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SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Mayor Ballinger Endorses Riplinger's Candidacy Mayor Ballin "You can say for me that I am for the Republican ticket from top to bottom and that I think it would be a calamity to Seattle and her commercial standing if the Republican nominee for mayor should be defeated. The ensuing two years will be strenuous ones for Seattle from a commercial and growth standpoint and for it to go into experimentalism on something that seems to be an endless chain might mean that some other Puget Sound city would get the prestige in the commercial world that Seattle now enjoys. I trust the voters of Seattle and especially those who have been friendly to my administration as mayor, which is now drawing to a close, will go to the polls next Tuesday and vote for the Republican ticket, not for a part of it, but for the entire ticket and see to it that the Republican nominee for mayor gets just as many votes as the comptroller, the treasurer or any of the other candidates. I repeat, it would be a calamity for the city of Seattle to elect some man as its chief executive, who is attempting to ride into power on a hobby. The Republican platform is sufficiently liberal in its wording to accommodate and satisfy anyone inclined to favor municipal ownership. The platform also takes a firm stand against opening the town to vice and the nominee for mayor in his acceptance for the nomination went a step further and declared that "Seattle would never again be known as either a wide open or a semi-wide open town in case he was elected," and I having tried to pursue that course for the two years that I have been mayor, believe that Seattle should have no other kind of administration, and in view of the fact that the municipal ownership nominee for mayor has remained silent on this point and in view of the fact that the friends of the municipal ownership nominee for mayor have made no bones in stating that he would give --- POLITICAL POT-PIE --- He who first publicly stated at a convention that, "Frank P. Mullen was an diamond in the rough" spoke well and wisely. Since he has been a member of the city council even his fellow councilmen admit that Seattle has gotten more for her money from him than from any other individual member of the council. Not because, perhaps, he gave the city more actual service than any of the other members, but because Seattle during the four years he has been in the council --- SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1906 [Name not visible in the image] RICHARD A. BALLINGER, MAYOR. the city a wide open policy and he as yet neither affirming nor denying it, it does seem to me that the citizen would be taking a long chance in the wrong direction to elect such a man mayor of this city. Mr. Riplinger is a most commendable gentleman and I believe he will give the city just such an administration as he said he would do in his letter of acceptance and such an administration as he has repeatedly said he would give if elected since the has been in the midst of the greatest building period in her history. New streets have been opened up, regrades on old streets have been begun and in short millions of dollars have been expended in improvements. Mr. Mullen has been chairman of the street committee for the past four years and the bulk of all this work has fallen on his shoulders and there is not a man in Seattle, even to the nominee that is opposing him on the other ticket who can successfully say anything against him as to that work. There is still much more such public work to be done and Frank P. Mullen should be returned to the council to complete his work, which will be done before another four year term expires. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 29 1952 BLICAN 06 PRICE TEN CENTS r's Candidacy campaign has been opened. This is a Republican town and so long as the Republican party nominates good men I see no reason, excuse or justification for not electing them and if I can say or do anything that will assist the party along that line I am ready and willing to do so." Thus said Mayor R. A. Ballinger to The Seattle Republican. one day this week. The Seattle Republican desires to call the attention of its readers to the proposition of voting for the $500,-000 bonds for the park system of this city at the next general election. This measure has been endorsed by all of the political parties that have nominated candidates to be voted for at the next election and if it fails at all it will be because the voters will overlook the various amendments that are to be voted upon at the next general election not thinking them of sufficient importance to vote either for or against them. That it will be a mistake not to vote for these park bonds goes without saying, for no city can be made a beautiful city without having plenty of parks and playgrounds within its corporate limits to amply accommodate, not only the children, but as many of the older folk as desire to visit them either for recreation or amusement. It is quite true that the city already has a number of parks, but it has not half as many as it needs and the parks it already has are sadly in need of beautification, which should be done at an early date, but which cannot be done unless the bonds are voted at the coming election. The Republican platform was quite clear on this point and it is hoped that you and each of you will carefully go over the various amendments of the city charter and vote for as many of them as you think best, but by all means vote for the park bonds. No specific class of voters are more deserving of political recognition than the Grand Army men and when a member of their ranks is recognized by a party who stands as well in a community as does F. H. Hurd in this city, then such Grand Army candidate should not only get the entire party vote, but he should get the vote of every loyal and patriotic citizen. F. H. Hurd has been doing business in Seattle for the past sixteen years and in the commercial world his name is the synonym of a square deal. His word is his bond in the business world, and among his old soldier comrades he is considered one of God's noblemen. Representative Will E. Humphries in congress learned of Mr. Hurd's nomination and --- [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie and mustache]. unsolicited he wrote congratulating him in the following strain: House of Representatives, Washington, February 22, 1906. Hon. F. H. Hurd, Seattle, Wash. Dear Friend:— I am in receipt of the paper this morning giving an account of the convention, and I notice with great pleasure that you have been nominated for councilman at large. Accept my most sincere congratulations. There never has been a time in the history of Seattle when men of courage, honesty and ability were so needed in our city council, and I congratulate you and my party upon giving you this nomination. I know that if elected, as you will be, that you will discharge your duty in a way that will reflect credit upon our city and upon yourself. With best wishes, I am your friend, W. E. HUMPHREY. Councilman H. C. Gill has been the subject of so much abuse from time to time and the Seattle Daily Liar, having howled itself hoarse so many times on it that a great many persons really had begun to believe that Gill was very unpopular, but he was renominated without a dissenting vote and when his name was read to the city convention as the nominee for council from the Third ward the applause was simply deafening. Mr. Gill should get the Republican vote of his ward, because no man in the council has served his constituents more faithfully as well as successfully than he, and small favors should never be overlooked. It would seem that the voters were as mad as March hares if they should elect a man who makes as many crazy utterances as does Kulies over H. C. Gill, and The Seattle Republican does not believe they will do so. All of the proposed amendments to the city charter should be voted for excepting amendment No. 8, which is the recall amendment. This is the work of a few scheming politicians who never accomplish anything themselves and are jealous of any one who does. It matters not how well a councilman does it would always be possible for some sorehead to get fifteen per cent. of the voters to sign a recall petition and if the same man should be re-elected the same lot of disgruntled malcontents could again demand his recall and thus go on and on with such deviltry until the whole usefulness of THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN the councilman would be destroyed. We have never met a more vicious, as well as dangerous, proposed piece of legislation than this proposed recall amendment, and every good citizen should take special delight in voting no so pronouncedly that it would never be talked of again. It is a corporation measure pure and simple. That you may not get into deep water in trying to vote a mixed ticket next Tuesday you are advised to vote her straight. The Republican ticket will be seen below, and you can make an X after each person you desire to vote for, but if you desire to do the job quickly and snugly place an X after Republican ticket and the deed is done. It is said that the defeated candidates for the nomination of councilman in the Eleventh ward are sulking in their tents and are not giving George W. Hill the support that he deserves. The Seattle Republican hardly believes the statement for it cannot see how a Republican could be so politically insignificant as that. The game of politics is always an uncertain one and the fellow who goes into it and cannot take the bitter with the sweets had better keep out of the game. Mr. Hill, standing as well as he does in the community, is deserving of every Republican vote in the ward, and unless he gets them those Republicans who work against him will be sewing seeds of discord in the party which they themselves may have to harvest some time in the future. Start your ward off right, fellows, and it will stay right. After having served Levi Ankeny well and faithfully, when his services meant something, J. L. Mohundro has been thrown overboard by Senator Levi Ankeny and another recommended for the receivership of the U. S. land office at Walla Walla instead of Mohundro. It is an open secret that had not Mohundro and his immediate friends stood behind Ankeny like a stone wall during all the years Ankeny was trying to be United States senator he would never have succeeded. The same might be said of a dozen other influential politicians, and it was their united efforts that finally landed their man in the senate, and it seems rather cold blooded as well as heartless on the part of Senator Ankeny to desert a friend who was his friend when in need for a man who, perhaps, scarcely raised his hands to assit his candidacy. Such a turn down may be the fortunes of political war, but it looks a [Name] J. L. MOHUNDEO. FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1906 1 good deal like the rebuke of an ungrateful politician. The Seattle Republican is dying to say to J. L. Mohundro, "I told you so," but that might be unkind at this time, and it is therefore withheld for future use. The P.