Seattle Republican

SEATTLE REPUBLICAN VOL. XII. NO. 43 The Seattle Republican 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. From the incorporation papers it is very evident that the Moran Company is Lyter by far just now that it ever was before. The crowd at the Grand theater last Monday at noon did not look good to either the S. E. C. or the Clancy clique. It is impossible for Stevenson to drag Senator Piles in the mud as he did that at Olympia some twelve months ago. Seattle's plug-uglies, including the sainted Clancy brothers, have reasons to believe that they have outlived their day of usefulness. Is the state barber board in the grafting business? is the question that the lime-light of public inquiry is being turned on just now. The personal organ of the S. E. C. is again working overtime fighting municipal ownership in the interest of its money masters. We do not think the Republican state central committee is inclined to punish any one for not having voted for Albert E. Mead for governor. Let's not be in a hurry to hold the state convention. Say September 15th for it, and say August 15th for the county convention. It's a good time to make haste slowly. It is reported that Senator Ankeny is the laughing stock at Washington City. Well, he was the "easy stock" in Washington state and if you do not believe it ask the Georges. Did it really cost the "G. N." $80,000 to get Sweeney's senatorial support for Piles? If so, then Washington state has a nice pair of poisoned politicians in the United States senate. That public installation evidently met general favor from the number of persons who attended it. The people all over the country is aroused against public grafters and demand a hault at once, if not sooner. ```markdown ``` SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1906 It occurs to us that Mayor Moore is doing more talking than is good for his political ambition, for talk all he will or may, no one believes that he will ever do one-half as much as he says he is going to do. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. COUNCILMAN DAVID W. BOWEN, The New President City Council. Col. Blatherskite accuses the P.-I. of supporting R. L. McCormick of Tacoma for senator. Well, if its to be a choice between Ankeny and McCormick, is the P.-I. any different from any one else except the grafters and blood suckers? A quarter of a million dollars for roads and bridges in King county and yet neither roads nor bridges of any value in the county calls for more talk. Where did it go and who got it? are questions that should be answered. Let's see, we believe the Republican city convention said something about the city owning its own asphalt plant and doing its own paving. If we are correct in this, what councilman will be the first to make a move in that direction? Let's live up to our anti-election pledges, gentlemen, and if we do we will not have near so much trouble in the next election bout. Gen. Wood is having lots of trouble trying to justify the willful massacre of the Moros at Mount Dajo by the soldiers under his command. Gen. Weyler, the famous Spanish general, who fought the Cubans, was dubbed by the civilized world as "Weyler the Butcher," for massacres no less horrible than this, and we see no reason why Gen. Wood should not receive the same title. ```markdown ``` LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PR 201952 BLICAN 1906 PRICE TEN CENTS BORROWED THOUGHTS. Many a man who seeks fame finds nothing but infamy. Money furnishes a house, but it takes love to furnish a home. Men who say that they have nothing to say seldom let it go at that. A slip of the tongue is often more disas trous than a slip of the foot. An ounce of honest criticism is worth more than a pound of flattery. As a rule the imaginative poet is one who imagines he can exchange his poetry for real money. Have you ever noticed that the man who boasts is always waiting for some one to give him a boost? In dealing with the railway lobby Senator Tillman has the public's permission to use his pitchfork freely. Forgiving without forgetting is a good deal like giving a receipt for money without signing your name to it. If there is a strike the price of coal will advance steadily. Also it will advance steadily if there is no strike. China should not be too sure that it can win a war just because its complexion is the same shade as Japan's. Another genius has invented a preventive for seasickness. Still, the only real preventive is to stay on dry land. If the elevator service in New Yorks' fortystory skyscraper ever breaks down the tenants will not be particularly proud of the structure. Eastern roads are planning a "speed war." It is a pity no roads ever get up a war to see which can win in the matter of providing safety devices. Mr. Grosvenor sees now that he should have directed his ambition toward a seat in the senate. A senator is not obliged to go to the trouble of keeping his constituents satisfied. Modern improvements have done much to simplify hazing. Handing a victim a live wire is much less trouble than providing a steam roller and inducing him to lie down where it can run over him. It is the verdict of the senate committee that there was no unnecessary expense at Panama. Nobody, so far as we know, has accused the Panama commission of buying spades and similar useless articles. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily pixelated screen. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1906. time to time to invite some leader among the whites to say words of encouragement to the blacks and perhaps bear to them messages of peace and good will from their friends and associates. The program for next Sunday at 3 o'clock p. m., will be as follows: Selection (Lee's Chapel) Choir. Invocation.....Rev. F. L. Donohoo Selection .....Ross' Orchestra Select Reading, The Negro's Desire..... Miss Georgia Selby Selection Ross' Orchestra Address, The Possibilities of the Negro in the Philippine Islands Clifford C. Handcock Selection Ross' Orchestra General Discussion. Song Audience Business Session. Selection Ross' Orchestra Benediction. MORAN BROS. COMPANY SOLD. After a quarter of a century's constant work of building up a great shipbuilding concern the Moran brothers, who, during all that time have been the sole proprietors of the concern, have sold a controlling interest to others and they will in a short time retire from the business and devote the balance of their lives