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Historical Society SEATTLE REPUBLICAN FRANK H. BROWNELL VOL. XII. NO. 7 POLITICAL POT=PIE The politicians of this state without regard to party will be pleased to learn that Mayor Dune has appointed James Hamilton Lewis, erstwhile politician of this state, corporation counsel of Chicago. "Ham" is always to be found in the ranks of the "reformers" and yet he is always a rabid Democrat. As a campaigner in this state for his own re-election to Congress in 1898 he immortalized himself by juggling statistics in such a manner that the average listener to him almost concluded that figures, after all, did lie, but on sober second thought, the voter made up his mind that figures did not lie, but sometimes the one handling them lied by Gilmore's watch, and on the election day Jim Ham was chosen to stay at home, where he would have time to learn figures better than he seemed to have learned them while in Congress. He is now flying on the municipal ownership kite in Chicago, which landed Mr. Dune into the mayorality chair, he having made an active campaign for Dunne's election, has been rewarded by being put at the head of the law department of that city. Since Mr. Lewis left Seattle he has been more or less tied up as a corporation lawyer and it is quite a surprise to learn that he is now holding an office as an anti-corporation advocate. Is this another case of just anything to get an office? * * * Frank H. Brownell of Everett, has been elected president of the Bar Association of this state, which indicates that he is still being pushed by his friends for public favor. Soon after Sam H. Piles had been elected United States Senator it was given out by Mr. Piles' closest friends that, F. H. Brownell would succeed Will E. Humphrey as representative to Congress at the next general election of this state. The announcement at the time caused wide-spread comment among Mr. Humphrey's friends and no small amount of discussion among the politicians throughout the state. Mr. Humphrey's friends in the meantime got busy and soon they had so completely headed off the Piles-Brownell lineup that, the matter seemed to have died a borning. It is given out, however, now that the selection of Mr. Brownell as president of the State Bar Association was another move in the way of accomplishing that piece of political prophesy on the part of Piles in nominating Brownell instead of Humphrey for Congress. But be that as it may, it can be said without fear of successful contradiction that, in the selection of Frank H. Brownell as president of the State Bar Association, no more brainy young lawyer in the Northwest could have been found or chosen. He, perhaps, has accomplished more as an attorney during the few years he has been a resident of Everett than any other attorney in the state. He has been given employment by the big corporations because he was able to make good in the courts. His success, both as a counsel and an attorney has been just what his clients SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1905 FRANK H. BROWNELL desired and the Pie-maker would not be surprised if sooner or later he does not get what he has been so long looking for, "Frank H. Brownell, M. C." Those penitentiary guards and officials accused of having registered illegally in the late Walla Walla election, managed to crawl out of their very unpleasant dilemma by a technicality. In other words, they seemed to have committed the crime they were charged with only they did not do so in a way that they could be convicted of the act, though they were not to blame for that. If the published newspaper reports of the way the men escaped punishment are correct, they are just as guilty as though they had been tried, convicted, found guilty and sentenced to serve terms in the state prison. It matters not whether the man in charge of the town clerk's office could legally admin- * * * WNELL ister an oath or not, those men who worked at the state prison, when they attempted to, or actually did register, knew they were illegally doing so and with the intention of illegally voting, and they, therefore, in a way, are guilty, and they most assuredly have compromised the state administration, which is responsible for them holding the positions that they are now doing, and it is up to Gov. Mead to purge his administration of any official that is guilty of even trying to break the state laws. He has already called for a report on the matter, and, if the facts prove to be one-half as bad as the gossips, then there should be a wholesale cleaning out of the state penitentiary. How much of it is true the Pie-maker is not prepared to say, but it will be remembered that Deputy Warden Wood was charged with having drawn two salaries while he was a clerk in the senate of the last legislature. Now this false registration charge following so soon after that scandal, which got well aired in --- PRICE FIVE CENTS the daily newspapers, it seems to lend color to the former and as well as to strengthen the latter charge against the man. The friends and acquaintances of J. M. Carson were pained to learn of his death one day last week. Once on a time Mr. Carson was a shining light in the political arena of this city and made strenuous strides toward the political goal. After being active in the political affairs of the Democratic ranks for some time, he was appointed city comptroller by Mayor Ronald, but unfortunately under his administration the Krug shortage happened, and Mr. Carson, like every one else connected with that administration, even to the mayor, was politically ruined. Gov. Rogers gave him the superintendency of the Soldiers' Home, but he did not hold it very many days after the governor died. He made many friends, however, in Orting during his official career at the Home, and after being superceded, he decided to cast his lot at that place. He became a Republican in politics, was elected justice of the peace of Orting district and was a delegate to the last Republican state convention. On the whole, Mr. Carson could be pointed to as a man of splendid qualities and as a man of exceptional abilities. The announcement a few days ago in The Republican, to the effect that Dr. Samuel Burdett had died on his ranch in Benton county, has been verified by a letter from his wife. On the day of the evening in which he died, he had busied himself all day in the hot sun setting up a harvester. He complained at night of not feeling well and by midnight was dead. There was no one present but his wife, and she had to remain with the corpse the balance of the night before she could notify friends. Last fall Dr. Burdette decided to go on a ranch in the Horse Heaven country, which he did. He took up a homestead and began at once to improve it and, it is reported, he worked very hard getting in a big wheat crop in, and was still working very hard to get it harvested, all of which was too taxing on him, as he was a man that weighed over 400 pounds, and his unexpected death was the result. Samuel Burdett was born in Kentucky of Indian and Negro parentage. He joined the United States army when only fourteen years of age and was therefore a veteran of the great Civil war. Army life seemed to have had a fascination for him and he re-enlisted after the fall of the Confederacy. When he permanently left the army he had a record of twenty-four years continuous service to his credit. He was a natural born horseman and succeeded in getting in the veterinary department soon after entering the service. He was a hard student and improved every minute of his time and soon he had completely mastered that profession, and after the Great Civil war, he was named one of the regular U. S. veterinary surgeons in which capacity he, on many occasions, was honorably mentioned by the war department. After retiring from the service he settled in Kansas on a farm. He subsequently moved to Kansas City and went into the contract grading business. Some fourteen years ago THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN he moved to Seattle where he was a conspicuous figure in the affairs of the city until he moved on his ranch last fall. He for years hoped to plant a colony of colored men in Eastern Washington and while Andrew Burleigh was receiver for the Northern Pacific almost realized his desire, but hard times and the early retiring of Burleigh blasted his prospects. He did not stop at disappointments, but worked away at his proposition. Last year he was able to locate a number of homesteaders on lands near his own and he at the time of his death, was still working away trying to induce more Negroes to come to that section and get homesteads. In Seattle he always took a leading part in Republican politics. He was at the head of the A. P. A. organization of this city and organized a Battering Ram, as he called it, in the organization, which wielded for a short time a powerful influence in the political battles then being waged in the Republican ranks by contending political factions. At the Everett convention no delegate there had more to do with the shaping of the convention than he. He was hand in