Seattle Republican

SEATTLE REPUBLICAN VOL. XII. NO. 5 CITY OWNERSHIP The consular reports are giving some interesting information in regard to municipal ownership in Europe. Below will be found extracts from the report of Consul Walter C. Hamm, of Hull, England, and Consul Frank W. Mahin, at Nottingham, England. The municipalization of what are known as natural monopolies is going on in England, and where the experiment is tried it is nearly always found to result in great benefit to the community and to the employes. For instance, Mr. Hamm says that the construction of the municipal telephone system at Hull has brought about a speedy reduction in rates. The municipal telephone has reduced the rates in Hull to about $2 a month, and street car fare to 2 cents. Gas in being sold at less than 50 cents a thousand feet, and electricity is furnished at 9 cents per unit. At Leicester the city has taken over the street car lines, or taamways as they are called, and is going to operate about forty-two miles. The fare is 2 cents, and sometimes the distance traveled is nearly three miles. The gas and electric plants are also in the hands of the public in Leicester, and will run at a profit. Mr. Hamm says: "The construction of a municipal telephone system in Hull has brought about a speedy reduction in rates. At a recent meting of the corporation telephone committee it was announced that the charge for unlimited service over an exclusive line would be £5 ($24.33) per annum to private houses and £6 6s ($30.65) to business premises. This reduction has been followed by a large increase in the number of subscribers. The National Telephone Company has been compelled to reduce its rates for unlimited service to private houses from £10 ($48.66) to half that amount. To what extent this reduction will effect the company in other towns and cities is a matter of interest. It is stated that in the agreements which the National Telephone Company has with practically all the large towns and cities in England, and by which the corporations of those towns granted the company underground way leases, it was made a condition that in case it reduced its unlimited service rate in any place below $48.66, similar reductions must be made, if demanded, in all other towns. If this is the case, then other cities may now demand the same telephone rate that is made in Hull. Thus the competition in this city may prove beneficial to every city in England. "A recent report of the comptroller of accounts of the Hull corporation throws some light on the position of other corporation enterprises and the success attending their municipalization. On account of the crematory $530.44 was expended for maintenance and $306.58 was received in the year ended April 1, so that there was an excess of expenditure of $1,110.53. In the gas department the profit in the year was $15,380, from which there is to be deducted interest SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1905 on the debit balance and a sum for the sinking fund, leaving a net credit balance on the revenue account of $2,637. The working profit of the water-works was $149,893; deducting $12,652, city fund annuity; $57,449, interest on loans, and $8,622 for the sinking fund leaves the net profits $71,162. The revenue account of the electric lighting shows a working profit of $88,696, from which there are to be deductions for interest on loans, sinking fund, and meter installments, leaving the net profit $7,976. The working profit on account of the street cars for the year was $185,238, from which $48,329 is to be deducted for interest on loans and $45,700 for the sinking fund, and $37,400 to be transferred to the reserve fund, making the credit balance for this year $57,500. "In each instance, then, with the exception of the crematory and the baths, the municipalization of public utilities in Hull has resulted in profit to the city treasury. The profit it is true, is small, but it must be remembered that the charges for these public services are extremely low. A ride on the street cars in any direction to the end of the line costs only two cents; an exclusive telephone in private houses costs less than $25 a year, and in a business office about $30 a year. Gas is sold at 48 cents per thousand feet and electricity at 9 cents per unit. The object is not so much to make a profit for the city out of these utilites as to furnish the public with the best service at the lowest price. Viewed in this light, municipalization in Hull can be pronounced a success." The following is Mr. Mahlin's report: "An important public improveemnt this year in Leicester is the installation of an electric street car system in place of the horse-drawn cars. The old system extended 9 miles; the new lines, when completed, will cover forty-two miles. The greater part is now equipped with overhead trolleys and is open to the public. It is a municipal undertaking. The largest tramway junction in the United Kingdom is at the clock tower, whence five sets of double track radiate. The fare from this point to any other on the line is 1 penny (2 cents), which pays for a journey, in some cases of nearly three miles. The total cost of the system will be about $3,250,000. For the first half of 1904 the net profits of the municipal gas works were $110,000; of the electric light works, $12,500, and of the water-works, $44,000. All this surplus goes to reduce the taxes or to benefit the public in other ways." The Seattle Republican makes a merited attack upon the daily press for always forcing every Negro statement into the worst Negro dialect. No one objects to this dialect when properly attributed, but to place "Cane brake" talk in the mouth of every Negro, educated and all is absurd.—Western Enterprise. The P.