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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-14
Departed.

For Maui and Hawaii ports. per stmr.
Msuna Loa, July 13.-Joseph X Aea, A.
p. Kaulukou. c. Al. Walton, wife and
son, James Rolph and wife. J. Tunsley,
Mrs. II. NJ. Overend. A. 8. Cleghorn, John
NcCandless, Sister Benedict.ne, Annie
Lopa, Belinda James and boy. Rev. ]. II.
van Deerlin. A. @. Dickens. A. =. Boil
lere, c. 8. Holloway. Mrs. James Corn
well and child. Julia Mohoa, Mrs Atch-
erley and child. Emily, Naopala, Miss
Carrie Green. Miss Alice Green, Miss
Rhoda Green. Miss A. NJ. Paris. Mrs. G.
p Muivaney. Mrs. NJ. G. Aldrich. Helen
Aldrich. Swinton- Aldrich. Bern.ce AL
drich, william Rosa, Norman Aldrich
Mrs. w Koeppe. Winnie Sharratt. Miss
Alice Smith. Miss Saxton. Miss G.. 8.
Patterson. Lucy Sharratt. NJ. F. Scott
George Baiiy and wife. w. s. Akana. Geo
II. Robertson. J. McChesney. A. Marcel
limo. J. j. Newton. A w. Carter. Judge
EIartwoll. w. S. Edings. r. Wallace. w
X. Azbul. Mr.. Lndgren, L. Wa -, w
A. Wal. X. +. Brown. w. Ahee, Atone
Aheen and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Holmes
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
OUTLOOK NOT FLATTERING.

The citizens Of any city that is
oyerrun with thieves, thugs and
murderers, as is Seattle, at present,
do not have much to look forward to
in the way of being protected from
such class of humanity, when the
officers of the law that patrol the
streets are guilty of acting as accom-
plices Of the criminals, to the extent
that when the criminal relieves the
citizen of his valuables the officers Of
the law will guarantee the safe re-
turn of such valuables, if the citizen
will only offer a sufficient reward in
gold coin for the return Of the same.
Such a state of affairs existed in the
city of New York for a number Of
years and was only up-rooted and
driven out Of existence after legis-
lative committee investigated and
exposed the entire workings of the
police Of that city in connection
with the criminal classes. For a citi-
zen to be held up on one corner Of
the street and relieved Of his money
and valuables by fOOtpad, and to
be approached on another corner by
an officer of the law with the propO-
sition that if he will only pay a suf-
fcient reward in gold coin both his
money and his valuables will be
safely returned to him is a state of
municipal affairs that is vergine
close onto anarchism. Such a condi-
ton may not exist in Seattle in real
ity, but great many of the citizens
of this city really believe that it
does, and it is the duty of those in
authority to show them that they
are mistaken by having the city's po-
licemen and sleuth-hounds to ferret
out crime without the citizen or the
person who has been robbed by the
footpad to be compelled to offer tc
the officers and sleuths a side reward
to get their valuables returned.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
SEATTLE
SUMMARY
OF Local News for the Past
Seven Days.
Court News Suppressed d-The Edi-
tors Thrown in JAIL Officer
Leighton's Trouble Frisch's Ex-
posure- Criminal Outlook Other
News of Importance.
COURT NEWS SUPPRESSED.

More than a month ago The Seat
tie Republican issued an edict to the
chief of police and the policemen in
general, as well as to the mayor of
this city, to suppress the vile and vii
famous sheet published in this city
and known as the Court News, but
the edict was not obeyed, and be-
cause at the time the police were
enjoying the fun found in its col
umns on the other fellow. There is
always a day of reckoning, and the
viper that is placed in the farmers
bosom to prevent freezing when
warmed will strike the farmer Just
as quick as it will an enemy. So the
Court News that was being indirect
ly encouraged by the police, soon
began to strike at the very men en-
couraging it and tell things on them
as well as on other people Then at
once the emergency arose on the
part of the chief Of police and his
detectives to destroy the paper and
its plant, which they did last Satur-
day morning 1t was most excel
lent piece Of work, however, even if
the devils did do it., for no publica-
ton that has made its appearance on
the streets Of any city of the United
States was SO deserving of extermin-
alton as was that Court News. Its
editors were arrested, thrown in jail,
bailed out by men Of their kind,
but re-arrested by the prosecuting
attorney, and they now languish in
durance vile, just where they should
have been months ago. 1t struck
The Republican as being rather re-
markable that such a paper could be
printed, published and distributed
on the streets Of city Of the United
States in which there were a hun-
dred different churches, and
yet it was done. The citi-
zens of any respectable mining camp
in which there was not a single wo-
man living would have resented the
distribution Of such a paper among
the miners. For once in the history
of the Seattle police force, it has
done a meritorious deed.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE..