glove with Burleigh, which explains how Burleigh was able to override his opponents with such a high hand. In speaking to the various local politicians many of them spoke in the most kindly terms of him. In this connection it is not out of place to state that the two colored men that gained the greatest public consideration in the political affairs of King county for the past fourteen years, were Dr. Samuel Burdett and Judge Giddeon S. Bailey, and they both have died within the past two weeks. L. A. Inkster, publisher of the Lincoln County Times, has tendered his resignation as postmaster at Davenport, a position he has held since the election of McKinley in 1896. After that election, when three-fourths of the voters and two-thirds of the Republican newspapers went over to free silver, John L. Wilson, then U. S. senator and dispenser of the federal patronage of this state, determined to bestow all such favors on the local newspaper men who remained loyal to the party. The Davenport office went to Mr. Inkster in spite of considerable opposition. There was no preventing it. The publisher of the Wilbur Register was asked repeatedly if he wanted the Wilbur office, but contrary to his reputed monopolistic tendencies, he refused it, and absolutely gave it to one to whom he owed not a single obligation, other than the recipient was a Republican. The Register man might have monopolized the postoffice as completely as other federal sops have been monopolized, but preferred freedom to any obligation to the public, either real or apparent.—Wilbur Register. Senator Piles, it is said, has boasted that it has kept him busy lately dodging calls for delivery of Fourth of July orations. Indeed! "How different it is in the morning." Time was when that gentleman was in persistent monumental pose, to catch the political lightning. The rainbow then had a sack of gold at one end, while the other towered toward heaven. Fourth of July oratory has little promise when a six-years' term has just begun.—State Exchange. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1905 A monument to the memory of the late John Jasper, the noted Negro divine of Richmond, Va., who became famous throughout Christendom on account of an alleged sermont, which he preached for all able to pay the price therefor from the text, The Sun Do Move, has just been unveiled. The admirers of the famous old gentleman, both white and black, raised the necessary money for the erection of the monument by private subscription, and the same was unveiled July Fourth, which was the ninety-third anniversary of Rev. Jasper's birth. * * * Gov. Vardeman, the noted Mississippi anarchist, has just recommended that, the white citizens of Greenwood, the town from whence he hails, use personal violence to prevent a Negro, who has been recently appointed to a clerkship in the postoffice at that place, from exercising his duties in accordance to the instructions from the postoffice department at Washington City, and in an interview to the Associated Press he has the following to say bearing on the point: "I am in hope that the Negro's respect for public opinion will cause him to resign or decline the place. I sincerely hope that the white people of Greenwood will have too much respect for themselves to permit him to hold it. This incident presents an ever-recurring phase of the race problem which must be met and handled prudently, but at all times with unflinching firmness, by the white people of the South. "My observation and close study of the race problem, of the Negro side of it particularly, convinces me that when you give the Negro an inch, he will ge an ell or some other extreme beyond the limit of prudence. This little affair reminds me again of President Roosevelt's profound interest in, affection and great consideration for the general welfare of the white people of the South. Such conduct is calculated to inspire all decent white people of the South with great love for him." Vardeman is an outlaw. He is rebelling against the National government. He should be driven from office and made a Federal convict. \* \* \* In brief, then, the black people of Georgia paid taxes for 1905 on 1,175,291 acres of land, and upon an entire property aggregating $15,188,669, in assessed value. This means, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the Negroes of Georgia, or, broadly speaking, the South, are accumulating property and acquiring homes. And since the Negro with a home is almost sure to stand for law, order and civic faithfulness. It means, moreover, a reaching out toward higher standards of living, not material living alone, but social life, mental and moral striving and achievement.—Watson's Magazine. * * * Berlin has 60,000 telephone connections. It is unlawful in Norway for women or girls to serve in public houses. In Spain street performers on the guitar are licensed, while organ grinders are rigorously suppressed. The pupils of the Mexican schools who have been perfect in their lessons are allowed to smoke cigarettes after the recitations. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1905 TALES OF THE TOWN Mr. Whitham Talks. "While I do not deny having used the language credited to me in The Republican last Friday, yet I am prepared to say that I did not use it in the spirit construed by the editor. I would no more take advantage of a Negro than I would any one else and I can prove that I have shown a number of colored persons favors since I have been in office. I realize that the colored folk of this country have a hard enough time at best to get along and make both ends meet without the officers of the law using their official authority to make their lots worse, and I try not to do so," said John W. Whitham one day this week. The Republican has no desire to unduly censure anyone, but it objects to having the Negro race as a whole bruted about by public officials. Enough of it is done by the ill-bred policemen, who are a million times more ignorant and unrefined than the toughest Negro character that habituates the "social underworld," besides supposed "good people" doing the same thing. S. E. Co. Offers Cheap Light. Before the city put in a lighting plant of its own the Seattle Electric Company declared that it was utterly impossible to furnish Seattle wlth electricity at any lower rate than it was then doing. The completion of the city's lighting plant, however, has put a new light on the situation, and the Seattle Electric Company, one day last week, bid for the lighting of the school buildings of the city and its bid was at least 400 per cent. lower than what it furnished the same service for two years ago, and yet it declared at that time that such could not be done only at a great loss to the company or concern doing so. In saying such, the question is, did the Seattle Electric Company publicly prevaricate then or was it holding up the city and attempting to justify its highway robbery? The Republican is pleased to note that the city lighting plant was awarded the contract for lighting the school buildings of the city and at as low or lower rate than the S. E. Co. offered to do it for. There is no doubt, but that the city's lighting plant, if perfected as it should be in the very near future, will be able to furnish light to the residences of the city at two cents a kilowat hour and make a small profit even at that. In other words, the city plant will be able to light an eight room house for an average of $1.50 per month the year round. The S. E. Co. can do so too, if it will, and when it charges the rate that it has and is doing, then it is simply legally robbing the citizens, and the city council should see to it that such practices be "cut out" or attack the franchise of the company. A Deserved Retribution. "Served them right," seems to be the consensus of opinion all over the city by the citizens in referring to the escapade of H. F. Gibson and Mrs. Mary Mitchell, which resulted in the two being drowned last Friday. Mr. Gibson grossly deceived his wife, who, it is said, was devoted to him and had entertained not a single suspicion of any dup- THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN licity on his part to his marriage vows and she was cajoled into putting up a lunch for two for a day's fishing, the wife believing the companion to be another man, and she did this, notwithstanding the fact that her little baby is not more than a month old. Put up an elegant lunch for a woman with no children and in the best of health and bent on breaking up the home of Mrs. Gibson, which in the past had been a most pleasant one! What a commentary on "woman purity." The deception of Mrs. Mitchell to her husband was a sad one, but was nothing to compare with the trouble and heart pangs she brought on Mrs. Gibson, and therefore the public is perfectly justifiable in declaring the two recreants got just what they deserved. Their lifeless bodies have been found and during most of the week have lain in the same morgue, where they have doubtless been viewed by many, who have turned from them without sympathy or pity over their untimely deaths. Death let the cat out of the bag. Druggist Gibson and Mrs. James Mitchell went fishing together on Lake Washington, near Seattle, the one after lying to his wife, the other without the knowledge of her husband. The boat overturned and both were drowned and thus the whole ugly story came out.