to be seen. The paper since it has been in the possession of its present proprietors has always been against Seattle's interest. It will be against Seattle's interest in the coming senatorial fight, for it is already shaping itself to support Charlesy Sweeney for U. S. senator as soon as the fight is on for blood. * * * Speaking about the Times always being against Seattle's political interest, which resulted in it being also against, her financial interest, reminds the Pie-maker that in 1897 the Times was for Turner for United States senator as against both Senator Watson C. Squire and Judge Richard Winsor, both of whom were then active senatorial candidates. It was for Turner because Turner had the "longest sack, though Turner was a life-long enemy of Seattle both politically and otherwise. In 1899 the Times was for Ankeny as against Humes and Senator John L. Wilson and that too despite the fact Humes was a home candidate and Senator Wilson had gotten for Seattle more public patronage and money than all of the other senators and representatives from this state put together. It was so because Ankeny could spare it a $10,000 indefinite time loan. In 1902 the Times pretended to be for Preston, when in fact it was in the paid employ of Levi Ankeny. It was all but tickled to death when Ankeny was elected and Preston defeated. In 1905 it will be for Charley Sweeney as against Piles or Wilson because Sweeney has $300,000 to expend in his campaign and neither Piles nor Wilson will be able to cough up to its coffers. The Belzebub is a miserable mercenary mongrel that is for anything there is a piece of money in it for the Times. * * * Next Monday, January 9th, the ninth legislature of the state of Washington will convene, and from the very outset there will be something doing. The election of the officers of the legislature promises to be a warm baby, which will set the pace for the entire session. The election of a United States senator, the passage of a railroad commission bill, the irrigation measure, the appropriation puzzle, the revenue bill, the oyster land bill and the undoing of laws already in operation will all make the incoming session of the legislature the most interesting session of any legislature ever held in the state of Washington. The confirmation of the McBride appointees will be another important measure that the senate will handle. The senators should not overlook the fact that Alden J. Blethen, editor in chief of the Seat- Continued on page 5 WHAT PROF. DUBOIS DID SAY. For the benefit of those ladies, who took exceptions to what Prof. Dubois said in his Chicago lecture and have criticised him therefor, the following review of the situation was sent to the Boston Guardian by a correspondent from Chicago, who was present when the lecture was delivered: Prof. W. E. B. Dubois of Atlanta university spoke before more than 500 of Chicago's club women last Wednesday and the elite of Chicago society women are aroused and talking. The professor had been invited to address a meeting of the Chicago Women's Club, a club composed of nearly 1000 of the leading white women of the city, and he, as they expected he would, addressed himself to the vexed "race question." Prof. Dubois, unlike other "big leaders" from the South, who come North to inform the whites of the condition of the races of the south, did not put in his time pointing out the alleged mistakes of the southern Negro, and apologizing for the outrageous treatment of the defenseless Negroes by the southern whites, nor did the professor follow the beaten path of our "Moses" in seeking to tickle and please his white auditors by telling coarse and vulgar stories in the lowest southern Negro dialect, which would leave the northern whites under the impression that the southern whites were living side by side with the Negro at a great sacrifice and that sympathies of the north should go out in great gushes for the white lamb. Prof. Dubois was not on a begging tour and did not feel that he should sacrifice the credit and honor of his people in the sotuh as the price of his gettings. The ladies of the club, who had invited Prof. Dubois to speak, showed their approval of his position on the race question by applauding and cheering during his able address. Referring to the condition of the Negro in the south, Prof. Dubois said among other things: "If the decadent borough system of Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina is to be perpeuated, if taxation without representation is to become a settled fact south of the Ohio, then not only will democracy die there but the seeds of free government everywhere in the land will be poisoned. Prof. Dubois said snobbishness and caste is taking root in America. "Today this noxious weed is springing up," he said, "right here in a land founded as a mighty protest to caste. "Men who cross the ocean 10 or 20 years ago in rags and rum have no right in law or morals to invite us to leave this country, we whose ancestors landed before the Pilgrims touched Plymouth rock. Caste breeds caste; the fact that there is a proscribed race in America makes proscribed classes easier. "The solid south is not a mere curious face, it is an anomaly and a contradiction, a menace and a political disease. The welfare of American laborers would be seriously threatened if the Negroes of the south are trained to be a proscribed, disfranchised class living under a condition of serfdom, and yet in active competition with all labor." The professor called attention to the growing race prejudice in Chicago and other northern cities as a result of southern influences over the northern people, and declared the north could not keep up its record for advancement and progress if it submits to allow the south to replace northern humanity, philanthropy, justice and the love of fair play with southern race prejudice and love of oppression of the weak by the strong. The south was not progressive and could not be under the present conditions, because it spent most of its mental and physical strength trying to hold the Negro down. In this great address the professor is alleged to have said, that "one out of every eight persons in America has Negro blood in his veins." This declaration, which is a mere computation from the census, has greatly aroused the women of the Chicago chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and they are now making dire threats as to what they will do with Dubois for his impudence in, as they claim, insinuating that a white person would do anything which result in mixing his blood with that of the Negro race. The Chicago Tribune reports: "At the January meeting of the Chicago chapter, unless the conservative element succeeds in calming the feelings of the indignant members, the daughters will adopt resolutions strongly denying Dubois' allegation. They will use many strong adjectives and spare no words in making it known that the Daughters of the American Revolution stand for blue blood and white skin, and that it will not tolerate any slurs upon the purity of the blood of the American race. They also will forward a copy of these resolutions to Prof. Dubois." One of the leading society ladies, according to this daily paper, prefers the blood of a monkey to that of the Negro, giving her alleged words the paper says: "I can trace my ancestry back to the monkeys," declared Mrs. Frederick LEE. "I hope the monkey I sprang from had as big a twist in his tail and as many wrinkles in his face as any monkey, but I know there is not a drop of Negro blood in my family." Quoting from another lady the same paper gives to readers this: "Mr. Dubois has no right to make such a declaration," said Mrs. Walter Nelson. "Even in South Carolina the color line is drawn so carefully that not a white person in the state has a drop of Negro blood in him, and in the north there is no mixed blood. Prof. Dubois is mistaken." The laugh is most decidedly upon these vaunted "blue boolds," for if there are 10,000,000 Colored people in the United States and 70,000,000 white people, then one in every eight Americans is Colored, has Colored blood in his veins. The Daughters of the American Revolution, a set of the veriest snobs, have thus exposed their color prejudice without provocation and made themselves ridiculous. They were angry because the club women gave Dubois a hearty applause. If Prof. Dubois had said, as he did not, that one out of every eight so-called white American had Negro blood in his veins, he would not have been so far wide of the truth in the opinion of Chicago Colored people who know of many instances of (white) Negroes from the south who have joined the white race in Chicago, marrying and intermarrying with the white people, and otherwise associating with them, just as other white people do, and the sensitive whites do FRIDAY. JANUARY 6. 