Seattle Republican

State Library The Seattle Republican CURRENT COMMENT Single Copies, 10 Cents. Is published every Friday by Cayton Publishing Company. Subscriptions, $3 per year; six months, $1.50; postage prepaid. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Seattle. CAYTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. Main 305 427 Epler Block Seattle, Washington HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON, - - - Publisher SUSIE REVELS CAYTON, - - - Associate According to the prosecuting attorney that Kansas schoolma'am is not as black as she was painted. Despite the fact Thanksgiving is just over the fence the turkey supply shows no signs of being overstocked to the extent that the market will be gutted. Commission Merchant Goodwin has been sued for $35,000 by the strawberry shippers of Vashon Island, that amount, they claim, they were defrauded out of. No wonder it is a losing game to raise strawberries for the raisers and a winning game for the dealers. With conviction staring him in the face Col. Alden J. Blethen made his peace with "Acting" Governor Hay not a day too soon. In the powers that be accepting Parrish for mayor of Seattle and his son a third time for county assessor it is quite evident that the Parishes are disciples of the theory. The man who whispers down a well, about the goods he has to sell, won't reap the gleaming, golden dollars, like he who climbs a tree and hollers." Prof. Meaney has jumped from historic hypothesis to poetic prophecies, but we can't say that the world will be any the wiser thereby. With Beattie paying the penalty for murdering his wife in the electric chair the men who tarred and feathered the Kansas schoolma'am convicted, the Patterson murder case of Denver progressing finely and the work of selecting the McNamara jury making progress sensation mongers have had plenty of food for thought for the past week. John B. Goddard, an unflocked priest, is charged with contributing to the delinquency of minors (young girls). He was doubtless only showing them "the way." The King county grand jury has adjourned sine die after a number of months of interesting as well as much-needed work in clearing up the moral atmosphere of Seattle and the surrounding country. The higher ups that have been indicted by the grand jury may not be convicted, owing to political combinations, but there is no denying the fact that the nuisance has been more or less abated and a world of good has been accomplished by the grand jury though no more of the higher ups are convicted and even those pardoned that have been convicted. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOV. 24, 1911. Rice Coating Must Stop. If coated rice is not injurious and in fact just as pure as the uncoated, then why is the pure food commissioner objecting to the selling of coated rice? All adulterations are more or less injurious and for that reason all such should be driven out of the market and no apologies made for having done so. "Near rice" is not rice and so also with all other concoctions palmed off on the unsuspecting public as the real article, and the sooner the pure food commissioner prevent them from being put on the market the sooner will he be doing his duty and protect the interest of the people. Another Way of Changing. The assassination of President Caceres of the St. Dominion republic by political enemies marks another milestone in the turbulent republics of the south sea islands, which seem compelled to undergo a revolution periodically. The Caceres government has lasted four years, which is a remarkably long time for any government in that section of the world. The day will yet come when all of those contending little republics will be taken under the protecting fold of the United States, and it will be a gracious act when it will have been done. The Wets Should Answer. Here is a statement from George F. Cotterrill, which was made in the Maine campaign, that should be answered by the wets of Seattle, despite the fact that it was made in the heat of a campaign: "Seattle has a population of 250,000, while Portland's population is but 50,000. Seattle has 315 saloons paying a revenue to the city of $1,000 each, or $315,000 annually. In Seattle the public debt per capita is $75. In Portland the public debt per capita is $15, or only one-fifth as much. In the saloon-city of Seattle the tax rate is about $3.30 per $100 valuation, while in "dry" Portland it is about $2.00 per $100 valuation, and this despite the fact that Seattle receives yearly $315,000 liquor revenue." The above seems to us an exaggeration, but we are not prepared to say that it is. If, however, it is not an exaggeration but the truth and the whole truth, then it seems to us the "wets" are due an explanation to the public. Intoxicant liquors have and always will be drunk, but this is an onslaught on the open saloon that does not look well in print. The Drys Are Dodging. The following excerpt from the American Issue is more or less misleading and will not stand investigation: "The fight against the liquor traffic in the United States has been half won. Almost two-thirds of the counties of the United VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 38. States are under prohibition. Approximately three-fourths of the incorporated villages are now without saloons. There are 200 "dry" cities having a population of more than 10,000 each; there are forty-nine "dry" cities having a population of more than 25,000 each; there are fourteen "dry" cities having a population of more than 50,000 each; and there are five "dry" cities having a population of more than 100,000 each." The mere fact that many of the counties have gone dry by vote does not by any means show a decrease in the drink habit. Persons living in rural districts seldom ever get to drink resorts, hence they have no special desire to vote a county "wet" since it will be of no special service to them. It's where men, women and often children congregate in drink resorts where the "drys" must make headway before they can boast of "drying" the country. We believe we are safe in saying that there is more intoxicant liquors consumed today in the United States than ever before in her history, the going dry of two-thirds of the counties to the contrary notwithstanding. They Sold Their Souls. That corporate greed might be appeased the Milwaukee railroad was given the right to lay its tracks to Seattle through the Cedar River water right-of-way, and as a result Seattle for the past week has been reaping a most beatuiful reward in the shapeo f a water famine, which has caused untold suffering among the residents of the city. Former City Engineer Thomson almost moved heaven and earth to prevent the Milwaukee being given the right to build its roads through the city's water right-of-way, but the pull of the "interests" was too powerful for him; and it was done in spite of his protests. We know nothing that causes the laymen of the country to look with more suspicion on the official classes than just such cases as this, where the rights and even comforts of the people are peddled off to the highest bidder or to some corporation that will pay the powers a good round sum or money for favoring it. Suit should be brought against the Milwaukee for a million dollars damage and its right to continue to run its trains through the city's water right-of-way be abruptly cut off. Nothing for Howlers. At a Socialist street gathering in Seattle last Sunday evening President Taft was spoken of in a most disrespectable manner, and in fact every official that the speaker referred to got the same kind of medicine. There is no denying that Socialism contains a great many meritorious reforms and like those represented by Populism will sooner or later be adopted by the Republican party, 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 a divorce from defendant upon the grounds of desertion and non-support. Postoffice address, 424-5 Boston Block, Seattle, King County, Washington. Oct. 6—Nov. 17, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. Geo. W. Farlin, plaintiff, vs. John T. Merrill and John F. Merrill, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereafter described real property, defendants. Notice and Summons. State of Washington: To the above defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of one certain delinquent tax certificate issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 1st day of December, 1906, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following year, in the following amount, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Plat of the Town of Berlin, Lot 9, Block 4, Certificate No. B44885, 1905, $10.50. That the taxes for the prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff and Mrs. R. C. Fenner upon said above described real property, to-wit. All of which have been duly assigned to this plaintiff. Lot 9, Block 4, Plat of Town of Berlin, 9c, 1906. Lot 9, Block 4, Plat of Town of Berlin, 15c, 1907. Lot 9, Block 4, Plat of Town of Berlin, 21c, 1908. Lot 9, Block 4, Plat of Town of Berlin, 23c, 1909. Lot 9, Block 4, Plat of Town of Berlin, 19c. 1810. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication November 24, 1911, in the above entitled court and action; and defend this action and answer the complaint of said plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fall so to do, judgment will be rendered herein, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint, now on file in this cause and Court. GEORGE W. FARLIN, Plaintiff CHAS. P. HARRIS, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address 802 Lowman Block, Seattle, Washington. Nov. 24, 1911—Jan. 5, 1912. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. Geo. W. Farlin, plaintiff, vs. H. J. Miller and J. A. Stratton, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereafter described real property, defendants. Notice and Summons. State of Washington: To the above defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of one certain delinquent tax certificate issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 1st day of June, 1908, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following year, in the following amount, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Valentine Addition, Lot 21, Block 11, Certificate No. B53322, 1906, $7.32. That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by Mrs. R. C. Fenner and by the plaintiff upon said above described real property, to-wit. All of which have been duly assigned to this plaintiff. Lot 21, Block 11, Valentine Addition, $4.20, 1907. ORDER A CASE OUT TO YOUR PLACE OF Rainier PALE BEER THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Lot 21, Block 11, Valentine Addition, $2.96, 1908. Lot 21, Block 11, Valentine Addition, $3.23, 1909. Lot 21, Block 11, Valentine Addition, $4.53, 1910. Delinquent Local Improvement assessments on the above property: $4.98, Districts 988 and 1104; $10.60, 1384-1104-988; $10.07, 1384-1104-988; $14.83, 1796-988,-1384-1104, ordance; $1.89, 13102; 70c, 13102; $1.98, 13102; $10.49, 13320. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. North 13 feet L. pect Terrace Addit. trict 1517. North 13 feet L. pect Terrace Addit. Ordance 5624. Which several s are the rate of 15 ce from date of payn unpaid and unredeemed against said real p. You and each of persons unknown, further notified an and appear within date of first public exclusive of the d You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication November 24, 1911, in the above entitled court and action; and defend this action and answer the complaint or said plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint, now on file in this cause and Court. Attorney for Plantin. Office address 802 Lowman Block, Seattle, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County, Geo. W. Farlin, plaintiff, vs. G. Place, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property, defendants. Notice and Summons. State of Washington: To the above defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of three certain delinquent tax certificates issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 1st day of June, 1908, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following years, in the following amounts, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Prospect Terrace Addition, south 14 feet Lot 5, Block 1, Certificate No. B49880, 1906, $5.33. Prospect Terrace Addition, Lot 6, Block 1, Certificate No. B49881, 1906, $19.48. Prospect Terrace, north 13 feet Lot 7, Block 1, Certificate No. B49882, 1906, $4.99. That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by Mrs. R. C. Fenner and the plaintiff upon said above described real property, to-wit. All of which have been duly assigned to this plaintiff. South 14 feet Lot 5, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $4.90, 1907. South 14 feet Lot 5, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $5.69, D. L. A. District 806. South 14 feet Lot 5, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $2.71, 1908. South 14 feet Lot 5, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $4.69, D. L. A. District 806. Lot 6, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $8.88, D. L. A. District 806. Lot 6, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $12.32, 1908. Lot 6, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $8.35, D. L. A. District 806. Lot 6, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $13.42, 1909. Lot 6, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $11.00, D. L. A. Districts 1517 and 806. Lot 6, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $17.02, 1910. Lot 6, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $3.06, D. L. A. District 1517. Lot 6, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $70.80, D. L. A. Ordance 5624. 524 North 13 feet Lot 7. Block Prospect Terrace Addition $525. 1907 North 13 feet Lot 7, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition. $4.86, 1910. North 13 feet Lot 7, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $1.60, D. L. A. District 1517. North 13 feet Lot 7, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Add. $1.60, D. L. A. District 1517. North 13 feet Lot 7, Block 1, Prospect Terrace Addition, $36.82, D. L. A. Ordance 5624. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 cent cent. pen annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication November 24, 1911, in the above entitled court and action; and defend this action and answer the complaint of said plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at this office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint, now on file in this cause and court. CHAS. P. HARRIS. Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address 802 Lowman Block, Seattle, Washington. Nov. 24, 1911—Jan. 5, 1912. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. Summons by Publication. Carrle Himelhoch and Isaac Himelhoch, her husband, plaintiffs, vs. Henry F. Baker and Marle L. Baker, his wife, defendants.—No. The State of Washington, to the above named defendants: IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. Notice to Creditors Notice to Creditors. In the Matter of the Estate of Everett Smith, deceased.—No. 13245. By order of said court made herein on the 26th day of September, 1911. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of, and to all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate or against the community estate of said deceased to present them with the necessary vouchers to the undersigned administrator of said estate, at 229 Burke Bldg., Seattle, Washington, 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 September 29th, 1911. CHAS. S. FOLLETT, As Administrator of said Estate. FRED L. RICE, Attorney for Estate. 229 Burke Block, Seattle, Washington. Sept. 29—Oct. 27, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. Notice and Summons. L. H. Craver, plaintiff, vs. Mary Udell, Harry S. Heath, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property, defendants. State of Washington, to the above de- scribed real property, defendants. State of Washington, to the above defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of one certain delinquent tax certificate issued by the treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 13th day of June, 1910, and numbered B65681, for the delinquent taxes of the year 1907, in the amount of $1.31, and upon real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning 16 feet west of SW, corner of lot 4, Sec. 18, Tp. 22 N., R. 3 E., W. M.; thence west 150 feet; thence north 100 feet; thence east 150 feet; thence south 100 feet to beginning, being part of SE. ¼ of SW. ¼ of Sec. 18. Tp. 22 N., R. 3 E., W. M. That the taxes for the following subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff upon said above described real property, to-wit: for the year 1908, the sum of 94 cents; for the year 1909, the sum of 94 cents. for the year 1909, the sum of 94 cents. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication, to-wit; within sixty days after September 1, 1911, in the above entitled court and action; and defend this action and answer the complaint of said plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the Friday November 24, 1911. satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint, now on file in this cause and court. L. H. CRAVER, Plaintiff. A. C. MAC DONALD, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address, 514 Bailey Building, Seattle, Wash. Sept. 1—Oct. 13, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in the County of King. In Probate. Order fixing time to hear final account and to show cause why distribution should not be made. In the Matter of the Estate of Alfred Abrahamson, deceased.—No. 8345. Annie Abrahamson, executrix of the estate of Alfred Abrahamson, deceased, having filed in this court her final account and petition setting forth that said estate is now in a condition to be closed and is ready for distribution of the residue thereof among the persons entitled by law thereto, and it appearing to the court that said petition sets forth facts sufficient to authorize a distribution of the residue of said estate: It is therefore ordered by the court that all persons interested in the estate of the said Alfred Abrahamson, deceased, be and appear before the said Superior Court of King County, State of Washington; at the court room of the Probate Department of said court in Seattle, Washington, on the 30th day of October, 1911, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock a. m. of said day, then and there to show cause, if any they have, why said final account should not be allowed and an order of distribution be made of the residue of said estate among the heirs and persons in said petition mentioned, according to law. 1 It is further ordered, that a copy of this order be posted in three of the most public places in King County, for a period of four weeks prior to said hearing and published once a week for four consecutive weeks before the said 30th day of October, 1911, in The Seattle Republican, a newspaper printed and published in said King County and of general circulation therein. Done in open court this 29th day of September, 1911. A. W. FRATER, Judge. Sept. 29—Oct. 27, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. Notice and Summons. James Price, plaintiff, vs. Vinci Sepsi, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property, defendants.