Seattle Republican

Historical Society SEATTLE REPUBLICAN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1905 but a few short weeks to discover such Republican an offensive partisan. The Republican party of King county, Postmaster George M. Stewart, is anxiously waiting to see what disposition you propose to make of When George M. Stewart was first appointed postmaster he gave as an excuse for the retention of J. W. Colkett as his deputy his long experience in the office, and his (Stewarts) inexperience in the affairs pass both branches of the legislature almost without a dissenting vote. So long as the present primary system is in vogue, just so long will the politics of this state be at the mercy of tricksters and jobbers. Its high tomary to give Republican jobs to Democratic strikers and healers, and if a Democrat had the office he certainly would not consider for a minute a Republican applicant, and if he found him in office it would take him VOL. XI. NO. 39 of the office. There was, it must be admitted, a grain of method in his madness, but there is no justification in such a plea at this time. Mr. Stewart has held the office for five years, and, if he ever expects to know anything about it, he should now know it, and he should be perfectly competent at this time to break a Republican in, and if he does not, then he is a Republican only for selfish purposes. But George M. Stewart is not that kind of a Republican, and he will do in this instance as he has always done, build up the Republican party and not the Democratic party, which he will do if he retains Colkett as his deputy. There are 10,000 Republicans in King county just as well, and even better, qualified to act as assistant postmaster as J. W. Colkett, and any and all of them are worthy and deserving of this piece of federal patronage, and they should have it. If patronage is not for the party workers, then why have any party at all? The Republican has no candidate for the place except some straightforward, true blue Republican, and that, too, without regard to faction. It is not cus- Now that the Ninth Legislature has elected a United States senator and passed the capital removal bill, the two most important measures yet acted upon, the fate of the railroad commission bill is between the devil and the deep sea, so far as its passage is concerned. Had the commission men been wise they would have held up both of the passed measures until the commission bill had been favorably acted upon, but for some reason they did not, ad now the men with whom they voted for United States senator and for the capital removal are giving them the "horselaugh," and for the passage of a commission bill are telling them to "go to Hellen Hunt for it.' It is safe to predict the Ninth Legislature will give the farmers no more relief from excessive railroad rates than previous bodies of this kind in the state. Such arbitrariness on the part of Republicans cost the party nearly 30,000 votes at the last general election, and the Pie-Maker has no hesitancy in predicting that it will cost them the state sooner or later. The railroad men, however, do not give a "tinker's dam" as to that, for when they shall have ridden the Republican party to death, then they will give its carcass a kick and at once climb onto the back of the dominant party. And why not? Is it not a fact that all of the railroad kingpins in this state are Democrats? If you answer yes, then what else could be expected of Democrats, but to work for the disruption of the Republican party? This they are doing to a queen's taste in the shape of obstructing legislation that would redound to the good of the Republican party. If the members of the legislature are honest Republicans they will take time by the forelock and give the farmers the desired relief from railroad overcharges. [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie and a flower on his lapel]. POSTMASTER GEORGE M. STEWART. If extravagance with public funds counts for anything with the constituents of members of the legislature, the constituents of many of the members of the Ninth Legislature will not permit them to even return home, much less return them to the Tenth Legislature. King county, with her seventeen members in the house of representatives, who have voted as a unit on most propositions, and who, since the sensational election, have been paying off senatorial debts, have used the big stick to pass some of the most outrageous measures ever trotted through a legislative body. Aided by Joe Lindsley of Spokane, the King county bunch almost passed the firemen's bill, which had for its object the looting of the state treasury of $1,500,000 annually. The measure would have slipped through had not Roth and Reid detected the "nigger in the woodpile." They attempted to pass a plumbers' bill, which placed every man, woman and child in the state at the mercy of those heartless human vultures, who work two hours per day and charge you up with eight hours straight and one hour overtime. They have passed a bill appropriating sufficient public funds to purchase one copy of Pierce's Code at $8 per copy for each member, when one can buy a carload of them for $3.50 per copy and then feel he is out $3 per copy. A more willful waste of public funds could not be conceived. The house is paying not less than $2,000 more for its present printing contract than other firms offered to do it for, and this was permitted by the house in deference to King county. And now Bobby Booth has introduced a bill appropriating $3,500, which is to be contributed to some Californians to publish a manual which will publish Mr. Booth's picture, and for which he will not LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 29 1952 BLICAN Y 24, 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS to discover such Republican an offensive partisan. of King county, Postmaster George M. Stewart, to see what disposition you propose to make of this matter, and all because you have in the past hung out your sign to the effect you believed Republican positions should be for Republican workers. Are you going to practice what you have been preaching? * * * Why comes all this objection on the part of the members of the legislature, and especially the members from King county, to the passage of a "direct primary" law? Are they afraid it will mean their undoing politically? Are they in the same fix as was the Irishman, who was in court facing a grave charge? He sat meditating over his future. Amid his deep despondency he was consoled by the judge "to bear up bravely, that he would see to it that he got justice." "And that's just what I am afraid I will get," he managed to blutter out in reply. That many of them deserve defeat and know they will get it if a direct primary law is passed is plain to be seen. However, there is no measure before the Ninth Legislature that, if passed, would be as productive of as much general good as the direct primary law, and the bill should the legislature almost without a dissenting vote. primary system is in vogue, just so long will the at the mercy of tricksters and jobbers. Its high time that men should rise above selfish gains and lay the foundation for the building of a temple whose cornerstone shall be honesty in public affairs, and not leave themselves open to suspicion on the part of the rising generations as ready and willing to stand by any public system that permits grafting and sculduggery. Let's for once be men and see how it feels. Let's do right once and see how it feels. Let's submit our case to the