—Everett Tribune. The Seattle husband and the Seattle wife who discovered the deceit and probable infidelity of their respective spouses only when the latter met a tragic death while enjoying a clandestine meeting are deserving of the [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. A. H. SOELBERG deepest sympathy. Their's is a double bereavement, for they have lost not only their loved ones, but what must be the cause of more agonizing grief, they have been robbed of the right to mourn them as loved ones. A greater sorrow does not come within the province of human understanding.—Bellingham Reveille. During the month of June there were 74 deaths in Seattle, as against 91 for the corresponding month of 1904. There were 157 births for the month, as against 146 for the corresponding month of 1904. Of the deaths 41 were males and 33 females. Of the births 78 were males and 79 females. Of the deaths there were six violent. Of the births there were 11 still born. There were eight cases of diphtheria, four cases of scarlet fever, 51 of measles. * * * John Z. White, the well-known single tax advocate and lecturer, will be in Seattle next Monday and will begin a series of lectures in various parts of the city on Municipal Ownership. Mr. White is said to be well versed on this subject and will give his hearers much food for thought along this line during his stay in the city. His lectures will be free and the public in general invited. He will open his lectures in South Seattle Monday evening. Tuesday evening he will speak in West Seattle, Wednesday he will speak at the Grocer's picnic, and the balance of the time he is in the city he will doubtless speak each night to such of the local improvement clubs as desire him to do so. The State Bank of Seattle is the latest banking institution to throw open its doors for business. The guiding hand of the new bank is A. H. Soelberg, who for so long was connected with the Scandinavian American Bank of Seattle. It will be housed for the present in the quarters formerly occupied by the Scandinacian American, when Mr. Soelberg managed its affairs. He has associated with him a number of well known business men of Seattle, which will guarantee the success of the new bank from the very start. This gives Seattle sixteen distinct bnaking institutions, to say nothing of a large number of trust companies and other financial institutions. Speaking about the number of banks in Seattle, the following from a comparative statement sent out by John E. Price the first day of July will be of interest: The Seattle Republican 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 Green, it is said, will be the prevailing color for men's wear next fall. Then they will be just as good as they look to be. \* \* \* "Should consumptives marry?" is asked. There should be no objections to them doing so if they marry consumptives, for, perhaps the mixture might bring about a cure. * * * Deceiving your companion, as did Gibson his wife, and Mrs. Mitchell her husband, is deserving of any form of retribution that might befall one or both of them. * * * Out of Spokane's recent big conflagration the fire department, it is reported, managed to save a canary bird. Well done, brave laddies; eat, drink and be merry. * * * Mars has evidently got his work in on Sweden, as it is reported that she will soon attack Norway and thereby begin a big, as well as long drawn out contest at arms. James Hamilton Lewis; from a newspaper standpoint, seems to be the funny man, and yet his funny streak always seems to get for him some nice fat plum. Does it not pay to be funny? When a man will permit himself to be buried alive in a drunken stupor that an accomplice may make money by exhibiting him, he clearly demonstrates that, he is not deserving of life. * * * Speaking of the Fourth of July, an exchange says, "it passed away quietly and peacefully." Are we to understand from the brother, that, the day is dead beyond resurrection? * * * While the penitentiary officials charged with false registration in Walla Walla were found not technically guilty, nevertheless it was no fault of theirs and every mother's son of them should be dismissed. * * * "Not ripe for municipal ownership," cries the advocates of private corporations. Certainly not, and never will be as long as a million of dollars can be extorted from the citizens of Seattle every year by private ownership. \* \* \* The Everett Morning Tribune is the latest daily disciple bidding for public favor. It is the twin sister of the Evening Record of the same town and has for its object the curbing of the Perkin's Press in that section of the state. ```markdown ``` THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Now that all of the summer graduates have been turned loose there will be no further use of this old world of ours worrying over her problems for another whole year as these graduates will be able to unravel all the tangles and mysteries until the next crop of graduates is harvested. *** "Mud slinging" may be a form of newspaper controversy that "the Olympian absolutely refuses to be drawn into," but it is because it got into that kind of business once before and found that the water was too deep for it. The editor of the Olympian is quite an angel in newspaperdom when he is not able to cope. The Negro reporter on the P.-I. got another opportunity to give the members of his race a slap in the face one day last week in reporting the pleading guilty of a Negro boy charged with robbery. The other Negroes of the state and the Northwest would do well to stop reading the P.-I. until it desisted from allowing the Negro race being slandered on every occasion by some dirty little snotty nose Negro reporter. * * * . Capt. John Healy, of very much Alaska fame, has evolved a scheme out of his rather imaginative brain of tunneling the Behring Straits and then building the trans-Siberian railway, whose American terminus will be in Dawson City, Northwest Territory. The proposed tunnel, when completed, if ever, will be forty miles long under the Behring Straits. If it is ever completed it will give an all land route to Europe, a thing the theorist has dreamed of ever since the North American wilds were first discovered. He gives it out that actual work will be begun on the tunnel next year. *** Elihu Root, if reports be true, is to enter President Roosevelt's cabinet for the express purpose of graduating for the presidency, to succeed Mr. Roosevelt, and it is further reported that the President is cognizant of Mr. Root's intentions. If President Roosevelt allows his administration to go in the president making business, it will not end up in that flame of glory that has been predicted of it by the World. If Mr. Root is the man to succeed President Roosevelt, he will be nominated, but the administration should give him to understand in the very outset that he is to be Secretary of State and not a presidential jobber. Could I dip my tongue into the livid lightning and throw my voice into the rolling thunder; could I plant one foot on either pole and see this globe spin round beneath my stride; then could I steal Tacoma's gall and Gabriel's megaphone, I'd howl round this little world, "Ho! Watch Seattle Grow!"— White River Journal. Not Euphonius. "Seattle, 300,000, 1910," looks very fine on paper; but the fifty business men who originated the phrase could not have had an epigram maker among them or they would have turned out something catchy like "Watch Tacoma Grow" or "Throw Me Off at Buffalo." The Seattle phrase lacks euphony.—White River Journal. FRIDAY. JULY 14. 