—No. 82617. State of Washington: To the above defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of one certain delinquent tax certificate issued by the treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 30th day of June, 1909, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following year, in the following amount, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Fairmount Addition to City of Seattle, west one foot of lot 14, block 3 certificate No. B60535; year, 1907; amount, 7 cents. 0 That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff upon said above described real property, to-wit: West one foot of lot 14, block 3, Fairmount Addition to the City of Seattle; amount, 26 cents; for year 1908; west one foot of lot 14, block 3, Fairmount Addition to the City of Seattle; amount, 28 cents; for year 1909. West one foot of lot 14, block 3, Fairmount Addition to the City of Seattle; amount, 35 cents; for year 1910. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. You and each of you (including sal- persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication, to-wit, September 8th, 1911, in the above entitled court and action; and defend this action and answer the complain of said plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint, now on file in this cause and court. J. M. WIESTLING, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address, 314 Bailey Building, Seattle, Washington. Sept. 8-Oct. 20. 1911. Prisoners and Prison Reform which is the party of progress of this country, but the Socialist street howler will be left completely in the cold. It is almost pitiable to observe the former Populist street corner howlers, who really promoted the doctrines of Populism and really educated the people up to its doctrines, to stand about and watch the Republicans enjoy the fruits of their labors. The Populist party is now a thing of the past, while the G. O. P. goes marching on, having been made strong and fat by its good things. It will in the near future absorb whatever good things it finds in Socialism and then kick those out who educated the people up to accepting the theories of Socialism. the above is not the good The Joe Smith Progressive Republicans (?) are still trying to devise ways and means to force Gov. Hay into calling an extra session and to that end a court of inquiry will be held by the governor December 6th to hear what Joe has to say on the subject. There is no doubt but that a great majority of the weekly papers of the state are Progressive in politics, but all of them are opposed to this proposed extra session, they arguing that the cost would overshadow any good that might be derived therefrom. While it is the consensus of opinion that La Follette has the state of Washington, yet La Follette himself realizes he can accomplish very little at the National Republican convention as it will be overwhelmingly for Taft unless Theodore Roosevelt should show some signs of getting into the presidential fight. And why put the state to $100,000 expenses for an extra session to prove what is already known? The political idiosyncrasies that are backing Joe Smith are not doing so because they love their country, but because they love themselves more and want to create positions for themselves, whereby they can be drawing a regular salary and give nothing in return. A Monument For Thomson. The first stone in the monument that the people of Seattle will in after years build to the memory of Reginald H. Thomson was carved this week when it was discovered that it was the building of the Milwaukee along the right-of-way of the Cedar river pipe line that was responsible for the city being out of water and light for a whole week. Mr. Thomson told them just such things would happen and he is now of the opinion that the half has not been thought of. Even Thomson's enemies are now pouring out faint praise on him for the stand he took in the building of the Milwaukee, and as time passes on they will not be pouring faint praise upon him, but they will be shouting his praises from the mountain top for what he did for Seattle. It is our hope that Mr. Thomson will live to see the tide turned his way and hear for himself the praise of those who now damn him. The Literary Digest is running a "Fifty Years Ago" column of the war. We hope it will soon get around to the second battle of Manassas. The way the Yankees have been licking us of late is disheartening. Columbia (S. C.) State. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Prison Reform Work. Corwin S. Shank, one of Seattle's most prosperous attorneys-at-law, who for the past five years or more has given considerable of his time in devising means and ways to reach the criminal classes of the human family after they have sinned and compelled to suffer for their misdeeds, spoke at length before the Methodist Brotherhood of the First Methodist church of Seattle last Monday evening. In the course of his remarks he said, "two persons every twenty-four hours are sent to the penitentiary of the state of Washington; two persons are ar- [Name] CORWIN S. SHANK. rested every hour in the state for infractions of the law, and it is to reach out and get those convicted of crime and restore them to usefulness that was responsible for the establishing of a reformatory at Monroe. Men sent to the penitentiary are not always criminals, but often become criminals before leaving the institution on account of associations, but whether they really become criminal at heart or not, the mere fact that they have served in a penal institution makes them despised and shunned by their fellow men. The Monroe reformatory tries to create a new life into the unfortunate, give him a trade and then start him out when paroled from the institution with a new determination, and it is the hope of those giving so much of their time to reform the young men that are sent away from the institution that the citizens will likewise aid in the work by giving the deserving ones employment. Mr. Shank made a splendid impression on those present and they got from him a far different idea of the work than they had ever had before. Discussing penitentiary prisoners, chaplain of the Indiana state prison, has the following to say: "First of all I make it my duty to see the new prisoner and interview him promptly. There were twenty-eight such new men received last month, and that is a fair average. The purpose of this interview is to get the prisoner to see that the institution which he has entered had nothing whatever to do with his coming; that its officers can have nothing against him personally and will be his friends and advisers if he will let them that the institution is not maintained for the purpose of humiliating him unnecessarily, but its every regu- Friday November 24, 1911. lation is for his help if he will so receive it; that he is not merely 'doing time,' but is to be given the opportunity to demonstrate his fitness for release; that the length of his stay depends more upon himself than any other agency; that he will be given a 'square deal' on every hand; that we propose to do our duty by him whether he does by us or not, but the doing of that will be a great deal easier if he responds to his duty; that he has no need to give up hope because of this experience; that the whole purpose of this institution is to help him recover his manhood and make him self-dependent, and if he proves himself worthy it will help him some day to take his place in the world again. "At this first interview also I usually get the beginnings of my data in the prisoner's case. I learn his name, age, color, the date of his sentence, the term for which he was sentenced, and whether he pleaded guilty or not. I keep a card index of all the prisoners and later, as my acquaintance with the man ripens, I add to the information gained at the first interview the facts as to his previous criminal history; if he has any; his record in the prison; his statement of it; his own statement of his crime; the judge's and prosecutor's statement of it; their recommendation as to his parole; and the information which may be gathered by correspondence or personal investigation. "Personal ocntact is not refused after the first interview. The prisoner can see the chaplain any time he makes a request to do so. Besides I visit him occasionally at his place of work, or in his cell, just as any pastor should visit his parishioners. I am sure my preaching to him and my teaching in the Bible-study class