-I.'s Negro reporter has not black-guarded the members of his race now for two whole weeks. What on earth can be the matter? PRICE FIVE CENTS POLITICAL POT=PIE J. Will Lysons, who for a number of campaigns has been secretary of the Republican State Central Committee, has been selected as temporary secretary of the railroad commission. For the past two sessions of the legislature, Mr. Lysons has been the secretary of the senate, and in that capacity has given splendid satisfaction. The selection of Mr. Lysons gives another appointment to the "northwest," which practically turns over the politics of the state to that section. While there is no objection to Mr. Lysons, personally, yet this centering of all of the state appointments in the "northwest" is not doing the party very much good, and at the next turn of the wheel even the Republicans in convention assembled will see to it that the "northwest" gets nothing, and it will be treating her right. * * * That was a great story published in the Times one day this week to the effect that "the members of the city council had turned a poor family out in the rain," and it was published for no other reason than for political buncom. Granted the family was turned out in the rain, the family knew that it was living on city property and the city had duly notified it to move out, but in defiance to the order it remained in the house and permitted its effects to be set out in the rain. If the city authorities had done their whole duty they would have not only set the effects of the family out in the streets, but they would have had the head of the family arrested for trespassing. Men who bid for such cheap newspaper notoriety are too mean and despicable to be called people. * * * Dalyrymple, the Ssotchman, who was invited to Chicago to give an opinion as to whether that city could effectively put in operation municipal ownership, has returned to his home after giving a most favorable opinion that she could do so and added, "the newspapers have misquoted and garbled my statements from start to finish." The piemaker remembers that the P.-I. had an editorial in it declaring that Dalrymple had practically admitted that municipal ownership in the United States was not feasible, no part of which, according to Dalrymple was true. Whether feasible or not, municipal ownership will be voted by most of the larger cities of this country before another decade rolls round and before two decades become history government ownership of public utilities will likewise be voted. Seattle is certain to vote for municipal ownership at its next city election and the party candidate that does not want to be beaten so badly that he will not know that he was in the race, had better not oppose the proposition. *** Just because some stinker got robbed in the red light district it was no excuse for the wholesale arresting of every colored woman in that section of the city. Unless the Pie-maker has been sadly misinformed there are just as many pickpockets among the white prostitutes as the blacks and the arresting of colored women on the wholesale just because a man gets robbed is but another case of race intolerance that is so common to this country. Some of the low flung trash on the police force that are always hoping for an excuse to show their authority by abusing some colored persons, has an origin that even an animal would refuse to be classed with. There was no more justice in the arrest of that lump lot of fallen colored women, one day this week, than there would be to go up on the First Hill and arrest equally as many of the best women in the city. Let crime and criminals be punished to the limit of the law, but it is unfair to punish persons who know nothing of the crime for which they are being punished. In the next municipal campaign colored voters should see to it that they vote only for men, who will at least promise to stop such outrages. GET YOUR HAMMER. When you’re very low in spirits, when this world becomes a bore, When you’ve blown in every dollar and can’t borrow any more; When you think that Dr. Osler hit it right on “Age of man,” When you’d like to see it brighten as across the sky you scan; Don’t despair, my suff’ring brother, here is something you can do, 'Tis a blessed freeman’s privilege and it’s satisfying, too. Get your hammer and your anvil, put it where it will be heard, Beat it loud and long and steady, give a pound for every word. Hit up John D. Rock-e-feller and his mooted mission pile, Say he stole his many millions, call him heartless, wicked, vile. Take our good friend Thomas Lawson, knock him left and knock him right; Knock his warnings, knock his pleadings, knock his copper out of sight. Then there’s Andy of the heather—who is he, I’d like to know, Handing out a bunch of li’bries just to make a worldly show? Don’t forget J. Pierpont Morgan, knock him hard as any one. Don’t the trusts make all our troubles on the earth, the moon, and sun? * * * * * But I won’t go on, dear brother, for I’ve made it very clear That you needn’t feel unhappy while our millionaires are here. Don’t be skeered they’ll never hear you, anyway it is’nt wrong, Cause it makes you feel lots better when you soak it to ’em strong. Leverett Bentley, in Human Life. YOUTH'S PROCLIVITY. That the small boy has a natural proclivity for throwing stones is being demonstrated THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN by the way they are breaking the street lamps and enamel signs in several parts of the city. These acts of vandalism have become so great that they are now quite an expense to the city. In the past such cases have been reported to father and mother, and father has sworn to take the offender into the woodshed and administer fatherly advice in a very feeling manner, but such punishment does not meet the requirements, and hereafter the city will take a hand in the punishment of all lamp breakers and enamel sign demolishers. ORIENTAL-AMERICAN BANK Seattle is to have the first Japanese bank owned and operated by Japanese in their own premises. There are about 3,000 Japanese in Seattle and all but a surprisingly small number are thrifty, enterprising persons, who earn money and deposit it in banks. Heretofore, they have patronized American banks, but on July 4th the Oriental-American Bank will throw its doors open for business and doubtless all of the Japanese bank depositors will withdraw their deposits and bank with this new institution. The Oriental-American bank has a