-I. says Charles S. Gleason, the well known attorney and politician, will be ap- UNTIL JANUARY 15 25°. Discount On all Cut Glass, European Art Goods and Imported Electric Lamps ALBERT HANSEN JEWELER AND SILVERSMITH Established 1883 706 FIRST AVE. THE UNION SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY OF SEATTLE IN THE UNION THERE IS STRENGTH Cor. Second Ave. and Cherry St. Hoge Building Seattle, Wash. We Pay 4 Per Interest JAMES. D. MOGE, Pres. . B. SOLNER, Cashier Agents for Alaska Banking and Safe Deposit Co. Nome, Alaska RESULTS That's what the ACME BUSINESS COLLEGE is working for That is what we get—Results. Mr. Eugene Harris, now engaged in court reporting and lang office work in Walla Walla, came to the Acme a few years ago to study shorthand. Now he is in ar esponsible position, with good pay. Recently he said to afriend: "All my success I owe to the Acme Business College." Not all. The Acme furnished the instruction; he furnished brains—and work. If you will work we can set you on the road to success. McLaren & Thomson's Acme Business College P.-I. Building, Seattle pointed to codify the ordinances of Seattle. Mr. Gleason is said to be a most efficient man to do such work and his appointment from a political standpoint will meet general approval. If any member of the city council has done his duty and his whole duty for the past two years it has been Arnold Zbinden, and he should receive a greater majority at the polls next Tuesday than he did two years ago. The Seattle Republican makes the following forecast of next Tuesday's election results: Riplinger will defeat Moore 2,000 votes. The balance of the Republican nominees will receive pluralities ranging from 4,000 to 5,000. As to ward councilmen every Republican nominee will be elected, but in the First and Eleventh the pluralities will be greatly reduced. Vote for all of the proposed amendments to the charter of Seattle except the eighth and last. Do not monkey with it, for it is loaded and liable to unexpectedly go off and do lots of damage. W. D. McCarthy, a well known Seattle merchant, died of apoplexy at the Catholic hospital last Wednesday night. He was the * * * IN MEMORY OF LINCOLN. Some of us know, any one of us may know, I believe, that God is love; we recognize Him as the Creator and ruler of the universe; we know that He holds the destiny of nations in His hands. That He who came to preach the Gospel of peace and good will to men, said that even a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without the notice of our Heavenly Father. Why this nation should have received its infant baptism in blood, that man might worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, it is not given to us to know; why in the days of its young manhood it should have been scourged by a fratracidal war that men and women might be free, we cannot tell. We do not know how and when the revelation came to Abraham Lincoln that he was being led up from the humble and obscure home of his boyhood through the sweat and grime of the labor of his early manhood, always brave, always honest, always true, up to where he could see "that this nation could not long endure, half slave half free," up to the highest place within the gift of the people to be the great captain of the army and navy, which he called from the homes of the loyal men of the North. Nor is it given us to know why it was that Lincoln, having nearly finished his great work for the restoration of the Union, could not have had one look at the land he loved, with Old Glory floating over the homse of the men who wore the blue, over the men who wore the gray. It was good to have lived in that day, when the loyal legions of the North sang as they marched to the front at the call of President Lincoln, "We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more." It was good in those days to have been a mother, wife, sister, sweetheart, that buckled the ar- THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN of Seattle. Resident man agent from general ap- council has ply for the Zbinden, majority at which did two the follow- rection re- quire 2,000 man nomi- ning from councilmen elected, the plurali- endments the eighth for it is to off and in Seattle Catholic was the leading spirit of the firm of this city. The Chinese High Seattle last Wednesday tendered a banquet to Washington. It is the missioners in visiting adjust many different States government a- ment, which, if allow lead to international open trouble. The Washington City over Seven new clerks f will, so says the post- gested mail condition office. Seattle is a point, and it requires handle the mails. A Sunday school c Sound A. M. E. Conf- Lee’s Chapel on Four week. A number of o parts of the diocese a church, under the pa- hoo, gave a reception evening for the visit and literary program ing spirit of the McCarthy Dry Creek of this city. Chinese High Commission arrived last Wednesday morning and held a banquet the same evening at Bangton. It is the object of the visitors in visiting the United States, many differences between the U.S. government and their own government, which, if allowed to drag on, may international complications and trouble. The commission will go Bangton City over the Great Northern. In new clerks for the Seattle post, says the postmaster, relieve the mail condition now prevailing in Seattle is a great mail distribution and it requires a great many clerks to the mails. Sunday school convention of the L.A. M. E. Conference is being held Chapel on Fourteenth Avenue. A number of delegates from different dioceses are present. The conference under the pastorate of Rev. H. have a reception at the church Tuesday for the visitor, at which a musical program was rendered. leading spirit of the McCarthy Dry Goods firm of this city. The Chinese High Commission arrived in Seattle last Wednesday morning and was tendered a banquet the same evening at the Washington. It is the object of the commissioners in visiting the United States to adjust many differences between the United States government and their own government, which, if allowed to drag on, might lead to international complications and even open trouble. The commission will go to Washington City over the Great Northern. Seven new clerks for the Seattle postoffice will, so says the postmaster, relieve the congested mail condition now prevailing in that office. Seattle is a great mail distributing point, and it requires a great many clerks to handle the mails. A Sunday school convention of the Puget Sound A. M. E. Conference is being held at Lee's Chapel on Fourteenth Avenue this week. A number of delegates from different parts of the diocese are present. The home church, under the pastorate of Rev. Donohoo, gave a reception at the church Tuesday evening for the visitor, at which a musical and literary program was rendered. mor on their loved ones and bade them "On to the fray," while weeping they remained at home to pray. Those who looked into the face of Lincoln and listened to his words know more of him than can be learned from the books. Nearly half a century has passed and his words have gone from our memory, but his face, as we saw it then we see today, no painting, no picture, conveys fully to our minds the face of the one in whose memory we meet today. The news of his death came to me while in camp, five thousand mounted men resting for a day. I went with others to meet a flag of truce. We were told that the news had come by way of Richmond that our President had been assassinated. Returning to camp in sorrow that cannot be expressed, quietly as strong men would tell their fellows of the loss of a loved one, they were told that Lincoln was dead. There were no demonstrations of sorrow that can be held up to the public gaze. There were no cries for vengeance then, quietly the men went to their tents, a great sorrow brooded over that tented fold. I may say to you that strong men wept that day. Some one said, "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I will repay." WHEN THE CZAR PROPOSED. At Walton-on-Thames, says the Royal Magazine, the czar met the lady whom he wished to make his wife, and he had obtained her father's consent to the match, but it still remained for him to make his proposal to the girl herself. But the sacred words had to be uttered in the old formula which Russian court etiquette prescribed for such occasions. Seating himself beside the girl, he took her hand in his. ```markdown ``` --- Commission arrived in day morning and was the same evening at the object of the commission the United States to ties between the United and their own governed to drag on, might complications and even commission will go to the Great Northern. For the Seattle postoffice master, relieve the connow prevailing in that great mail distributing great many clerks to Convention of the Puget conference is being held at eighteenth Avenue this delegates from different present. The home pastorate of Rev. Dono-at the church Tuesday at which a musical was rendered. "The emperor, my father," he said, "has commanded me to make you the offer or my hand and heart." "My grandmother, the queen," she replied, her eyes twinkling with mischief, "has commanded me to accept the offer of your hand." Then she broke into a merry laugh. "Your heart," she added, "I take of my own accord." SHORT SERMONS BOILED DOWN. Fear is a poor kind of foresight. Love lasts long after pity is worn out. Little duties are a school for larger ones. A little modesty often hides a lot of vanity. He rejects all rewards who reuses moral responsibility. The logic of love convinces more than the love of logic. A golden heart is not gained by setting the heart on gold. Many a man is breaking his back under a bag of shadows. The judge may not ask what you have done, but why you did it. There is a remedy for ignorance, but none for knowing too much. Morals to many mean