are far more helpful and effective and more acceptable to the prisoner because they grow out of and are tempered by my contact with him and my knowledge of nim. "Then I have the personal contact with the prisoners which grows out of requests from them for interviews. Unexpected opportunities for service often come in this way. "A third line of service open to me is that of knowing thoroughly every prisoner's case, and being ready to answer accurately inquiries made by the parole board. Advice will be sought in all the difficult cases, and is welcomed in all. But often duty to the prisoner, as well as duty to the State, demands that the chaplain shall frankly refuse to recommend a prisoner for parole. I always tell a prisoner frankly whether I will 'say a good word' for him or not. It may be thought that the frequent necessity of refusing to do this would imperil the chaplain's influence with the prisoners. In an experience of six years I have found that the majority of prisoners respect only the chaplain who will deal frankly and honestly with them. "Another line of service is through correspondence. Many mothers and wives and other relatives of prisoners are writing to know about their loved ones. We have in the prison burglars, pickpockets, thieves, forgers, bank-wreckers, criminals of every Country Press and Comment description, and they are thought of and spoken of by people in general as such. But when parents and wives and brothers and sisters of these men write to me they say; 'my son,' 'my husband,' 'my brother,' and I receive enough of such letters daily to keep my heart tender and remind me that I am dealing with my brothers." BORROWER THOUGHTS. Italy is seated on the Ottoman. Boston Transcript. Two out, Steal at bat, Department of Justice pitching Wall Street Journal A good way for Eastern women to get the ballot would be by removal to California or Washington Los Angeles Tribune China a republic and England a monarchy in 1911. History is full of pleasant little ironies.—Detroit Free Press. The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that a boy of 8 years is not worth $5,000. Some boys weren't. They grew up to be judges of the Court of Appeals.—Philadelphia North American. Another revolution is scheduled for Mexico. The revolutionists wish to fight for freedom from the freedom for which they last fought.—Harrisburg Telegraph. A Boston man publishes three magazines, "The Journal of Inebriety," "Poet Lore," and the "Journal of Abnormal Psychology." They should pull together well.—New York World. Our own modest surmise is that people are going over to the Socialists as the only conservative and business cherishing party now on view.New York Sun. It may turn out yet that it was Loeb who told the United States Steel Corporation that it might go ahead and take over the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company.-Ohio State Journal. President Taft's reelection is to be opposed by business men because he has disturbed business; by retail merchants because he favors a parcels post; by the small consumer because of the tariff, and by still others just because. Otherwise, his chances next year are excellent.—Wall Street Journal. Do the rebels of the uprisen South China refer to the soldier from the North as Yan Kee?—Little Rock Gazette. Will Manuel, Diaz, and Abdul Hamid kindly move over and make room for ex-King Mathewson?—Kansas City Star. The Seattle woman who horsewhipped a judge who decided a case against her was probably too mad to wait for the recall. Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. Mary Garden says Philadelphia is the most musical American city. Well, of late the Quaker town has been hearing the music of the spheres. St. Louis Times. China is handling its insurgent movement so poorly that it is feared the new emperor has a judicial temperament.—Kansas City Star. Judging by the press reports of existing conditions in China, the "Son of Heaven" is a long ways from home.—San Francisco Bulletin. Woodrow Wilson says "the Democrats are willing to give every one a voice." Certainly they have enough to go around.—Harrisburgh Telegraph. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN At the publishers meeting last Saturday it was suggested that the Washington State Fair should be held in King County instead of North Yakima as its present location made it a one or two county affair that has utterly failed to draw any interest from this side of the mountains while its location at a point somewhere between Tacoma and Seattle would draw crowds from the east who would also be interested in the above mentioned cities. Besides appealing to a much larger local population.—Issaquah Independent. And the publishers propose to give this proposed county fair all the publicity that their respective papers are able to give it, and not in the distant future but immediately. Nothing can take the place of a well regulated county fair, so far as the farmers are concerned, and no county in the state needs such an institution more than does King county. Yes, it's too late for a county fair this year, but it's not a day too soon to begin laying the plans for next fall's exhibition. There's lots of work ahead and the county commissioners should get busy and purchase the necessary ground.—Olympia Independent. Well, if Thurston county can afford to have a fair, certainly King county can afford to have a dozen of them, and we hope the farmers and business men of King county will see to it that a number one fair is held next year. If there was a convention held tomorrow, San Juan county would line up for the Progressives by a large majority.—Friday Harbor Journal. We suspect that if a primary was held next week that the state would go two to one for La Follette, and we say this despite the fact we think he is a political hypocrite. Rumor has it that J. E. Frost is to become a candidate for congress on the Republican ticket in this district. He will prove a very strong man and will make La Follette get up and hump.—Ellensburg Dawn. There is more truth than poetry in the rumor, but perhaps Frost has not heard of the division of the state between the big newspaper publishers. When, however, he does he will hardly have the effrontery to announce himself, though his county is something of a 'twixt and 'tween of the Coles and the Wilson division. Gov. Hay would do well to let well enough alone and not reconvene the legislature in special session. Special sessions are expensive. Why add further to the big burden that has already been heaped upon a long suffering public?—Ellensburg Dawn. This comes from a Socialist Democratic paper and it is our sentiment exactly, not that we are trying to protect Gov. Hay politically, but because we do not think it necessary from a taxpayer's point of view. The welcome news, long ago given out by the Monitor-Transcript, that the Mil- 3 waukee would build up Woods creek is coming to hand a little stronger now and it is announced seriously that the road will make of Monroe the chief point on its main line to aVncouver. This sounds good to us and every action and plan of the road since it first planned its line north from Monckton to Everett has indicated that the ultimate intention was to continue building directly north from Monroe. Monitor-Transcript. Look out for the "dark-horse" in the next Republican convention.—Lue Vernon Well, while we hope to be present, yet so far as we now know we have nothing up our sleeves, not even a razor. Whitman county has more hogs (the four-legged kind) than any other county in the state of Washington, according to the report of the state board of equalization. It shows a total of 16,127 head. With the price of pork as it is, some one ought to make some money.— We have heard it said that she is likewise well supplied with the two-legged kind. This at least seems to be the opinion of a few ambitious politicians who fell short of the mark of high calling on account of the stubbornness of Whitman county politicians. A good many years ago, when a boy was whipped at school, he received another whipping when he went home, but in these days the father and mother wipe his tears away and go and whip the teacher.