capital stock of $40,000 and is to occupy handsome quarters in the company's new building at Main and Fifth. Some Americans are so narrow minded that they will not appreciate a Japanese bank in Seattle; but there are others who will rejoice with them when they throw open their doors for business. Those Japanese, who have invested their money in America and are true to their mother country yet patriotic Americans so far as they are permitted to be, are a credit to the country and the true American spirit recognizes the fact. Recently two men were conversing on a street car, their voices reached those near by and the following conversation was over heard: "I do not like the idea of so many Japanese coming to this country. They are alright soldiers, but they ought not be permitted to come to America," said the smaller of the two men. "We are not afraid of contact with the Japanese," replied the larger man. "They can not rule us and therefore can do us no harm." "You, surely, do not remember that they will not stay in this country but will earn our money and take it away with them," said the small man, while a look of utter dispair crept over his face. "Think of the good service they will have to render us before they can earn that money," replied his friend smilingly. "But," said the small man as a closing point in his argument, "they will take all of our ideas over there and put them into use for the upbuilding of Japan." "Let them," replied the larger man as the two arose and started to leave the car, "they may improve upon our ideas if they can, and then we will take their improvement and improve upon it." And so it is in America; there are many small men, but still more large ones. AT A GREAT COST. The monument erected in memory of the Slocum's unidentified dead was unveiled on the first anniversary of the General Slocum FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1905 disaster in the Lutheran cemetery at Middle Village, L. I. The unveiling was witnessed by thousands of people, and, it is said, one would had to have been present to witness the scene ere he could realize how the Slocum horror ate into the hearts of that community. The crowd reached back for a quarter of a mile from the speaker's stand, but nearest to the stand were those whose black garments and tearful faces told that the disaster had cruelly reached their homes. The horror of the Slocum disaster is equalled by nothing so well as the general improvement which it has inspired on rules and regulations under which ships, boats and all water conveyances move. "You can not realize, unless you had been running on a boat before and after the Slocum disaster, the good that terrible sacrifice of lives has done, not only out here on Lake Washington, but all over," said one of the officers on the "Xanthan," a pleasure boat which plies between the several parks on Lake Washington. Before that occurrence, but little attention was paid to wards taking precautions against fire," continued the officer, "but now we have our plainly printed rules well learned and followed; we have our fire drills, and our life preservers are well looked after and conveniently placed in reach of the passengers." "It was an awful sacrifice of human lives, but it did a world of good," he added as he jumped from his deck to the boat house and hastily wound a rope around a stob. And then some passengers left his boat and some boarded it, all as light-hearted and care-free as could have been any who were riding on the General Slocum that fatal day when she started on her last run. NEW YORK'S SISTER If small straws tell which way the wind is blowing there was a whole broom full of straws at Portland to tell that Seattle is determinedly destined to become Greater Seattle, a sister to Greater New York. 2,000 Queen city residents, each with a green badge pinned over a patriotic heart, were in attendance at the Portland Fair on Seattle Day. That was just a sample of the Seattle spirit, but it is said Easterners became quite intoxicated with it. Should they come on up here to the fountain head from which those wearers of green sprang they would find that the half had not been told. See Seattle. WITHOUT CAUSE A human something went down to the red light district to see the town by the gaslight and after visiting the various hell holes of that section wound up in rooms which was occupied by colored women. During his revelry, somewhere down the line, he lost "two bits." He made that fact known to the police force and with no further evidence to warrant his acts, a police captain ordered the arrest of a dozen or more Colored women. It took Big Bill Morris but a very few minutes to convince Judge Gordon that it was a case of race prejudice with no justification whatever for the arrests. MEET ME THERE. The Yesler lot at Third avenue has proven eo - 2 ag ST ee ee ee Ss... 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SPOKANE OFFER For every person sending The Seattle Republican from Spokane or that vicinity twenty-five (25) new subscribers cash in advance each, $2 per year, $50, a ticket to Portland and return will be given them. Also one day’s board and lodging in Portland and gate admission to the Fair, including a one day’s stop-over in Seattle, YAKIMA AND KITTITAS. Every one living in Yakima or Kittitas counties sending The Seattle Republican twenty (20) new yearly subscribers at $2 per year—$40.00—a round trip ticket, one day’s board and lodging in Port- land, admission to the Exposition grounds and a day’s stop-over in Seattle will be given them. SEATTLE and TACOMA Persons living in either Seattle or Tacoma or their immediate vicinities, who will send The Seattle Republican fifteen (15) new yearly subscribers a ticket to Portland and return, a day’s board and lodg- ing and two admissions to the Exposition grounds will be given them. THIS IS AN OPEN CONTEST For all who wish to take advantage of this most liberal offer address all communications to 214 Columbia, St., Seattle, Wash. arenes i I mr I a cre FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1905. to be ‘‘a friend in need’’ on more than one occasion which goes to show that a large va- vant space about that size, centrally located, would not be a bad investment for a city after all. About July 3rd Reiss Carnival will open its third show on the Yesler lot. The Carnival Co. has been engaged in support of the benefit for the labor temple fund and once more Seattle youths and maidens may se the human fly, watch Diavolo’s daring leap, whisper to each other in the Ferris wheel and finally throw confetti until they THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN have the desired appearance of having ‘‘done the Carnival.’’ eae A HIDDEN REASON. It’s amusing beyond expression to see the dozen and one fits the Times had over Mr. and Mrs. Selber being turned out in the rain. The editor of the Times has no more sym- pathy for the Selber family than he has for a family of tabby eats, but all those black vomit editorials were printed to invoke publie sympathy. The Times caters to the working class and no wonder since it receives its chief support therefrom, but it is an im- position, its readers in general to have small occurrences taken up and magnified simply to gain friends and thereby subscribers among the working class. The long and short of it is, if Mr. and Mrs. Selber had gotten cut of the city’s house when they were ordered to, they would not have been put out in the rain. Bull-headedness is not al- ways the best. The Seattle Republican Established May, 189 H. R. Cayton.....Editor and Publisher Susie Revels Cayten.....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. SEE SEATTLE. THE REAL GOOD "What is the real good?" I asked in musing mood. Order, said the law court; Knowledge, said the school; Truth, said the wise man; Pleasure, said the fool; Love, said the maiden; Beauty, said the page; Freedom, said the dreamer; Home, said the sage; Equity, said the seer, Spoke my heart sadly— "The answer is not here." Then within my bosom, Softly this I heard— "Each heart holds the secret— Kindness is the word." James Boyle O'Reilly. May and June were unusually cool this year, so much so as to remind even the old timer that summer is having a hard time putting winter on the shelf. Physicians are now declaring mental science is the only cure for persons affected with mind trouble. Another case of, what will kill will likewise cure. It is perfectly natural for the officers of the Seattle Electric Company to array themselves against municipal ownership—the devil is doubtless equally antagonistic to the spread of Christianity. Notwithstanding the inexhaustible supply of water in Cedar lake, which supplies Cedar river, yet Seattle householders are being cautioned against using too much water under the pain and penalty of being both arrested and having their entire water supply cut off. With revolution running riot throughout Russia and the Japanese thrashing the Russian troops on land and sea, at every turn of the road, "white supremacy" is having a hell-of-a-time in the "far east." Confronting a fierce Chinese boycott, which threatens financial ruin to the South, the "damphool Southerners (white) are beseeching President Roosevelt for an opportunity to prostrate themselves at the feet of the heathens. Ah there, my size! The shoe is on the other foot. Bowen says he has been made a scapegoat of to save the other fellow. Well, had the other fellow been cinched, he would have said the same thing about Bowen. No mistake would have been made, however, from THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN our point of view, if Loomis had been booted out at the same time as was Bowen. Scandinavian girls lead for general house work, is the concensus of public opinion. The essential reason why this is true is because these women work when they promise to work. Colored women might learn a valuable lesson from them. Scandinavians command better wages almost two to one over Colored women, and the only reason they do is because they are trustworthy and reliable. The commercial end of this government is simply wild over the prospective boycott the Chinese have threatened to inaugurate against her cotton and other products that she sells to the Orientals. No one save the trusts and their satellites are so affected. While the United States have been selling thousands and millions of dollars worth of goods to the Chinese she has done so at the expense of her home consumption. The people in the United States have to pay prices for cotton goods that are simply astounding, and all because the goods can be sold in China in larger quantities. The trusts and combines are sending their wares to the Orient and either absolutely neglecting the home market or making the home market pay twice as much as the Chinese have to pay for the same article. If the Chinese market is supplied all the goods that the trusts can reasonably manufacture can be disposed of and the refuse is put on the home market. Woul it not be better sense and far more in keeping with right and justice to put all the goods the people at home can consume on the market at a reasonable rate before seeking foreign markets? But what do the men who form trusts and combines care about right and justice? Such elements are foreign to their natures. BORROWED THOUGHTS. J. E. B. Reid, formerly editor of the South Seattle News, but more recently editor and proprietor of the South Tacoma Enterprise, has just launched the Rainier Valley News, which looks exceedingly hearty. Somebody who was asked to explain what the editorial "we" signifies, said its meaning varies to suit the circumstances. For instance, when you read that "we expect our wife home today" we refers to the editor-in-chief; when its "we are a little late in our work, it means our whole office, even to the devil and the towel. If "we are having a boom," the town is meant. "We received over 700,000 immigrants last year" embraces the nation; but "we have hog cholera in our midst," only refers to the illness of the man who takes the paper 8 or 10 years without paying for it.