to the beautifying of their country home on Orcas Island. Those brothers started the Moran Bros. Company on vim and vigor and their capital was their brain, their physical strength a forge, an anvil and a hammer. In other words, this great shipbuilding concern, which is now easily worth two million dollars, twenty-five years ago was not worth in actual cash a hundred dollars. The success of these brothers in establishing this plant, which has made millionaires out of each one of them, shows what a thrifty American can do if he only will. The Morans did not succeed by driving sharp bargains nor by oppressing their labors, but they did so by making themselves so skilled in their labors that there was always a greater demand for their products than they could supply. This is an age of specialists and if one wishes to be certain of success he or she must find something to do for which they have an adaptability and then do that something better than anyone else seems able to do it. In other words do it so the article itself will create a demand for it in the markets of the world and then you will have the keynote to success. The bootblack artist that shines your shoes better and more skillfully than any other bootblack always finds that he has all the work of this kind that he can do, whereas on the other hand, the poor and sloven bootblack who does just enough to get by never makes more than a meager living at his trade; and so it is in every line of business and in every avocation of life. The Morans retire from business young men, Bob, the senior member, not being more than 50 odd years old. Young men casting about for an opening by which they can surround themselves in later years with comfort can well take as examples the Moran brothers. Perfect yourself in something and then stick to it. All may not, yea will not, have the deluge of success that the Morans have had, but you will never be a drone in society. You will always be a man among men though you never acquire more than a modest home. --- THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Mayor Moore has enumerated a long list of statutory reforms which he proposes to enforce in Seattle, but he is as mute as a mummy on the subject of closing the saloons up at 1 o'clock and on Sundays as the law commands. No one but bums of the worst type are found in saloons between 1 and 5 o'clock and these are undesirable even to the saloonkeepers, and they would much rather close up their places and go home, and to close up at 1 o'clock would mean a great saving to them, as from that time until 5 o'clock the business is run at a loss almost every night. There is no doubt that the closing of saloons on Sunday would mean a heavy fall off in the saloon trade and would, perhaps, put a number of saloons, that live on the earnings of the working men, out of business, but the law says saloons shall close and lock their doors against customers on Sundays and the law should be obeyed. If its a bad law it is in the power of the people to elect such lawmakers as will repeal the bad law, but so long as it is a law it should be a law. Now, Mr. Mayor, if you mean business get busy and do your duty and your whole duty and do it not in a spirit of revenge, but in the spirit of an honest, upright official. It is very generally believed that you are talking through your hat, that you are a political trimmer and that all you have said is hot air. Now, do something right away soon. FROM A NEGRO VIEWPOINT. In the February number of the Atlantic Monthly is an article by Edward E. Wilson on "The Joys of Being a Negro," which is a remarkable piece of writing. In faultless style and with fine irony, cutting satire, moving pathos or subtle humor, he depicts the actual situation and the isolation of a cultured Negro among the "superior" race. “Worn as is the saying that life’s happiness lies in anticipation, it is a truism that perfectly fits the Negro’s case. So much lies before him, the things he can hope to achieve are so much more numerous than those which Aryans can look forward to, that his pleasures of hope are endless.” * * * “With the Negro it is but seldom that delights grow stale by being transformed from the imaginary to the real.” * * * “In fact, the Negro is the rustic of America. Of the doings of this great and busy nation he is but a spectator. He stands as the procession passes with mouth agape. What is common to others is a source of admiration to him. One who basks in the sunshine of adulation, who is constantly told, or is telling himself, that he is the very climax of civilization, the heir of all the ages, knows not what it is to have the heart beat quickly at a word of praise. Heap abuse upon one, however, misrepresent his every action, call his assertion of his ordinary rights, insolence, scoff at him, and then a kind word is as a grateful palm in the midst of a desert.” “While in particular instances a chance enconinum may reach a Negro, yet on the whole he is little subject to that soul-deadening anesthetic—flattery. Concerning him plain speaking is the vogue; a spade is a spade, however black, and consequently he is not led by ill-advised laudation to look upon himself as perfect—a boon which will forever keep him struggling forward, and because of which he ought, without ceasing, to rejoice." * * * "To attract attention—monstarari digito—has, since the existence of man, been the chief support of his vanity and ambition. Herostratus, in olden times, burned Diana's temple to become immortal. And to what shifts have not men resorted to to gain a modicum of notoriety, to stand for a moment in the limelight? How happy, then, must the Negro be, when, if fairly dressed, entering a public place with wife or sweetheart, he, without effort on his part, arouses a curiosity that even good manners cannot restrain! He is stared at, whispered about, becoming the center of all glances, and if his companion happens to be fair-haired, blue-eyed, and with features scarcely distinguishable from the most rampant Anglo-Saxon, yet having an African ancestor somewhere in the far off past, the attention he receives is riotous." * * * "If the satisfaction furnished the superior race sometimes causes the less fortunate pain, the latter should remember that what benefits the majority makes for the good of the whole, and that nothing is nobler than vicarious suffering. The frogs were foolish when they cried out to the boys, "What is fun for you is death to us." The