—Enumclaw Herald. It was cruel for the parent to lick his boy because he got licked at school, because no one should be put in jeopardy twice for the same offense. It's wrong to lick or to bicker with a teacher for licking your boy in order to make a better man of him, as teachers seldom, if ever, punishes a pupil for selfish motives. The best way of all is to turn your boy over to the teacher and let direct him as he or she thinks best. What Whoppers. Some newspaper men are awful liars. In writing of a cyclone in Kansas, one of them said it turned a well inside out, cellar upside down, moved a township line, blew the staves out of a whiskey barrel, and left nothing but a bung hole, changed the day of the week, blew a mortgage off a farm, blew all the cracks out of a fence, knocked the wind out of a politician and blew the tar and feathers off a shoal mann. Sheriff Cresap "got it in the neck" but a little thing like that don't put him off duty. He is still very much alive and on the job even though he has a bullet hole in his neck. —Ridgefield Reflector. The sheriff of King county got it in the head after his second election and now no one dares to try to live in the county when Sheriff Bob objects. Instead, however, of a hole he has wheels in his head, which the county pays for. Prisoners and Prison Reform 2 which is the party of progress of this country, but the Socialist street howler will be left completely in the cold. It is almost pitiable to observe the former Populist street corner howlers, who really promoted the doctrines of Populism and really educated the people up to its doctrines, to stand about and watch the Republicans enjoy the fruits of their labors. The Populist party is now a thing of the past, while the G. O. P. goes marching on, having been made strong and fat by its good things. It will in the near future absorb whatever good things it finds in Socialism and then kick those out who educated the people up to accepting the theories of Socialism. An Expensive Luxury. The Joe Smith Progressive Republicans (?) are still trying to devise ways and means to force Gov. Hay into calling an extra session and to that end a court of inquiry will be held by the governor December 6th to hear what Joe has to say on the subject. There is no doubt but that a great majority of the weekly papers of the state are Progressive in politics, but all of them are opposed to this proposed extra session, they arguing that the cost would overshadow any good that might be derived therefrom. While it is the consensus of opinion that La Follette has the state of Washington, yet La Follette himself realizes he can accomplish very little at the National Republican convention as it will be overwhelmingly for Taft unless Theodore Roosevelt should show some signs of getting into the presidential fight. And why put the state to $100,000 expenses for an extra session to prove what is already known? The political idiosyncrasies that are backing Joe Smith are not doing so because they love their country, but because they love themselves more and want to create positions for themselves, whereby they can be drawing a regular salary and give nothing in return. A Monument For Thomson. The first stone in the monument that the people of Seattle will in after years build to the memory of Reginald H. Thomson was carved this week when it was discovered that it was the building of the Milwaukee along the right-of-way of the Cedar river pipe line that was responsible for the city being out of water and light for a whole week. Mr. Thomson told them just such things would happen and he is now of the opinion that the half has not been thought of. Even Thomson's enemies are now pouring out faint praise on him for the stand he took in the building of the Milwaukee, and as time passes on they will not be pouring faint praise upon him, but they will be shouting his praises from the mountain top for what he did for Seattle. It is our hope that Mr. Thomson will live to see the tide turned his way and hear for himself the praise of those who now damn him. The Literary Digest is running a "Fifty Years Ago" column of the war. We hope it will soon get around to the second battle of Manassas. The way the Yankees have been licking us of late is disheartening. Columbia (S. C.) State. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Prison Reform Work. Corwin S. Shank, one of Seattle's most prosperous attorneys-at-law, who for the past five years or more has given considerable of his time in devising means and ways to reach the criminal classes of the human family after they have sinned and compelled to suffer for their misdeeds, spoke at length before the Methodist Brotherhood of the First Methodist church of Seattle last Monday evening. In the course of his remarks he said, "two persons every twenty-four hours are sent to the penitentiary of the state of Washington; two persons are ar- CORWIN S. SHANK. rested every hour in the state for infractions of the law, and it is to reach out and get those convicted of crime and restore them to usefulness that was responsible for the establishing of a reformatory at Monroe. Men sent to the penitentiary are not always criminals, but often become criminals before leaving the institution on account of associations, but whether they really become criminal at heart or not, the mere fact that they have served in a penal institution makes them despised and shunned by their fellow men. The Monroe reformatory tries to create a new life into the unfortunate, give him a trade and then start him out when paroled from the institution with a new determination, and it is the hope of those giving so much of their time to reform the young men that are sent away from the institution that the citizens will likewise aid in the work by giving the deserving ones employment. Mr. Shank made a splendid impression on those present and they got from him a far different idea of the work than they had ever had before. Discussing penitentiary prisoners, chaplain of the Indiana state prison, has the following to say: "First of all I make it my duty to see the new prisoner and interview him promptly. There were twenty-eight such new men received last month, and that is a fair average. The purpose of this interview is to get the prisoner to see that the institution which he has entered had nothing whatever to do with his coming; that its officers can have nothing against him personally and will be his friends and advisers if he will let them that the institution is not maintained for the purpose of humiliating him unnecessarily, but its every regu- Friday November 24, 1911. lation is for his help if he will so receive it; that he is not merely 'doing time,' but is to be given the opportunity to demonstrate his fitness for release; that the length of his stay depends more upon himself than any other agency; that he will be given a 'square deal' on every hand; that we propose to do our duty by him whether he does by us or not, but the doing of that will be a great deal easier if he responds to his duty; that he has no need to give up hope because of this experience; that the whole purpose of this institution is to help him recover his manhood and make him self-dependent, and if he proves himself worthy it will help him some day to take his place in the world again. "At this first interview also I usually get the beginnings of my data in the prisoner's case. I learn his name, age, color, the date of his sentence, the term for which he was sentenced, and whether he pleaded guilty or not. I keep a card index of all the prisoners and later, as my acquaintance with the man ripens, I add to the information gained at the first interview the facts as to his previous criminal history, if he has any; his record in the prison; his statement of it; his own statement of his crime; the judge's and prosecutor's statement of it; their recommendation as to his parole; and the information which may be gathered by correspondence or personal investigation. "Personal contact is not refused after the first interview. The prisoner can see the chaplain any time he makes a request to do so. Besides— "I visit him occasionally at his place of work, or in his cell, just as any pastor should visit his parishioners. I am sure my preaching to him and my teaching in the Bible-study class are far more helpful and effective and more acceptable to the prisoner because they grow out of and are tempered by my contact with him and my knowledge of nim. "Then I have the personal contact with the prisoners which grows out of requests from them for interviews. Unexpected opportunities for service often come in this way. "A third line of service open to me is that of knowing thoroughly every prisoner's case, and being ready to answer accurately inquiries made by the parole board. Advice will be sought in all the difficult cases, and is welcomed in all. But often duty to the prisoner, as well as duty to the State, demands that the chaplain shall frankly refuse to recommend a prisoner for parole. I always tell a prisoner frankly whether I will 'say a good word' for him or not. It may be thought that the frequent necessity of refusing to do this would imperil the chaplain's influence with the prisoners. In an experience of six years I have found that the majority of prisoners respect only the chaplain who will deal frankly and honestly with them. "Another line of service is through correspondence. Many mothers and wives and other relatives of prisoners are writing to know about their loved ones. We have in the prison burglars, pickpockets, thieves, forgers, bank-wreckers, criminals of every Country Press and Comment description, and they are thought of and spoken of by people in general as such. But when parents and wives and brothers and sisters of these men write to me they say; 'my son,' 'my husband,' 'my brother,' and I receive enough of such letters daily to keep my heart tender and remind me that I am dealing with my brothers." BORROWER THOUGHTS. Italy is seated on the Ottoman. Boston Transcript. Two out, Steal at bat, Department of Justice pitching. Wall Street Journal. A good way for Eastern women to get the ballot would be by removal to California or Washington. Los Angeles Tribune. China a republic and England a monarchy in 1911. History is full of pleasant little ironies. Detroit Free Press. The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that a boy of 8 years is not worth $5,000. Some boys weren't. They grew up to be judges of the Court of Appeals.