The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-07-26
POLITICAL P0T-PIE :

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Recent developments in the W
Howard Kernanghan defaulting case
demonstrate that the young cashier
was a worse criminal than most peo-
pie thought him to be, and that he
was not only a criminal to the extent
of robbing his employers, but he has
doubled his crime by Guiding the de
tectives who were watching him, as
he is now a fugitive from Justice
The telephone company felt abso-
lutely certain that the young mans
father would make good the short
age, and it seems that he thought
the same way, but though the father
put in his appearance and heard
both sides Of the case, he did not feel
called upon to interfere, but was
rather inclined to let the law take
its course. Kernanghan realizing
this made good his escape and now
the Sunset Telephone company will
be the looser some $4,000 and a
number one family living at Everett,
whose daughter was likewise deceiv-
ed by this young embezzler, much
chagrined over the fact that their
daughter is now grass widow, and,
if not exactly a grass widow, the wife
Of an escaped criminal. Like many
other high flyers who have come to
Seattle, more than one matter Of fact
citizen has predicted that Kernang-
han had done too much swelling
since he had been made cashier of
the telephone comapny for his own
good, and if he did not keep a bright
eye on himself he would have bad
ending, which prophecy proved more
than true.
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A number of dive keepers located
on the water front Of Lake Washing
ton have petitioned the city council
to grant them a license to sell liquor
in the various parks Of the lake. The
Republican is most decidedly oppos
ed to the selling of liquor in these
parks and it will not redownd to the
political good of the respective mem
bers Of the city council to grant Ii
cense to dive keepers in the parks of
Lake Washington to sell intoxicat-
ing liquor and thereby make these
parks complete resorts where the
most vicious elements Of this city,
and that is saying a good deal, can
and will congregate by night and by
day and make the surroundings hid
eous, yea, perhaps dangerous, with
their revelings. With that element
in the majority at the parks or even
in the minority, it will not be very
long before respectable people dare
not venture out there with their fam
lilies lest they be insulted at every
turn Of the road. There is no doubt
but that the granting Of a license to
sell liquor in those places
would nroye a lucrative bust
ness for those engaged in it.,
but the doing Of this would
make the parks Of Lake Washington
a second White Chapel, and this,
The Republican believes no respec-
table citizen, though he does favor
the continuance Of White Chapel
proper, favors. While this paper
does not intend to politically threat
en- the various members Of the city
council who have this matter under
consideration, yet it does intend to
warn them against granting this Ii
cense at the peril Of their political
preferment. There should at least
be some spots in and about Seattle
to which respectable people can take
their families without being thrown
in immediate contact with the Vi
cious elements and without meeting
face to face resorts and dives.
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The laXnesS with which some OF
the smallpox cases have been hand
led in this city yerges pretty close to
criminal negligence, and whoever is
responsible for it should be severely
punished for such negligence.
Though there have been as high as
four cases Of small ox in one family,
but one Of the patients have been
taken to the pest house, and the
children of the family have been per
mitted to run about the streets and
play with other children just the
same as if there was no contagious
disease in the family When this
matter was inquired into by an IN
terested neighbor the health officer