1905 MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Speaking about municipalities owning the various public utilities necessary for the conduct of latter day cities John E. Humphries, who has given this subject much thought and consideration says: "In the next legislature there will be an opportunity to have legislation for the benefit of the people. Under the Constitution of our state, the legislature has been given the right to fix the maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight upon railroads, steamboats and street car lines by all persons and corporations engaged in handling any of the public utilities. The legislature has the right to regulate the charges for the use of telephones. The legislature of Indiana has fixed the maximum charge for telephones in the state of Indiana, at three dollars per month or thirty-six dollars per year. The general telephone charges in the United States are three times the government charges in England and three times the charges permitted by the government of France. The charges for telephone service in Seattle is six times the telephone charges in Trondhjem, Norway; the charges there being $13.25 per year per phone; almost four times the charges for telephones in Stockholm, Sweden, which is $20.00 per year per phone, with the privilege of talking within a radius of 43 miles; almost five times the price of telephones in the Duchy of Luxemberg, where the uniform rate is $16.00 per year per phone, and each subscriber can talk all over the Duchy, 44x30 miles; almost five times the price of telephones in Zurich and other cities in Switzerland where the rate is $15.00 per phone per year; and seven times the rate in Sweden where the yearly charge per phone is $10.00. "In the next legislature, it will be necessary to have legislation regulating telephone charges. They have become a public necessity, and there should be no extra charge for long distance telephonic service within a radius of at least fifty miles. The telephone is now a household necessity. It is as much required in the family of the poor as the family of the rich; and the family of the poor have as much right to enjoy the necessary telephonic service at cost as the family of the rich; and no corporation or individual has the right to make a profit off of the furnishing of the necessary public utilities. The government is for the benefit of the people and the people are entitled to the benefit of the government. You people want to commence a vigorous campaign now and talk and work for reduced telephonic service; the only way you can get it is through the legislature or in the manner hereinafter pointed out to you. JEFFERSON AND JACKSON "Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, if living, would be in favor of municipal ownership of the public utilities; and further they would be in favor of national ownership of the national public utilities. President Jefferson, in 1806, approved the act for the construction of the national road from Cumberland, Maryland, through the state of Virginia, into Ohio. "President Jackson also believed in public ownership, and by his writings and by his votes he was committed to a national improvement policy. He was in favor of a national bank belonging to the government ATTORNEYS! ATTORNEYS!! Many of you are constant Readers of the best and most Independent Weekly published in the State of Washington, THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN And to many of the ideas it from time to time advances, you HEART-ILY SUBSCRIBE. If you have any real interest in the continued promulgation of its ideas, then do something to help it along. A Legal Notice for publication will do some good, and enough of them will do a world of good. The VERY NEXT time you have such a thing remember The Seattle Republican. You will get as good service and be charged NO LESS than the average city weekly charges for the publication of such notices, and at the same time you will be helping a GOOD CAUSE. Do not worry about coming to the office, but call us up by either phone. instead of a corporate bank belonging to a few individuals. He declared himself fully in his first message in 1829, and also in his second and third messages. "By the act of March 17, 1897, the Democratic and Populist parties known as the Fusion party, have committed themselves to municipal ownership by providing for the owning, purchasing and condemning of street car lines and other property for municipal purposes. And the Republican party of the State of Washington, by act of March 11, 1905, committed itself to public ownership of public utilities by re-enacting, with additional powers, the first section of the Fusion act of March 17, 1897. So far as the people of the State of Washington are concerned, all parties, by their legislation, have committed themselves to public ownership of the public utilities." UNCLE SAM'S GRAFTERS Councilman Accused of Graft. The town council of Georgetown, a Seattle suburb, is in a state of excitement over charges preferred by Mrs. Julius Horton, an old pioneer, and a lady of vast property interests in that neck of the woods, against two members of that body. She charges two of the members of the council of having accepted bribes and passed certain measures through the council in consideration therefor. The accused deny the allegation and the agent, who acted as the go-between, also comes to the rescue of the councilmen and declares that the charge is absolutely false. The mayor is investigating the whole affair and some sensational things may be brought out before it has been finally disposed of. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN This seems to be the age of Bribery and Graft, and it seems to be practiced by the leading and most influential citizens to a greater extent than even by the precinct politician, who, perhaps begat the deviltry. But a few days ago the newspaper world was informed that some 65 indictments had been found against twenty-five city officials of a Wisconsin town all of whom had been arrested. Similar sensational news is being daily reported from all sections of the United States in these days of get rich quick methods. A jury has just found United States Senator Mitchell guilty of bribery and graft, and one or two other U. S. senators are now under indictment for similar offenses. Taking all these reports into consideration, the citizens of the United States seem to be developing into a lot of bribers and grafters for the sake of "getting rich quick." In other words, the citizens of the United States seem to be "money mad" and will lie, steal, cheat and even kill to accomplish their nefarious designs. However limited an amount of influence one may have, he turns that influence as much as it will stand, to his pocket in the shape of graft money. It begins to look as if a man goes to the legislature, to the city council, is elected to some public office, not so much for the salary that the job carries with it (for he spends all of that getting elected), as for the sole and only purpose of an opportunity to "get in his graft." A county clerk, who on the surface, seemed to have been scrupulously honest in the con- ATTORNEYS Many of you are best and most Independent in the State of W And to many of the ideas it from ILY SUBSCRIBE. If you have any real interest ideas, then do something to help A Legal Notice for publica of them will do a world of good such a thing remember The Seattle service and be charged NO LI Common Country Disease. Sample of How It Is Done. duct of his office, had his men instructed to buy up county warrants from all holders at reduced rates. The owner of the warrant was officially informed that the warrant would not be paid for some months and by that ruse the buyer managed to get it from the average farmer and poor man for a mere song, when in fact the warrant was actually worth more than its face value. As in this instance so it goes all down the line and one is forced to conclude that, this is truly the age of Bribery and Graft so far as the United States citizenship is concerned. Gov. Folk on Boodlers and Grafters. Speaking along the line of grafters and boodlers, Gov. Folk of the State of Missouri, while addressing a Chautauqua club at Fremont, Nebraska, a few days ago, declared that; "The decay of a state is its failure to enforce its laws. There is nothing to a state but its laws. Its cities, its land and its wealth do not constitute it. Its perpetuity depends on its rigid carrying out of the laws its people make. Graft is so prevalent that it has become conventional. Men who believe themselves honest fall into the way. With the disregard for law the tolerance for graft grew till it was so universal as to not be thought much of. This country's great evil is graft. Graft has a general prevalence. It has been prosecuted. Before the prosecution of grafters began in St. Louis there had been only two or three such prosecutions in the country. In St. Louis the house of delegates for fourteen years past has not passed a single favorable bill for which a price was not paid. The value of votes was fixed." ATTORNEYS!! NEYS!!! constant Readers of the ent Weekly published hington, ne to time advances, you HEART- the continued promulgation of its along. will do some good, and enough The VERY NEXT time you have Republican. You will get as good ```markdown ``` Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Norris entertained at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Cayton last Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John Love, who have been visiting with them for the past week. The house was profusely decorated with the national colors while the porch was decorated with Japanese lanterns. Mr. and Mrs. Love who are music lovers and who respectively perform with marked ability on the violin and the flute, favored those present with a number of choice instrumental selections. They were accompanied on the piano by Miss Emma Houston, who recently returned from St. Mary's Academy, where she had spent much time on the pianofort. Light refreshments were served at 11 o'clock and all present wished Mr. and Mrs. Love a happy return to their Memphis home. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. John Love, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Cayton, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Gayton, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Tutt, Mr. and Mrs. William Gayles, Mrs. S. A. Thorn, Mrs. G. O. Allen, Mrs. J. Edward Hawkins, Mrs. Butler, Miss Emma V. Houston, Miss Johnson, Miss Willie Lee, Miss Ruth Cayton. Thomas F. Ryan, writing to the New York Press from the South, says, among other things: Thomasville, Ga., June 16.