—Philadelphia North American. Another revolution is scheduled for Mexico. The revolutionists wish to fight for freedom from the freedom for which they last fought.—Harrisburg Telegraph. A Boston man publishes three magazines, "The Journal of Inebriety," "Poet Lore," and the "Journal of Abnormal Psychology." They should pull together well.—New York World. Our own modest surmise is that people are going over to the Socialists as the only conservative and business cherishing party now on view.—New York Sun. It may turn out yet that it was Loeb who told the United States Steel Corporation that it might go ahead and take over the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company.—Ohio State Journal. President Taft's reelection is to be opposed by business men because he has disturbed business; by retail merchants because he favors a parcels post; by the small consumer because of the tariff, and by still others just because. Otherwise, his chances next year are excellent.—Wall Street Journal. Do the rebels of the uprisen South China refer to the soldier from the North as Yan Kee?—Little Rock Gazette. Will Manuel, Diaz, and Abdul Hamid kindly move over and make room for ex-King Mathewson?—Kansas City Star. The Seattle woman who horsewhipped a judge who decided a case against her was probably too mad to wait for the recall. Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. Mary Garden says Philadelphia is the most musical American city. Well, of late the Quaker town has been hearing the music of the spheres.—St. Louis Times. China is handling its insurgent movement so poorly that it is feared the new emperor has a judicial temperament.—Kansas City Star. Judging by the press reports of existing conditions in China, the "Son of Heaven" is a long ways from home.—San Francisco Bulletin. Woodrow Wilson says "the Democrats are willing to give every one a voice." Certainly they have enough to go around. Harrisburgh Telegraph. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN At the publishers meeting last Saturday it was suggested that the Washington State Fair should be held in King County instead of North Yakima as its present location made it a one or two county affair that has utterly failed to draw any interest from this side of the mountains while its location at a point somewhere between Tacoma and Seattle would draw crowds from the east who would also be interested in the above mentioned cities. Besides appealing to a much larger local population.—Issaquah Independent. And the publishers propose to give this proposed county fair all the publicity that their respective papers are able to give it, and not in the distant future but immediately. Nothing can take the place of a well regulated county fair, so far as the farmers are concerned, and no county in the state needs such an institution more than does King county. Yes, it's too late for a county fair this year, but it's not a day too soon to begin laying the plans for next fall's exhibition. There's lots of work ahead and the county commissioners should get busy and purchase the necessary ground.—Olympia Independent. Well, if Thurston county can afford to have a fair, certainly King county can afford to have a dozen of them, and we hope the farmers and business men of King county will see to it that a number one fair is held next year. If there was a convention held tomorrow, San Juan county would line up for the Progressives by a large majority.—Friday Harbor Journal. We suspect that if a primary was held next week that the state would go two to one for La Follette, and we say this despite the fact we think he is a political hypocrite. Rumor has it that J. E. Frost is to become a candidate for congress on the Republican ticket in this district. He will prove a very strong man and will make La Follette get up and hump.—Ellensburg Dawn. There is more truth than poetry in the rumor, but perhaps Frost has not heard of the division of the state between the big newspaper publishers. When, however, he does he will hardly have the effrontery to announce himself, though his county is something of a 'twixt and 'tween of the Coles and the Wilson division. Gov. Hay would do well to let well enough alone and not reconvene the legislature in special session. Special sessions are expensive. Why add further to the big burden that has already been heaped upon a long suffering public?—Ellensburg Dawn. This comes from a Socialist Democratic paper and it is our sentiment exactly, not that we are trying to protect Gov. Hay politically, but because we do not think it necessary from a taxpayer's point of view. The welcome news, long ago given out by the Monitor-Transcript, that the Mil- 3 waukee would build up Woods creek is coming to hand a little stronger now and it is announced seriously that the road will make of Monroe the chief point on its main line to a Vncouver. This sounds good to us and every action and plan of the road since it first planned its line north from Monckton to Everett has indicated that the ultimate intention was to continue building directly north from Monroe. Monitor-Transcript. Look out for the "dark-horse" in the next Republican convention.—Lue Vernon. Well, while we hope to be present, yet so far as we now know we have nothing up our sleeves, not even a razor. Whitman county has more hogs (the four-legged kind) than any other county in the state of Washington, according to the report of the state board of equalization. It shows a total of 16,127 head. With the price of pork as it is, some one ought to make some money.— We have heard it said that she is likewise well supplied with the two-legged kind. This at least seems to be the opinion of a few ambitious politicians who fell short of the mark of high calling on account of the stubbornness of Whitman county politicians. A good many years ago, when a boy was whipped at school, he received another whipping when he went home, but in these days the father and mother wipe his tears away and go and whip the teacher.—Enumclaw Herald. It was cruel for the parent to lick his boy because he got licked at school, because no one should be put in jeopardy twice for the same offense. It's wrong to lick or to bicker with a teacher for licking your boy in order to make a better man of him, as teachers seldom, if ever, punishes a pupil for selfish motives. The best way of all is to turn your boy over to the teacher and let direct him as he or she thinks best. What Whoppers. Some newspaper men are awful liars. In writing of a cyclone in Kansas, one of them said it turned a well inside out, cellar upside down, moved a township line, blew the staves out of a whiskey barrel, and left nothing but a bung hole, changed the day of the week, blew a mortgage off a farm, blew all the cracks out of a fence, knocked the wind out of a politician and blew the tar and feathers off a shoal mann. Sheriff Cresap "got it in the neck" but a little thing like that don't put him off duty. He is still very much alive and on the job even though he has a bullet hole in his neck. Ridgefield Reflector. The sheriff of King county got it in the head after his second election and now no one dares to try to live in the county when Sheriff Bob objects. Instead, however, of a hole he has wheels in his head, which the county pays for. PERSONS IN THE PUBLIC EYE A good man When Great Caesar went down and out the Roman Republic found it impossible to harmonize on a successor and in order to obviate a civil war the country was divided in three parts which was ruled by a Triumvirate, the one not trespassing on the domains of the other. Is history to repeat itself by the state of Washington being divided into three parts and the owners of the great daily papers to rule and direct it and the one under no circumstances to encroach upon or interfere with the other? Rumor has it that a truce has been arranged between John L. Wilson, chief stockholder of the Post-Intelligencer, Samuel A. Perkins, the squeeze of the Perkins Press with its myriads of publications, and C. W. Coles, chief owner of the Spokes- man-Review and the Spokane Chronicle, and, politically speaking, the state is to be divided between this journalistic triumvirate and, if all live up to the compact, the papers under the control of each of them will work for whatever the other fellow may want in his division. Beyond the Columbia river and for some distance this side Mr. Coles is to control and to that end he has already caused his former editor, and one of the heavy stockholders in his publications; to announce himself for Congress against La Follette, and he will be enthusiastically supported by the other members of the triumvirate. The territory lying south of King county, known as the great Southwest, is allotted to Sammy Perkins and to that end he is demanding the nomination of Gov. Hay to succeed himself, and I. M. Howell, secretary of state, to succeed himself. Sammy has not quite made up his mind whom he will send to Con- gress to succeed Stanton Warburton, and it is barely possible he will decide to let Stanton alone. John L. Wilson is to have King county and the Northwest and to that end he is planning to succeed Wesley L. Jones in the United States Senate, dictate a majority of the nominations for state offices next year and become general political factotum to the whole. With the