only a chance to meddle in other people's affairs. Main 305 OFFICE 214 CO SEATTLE R Main 305 IND. 1306 OFFICE 214 COLUMBIA STREET SEATTLE REPUBLICAN PULISHES LEGAL NOTICES * * * * * * * * * THE TICKET. Mayor, JOHN RIPLINGER. Corporation Counsel, SCOTT CALHOUN. Comptroller, H. W. CARROLL. Treasurer, GEORGE F. RUSSELL. Councilmen-at-Large, P. MULLEN and F. H. HURD. Ward Councilmen. JAMES CONWAY H. L. JAFFE H. C. GILL FRANCIS SAWYER ELLIS MORRISON ARNOLD ZBINDEN T. P. REVELLE DR. J. E. CRICHTON WILLIAM H. MURPHY R. T. REYNOLDS G. W. HILL The man who carries a family Bible under his arm may carry none in his heart. The man who always has the sins of others before him puts his own in his pocket. People who try to get billed to riches on the short line find themselves routed through to ruin. A fair exchange is no robbery, even when a man trades his money for experience. * * * The great trouble with good intentions is that they are often too good to be true. * * * The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else. * * * A soft answer seldom turneth away graft. * * * Life is too short to long for what we can't get. * * * The wages of sin often come without working. * * * The power behind the throne is seldom invested in the pow-wower. IND. 1306 COLUMBIA STREET REPUBLICAN SHES Established May, 1892 H. R. Cayton.....Editor and Publisher Susie Revels Cayton.....Associate SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... .60 Published every Friday at 214 Columbia St. Entered at the Postoffice at Seattle as Second-class Mail Matter. Lent. The tale is told. Now will you be good? Single copies The Seattle Republican ten cents. Next Tuesday is election day and you are not a Republican unless you vote the Republican ticket. Among the Anglo-Saxons of this country the late Paul Laurence Dunbar is pronounced the greatest Negro poet that ever wrote and ranked high up among the world's greatest poets. Dunbar died almost in his first manhood and his death is a sad blow to the race. In voting for a railroad corporation attorney of the order of W. H. Moore the advocate of municipal ownership will not have advanced his cause very much. John Ripplinger is stronger for municipal ownership today than is Bill Moore. Another "wide open" two years for Seattle is what William Hickman Moore proposes to administer to the citizens if he is elected. We do not want it. And we can prevent it by voting for John Riplinger and the Republican ticket and by the Great Eternal we will do so. A good many things are wanted of Congress just now, among which might be mentioned a railroad rate bill, a pure food law bill, a Chinese modification of the exclusion laws and many other things too numerous to mention, but the public need not expect any of these things so long as the railroad attorney members continue to run Congress. Councilman Zbinden is pursuing the proper course in laying plans to have the water funds take care of the cost of laying street mains instead of the same being taxed up against the abutting property. If the water plant is the howling success that it is reported to be then it should be wholly self sustaining. Apparently the Post-Intelligencer has adopted a new policy in handling news about Negroes and in future it will publish news matters of merit about the Negro the same as it does its shortcomings. The first metropolitan daily that gives the Negro a square deal from a news standpoint, that daily the Negroes all over the state should give their undivided support and patronage. --- THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Luke Wright, he of Philippine fame, will soon sail from Seattle to Japan, his new post of duty, and public preparations are being made to entertain him while in the city. Just why any Northern man would be found doffing his hat to a Southern border outlaw to us passeth all understanding and we are at an equal loss to know how President Roosevelt can appoint them to high offices. Of course it was an oversight on the part of the Island County Times in not giving The Seattle Republican credit for that editorial squib: "Journalism is said to be the destroyer of literature, etc.," but it's an oversight that we do not appreciate. If the article was good enough to reproduce it was good enough to give the proper credit. The Seattle Republican writes its editorials and does not swipe them. Gov. Mead has doubtless become alarmed at his pardoning record of criminals and he therefore turns down Kid White's petition for a commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment with a dull thud. If the legal hanging of any murderer is productive of any good results we have never heard of or known of a more deserving subject on which to operate than Kid White. However, we do not believe the legal hanging of a human being does any good toward deterring other degenerates from committing similar crimes save to satisfy the law's criminal's lust for blood like unto that spilt by the degenerate. There are no more murderers committed in the state of Kansas, yea not a tenth as many, as are committed in the State of Washington, and yet there has not been a legal hanging in the State of Kansas for more than a quarter of a century, while periodically some one is hanged as high as hayman in the State of Washington. The depraved human being does not give a rap as to what will happen to him if detected when bent on hellish deeds and if captured after the deed is done death itself would be far more preferable than life imprisonment. Hanging human beings is a relic of barbarism and a form of border outlawry that has no higher aim than to do something equally as mean to the murderer as the murderer has done to the deceased. It seems to us that if the legislature would pass an act fixing life imprisonment for persons found guilty of murder in the first degree and that it would be unlawful for any governor to pardon any such criminal unless it afterwards developed that the person was not guilty of the crime that it would be a splendid solution of this hanging question. IT IS THE SUNDAY FORUM. According to a prearranged programme a number of citizens met at Lee's Chapel last Sunday afternoon, February 23rd, and effected a permanent organization, which was subsequently styled the Sunday Forum, which organization is to meet alternately the second and fourth Sundays in each month. After the object of the meeting had been stated a number of those present were called upon for expressions as to the advisability of attempting such an organization. The idea met the unanimous approval of all pres- FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1906 ent and those who spoke promised their undivided support for its success. All agreed that there was a sad lacking of unanimity among the Negroes of this city, in the struggle for the goal of success and that this movement seemed to be a move along the line that would fill a long felt want. Many present on this occasion were quite conversant with similar organizations in other places and especially in Chicago, many of which organized with not to exceed a dozen members, but grew in a comparatively short time, to large organizations, and they had been the means of greatly advancing the Negroes in their immediate vicinities. That there is much for such an organization in Seattle to do is a fact too well established to be recounted at this time. No commercial or industrial enterprise, which is directly dependent on the public for its support, gives the colored population of this city any consideration in the way of employing any of the members of the race and that too despite the fact they may be spending thousands of dollars per annum with such an enterprise. As was pointed out by Mr. Peoples, the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company of this city is patronized by Negroes in the way of 'phone rentals about five thousand dollars per annum and yet that company has never given a single colored man or woman a day's employment, and it is more than likely that if some colored person should make application for a place either as an operator or for work in some of the mechanical departments of the concern such person would be looked upon as being out of their right mind and an officer would be called to take charge of them, but if the Sunday Forum had the confidence of the colored people and a committee from it be instructed to take this matter up and say to the company, "give some members of the Negro race employment in your establishment or their patronage will be withdrawn," there is no doubt but that places would be found for them forthwith if not sooner. So long as the Negro of any community is satisfied with only the goods the gods provide just so long will he be fed on the husks instead of the golden grains. The next meeting of the Sunday Forum will be held at Lee's Chapel the second Sunday (10th) in March, at which time a splendid programme will be rendered. The general topic of discussion for that occasion will be "Does the Negro better his condition by leaving the South and settling in the West?" The chief speaker will be Mr. I. F. Norris, whose remarks will be followed by a general discussion of the subject by as many present as desire to participate in the same and it is hoped that a great majority of them will do so. The program will be interspersed with musical selections, both vocal and instrumental. The meeting will be called to order at 3 o'clock p. m. and it is hoped that those expected to attend will be on hand at the opening. The next meeting will be held the fourth Sunday (24th) in March, for which a most excellent musical programme is being arranged. On that occasion the topic for discussion will be: "Are there possibilities for the American Negro in the Philippine Islands superior to those in the States." The principal speaker for that occasion will be Mr. C. C. Hancock, who spent two years in the islands in the government service. FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1906. IS IT A SELF-CONSTITUTED COMMITTEE? Who besides the members of the committee whose names are attached to the circular letter make up the Business and Professional Men's Club of this city, who are promising to take the business of the Sunset Telephone Company and give it to the Independent? Is it not presumption on their part even if there be such an organization to make such rash promises, granted the Sunset Telephone system is very bad? Is it not a fact that because it has more 'phones than its plant can accommodate that its service is bad? Now if all of the 'phones that this club has promised to