—In spite of the efforts of the Federal authorities to stamp it out, the evil of peonage is overspreading the rural South. This fact is not evident to people from the North, who visit only the watering places and the cities of this section, but it is patent to any one who penetrates the farming regions and makes a personal investigation of the subject. Free labor, after forty years of supposed ascendency, is again on trial in the South—not in the cities and manufacturing communities, which are more or less under Northern influences and are in touch with the larger world, but in the country districts, which are a law unto themselves. The whole Southern agricultural system tends to the subjection of the laboring class to the land-holding class. The tenant system, in general use in this section, has that effect. The Negro tenant, without property of his own, and without political rights of any potential character, is little better off than a self. He has no home save on a plantation owned by a white man; and he who lives in a cabin on a plantation must work for the owner of the plantation, if the latter has use for his labor—or else take to the roads. Georgia has recently enacted a stringent vagrant law by which many dissatisfied tenants, who may be seeking better opportunities or juster treatment, are seized under the charge of vagrancy, and through the medium of the courts are being actually sold by the State into the legal slavery of the chain gang or the convict camp, or, by a more devious process, into a condition of peonage. Several States of the South are deriving a handsome, though shameful, revenue from the "lease" of convicts to turpentine and sawmill operators and to phosphate miners. The employment of this enforced labor is found to be so profitable that the rentals of convicts this year in several of the Southern States is considerably in advance of the prices paid in years past. Employers are heard to say frequently that a convict is worth more as a laborer than a free Negro, because a convict can be compelled to work regularly and unremittingly. So much for the legal and open prac ```markdown ``` THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN tice of reducing Negroes convicted of misdemeanors to the conditions of slaves. A more recently employed and more dangerous institution is the practice of employers of labor buying the time and services of men convicted of offenses and fined by the courts; in other words, the holding of Negroes in a state of peonage through the payment of their fines. This practice, it has been said already, is widespread and is growing. Several Southerners interviewed acknowledged that hundreds of cases of this sort exist in the country hereabouts, and some even make no secret of themselves having participated in the business. --- three q it rises above th One of the social events of the past week was the banquet tendered by the Multi-Amici to Miss Alma Jordan Clark, graduate of the Seattle High School, and Mr. Carlos Augustus Kent, graduate of the U. of W. School of Law of the '05 classes, at Madrona Hall, June 30th. The decorations were beautiful and elaborate, ferns and cut flowers prevailing. The school and class colors were arranged with much good taste. Small and narrow ribbon of red and white were attached to the place cards, while the purple and gold, orange and black were arranged with each course. Covers were laid for 30. Mr. S. A. Glass was toastmaster. The following program, which was excellently arranged by Mr. Glass, was given: "Il Trovatoure," Instrumental Song .....Miss Clara Threet "The Pleasures of a Graduate"...... .....Miss Myrtle Womack "Murmuring Sea," Vocal Duet..... Murmuring Sea, Vocal Duet..... Miss Margaret A. O'Brien and Miss Daisy O'Brien. "To Our Graduates"...... .....Mr. Hayden J. Richardson "Spring Time," Vocal Solo ...... .....Miss Barbara Davis After which a paper was read by Miss Octavia Richardson, a junior of the Seattle High School, somewhat of the nature of the history-personnel of the club. The humor and wit which ran through every line proved to be of much merriment and caused continual laughter throughout. It was entitled "Clippings from the Multi-Amician Times." After dinner speeches and toasts to the graduates were of much interest during the dinner. This has been voted that the Multi-Amici has had, without a doubt, the grandest affair of the season. --- tion, pha sen, The ningsen, ants, No directed Notice proceed High Death Rate Among Negroes. New York, May 24.—Statistics that have been gathered by the Charity Organization Society show that the American Negroes are more subject to consumption than any other race of people of which statistics can be secured. The death rate from consumption between the ages of 15 and 44 are for Negroes in the United States 584 per 100,000, and for native born white 162 per 100,000. The reason given for this is the unsanitary conditions under which the Negroes live, improper use of food and alcoholic drinks. Uncle Joe has barrels of money to loan on diamonds, watches and jewelry. Store 517 Second. --- In honor of the great composer Donizetti, a museum is to be erected at Bergamo, his native place. Relatives of the late composer have agreed to furnish the material. Baroness Basoni-Scotti will supply the furniture of the room in which Donizetti died. Aves Island, in the West Indies, has been annexed to the British empire. It is rarely visited and little known. Its total length is three quarters of a mile, and as it rises only about 12 to 14 feet above the sea, it is not noticeable, even by day, until closely approached. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT IN and for the County of King, State of Washington John Henry Schulte, plaintiff, vs. Amelia Schulte, defendant. Summons. The State of Washington to the said Amelia Schulte, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 14th day of July, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff, at his office below stated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this action is to sever the marriage relationship now existing between plaintiff and defendant, and to have plaintiff's property rights determined and adjudicated. P. C. DORMITZER, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address: No. 308 Bailey Bldg., Seattle, Wash. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS. Notice is hereby given that the King County Board of Equalization will be in session three (3) weeks, commencing MONDAY. AUGUST 7, 1905 At the Auditor's Office at the King County Court House, for the purpose of equalizing the tax roll of 1905. All taxpayers claiming abatement of tax are hereby notified to appear on or before SATURDAY. AUGUST 26, 1905 or be forever barred. JAMES P. AGNEW, County Auditor and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners of King County, Washington. Dated at Seattle this 1st day of July, 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 30th day of June, 1905, by the Clerk thereof, in the case of The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, a corporation, plaintiff, vs. Robert M. Henningsen, Thorvald Olsen, Inga M. Henningsen, Thora Olsen, et al., defendants, No. 44894, 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 5th day of August, A. D. 1905, before the front door of the Court House of said King County in the State of Washington, the following described property situated in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: Lots One and Two, in Block Three of the Union Addition to the City of Seattle, State of Washington, together with the appurtenances; And the undivided one-half of Lots Twelve and Thirteen in Block Two of the Re-plat of Twelfth Avenue Addition to the City of Seattle, State of Washington, together with the appurtenances; To satisfy the judgment recovered by the plaintiff in said action, amounting to Thirteen Thousand and Fifty Dollars ($13,050.00), with interest from June 24, 1905, at the rate of eight per cent. per annum, an attorney's fee of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) and the costs of suit. Said Order of Sale is issued upon the foreclosure of two certain deeds declared and established by the decree in said action as mortgages and valid and subsisting liens upon the FRIDAY. JULY 14. 