people for once and see how it feels and learn their real opinion of us. If you are willing, here goes. have to pay a red cent. If a member desires to see his picture in a publication he ought to pay for it, and not try to saddle it onto the state. There are still other measures of this nature that will be discussed from time to time. *** The Seattle Republican is not afraid to print the political news, and if you want to hear the news your only way to get it is to have The Seattle Republican sent to your address. * * * Heaven and earth are being moved, figuratively speaking, to induce the ninth legislature to pass a meat inspection bill. Its advocates argue for its passage that it would be a great boon to human life and happiness. From the many good things that are said in its favor, if the longevity of the human life in this state is not extended at least a dozen years, if passed, then it will be because God almighty himself will personally intervene to prevent the same. The bill is being advocated by Charley Frye, the head and shoulders of the Frye-Bruhn Co., and he has as his aids a couple of the best attorneys in Seattle, a lobbyist and the command of large --- sums of money to encourage the fatigued in the legislature, who have been overtaxed from excessive legislative grinding. That the passage of the bill will be a great boon to human life and happiness is not doubted, but the Frye-Bruhn Co. seem to be the only human beings that it will make happy. Last week this paper made the assertion that 99 per cent. of all of the bills now before the legislature, that attracted any attention at all, were bills of a personal nature and bills that had for their ultimate aim the benefiting of one or two individuals only. That there was a nigger in the wood pile in the meat inspection bill was suspected from the very outset, but it was quite apparent when Mr. Frye was forced to admit before the committee that it would mean a saving of some $40,000 annually to his firm. He refused to answer, when asked if the sum of money he would save would not come out of the farmers who raised the cattle and the consumer who ate the beef. Here is a true interpretation of "God bless me and my wife; my son John and his wife; us four and no more. Amen." * * * The Pierce county delegation at Olympia is doing some very effective work at this session. Though little credit is given them in th daily press. Link Davis is easily the leader in the senate with Christian a close second. Walter has been seriously handicapped as The Forum predicted some time ago. Aside from the handicap he has shown ability. Bronson has not made any record and will retire from public life after this session. It is said he only wanted this one term and his wish will certainly be gratified. Had E. R. York occupied Bronson's seat, a different story would be chronicled. Le Crone is always in his seat and generally votes right. Stewart is making progress and may develop into a statesman in the near future.—Tacoma Forum. Oh, be of good cheer, neighbor, you have prospects of getting the capitol, and Bronson worked and voted for that. Evidently Editor Ryan does not even expect to sell Bronson a copy of his manual, much less put his 'pictur'' in it and if that be true the publisher of Cayton's manual offers Senator Bronson the opportunities of an 'open shop.' You need a friend, Senator, and The Seattle Republican is perfectly willing to stand at your back and see your — kicked blue. * * * Arthur Gunn, Democrat, of Wenatchee, has been elected to succeed the late John P. Sharp, Republican, of Ellensburg. If the Republican party permits the railroads to run the party there will be more such announcements. This has been a very trying winter and the few bright sunshiny days which we have recently had called forth much talk from those who annually go camping. It is believed that this will be the greatest camping year ever seen on the coast, and with that in view all owners of abutting waterfront property are making plans to rent or lease camping space during the coming season. The Aberdeen Herald has in its possession "one cent" issued to it by the city of Aberdeen for publishing the city's legal work for the past year. Such an exorbitant rate for city printing is due to the the fact that the newspapers of that city got into a rate war. The paper or publisher who would take a contract under such financial conditions is nothing short of a damphool. It may be more difficult to get to and from Olympia than some of our latter day citizens would like, but it is not one-half so difficult as it was fifty years ago and the pioneers of those days seem to think the present such a vast improvement over the old way that they are quite willing to let well enough alone, and will therefore vote for the capitol to remain at Olympia. Recently a crazy man sought audience with President Roosevelt in order to tell him how to run the government. It seems to be a tendency of the age to elect a man to the presidency and then seek to perform his duties for him. The greates check to this spirit is public opinion. Those who would to a damaging etxent criticise President Roosevelt, who has established a record for straightforwardness, fear the censure of public opinion more than they do the man. The establishment of a fish hatchery at the State University is of much interest to the fish packers and dealers, as well as to the teachers and student body of that institution. A school which turns out experts whose services can be used in the numerous hatcheries of the state and Alaska will introduce a new occupation. It is hoped by many that the bill providing for the fish hatchery at the State University will meet favorable consideration in the legislature. "At the meeting of the Negro Agricultural and Industrial Society of Virginia, with Jordon Thompson, of Norfolk, presiding, a resolution was adopted looking to raising $5000 to bring to trial the Brickstone case from Norfolk, involving the validity of the new constitution. Addresses were made by the Rev. Z. D. Lewis, pastor of one of the largest colored churches here, and Maggie L. Walker, president of the St. Luke's Savings Bank here, eulogizing James H. Hayes, the Negro lawyer who is leading the movement to test the new constitution. Resolutions were adopted urging agitation until the very foundation stones of the republic trembled. 'Subscriptions and contributions were called for, receiving a liberal response.' AFRO-AMERICAN. Berea College at Richmond, Ky., has been fined $1,000 for disobeying a recent session law of that state, which forbids the co-education of the races. Berea has been a school for white and colored students since its first inception, and had run along for more than a half century in that way; but the last legislature singled out the school for special legislation and accomplished its purpose. The case will be fought through all of the courts, as neither side shows any signs of weakening. In the meantime the school and its scholars are in statu quo. Dr. Charles S. Morris, a New York Negro preacher, at a public reception last Tuesday evening in that city, so severely criticised FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1905 President Roosevelt and Prof. Booker T. Washington that his hearers rose up in almost uncontrollable excitement, and so demonstrative did they become that personal violence to Dr. Morris was narrowly averted. He regretted that an anarchist did not blow up both Roosevelt and Washington when they were dining together. The excuse for his eruption of thought was that Washington