take from the Sunset Company and deliver to the Independent Company is done will not the Independent Company be likewise overburdened just as is the Sunset at present? If we are not mistaken the Independent put in a plant to accommodate twelve thousand 'phones. It already has eleven thousand, so says its manager, and it cannot accommodate but one thousand more without drifting into the same condition as is the Sunset. It will require at least fourteen months for the Independent to make sufficient improvements in its plant to give to the public as good service as it has been giving providing it would get all of the 'phones that this Business and Professional Men's Club say it will give to it by the first of August. In the opinion of The Seattle Republican this committee is the whole of the Business and Professional Men's Club and they have no authority to threaten to deliver to the Independent any 'phones save their own and it is barely possible that the Independent already has each member of that committee as a subscriber to its system. Both systems charge too high for the rental of their 'phones and it is the duty of the city council to regulate them. Under the franchise granted to the Independent Co. it cannot charge but $4.00 for business 'phones and yet it is charging $4.00 per month for a business 'phone and $1.00 per month for each and every extension from the same business 'phone. This is clearly a violation of the spirit and letter of the franchise. The company has no right to charge under its franchise anything for its extension save and except for the installation of such extensions, which should not exceed $5.00 in cost. WHAT DOES THE FLAG MEAN? Bishop H. M. Turner, a Negro church dignitary said to an audience of Negroes in Georgia the other day, that the American flag is "a contemptible rag," and from newspaper writers all over the land have come indignant protests, that have consigned the colored brother to a climate warmer than Georgia. It does look a little mean for the bishop to speak so slightlyly of the flag we have been taught to look upon as the emblem of all that is grand and great; as the badge of freedom; as the guarantee of equal rights; as the pledge of justice. As to what the Negro was or is, as a race, as to what the white man has done for him individually or collectively, doesn't alter the fact that the Negro has ground for complaint. We expect every American, white or black, to love the stars and stripes, to salute it THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN with eloquent reverence; to applaud it; to die for it. But we never stop to think that "Old Glory" our "proud banner of the free" may mean very different things to very different people, born and reared under its folds. The American flag is the official badge of the American republic, and means to each individual citizen just what the country means, just what life means on the soil where it waves supreme. To the waif, born in a garret, starved in the streets, frozen in his bed in empty boxes and partly sheltered cellarways, the flag means want, and hunger, and cold; it means rags and filth, kicks an cuffs and hard knocks, it means lack of everything that makes life worth living; it means anything and everything but comfort and plenty and ease, because under its shadows everything but comfort, everything but ease, and joy and happiness has come to him and been a part of his existence. Can a flag, or a country or a principle, or a sentiment awaken any feeling of gladness, any enthusiasm, any hope, any ambition, any patriotism, in the heart or brain of a being so physically and mentally starved? To that man born in the midst of plenty, reared in comfort, surrounded by luxuries, a stranger to hardships and anxieties; where God's sunshine gladdens the day; where pure air and nature's music and perfumes beautify the night; where the brain never hungers and the vitals never gnaw, where every sense is gladdened with the sweet and tender touches of love, of kindred and kindly fortune; to such an one the flag represents home, and friends, and music, and pictures, and feasts, and pleasures. It represents past ambitions gratified, and glorious promises for the future; it represents the comforts and blessings that refine and ennoble; it stands for days of pleasure and nights of rest and repose. In the folds of the flag to such an one there is warmth, and love, and joy. Does it seem possible to you that the great American flag of this great American republic can have for two people such extremes of meaning? So long as under its waving glories such extremes exist, why not? The representative of a race of people to whom the constitution promises and the flag guarantees, "Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws," may be excused for protesting when he looks on the graves of the thousands of his brothers who have been denied that protection of the flag and the right it guarantees, and who have been ushered into eternity without "due process of law;" when he looks over the black record of Judge Lynch's court during the past fifteen years the Negro may be excused for speaking bitterly of the flag of his country that has failed so utterly to keep faith with him and his people. The American people are a long-suffering people. For years they sturggled against the growing belief that our courts, from the superior courts of our countries to the supreme court of the United States were becoming more and more the tools of the rich, until today, in the minds of millions of the people it is a settled conviction. So the people are today struggling to continue steadfast in their reverence for the flag, which year by year is creeping away from them, as the land over which it waves becomes less the land of the people and more the land of the trusts and the extremely rich. Many readers will remember the response in '98 to the call for "defenders of the flag." From every walk in life they came, but here's a little incident that may have escaped many. At the charge of San Juan Hill a young Rough Rider, Hamilton Fish by name, the son of a New York multi-millionaire, was killed. How many others died in that charge let the war records tell, but hundreds, yes thousands of columns in the newspapers of the United States at that time told the story of how nobly this young millionaire died. Well why not? He was defending a flag that had given him riches, opportunity, luxury, everything that the young an ambitious could demand. Another brave boy from the workshop, or the mine, or the field, or from the unnumbered without an avocation, fought with him as bravely, and died with him as nobly, but in defense of a flag that brought him drudgery and want, and unsatisfied hopes and ambitions, and held out to him no promise but a hopeless struggle against insurmountable odds; yet he died as "private of Co. —, regiment. Each had a life to give and each gave it nobly; one in defence of a prize, one defending a blanck; one with much incentive, the other with none. It is no new thing for men to speak slightly of the Stars and Stripes. Some older readers will remember the "Ablolitionist" poem published in the New York Tribune in 1854, when the anti-slavery agitation was hottest. It begins: "All hail the flaunting lie—" In that poem occurs such phrases as: "Hate's polluted flag;"" "Furl, furl the boasted lie,' etc. No one will accuse the New York Tribune under Horace Greely of being disloyal; no one will accuse the old Abolitionist of a lack of patriotism, but many hint that they were over-zealous. There are proofs innumerable, everywhere, that the American flag does not look the same; does not mean the same; does not represent the same ideas in the minds of all men who live and die under its jurisdiction, nor does it mean the same thing at all times to the same individual, for these Abolitionists seven years afterward were the first to take up arms to defend the flag they once so bitterly denounced. Would that every man in the United States could look up to the flag of his country and say: "Hail, glorious emblem of my liberties, really mine; mighty guarantee of the perfect equality which I enjoy; pledge of absolute justice of which no man dare deprive me; token of plenty as a recompense for my toil; promise of protection from foes without and within, I love thee." Would that all could so speak and so feel from hearts won by the fulfillment of promises the flag has made to them.—The Winlock Pilot. Proposed Charter Amendments for the City of Seattle A resolution and proposition to amend section 9 of article IV of the city charter and providing for the submission of such proposed amendment to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle at the next general election. Be it resolved by the city council of the city of Seattle as follows: That section 9 of article IV. of the city charter of the city of Seattle be amended so as to read as follows: "Section 9. The council shall meet upon the first and third Mondays of each month, or if lether of those days be a legal holiday, then upon the next day, not a legal holiday, thereafter, and all its sessions shall be public, and it shall not adjourn to any other place than its regular place of meeting. The mayor, or in his absence or disability, the president of the council, or any three councilmen, may call a special meeting of the city council." And be it further resolved, that the foregoing amendment be and the same is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle for their ratification or rejection at the next general election to be held the 6th day of March, 1906. Passed the city council the 2nd day of January, 1906, and signed by me in authentication of its passage this 2nd day of January, 1906. H. C. GILL. President of the City Council. Filed by me this 2nd day of January, 1906. JNO. RIPLINGER. City Comptroller and ex-Officio City Clerk. First publication January 19th First publication January 19th. RESOLUTION NO. 821. Proposed Amendment No. 2 A resolution and proposition to amend subdivision 2 of section 11 of article VIII. of the city charter, and providing for the submission of such proposed amendment to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle at the next general election. Be it resolved by the city council of the city of Seattle as follows: That subdivision 2 of section 11 of article VIII. of the city charter of the city of Seattle be amended so as to read as follows: "Subdivision 2. The city council shall, by general ordinance, provide the manner in which the aforesaid improvements may be made, and prescribe all