1905 property therein respectively described, and being the property hereinbefore described. It was further adjudged and decreed in said decree that the defendant D. K. Welt held a valid and subsisting mortgage and lien upon the following described property situated in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: Lot Thirteen in Block Two of the Re-plat of Twelfth Avenue Addition to the City of Seattle, and that there is due thereon the sum of Seven Thousand Dollars, with interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, from the first day of February, 1905, and in case of suit an attorney's fee, and that as between the undivided halves of said lot, each undivided one-half thereof is equally subject to said mortgage and bound for the payment thereof. It was further adjudged and decreed in said decree that the Netherlands American Mortgage Bank held a valid and subsisting mortgage and lien upon the following described premises situated in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: Lots Twelve and Thirteen in Block Two of the Re-plat of Twelfth Avenue Addition to the City of Seattle, in the amount of Twenty-two Hundred Dollars with interest thereon from the first day of April, 1905, at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, and in case of suit an attorney's fee, and as between the undivided halves of said lots, each undivided one-half thereof is equally subject to the lien of said mortgage, and bound for the payment thereof: It was further adjudged and decreed in said decree that the defendant, C. Dameyer (as agent for Julia A. Clive, Edward W. Clive, Robert M. Henningsen, Inga M. Henningsen and D. K. Welt) by virtue of a certain written agreement, was authorized and empowered to collect the rents and income of said Lot 13 in Block 2 of the Re-plat of Twelfth Avenue Addition to the City of Seattle, and therefrom to pay the taxes, insurance and other proper charges against said lot, and to apply the balance in payment upon the said mortgage of the defendant D. K. Welt until the indebtedness thereby secured has been reduced to the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, and is entitled to reimburse himself from said rents and income for advances for such taxes, insurance and charges, amounting at the time of the trial of this action to One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, and as between the undived halves of said lot, each undivided one-half thereof is equally subject to the rights and authority of said C. Dameyer as aforesaid. It was further adjudged and decreed in said decree that the sale to be made of said property as aforesaid, be made subject to the said mortgage of the said D. K. Welt and the said mortgage of the said Netherlands American Mortgage Bank, and the said right and authority of the said C. Dameyer as aforesaid. Sheriff of said King County. By EDW. DREW, Deputy. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT IN and for the County of King, State of Washington. Anna Proshkowsky, plaintiff, vs. Joseph Proshkowsky, defendant. Summons. The State of Washington to the said Joseph Proshkowsky, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 14th day of July, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff, at his office below stated, and in case of your failure so to do judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this action is to sever the marriage relationship now existing between plaintiff and defendant, and to restore to plaintiff her malden name. P. C. DORMITZER. Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address: No. 308 Bailey Bldd., Seattle, Wash. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents should be kept in the possession of patents. Patents taken through Munn & receive special notice, without charge, in the FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1905. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF King County, State of Washington. C. P. Whittier, plaintiff, vs. Nellie Whittier, defendant—Summons for Publication. State of Washington to Nellie Whittier, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days from the 5th day of May, 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 attorneys for the plaintiff, at their office below stated; and in case of your failure 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. This action is brought by the plaintiff for the purpose of obtaining a divorce from the defendant upon the ground of abandonment. W. T. SCOTT, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address: Room 404 Marion Blk., Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington for the County of King . Etta Lanyon, Plaintiff, vs. Francis A. Lanyon, Defendant.—No. 47566. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Francis A. Lauxon; said Francis A. Kramer. You are hereby unmonned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 23d day of June, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of said action, as set forth in the complaint, is to obtain a decree of divorce in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant, awarding the care and custody of Alta and Elmer Lanyon, minor children of the plaintiff and defendant, to the plaintiff, together with $10 per week for her and their support. W. L. READ, Plaintiff's Attorney. Offic and Post Office Address: 502 New York Block, Seattle, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF State of Washington, for the County of King. Blanche M. Todd, Plaintiff, vs. Samuel G. Todd, Defendant—No. . . Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Samuel G. Todd, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 26th day of May, A. D. 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The object of the said action, set forth in the complaint, is as follows: To obtain an annulment of marriage and the severance and dissolution of the bonds of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant. J. P. BALL, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 9-10 Starr-Boyd Bldg., Seattle, County of King, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, for the County of King—In Probate. In the matter of the estate of John C. Brautigam, deceased.—No. 3265. Order to Show Cause Why Distribution Should Not Be Made. Z. B. Rawson, administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of the estate of John C. Brautigam, deceased, having filed in this court a petition setting forth that said estate is now in a condition to be closed and is ready for distribution of the residue thereof among the persons entitled by law thereto, and it appearing to the court that said petition sets forth facts sufficient to authorize a distribution of the residue of said estate: It is therefore ordered by the court that all persons interested in the estate of the said John C. Brautigam, deceased, be and appear before the said Superior Court of King County, State of Washington, at the court room of the Probate Department of said Court in the City of Seattle, on the 27th day of July, 1905, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock A. M. of said day, then and there to show cause, if any they have, why an order of distribution should not be made of the residue of said estate among the heirs and persons in said petition mentioned, according to law. It is further ordered that a copy of this order be published once a week for four successive weeks before the said 27th day of July, 1905, in The Seattle Republican, a newspaper printed and published in said King County and of general circulation therein. Done in open court this 27th day of June, 1905. A. W. FRATER, Judge. State of Washington, County of King—ss. I, Otto A. Case, County Clerk of King County, and ex-officio Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for the County of King. do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of an original order to show cause, made by said Court on the 27th day of June, 1905, in the matter of the estate of John C. Brautigam, deceased. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 27th day of June, 1905. OTTO A. CASE, Clerk. By D. K. SICKELS. Deputy Clerk. Acme Publishing Co. 214 COLUMBIA ST. BRIEFS our Specialty Telephones: {Sunset, Red 1971 Independent, 1306 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF King County, State of Washington. James A. Morrison, Plaintiff, vs. May J. Morrison, Defendant. No. 47168. The State of Washington to the said May J. Morrison: 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 26th day of May, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of said action is to secure a decree annualling the bonds of matrimony between plaintiff and defendant. OLIVER C. McGILVRA, Plaintiff's Attorney. P. O. Address: 408 Burke Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF King County, State of Washington. Isabelle Brun, Plaintiff, vs. Emil Brun, Defendant. No. 47206. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to' Emil Brun, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 26th day of May, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court and answer the complaint of the plaintiff therein, and serve a copy of your answer upon the attorneys for the plaintiff at their office below stated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be remembered against you according to the demand of the complaint which has been filed with the clerk of said court. This action is brought by the plaintiff for the purpose of obtaining a decree of divorce from the defendant, dissolving the matrimonial bonds between them upon the grounds of: (1) Of the abandonment and desertion of the plaintiff by the defendant ever since the 15th day of June, 1902. (2) Upon the ground that the defendant has neglected and refused to support the plaintiff and her minor children ever since the 15th day of June, 1902. (3) For the purpose of setting over and awarding to the planitiff as her sole and separate property, ten acres of land described in complaint, together with the buildings thereon, and the household effects therein, the community property of the plaintiff and the defendant. RICHARD WINSOR, E. S. HADLEY. Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and P. O. Address, room 78 Sullivan Bldg., Seattle, Wn. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF The State of Washington, for the County of King, Frederick G. Domoney, Plaintiff, vs. Mary E. Domoney, Defendant. Summons by Publication, No. 47643. The State of Washington, to the said Mary E. Domoney, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 30th day of June, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff, at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The object of the said action is to dissolve the bonds of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant herein, on the ground of abandonment. J. P. BALL. Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. and Office Address: 9-10 Starr-Boyd Block, Seattle, King County, Washington. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF King County, State of Washington. Charles Davis, Plaintiff, vs. Annie M. Davis, Defendant.—No. 47208. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to said Annie M. Davis, 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 26th day of May, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned, attorneys for plaintiff, at their office below stated, and in 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. by furthest be and the date notice, first put June 1 court action plaintiffswer of plaintiffpay the terest to do, in fore and co real amount against and parcel faction found vided b The object of this action is to obtain the dissolution of the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant and for the awarding to plaintiff of the care and custody of Irwin Davis, the minor child of plaintiff and defendant, and for such other relief as to the court may seem fit. SMITH & COLE, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Date of first publication May 27, 1905. Office and Postoffice Address: 408 Boston Block, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington for the County of King. George B. Dunlap, plaintiff, vs. Annie L. Dunlap, defendant. Summons by publication. No. 47387. The state of Washington, to the said Annie L. Dunlap, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 9th day of June, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The object of the said action is to dissolve the bonds of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant herein on the ground of desertion. J. P. BALL, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attorney for Plantiffi Postoffice and office address: 9-10 Starr-Boyd Block, Seattle, County of King, Washington. 78 Sullivan Bldg., Seattle, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF King County, State of Washington. Edward Gardner, plaintiff, vs. Ada Gardner, defendant. No. .... Summons. The State of Washington to the said Ada Gardner: You are hereby summoned to ap year within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 9th day of June, 1905, 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 demands of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of the said court, which action is brought by the plaintiff to secure a divorce from the defendant, upon the grounds of abandonment. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. Postoffice address: No. 315 Pacific Block, Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of first publication, June 9. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF The State of Washington for King County. Frank H. Paul, plaintiff, vs. A. B. Graham and Jane Doe Graham, his wife, George F. Gardner and Jane Doe Gardner, his wife, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property, defendants.—No. .... Notice and Summons. State of Washington to the above named defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, or reputed owners or claimants or holders, of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of six certain delinquent tax certificates, issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 20th day of May, 1905, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following years, in the following amounts, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: West Side Addition to West Seattle: Certificate Lot. Block. Number. Year. Amount. 19 5 B 34251 1900 .....$0.87 20 5 B 34252 1900 ..... .87 21 5 B 34253 1900 ..... .87 22 5 B 34254 1900 ..... .87 23 5 B 34255 1900 ..... .87 24 5 B 34256 1900 ..... .87 That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff upon each of the said above described lots, to-wit: Taxes upon each of said six lots, 35 cents for year 1901; 31 cents for year 1902; 32 cents for year 1903; 20 cents for year 1904. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are here- by further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication, sixty (60) days after June 16, 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 due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and 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. FRANK H PAUL, Plaintiff. KENNETH MACKINTOSH, ERNEST B. HERALD, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office Address, 227-30 Colman Bldg., Seattle, Washington. First publication dated June 16, 1905. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, for King County. Frank H. Paul, plaintiff, vs. Eshelman and Llewellyn, partners; B. P. Cardwell and Jane Doe Cardwell, his wife, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property, defendants.—No. .....Notice and Summons. State of Washington to the above named defendants and each of them: named defenders and caretakers. You and each of you, as owners or reputed owners, or claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of 12 certain delinquent tax certificates, issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 20th day of May, 1905, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following years, in the following amounts, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: West Side Addition to West Seattle: Certificate Lot. Block. Number. Year. Amount. 13 6 B 34257 1899 ..... $0.85 14 6 B 34258 ..... 85 15 6 B 34259 ..... 85 16 6 B 34260 ..... 85 17 6 B 34261 ..... 85 18 6 B 34262 ..... 85 19 6 B 34263 ..... 85 20 6 B 34264 ..... 85 21 6 B 34265 ..... 85 22 6 B 34266 ..... 85 23 6 B 34267 ..... 85 24 6 B 34268 ..... 85 That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff upon each of the said above described lots to wit: Upon each of said twelve lots, 32 cents for year 1903; 20 cents for year 1904. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said 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 date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication, sixty (60) days after the 16th day of June, 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 due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and 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. FRANK H. PAUL. Plaintiff. KENNETH MACKINTOSH, ENREST B. HERALD, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office Address, 227-30 Colman Bldg., Seattle, Washington. First publication dated June 16, 1905. PROBATE NOTICE. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, for the County of King. State of Washington, County of King—ss. In the matter of the estate of John C. Brautigam, Deceased.—No. 3265. Notice of Settlement of Final Account. Notice is hereby given that Z. B. Rawson, Administrator de bonus non with the will annexed of John C. Brautigam, deceased, has rendered to and filed in said Court his final account as such administrator, and that Thursday, the 27th day of July, 1905, at 9:30 o'clock a.m., at the court room of the Probate Department of our said Superior Court, in the City of Seattle, in said King County, has been duly appointed by said Court for the settlement of said account, at which time and place any person interested in said estate may appear and file his exceptions in writing to said account, and contest the same. Witness the Hon. A. W. Frater, Judge of said Superior Court, and the seal of said Court hereto affixed this 27th day of June, 1905. OTTO A. CASE, Clerk. By D. K. SICKELS, Deputy Clerk. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. Frank H. Paul, Plaintiff, vs. Un- known owner and unknown, his wife; George McKittrick and Jane Doe Mc- Kittrick, his wife. And all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the herenafter described real property, Defendants. No. _____. Notice and Summons. State or Washington: 10 to the above named defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners or reputed owners, or claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of 30 certain delinquent tax certificates, issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 22nd day of May, 1905, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the year 1901 in the amount of 84 cents for each certificate, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: West Side Addition to West Seattle: West Side Addition to West Seattle; Certificate Lot. Block. Number. 