very wrongs of the oppressed have more than nonce called out the finest qualities in their oppressors, which might have, for want of incitement, lain dormant forever. In compensation for injustice at home, a deal of commisseration may be scattered abroad. Who can tell but that certain small, sporadic iniquities wrought against the blacks in America have so softened the consciences, both of the people and of our ruling powers, that they have been led to sympathize with the oppressed of all the foreign world, and to utter tearful protests against American outrages and Kisheneff massacres?" In closing Mr. Wilson touches seriously on the deep religious nature of the Negro, his reverence, and his confident hope of a future life. "And who best represent the Christian spirit," asks Mr. Wilson; "the Aryan raging over the loss of a tooth, demanding a tooth in return, and refusing to be comforted without it, or the humble black, who, hardly smitten on one cheek, meekly presents the other to the smiter? In the lowliness of the Founder of his faith the Negro finds comfort for his own poverty. He is not so engrossed with earthly things, but he has a constant eye on Paradise." "Through all his vicissitudes, hope is the black man's priceless asset. This he never loses, how gloomy soever the way. For him there is always something in the future, no matter how distant." * * * "Of joy he cannot be bereft; his buoyancy overtops any sorrow. Pessimism seldom knows him. One miracle of deliverance has been performed for him, and he is confidently expecting another." Added to those named are Booker T. Washington, educator and leader, whom all men delight to know, and Chas. W. Chestnut, the author. A people who can develop such fruits of creative genius and special talent in a single generation from slavery as are indicated in the instances quoted must be destined to yet occupy an important and honorable place in the country in which their lot has been Providentially cast.—Catholic Northwest. POLITICAL POT-PIE The time and place of holding the next state convention have already begun to be a topie of political discussion where one or two of the faithful have assembled together in Ankney’s name. In view of the fact that the nominees for state honors will not be very numerous this year the Pie-maker is of the opinion that the convention should not be held before September 15th. In the meantime, however, let the committee get together and fix the base of apportionment so that the county convention may be held at which delegates to the state convention are elected. Speaking about apportionment there is a disposition to fix the apportionment of del- egates to the next state convention on Mead’s vote for no other purpose than to punish precincts who voted against the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1906. Of course such men as Harry Fairchild desire to do such and what is it Fairchild does not desire to do? But the Pie-maker does not favor any such move. Hundreds of Republicans voted against Mead because they thought him a corporation mouthpiece, and if he was a can- didate for re-election this year hundreds of other Republicans would vote against him because they think Harry Fairchild is his mouthpiece. No Republican should be punished for voting against Mead. Those who voted against him when he was a candidate just showed they had more political judgment than the thou- sands who did vote for him but who want to vote against him now, but have no op- portunity to do so. The apportionment should be based on Cushman or Jones’ vote and thereby let the convention be a big one. The last issue of the Seattle Argus in commenting on the allegation that has been made to the effect that John L. Wilson was laying plans to succeed Senator Piles in the Senate, the editor thereof said, if John L. Wilson would only get out of polities for himself, and with the assistance of his paper assume the leadership of the Republican par- ty of this state, he could within a compara- tively short time build up the Republican party and at the same time kill off the hun- dred and one grafters that are now sucking the lifeblood out of the party. If the Argus would only believe just what it has said it would be in line for helping Senator Wilson do as it has suggested. John L. Wilson is a candidate for no political job now nor any time in the future, but he is endeavoring to do just what has been suggested, kill off the grafters in the party, and from the begin- ning that he has already made his prospect for success along that line seems exceed- ingly bright. While this paper cannot speak authoritatively, it feels perfectly safe in say- ing that under no circumstances will John L. Wilson allow the use of his name again in connection with the United States Sen- atorship from the State of Washington. . Judging from the sentiments expressed in the P.-I. from time to time that paper means to be violently opposed to the re-election of Senator Levi Ankney, and if Senator Piles attempts to go to the reseue of Mr. Ankney THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN he too will come in the range of the editorial guns of Seattle’s morning paper. If the P.-I. succeeds in defeating Senator Ankeny it will have won its first great victory in the state in killing off the political grafters that have hung around the neck of the Republican party like millstones for the past decade or more. Chief among them being one George H. Baker, one D. B. Crocker and lastly but no wise least, one George H. Stevenson. While R. L. McCormick of Tacoma has not announced himself as a candidate to suc- eeed Senator Ankeny yet it is generally un- * oo a a ‘- fa at COMMISSIONER DAN R. ABRAHAM Whose Renomination Is Being Bit- terly Opposed. derstood that he has the bee in his bonnet and whether he is or is not elected Mayor of Tacoma he will make the fight. The Pie- maker does not believe at this time that there is any understanding between Mr. Me- Cormick and Senator Wilson, in fact Sen- ator Wilson has never as yet met the man, but Senator Wilson realizes the fact that King and Pierce counties should get together and make a fight to have the two Senators come from respectively King and Pierce. Piles is now in the Senate from King county and there is no reason why either McCormick or some other good man should not go to the Senate from Pierce county. The two counties combined have forty-five votes in the legislature and it only requires sixty-nine votes to elect a United States senator, and it would be an easy matter for the combina- tion to pick up 24 votes on the outside and working under such an agreement the two counties could hold the Senatorships al- most indefinitely. At this writing the Republican party in King county seems badly demoralized, in other words, all shot to pieces. The recent defeat of Riplinger, the attitude of the P.