1905 not know the difference. Our girls are "white" clerks and sales ladies in many of the big stores down town and many of our young men are "white clerks" and traveling salesmen in some of the best stores in Chicago. Not so long ago the head salesman of one of Chicago's big wholesale concerns married a rich young widow and was at once admitted to the best society of that rich section of Chicago. This fortunate "white" clerk is known by several Colored families here to have born of an ex-slave woman in Louisiana, who is of a dark coffee color and who now lives in southern Illinois. Another "white man," whose black mother lives in Chicago, and who is now floor walker at one of the big stores here, married the daughter of one of Chicago's big manufacturers and the wedding was a big event in Hyde Park society. Several years ago a beautiful and highly cultured "white girl," whose black mother lives in Chicago, was married to a wealthy merchant, and she is now regarded as one of the leaders of society over there. What is true of Chicago in this line is true, in a measure of all the northern cities where our people have gone in any considerable numbers. If Mrs. Nelson will spend a few weeks down in South Carolina she might be induced to modify her opinion as to blood mixing there. 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The third class is made up of women who carefully discern the welfare of the state under the chaff of political personalities, and who, with few exceptions, cast their ballots for the right as they see it. "Sharper than a steel trap and d—— hard to hold in line!" This is the opinion of Judge Amos Steck, of Denver, on the woman politician of the west. Judge Steck is a Denver character—breezy, profane and addicted to striking right out from the shoulder. He has but recently been divorced from a six-shooter. He lives principally at the Democratic women's state headquarters in Denver. While their sheltered sisters of the unequal suffrage states are pleading with their state legislatures for free kindergartens, as a personal favor, and humane laws to protect their helpless children, as a great concession, Colorado women are making laws. He has served eight years in the legislature, is an ex-state senator and was once mayor of Denver. Judge Steck presented the bill for equal suffrage to the Colorado legislature in 1893 and was the staunch friend and supporter of the movement that won the ballot for the women of Colorado. As a general rule the western women unite on philanthropic and humanitarian measures, presenting a solid front for righteousness. The women of Colorado, democrats and republicans, united in the support of Judge Ben B. Lindsay, the county judge who defied the political machine and was the originator of the juvenile court, and forsook party lines in a glorious fight for the right. Through their efforts, Judge Lindsay was enabled to retain his office when he was about to be juggled out by the machine. He has twice been nominated by the republicans and twice by the democrats, although he exposed "grafters" in both parties. “Are women a success as politicians?” he repeated with a sly chuckle, surrounded by women campaign workers at Democratic headquarters. “Yes—that's the trouble. They are!” “Why, judge, whatever do you mean?” rose in an astonished chorus from the women. “Well, I'm disappointed in you women,” he declared. The state chairman glared over his pince nez. “You are all out for what is in it—you know it and the men know it—and you generally git it! Now, when I talked myself hoarse in the legislature and ranted about ‘feminine purity at the polls’ and ‘the welfare of the state,’ I had never met a professional woman politician.” It is in a case like this that the innate woman instinct for the good and right dictates the deciding vote for purity and honor. Women exercise their rights in Colorado, not merely in the cities, where they drive to the polls in carriages, and make up "voting parties," but out on the plains, miles away from civilization, where they ride from their ranches to the polls. The opinion so informally handed down by Judge Steck from his seat on a table laden with campaign literature, surrounded by Minervas of the polls, contains more truth than appears on the surface. Forty-five per cent of the population of Colorado are women; 42 per cent of the total vote is cast by women. The woman politician is a wonder. She is more amazing than Pike's Peak; she is the most startling compound of good and evil conceivable, and her vocabulary sometimes rivals that of any cowboy of the plains. Mrs. Ina C. Thompson, cashier of the Denver postoffice, a political position secured by political means, is a brilliant example of the better class of woman politician. Shrewd, alert and up-to-date on all political questions—national, state and municipal—Mrs. Thompson has attached herself to a fat, comfortable salary as a reward of merit for work in the Republican ranks. She earned the position many times over by her services to the party. Colorado women are long past the infancy of suffrage, and they never fail to get a good slice of the "stuff" out of any campaign they enter. The women are better statesmen, possess a deeper knowledge of the political game, and are more enthusiastic, than the men. They are better ward workers, more bitter partisans. Political issues are their daily gossip, they talk intelligently of the "money question" and "mob rule." Mrs. Thompson had charge of the campaign in Colorado in 1892 and won for herself a place on the central committee. She 'stumped' the state in 1894, and was the first woman vice chairman of the Republican state central committee. At the Denver headquarters large numbers of women are now working with feverish intensity, tabulating the voters, sending out circulars, and making lists of names "to be persuaded" which have been sent in by county chairmen over the state. "In getting out the vote much depends on the ward workers," said Mrs. Thompson, discussing that variable quantity the woman vote. "When I had charge of a ward, I always appointed women precinct captains, because they are better workers, with a better grasp of detail, than men. Men loaf around the polls, spitting and smoking, on election day, while the women are out hustling for votes. I believe in partisan politics. Women ward workers, precinct captains and committeemen who are usually women—are looking over their respective districts, making house to house canvasses, and dropping a quiet hint to the state chairman—usually for a little of the "lubricator"—the coin of commerce. "You can't separate personal and party ends in a woman's mind, and I find women work better when they are working for their own private ends. You can't inquire too closely into the motives of women in politics. All I ask of any woman is to be true to her party. I don't believe in turning down any person on the ticket. Any one who is a good Republican or a good Democrat will swallow the whole ticket, because it means party principles." While I was in the court house, a few days ago, a thing that struck my notice was the number of unoccupied women of sharp eye and oily tongue, lingering in the corridor leading to Room 23, where general registration was being held. My impression was that these ladies of insinuating address were unusually kind to strangers. Why did they force themselves on my attention and inquire so earnestly my place of abode, when they had never remarked my presence on their streets? And why, above all, should each woman so graciously take it upon herself to vouch for me, if I wanted to register and taste the delights of the ballot. Another ardent Republican is Miss Josephine Anderson, of Denver. Miss Anderson, although a woman of independent means, is one of the workers at Republican state headquarters. She is a member of the D. A. R. Would they have been equally kind had I desired the entrance to a reception? I think not. Women have raised the age of consent in Colorado from 16 to 18. They have made cruelty to or neglect of a child a criminal offense, punishable by imprisonment. They have revised the child labor laws and truancy laws. It is a crime in Colorado to insure the life of a child under 10. Parents are imprisoned for failure to send to school all of the school term children under 16 who have not passed the eighth grade. The women of Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming are never worse than the average man in politics—rare so corrupt. It is not the woman who votes that is a horrible example; it is the woman "ward heeler," the district committee woman, the woman who controls so many votes and sells them to the highest bidder. Three women have been convicted of complicity in election frauds in Colorado, yet this is no reflection on equal suffrage. The women were held to be passive instruments of men who hired them to "fix" the ballots. Colorado has model school buildings, free kindergartens, and a woman state superintendent of public instruction. It has a state board of child and animal protection, with 60 officers serving without pay, distributed through every county in Colorado. Briefly, the woman vote is divided into three classes—the society women, who vote as their husbands dictate, with a view to protecting their business interests; the women of the "red light" district, who are voted in blocks, by the police, under orders from the chief, and who would never appear at the polls if let alone; and, lastly, that great body of thinking women—wives, mothers and daughters Also in Colorado, a woman is compelled to support her husband when he is unable to work from any cause; she is responsible for half the necessary expense of the household. These last two laws were not secured through woman legislation! FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1905. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN The Seattle Republican Established May, 189 H. R. Cayton.....Editor and Publisher Susie Revels Cayton.....Associate SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....1.00 Three Months .....60 Published every Friday at 214 Columbia St. Entered at the Postoffice at Seattle as Second- class Mail Matter. Next Monday, the 9th, the legislature will get to work and the grafter will begin working the legislature. *** Mr. Depew won out and thereby saved New York from the disgrace of electing a Black man to the United States senate. All roads lead to Olympia today, but after all we are of the opinion some of those traveling them will find themselves on the wrong road. * * * The Folsom prison of California must be an awful hole that the prisoners periodically risk their lives rather than remain there under the supposition they are really alive. The name of John L. Wilson seems to be the only thorn in the flesh to the Spokesman- Review. Mr. Wilson probably discovered long ere this, "a barking dog never bites." * * * King county wants another superior judge for the reason the five can not keep up with the work. Is that due to the hundred and one damage suits daily filed against the S. E. C. ? *** It will require sixty-nine votes to elect to the senate and Gov. McBride says show him that number and he is in the fight at once. That's a bit of common sense that no one had suspected the governor of having. * * * Port Arthur is now a Japanese military post, Gen. Stossel having given up the ghost last Sunday and surrendered his entire army. Russia's refusal to leave the far East as she promised has cost her the lives of thousands of her soldiers, millions of dollars and the disgrace of having been kicked out by one of the "black races." \* \* \* The management of the Seattle Times having decided to put in "two bits" worth of improvements on the building it has leased, it took a double page of its last Sunday paper to inform the public of the great contemplated feat. Jackassdom was never so completely put to the front as it has been in the Times under its present management. * * * The Union Record evidently overlooks its own bigotness when it makes use of language like this: "Knockers of union papers either never read them, or are incapable of assisting to make them better." Knockers, as you call them, do read union papers and for that very reason they are incapable of as- --- THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN sisting them, for no self respecting man, woman or child could do so and boast of a single drop of unadulterated manhood as well as independence. * * * Hon. G. B. Gunderson died at his home last week, which will be greatly regretted by the "press gang," of which he lately become a member. Mr. Gunderson was three times elected to the legislature from Mason county and be it said to his everlasting credit, he served his constituents as they should be, and notwithstanding the many unkind things said of the three legislatures of which he was a member as to its grafting proclivities not one blot has ever besmeered his escutcheon. The pardoning of St. John Dix is the first real bad thing Governor McBride has ever done during his administration. There was no more reason for pardoning that double distilled skallawag than there would be for liberating all the convicts in Walla Walla. Anacortes American. How about the pardoning of Walter Irving who was sent up for murder? The pardon was granted too in the face of a protest signed by nearly every man in this community, where the crime was committed. Island County Times. * * * The killing of Charley Brown by his 17-year old boy is one of those regrettable homicides which is liable to occur in any community where trouble exists between the parents of such children. The boy does not realize the enormity of the act he has committed. It was pathetic after he had told his story to the sheriff that he should innocently suggest that they did not need him any more and he wanted to go home and help his mother. If his story of the history of the father and the teaching he has had from him is true there is little wonder that he could so coolly tell about how he "got" him the first shot, believing that he was doing a virtuous act. The world is full of people with strange ideas and we do not have to go far to find them.—Chehalis Bee-Nuggett. * * * A few days ago the Daily Belzebub published a story about the Hon. H. L. Wilson, charging him with having used his office to smuggle goods into Chili. It had no grounds for even intimating such a slanderous attack and it was a lie made of whole cloth manufactured in the office of the Belzebub. Its sensation fell flat and the editor of the Times got called down and called down hard by the Associated Press agent. Yea, it is reported that, there was talk of the Times' service being suspended unless the proper apologies were made, which was done and done in a hurry. Now comes the same disreputable organ and slobbers all over Mr. Wilson when President Roosevelt announces that, the Hon. H. L. Wilson is considered by him as one of the most valuable men in the diplomatic service of the United States and he proposes to give him a European mission. Rev. Dr. M. A. Mathews, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city, in a FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1905 Warm Winter Wraps Ladies' Furs Made and Repaired. Boas of all kinds at Reduced Prices. SPECIAL Reduction on Sealskins. All work Guaranteed as to fit and quality. C. C. BERG, Prop. Phone Main 4773 1425 First Ave., Near Pike public lecture a few nights ago openly charged the members of the city council of Seattle with being seriously troubled with the disease of "grafitis," which was to say, the members were open to bribery and bribe taking. If Rev. Mathews can make good his allegation then The Republican stands ready to help him expose the grafters. If on the other hand Rev. Mathews made the allegation with the view of creating a public sensation, having nothing tangible on which to base his allegation, then, he should not only be cited to appear before the city council as he has been to explain, but he should be arrested for criminal libel. If the members of the city council do not probe the matter to its very foundation by making Rev. Mathews prove his allegation they will admit their guilt by their silence. * * * Rev. Morris of the Methodist Episcopal church is credited with having recently spoken enthusiastically in favor of parochal schools and held up the Catholic church as a most brilliant example of the custom. He declared that it was the duty of all religious denominations to have parochal schools, where the children could be taught their fathers' kind of religious faith. We believe the idea detrimental to the free institutions of this country, whether it be practiced by this or that religious denomination. Being this or that kind of religionists because your parents were of that faith is stupidity and show a lack of genuine independence. It should be compulsory in every state of this Union for every child to attend the public schools until they are at least fifteen years of age. If after then denominational ideas can be drilled into the child, it will not be done without it having some knowledge of the fact. One should feel as free to send his or her child to a different denominational school than the one they worship as to their own. Send the child to that school where it can be best accommodated and whose environments are the most conducive to the educational as well as social development of the child. Teaching children in their infancy sectarianism instead of education, good breeding and morality are some of the curses of Religious Europe, of which this country seems anxious to adopt. i FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1905. ye ™ y » I by \ fi a A [i \ | | : \ f . 