—Ex. "In some quarters the hired help problem might be vastly improved at both ends in this country if a rule were established that the hired girl and the matron of the house should exchange places every other day. In some instances such a change would lessen the efficiency in the kitchen, but it would bring more brains and good manners into the parlor." Mr. Cushman uttered these words in public and he spoke truthfully, even if it did hurt someone.—Auburn Argus. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1905 The Argus-Leader has run across the following, which is credited to an Iowa lady, and as it is claimed that it will rid the lawns of dandelions, it is given for what it is worth: "Take a good sized oil can, such as are used by implement men, fill it with gasoline and inject into the heart of every dandelion plant to be found. I saw this plan tried a year ago in a good sized lawn; there are very few of the plants showing this season, and they will be treated. Of course seeds may lodge and catch for a new crop, but they may be easily disposed of. If everyone will take the trouble to rid his lawn they would soon be exterminated but it requires a united action on the part of all citizens." There may be no merit whatever in the above receipt, but it will cost only a mere trifle to try it and the most of the lawns in Seattle have a sufficient supply of dandelions to experiment on. Talk about hoodoos! A Tacoma negro has just been sentenced to serve thirteen months in prison for stealing thirteen pairs of pantaloons. The crime was committed last Friday night—dark 'o the moon. It's a cinch that the poor "coon" didn't have his rabbit's foot along.—Olympian. The above is from a cultured Christian gentleman (?), an ex-minister of the gospel, who is now editor of the "leading paper at the state capitol. No worse nor more common language could come from a "bowery tough," a crap game king or a mug saloon sot. How out of your element, Mr. Editor, you have wandered—King street, Seattle, needs just such as you. Assistant Postmaster Colkett has been in the public service ever since he was a kid. He has served under seven postmasters and been next to the Chief all the time for twenty-five years.—Daily Times. Well, no one but Colkett appreciates his twenty-five years service in the post office, unless it be the management of the Times to whom he has given scoops at the expense of the other papers. The United States pension roll reached the highest point in the history of the country two months ago, when it contained the names of 1,001,786 pensioners. In the opinion of Pension Commissioner Warner, the highwater mark has been reached, for he believes that from now on the tide will steadily recede, with only a slight likelihood of the total pensioners getting into the seven figure class again. Commissioner Wraner's opinion appears to be well founded, for there was a big decline during the month of April. The list shrunk to 1,000,158 in that month by reason of a great many deaths among old and feeble war survivors, the net loss in April being 1,628. The most significant death losses concern the invalids of the Civil war, for the rate of disappearance of these men will determine whether the total pension list is to grow in size or fall away. During April the deaths among invalids of the Civil war numbered 2,133. At present the total number of pensioned survivors of the Civil war is 687,869. The balance of 313,000 pensioners is made up of widows, dependents and nurses, and soldiers of the Mexican, Indian and Spanish wars. There were 4,960 deaths Its to your interest to talk to The Seattle Republican before giving your notices out for publication. Phones, Main 305, Ind. 1306 Office 214 Columbia St. among all classes of pensioners during the month of April, but as the names of some 3,400 new persons were added to the list it kept down the total shrinkage to a trifle over 1.000 for the month. "It has been forty years since the close of the war," said Commissioner Warner today, "so that the average age of the Civil war veteran is well on toward 70 years. In view of this fact, I believe we may look for a steady decline in the total number of pensioners, unless new legislation should add to the list in the meantime." The Spanish war has not proved so fruitful of pensions as was expected to be the case. Up to date, only a little more than 22,000 persons have been placed on the list because of the casualties of that war. Of this number, 17,000 are invalid soldiers and 5,000 are widows. There are now pending, however, 33,317 unsettled claims for pensions growing out of the Spanish war. All told, there are 232,000 claims for pensions hanging fire in the pension office. The following table shows the way the pension list has grown since the close of the Civil war: 1866 .....126,722 1886 .....365,783 1867 .....155,474 1887 .....406,007 1868 .....169,643 1888 .....452,557 1869 .....187,963 1889 .....489,725 1870 .....198,686 1890 .....537,944 1871 .....207,495 1891 .....676,100 1872 .....232,229 1892 .....876,068 1873 .....238,411 1893 .....966,012 1874 .....236,241 1894 .....969,544 1875 .....234,821 1895 .....970,524 1876 .....232,137 1896 .....970,678 1877 .....232,104 1897 .....976,014 1878 .....223,998 1898 .....993,714 1879 .....242,755 1899 .....991,519 1880 .....250,802 1900 .....993,529 1881 .....268,830 1901 .....997,735 1882 .....285,697 1902 .....999,446 1883 .....303,658 1903 .....996,545 1884 .....322,756 1904 .....994,763 1885 .....345,125 A WOMAN IN CHARGE OF UNCLE SAM'S INDIANS. Miss Estelle Reel, who has recently been appointed national superintendent of Indian schools for the third time, was the first woman to be appointed to an office by President Roosevelt, and the only one to be given a place of importance. Miss Reel held this office through the previous administration, and has proved her fitness for it. She is probably the only woman holding office under the national government who carved her way to it by her own political efforts. She is a Wyoming woman, and is considered one of the best politicians in that land of woman voters. She made her way up by the successive steps of teacher, county superintendent and state superintendent, to the position she now