-I. and the more recent road and bridge fund expose, gives the party such a black eye that the most ardent Republicans are inclin- ed to believe that unless it has a general house-cleaning before the next county con- vention it is doomed to defeat. The oppo- sition to Senator Ankeny in the county is of such a positive character that it is feared the senatorial fight will extend to every coun ty and precinct nominee in the county. ‘he elements in the party that defeated its nom- inee for Mayor in Seattle a few days ago have decided to drive John Wooding, Frank and John Claney, George U. Piper ‘‘et al’’ out of the control of the polities of King county FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1906. and if they are not able to drive them out at the primaries they have made up thcir minds to drive them out at the polls, even if they have to defeat the party from stem to gudgeon. Nothing is so indicative of that fact than the great mass of prominent men who attended the public installation at the opera house last Monday. The men who pay the taxes of the county and who fur- nish the sinews of war, which build up Se- attle, were the most interested spectators at that meeting and by their presence they wished to impress upon the minds of the men being inducted into office that they were on their good behavior and if they did not make good they would not again be trusted. The Seattle daily papers gave considerable space during the past week to a misrepre- sentation of the meeting held at the Diller Hotel last Saturday afternoon, and the con- test for county commissioner. The third district, in which Georgetown is located, is now represented by Mr. Abra- hams. There is undoubtedly a sentiment against Mr. Abraham’s renomination, partic- ularly in and about Georgetown. The causes for this opposition the News is not in a position to give at this time. The fact that the voters of Georgetown feel that they are entitled to the office and have named one of their citizens as a candidate for the na- ination is sufficient to secure the support of a majority of the party men in this section. Mr. W. A. Carle has been persuaded to make a fight for the nomination. If this sec- tion really desires a change we know of ro better or competent man from the third «lis- trict. It remains now for Mr. Carle’s sup- porters to go down the line and show what they can do. They have received most flat- tering assurances that the district will send a strong delegation favorable to the George- town man. But the statement made in the Seattle papers that the renomination of Mr. Abrahams will result in a repudiation of the ticket by the voters of Georgetown, or any other section of this district, is grossly unfair to the party men in Georgetown in view of the many sacrifices they have made in the past to preserve harmony in the party. —Georgetown News.’ On the other hand, the Pie-maker heard a south district politician say one day this week, that, in his opinion, Dan Abrahams would be nominated to succeed himself, but that he would not give a tinker’s dam for his chances at the polls. ‘‘Dan is a personat friend of mine, but as it now stands George- town, Renton and all of that neck of the county would vote almost to a man against him at the polls and then should the P.-I. be against him as it has already intimated it would be on commenting on the county road expenditure, there is no doubt in my mind that he would be defeated by an over- whelming vote. Under such circumstances it seems to me that Dan would show his gooc sense by refusing to be slaughtered at the polls and I am saying this despite the fact that I will be for him in the convention and also at the polls should he be nominated. A blind man can see the political trouble brew- ing in this vounty just now and why not profit by experience.”’ Word has come in from all seetions of the country, or rather from the various parts in FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1906. this legislative district, that the nomination of Hon. B. H. Morgan, as state senator next fall, to succeed Hon. S. T. Smith, of Marysville, is already an accepted fact. Mr. Morgan has many friends all over Snohomish county, and they will all be glad to see him in the upper house next fall. He has a clean record as representative; in his two terms service, has made an extensive acquaintance over the state, and is a very logical candidate for the position.—Snohomish Tribune. Should the Republicans of that senatorial district see their way clear to nominate Ben Morgan it would be the promoting of a worthy man, for there is no denying the fact that he has made his mark in the house of representatives of this state. In the senate Mr. Morgan would give Snohomish county a standing in the political affairs of the state that she never would have with S. T. Smith in the senate. Let the good work of nominating good men go bravely on. H. G. Kirkpatric, so reports the Collville Index, is a candidate for state senator from that district and stands a good show to get the nomination. For four years Mr. Kirkpatric was prosecuting attorney of the county and it is said he is rather popular, all of which wil help him in his fight for the senatorial nomination and election. The change of elective officials in the city last Monday likewise brought about a change in the presidency of the City Council, H. C. Gill retiring and David W. Bowen succeeding him. President Bowen has named the following standing committees: Judiciary—Gill, chairman; Revelle, Hurd. Finance—Crichton, chairman; Mullen, Murphy, Burnett, Sawyer. Claims—Burnett, chairman; Conway, Hurd, Morrison, Kelso. Streets—Mullen, chairman; Murphy, Sawyer, Keene, Reynolds, Burnett, Couway. Sawyer, Keene, Reynolds, Burnett, Couway. Sewers—Reynolds, chairman; Keene, Kelso, Mullen, Sawyer. Fire and water—Zbinden, chairman; Crichton, Reynolds, Gill, Conway. Police—Murphy, chairman; Kelso, Hurd, Morrison, Burnett. License and revenue--Morrison, chairman; Conway, Hurd, Sawyer, Reynolds. Corporations—Gill, chairman; Revelle, Zbinden, Morrison, Crichton. Health and sanitation—Burnett, chairman; Crichton, Revelle, Gill, Conway. Public buildings and grounds—Hurd, chair Murphy, Sawyer, Mullen, Kelso. Harbors and wharves—Burnett, chairman; Crichton, Zbinden. Adjudication—Mullen, chairman; Revelle, Gill. City lights and lighting—Revelle, chairman; Murphy, Gill, Sawyer, Reynolds. Library and printing—Morrison, chairman; Hurd, Revelle, Reynolds, Burnett. Labor—Kelso, chairman; Hurd, Conway. Elections and boundaries—Murphy, chairman; Revelle, Keene, Zbinden, Mullen. Parks and boulevards—Conway, chairman; Revelle, Zbinden, Keene, Reynolds. Civil service and salary—Sawyer, chairman, Burnett, Gill, Crichton, Murphy, Mullen, Hurd. Engrossed bills—Mullen, chairman; Revelle, Zbinden. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN "Well, I really believe Hi Gill is an honest man," said a well known citizen, who in the past has not minced language he used in censuring Mr. Gill in pronouncing him one of the most notorious grafters ever elected to a seat in the council of Seattle. He was just leaving the Grand opera house where he had listened to Hi Gill tell those present just how to get in touch with the city coun- [Picture of a man in a suit and tie, with a serious expression.] COUNCILMAN H. C. GILL, Who Did Some Very Plain Talking. cil. While what Hi did say has been published a number of times, yet it was so good and said in a mannerism so characteristic of Gill that The Seattle Republican cannot refrain from publishing it once more: "It is with a matter of some trepidation that I make my appearance in public, and I wonder if it would not be well to put on a suit of armor and a baseball mask. "I want to speak a few words in behalf of the old council. I understand the people want to get nearer to us. I will say upon my oath that personally I cannot tell how to get nearer. I can tell you better how not to get near them. "After you have spent years building up a little piece of a reputation, enough to be elected to office, you then get out and undeceiev yourself by listening to the attacks on your character. The farthest away an office holder resides from the person who is attacking his reputation the stronger the attack. I will venture to say that if the people in the Tenth ward had been voting for me in the last election I would not have received two votes. "Just because you go way out somewhere and buy a lot and pay $11 in taxes every year you are the only man in the ward, of course, and everything in the way of civic improvement or legislation must be done to meet your lot. Never go to your councilman for anything unless you are mad at him. He can run sewers up hill or cut streets through hills any way you want them. It doesn't matter. If you want electric lights, insist on wires being strung along your street—put the pole in the alley, if necessary, and then go and kick because it is there. Then don't take city light. Cuss him because he isn't a Florence Marvin and can't see your troubles. "If your telephone bell gets out of order, blame the councilman, for his daughters may be the operators. But don't forget to cuss him. If some four-flusher comes along and wants a million-dollar franchise, demand that it be immediately granted; join some improvement club and resolute because he doesn't. Two years later after the franchise has been granted and you see how things have been tied up, turn loose and roast him again. "I have been roasted, toasted and lambasted until I have a metaphorical hide that would make the skin of a rhinoceros look like a piece of tissue paper. I am giving you practical advice on how not to get close to your councilman. "I am glad that this meeting is being held in order that these fool things may be mentioned. Destiny of City. "This city has got to be built on one of two lines. In twenty years we are going to have the third largest city in the United States; in fifty years we are going to have the largest, barring one—history and our maps show it. Either that or we are going to be a country village. "Go home and around your dinner table and before your children say that 'Hi Gill is a grafter.' Then let your son go to school and point out Hi Gill's son and say: 'There's Hi Gill's boy. Hi Gill is a grafter.' That helps. "The man who makes a charge of theft against a man and doesn't know what he is doing is doing as low lived a trick as a man ever did. "We can do nothing on the theory that this town is going to be a village, and you should take into consideration the fact that some councilmen at least are honest. I will close by paraphrasing the lines of an old poet: "'The jingle of the guinea does not cure the hurt that honor feels.'" ITEMS OF INTEREST. Cyclometers are in use in the cabs of Berlin, Leipsic and Dresden. They record the exact amount of miles traveled, and the legal fare of the occupants. Thirty years ago, In Texas, whisky was the popular drink. Then murders and tragic affrays were common. At present beer has to a great extent displaced whisky, and the state is almost as orderly as a New England community. A lazy fellow in Topeka, who has a large family, thinks of immigrating with his crowd to Panama, provided he can get a job on the canal. Children there live on wild fruit and wear nothing. This saves grocery bills, washing and mending. Besides, liquor is sold in every grocery store. The people who possess the best eyesight are those whose lands are vast and barren, and where obstacles tending to obstruct the sight are few. Eskimos will detect a white fox in the snow at a great distance, while the Arabs of the deserts have such extreme powers of vision that on the vast plains they will pick out objects invisible to the ordinary eye at ranges from one to ten miles distant. GOVERNOR VARDAMAN ANSWERED. Professor W. E. B. DuBois has rendered a good service to the race in the March number of The Voice of the Negro, by answering categorically the charges recently lodged against the Afro-American people by Governor James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, whose mouth is much fuller of words and phrases than his head is of facts. Governor Vardaman has laid it down that the Afro-American people are dying out; will not save; cannot be educated; are not efficient workmen; are becoming more criminal; education is the cause of their increased criminality. Instead of dying out, Prof. DuBois shows, by statistics, that the Afro-American people have increased in numbers from 1,002,037, in 1800, to 8,883,994, in 