6 a 1 Bo oy ae mad eS = J Gee Se 8 ) we HON. A. F, KEES hiss Slated for Warden of Penitentiary ee Political Pot-Pie Continued from page tle Daily Times, has been a very offensive partisan, so much so that he has gone out of his way to brand Republicans as thieves and thugs in his paper and even declared in public print that the very senators whom he now expects to confirm his appointment as regent of the University of Washington, were bribe takers. Under such conditions it does not seem possible that a single senator could or would even tolerate his name before their august assembly. The Chinook Observer is very much mis- taken if it thinks King county is divided as to the senatorship. King county has en- dorsed the candidacy of Hon. Samuel H. Piles and no one else in King county has or is trying to wrest that honor from him. If, however, the Observer has ex-Senator Wilson in mind then for its information The Repub- lican wishes to say, Senator Wilson is not asking the members of King county for a single vote so long as Mr. Piles is in the fight, but in case Mr. Piles decides that he can not win the fight and wishes to retire then, providing Senator Wilson has the out- side strength that he has been given credit of having, his friends will ask the delega- tion to support him, but it will not be neces- sary for his friends to ask this of the dele- gation, for it will do so of its own accord and for the best interest of King county. It is a foregone conclusion, the Daily Bel- zebub to the contrary notwithstanding, that Councilman H. ©. Gill will be re-elected to the presidency of the council. Blethen and his paper have lost every fight that- they have made for ‘the past year and they are doomed to another defeat at the meeting of the city council next Monday evening. Good. An almost complete change in the county official roster in this county will take place next Monday. The only regular county offi- cer holding over will be Assessor. John W. Peter. Of the four superior court judges, THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Judge W. R. Bell will be the only one to re- tire. Judge A. W. Frater will be the new judge of the bunch. CURRENT COMMENT. NEW YEAR opened with a fairly pleas- ant day for the Puget Sound country, and it might be said an ideal day, and though it rained the latter part of the day the weather was unusually pleasant. The daily papers teemed with the chronological record of the past year, which, to say the least, teemed with the many mishaps and accidents that befell mankind throughout the world dur- ing the year just closed. THE REPORT in last Sunday’s papers to the effect, that Senator John H. Mitchell and Congressman Binger Hermann had been in- dicted: by the Federal grand jury now in ses- sion in Oregon in connection with the start- ling land frauds that have been unearthed in that state, was a great surprise, although there are persons in the Northwest, who make no bones of saying, Mitchell has had a long run, but finally got what was coming to him. Within recent months he is the sec- ond United States senator that has been in- dicted for defrauding the government. DR. CHADWICK, husband of the notori- ous Cassie L. Chadwick, returned from Eu- rope last Saturday and was taken at once to Cleveland, Ohio, by the sheriff of that county, where he has been indicted as an accomplice of his wife. He proclaims abso- luté ignorance of any knowledge of his wife’s wrongdoings and was thunderstruck to learn: that his wife was the notorious swin- dler, who had twice before done time for swindling persons out of more or less sums of money. He was admitted to a $10,000 bail, which he readily gave. He declares that he is practically penniless and knew nothing of the vast’ sums of money his wife had fraudulently come into the possession of. If he tells the truth then there must be some one else, who has been working in conjune- tion with the woman. SINCE THE FIRST OUTBREAK of the war in the Orient between Japan and Russia the sympathies of the most of the citizens of the United States have been with Japan and it was with much pleasure that they read the news in last Monday’s paper to the ef- fect, Port Arthur had fallen. The Japs have taken the stronghold at a great sacrifice, losing in the undertaking not less than 50,- 000 soldiers and a great number of war- ships. On the other hand, it can be safely said, Russia has lost more than half that numbers of soldiers and her entire Oriental fleet. The Russians from the very outset proved poor competitors for the little brown men and the war was as much a one-sided affair as was the war between the United States and Spain a few years ago. While the fall of Port Arthur does not necessarily mean the end of the yar, yet it’s a long step in that direction. THE NEW YEAR RECEPTION at the White House this year seems to have been the most brilliant for years. These recep- tions grow more brilliant as well as pomp- ous each year and, if they continue, it will not. be more than a quarter of a century be- fore they will be like unto réceptions given at the courts of European potentates. More ceremony and eclat each year are attached to these receptions and the common peo- ple are constantly being pushed back until the day seems quite in sight when they will not be permitted to attend them at all. At the recent reception, however, between seven and eight thousand persons greeted the presi- ident and wished him and his official family as well as his own family a Happy New Year. If it will not be political suicide for a member of the next legislature of this state to east his vote for Charles Sweeney for United States senator in the face of the arti- ele published by the Spokane Critic, Satur- day, December 31st, then the Pie-maker is no judge of the sentiment of the voters of this country. The Critic talks to Mr. Sweeney like this: “Explain—Charles Sweeney’ Spokane’s eash canditdate for the United States senate, has been called many names in his day— some defined in Webster’s, and some not— but for the first time, during the past week, he has exhibited some claims to add ‘humor- ist’ to this choice list of epithets. ~ ‘“‘With reference to his bare-faced attempt to silence this journal last week, he was interviewed in Tacoma and reeled off some stuff that would do credit to a Press Wood- ruff or a ©. B. Hopkins. He unstutteringly averred that he was hradly aware of our existence and that he would not attempt to restrain us in any event. This is laugh- able, especially to a few who have been on the inside o fevents during the past two weeks. ‘ “There is one sentence in the interview that sounds like the utterance of truth and that is ‘that any honorable man -is un- assailable by a paper of the kind this is said to be.’ “Mr, Sweeney, The Critie does not often agree with you or your sentiments, but in this case you are right. We go further and say that no honorable man was eyery suc- cessfully assailed by any kind of a paper. “Your words might have some weight if you would make some manly effort to re- fute the testimony we are laying before our readers. . “Explain away your action in the First National bank and Last Chance mine mat- ter; explain why you were indicted for con- spiracy to defraud and grand larceny; and explain why the Circuit Court of Appea!s, one ofthe highest tribunals in the world, has declared you guilty of the low-down despicable and dishonorable trick of sub- stituting valuable for worthless papers in a business deal. “Tf you can not explain these matters, for heaven’s sake don’t nauseate people further by taking the name of honor in vain.” We would pronounce the above a ‘‘rough house,’’ so rough that for Mr. Sweeney’s future political good he should satisfactorily explain. Such men, if guilty as charged, will never be seated in the senate even if elected by a legislature. Compensation. By Paul Laurence Dunbar. Because I had loved so deeply, Because I had loved so long, God in his great compassion Gave me the gift of song. Because I have loved so vainly, And sung with such faltering breath The Master in infinite mercy Offers the boon of Death. evening. PERSONAL. Miss Emma Houston will leave for Portland next Sunday, where she will again take up her school work. Miss Carrie Dixon leaves next Monday for Victoria, B. C., where she will attend school. The Magazine Club will meet at the residence of Mrs. Cayton, 518 Fourteenth avenue North, next Tuesday SPOKANE SPARKLES. Mrs. C. J. Sykes entertained Miss Minnie Brown at luncheon at Davenport's last Wednesday. Mr. H. C. Owen left the city Tuesday for an extended trip East, visiting his home in Ohio, and other points. Miss Bertha Patton entertained Miss Helen Stafford, Miss Margaret Fields and Miss Evelyn Waldon Monday afternoon. Last Friday evening Mrs. Jack Jones gave a reception in honor of Mrs. Charles Stanton of Yakima. About twenty were present. Mrs. C. Hix entertained at luncheon Mrs. Jenkins, Mrs. Thompson of Tacoima, Mrs. J. B. Parker, Miss A. Craven, Miss Candice Parker, Mr. H. C. Owen. Messrs. Dolph Pierce, Lavelle Stafford and Leo Porter entertained Miss Lizzie Jones and Miss Minnie Brown Saturday evening with a New Year's eve lunch. The writer of this column would like to correct an error. Instead of Thomas Reed being sentenced to twenty years as stated he was sentenced to six years in prison. Mrs. Mary Williams entertained Miss Minnie Brown at dinner Friday evening. The ladies present were: Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Reynolds Robinson, Miss Bertha Porter, Miss Minnie Brown. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Stokes entertained Mrs. S. H. Hadley, Mrs. Reynolds Robinson, Mrs. Mary Williams, Miss Bertha Porter, Miss Margaret Fields and Miss Evelyn Waldon at dinner last Thursday at their home in Lidgerwood. Miss Minnie Nichols and Mr. Clarence T. Reid were quietly married Tuesday, December 27, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, $ 202\frac{1}{2} $ S. Howard. Their marriage was a great surprise to their many friends, but they wish them long life and much happiness. Miss Helen Stafford entertained the Sewing Club at her home last Wednesday afternoon. The ladies spent a pleasant afternoon in sewing and games. Refreshments were served at the close of the day. The ladies present were: Mrs. F. A. Stokes, Mrs. J. L. Hatcher, Mrs. Ed. Gilden Davis, Mrs. E. H. Holmes, Mrs. Helen Holmes, Mrs. Stafford, Mrs. Jerry Flowers, Miss Daisy Pierce, Miss Margaret Fields, Miss Bertha Porter, Miss Ethel Willis. Thursday, December 29, the Big 4 Whist Club gave its second grand THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN ball. The club deserves great credit for the successful management of their balls. The music was excellent. The committees looked after the pleasures of their guests in a commendable manner and all have voted the club charming entertainers. The special feature of the ball was the grand march, led by Mr. and Mrs. James. The club has our best wishes for its future success, and hope it will continue in existence. Spokane is much in need of such a social organization. The officers of the club are: Wm. Solders, president; Jerry Brown, vice president; Mr. B. A. Campbell, secretary; Miss Anna Durant, treasurer. The club meets weekly at the homes of its members, where whist is indulged in and refreshments served. Mrs. Brooks is very sick at this writing. Happy New Year to the editor of the Republican and its many readers. The weather is fine here. Work is going on just the same as springtime. Mrs. S. S. Gayle, of North Yakima, spent the holidays with Mrs. Carrie Bedell. Miss Mamie Evans of North Yakima visited with Mrs. T. R. Taylor during the holidays. Miss Aimie Bedell spent the holidays with her mother, and her cousin. Miss Beatrice Bedell. Mr. A. A. Hawkins had the misfortune to break his piano while moving it into his new house, it having fallen out of the wagon. Mr. Garfield Taylor returned to high school at North Yakima last Sunday, also Misses Mamie Evans and Beatrice and Amie Bedell. Mr. and Mrs. Orey of Mabton, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Nickles, of North Yakima, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Oley Washington. Mr. Geo. Bird of Mabton died there about a week ago. He leaves a wife and three children. He came here from Virginia about two years ago. Mrs. A. A. Hawkins and her son, Mr. Luther Hawkins, are expected home soon from an extended visit with relatives and friends in Tennessee. Mr. G. R. Taylor is now visiting with his aged mother in Fisherville, Va. Mr. Garfield Taylor spent the holidays with his mother, Mrs. G. R. Taylor. Thursday. evening the young people met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oley Washington and had a very nice time. Dancing was the leading feature of the evening. Luncheon was served at 12 o'clock to the satisfaction of all present. The guests left at an early hour in the morning well pleased with their reception. ATHLETIC AND SPORTING REVIEW. There transpired more in the athletic and sporting world the past week than a spectator would expect in view of the holiday time. It seems that every phase of the activity received its quota of attention except indeed baseball, which was so long drawn out, a month since, thus giving its contributions far in advance. We would have thought that football would have been given a rest some time before New Year, but it seems that even the strenuousness of this character must needs be extended to as great a length as possible. It is right however that Multnomah, who suffered defeat at the hands of SUNNYSIDE. the locals on the latter's territory, should be given a like opportunity to turn the tables. And the tables were turned. The bouyant spirited S. A. C. men who left here last Monday morning for Portland left Portland in the evening with their wings drooping, experiencing the feeling of a defeat to the tune of 6 to 0. It will be remembered the Portland players likewise returned from Seattle two weeks since under identical conditions. The Portland team as a whole was in easily better condition last Monday than when they met the S. A. C. two weeks ago. The locals were strengthened by the addition of one or two University stars, so that they, too, were much stronger. But then there is the disadvantage of playing in foreign territory. The game throughout was a good one, every inch of ground gained entailing the expenditure of a goodly quantity of energy and had it not been for a poor pass from the quarterback for the S. A. C. the score would most probably have been 0 to 0. The locals were outplayed in nearly every position. The punting game was reversed and this time the Portland punting was much the most effective. The line held well, as it should with the material, but the veteran athletes of the south seemed to plunge through for substantial gains. All in all the game was creditable, and the score not extremely bad, but it should be insisted upon that on the one-yard line there should be no poor passes. Basket ball has furnished the athletically inclined with ing in some strenuous exercise the past week preparatory to entering upon the schedule for the winter's season. The University team has not been picket, but there is abundant material from which to choose. Many of last year's players have returned and all turned out to practice. Loyal Shoudy, the fleety little guard and captain, is lining the players up for good hard practice before the team is finally picked, the latter part of the week. It is expected that the team will make two trips during the season, one through the Eastern part of the State and another through the Willamette Valley, thus meeting all the prominent college teams as well as the Y. M. C. A. teams in the state as well as many of Oregon's teams. The lady team of the Meteor Athletic Club has done very creditable practicing, so that they have the reputation of being one of the strongest teams in the country—a reputation which they only need to retain during the present season. Next Friday evening they meet the Snohomish High School team at the Armory, where it is supposed spectators will see some very interesting feminine athletics. The Y. M. C. A. team, under the captaincy of Mr. Temple, probably the surest goal thrower and best all around player in the city, is now prepared to enter upon its schedule in which the locals will be pitted against the strongest teams in the state. The contest between the University team and W. M. C. A. is looked forward to with great interest. Golf seems to suffer no lack of pat- golf ronage, even the stage Links. artists are drawn thither, that they may swing their arms with freedom. The past week FRIDAY. JANUARY 6. 1905 has been itneresting because the Chapin champion cup was awarded to the victor in the person of Van Tuyl defeating the able golfer, Mr. L. C. Munn three up and two to play. The contest last Saturday was both interesting and instructive. The precision and care used by all players was very much in evidence, and during the entire contest for the cup, lasting a month, the playing was characterized by those qualities which makes the exercise interesting. Many good players were entered on the list for the tryout and all showed good qualities in their playing. Next Saturday some of Tacoma's golfers will meet the locals on the Lake Washington links. The spheres continue to roll down the alleys as if there was Bowling. good judgment used in starting them. Much interest is being taken in the finals, which end the latter part of January. The bowling team which will be sent to the national bowling tournament in Milwaukee will be one of the best in the country and one needs only to watch the scores to see who are the eligibles. The Centrals of Class A seem to have kept up their pace and are mindful of what first place means—keeping up a good record, which at present stands 22 games won and 11 lost. The Columbians and Brunswicks follow in order, but only a little care and precision and proably muscle will increase their chances for first place. In Class B the Navajos seem invincible, having held first place for many weeks, with a score of 22 won against 8 lost. The Siwashes and Ramblers, who are walking toward first place with a comfortable gait, follow in order named. The best individual average are held by Jenkins and Schearer, the averages being 184 2-9 and $141 \frac{1}{8}$ respectively. WE PAY $18 A WEEK and expenses to men with rigs to introduce Poultry Compound. International Mfg. Co., Parsons, Kan. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING County, Washington. In the matter of welfare of Clara, Norma, Roy and Dewey Collins, minors, under Chapter 49 of the Laws of 1903. No. _____ Notice. To father of and the next of kin of Clara, Norma, Roy and Dewey Collins: You are hereby notified that on Friday, January 13, 1905, at 9:30 o'clock a.m., before the Honorable A. W. Frater, one of the judges of the Superior Court of King County, Washington, in his court room, Department No. 4 of said Court in the Court House in the City of Seattle, Washington, will come on to be heard the matter of the dependency of said Clara, Norma, Roy and Dewey Collins, and you are hereby notified to be and attend such hearing and show cause, if any you have, why the said child should not be committed to the Washington Children's Home Society. Witness the Honorable W. R. Bell, one of the judges of the above entitled Court, and the seal of said Court, January 4, 1905. FIRLAND MEAT MARKET Our Fresh, Wholsome, Non-refrigerator Beef is Always in Demand at Hospitals and Sanitoriums. C. WEBER, Prop. 228 N. Broadway Phones, Ind. 8135 Main 1294 JOHN LINDH & CO. Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats and Caps, Suit Cases, Traveling Bags, etc. 1432 Second Ave., near Pike St. Seattle, Wash. Uncle Joe has barrels of money to loan on diamonds, watches and jewelry. Store 517 Second. --- FRIDAY. JANUARY 6. 1905. Amusements SEATTLE THEATER. "The Westerner," that famous play of Wall street, with its great stock battle for the control of San Diavlo mine, is to be the bill next week at the Seattle Theater. It was this play that made E. E. Rose one of the leading American dramatists and one of the leading managerial firms of New York offered $20,000 for its rights. Originally produced by Fred Bryton and played by him for several seasons with great success, it subsequently passed into other actors' hands and has been played by great stars all over the United States. There is a story of enthralling interest in "The Westerner." The hero from which the play takes its name is a young New Yorker, who after years of hard work and much adversity accumulates a fortune and returns to New York to repay a debt to Mathew Lawton. The development of the story shows the great fight for control of the San Diavlo mine, in which Errol worsts his arch enemy Dan Farland and makes another fortune and wins the love of Marie Lawton. A strong cast will handle the various parts and in every respect the play will maintain the reputation of its predecessors at the Seattle. "The Cherry Pickers." The week beginning Sunday matinee, January 15, the Seattle Theatre company will present for the first time in this city the famous success, "The Cherry Pickers." Follow Me to FRANK'S BARBER SHOP New Location 217 Washington St. U R Next RUBBER BOOTS and SHOES RUBBER and OIL CLOTHING Ladies' and Misses' RAIN COATS The Rubber Store 714 First Ave. Bet. Cheryy and Columbia OSTEOPATHY WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF OS-TEOPATHY (Incorporated). Established five years. Drs. Potter & Peterson, managers. Foot of Cherry Street. 701 First Avenue. Phones Main 607, Independent 1321. Safe Deposit Building. BREWERY YES SIR! HERE'S THE BEER, SIR! RAINIER- THE ONLY BEER, SIR! SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING CO. SEATTLE / / / WASHINGTON. TELEPHONE 308. This play has been called the masterpiece of Joe Arthur, whose many successes such as "Blue Jeans," and "Still Alarm" have made him a leader among American dramatists. The play deals with incidents of the Sepoy rebellion in India, affording an opportunity for brilliant coloring and intense situations. Its presentation will mark the first appearance of several new faces in the company. AT THE THIRD AVENUE THE ATRE WEEK ENDING JAN. 8. For B. C. Whitney's newest production of the musical tomfoolery, "The Show Girl," the management announce an exceptionally strong year's favorites, Miss Hilda Thomas, who played the principal comedy part, will head the company again this season. If you want to laugh, without a tinge of bitterness; if you like to see pretty girls, clever dancing, funny byplays, hear new music, new jokes, see "The Show Girl." You won't regret it. Miss Thomas will be assisted in the fun-making by Sam Mylie, Lou Hall and 50 others. If you don't speak German or understand the language, you will enjoy the performance of "Rudolph and Adolph," at the Third Avenue Theatre this week, because it is so funny that even a Chinaman can easily graps the characters; but if you have a smattering of "Dutch" as almost all Americans have, you will doubly enjoy the parody songs and sayings. It would be almost impossible to conceive anything funnier than the characters of "Rudolph and Adolph," and the splendid company surrounding the two stars is enough to make one think that the Third Avenue management must have a fat bank account to enable them to offer such attractions to their patrons, at the prices they charge. For next week they will offer another attraction that properly belongs to the high priced theatres, "The Show Girl" is the title of the play, but it is a musical comedy right up to the second; it tells a funny story of a stranded theatrical company that has never been portrayed on the stage anywhere in creation, and the new songs, dances, smart sayings and gags will furnish material for the entire city for the rest of the theatrical year. If you miss seeing either "Rudolph and Adolph" or The Show Girl," you will miss a bigger after-the-holiday bargain than has been offered by the most liberal merchants. Either one of the attractions is worth a dollar and as near $2 as anything that has been seen here since the theatrical year commenced. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR KING COUNTY FOR KING COUNTY. Samuel Lafromboise and L. C. Smith. Plaintiffs, vs. E. B. White and Jane Doe White, his wife, whose true Christian name is unknown, and all persons unknown, if, having, or claiming an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, Defendants. No. 31950 NOTICE OF SUMMONS. State of Washington to E. B. White and Jane Doe White, his wife, whose true Christian name is unknown, who are the owners, or reputed owners of, and all persons unknown, claiming or having an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property: You and each of you are hereby notified that the above named plaintiffs, Samuel Lafromboise and L. C. Smith, "are the holders of a delinquent tax certificate, No. B 6771, issued by the treasurer of King county, Washington, embracing the following real property situated in King county, Washington, and more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Southwest quarter (1/4) of the southwest quarter (1/4) of section twenty-seven (27), township twenty (20), range six (6). THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN That said certificate was issued on the 4th day of April, 1901, for the sum of $146.81 for the delinquent taxes for the years 1895 to 1900; that the taxes for the following years have been paid by the plaintiff, to wit: the year 1901 the sum of $25.38; the year 1902 the sum of $15.60; the year 1903 the sum of $11.03; which several sums bear interest at the rate of fifteen per cent. per annum from said date of payment. You and each of you are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this notice and summons, exclusive of the date of the first publication, to-wit: Within sixty days after the 4th day of November, 1904, in above entitled court, and defend the action or pay the judgment due, together with costs. In case of your failure to do so, plaintiff will apply for judgment, and judgment will be rendered foreclosing the lien for said taxes and costs against the real property, lands and premises named herein. SAMUEL LAFROPOISE SAMUEL LAFROMBOISE and L. C. SMITH, Plaintiffs. William C. Keith, attorney for plaintiffs, Room 46, Starr-Boyd bldg., Seattle, Wash. WILLIAM C. KEITH. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington in and for King County. Maud L. Calhoun, Plaintiff, v. William J. Calhoun, Defendant.— No. ____.—Notice to Take Depositions. To William J. Calhoun, Non-resident defendant: You are hereby notified that on Monday the 23rd day of January, 1905, at ten o'clock A. M., the above named plaintiff will take the deposition of Mary J. Benneyworth at the office of McPherson Clark, Campbell & Jarvis in Trusts & Guarantee Building, 16 King Street West, in the city of Toronto, Can- We are Selling 20-year Gold Filled Elgin or Waltham Watches this month for $12.00, and Ladies' Watches from $12.50 up. Lowest prices for good, honest watches ever offered. HOUGHTON & HUNTER, Jewelers, 704 First Ave., Seattle. Acme Publishing Co. 214 COLUMBIA ST. BRIEFS our Specialty Telephones: {Sunset, Red 1971 Independent, 1306 Get LORRAINE'S High Grade We make a Specialty of Good Drink Goods. Spices of all kinds. 