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The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04

News from Mrs. Leonard reports
her safe arrival at home and the dan
gerous illness of her mother.
Mrs. W. III. Johnson and Mrs. l..
H. Wheeler were visitors to Portland
one day last week and are expected
home within the next few days
Mr.. W. P. Sawyer, who has been
in California for a number Of
months, has returned to his post Of
duty and is to be found in the count
ing room Of the P.-I., with his usual
smile.
Senator Oliver Hall, of Colfax,
will visit in the Queen City during
the coming week with Hon. Edward
B. Palmer and other friends prior to
going to Olympia to attend the sew
enth session Of the Legislature
Mr. Austin Anderson has decided
to not put in an application for a
position in Olympia, and has indors-
ed the application of Mr. W. FL. Tay-
lor, who will be the only Afro-Am-
erican applicant from this county.
The open house held by the la
dies Of the city at Masonic Temple
hall New Year was well attended and
proved to be a most pleasant affair
1t was followed by a dance in the
evening, which lasted till an early
hour in the morning
Mr.. Frank Alfred, who is in the
employ of the government at the
Bremerton dry dock, spent a few
days in the city during Christmas,
taking in the ball both the 26th of
December and the first of January.
Mr.. John A. Whalley, who spent
the month Of December in Califor-
MIA visiting with his family, where
his wife has been for the past two
months or more, returned last Tues
| day and is again at his desk going
over his accumulated mails.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04
MOVE SLOWLY IN CUBA.

According to the press dispatches,
Cuba is also having much trouble in
framing constitution and bylaws,
for an independent government for
that island. The constitutional con-
vention has been in session now for
more than month, and while it has
framed and passed a number Of
measures, yet the most important
ones are still under debate, and not
only under debate, but are so antag-
onized by one side or the other as
to jeopardize the final passage of
them one way or the other. just
what kind Of a republic that island
will have, or whether it will have
any at all, is very questionable just
now. Some Of her leading citizens
want republic after the fashion of
the French republic, while Others
want it shaped after the fashion of
the United States, and still others
who want it shaped after any old
thing, to meet the wishes Of a few
of its leading and aspiring politici-
ans. Whatever kind Of government
they form, it must meet the approval
of Congress before it becomes a real
ity, hence, even after they have
formed their government, it may be
rejected by Congress. For great ma
tions to have protectorate republics
seems almost a waste Of energy and
vitality, and certainly waste of fin
ances and deliberation. If Cuba is
10 be under the protectorate Of the
United States, it should be a part of
the United States. Let it be one Of
the States of the United States, Just
as is Maine or Mississippi. Only that
and nothing more
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04

The London fnanciers are suffer
ing at present from recent panic in
the money market of that city The
great stock exchange, of which the
Marquis of Dufferin and Ava was at
the head, went to pieces one day this
week, and as result, twenty-eight
lesser institutions soon went down
with a crash. London has not suffer-
ed so from financial standpoint for
number of years, and it was felt
even in the money markets of the
United States, from which the ex-
changes have been purchasing bonds
and other securities from the many
exchanges Of this country The
downfall Of these stock exchanges
is nothing more nor less than the
downfall of great gambling houses,
for they are only high-toned gam
bling dens and their downfall is a
blessing in disguise to humanity.
True enough, some of the best and
ablest fnanciers the world knows are
at the head of these institutions, but
they are gamblers, and gambling,
whether it be high-toned or low
toned, whether it be in a stock ex-
change or a tenderloin dive, is all
gambling, and is forbidden by the
laws Of all countries, and their over
throw is always to be desired, though
It affects English royalty.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04
CURRENT CRITICAL COMMENT
Culled and Collected from the Happenings Of
the Past Week Throughout
Christendom.
Londons Great Panic Causes Dsress-Midde Road
Convene for Consultation-West Point in
Civilized Disgrace-The New
Century Has Begun.

tendent and officers in charge, are as
crude and cruel as African barbara
ans. One would expect no worse
treatment at the hands Of penitenti-
airy cOnvicts, at the hands of profes-
slonal Jail birds in their kangaroo
courts, at the hands of any number
of rutfians assembled together for
the express purpose of displaying
their hardness" " That Cadet Booz
was killed, or that he was so roughly
handled that he died from the effects
of the handling, at the hands of the
other calets at West Point, goes with
out saying, and the same has certain
ly been proven beyond a question Of
doubt by the investigation commit
tee. 1t is high time that such brutal
ity be eschewed from schools and col
leges, and especially from the most
refined military institution Of this
country. If the young men who de-
sire to seek military training and
those whom the government wishes
most to have seek such are to be
handled in such a manner by the stu
dents already there, and if such is
to be handed down from class to
class, it will soon so discourage the
young men that they will not seek to
become students at the highest mill
tary academy in the land. Hazing,
such as Cadet Booz had to undergo
at the hands of his senior brethren,
is a disgrace to the civilization Of
the newly begun twentieth century.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04