The carnival Of crime that has
reigned supreme in this city for the
past three years, growing worse each
year, each month and each week,
has moved the Chamber of Com
merce, the largest, most influential
and most united body of men work
ing for the best interests of this city
to be found in the city, to demand
Of Mayor Humes in a ringing reso-
luton that he take some immediate
steps to prevent further crime on the
public streets of this city. The reso-
luton offered by Mr.. Knox and un-
animously adopted by the Chamber
of Commerce is as follows:
"Inasmuch as crime has become
so prevalent in our city that our citi-
zens are unsafe in going from their
places Of business or work to their
homes, and inasmuch as some effec-
tual means should be adopted to af
ford our people the security they de-
serve; therefore be it
"ResOlved, By the Chamber oil
Commerce of Seattle, that the city
council be requested to take such
measures as in their Judgment seen
best and most effectual to CHECK
crime and to secure the enforcement
Of the law for the benefit Of The
city"
When a conservative body, mad,
up of business men Of all parties
factions and conditions of mankind
Of all kinds of religious beliefs a
well as unrelgious beliefs, is move,
to censure an administration as diC
the Chamber of Commerce one da
this week rebuke the Humes munic
| ipal administration, it is very evi
dent that something is RADICAL
wrong with such administration
Perhaps Mayor Humes and his cit
officials are right in their way of dc
ing and their way of running thi
; city, and then perhaps the Chambe
Of Commerce with its 500 member
is wrong in censuring the admins
tration for its way Of running II
/, city, but such is not believed by
{ majority of the citizens of this cit
e regardless of their past or presel
h party affiliations. 1t is not the il
tention of either the newspapers
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
OTHERS HAVE DONE 1T.

1t appears that the above, if it be
true, is not the first instance where
the officers of the law in this city
have approached persons who have
been robbed and offered to see that
the property was returned, if the
persons robbed would offer a suffici-
ent reward, and the following from
the Saturday Mail Herald will
to some extent bear out the asser-
ton:
GA few days ago one of Seattle's
prominent citizens was held up, near
the business center Of the city, and
relieved Of all the valuables on his
person, including watch The
watch was of particular value to him.
being in the nature of an heirloom.
He fastened to the police headquar-
ters, but instead of turning his case
over to that august and slow moving
body, he paid detective $15 to take
up the case at once. Before mid
night (within three hours time) his
goods were restored to him. The pc
culiar part of the situation is that no
arrests were made, and no one was
called to account for the robbery.
The next question is, who was the
hold-up?
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
SPINDLE IN HAWAII.

The state Of Washington has con
tributed very interesting Negro
emigrant to the islands of Hawaii
in the person of John H. Spindle
formerly an engineer at Roslyn. Fol
the past twelve years Mr.. Spindle
has been an engineer at this camp.
and during all that time he has been
a hard and faithful student in the
work in which he was engaged, and
took a special course in some engi-
neering school in the East, which
guaranteed him a paying situation
as soon as he had finished the same.
The opportunity came to the school
when there was a call made by the
sugar planters of the Hawaiian ISL
ands for colored help of all kinds
and classes that are used in perfect
ing such crop. At once Mr.. Spin
die was ordered to the islands as one
of the engineers to accompany the
200 colOred men that left Nashville,
Tenn, for the same destination. He
was accompaied by his wife, and
they are Of the opinion that they
have found a spot that they have
been so long looking for.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
PRICE FIVE CENTS