1211 E. Madison St. Phone Red 406, L 8108. Want A Home? If you want a home in either the City or the Country, you can get an excellent bargain on Easy Terms at the Gilson Investment Co. 73 - 74 Sullivan Block ada, the said deposition when so taken to be read in evidence in behalf of plaintiff, on the trial of the above entitled action, and the taking of said deposition if necessary to be adjourned from day to day until completed. First publication Dec. 30th, 1904. STEELE & BROWN, Attorneys for Plaintiff, P.O. address 509 Marion Bldg., Seattle, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, in and for the County of King. Jennie Gaines, plaintiff, vs. William Gaines, defendant.—No. 44073.—Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said William Gaines, defendant. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after the 23rd day of December, 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 the plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of said action is to obtain a decree of divorce on the grounds of non-support and abandonment. A. R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and P. O. Address: 315 Pacific Building, Seattle, Washington. Dec. 23-30. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington in and for the County of King. No. _____ Summons. William F. Stephensen, Plaintiff, against Maria M. Stephensen, defendant. The State of Washington to said Maria M. Stephensen, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the 16th day of December, 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 the plaintiff, at their office below stated, and in case of failure on your part 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; that plaintiff's cause of action against you as set forth in the complaint is for divorce, founded upon desertion and abandonment, and that you without cause or reason since the 1st day of December, 1903, at Portland, Oregon, deserted and abandoned the plaintiff and ever since have lived separate and apart from him, against his wish and consent. Plaintiff's Attorneys. Office and Postoffice address, 327 and 328 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington in and for the County of King. No. _____ Summons. Geo. P. Rossman, plaintiff, against R. N. Stubbs, H. S. Stubbs, James Stubbs, Sam Stubbs, and William H. Stubbs, Defendants. The State of Washington, to William H. Stubbs, Defendant. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the 16th day of December, 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 the plaintiff at their office below stated and in case of failure on your part 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; that plaintiff's cause of action against you is for services rendered by him at the request of you and your co-defendants in the defending of your brother Fred at Tacoma, Wash., on the 12th of September, 1904, and for moneys paid out by the plaintiff in said case at your request. The total amount claimed by the plaintiff is three hundred and seventy-eight dollars. ROSSMAN & JOHNSON, Attorneys for the Plaintiff. Office and P. O. address, 328 and 327 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington for King County. No. 5942. Notice to Creditors. In the matter of the estate of Mary B. Gardner, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned as administratrix of the estate of Mary B. Gardner, deceased, to the creditors and all persons having claims against said deceased, or her estate, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within one year after the date of the first publication of this notice, to the undersigned Mary Belle Gardner, at her residence, No. 1609 East Fir Street, Seattle, King County, Washington, or to her attorneys, Brady & Gay, Rooms 9-14 Rovwell Building, Seattle, Washington, the same being the places of the transaction of the business of said estate. All claims not so presented will be barred. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 16th day of December, 1904. MARY BELD GARDNER. Administratrix of the estate of Mary B. Gardner, No. 1609 East Fir St, Seattle, Wash. BRAY & GAY, Attorneys for Administratrix. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, for King County, Summons, No. — H. Harrington, Ellen C. Harrington, plaintiffs, vs. Robert Wingate, individually, and as receiver of the Merchants National Bank of Tacome, Washington, The Merchants National Bank of Tacoma, Washington, M. F. Hatch, and all other persons or parties unknown claiming any title, estate, lien or interest in the real estate described in the complaint of plaintiff, defendants. To the above named defendants, including all persons unknown, claiming any title, estate, lien or interest in the real property described in plaintiffs' complaint in this action, to-wit, commencing at a point 60 rods from the center line of Section 32, Township 23, North of Range 3 East; thence running east to the waters of Puget Sound; thence in a southerly direction 60 rods; thence west 80 rods to the Chautauqua Road; thence north to the place of beginning, containing $32\frac{1}{2}$ acres of land, more or less. You and each of you are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 9th day of December, 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 the plaintiff, at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of the court. The object of this action is to remove a cloud upon plaintiffs' title to said land arising by virtue of two certain mortgages covering said land, one for the sum of $900 and interest, made, executed and delivered April 18, 1889, by Warran J. Gordon, and Margretta McL. Gordon, his wife, to M. F. Hatch, and by him afterward assigned to defendant Merchants National Bank of Tacoma, the other for the sum of $200, made, executed and delivered by said Waran J. Gordon and Margretta McL. Gordon, his wife, to said Hatch, on the 5th day of July, 1892, and also to compel defendants, and each of them, to set forth the nature of their several claims to said real estate, and that all of said claims may be determined by decree of said court, and that plaintiffs be adjudged to be the owners of said land; that defendants and each of them be decreed to have no interest therein, and that defendants, and each of them, be forever barred from asserting any claim or interest in said lands, and for such other and further relief as may be just and equitable. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 7th day of December, 1904. JAMES McNENY. Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and postoffice address: 504 Bailey Building, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF King county, state of Washington. No. 5951—Notice to Creditors. In the matter of the estate of Annette M. Haslehurst, deceased. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the estate of Annette M. Haslehurst, deceased, to present the same, together with the necessary vouchers, to the undersigned, executor of the last will and testament of said deceased, within one year after the date hereof, at the office of John K. Brown, Room 430 Pioneer building, Seattle, King county, Washington, that being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate. Dated December 9, 1904. FREDERICK M. HASLEHURST, Executor of the last will and testament of Annette M. Haslehurst, deceased. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington for King County. Summons for Publication. Grace M. Roberts and William J. J. Roberts, her husband, plaintiffs, vs. Robert Kidd, — Kidd, his wife, James McNaught, — McNaught, his wife, J. M. Butler, — Butler, his wife, W. H. Davis, — Davis, his wife, defendants. The State of Washington to Robert Kidd, — Kidd, his wife, James McNaught, — McNaught his wife, J. M. Butler, — Butler his wife, W. H. Davis, — Davis his wife, above named defendants. 