6 7 B.34269 7 7 B.34270 8 7 B.34271 9 7 B.34272 10 7 B.34273 11 7 B.34274 12 8 B.34275 2 8 B.34276 3 8 B.34277 4 8 B.34278 5 8 B.34279 6 8 B.34280 7 8 B.34281 8 8 B.34282 9 8 B.34283 10 8 B.34284 11 8 B.34285 12 8 B.34286 13 8 B.34287 14 8 B.34288 15 8 B.34289 16 8 B.34290 17 8 B.34291 18 8 B.34292 19 8 B.34293 20 8 B.34294 21 8 B.34295 22 8 B.34296 23 8 B.34297 24 8 B.34298 That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff, upon each of the said above described lots, to-wit: Taxes upon each of said 30 lots ..... $ .32 1902 Taxes upon each of said 30 lots ..... .32 1903 Taxes upon each of said 30 lots ..... .20 1904 Total aggregating ..... $25.20 Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said 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 date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication sixty (60) days after June 16th, 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 attorneys for plaintiff, at his office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein foreclosing the lien of said tapes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sum and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and 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. KENNETH MACKINTOSH, ERNEST B. HERALD, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office address, 227-30 Colman Bldg., Seattle, Washington. First publication dated June 16, 1905. In the Superior Court of the State of Washington, in and for the County of King. Florence Nellie Covert, Plaintiff, against Floyd H. Covert, Defendant. No. _____ SUMMONS. The State of Washington to said Floyd H. Covert, the above named defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the 24th day of June, 1905, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for the plaintiff, at their office below stated, and in case of failure on your part so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court; that plaintiff's cause of action against you as set forth in the complaint is for divorce, founded upon cruel and inhuman treatment and for non-support, for more than one year prior to the commencement of this action. ROSSMAN & JOHNSON, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and postoffice address, 300 and 301 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. PERSONAL Mrs. Ida Revels Redman, sister of Mrs. Susie Revels Cayton, is visiting with her sister and will be in the city some weeks. Mrs. Redman resides in Jackson, Miss., and her husband is one of the best physicians in that city. While in the West she will visit the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The colored people of this city are making preparations for a big picnic and barbecue, to occur at this place August 4—Emancipation Day. An effort is being made to secure Hon. Francis Cushman to deliver an address. Other good speakers will be in attendance.—Cascade (Roslyn) Miner. The funeral of the late Judge Gideon S. Bailey was held from the A. M. E. churhc last Sunday afternoon, which was very largely attended. The funeral, at the request of Mr. Bailey when alive, was preached by the Rev. Power, who was the chaplain of the post to which he belonged and the final rites over the remains were participated in by the G. A. R., the Women's Relief Corps and by the A. F. and A. M., Mr. Bailey having been connected with those organizations for a number of years. Persons having visitors from out of the city will confer a favor on the paper if they will send in their names as a matter of news. KADENKUNG MATERIALS THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Mr. J. E. Hawkins suffered a relapse some ten days ago and was compelled to take to his bed again and the most of the time he has been constantly under Dr. Horton's care. He is much better at present and hopes to be able to be at his office again in the very near future. NEGRO IS PROGRESSIVE. I traveled from the Mississippi river to Seattle by slow stages and kept an eye single to the progress of the Negroes in the various cities, through which I passed, and I am pleased to say that, in every city where I stopped I found the colored man making progress. He is acquiring property and is making nice and comfortable homes for himself. In all of the places I visited, however, I find the colored folk on a whole doing no better, if as well, than those I have met in Seattle. The homes that are owned by the Seattle colored folk are certainly encouraging for the race all over the country. I found a great many more colored folk in most of the places I visited than in Seattle, but no where did I find more progress and more industry than here. To be sure, the most of the Negroes in Seattle and in the West generally originally came from the South, but they have come West and, as it was, taken on new life and are a far different people than when they left their Southern homes. While the South is the natural home of the Negro of this country, nevertheless he is doing equally well in the North 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. TELEPHONE PINK 159. Moran Bros. Co. Manufacture and Sell Lumber For All Purposes SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. YES SIR! HERE'S THE BEER, SIR! RAINIER- THE ONLY BEER, SIR! SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING CO. SEATTLE / / WASHINGTON. TELEPHONE RAINIER 30. and West as in the South, said Mr. John Love, the Memphis mail carrier, that has been spending the past week in Seattle. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. Some time ago Prof. Jesse Lawson said, among other things, if the Bee quotes him correctly, and if it doesn't it is open to correction, that the Catholic church was a good institution to which the colored man should attach himself. At the time this declaration was made many papers throughout the country declared that Prof. Lawson was going crazy, or words to that effect. Recent events will no doubt back Prof. Lawson in this declaration. It can be seen that no Catholic institution in convention has proscribed against the Negro. The Bee is pleased to state that the Catholic church has offered every inducement to the colored race. In this city the Bee speaks from personal observation. There are many Catholics in this city who are doing more for dependent Catholic children than all other denominations combined. There are many Catholic stores, holding out inducements to the colored people, while many other denominations, Presbyterians especially, are declaring that they want no association with the colored race. These are the so-called Christians in this country. The Bee is inclined to the belief that Prof. Lawson is right. The Bee will go further—that he has demon- 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. R. Spencer, Cashier. The Canadian Bank of Commerce Head Office, Toronto. Established 1867 Capital $8,700,000 Surplus $3,500,000 London Office 60 Bombard St New York Office 16 Exchange Place Over 100 Branches in Canada and the United States, including DAWSON CITY, ATLIN, WHITE HORSE, VICTORIA and VANCOUVER in Canada and SAN FRANCISCO, PORTLAND, SEATTLE and SKAGWAY in U. S. Accounts of banks, corporations, firms and individuals received on favorable terms. Drafts, letters of credit and commercial credits issued available in any part of the world. Interest allowed on Time Deposits. Seattle Branch G. V. HOLT, Manager. THE PUGET SOUND NATIONAL BANK Capital stock paid in.....$528,000 Surplus ..... 35,000 Jacob Furth, Pres.; J. S. Goldsmith, Vice- Pres.; R. V. Ankeny, Cash. Correspondence in all the principal cities of the United States and Europe. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SEATTLE, WASH. Paid up capital.....$150,000 LESTER TURNER, President. C. P. MASTERSON, Cashier. MAURICE McMICKEN, Vice- Pres. F. F. PARKHURST, Asst. Cash. A general banking business transacted. Letters of credit sold on all principal cities of the world. Special facilities for collecting on British Columbia, Alaska and all Pacific Northwest points. We have a bank at Cape Nome. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1905 strated more manhood and good common sense than many of those who have rebuked and criticized him. He may be eccentric, but he is always on the side of the Negro, be it right or wrong. Of course, the gentleman needs no defense from the Bee. Probably he would be more gratified if the Bee had permitted this declaration to have passed unnoticed, but, as a public journal, the Bee records one fact in which it believes that he is right. If the Catholic church extends a welcome hand to the oppressed Negro, let him cordially extend his hand. The Bee believes that there are many virtues in the Catholic church, although the editor was christened a Presbyterian. The Colored Presbyterians have no prejudices, and neither do other Negro denominations. Washington (D. C.) Bee. 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