the Chamber of Commerce of this
city to advertise it as rendezvous of
thieves, thugs and murderers, but
unfortunately they are here and
some way must be devised by the
city officials and the business men
to rid the city Of them. The mayor
and the chief of police do not seem
inclined to want to free the city of
this very objectinable class of hu-
manity and they have become so
bold and aggressive in their opera
tons on the streets that the business
men who are compelled to 90 to and
from their places Of business and
their homes, have been moved to
take some steps in that direction for
their own protection In many in
stances they have been moved by
the foOtpads themselves, not only
moved, but touched for every cent
and every valuable they would hap
pen to have on their persons while
en- route to their homes after hard
days work had been done. 1t is time
to begin to look at this matter from
a practical business standpoint and
every citizen in the city unite in try
ing to rid the city of its oversupply (,
of genuine bad men.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
BROTHER
IN BLACK
Finding Favor Among Owners
of Leading Journals.
Professor Booker IT. Washington
Writes of the Rise Of the Negro
A Plain Everyday Communication
Negroes GO to Hawaii to Work
on Sugar Plantations.
COLORED LITERATEURS.

1t is noted that Prof. Booker T.
Washington is now regular con-
trlbutor to the San Francisco Out
look, which is said to be one Of the
leading journals Of its kind in the
West. The Negro race is to be con-
graduated in finding the columns Of
leading Journals open to its mem
bers for regular contributions, and it
Is especially to be congratulated on
them being thrown open to Prof.
Washington True it is that the ar
tlcles contributed by Prof. Wash
lngton are plain statements and facts
concerning the race, which he is en-
deavoring to elevate and make good
citizens of this country, and for the
most part practically without liter
airy merit; nevertheless, they are
eagerly read by the Caucasian race,
and especially those that are inter
ested in the same cause as is Prof.
Washington, because they tell the
story Of race that is being led from
slaverydom to the higher planes Of
civilization in a plain, matter-of-
fact way. The contributions of
Prof, Washington are hike unto the
early stage performers among the
Negroes, inasmuch as they tell only
of the characteristics of the colored
race, which for a number of years
will be highly appreciated by the
white race of this country. The
hardships Of any race, their tolls and
their ups and downs of life, when |
told by one of their number. always |
ehclts sympathy, pity, and in num-
Der of instances, real meritorious ap-
preciation, and this has prompted |
the Outlook, in connection with a !
number Of other leading periodicals
Of 1fr country, to ask celered mem
of literary ability to contribute ar
ticles touching the condition of the
race to which they belong, and for
which articles they pay literally.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
MIR. FRIsCH,s ACCUSATION.

A few days ago Mr.. Frisch lost
about $4,000 worth Of jewelry from
his store, which was entered during
the night by thieves with pass key.
The stock Of jewelry being burglary
insured, Mr. Frisch was giving him
self no great amount of trouble
about the return Of the stolen prop
erty. He had laid the matter before
the city and county officials, and, if
they apprehended the guilty parties.
all so well and good; but he showed
no inclination to offer a reward fol
the return of the property. If Mr.
Frisch is to be believed, and hi;
word is certainly as believable as Mr.
LeightOn's, this was not pleasing tC
the persons who did the stealing
nor to their accomplices, and 81
they sent the police officer to him t.
learn if he would offer a reward fo1
the return of the stolen property
The proposition was made fat-foot
edly to Mr.. Frisch by the officer, Il
which Mr. Frisch demurred in NJ
uncertain language The matte
was at once made public in the news
papers by Mr. Frisch, and an inves
tigation of the acts of the officer wa
ordered by the chief Of police. Th
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
COLLINS
GOES OUT
Of the Gas Company January
First Next.
Has Done a Rafting Good Business
for the Company-Chamber of
Commerce Roasts the CityAdmin-
istration = Ringing Resolutions
Passed by the Body.
HE WAS A RUSTLER.