needful regulations for the exercise by the city of the power granted and contained in the foregoing subdivision of this section; provided, that in all cases in which the whole or any portion of the cost and expense of any such improvement is to be defrayed by the collection of a special assessment upon the property specially benefited thereby, the following proceedings shall be taken, viz.: There must be presented to the board of public works a written petition setting forth the street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, squares or places, or parts thereof to be improved, the nature of the improvement, the mode of payment and the fact that the signers are the owners by such improvement to the aggregate amount of a majority of the special assessment to be levied therefor according to the transfer books in the office of the county auditor. If any such property stands in the name of a deceased person or any person for whom a guardian has been appointed, the signature of the executor, administrator or guardian, as the case may be, shall be equal to the signature of the owner of the property on such petition. If the board of public works finds the facts set forth in said petition to be true, they shall cause an estimate of the cost and expense of such improvement to be made and transmit the same, together with all papers and information in their possession touching such improvement, with the estimated cost thereof, and their recommendations thereon, a description of the property which will be specially benefited thereby and a statement of the proportionate amount of the cost and expense of such improvement which shall be borne by such property, to the city council. The city council shall have full authority to consider all matters in relation to such proposed improvement, and may authorize the same by ordinance or refuse it in its discretion; provided, that unless the petition for said improvement shall be signed by three-fourths (%) of the property to be assessed therefor and specifies a greater percentage than fifty per cent, the city council, or board of public works shall not have authority to further proceed in the matter of such improvement whenever the cost of any work or improvement ordered, to be done by the city council and chargeable as a lien, under the provisions of this article, against the property specially benefited within such assessment district shall exceed fifty per cent, of the total assessed valuation of the lots or parcels of land contained in such assessment district as the same appears upon the last annual assessment roll, made for the levying of taxes for municipal purposes, in which case such improvement shall not be granted unless the same be so modified that the cost thereof shall not exceed such fifty per cent, of the aforesaid valuation. Said limit of fifty per cent, however, may be extended when any improvement shall be petitioned for by the owners of three-fourths (%) of the property to be assessed, for said proposed improvement, and when such petition specified not to exceed a certain higher percentage. The action and decision of the city council as to all matters passed upon by it in relation to the rejection or the granting of such petition shall be final and conclusive. The city council may order the whole or any part of the streets, lanes, alleys, squares or public places of the city to be graded, regraded, sidewalked, residewalked, planked or replanked, paved, repaved, macadamized, remacadamized, graveled, regraveled, piled, repiled, capped, recapped, or may order any bulkhead, retaining wall, viaduct, tunnel, water main or sewer with manholes, catch basins and other proper connections, to be constructed or repaired therein and may provide for defraying the whole or any portion of the cost and expense of any such improvement by the collection of a special assessment upon the property specially benefited thereby in the manner provided in this section without the presentation of any petition either to the board of public works or to the city council; provided, that unless a petition as hereinbefore prescribed be presented, such improvement shall not be ordered except by ordinance passed by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members of the city council, at a regular meeting, or at a meeting which is an adjournment of a regular meeting; provided, no street shall be ordered graded without petition, except by a unanimous vote of all members present; and provided that there may be established sewer or drainage districts in conformity to the requirements of the topography of the ground; and constructed in each of said districts a main or trunk sewer. Such district shall include real estate which can be conveniently sewered or drained into such main or trunk sewer, either directly or by means of sub-sewers, and which will be benefited thereby. There shall first be levied against the property immediately abutting and contiguous to such main or trunk sewer, and which can be conveniently sewered or drained into said main or trunk sewer, such amounts, in accordance with special benefits as would have been levied against such property in case there had been constructed, in the same place, a branch or sub-sewer for the service of that immediate neighborhood only, the remaining portion of the cost of said main or trunk sewer shall then be distributed and assessed equitably against all the land included in said sewer or drainage district in accordance with special benefits and in proportion to the area of the various lots, tracts or parcels of land therein. And be it further resolved, that the foregoing amendment be and the same is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle for their ratification or rejection at the next general election to be held the 6th day of March, 1906. Passed the city council the 2nd day of January, A. D. 1906, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this 2nd day of January, A. D. 1906. H. C. GILL. President of the City Council. Filed by me this 2nd day of January, 1906. JNO. RIPLINGER. City Comptroller and ex-Officio City Clerk. First publication January 19th. RESOLUTION NO. 819. Proposed Amendment No. 3. A resolution and proposition to amend subdivision 3 of section 11 of article VIII of the city charter, and providing for the submission of such proposed amendment to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle at the next general election. Be is resolved by the city council of the city of Seattle as follows: That subdivision 3 of section 11 of Article VIII, of the city charter of the city of Seattle be amended so as to read as follows: "Subdivision 3. Every ordinance ordering any improvement mentioned in this section shall establish a local improvement district to be called Local Improvement District No. —" which district shall embrace, as near as may be, all the property specially benefited by such improvement. Unless otherwise provided in such ordinance, such district shall be deemed to include all the property between the termini of said improvement, abutting upon, adjacent or proximate to the street, lane, alley, avenue, place or square proposed to be improved to a distance back from the marginal line thereof to the center line of the blocks facing thereon; provided, that in any case the distance back from the street shall be at least ninety (90) feet; and provided further, that in the case of unplatted property, the distance back from the margin of the same, for purposes of assessment, shall be the same distance as that included in the assessment of the platted lands immediately adjacent thereto, and all property included within said limits of such local improvement district shall be considered and held to be the property specially benefited by such improvement, and the property to be assessed to pay the cost and expense thereof or such proportion thereof as may be chargeable against the property specially benefited by such improvement. which cost and expense shall be assessed upon all of said property so benefited in proportion to the separate and special benefit conferred on such property by reason of its area and particular location within the district. Said local improvement district shall, for the purpose of assessing the cost of such improvement, in proportion to the separate and special benefits conferred, be divided into four subdivisions to be numbered respectively, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th subdivisions. The first subdivision shall include all lands lying between the street margin and a line drawn parallel therewith and thirty (30) feet therefrom. The second subdivision shall include all lands lying within lines drawn parallel with and thirty (30) and sixty (60) feet respectively from said street margin. The third subdivision shall include all lands lying within lines drawn parallel with and sixty (60) and ninety (90) feet respectively from said street margin. The fourth subdivision shall include all lands lying between a line drawn parallel with and ninety (90) feet from said street margin and the outer limit of said local improvement district, as hereinabove described. If the areas of each of the four subdivisions are equal, there shall be assessed against the first subdivision 40 per centum of the whole cost, against the second subdivision 25 per centum of the whole cost, against the third subdivision 20 per centum of the whole cost, and against the fourth subdivision 15 per centum of the whole cost. If the areas are unequal, the rates fixed for each subdivision shall be fixed on the basis that the benefits conferred on a square foot of land in subdivisions first, second, third and fourth respectively, are related to each other as are the numbers 40, 25, 20 and 15 respectively. The city council, at all hearings on assessment rolls, shall sit as a board of equalization in open council for the purpose of changing, altering or amending said rolls, that all assessments shall be made, as near as may be, strictly in accordance with special benefits, and the subdivision rate of assessment herein prescribed shall in nowise limit or abridge such powers of the city council. All notices of hearing on assessment rolls shall clearly specify that at such hearing the council will proceed to confirm all assessments shown thereon, or lower, raise or otherwise modify or alter the same, as in its discretion may be deemed just. All assessments levied upon lands of the city of Seattle shall be paid by the city of Seattle out of its general fund. And be it further resolved, that the foregoing amendment be and the same