backing and endorsement of his political partners he has come to the Chamber of Commerce of Seattle and told its members, "You'll have me for United States Senator or you will have no one from Seattle," and to prove what he said he showed them the handwriting on the wall and the members interpreting it immediately fell down and worshipped him. Col. Alden Joseph Blethen of the Seattle Daily Times could not be consistently allowed in the Triumvirate, but he was given to understand that the grand jury indict- THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN IN THE PU ments against him and his two sons might be withdrawn, but in case they were not, and should he be convicted, he would be immediately pardoned by Gov. Hay, providing he let up on the "acting governor," which he has done. As a higher price of sop he was told that Will E. Humphrey would be permitted to go back to Congress practically without opposition, and to that end Blethen at once announced the candidacy of Humphrey to succeed himself and all former opposition to him had been over at the same time declared all former opposition to him had been overcome. In Seattle to further pacify the Blethen-Gill combination, George W. Dilling is to be butted off of the mayoralty race and some man, acceptable to all concerned, be GEORGE W. DILLING, brought out and nominated, and that man will probably be Thomas A. Parrish, who will retire from the tax commission and thereby make room for another disciple of Senator Wilson. Now, Senator Wilson never had a more loyal supporter than Tom Parrish and should he be elected mayor the city government will be at the request of the senator and his candidacy, and with the aid of the hCamber of Commerce Wilson is to be without opposition in King county. The Seattle Republican can not say that it has any serious objection to any of those who are to become a part of the political wheel of this modern triumvirate of the Northwest, but it is of the opinion that it will be placing a great deal of power in the hands of a few men. They may use that power wisely, but if they do they will do better than did the ancient triumvirate that --- Friday November 24, 1911. ruled Rome and better by far than any bunch of politicians has ever done. Already the owner of the Post-Intelligencer has more to say as to who will receive Federal appointments in the state than have the two United States Senators, as President Taft is under everlasting obligations to him. Summing it all up, it looks as though the state is practically in the hands of one of the strongest and best forged political rings that has been seen since the notorious Matt Quay of Pennsylvania went down and out. The Washington political triumvirate will in all human probability endorse W. H. Paulhamus of Pierce county for lientenant-governor, I. M. Howell of Pierce for secretary of state, C. W. Claussen of Kitsap for auditor and W. Vaughn Tanner of King for attorney general. There will be some slight disagreement over the nominees for state land commissioner, state treasurer, insurance commissioner and superintendent of the public schools. It is quite probable that a woman will be nominated for one of the above places, and perhaps two of the places will be given to the women. E. A. Sims of Port Townsend may be endorsed for speaker of the house of representatives. Councilman Steiner of Settle, who is now an invalid in aClifornia, has resigned and a successor will be voted for next Monday and the indications at this time point to the selection of A. E. Ruffner of Ballard. Mr. Ruffner has been more or less prominent in political circles for years and is the publisher of the Ballard News. He and his friends made a still hunt for the place they having inside knowledge that Steiner couldn't come back and committed a majority of the members of the council to his candidacy before the other fellows fully realized there would be any vacancy. A. S. Ruth, twice elected state senator from Thurston county and likewise an attachee of the state land commissioner's office under E. W. Ross, who, after the close of the last session of the legislature, went to California for his health, who, after regaining his health, made an ass of himself as only Ruth can do, by opposing woman suffrage, visited Seattle a few days ago and after spending a few days with friends returned to California, where he meant to make his home, until woman suffrage won. It is now hinted that Ruth will return to Olympia in time to be a candidate for state senator, and if he does the women will not do a thing to him in the primaries, and if nominated will then wage a more relentless war on him than the one they will wage on him in the primaries. The Seattle Republican wants your legal publications. Main 305. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for the County of King. In Probate. Order to show cause why distribution should not be made. In the Matter of the Estate of James McCarthy, deceased.—No. 11951. Lottie McCarthy, administratrix of the estate of James McCarthy, deceased, having filed in this court her petition setting forth that said estate is now in a condition to be closed and is ready for distribution of the residue thereof among the persons entitled by law thereto, and it appearing to the court that said petition sets forth facts sufficient to authorize a distribution of the residue of said estate: It is therefore ordered by the court that all persons interested in the estate of the said James McCarthy, deceased, be and appear before the said Supreior Court of King County, State of Washington, at the court room of the Probate Department of said court in the City of Seattle, on the 9th day of November, 1911, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock a. m., of said day then and there to show cause, if any they have, why an order of distribution should not be made of the residue of said estate among the heirs and persons in said petition mentioned, according to law. It is further ordered, that a copy of this order be published once a week for four successive weeks before the said 9th day of November, 1911, in The Seattle Republican, a newspaper printed and published in said King County and of general circulation therein. Done in open court this 2nd day of October, 1911. A. W. FRATER. Judge. Oct. 6—Nov. 3, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. Summons by Publication Estella M. Smith, plaintiff, vs. William A. Smith, defendant—No. The State of Washington, to the said William A. Smith, 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 29th day of September, 1911, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the said action and the relief sought to be obtained therein is fully set forth in said complaint, and is briefly stated as follows: To obtain a judgment of said court granting a divorce to plaintiff from you and to dissolve and sever the marriage relations now existing between plaintiff and you upon the grounds of desertion and non-support. J. P. BALL, Attorney for Plaintiff. Postoffice and office address, 201-203 Burke Building, Seattle, County of King, State of Washington. Sat. 20 Nov. 10 1911 NOTICE AND SUMMONS. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. J. W. Brown and Daisy Fern Brown, his wife, and Northwest Property Company, a corporation, plaintiffs, vs. Ben Hazeltine, Annie D. Hazeltine, his wife, Frances L. Hazeltine, as executrix of the will and estate of C. B. Hazeltine, deceased, J. Settle, Louise S. Washburn, R. C. Washburn, her husband, and all persons unknown having or claiming an interest or estate in the real property hereinafter described, defendants. The State of Washington, to the said Ben Hazeltine, Annie D. Hazeltine his wife, Frances L. Hazeltine as executrix of the will and estate of C. B. Hazeltine, deceased, J. Settle, Louise S. Washburn and R. C. Washburn her husband, and to all persons unknown having or claiming an interest or estate in the property hereinafter described, and to all persons claiming in any manner under, by, through or from any of the above defendants: You and each of you are hereby notified and summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, tow: within sixty days after the 22nd day of Sept. 1911, 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 plaintiffs, at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you and each of you including said persons unknown and all claimants, according to the demands of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court, and decree of partition entered and rendered, setting forth the specific portions of the South West Quarter (1/4) of the South East Quarter (1/4) of Section Twenty Four (24) Township Twenty Five (25) North of Range Four (4) East of the W. M. in King County, Washington, found and decreed to be the sole property of the plaintiff as prayed and granting the relief prayed which is the object of this action, and for costs. 