1900. He explains that "because of the vast white migration from Europe, the proportion of blacks in the United States is becoming less, but this, of course, is no reflection on the virility of the Negro. The rate of increase of the Negro has decreased from 32 per cent. per decade at the beginning of the nineteenth century to 18 per cent. at the end; but the increase of the white population has also fallen from 36 per cent. to 21 per cent., and this too in spite of the millions of white immigrants who settled here in the last century. Taking the original stock of white and black inhabitants and the Negro element has without doubt increased the faster, and is still increasing faster." Instead of being a spendthrift, saving nothing, the Afro-American, Professor DuBois shows, in 1890, owned 21 per cent. of their farms, and in 1900, 25 per cent. of them; the total number of farms so owned being 187,797, comprising 12,000,000 acres, with farm values of $230,000,000, the value of their farm products, in 1899, being $57,422,-983. The average acreage per farm was 77, valued at $871, the average annual production per farm being $278, exclusive of that fed to stock. The approximate property valuation of the entire race is placed at $350,-000,000 to $400,000,000. Instead of being incapable of being educated, it is shown that the Afro-American's illiteracy has been reduced from 79.9 per cent., in 1870, to 44.5 per cent. in 1900. "Up to 1900 nearly 400 Negroes had graduated from the best Northern colleges, and many had made brilliant records." As workers, the Afro-Americans, by the twelfth census, as farmers, exclusive of the farm laborer, produce 2.5 of all the cotton, 1.5 of the sweet potatoes, and 1.10 of all of the rice and tobacco. They own and rent $500,000,000 worth of farm property, on which they raise, annually, $256,000,000 worth of products. In 1899 these crops included 4,000,000 bales of cotton, 100,000,000 bushels of corn, 4,000,000 bushels of wheat, 88,000,000 pounds of tobacco and 23,000,000 pounds of rice. "To this must be added all that was raised on white farms by Negro labor." As to the increase of crime among Afro-Americans the charge is shown to be untrue in one way and true in another; but in Governor Vardaman's own State the prison records show that in 1890, 69.9 per cent., and, in 1900, 50 per cent. of the Afro-American population were illiterate; of 450 convicts THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN about half being ignorant, and of the other half less than 10 per cent. having anything like a fair education. In a general estimate of this question of relative criminality between whites and blacks it is impossible to reach any fair basis of conclusion, because of the inequality in the administration of justice in the Southern States where the bulk of the Afro-American people reside, the latter getting maximum sentences in minor as well as major offenses while the whites are practically exempt from sentences save in the gravest offenses. Until these shall be impartiality in the administration of justice no comparison that will stand the test can be instituted between the relative criminality of whites and blacks. The illiterates of all races, statistics shows, constitute the larger per cent. of the criminal class, and it would be a horrible and remarkable fact if the Afro-American people were an exception to the universal rule. All in all, it is a safe and a fair conclusion that the Afro-American people are no better and no worse than other people.—New York Age. SOME REASONS FOR DISFRANCHISEMENT. From time to time a great deal of interest and excitement are shown by our Northern brethren because so few Afro-Americans in the South vote. The more we look into the subject the more we are convinced that, while there is undeniably wrong and injustice and outrage on the part of the governing powers in the Southern states, the Afro-American is not wholly blameless. We have found that in some of the Southern states the Afro-American will not pay his poll tax and register and thus qualify himself to vote. He refuses to pay the tax in many sections and in many cities where he would have no trouble in voting. A close examination also reveals the fact that many of our college men who rejoice in advising the people to stand up for their political rights fail themselves to register and pay the poll tax in their communities. No person can help a man who will not help himself. No person can make a voter of the Afro-American if he fails to qualify and exercise the primary and necessary function of voting. The government can do something but the government is not going to pay an individual's poll tax. Complaint is also made about the white man's primary. There is no doubt that the white man's primary has for its sole object the depriving of the Afro-American of his political rights; at the same time, however, there is nothing in any law in any of the Southern states which prevents Afro-Americans from holding primaries of their own. The same law that governs the white primaries applies alike to Afro-American or Republican primaries, if they are held. There are a few simple, plain facts we must face, which whining and complaining are not going to remedy.—New York Age. The arrest of J. E. B. Reed for selling mortgaged property, which under the law is a felony, is the climax of an eventful career FRIDAY. MARCH 23. 1906 in Seattle. That Reed is stark crazy every one who has had dealings with him will verily testify to. He is daffy over starting a "new paper," and has begun the publishing of quite a number of them during his four years' sojourn in Seattle. If the penitentiary is staring him in the face it would be much more humane to send him to an asylum. Walter Griffin, who also poses as a newspaper man and grins from ear to ear when some one addresses him as Editor Griffin, is out with another vicious graft on which he is fleecing the public. He is around town selling tickets to a "grand celebration entertainment to be held at Leschi Park, given under the auspices of the U. S. Grant Club of Seattle," for which he gets 50 cents a ticket. Nobody but Griffin knows anything about such an organization and entertainment, and whatever funds are collected Griffin uses them to continue his course of criminal carousing. Just why sensible Anglo-Saxons will persist in giving up money to such fakes nobody but themselves seem to know. Griffin, like Reed, is crazy, and both of them should be