Mr.. G. r. Collins, who for the past
five years has been business manager
of the Seattle Gas and Electric Co.,
Of this city, will retire from office
next Tuesday and enter into private
business for himself. The Gas COM
pany loses a most valuable man in
the retiring Of Mr. Collins and his
place will be hard to fill, At matters
not who tries it. When he took
up the business in this city it was as
low as it could be under the circum-
stances and still live. He adopted
as soon as he took charge novel de-
vices and plans to advertise the use
Of gas, not only for lighting pur-
poses, but for heating and cooking
purposes as well. When he took
charge of the plant there were not
over a dozen cooking ranges in use
throughout the entire city. At pres
ent it is roughly estimated that there
are five thousand cooking ranges in
use in the city and gas for lighting
purposes has supplanted the electric
light usage in very nearly every res
idence in the gas district, and all
this has been brought about by the
untiring efforts Of Mr.. Collins and
his peculiar ways of advertising.
During his management of the gas
company he has made as many
friends, perhaps more, than any
other business man in the city in
the same length Of time. He has al
ways been pleasing, affable and ac-
commodating to all persons dealing
with the company and that has
brought many patrons to the place
of business that otherwise would
not have gone. In the future he
will not be connected with the gas
company in any shape, form or man
ner, further than consulting engi-
neer, which is practically an honor
airy position. He will be located in
the New York block, where he has
fitted himself up an excellent suite
of rooms and will do a general engi-
neering business from a practical
standpoint. He is at present direct
ing the construction of the gas com
pany at Everett in which he is per-
sonally interested, and a number Of
other business concerns will employ
him in consulting capacity to look
after their business and works. His
comes from the East and
will take charge Of the gas com
panys affairs next Tuesday.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
NEGROES FOR HAWAII.

A few days ago the Associated
Press dispatches told of number Of
colored men who had left the South
to 90 to Hawaii to farm on the sugar
plantations of those islands. Ger
tain men Of the United States who
have invested many thousands of
dollars in the sugar business in Ha-
waii do not feel that the japanese
labor that they are compelled to use
on the islands gives satisfaction,
and believing the Southern Negro
better adapted to the raising of SUI
gar, propose to experiment with a
small colony Of them. Just what ef-
feet such a move, if it should be ex-
tensively carried on, would have on
the Hawaiian islands is a question
that is hard to solve at present. Il
will be remembered that a majority
of the persons living on those island,
at present are native Hawaiians, whC
are to some extent racially allied tt
the Southern Negro. They are no
exactly Africans, but they are Ma
layans with dark skins, and fre
quently with crimpy hair, so mucl
SO that they impress the averag
Caucasian as being a distant cousil
of the American Negro. Now, if tn
!. american Negro is transplanted
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28

The size and shape Of the tower
Of Babel have just been determined
by NJ des Nelly, French archaoelo-
gist, from a Greek manuscript. Ac-
cording to these measurements
chronicled by the old Greek scribe,
the tower would have topped the
Masonic temple in Chicago by just
five feet, as in its pristine proper
tions it stood 219 feet above the
levels Of Babylon.
As examined by experts Of the
French Academy Of insert ptions this
old manuscript gives a good descrip-
ton of the tower.
Its base was a little over fifty
miles from Babylon, laid in the sands
of desert plain. Its outlines were
square 6.2 feet each way, and the
ceiling Of the ground floor was sew
enty-ive feet high. Above this six
stories lowered, one above the other,
forming a sort Of central tower,
square in outline. The top floor was
the sanctuary, and was reached by
flight of 365 steps on the exterior of
the tower These 365 steps marked
the days of of the year, and of the
number 305 were of silver and sixty
were Of gold. The seven stories
were to represent the seven days Of
the week.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
GoMPERs ON COLOR LINE.

Apropos Of the grave situation
and under the title "No Place for
Color Line" President Sam
uel Gompers, in his annual
address before the national
convention Of the American
Federation of Labor, said the follow
ing, the sincerity of which is un-
questioned and the spirit of which
should appeal to every fair-minded
person:
Realizing the necessity for the
unity Of the wage earners Of our
country, the American Federation Of
Labor has upon all occasions declar-
ed that trades unions should open
their portals to all wage-workers, If
respective of creed, color, national
ity, sex or politics. Nothing has
transpired in recent years which has
called for change Of our declared
policy upon this question; on the
contrary, every evidence tends to
confirm us in this conviction; for
even if it were not a matter of prin-
ciple, self-preservation would
prompt the workers to organize in
telligently and to make common
cause, In making the declaration
we have we do not necessarily pro-
claim that the social barrier existing
between the whites and blacks could
or should be felled with one stroke
of the pen, but when white and
black workers are compelled to work
side by side under the same adverse
circumstances and under equally un-
fair conditions, it seems an anomaly
that we should refuse to accord the
right of organization to workers be-
cause Of a difference Of their color
Unless we shall give the Negro
workers the opportunity to organize
and thus place them where they car
! protect and defend themselve:
against the rapacity and cupidity o
their employers; unless we continue
the policy of endeavoring to maxi
friends of them, there can be NJ
question that they will not only b.
forced down in the economic idea
and be against any effort made b.
us for our economic and social ad
t vancement, but race prejudice vii
: be made more bitter and to the in
: jury of all"
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28