1324 Alaska Building, Seattle, Wash. Sept. 22; Nov. 3, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. Geo. W. Farlin, plaintiff, vs. A. B. Jennings, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereinafter described THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN real property, defendants. Notice and Summons. State of Washington: To the above defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of one certain delinquent tax certificate issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 1st day of June, 1908, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following year, in the following amount, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Jennings' Ballard Addition, Lot 4, Block 51, Certificate No. B54029, 1906, $2.36 That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by the Mrs. R. C. Fenner upon said above described real property, to-wit. All of which have been duly assigned to this plaintiff. Lot 4, Block 51, Jennings' Ballard Addition. $2.03, 1907. Lot 4, Block 51, Jennings' Ballard Addition $1.20, 190$ Addition, $1.20, 1908. Lot 4, Block 51, Jennings' Ballard Addition, $1.29, 1909. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication November 24, 1911, in the above entitled court and action; and defend this action and answer the complaint of said plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint, now on file in this cause and Court. Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address 802 Lowman Block, Seattle, Washington. Nov. 24, 1911—Jan. 5, 1912 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. Carrie King, plaintiff, vs. Wm. Herbert King, defendant. No. 83601. The State of Washington to the said Wm. Herbert King, 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 20th day of October, 1911, 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 obtain a divorce by the plaintiff from the defendant on the grounds of habitual drunkenness and failure to support. GEO. McKAY, Plaintiff's Attorney. P. O. Address, 450 Arcade Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Oct. 20, Nov. Dec. 1, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, in and for King County. No. 83606. Walter Winfield Ayer, plaintiff, vs. Elizabeth Ayer, defendant. The State of Washington to the said Elizabeth Ayer, the defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the 20th day of October, A. D. 1911, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of the 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 has been filed with the clerk of said court. Said action being for a decree of absolute divorce on the ground of desertion. P. O. address, 535 Henry Bldg., Seattle, Washington. Oct. 20, Dec. 1, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. George W. Farlin, plaintiff, vs. Jackson Realty Company, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property, defendants. Notice and Summons. State of Washington: To the above defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is SUMMONS. the holder of one certain delinquent tax certificate issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 6th day of May, 1911, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following year, in the following amount, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: East Seattle Addition Lot 44, Block 23, Certificate No. B68144, 1907, 99c. That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff upon said above described real property, to-wit: Lot 44, Block 23, East Seattle Addition, 58c, 1908. Lot 44, Block 23, East Seattle Addition, 47c, 1909. Lot 44, Block 23, East Seattle Addition, $1.01, 1910. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication November 3, 1911, in the above entitled court and action; and defend this action and answer the complaint of said plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint, now on file in this cause and Court. GEORGE W. FARLIN, Plaintiff. CHAS. P. HARRIS, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address 802 Lowman Block, Seattle, Washington. Nov. 3, Dec. 15, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. George W. Farlin, plaintiff, vs. Jackson Realty Co., and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property, defendants. Notice and Summons. State of Washington: To the above defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of one certain delinquent tax certificate issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington, dated the 6th day of May, 1911, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following year, in the following amount, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: East Seattle Addition, Lot 43, Block 23, Certificate No. B68143, 1907, 99c. That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff upon said above described real property, to-wit: Lot 43, Block 23, East Seattle Addition, 58c, 1908. Lot 43, Block 23, East Seattle Addition, 47c, 1909. trio, Lot 43, Block 23, East Seattle Addition, $1.01, 1910. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication November 3, 1911, in the above entitled court and action; and defend this action and answer the complaint of said plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint, now on file in this cause and Court. GEORGE W. FARLIN, Plaintiff. CHAS. P. HARRIS, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address 802 Lowman Block, Seattle, Washington. Nov. 3, Dec. 15, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. Geo. W. Farlin, plaintiff, vs. A. B. Jennings, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the hereinafter described real property, defendants. Notice and Summons. State of Washington: To the above defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the hereinafter described real property, are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff is the holder of one certain delinquent tax certificate issued by the Treasurer of King County, State of Washington. dated the 1st day of June, 1908, and numbered as follows, for the delinquent taxes of the following year, in the following amount, and upon the real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Lot (3) Three in Block Fifty-One of Jennings' Ballard Addition, King County, Washington, Certificate No. B54028, 1906, $2.36. That the taxes for the following prior and subsequent years have been paid by Mrs. R. C. Fenner upon said above described real property, to-wit. All of which have been duly assigned to this plaintiff. Lot 3, Block 51, Jennings' Ballard Addition, $2.03, 1907. Lot 3, Block 51, Jennings' Ballard Addition, $1.20, 1908. Lot 3, Block 51, Jennings' Ballard Addition, $1.29, 1909. Which several sums bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum from said date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. You and each of you (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby further notified and summoned to be and appear within sixty days after the date of first publication of this notice, exclusive of the day of said first publication November 24, 1911, in the above entitled court and action; and defend this action and answer the complaint of said plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. In case you fail so to do, judgment will be rendered herein, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against each, for said taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale of each parcel of said property for the satisfaction of the sums charged and found against it respectively as provided by law, and as prayed in plaintiff's complaint, now on file in this cause and Court. GEORGE W. FARLIN, Plaintiff. CHAS. P. HARRIS, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office address 802 Lowman Block, Seattle, Washington. Nov. 24, 1911—Jan. 5, 1912. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. Stewart & Holmes Drug Co., a cor- poration, Plaintiff, vs. J. G. Ross, Defendant. Summons for Publication. No. 83,288. The State of Washington to the said J. G. Ross, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, towit: Within sixty days after the 13th day of October, 1911, 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 obtain judgment against you for the sum of Two Hundred and Twenty-eight Dollars ($228.00) with interest besides costs of suit and to reach by garnishment certain personal property and funds belonging to you in the hands of J. W. Reed. LEOPOLD A. STERN, Plaintiff's Attorney. P. O. Address, 705 Lowman Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of first publication Nov. 26, 1911. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington for King County. David Forrest Welch, plaintiff, vs. Sarah Ellen Welch, defendant. The State of Washington, to the said Sarah Ellen Welch, 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 22nd day of September, A. D. 1911, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure, so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The object of the said action and the relief sought to be obtained therein is fully set forth in said complaint, and is briefly stated as follows: To obtain a judgment of said Court granting a divorce to plaintiff from you and to dissolve and sever the marriage relations now existing between plaintiff and you upon the grounds of incompatibility of temperament, and personal indignities rendering life burdensome. J. P. BALL, Attorney for Plaintiff. Postoffice and office address: 201-203 Burke Building, Seattle, County of King, State of Washington. Sept. 22; Nov. 3, 1911. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. Summons for Publication. Jennie Smith, plaintiff, vs. George Smith, defendant.—No. — The State of Washington to the said George Smith, 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 6th day of October, 1911, and defend the