had sacrificed his race. Such hair-brained sensationalists should be sent to prison for life. A Negro newspaper man in Boston a few years ago attempted a similar criticism and had to do time in prison for his rashness. LOYAL TO HOME INTERESTS (From the Olympian.) The proposed action of the merchants and business men of Olympia in declaring for a complete and permanent severance of trade relations with Tacoma, is nothing but what that city might reasonably expect. It is justified by the law of self-defense; it is the only means of reprisal at the command of this city. It will be reinforced by unanimous agreement on the part of individual citizens to patronize no establishment which purchases goods in Tacoma. Those who imagine that it will be but a temporary measure, underestimate the intensity of local feeling on the subject. It is true that similar attempts have been made prior to the present one, which have lacked permanency, but the provocation was never before so great, nor was there so complete and definite organization as will be perfected in this instance. The trade of this city, heretofore enjoyed almost exclusively by Tacoma, is conservatively estimated at $60,000 per month, or $720,000 per year. The volume of trade from other portions of the county which will also be diverted, will easily swell the total to a million dollars annually. In the effort to steal the capitol, the direct loss to Tacoma in the next two years will be treble the value of the present capitol building. The citizens of Tacoma will have ample reason to curse the day when its interests were delivered into the hands of George Stevenson for the exploitation of his nefarious schemes. Up to date it has cost Tacoma the senatorship and the proposed additional school for defective youth. It involves the loss of Thurston county's trade for years to come, with commercial and political alliances with Tacoma's rivals. In addition to which the attempted acquisition of the capital is doomed to certain failure. * * * MAKE A CLEAN SWEEP. In addition to the $60,000 per month that Olympia merchants have been spending with Tacoma wholesalers, there is a very attractive sum that has gone from the pockets or individual residents of Olympia into the coffers of the Tacoma retail merchant. To the pledges that will soon be circulated among the residents of Olympia binding the signers to spend no money with the merchant who patronizes Tacoma wholesalers, perhaps there will be the signatures of persons who have heretofore expended money in Tacoma retail houses for for shoes, hats, clothes, furniture, bric-a-brac, jewelry or other articles. Cheap transportation has been given as the principal reason by one merchant of Olympia why he failed in business. "Before the day of cheap fares my business was good," he says. "As soon as they were inaugurated it began to fall off. People who had been buying of me went to Tacoma to purchase." Cheap transportation is not to be condemned, however, as it has undoubtedly helped the city in other ways, but the illustration is given to show that Olympia people have been dealing with those who now prove to be their enemies. The person who signs the pledge above referred to should mentally, if it is not stated in the agreement, bind himself to patronize exclusively the Olympia merchant. In readjusting our trade relations a clean sweep should be made. It is within the power of Olympia people to end this capital removal talk for all time. The present movement will be killed, but if we sit back and make no preparations for the future it may crop up again. Mark this: Tacoma is Olympia's worst enemy among the cities of the state. It is the only city that would start and attempt to maintain a capital removal fight two years, four years, six years or fifty years hence. * * * THE LAST STRAW. If anything more was needed to thoroughly arouse Olympia's righteous indignation toward Tacoma it was the action that has now been taken by the Chamber of Commerce of that city in seeking an audience with Governor Mead on the capital removal question. In the matter of retaliating against Tacoma through the medium of trade relations there have been a few persons in Olympia who have contended that the merchants and business men of Tacoma have looked with disfavor upon the capital removal fight, and it has been insisted that the fight was pushed by a few Tacoma politicians who controlled the Pierce county delegation. There will now be no sympathy expressed for Tacoma business men. The Chamber of Commerce is a commercial body representing the business men of Tacoma. This body, if it has considered the matter in a business light at all, has placed on one side of the balance the indifferent results attained by being called the state's capital and the $120,000 yearly pay roll of the state employes. On the other side it has weighed in the balance the $750,000 spent annually by Olympia with Tacoma business houses. "Give us the capital," says this astute business organization. "Please, Mr. Governor, don't veto the bill." What will be the result? Tacoma will get neither the capital nor our $750,000. All hail the members of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce as a lot of monumental jack-asses! NEWS OF THE WEEK M. Witte ,the famous Russian minister, and his wife are exiled by the Czar. Minister Witte's private papers were searched, as it was thought that his beautiful wife had been carrying on intrigues against the autocracy. The Russian government denies that Witte's papers were searched. * * * The wholesale district of Indianapolis has had a destructive fire. The loss is said to be in the neighborhood of $1,100,000, with an insurance of $826,000. The explosion of chemicals with the accompanying bursts of flames THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN when the fire was consuming a large storehouse where such things were kept made the scene a very spectacular one. * * * Students demand reform in Russia. They decided, against the teachers' advice, to discontinue school until fall. Excitement runs high. They claim that promises will no longer avail and that the only satisfaction will be freedom of speech and the convening of a national assembly. This was coupled with a demand for ending the war. Burglars looted twelve homes in Seattle during one night. Homes very much in the neighborhood of each other. Official stoolpigeons suspected, and the time chosen was when the chief of the police, in the neighborhood of whose home the burglaries were committed, was sick and confined to his bed. A pretty bad record for a city of Seattle's reputation. . * * * Russia and Japan fixing terms of peace. Korea to be placed under Japanese suzereignty. Port Arthur ceded to Japan. * * * Vladivostock to be declared a neutral port with an open door. * * * Eastern Chinese railroad to be placed under neutral international administration. Fifty corpses only recovered from the Virginia mine where 116 men were entombed. Stricken men were of the best class of mining families in Alabama. Foul gases necessitate the use of safety lamps, which were very scarce. Much to their credit, union miners went to the scene from all surrounding camps. Little hope that any of the entombed miners are alive. FAME'S PATHWAY. The Italian government has voted an annual pension of about $2400 to the veteran poet, Carducci, on his retirement, after 45 years' service from the chair of literature in the University of Bologna. He has long been recognized as Italy's greatest living poet. Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike, an officer in the United States army, discovered the famous peak November 15, 1806. The chamber of commerce of Colorado Springs has started a movement to honor the 100th anniversary of this event in 1906 by a celebration to be participated in by the entire state. John D. Rockefeller has become sufficiently interested in Pueblo, Colo., the "Pittsburg of the west," to invest more than $125,000 in real estate in that city. It is said that he will build homes near Lake Minnequa for employes of the great steel works of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, in which he is now largely interested. Washington is promised a visit from George F. Dunville and Mrs. Dunville, who live on a farm out near Yankton, S. D., and who are the parents of 27 children-nine sets of triplets. All of the children are living, too, or were a short time ago, and all but one set are boys. Mrs. Dunnville is only about 40 years old and her husband about 50. Miss Laura Perkins of Beloit, Wis., has sent a cold chill down the spine of many a fellow taxpayer in that city. While many are asking rebates for one cause or another, she has written the city clerk stating that she observes that the assessor failed to tax her on a few hundred dollars she has in the savings bank, and that if an error is made she desires to pay her full share of taxes. Bishop Potter tells the following story on his distinguished friend, Phillips Brooks: Some years ago Bishop Brooks was recovering from an illness and was denying himself to all visitors, when Robert Ingersoll called. The bishop received him at once. "I appreciate this very much," said Mr. Ingersoll, "but why do you see me when you deny yourself to your friends?" "It is this way," said the bishop. "I feel confident of seeing my friends in the next world, but this may be my last chance of seeing you." The Columbia (S. C.) State notes that "the dispensary sales in Sumter (population 5680) for the six days ended December 24 aggregate $6422"—more than $1 worth of rum for each inhabitant. Governor Sparks of Nevada and some other wealthy men intend to establish an oasis in Death valley, 75 miles south of Goldfield, for the benefit of travelers. Artesian wells will transform it, and it is to be stocked with game. THE BOER EXODUS. Since the Boer war the Boers have been gradually drifting away from their old homes in the Transvaal, not in large bodies, but in scattered groups and in various directions. According to the Amsterdam press the Boers are about to renew the great exodus of 1834 and 1844. At that time they decided that they would not submit to the English government, and leaving Cape Colony, went to the north in search of freedom and liberty. Up to the present the Boers have not attempted emigration from the former Boer republic, on any large scale, and those who have emigrated have not found the experience satisfactory. Small groups have established themselves in Chile, Madagascar, Mexico, Argentina, and Java, but no concerted movement has taken place. In addition there are several small bodies of Boers who have settled in certain African districts which have never been subject to Great Britain. As a rule, however, the Boers have been chiefly attracted to the German east and southwest colonies, where climatic conditions have also been favorable to them. The friendship of the Germans has led the Boers in the past to plan in western Africa a Boer state under the suzerainty of Germany, and an additional plan was drawn up which proposed opening to Boer colonization the German Southwest Africa district; about two thousand Boers have settled within the boundaries of the colony since the Anglo-Boer war. The German government, however, has not shown great eagerness to welcome the Boers; Germany fears the presence of an element which is hostile to all political organization except its own. There is no doubt that the Boers could be of great assistance against the natives, and their agricultural experience would increase the value of the land, but it is well known that they are unwilling to perform military service, while at the same time their chief concern is to preserve their language."—Ex. 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. Before casting your vote for the removal of the state capitol, count the cost. Shackling was entirely too good for Jeff Daivs of confederate government fame; he should have been burnt at the stake. Charley Frye would earn a pretty good salary if in having the beef inspection bill passed his firm profited $40,000 annually. But few sincerely believe that the receivership established over Santo Domingo will ever be given up by the United States government. Gov. Mead has a legal right to pass on all bills enacted by the legislature and the removal enthusiasts had better not overlook that point. A senate employee is charged with drawing two salaries. This is not the proverbial "nigger in the wood pile," but it is a hog in the hopper. Benton is the name of the proposed new county, which is to be carved out of Yakima and Klickitat by the present legislature. Is Baker from Missouri? It's a mistake, the janitor of the senate is not the famous Sherlock Holmes, though Janitor Holmes can tell some pretty windy political stories at times. The manner in which Washington's birthday was celebrated throughout the country plainly showed that he yet lives first in the hearts of his countrymen. Peace between Russia and Japan seems to be "brewing." Does that mean Senator Hemrich will put a new brand of beer on the market next summer? Last Wednesday was Washington's birthday, but no one except those who draw salaries and could lay off with impunity, paid very much attention to it. There is a plant in Seattle that is flourishing in most of the homes, which is known as Council Mullen, and it gives off an odor that smells like a Seattle mayor. When it is not raining on Puget Sound the sun is shining. We refuse to answer as to, when it is not raining, on the grounds of, working against the community. If the Negro in this country did not always remind the white man of his color and condition is it not barely possible that some of the white men would forget all about it? THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Is it not true, Mr. Assistant Postmaster of Seattle, that you used "mileage" from the office of the Seattle Daily Times, on which to make your trip East on postoffice business? Has not the Seattle postmaster had experience enough by this time to be his own Stewart of that concern for the next four years? If so, then what's the use of Colkett? The Muskogee (Ind. Terr.) Searchlight has blossomed out into a daily paper. In its news and editorial columns the Searchlight is a very bright paper. It deserves to succeed. The numerous chirping of the little birds about us would seem to indicate spring is not far ahead. It's pretty early for it on Puget Sound, but it would nevertheless be quite acceptable. The Rosalia Citizen seems to voice the sentiment of the farmers in the Palouse valley when it says: "The likelihood of $2 wheat will not prove a calamity to the farmers in the Palouse." It is learned from the Columbia Dispatch, published at Dayton, that, "there is a desire in that section of the state for the removal of the state capitol." Have they counted the cost, my friend? Unless Senator Baker heads off some of the grafts that's being worked on the state there will not be money enough to move the capitol, even if the measure should receive a favorable vote. Fairbanks is having a famine of postage stamps. There is not one to be had in