occupies. She possesses all the qualifications which make a person successful in public life, among them being the geniality and cordiality of her manners, the magnetism of her personality, and her keen memory for names and faces. Miss Reel also understands perfectly well the value of "standing in" with the press; and while she was state superintendent of instruction in Wyoming her pleasant office was the headquarters and lounging place in the statehouse for the Cheyenne "press gang," and Miss Reel was considered an adept at giving a good story to the boys whenever occasion arose. However, she has not attained the highest political position ever occupied by an American woman without a solid basis of merit to entitle her to it. She has pushed two branches of work in connection with the 300 government schools maintained for the Indians. At the N. E. A. at Detroit last summer, there was a display of needlework, mechanical drawing, designing, implement making, dresses cut and made by the girls, suits, boots and shoes made by the boys, and a great variety of forge work, which compared favorably with that of any public school in the country. There was an Indian band of thirty pieces present, fifteen boys and fifteen girls from the Indian school at Mt. Pleasant, Mich., which afterwards went on to the conference of Indian educators at the Pan-American. Miss Reel wants to encourage the old Indians to preserve the ancient arts, the basket making and blanket-weaving, which are in danger of dying out. The constant tendency, as the Indian comes more and more in contact with the tourist trade, is to make cheap things for quick sale. But there is still an old squaw here and there, who knows how to make the fine old things—baskets that will hold water and blankets that are almost waterproof, and Miss Reel wants to place them in the schools as instructors to the Indian girls. In the first place; this makes the old Indians feel that ATTENTION HOW ABOUT NOT Its to your The Seattle Repu your notices out for ```markdown ``` they are still of some use, and that the whites feel some respect for their native industries; and in the second, it is in the line with the latest developments in arts and crafts and as fine in its way as the handmade books and furniture and tapestries that are now so fashionable. Reed-work, buckskin, fine bead embroidery and lace-work, wicker, shell and feather baskets, and all a part of the arts that Miss Reel wishes to preserve. Miss Reel is seeking to enlarge the outing system of Carlisle, by which the Indian children are placed in good white families for all or a portion of the year, to go to school and share in the work and life of the family. Besides the government boarding schools, Miss Reel has under her charge all the Pueblo day schools, now conducted in the villages of the Pueblo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico. Her field ranges from South Carolina and Pennsylvania on the east to the Pacific coast on the west, and she travels from one end of it to the other about six times a year. During her first term of office, from 1898 to 1902, she traveled some 75,000 miles, and a portion of that distance was put in by stage coach, horseback, by burro, or on foot. During her experience in the field she has slept in pueblo and tepees, climbed precipitous cliffs and crossed alkali deserts, and eaten prairie dog stew. And with it all, she is such a handsome and thoroughly well-gowned young woman, that you would never suspect her at first sight of departing from the straightest path of conventionality.—Human Life. ATTORNEYS YOUR LEGAL CES? interest to talk to can before giving publication. --- ```markdown ``` The flag that has waved for more than a hundred years over the greatest Republic the world has ever seen---Republic in name. Republican in politics---you bet! ```markdown ``` Mrs. Cornelia G. Butler, wife of Mr. R. W. Butler, the well-known contractor and builder, died last Monday night, after a long and painful illness. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have lived in Seattle for the past sixteen years, and during the greater part of the time both of them have been active in religious work. Two days before she died, she realized that the end had come, and she instructed her husband and those about her how she desired her funeral to be conducted. She will be buried from Butterworth undertaking parlors, this (Friday) afternoon, the Rev. S. P. Haywood officiating. At the time of her death she was in her fifty-fourth year. She was born in St. Louis, Mo., where she has one daughter, a sister and a brother to mourn her loss. She was an ardent religionist, and died rejoicing in the love of Christ. DR. BURDETT REPORTED DEAD. It has been rumored on the streets for the past few days that Dr. Samuel Burdett, who lived on a farm near Prosser, died last Friday. The only direct information bearing out the rumor is, Mrs. James Allen wrote to her mother stating that such was the case. Dr. Burdett was well known in this city and likewise well known all over the state. In the absence of facts, The Republican is inclined to think that a mistake somewhere has been made. A letter, however, has been dispatched to Mrs. Burdett to learn the full particulars. The homestead is twenty miles from the nearest railroad station, hence it will take some time to get an answer. Mrs. Annie Sanders, aged 28 years, died at her home last Tuesday. She was a next door neighbor and friend of the late Mrs. Butler, who died the same day. She was buried yesterday, Rev. Woodward officiating. 