is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle for their ratification at the next general election to be held the sixth day of March, 1906. Passed the city council the 2nd day of January, A. D. 1906, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this 2nd day of January, A. D. 1906. H. C. GILL, President of the City Council. Filed by me this 2nd day of January, 1906. JNO. RIPLINGER, City Comptroller and ex-Officio City Clerk. First publication January 19th. RESOLUTION NO. 816. A resolution and proposition to amend section 1 of Article XVII. of the city charter and providing for the submission of such proposed amendment to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle at the next general election. Be it resolved by the city council of the city of Seattle as follows: That section 1 of article XVII. of the city charter of the city of Seattle be amended so as to read as follows: "Section 1. The mayor shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars, payable monthly. The annual salaries of the following officers of the city shall be payable monthly, and shall be as follows: Treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars; city comptroller and ex-officio city clerk, three thousand six hundred dollars; corporation counsel, five thousand dollars; councilmen, one thousand five hundred dollars each. A deduction of ten dollars for each absence shall be made from the salary of each councilman who shall be absent from any regular meeting of the city council. This section shall apply to all councilmen holding office subsequent to the adoption of this amendment, including those holding office by virtue of an election held prior to the adoption of this amendment. All parts of the city charter in conflict with this section or any part thereof, be, and the same are, hereby repealed. And be it further resolved that the foregoing amendment be, and the same is, hereby, submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle for the ratification or rejection at the next general municipal election to be held Tuesday, March 6, 1906. Passed the city council the 2nd day of January, 1906, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this 2nd day of January, 1906. PRES. PRO. TEM. J. E. CRICHTON, Of the City Council. Filed by me this 2nd day of January, 1906. JNO. RIPLINGER. City Comptroller and ex-Officio City Clerk. First publication January 19th. Proposed Amendment No. 5. A resolution and proposition to amend subdivision 14 of section 18 of Article IV. of the city charter, and providing for the submission of such proposed amendment to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle at the next general municipal election. Be it resolved by the city council of the city of Seattle as follows: That subdivision 14 of section 18 of article IV. of the city charter of the city of Seattle be amended so as to read as follows: "Fourteenth—To provide for erecting, purchasing or otherwise acquiring, as the sole and exclusive property of the city, water works, within or without the corporate limits of the city, to supply said city and its inhabitants with water for any and all purposes, and to fix, alter, regulate and control the use and price of the water so supplied; provided, however, that the city council shall not enter into any contract or agreement whatever with any person, company or corporation for its water supply or distribution, or for the joint or entire use of the whole or any part of the city water supply or distributing plant, including conduits, mains and reservoirs, without first submitting such proposed contract or agreement to a vote of the qualified electors of the city at a general election, or special election called for that purpose, and unless a majority of said electors voting at said election shall vote therefor; provided further, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the city from selling to any consumer water for power or other uses, or the power manufactured from water, upon terms open to all consumers; and, provided further, that the city council may, in its discretion grant, by ordinance, to any institution which is supported in whole or in part by public charities, the free use of city water; and be it further resolved that the foregoing amendment be, and the same is, hereby submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle for their ratification or rejection at the next general municipal election, to be held Tuesday, March 6, 1906. Passed the city council the 3rd day of January, 1906, and signed by me in open session in authetification of its passage this 3rd day of January, 1906. H. C. GILL President of the City Council. Filed by me this 3rd day of January, 1906. JNO. RIPLINGER. City Comptroller and ex-Officio City Clerk. First publication January 19th. RESOLUTION NO. 832. Proposed Amendment No. 6. A resolution and proposition to amend subdivision 37 of section 18 of article IV. of the city charter and providing for the submission of such proposed amendment to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle at the next general election. Be it resolved by the city council of the city of Seattle as follows: That subdivision 37 of section 18 of article IV. of the city charter of the city of Seattle be amended so as to read as follows: "37th. To project or extend or establish streets over and across any tide lands within the corporate limits of the city and along or across the harbor areas of the city, in such manner as will best promote the interests of commerce, and to excavate and improve, for use as public slips or wharves, any of said streets, and to use all or any portion of every street extending to or projecting into the water as a public slip or wharf. No street extending to or projecting into tide water shall be vacated, except and unless such vacation be made for the purpose of altering the location of any such street, and then only after there shall have first been deeded or dedicated to the city, in exchange therefor, land equally or better adapted to the uses of the city for street or municipal purposes. And be it further resolved, that the foregoing amendment be and the same is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle for their ratification or rejection at the next general election to be held March 6th, 1906. Passed the city council the 3rd day of January, 1906, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this 3rd day of January, 1906. H. C. GILL. President of the City Council. Filed by me this 3rd day of January, 1906. JNO. RIPLINGER. City Comptroller and ex-Officio City Clerk. First publication January 19th. RESOLUTION NO. 831. A resolution and proposition to amend section 20 of article IV. of the city charter, and providing for the submission of such proposed amendment to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle at the next general election. Be it resolved by the city council of the city of Seattle as follows: That section 20 of article IV. of the city charter of the city of Seattle be amended so as to read as follows: "Section 20. No street car, telephone, gas, electric or heating franchise shall be granted, extended or renewed to any date beyond December 31st, 1934, which does not contain adequate provision authorizing the city to acquire the plant and appurtenances built thereunder at their reasonable cash value at any time after said date; no value being assigned to any franchise right. Every franchise extending beyond said date shall contain definite provisions for ascertaining and determining such value and for submitting any differences to arbitration. No street car franchise shall be granted, reenewed or extended to or for any period of time along the routes herein described, which does not contain a provision that the city of Seattle or any person or persons or street railway company hereafter obtaining a franchise from the city of Seattle authorizing the operation of street cars for the purpose of carrying passengers or freight within the district or along the routes hereinafter described shall have the right to the common use with the grantee, its successors or assigns, for the running of the cars of the city of Seattle or of such other person or persons, company or commission as the case may be, upon paying to the grantee therein, its successors or assigns, such monthly or annual rental or compensation as may be just and reasonable, no value being assigned to any franchise right. Each such franchise shall contain definite provisions for submitting any difference respecting the proper amount of such rental or compensation, to arbitration in conformity with the laws of the state of Washington in that regard, or in such manner as shall be prescribed by the city council in the ordinance granting such franchise. The routes hereinabove referred to be as follows: Denny way from the west line of Warren avenue to the east line of Second avenue north, and Second avenue from Denny way to Pike street; Fourth avenue, Fourth avenue produced and Fourth avenue south from Denny way to the southerly city limits: Westlake avenue from Pike street to Denny way; Pine street from First avenue to Fifth avenue; Prefontaine place from Yesler way to Fourth avenue south, and such other routes as the city council may from time to time designate as canon or strategic routes. Every grant of a franchise, right or privilege shall be subject to the right of the city council at any time thereafter to repeal, change or modify the said grant if the franchise granted thereby is not operated in accordance with the provisions thereof, or at all, and every ordinance making such grant shall contain a reservation of the right of the city council to so repeal, amend or modify said ordinance. When the right, privilege or franchise has been granted, and has been accepted, the city council shall not extend the time for which such right, privilege or franchise is granted until within three years of the expiration of the time for which such right, privilege or franchise is granted. And be it further resolved, that the foregoing amendment be and the same is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Seattle for their ratification or rejection at the next general election to be held the sixth day of March, 1906. Passed the city council the 3rd day of January, A. D. 1906, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this 3rd day of January, A. D. 1906. H. C. GILL, President of the City Council. Filed by me this 3rd day of January, 1906. JNO RIPLINGER, City Comptroller and ex-Officio City Clerk. First publication January 19th. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 8. Notice is hereby given that on February 1, 1906, a petition and proposition to amend Article XVIII of the City Charter of the City of Seattle was filed with the City Clerk of said city, which said petition and proposition prescribes the respective terms of all elective officers of the City of Seattle and provides a method for the removal of any officer. That there be and hereby is submitted to the qualified electors of the City of Seattle to be voted upon at the next general municipal election to be held March 6, 1906, the proposition to amend Article XVIII of the City Charter of the City of Seattle by adding the following section, which amendment is the same amendment petitioned for in the above-mentioned petition, to-wit: The term of all elective officers of the city of Seattle shall be two years (except councilmen-at-large, which will be four years), unless removed by a method hereinafter provided. In case of the removal of any such officer by the method hereinafter provided, the successor of said officer shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term unless said successor is removed by the method hereinafter provided. The procedure to effect the removal of an incumbent of an elective office shall be as follows: A petition signed by voters entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent, equal in number to at least 25 per centum of the entire vote for all candidates for the office, the incumbent of which is sought to be removed, cast at the last preceding general municipal election, demanding an election of a successor of the person to be removed, shall be filed with the city clerk; provided, that the petition sent to the council shall contain a general statement of the grounds for which the removal is sought. The signatures to the paper need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence, giving the street and number. Any person competent to make affidavit may circulate such petition. The person circulating each such paper shall make oath before an officer competent to administer oaths, that the statements therein made are true, and that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name purports to be thereunto subscribed. Within ten days from the date of filing such petition the city clerk shall examine the register and therefrom ascertain whether or not said number is signed by the requisite number of qualified voters; and if necessary, the council shall allow him extra help for that purpose; and he shall attach to said petition his certificate showing the result of said examination. If, by the clerk's certificate, the petition is shown to be insufficient, it may be amended within ten days from the date of said certificate. The clerk shall, within ten days after such amendment, make like examination of the amendment to the petition, and if his certificate shall show the same to be insufficient, it shall be returned to the person filing the same without prejudice to the filing of a new petition to the same effect. If the petition shall be found to be sufficient, the clerk shall submit the same to the council without delay; and there-upon the city council shall order and fix a date for holding said election, not less than thirty days nor more than forty days from the date of the clerk's certificate to the council that a sufficient petition is filed. The city council shall make or cause to be made publication of notice, and all arrangements for holk- FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1906. ing of such election; and the same shall be conducted, returned and the result thereof declared, in all respects, as are other elections. The successor of any officer so removed shall hold office during the unexpired term of his predecessors. Any person sought to be removed may be a candidate to succeed himself, and unless he requests otherwise, in writing, the clerk shall place his name on the oncial bailot without nomination. In any such election the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. At such election, if some other person than the incumbent receives the highest number of votes, the incumbent shall thereupon be deemed removed from the office upon the qualification of his successor. In case the party who receives the highest number of votes should fail to qualify within ten days after receiving notification of election, the office shall be deemed vacant. If the incumbent receives the highest number of votes he shall continue in office. All parts of the charter of said City of Seattle in conflict with this amendment are hereby repealed. Witness my hand this 2nd day of February, A. D. 1906. JNO. RIPLINGER, City Comptroller and Ex-Officio City Clerk. Date of first publication, Feb. 9, 1906. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, in and for the County of King. Fred Archer, plaintiff, vs. Mary A. Archer d,efendant. No. ____. Summons. The State of Washington to the said Mary A. Archer, defendant: said Mary A. Archer, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the first publication of this summons, to wit: within sixty (60) days after the 23rd day of February, 1906, 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 state; 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 above entitled action is to procure from you an absolute divorce on account of cruel treatment. T. G. GREGSON, Plaintiff's Attorney. P. O. Address: Room 518 Mutual Life Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Feb. 23; April 6. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, for King County. Lena Pier, plaintiff, vs. De Forrest Pier, defendant. No. 50402. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said De Forrest Pier, 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 23rd day of February, 1906, 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 the said court. A brief statement of the object of the said action is to dissolve the bonds of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and the defendant, on the ground of non-support, and on the ground of desertion, and on the ground of cruelty and of failure on the part of the defendant to make suitable provisions for the support of this plaintiff and his family. WILSON R. GAY, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address: Suite 1220 Alaska Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Feb. 23—April 6. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington for King County. The Acetylene Lighting Company, Plaintiff, vs, A. H. Kellogg, Mrs. A. H. Kellogg and J. L. Derwent, Defendants.—No. 49955. Summons for Publication. State of Washington to said A. H. Kellogg and Mrs. A. H. Kellogg, his wife, defendants: You and each of 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 January, A. D. 1906, 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 attorneys for the plaintiff at their 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 this Court. This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover judgment against the defendants upon a contract for the sum of one hundred seventy-five dollars, and attachment has been issued upon the property of the defendants. RICHARD WINSOR and E. S. HADLEY. Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: 78 Sullivan Bldg., Seattle, Washington. Date of first publication, January 26, March 9. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for King County. Henry Brandt, Plaintiff, vs. C. P. Miller, Defendant.—Publication of Summons. The State of Washington to the said C. P. Miller, Defendant: pear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within 60 days after the 26th day of January, 1906, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and to 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, and a finding and judgment will be made and entered, finding and adjudging you to be indebted to the said plaintiff upon two promissory notes, one for $100.00, executed by you to Henry Brandt, and one for $200.00, executed by you to the Puget Sound National Bank, together with interest upon the respective sums, and attorney's fees in accordance with the terms of said promissory notes, together with costs. And you are further notified that said plaintiff has caused attachment to issue in said case, and garnishment in aid of attachment to issue, and be served upon John Olsen and John A. Olsen, and John Olsen and John A. Olsen, co-partners doing business under the firm name of Olsen & Olsen, for the purpose of reaching the indebtedness due to you from them, and the property in their possession, belonging to you, and that in said cause finding and judgment will be entered, that the said indebtedness sued upon be satisfied out of said property, so levied upon by said attachment and garnishment in the hands of said garnishees hereinbefore named. GRAY & STERN. Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and Postoffice Address, No. 513 Bailey Building, Seattle, Wn. January 26—March 9. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, in and for the County of King. Macon Russell, Plaintiff, vs. Florence Russell, defendant. No. Summons. The State of Washington to the said Florence Russell, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the first publication of this summons, towit: within sixty (60) days after the 23rd day of February, 1906, 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 above entitled action is to procure from you an absolute divorce on account of cruel treatment and incompatibility. ANDREW R. BLACK, Plaintiff's Attorney. P. O. Address: Room 315 Pacific Block, Seattle, King County, Wash. Feb. 23—April 6. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, for King County. Pearl Lockie, Plaintiff, vs. James Lockie, Defendant.—No. 49832. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to the said James Lockie, 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 days after the 13th day of January, 1906, 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 your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said Court. That plaintiff's cause of action against you, as set forth in the complaint, is for divorce founded on non-support, desertion and cruelty. RONEY & LOVELESS, Attorneys for the Plaintiff. Office and Post-Office Address, Room 606 Oriental Block, Seattle, King County, Washington. Jan. 13 Feb. 24 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for the County of King. In the Matter of the Estate of Laura Ellis, Deceased. No. _____ Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that John W. Ellis is the executor of the estate of Laura Ellis, deceased, and all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to the undersigned executor, or to his Attorney, Gill, Hoyt & Frye, No. 427 Colman Building, Seattle, Washington, within one year from the date of the first publication of this notice. JOHN W. ELLIS, Executor of the Estate of Laura Ellis, deceased. Date of first publication January 19—Last, Feb. 23. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF King County, State of Washington. Clara Schwanz, plaintiff, vs. Theodore Schwanz, defendant. No. 50376. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to Theodore Schwanz, 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 23rd day of February, 1906, 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 yours 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. This action is brought by the plaintiff for the purpose of her obtaining a decree of divorce from the defendant dissolving the matrimonial bonds between them upon the grounds: First: Of the abandonment and desertion of the plaintiff by the defendant ever since the 13th day of August, 1904. Second: Upon the ground that the defendant has neglected and refused to support the plaintiff ever since the 13th day of August, 1904. Dated this 21st day of February, 1906. WINSOR & HADLEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and postoffice address: 78 Sullivan Bldg., Seattle ,Wash. Feb. 23—April 6. 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 Guardianship Estate of John Nolan, insane. No. 6530. Notice of Settlement of Final Account. Notice is hereby given that Patrick Nolan, the guardian of his estate of John Nolan, insane, has rendered to, and filed in said court, his final account as such guardian, and that Thursday, the 15th day of March, 1906, 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. Arthur E. Griffin, judge of said Superior Court, and the seal of said court hereto affixed this 16th day of February, 1906. OTTO A. CASE, Clerk. By D. K. SICKLES, Deputy Clerk. H. E. FOSTER, Attorney. Feb. 23—March 9. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, for King County. Puget Sound Savings and Loan Company, a corporation, plaintiff, vs. Elizabeth Brunner and Benedict Brunner, her husband; Lake Washington Mill Company, a corporation; S. W. R. Dally; W. P. Fuller Company, a corporation; James McNamara and Jane Doe McNamara, his wife, defendants. No. 50,228. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to Elizabeth Brunner and Benedict Brunner, two of the above named defendants: You are summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, toowit: within sixty days after the 9th day of February, 1906, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for the plaintiff, at his office below stated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. This action is to recover judgment upon a promissory note made by Elizabeth Brunner and Benedict Brunner, her husband, through James McNamara, their attorney in fact, said note being dated at Seattle, Washington, December 14th, 1904, and being for the principal sum of ten hundred fifty-five and 52-100 dollars ($1,055.52), divided in equal monthly payments of fourteen and 66-100 dollars ($14.66), payable on the 10th day of each and every month, commencing with the month of January, 1905; the sum of seven hundred fifty and no-100 dollars ($750) being principal payment, and three hundred five and 52-100 dollars ($305.52) total interest for the full period of seventy-two months. The further object of this action is to obtain a decree foreclosing a mortgage upon the following described property, given, made and executed by said defendants, through their attorney in fact, to secure the payment of said note, said mortgage being upon the following described property to-wit: The north one-half (1/2) of lot seven (7), block two (2), of Seattle Homestead Association First Addition to the City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Judgment is asked for the sum of eight hundred fifty-five and 5-100 dollars ($855.05), together with interest on said sum from the 22nd day of December, 1905, at the rate of twelve per cent per annum; for plaintiff's costs and disbursements, and in addition thereto the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) as attorney fee and counsel charges. A decree is prayed for foreclosing said mortgage, and ordering the sale of said property for the satisfaction of any judgment obtained, and a deficiency judgment, in case said property be insufficient to satisfy said judgment, is asked for against said defendants. A decree is also prayed for foreclosing and barring any right or claim that any of the other defendants in said action may have in or to said property, and decreeing that the claim or interest of any of the other defendants be declared subject and subordinate to the interest and claim of the plaintiff. WALTER S. FULTON, Attorney for Plaintiff. Postoffice and office address: 306 Mutual Life Building, Seattle, Wash. Date of first publication, February 9. 1906: last March 23. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, in and for the County of King. Myrtle Masser, plaintiff, vs. Amas W. Masser, defendant. No. _____ Summons. The State of Washington to the said Amas W₁ Masser, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the first publication of this summons, to wit: within sixty (60) days after the 13th day of January, 1906, 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 above entitled action is to procure from you an absolute divorce on account of non-support. JOHN L. NEAGLE, Plaintiff's Attorney. P. O. Address: Room 306 Bailey Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Alaska Central Railway Company will be held in the office of the Company at Rooms Numbered 304 and 305 of the Denny Building, No. 1408 Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday, the 6th day of March, A. D. 1906, at Two o'clock in the afternoon. January 26—February 23. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, KING County, Washington. Lucile Sutherland, Plaintiff, vs. Walter R. Sutherland, Defendant. No. ..... Publication of Summons. The State of Washington to the said Walter R. Sutherland, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service, and defend the above entitled action in the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for King County aforesaid, 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. In case of your failure so to do judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which is filed with the Clerk of said Court. (Action divorce prayed for.) Post Office Address, 606 Marion Building, Seattle, Washington. First publication, January 26, 1906. Last publication, March 9, 1906. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington in and for the County of King. In the matter of the estate of Arthur L. Davis, Deceased.—No. 6755.—In Probate.—Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned administrator of the estate of Arthur L. Davis, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within one year after the first publication of this notice, to the undersigned administrator at 633 Pioneer Building, Seattle, King County, Washington, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate. This notice is given under and by virtue of the order of the above entitled court, made and entered on the 27th day of January, 1906. Dated this 1st day of February, 1906. JOHN L. YOCUM, Administrator. Date of first publication, February 2, 1906. Date of last publication March 2, 1906. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. In Probate. In the matter of the estate of David C. Bothell, deceased. No. 6558. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against the estate of David C. Bothell, deceased, are required to present the same, with the necessary vouchers, within one year from the date of the first publication of this notice, to-wit: the 17th day of February, 1906, to George Bothell and W. A. Hannan, executors of the estate of said deceased, at their place of residence at Bothell, King County, Washington . WINSOR & HADLEY, Attorneys for Executors. 78 Sullivan Bldg., Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for the County of King. Vieva M. Harter, Plaintiff, vs. Holms V. Harter, Defendant. Summons for Publication. No. 50484. The State of Washington to the said Holms V. Harter: 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 2nd day of March, 1906, 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 obtain a decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony between plaintiff and defendant on the grounds of abandonment and non-support. E. T, SCHOFF, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O, address, 319 New York Bldg., Seattle, King County, Washington. March 2—April 13. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In the matter of the estate of A. J. Bidney, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned administrator of the estate of A. J. Bidney, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them within one year after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator at the office of attorney for said administrator, the same being the place for transaction of business of said estate, in the City of Seattle, King County. Signed this 2nd day of March, 1906. HANS JOHNSON. Administrator. DANN LANDON, Attorney for Administrator. Room 9-10 Kenny Block. Marcr 2—April 13. NOTICE FOR BIDS. I, the undersigned guardian of the Estate of Dorothy J. Terry, and Duane R. Terry, minors, hereby give notice that I will sell at private sale in the manner provided by law, the following real estate, situate lying and being in King County, Washington, to-wit:— An undivided one-half, being all the interest of said Minors in the North $ \frac{1}{2} $ of South-east $ \frac{1}{4} $ and North $ \frac{1}{2} $ of the South-west $ \frac{1}{4} $ , Section 28. Township 20 North, Range 8 East, W. M. Bids for said real estate to be received on and after the 19th day of March, 1906, at the Law Offices of Troy & Falknor, Suite 4 Byrne Building, at the corner of Fourth and Main streets, Olympia, Washington; or by delivering the same to the undersigned guardian of said estate, personally, or filed in the office of the County Clerk of Thurston County, Washington, with the said Clerk on and after the said 19th day of March, 1906. All bids must be in writing and for cash. M. M. TERRY. Guardian of the Estate of said Dorothy J. Terry and Duane R. Terry, Minors. 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