the city. The last lemon has been consumed. It sold for $2. Doesn't the very thought of it put your teeth on edge? That South American republic had better not get in trouble with Uncle Sam lest, when the scrap is over, the much vexed race question of this country, "What to do with the Negro?" will be easy of solution. Eggs are reported as selling at 38 cents per dozen in Chicago, and that, too, when there are 45,000 dozen on cold storage in that city. What's the use of our hens getting busy under such circumstances? There are only three months in which to prepare for an exhibit at the Lewis and Clark exposition, and unless somebody gets an almighty hustle on themselves the Evergreen State will make a very poor showing. There seems to be no doubt of the fact that George Stevenson is handling the railroad fight as of yore, and that, too, despite the declarations of J. D. Farrell, he would not do so. Are there others, Mr. Farrell? President Roosevelt has asked that a place of honor be given to the colored troopers in the inaugural parade. Evidently he did not care a tinker's dam whether Vardeman and Jeff Davis' daughter participated or not. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1905 If Moore's gigantic improvement scheme materializes there will be something doing in Seattle for a good many days yet to come. Jimmy can always stir the financial animals up from the very bottom when he gets busy. The Leader of Castle Rock is fulsome in its praise of the representatives from that county in the legislature for voting against the capitol removal bill. Evidently the ground hog has not been operating about the Leader's hole. "Don't monkey too much with the present road law," comes from the Davenport Tribune. Just what the Tribune means by that, we are not prepared to say, but we do know, it is a bad thing to monkey too much with anything. Speaking about the Hon. John Leary dying and leaving an estate valued at two million dollars, an old pioneer was overheard to remark: "Those pioneers who let booze alone invariably died rich." Evidently booze is a bad financial booster. The Democratic paper at Colfax is of the opinion that, the representatives from Whitman county have taken no very prominent part in the legislature. You are wrong, Neighbor; Whitman has a strong and active delegation in the legislature. Just as the nations used to seek after territorial expansion and sacrifice many lives in the desire of conquest as a means of development ,so today they are "sleeping with one eye open" in order to gain control of markets and thereby will hang many a tale. A drenching rain poured down during the parade of the Elks last Wednesday, which was more water doubtless than those fellows had ever before encountered, for even then as they marched they sung: "How Dry I Am. God Knows How Dry I Am." "The Catholic church is the only hope of the Negro," says a publication of that faith. Rats! The only hope of the Negro is to be and act a man. Do business on business principles. Give up clannishness and either serve God or do not serve as suits him best. No specific religious dogma is his only hope. "While the "jackasses" of the race are spending their time in braying, picking straw for hay, kicking, knocking, attracting casual attention, doing some harm to themselves and no good for the race, the thoughtful, sincere and representative folk are quietly working for progress and success. A former city treasurer of Everett has been found quite a few hundred dollars short in his accounts. The city is secured in whatever sum he is short by a security bond, and it looks as if the ex-treasurer will be able to make good and no prosecution be instituted. In speaking of an American receivership in San Domingo the Detroit Free Press says: "Graft, which is the indispensable accompaniment of finance in San Domingo, will be [Name] HON. GEORGE TURNER, Late Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate, Who Has Just Cleaned Up $100,000 in a Big Mining Deal. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1905 Late Democratic Gub eliminated." There is some doubt about that if San Domingo becomes thoroughly Americanized. The gray-haired man who is carrying on extensive operations in the way of renting horses and buggies and selling them to farmers as his own, not only has the contempt of honest men, but when it is learned that he is between 60 and 70 years of age he also inspires extreme disgust. It is said that some strange power is at work to protect Father Gopon from harm. In the conflict with the Russian soldiers he stood in the front rank of the workmen. Men fell on all sides, but he passed through the storm untouched. Yet some men can not see a "divinity which shapes our ends." --- THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN HON. GEORGE TURNER, Attorial Candidate, Who Has Just Cleaned Up $ Corporation Counsel Gilliam's opinion as to the city getting interest on its bank deposits reminds us that Gilliam was strongly backed for the appointment of judge not many days ago by the entire corporate influence of Seattle. Straws tell which way the wind is blowing. It would be nothing amiss to occasionally remember that there is no such thing as an indispensable man. The busy hum of man's activity does not stop although a funeral team passes through the streets. Some few men are greatly missed, but their places are soon filled, meanwhile the world has not stood still for even one second. "Nearly every one except those who have property interest inn Olympia are anxious to see the capitol moved," sagely remarks the Cheney Free Press. Yes! Well but every citizen in the state of Washington has property interest in Olympia, and that, too, to the tune of one million dollars or more; then all of them must be in favor of the capitol remaining in a statu quo. (From the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press.) The white militia companies of Georgia have decided that they do not wish to attend the inauguration exercises in Washington and Governor Terrelll, of the Cracker State, has refused to give permission to the colored militia companies of the state to attend, although some of them had made all preparations to participate in the great parade on March 4. The ground for Governor Terrell's refusal is that he does not want his state represented on such an occasion by Negro soldiers. RELIGIOUS. WHAT, IF BELIEF IN GOD WAS LOST? 'Are the masses of men yet sufficiently developed to determine and follow out a course of right conduct without the impelling power of a belief in, or fear of, a personal God who rewards and punishes?' was the inquiry sent to and ansewred by a number of theologians, sociologists, social workers and physiologists. Franklin H. Giddings, professor of sociology at Columbia University, replied in substance: "The shock which we fear would follow the loss of belief in a personal God has already taken place. The old belief in God, as it was 50 and 60 years ago, has been severely shaken, and although the masses do not understand the doctrines of evolution, they have accepted them as probably true. It is demoralizing to hold on to beliefs that we no longer sincerely feel to be true. Fearless sincerity in thought, word and deed is the everlasting basis of right conduct. Miss Vida D. Scudder, a writer on social subjects, replied in substance: "The conception of God as a magnified man who sits upon a throne and dispenses punishments and rewards has long been obsolete, even for the masses. A personal God is synonymous with the belief in the existence of absolute