1776 COLORED MEN'S WEALTH. From a local Chicago paper it is learned that Col. Edward H. Morris, a well-known lawyer of that city, is estimated to be worth $300,000. Col. Morris has been a successful politician, and has been the attorney for the colored gamblers of the city. Col. Johnson, from the same source it is learned, is worth not less than $200,-000. For a number of years he has handled the gambling element, among the colored folk in Chicago, and it is claimed he got his wealth in from that source. In whatever manner he got it he seems to have had the good sense to have so invested what he got, as to earn for him a fortune for his old age. Robert T. Motts is another colored man that is worth considerable money, he being able to boast of a property valued at $150,000. Dr. O. J. Davis, of the Windy City, is said to be worth $75,000, while Theodore W. Jones has some $50,000 to his credit. While the local paper did not name any more of Chicago's well-to-do colored folk, yet it is said by those who know whereof they speak, that there are a great many Negroes in Chicago that do not have to lay wake nights to figure out how "to keep the wolf from the door." BOOKER WASHINGTON HONORED. Principal Washington has received a formal invitation to be present from the Commissioner-Geenral of the International Exposition to be held at Liege, Belgium, during the latter part of the present year. The Belgian Government has directly urged its Commissioner-General and the Belgian Minister at Washington to urge Mr. Washington to accept a place on the program of the International Congress on Economic Expansion to be held at Mons, Belgium, about the same time. The Tuskegee work continues to receive, in the highest possible circles, that recognition which it so richly deserves. This invitation is one of gratifying importance. — Tuskegee Student. THE SHAME OF IT. Down in Mississippi are two towns wrangling over the privilege of hanging a Negro. The following item clipped from the Record of Vaiden, tells its own humiliating story: "It is not the life of Henry Brown that our people crave so much; neither does the world care a baubel whether the insignificant Negro starts to perdition from Vaiden or Carrollton, so long as the law is upheld; but because of the fact that the crime was committed in the Second district of Carroll county, the Negro indicted, tried and sentenced at this point, common justice demands that the hanging should be done here, and the concerted action on the part of Carrollton to force the hanging there is a flagrant display of bad taste, and a direct violation of common courtesy. Like all other hangings, the execution of Henry Brown will attract thousands of people, and to permit Carrollton to pluck the plum would mean a heavy loss to our business men." If a legal hanging drums up trade, we can understand why in this mercenary age lynchings are in such a demand in the South! And this is evidence of America's boasted civilization O, the shame of it!—Omaha Enterprise. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN MRS. BUTLER DEAD. humored on the streets by days that Dr. Samuel delived on a farm near East Friday. The only union bearing out the ru- mes Allen wrote to her that such was the case. It is well known in this use well known all over the absence of facts, n is inclined to think somewhere has been er, however, has been Mrs. Burdett to learn sulars. The homestead from the nearest rail- ence it will take some answer. ```markdown ``` JULY 4th HOW CLAUSE ENG. OPEN Child $2.00 The rapid growth of us to occupy the Co., which we hail as our entire suit and Children's Dress. For this our New York bus stock, compr made to sell remarkable p Children's Dresses and linen, made waists, with sus with black pate white, blue and dots. All sizes, Price— Children's and Midi and pique; color all splendidly n belt, with straps select from; all price for this Gro The rapid growth of our Infants' and Children's Departments, have compelled us to occupy the adjoining storeroom formerly occupied by Pidduck-Ross Co., which we have refitted, giving us a light, spacious salesroom as large as our entire suit room. This is devoted almost exclusively to our Infants' and Children's Departments, which stocks have been greatly increased. For this Children's Dresses of fine quality French gingham, percale, duck, pique and linen, made in very good styles; many made with white India linen waists, with suspender straps to match skirt. Some come in all white with black patent leather belts; colors white, blue, pink, black and white, blue and white, pink and white checks and polka dots. All sizes, worth up to $2.50. Great Opening Sale 95c Price— Children's and Misses' Skirts of best quality linen, percale, gingham, duck and pique; colors natural, white, blue, pink, green, red and mixtures; all splendidly made; very full, with wide hem. Some have tailored belt, with straps over shoulders; an exceptional line to select from; all lengths. Worth more than double the price for this Great Opening Sale— 714-716 2nd Avenue --- $2.00 and $2.50 Values 95c our New York buyer has sent us the residue of an Eastern manufacturer's stock, comprising 223 Children's Cotton Dresses and Skirts, made to sell at $2.00 and $2.50, but which we offer at this remarkable price— 95c FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1905. Braham GREAT OPENING SALE Childrens' Skirts Dresses 100 and $2.50 Values of our Infants' and Children's Departments, the adjoining storeroom formerly occupied have refitted, giving us a light, spacious sa- uit room. This is devoted almost exclusively Departments, which stocks have been great ham's EAT G SALE Skirts and sses 50 Values 95c children's Departments, have compelled formerly occupied by Pidduck-Ross a light, spacious salesroom as large ted almost exclusively to our Infants' ocks have been greatly increased. Great Opening Sale an buyer has sent us the residue of an Eastern uprising 223 Children's Cotton Dresses and sell at $2.00 and $2.50, but which we offer the price— lesses of fine quality French gingham, perc made in very good styles; many made with w uspender straps to match skirt. Some co patent leather belts; colors white, blue, red and white, pink and white checks and po ses, worth up to $2.50. Great Opening S Misses' Skirts of best quality linen, percall colors natural, white, blue, pink, green, re made; very full, with wide hem. Some raps over shoulders; an exceptional line all lengths. Worth more than double Great Opening Sale— residue of an Eastern manufacturer's Cotton Dresses and Skirts, but which we offer at this 95c french gingham, percale, duck, pique; many made with white India linen catch