taken to some bughouse. --- The Seattle Republican PRINTS PRINTS LEGAL NOTICES THE UNION SAVINGS TRUST COMPANY OF SEATTLE IN THE UNION THERE IS STRENGTH Cor. Second Ave. and Cherry St. Hoge Building Seattle, Wash. JAMES. D. HOGE, 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 FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1906 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington in and for King County. Ada M. Ryan, plaintiff, vs. A. W. C. Ryan, defendant. No. 50529. Summons. The State of Washington, to the said A. W. C. Ryan, 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 9th day of March, 1906, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff herein, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for the plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the said complaint, which is filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this action is to obtain a decree of divorce dissolving between plaintiff and defendant, on the grounds of desertion and non-support. P. O. address: 323-324 Colman Building, Seattle, Washington. Date of first publication March 9, 1906; last publication April 20. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, in and for the County of King. Fred Archer, plaintiff, vs. Mary A. Archer, defendant. No. ____. Summons. The State of Washington to the 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. 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 17th day of March, 1906, by the Clerk thereof, in the case of John E. Riseidorph, plaintiff, versus Sophia Johnson, defendant, No. 50654, 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 28th day of April, A. D. 1906, before the Court House door of said King County, in the State of Washington, all of the right, title and interest of the said defendant Sophia Johnson, in and to the following described property, situated in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: Lot numbered forty (40), in block numbered one (1), and lots numbered forty-one (41) and forty-two (42), in block numbered four (4), all in Portland and Puget Sound Railway Addition to South Seattle, levied on as the property of said defendant Sophia Johnson, to satisfy a judgment, amounting to one hundred ninety-two and 10-100 dollars ($192.10) and costs of suit, in favor of plaintiff. Dated this 19th day of March, 1906. L. C. SMITH, Sheriff. By EDW. DREW, Deputy. March 23—April 20. STATE OF WASHINGTON IN THE Superior Court, in and for King County. Lulu F. Roos, plaintiff, against Jules F. Roos, defendant.—No. ..... Summons. The State of Washington to the above named defendant Jules F. Roos: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the 23rd 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 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 non-support, for more than two years prior to the commencement of this action. ROSSMAN & JOHNSON, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: 300 and 301 Pacific Block, Seattle, Washington. March 23—May 4. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington for the County of King.—In Probate. In the matter of the estate of Ardell D. Pinkerton, deceased.—No. 6789. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against the estate of Ardell D. Pinkerton, deceased, are required to present the same with vouchers, within one year from date of the first publication of this notice, to-wit, the 23rd day of March, 1906, to John F. Reed, administrator of the estate of said deceased, at his place of business, 607 Burke Building, Se- attle, Wash. JOHN F. REED, Administrator of the Estate of Ardell D. Pinkerton, Deceased. March 23—April 20. 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, toowit: 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 State of Washington in and for the County of King. In the matter of the estate of George G. Saunders, deceased. No. 5913. Notice of Appraisement of Property To the Treasurer of the State of Washington and to all patrons whom this may concern: Notice is hereby given and extended to you, and all persons interested in the property owned by the estate of George G. Saunders, deceased, that on the 31st day of March, 1906, at the office of Ira Bronson and D. B. Trefethen, attorneys for the Administrator of the estate of George G. Saunders, deceased, 614-618 Colman Building, Seattle, Washington, the appraiser upon said estate, duly appointed by the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for the County of King, at the hour of two o'clock p. m., or as soon thereafter as the said matter may be taken up, at which time and place you are hereby notified to be present if your interest requires that you be present. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 3d day of March, 1906. A. ROBINSON. L. S. WINANS. L. E. FAY. 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. DANN LANDON, Attorney for Administrator. Room 9-10 Kenny Block. Marcr 2—April 13. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF 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 THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN plaintiff for the purpose of her ob- taining a decree of divorce from the defendant dissolving the matrimonial bonds between them upon the grounds: First: Of the abandonment and des- terion of the plaintiff by the defen- dant ever since the 13th day of Aug- ust, 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. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. May Kinne Bryon, Plaintiff, vs. Albert E. Bryon, Defendant. No. 49782. Alias Summons. The State of Washington, to said Albert E. Bryon, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days from the date of the first publication of this summons, that is to say, within sixty (60) days from the 16th 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 said complaint, which has been heretofore filed with the clerk of said court. The object of said action is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony heretofore existing between yourself and the said plaintiff, said divorce being asked upon the grounds of non-support, cruel treatment and personal indignities rendering life burdensome. J. L. FINCH, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and postoffice address, 220 Colman building, Seattle, King county Washington. The date of the first publication of this summum is March 16, 1906. 