holiness, beauty and wisdom. Belief in this absolute is as a living spirit from which mortal man may draw strength." Professor Goldwin Smith, author of "Guesses at the Riddle of Existence," in substance replies: "The religious belief in another life and future rewards and punishment is the foundation on which morality has heretofore rested, but that foundation is giving way. It is greatly feared that unless a substitute for religion can, within a measurable time, be found, the morals of the people will run very low. Societies, however, will be held together by the necessity of labor, of order, of mutual help and forbearance, by domestic and social affections, by opinion, by the law and the police. A passionate thirst for pleasure and the means of obtaining it looms up, however, as a pitfall in the absence of spiritual aims and of hopes beyond this world." Dr. G. Frederick Wright, professor of the harmony of science and religion at Oberlin, writes "that to eliminate from one religion the belief in a personal God would be disastrous. This belief gives freedom to the human will and places a sense of sin on the conscience and a sure reward upon virtue. Divine eminence and pantheism take from man those responsibilities which inspire in him a desire for nobler things. To deprive man of the belief that he is the arbiter of his own moral fortune can be productive only of untold evil." THE CHURCH AS A SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. Dr. Rainsford says: "Good, wholesome recreation is first cousin to religion. The refreshing of the body goes a long way toward giving the soul a chance. 'Because it has become a purveyor of these things to its people, because it runs employment bureaus and loan associations, lodging houses, wood yards and day nurseries, the church has abandoned none of its dignity. Because it has directed its energies toward the 'uplifting of the whole man instead of a fraction of him,' it has lost no whit of its spiritual power. "There are clergymen who say that one day the church will go back to its first and greatest mission, which is to preach. There are others with deeper wisdom and farther sight, who shake their heads and say, 'Never!'" The following is an excerpt taken from an article of a writer who signs herself "A Minister's Wife": "In the church of tomorrow will be found centered the varied forms of the social life of the community. Clubrooms, Christian Association rooms, and halls of various purposes will no longer be required. In a small city of twenty to thirty thousand people, the duplication of churches and other buildings for public use, where the money must in each case come from about the same men, is in every case a drain upon the private resources that should be spent in providing extra comforts or even luxuries for the individual families. The member of the coming church will know no distinction between his church life and his ordinary pursuits. Whatever he now does, with a clear conscience, outside the church, and very likely many other things as well, he will then take into the church building. It will be the most cheerful, attractive place in town, always open, and the center of every kind of helpful influence. "Men, women, and children will find their varied social and intellectual, as well as moral, wants not only provided for, but catered to. In short, the church will be what it ought to be, the hearthstone of the composite life of the community. "This church of tomorrow will have no creed, save the simple one of service to humanity. "Its pulpit will have become a platform, and its preachers will be more of a procession than they are now. * * * The platform work will be done by specialists, very much as is done in some of our universities today, these men being engaged for single addresses long in advance, and making a tour of the leading churches of the country. The Sundays when, for financial or other reasons, these men can not be secured, will find upon the platform the leading sitizens of the town, who will discuss questions of public interest. And there will be many musical Sundays, when the people will get the uplift and inspiration which is so vital an element in living. "To the church attendant of tomorrow the idea of the church being a one-time object of charity will be a revelation. He will call at the downtown office of its treasurer once a month and pay his church bill as readily, and as much as a matter of course, as he does his gas bill or his taxes." "The church as a human organization of any kind will die, and die very soon. It is not a human organization; it is a divine organization, with a divine life pulsating between the Head above and the members here on the earth. It is an organism which grows by divine power, to which the Lord adds those who are being saved. It exists preeminently to satisfy the deep spiritual hunger of man. It has no reason to exist as a charitable institution. It can not do that sort of work as economically or successfully as our charity organization societies and our FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1905 St su Cda da the Latti Ju vac Co Sw a an to Hu mi H no re pr the sh 19 of W in in St St Ca sw ain ing de hu 14 fa 19 IN IN IN MA it to es w the Latti the II at 27 Ad 1 IN IN GE is Sas sce the the 27 first cat Ad 0 IN Sas O O i 3 WH wh ed est re y tiff sque sue Wa state and city agencies. It can not expect to live as a place of amusement or instruction, for it can not compete in this direction with the concert halls and the theater. The only hope of survival that the church has lies in the continuance of emphasis upon its spiritual mission. There it has no rival—there it is supreme. Whatever social work the church does it is incidental; its future as well as its present mission is the salvation of men's souls." Manchuria returned. The indemnity question is the bone of contention and it is thought Russia will wait until another battle has been fought before she reaches a decision on the indemnity upon which aJpan insists. The Seattle Republican Wants 500 New Subscribers By the First Day of May Start the Ball to Rolling by Sending in Your Name The Seattle Republican Seattle, Wash. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1905. NOTICE. SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. State of Washington, County of King—ss. Sheriff's Office. By virtue of an order of sale issued out of the Honorable Superior Court of King County, on the 3rd day of February, 1905, by the Clerk thereof, in the case of Ferry-Leary Land Company, a corporation, plaintiff, vs. Martin B. Bruggemann and Justina C. Bruggemann, his wife; W. H. Donovan and Ollie M. Donovan, his wife; Moore Investment Company, a corporation; Mildred E. Swaney, Homer H. Swaney, Junior, a minor; John B. Swaney, a minor, and F. E. Brightman as administrator de bonus non of the estate of Homer H. Swaney, deceased, substituted as party defendant in place and stead of Horace G. Reed, as administrator of the estate of Homer H. Swaney, deceased, defendants, No. 43351, and to me, as Sheriff, directed and delivered: Notice is hereby given that I will proceed to sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, within the hours prescribed by law for sheriff's sales, to-wit: at 10 o'clock a. m. on the 4th day of March, A. D. 1905, before the Court House door of said King County, in the State of Washington, all of the right title and interest of the said defendants in and to the following described property, situated in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: Lot fourteen (14), in block thirteen (13), Capitol Hill Addition to the City of Seattle (Division No. 2), together with the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, levied on as the property of said defendants to satisfy a judgment, amounting to three thousand one hundred forty-nine and 33-100 ($3,-149.33) dollars, and costs of suit, in favor of plaintiff. Dated this 3rd day of February, 1905. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and King County. No. 6022. Notice to Creditors. In the mater of the estate of Leila May Crotty, deceased. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of Leila May Crotty, deceased, to present their claims against said estate, with necessary vouchers, within one (1) year after the date of this notice, to the undersigned James L. Croty, administrator of the estate of Leila May Crotty, deceased, at the office of Allison & Crotty, 109, 110, 111 Washington building, city of Seat- le, county of King and state of Washington. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 27th day of January, 1905. JAMES L. CROTTY, Administrator of the Estate of Leila May Crotty, Deceased. H. D. ALLISON, Aty. for Administrator. Aty. for Administrator. First publication Jan. 27, 1905. Last publication Feb. 24, 1905. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King.—In Probate. No. 5913. Notice to Creditors. In the matter of the estate of George G. Sunders, deceased. To whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given and extended to the creditors of the estate of George G. Saunders, deceased, and to all persons having claims against said deceased, or his estate, that they are required to present said claims with the necessary vouchers, within one year after the date of this notice to the undersigned administrator of the estate of said George G. Sunders, deceased, at the office of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company, corner of Occidental Avenue and Jackson street, in the city of Seattle, King county, state of Washington, the same being the place for the transaction of business for said estate. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 27th day of January, 1905, the day of first publication hereof. Last publication February 24, 1905. A. M. BROOKES, Administrator of the Estate of George G. Sunders, deceased. IRA BRONSON & D. B. TREFETHE, Attys. for Administrator. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 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 any, having or claiming an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, Defendants. No. 31990. 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 Seattle Engraving Co. 18 THIRD AVE. S. We make printers plates that print 5c PHONES INDEPENDENT SUNSET MAIN 800 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 Acme Publishing Co. 214 COLUMBIA ST. BRIEFS our Specialty Telephones: {Sunset, Red 1971 Independent, 1306 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). 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 bears 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 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 the County of King. In the matter of the dissolution and disincorporation of the Rival Clothing Company, a corporation. No 45892 Notice. Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day of January, 1905, the Rival Clothing Company, a corporation, filed its application in due form with the certificate of its officers for the dissolution and disincorporation of the said corporation, upon the grounds that, all of the debts had been paid and that all of the stockholders had voted affirmatively, on the 16th day of January, 1905, to dissolve and disincorporate the said corporation. That the said application will be heard in the Equity Department of the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for King County, at the court room of said department, in the court house, in Seattle, King County, Washington, at 9:30 o'clock A. M., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, on the 24th day of March, 1905. Dated Seattle, Washington, this January 18, 1905. OTTO A. CASE, Clerk. By MAURICE THOMPSON, 602 Mutual Life Bldg., Seattle, Wash. First publication Jan. 20, 1905; last publication March 17, 1905. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington for King County. A. L. Brown, et ux., Plaintiffs, vs. Mary L. McCausland, et al., Defendants. No. 33046. Notice of Sale. Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned heretofore appointed Referee in the above entitled action, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property, to-wit: Lot 14, Block 12, Green Addition to the City of Seattle, Lot 1, Block 76, Lake Union Addition to the City of Seattle, in pursuance to the order --- made by the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for King County, in the above entitled action on the 18th day of January, 1905. Said sale to be made at the Court-House door, at the Court-House of King County at 9:30 o'clock on the morning of Saturday, February 25th, 1905. H. R. CARR, Referee. NOTICE—SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. REAL ESTATE. State of Washington, County of King—ss. By virtue of an Order of Sale issued out of the Honorable Superior Court of King County, on the 7th day of January, 1905, by the Clerk thereof, in the case of H. C. Nason, plaintiff, vs. James V. Verity and Maud Verity, his wife, defendants, No. 44550, and to me, as Sheriff, directed and delivered. Notice is hereby given, that I will proceed to sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, within the hours prescribed by law, for Sheriff's sales, to-wit: at 10 o'clock A. M. on the 18th day of February, 1905, before the Court House door of said King County, in the State of Washington, all of the right, title and interest of the said defendants, in and to the following described property, situated in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: Lot numbered one (1), in block numbered one (1), of Lake Side Addition to the City of Seattle, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, levied on to the property of defendants, to satisfy a judgment amounting to three hundred twenty-three and 30-100 ($323.30) dollars, and costs of suit, in favor of the plaintiff. L. C. SMITH, Sheriff. By EDW, DREW, Deputy. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington for King County. J. J. Smith, plaintiff, vs. J. Whitehouse, and — Whitehouse, his wife, whose true first name is to plaintiff unknown, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, defendants. No. .... Notice and Summons. State of Washington to J. Whitehouse and — Whitehouse, his wife, who are the owners or reputed owners of, and all persons unknown, claiming or having an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property. You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the service of this notice, exclusive of the day of the date of the first publication, to-wit: within sixty days after the 14th day of January, 1905, in the above entitled Court and action, and defend this action and answer the complaint of said plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney-for plaintiff at his office below stated, or pay the amount, together with penalty, interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered against you and against each parcel of said real property for the sums due and amounts due upon and charged against each, including costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint now on file in this cause and Court. J. J. SMITH, Plaintiff. W. T. SCOTT, Pros. Attorney. BY JOHN C. MURPHY, Deputy. Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address 506 and 513 Marion Block, Seattle, Wash. First publication dated January 14, 1905. 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 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 FOR KING COUNTY. Emma Caldwell, plaintiff, vs. T. Ellis Caldwell, defendant. No. 46152. Summons. The State of Washington to the said T. Ellis Caldwell, 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 17th day of February, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff herein, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for the said 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 said complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this action is to obtain a decree of divorce, dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant, on the ground of desertion. BRUCE C. SHORTS. P. O. address 377 Colman Building, Seattle. Date of first publication Feb. 17, 1905. 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 Roywell 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 BELL GARDNER. Administratrix of the estate of Mary B. Gardner, No. 1609 East Fir St., Seattle, Wash. BRAY & GAY. Attorney 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 Tacoma, 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 said court. 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. PERSONAL. Mrs. J. T. Cayton is reported ill and has been confined to her bed for some days. Mrs. John Robinson spent a few days last week in Everett, the guest of Mrs. Meadows and Mrs. Richardson. Thomas King, the assistant janitor of the Haller building, died in his room in the block on Monday, the 20th. He was buried in Lake View cemetery. The Mt. Zion Baptist church gave a bazaar which began on the evening of the 22nd and continued to the 24th. No pains were spared to make it a success and everything passed off pleasantly. Mr. Bryce Taylor is selling off his household effects and will rent the house. Mr. Taylor had one of the neatest furnished homes of any of the Afro-Americans in the city, and during Mrs. Taylor's life it was the scene of a great many pleasant gatherings. The bazaar at the Mt. Zion Baptist church, which opened last Wednesday evening, will give its visitors a plenid literary program tonight (Friday), and among the many good things that are promised is an address by Mayor R.A. aBllinger. This church organization is without a pastor at present, but it is hoped by the members to have their pulpit filled in a short time. The man or woman who has no higher ambition than to be the associate of some immoral reprobate, both in private and public, should be classed as such and should be spurned by persons who do not lead such lives. If you are guilty this means you. Among Negroes there is altogether too much indiscriminate mingling of the good and the bad. The writer has not forgotten when at an emancipation celebration, held in this city some time ago, one of the prominent parts on the program was taken by one of the vilest "tenderloiners" in the city, and this program was prepared by the pastor of one of the colored churches. Sunnyside, Wash., Feb. 20, 1905. a grand reception was given the 17th by Mrs. A. A. Hawkens and Mrs. J. L. Bedell at the new residence of Mrs. Hawkens in honor of their son and daughter, Miss Aimee Bedell and Mr. Luther Hawkens. The elites of the Sunnyside Valley were out in full array. Those that came from North Yakima were: Mr. and Mrs. Branch Walker, Mrs. McBain, Mrs. Brannem, Miss Simon, Miss Evans, Miss Bedell and Mr. Martin. Mr. and Mrs. George Harris were down from their mountain ranch and Mr. C. H. Stanton of Mabton was also present. Singing, card playing and dancing were the leading features of the evening. Luncheon was served at 1 o'clock, to the satisfaction of all present. But it was not until the sun had risen in all his glory to approve of the night pastime did the guests leave for their several homes. Mr. T. R. Taylor is moving to his east 40, where he intends to plant 15 acres to hops this spring. Mr. A. A. Hawkins has the poles already in the ground to plant ten acres more to hops this year. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Mr. Carter Nicolis of Roslyn has moved his family here and we extend a hearty welcome to them and wish more of the same would come among us and either buy land or rent a farm, so as to help build up the community. But men and women of loose character are not wanted nor will they be tolerated here. Mrs. George Bird of Mabton died last Tuesday after a very short illness. She leaves four children, but she had no other relations. in the West. Her husband, Mr. Bird, died about two months ago. The oldest child, a girl, is not over 7 years old; the youngest not more than a year old. Rev. J. W. Pettigrew was visiting here among his many friends last week. The weather is fine here and all the farmers are getting busy with their spring work. The executive committee of the colored Baptists of the state, who have been in session here for a few days, have named a committee, composed of Rev. O. Stallworth, Bellingham; Rev. S. G. Wilson, Everett, and Rev. J. B. Backham, Spokane, to name the place for the next meeting of the state association, which is to be held in July. Fashionable Finery URBAN'S Ladies' Suits, Cloaks, Jackets and Skirts Exclusive Agency for Henderson's Corsets. Fine Line of Millinery in Stock 1204 Second Av. Seattle Come and see for Yourself BONNEY-WATSON CO. UNDERTAKERS Preparing bodies for shipping a specialty. All orders by telephone or telegraph promptly attended to. Telephone Main 13. BREWER YES SIR! HERE'S THE BEER, SIR! RAINIER-THE ONLY BEER, SIR! SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING CO. SEATTLE // // WASHINGTON. TELEPHONE HAINIER 30 URBAN'S "Ha Ha! I told you so." Laughed the weather man during the recent COLD snap. The next time be prepared and have the laugh on him. Put in your COAL supply RIGHT NOW. Use NEW CASTLE LUMP for Furnaces NEW CASTLE NUT for Ranges The Pacific Coast Co. Foot of Dearborn St. Phones: Exch. 99,-Coal office-Ind 92 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. 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. R. H. Denny, Vice President. J. T. Greenleaf, Cashier. SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT THE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE H. C. Henry, Pres. R. B. Spencer, Cashier. The Canadian Bank of Commerce Head Office, Toronto. Established 1867 Capital .....$8,700,000 Surplus .....$3,500,000 London Office .....6G -ombard 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 OF SEATTLE. Capital stock paid in.....$528,000 Surplus ..... 35,000 Jacob Furth, Pres.; J. S. Goldsmith, Vice- Pres.; R. V. Ankeny, Cash. 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. we have a bank at Cape Noire. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1905. 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. Follow Me to FRANK'S BARBER SHOP New Location 217 Washington St. U R Next Get LORRAINE'S High Grade Tea & Coffee U R Next We make a Specialty of Good Drink Goods. Spices of all kinds. 1211 E. Madison St. Phone Red 406, L 8108. 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. 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, Phone Main 94 Prop. and Supt. Washington Iron Works Founders and Machinists Works, Grant Street Bridge Seattle Both Phones 949 Established 1888 E. R. BUTTERWORTH & SONS E R. BUTTERWORTH Mgr 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.