skirt. Some come in all white colors white, blue, pink, black and white checks and polka. Great Opening Sale 95c quality linen, percale, gingham, duck blue, pink, green, red and mixtures; with wide hem. Some have tailored an exceptional line to more than double the 95c J.S. Graham The Sunday school of the A. M. E. church on Fourteenth avenue picnicked at Green Lake last Wednesday and a general good time was reported. RAPID FIRE , HOUGHTS You can get along in this world if you try. The man who puts heart into his work will always get ahead of it. He who loses hope may then part with anything. After it is all over, what a time Philadelphia will have making up sleep. When a man is complimented, he may not swallow it all, but he thinks there is something in it. Never mind the noise of the incipient Fourth of July celebration. It will all be burned up by the morning of the fifth. It doesn't pay to complain too much. When it becomes a habit, it defeats its own purpose. The czar has dispensed with the services of his uncle, Grand Duke Alexis. This is what comes of being a smart Alec in Russia. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` 1905 714-716 2nd Avenue THE A. M. E. FLAGS FLAGS FLAGS Special Prices on Large Quantities Flags of Foreign Nations, size 2x3 feet, all wool, $1.50 each Union Jack, Irish, Germany, Sweden, and Japan IN THE HEART OF SEATTLE THE STORE THAT SELLS FOR LESS THE BON MARCHE IN THE HEART OF SEATTLE NEW YORK NORDHOFF BEG SEATTLE Flags 24 in Special Prices on Best All Wool U. S. Flags. Size 2½x4 feet; price.....$ 1.50 Size 3x5 feet; price..... 1.65 Size 5x8 feet; price..... 3.50 Size 6x9 feet; price..... 4.50 Size 8x12 feet; price..... 6.95 Size 10x15 feet; price..... 10.00 Size 12x20 feet; price..... 15.00 U. S. Cotton Bunting Flags. Size 4x6 feet.....$0.85 Size 5x8 feet.....1.50 Size 8x12 feet.....3.50 Flags of Foreign Nations, size Union Jack, Irish, German IN THE HEART OF SEATTLE THE STORE THAT THE BON MA NEW YORK — NORTH THIRD AVENUE THEATRE. If you have not been to the Third Avenue Theater this week and seen "The Female Detectives," you have missed the funniest play that has been seen there in a long time. The Taylor Company, already favorites with the patrons, have covered themselves with glory in "The Female Detectives," and won honors that will stand them well in future productions. Starting next Sunday afternoon, they will commence the fifth week of the most successful engagement ever played in a local theater, in the summer season. In "The White Tigress of Japan," Mr. Taylor has given the public a play that the New York Herald says, answers the demand. It is not a super-sensational melo-drama, but a play founded on facts and incidents of the present Russian-Japanese war. Every one who has witnessed the Taylor Company performances, will be anxious to see them in this, Mr. Taylor's greatest play. There will be a special matinee Fourth of July. The things we want most in this world are always those beyond our reach. If we had them we wouldn't be a bit happier. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN FLAGS FLAGS AND DECORATIONS SPECIAL PRICE LIST Flags and Bunting for 4th of July 24 in. American Cotton Bunting, Fast Colors, 5c. Yard es on Large Quantities gs. Cotton Flags on Staffs. Size 2x3 inches, doz..... 5c Size $4\frac{1}{2}x7\frac{1}{2}$ inches, doz...10c Size 7x10$\frac{1}{2}$ inches, doz...15c Size 11x18 inches, each... 5c Size 14x24 inches, each... $7\frac{1}{2}$c Size 20 x36 inches, each...10c Size 4x6 inches, each.....10c Size 8x12 inches, each.....15c Size 12x18 inches, each.....25c Size 16x24 inches, each.....50c Size 24x36 inches, each.....95c s, size 2x3 feet, all wool, $1.50 each h, Germany, Sweden, and Japan MARCHE IN THE HEART OF SEATTLE NORDHOFF B.60 SEATTLE [Image of a woman wearing a large hat with a feather.] Mr. H. P. Lawhorn, of Tacoma, was a Seattle visitor last Monday. Rev. and Mrs. S. S. Freeman returned from Spokane last Tuesday. Rev. Freeman was in Spokane attending the annual session of the grand lodge of Washington and Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Ball have taken quarters, for the present, in the Woodson flats. They hope to soon be under their own vine and fig tree. in this and our shouldn't 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. Silk Flags on Staffs. PERSONAL. Uncle Joe has barrels of money to loan on diamonds, watches and jewelry. Store 517 Second. What do You Think! Listen Here You can do your cooking in the Least Time, with the Least Trouble, for the Least Cost, to the Greatest Satisfaction, with the Ideal Warm Weather Coal. NEW CASTLE LUMP NEW CASTLE NUT The Pacific Coast Co. Foot of Dearborn St. Phones: Exch. 99,-Coal office-Ind 92 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. E. E. Spencer, Cashier. The Canadian Bank of Commerce Head Office, Toronto. Established 1867 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. R. W. BUTLER CONTRACTOR and BUILDER. All work guaranteed and all contracts lived up to. Phone Buff 1267. 2022 Eighth av. Albert Hansen Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Rich Cut Glass, Etc. OF SEATTLE. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1905. Fashionable Finery URBAN'S Ladies' Suits, Cloaks, Jackets and Skirts Exclusive Agency for Henderson's Corsets. Fine Line of Millinery in Stock URBAN'S 1204 Second Av. Seattle Come and see for Yourself BONNEY-WATSON CO. Preparing bodies for shipping a specialty. All orders by telephone or telegraph promptly attended to. Telephone Main 13. John H. McGraw Geo. B. Kittinger John H. McGraw 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 Established 1888 Both Phones 949 Established 1888 E. R. BUTTERWORTH & SONS E R. BUTTERWORTH Mgr Professional Funeral Directors and Embalmers 1921 FIRST AV. SEATTLE Diamond Ice Leaves no slime in the refrigerator, because it is made from distilled artesian water. Moran Bros. Co. Lumber For All Purposes SEATTLE. WASHINGTON. CHEESE YES SIR! HERE'S THE BEER, SIR! RAINIER- THE ONLY BEER, SIR! SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING CO. SEATTLE // WASHINGTON. TELEPHONE RAINIER JD.