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, to wit: 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 unsigned 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 fore- closing 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. Postoffice attorney for Plainfield Postoffice attorney for Plainfield: 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, for King County. In Probate. In the matter of the estate of Sarah A. Williamson, deceased. No. 6811. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, administratrix of the estate of Sarah A. Williamson, deceased, to the creditors and all parties having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers, within one year after the date of this notice, to the administratrix of said estate at 514 Marion Block, in the City of Seattle, King County, Washington, that being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate. Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 8th day of March, 1906. LAURA M. BLITMB. Administratrix. JAMES McNENY, Attorney. 514 Marion Block, Seattle, Wash. Mar. 9. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington in and for the County of King. David D. Foulkes, plaintiff, vs. Berenice Foulkes, defendant. No.— Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to the above named defendant, Berenice Foulkes: 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 23d 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 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. That the object of said action is to obtain a decree absolutely dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and the defendant, on the following grounds, to-wit: on the ground of abandonment for one year and more by the defendant of the plaintiff. McCAFFERTY & BELL. Attorneys for Plaintiff. Postoffice address: Seattle, King County, Washington. Office address: 203 Epler Building. March 23—May 4. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, for King County. In the matter of the estate of Axel Neilson, deceased. No. 6842. Notice to Creditors. By order of said court made herein on the 19th day of March, 1906. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate, to present them with the necessary vouchers to the undersigned Maria C. Danielson, administratrix of said estate, at 17 Dexter Horton & Co. Bank Building, the place of business of said estate, in Seattle, in said county and state, within one year from and after the date of first publication of this notice or same will be barred. Date of first publication March 23, 1906 As Administratrix of said Estate. ISRAEL NELSON, Attorney for Estate. 17 Dexter Horton & Co. Bank Building, Seattle, Wash. 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. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, for King County. Carl D. Tuttle, plaintiff, vs. Isabelle Tuttle, defendant.—No. .... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Isabelle Tuttle, defendant: said Isabella Tuttle, defendant. You are hereby summoned to ap- pear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 23rd day of March, 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 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 dissolve the bonds of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant herein on the grounds of desertion or abandonment for more than one year. J. P. BALL, Attorney, for Plaintiff. Post Office and Office address: 9-10 Starr-Boyd Block, Seattle, County of King, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF King County, Washington. Bessie L. Woodstock, plaintiff, vs. Alma V. Woodstock, defendant.—No. .... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Alma V. Woodstock, the above named 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 23rd 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 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. The object of the above entitled action is to obtain a divorce from the above named defendant on the ground of abandonment for more than one year, and failure to provide for his family. SHANK & SMITH. Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and Postoffice address: No. 1002 Alaska Building Seattle, King County, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Washington, in and for the County of King. Johnnie A. Leslie, Plaintiff, vs. Cora Leslie, Defendant. No. —. Summons. The State of Washington to the said Cora Leslie, 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 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 the above entitled action is to procure from you an absolute divorce on account of abandonment. ANDREW R. 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Mr. and Mrs. John H. Ryan of the Tacoma Forum, spent Wednesday in the city. "In the last Republican city convention in Tacoma there were five Afro-American delegates to the convention, and strange to say, they all came from different wards and precincts, and in none of them were there a half dozen colored voters," said he in comparing the Tacoma convention with the late Seattle convention. Mr. Clifford C. Handcock has closed the contract for a long time lease for the dining room in the Waldorf hotel, corner Pike and Seventh avenue, which hotel is now in the course of erection and will be ready for occupancy on or before September 1st. This is the most favorable lease any Negro caterer has ever secured in Seattle and Mr. Handcock is not sparing money in fitting up in the most magnificent style. He has already purchased silverware amounting to $1000.00 and he thinks it will take at least $500.00 more to complete his set. 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Under the alluring description of "Merry Musical Mixup," "My Wife's Family" is announced as the attraction at the Third Avenue Theatre next Sunday matinee and for the balance of the week. There is nothing serious about this piece excepting its determination to give those who see it some new and good reason for laughter. With this end in view Stephens and Linton, the authors, have taken the old and familiar theme of a henpecked husband, whose wife has many relations who always visit her, and with this framework they have done what would seem on the face of it almost impossible—devised a play which has been pronounced everywhere to have all the elements of success, namely originality and ginger. For the sake of variety music and dance numbers have been introduced, and the whole has been put into the hands of an exceedingly capable company. 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