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 9th day of December, 1904, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiffs, 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 the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of court said. That the object of this action is to obtain a decree determining all adverse claims of the defendants in the property hereinafter described, that by the decree it be declared and adjudged that the defendants have no state or interest whatsoever in or to said land and that the title of plaintiffs is good and valid, and that the defendants, and each of them be forver enjoined and debarred from asserting any claim whatever in and to said property, and for general relief. That the property above mentioned is situated in King County, State of Washington, and is particularly described as the west forty and one-half feet of lot nine, block twenty, Law's Addition to the City of Seattle. H. H. EATON, Plaintiff's Attorney. Postoffice and office address: Room 70, Sullivan Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. BUILDING AND REALTY REVIEW. It seems fitting and proper in this the first issue of the Retrospective. Republican in the year 1905 to take a reflective glance backward over the building and realty activity as a whole and as compared with that of previous years that we may see whether the conclusions portend better conditions or even as good during the coming year, for certain it is that we can only judge the future and prophesy sensibly by realizing the meaning of the past in terms of the present. The retropsective attitude is then quite opportune. An analysis of the building progress the past year will in a measure call for a similar analysis in realty circles since good building activity insures, and in fact calls for, a stable realty market. We find on looking over the reports from the municipal officers that the number of building permits granted the past year is almost 20 per cent greater than that of the year 1903, there having been issued 6899 permits, involving an expenditure for building operations to the amount of $7,783,315. A percentage of 20 over the preceeding year is certainly not an ordinary one and in this plain mathematical fact we find our claims for the city's growth substantiated. The so-called "boom" spirit which has prevailed for some time is not the enthusiastic jumble of newspapers but an actuality. We should prefer to call it simply the natural growth of the city assured by people's realization of its prospects. Although the percentage of growth the past year shows a fair margin over that of 1903, and although that of 1903 was considered extraordinary, we shall scarcely expect the present activity to continue during this year, as the falling off in building permits commenced about September and because so many desirable locations in the business section are now reserved for the buildings already proposed. We think, however, that the falling off will be very slight if any, and we predict that the present business activity is not constant, but sure of increasing very materially during the year 1905. There are abundant reasons for this view, some of which must be plain to every one interested in the Northwest metropolis. Seattle is in the front rank of growing cities, keeping pace with the fastest growing cities of the United States. We add that it is gratifying to note that the building operations have not only been along the lines of business blocks, but that residence building received its full quota of attention. Realty at present. The past Operations. year has a glowing record in real estate transfers in number of transfers as well as the character of property sold. The local dealers are likewise enthusiastic over the price which the property brought, being both inviting to the seller and investor. The price maintained throughout seems to indicate that stability of the realty market is assured which again favors the city at large. Many real estate firms declare that the past year has brought to them as much business as any year and a half previous, much more than they dared to hope for. The residence property transferred to those whose evident intention it is THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN to build at once homes gives us a happy thought for reflection. Realty statistics show that the residence portion received more attention by far the past year than during any year previous. Many homes were erected and many more will be built on already acquired property. The thought which appeals to one at this juncture is that Seattle is henceforth to furnish homes for its population, that it is growing into a city of residences as well as business buildings. This dispels the thought that Seattle has been enjoying inflated "boomism." It might be of interest to note the remarkable increase in value of property per front foot, both business and residence, hence we quote the following: The best business property per front foot in 1904 was $2500. The best residence property per front foot in 1904 was $200. During the past week only one or two notable real estate transactions were made. S. S. Bailey disposed of his property on the corner of First avenue and Virginia street for $37,500 to H. C. Henry, who intends to dispose of it at once at an increase of $4500. In building the week was not productive of much activity as was predicted. We note the following developments: The Trustee Co. has completed plans for the erection of a 2-story steel constructed wholesale building 90x120, to cost $45,000. The residences to be erected for which plans have been completed the past week are as follows: W. H. Kreiyscher will build a series three one and a half story frame houses at 1108-1118 Nineteenth avenue, at a cost of $3600. J. F. Kirk will erect a comfortable frame residence with modern appliances at 1512 Nineteenth avenue, at a cost of $1800. The Catholic church has filed plans for the erection of a one-story frame church 50x104 at 420 Fifth avenue, at a cost of $12,000. A large basement will serve as the first story for lecture room and other purposes. A large building will soon be erected at 1409-1411 Tenth avenue by the Broadway Stable Co. at a cost of $3000. John Anderson will soon build a two story frame building at 2448 Day street, at a cost of $1500. Mrs. Ida M. Peyser and Miss Ella M. Purdy will build a two story frame residence at 1404 Newport avenue, at a cost of $2000. F. O'Brien will build a one and a half story frame residence at 1914 Main street at a cost of $2200. I. J. Ballon has filed plans for the erection of a one and a half story frame cottage at 1943 Eighth avenue W., at a cost of $2000.00. Geo. A. Smith has filed plans for the construction of a three story frame and basement apartment house 54x56 at a cost of $6000.00. J. Ruter will build a one and a half story frame house at 506 Nineteenth avenue, at a cost of $1700. Robert Hall will erect a two story frame residence at 530 Seventh avenue N., at a cost of $2500. Go to a respectable place to borrow money on diamonds, jewelry and watches. Low rates. Private offices and all business strictly confidential. American Watch and Jewelry Co., 908 First Ave., opp. Rainier Grand Hotel. The Great Shoe in Hi Was inaugurated Thursday. Such seen before. Shoes ing for the price of sometimes less. Everybody During ALL CARS TRANSFER TO THE BON MAR The Greatest 10 Day Shoe Sale Was inaugurated here yesterday, Thursday. Such values as were never seen before. Shoes and Slippers are selling for the price of raw materials and sometimes less. Shoes for all feet. Everybody Should Buy During This Sale ALL CARS TRANSFER TO THE BON MARCHE MAIL ORDERS FILLED Peoples' Savings Bank 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 SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT THE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE H. C. Henry, Pres. R. R. Spencer, Cashier. The Canadian Bank of Commerce Head Office, Toronto. Established 1867 Head Office, Toronto. Established 1867 Capital ..... $8,700,000 Surplus ..... $3,500,000 London Office ..... 6Combard 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, Pres.; J. S. Goldsmith, Vice- Pres.; R. V. Ankeny, Cash. Correspondence in all the principal cities of the United States and Europe. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SEATTLE, WASH. Paid up capital.....$150,000 LESTER TURNER, President. C. P. MASTERSON, Cashier. MAURICE McMICKEN, Vice- Pres. F. F. PARKHURST, Asst. Cash. A general banking business transacted. Letters of credit sold on all principal cities of the world. Special facilities for collecting on British Columbia, Alaska and all Pacific Northwest points. We have a bank at Cape Nome. OF SEATTLE. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1905 last 10 Day Sale history and here yesterday, values as were never and Slippers are sell- raw materials and hoes for all feet. Should Buy This Sale RCHE MAIL ORDERS FILLED 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. Eestablished 1875. Tel. Main 3 J. M. FRINK, Prop. and Supt. Phone Main 94 Founders and Machinists. Works, Grant Street Bridge Seattle Both Phones 949 Established 1888 E. R. BUTTERWORTH & SONS E. R. BUTTERWORTH Mana Professional Funeral Directors and Embalmers 1921 FIRST AV. SEATTLE Albert Hansen JEWELER AND SILVERSMITH. Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Rich Cut Glass, Etc. Diamond Ice Leaves no slime in the refrigerator, because it is made from distilled artesian water. TELEPHONE PINK 159. Moran Bros. Co. Manufacture and Sell Lumber For All Purposes SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. R. W. BUTLER All work guaranteed and all contracts lived up to. Phone Buff 1267. 2022 Eighth av.