officer denied any intention of
wrong-dOing through the columns
of the public press. He called on
Officer Bert Taylor to verify what
he had said, and this was most elab-
orately done by Taylor, and finally
an exonoratiOn on the part Of the
chief of police was made public, so
far as Officer Leighton's wrong-do-
ing in the Frisch matter was con-
cerned. Nevertheless Mr. Frisch has
neither denied nor modified his first
statements of being approached by
the officer of the law to act as a 90
between between Mr.. Frisch and the
crooks who turned the trick, if only
reward was given by Frisch for the
safe return Of the stolen property.
If Officer Leighton feels and knows
that he has been unjustly treated
and accused by the merchant, who is
of excellent financial standing in
this city, he should seek redress at
the hands of the courts in the shape
Of a damage suit, but evidently both
Leighton and the chief Of police
have wisely considered this an un-
wise step, as things might come out
that were not wanted.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
is LEIGHTON GUILTY:

This paper does not intend either
by innuendO, intimatiOn- OF other
wise to implicate Officer Leighton as
acting as a go-between between rob
bers and the persons robbed in this
city, but it does intend to call the
public's attention to the fact that
in its last issue it made reference te
a similar state Of affairs said to exist
among the policemen Of this city;
and in view of the fact that the
Leighton affair had not then been
spoken of, it is rather re-
markable that the exposure should
follow so fast on to the article made
public in The Republicans columns
last Friday. Officer Leighton may
be just as innocent as the chief oil
police, after a thorough investiga
ton, as he declares, has pronounced
him to be, but there are some strange
things attached to the proposition
owing to the great amount Of specu
lation that has been INDUCED in by
the citizens of this city in about the
same strain, that Officer Leighton
the chief of police and Merchant Pa
trolman Bert Taylor will have to ex
plain very fully before they vii
stand perfectly fair in the public't
eye and mind.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
CUT 1T DOWN.

The white Democrats in Missis-
sippi do not want their representa-
ton in congress and the electoral
college cut down, although only 81
459 votes were cast in the late cleo
ton. Secretary of State Powers
shows that there were 96,291 votes
cast in the Democratic primary and
$4,000 voters registered. The state
spends $1,600,000 for education, but
the claim that it is equally appor-
toned between the two races is a
falsehood. Gov. Longino is one of
the strongest men who was ever a
governor of a Southern state. He
has our entire confidence, because
we feel that he wants to deal fairly
with all the races of the population
Of Mississippi. He has largely the
character and the independence Of
the late Gov William Yancy Atkin-
son, of Georgia, who was one of the
best and strongest men the New
South has produced-New York
Age.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
Boys handsome Suits,
So, $4, IS.
KLINE & ROSENBERG,
625 First Avenue.
Personal.

Elisha Francis certainly had a diff
ferent Christmas than he had figured
out.
Does the new century make you
feel and different than what you did
in the old?
Constable George L. johnson
spent the most of Christmas week in
the city, returning to his home at
Newcastle last Thursday.
Mr. Mathew l.. Brown, of New
castle, passed through the city last
Wednesday en- route to Franklin to
visit his mother at that place.
The ball and entertainment given
by the Rainier hotel walters was a
rather brilliant affair and was attend
ed by number of the leading Afro
Americans of the city.
Rev. c. G. Holford is visiting his
old home in California and is ex-
pected to return the first week in
January. The report that Mr.. Hol-
ford had resigned his charge at this
point is without foundation, and SC
far as he knows at present he will
serve out his full term.