is elected by the voters Of the island.
In other words, the two are at logger
heads with each other on every point,
so much so that nothing will be ac-
complished by either branch now nor
at any time within the near future.
1t is very apparent that the govern
ment will either have to appoint both
branches of the assembly or it will
have to permit the people to elect
the members of both branches that
there may be sufficient political har-
mony brought about to pass the nee
essary laws for running some kind Of
a government.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04
SEATTLE WASHINGTON. FRIDAY JANUARY A. 1904

ton. We fly through space at a
hundred miles an hour, and we talk
with our friends hundreds and thou
sands Of miles from us, as though
they were in our presence, and a hun
dred and one other inventions equal
ly as startling might be mentioned,
but do they bring real happiness?
is another debatable question. What
the present century will bring forth,
what will be accomplished in 100
years, what science will have startled
the world with in 100 years more,
what the complete summary of .hu-
man investigation will be during the
twentieth century, is Of all the debat-
able of debatable questions.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04

TIE 56th Congress has begun its
final labors, as it has but two more
months to work, when it will become
a thing of the past, and a large per-
centage Of the members thereof will
retire to private life, perhaps forever,
for, as a rule, ex-members of Con-
gress don't ever reappear in public
life. Since the last session Of Con-
gress began, it has been grinding
away at rapid rate and doing some
most excellent work, and it is
thought by the leaders in the pres
ent Congress that ere the session ex-
pires in March it will have passed
number of very important meas
ures giving relief in many instances
to those sections and those members
Of the government needing it worst
The internal revenue laws will have
been so modified as to stop the use
less accumulation of money in the
United States treasury vaults. The
$60,0OO,0OO appropriation for rivers
and harbors will have been passed,
the enabling acts for Arizona and
Oklahoma territories to become states
will have been passed, the re-appof-
tionment for the various States will
have been re-apportioned according
to the reports of the twelfth census,
the army increase bill passed, and
many other measures Of relief will
all have been made and enacted into
laws, and the signature Of the Presi-
dent been placed thereon before the
present congress expires.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04

Recently Daniel Webster Griffin,
the erstwhile editor Of the Seattle
Bee, was charged with assaulting a
woman with a deadly weapon with
intent to do her great bodily harm,
a crime for which, had he been con-
victed, would have sent him to the
penitentiary for a number Of years.
This the friends of Griffin knew
quite well, so they asked the county
attorney to allow him to plead guilty
to a simple assault, which he did, and
was fined $75 and costs for the same.
The Republican has no hesitancy in
saying that any man that will strike
woman, even with his fist, is a
brute in human garb, and it there
fore has no hesitancy in saying that
a man who will hit a woman with d
gun or any other deadly weapon,
and especially man Of Grifin's
stature, is deserving of a life SEN
tence in the penitentiary. There are
no probabilities, s1ppositions or by
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04

pothesis as to his guilt in this mat
ter, for he himself has pleaded guilty
and has been fined by the courts for
the same. Just what young colored
men have in mind, who will shoot
one woman to death, and that in
the back, and another that will
club another into insensibility, is
more than this paper can explain,
and it is high time that the law be
enforced on such lawbreakers to its
fullest and utmost extent.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04
NEW CENTURY BEGUN.

Last Tuesday, despite the bicker-
ings Of the pessimists, the twentieth
century was ushered into existence.
For a number of months during the
past year, would-be scientists, as well
as scholarly persons in this country,
have protested that the twentieth
century had already begun in Janu-
ary, 1900 That such an assertion
was absurd in the extreme every man
and woman in the country with any
educational qualifications were will
ing to bear witness against, and those
persons that were not willing to con-
cede the fact that the twentieth cen
tury begun in 1901 were that class
Of persons who were unable to only
get cheap newspaper notOriety,
which they were seeking in any 9TH
er shape or form than by advocating
such an absurdity. Albeit the mat
ter has been settled once for all; the
new century has begun, and begun
in flame of glory. The world for
the most part is at peace. While ma
tionalities may be commercially jeal-
Gus of each other, it does not run to
the extent Of wanting to wage war
with each other. There is a spirit Of
peace and good will to all men and
to all nations throughout the entire
world, irrespective of race, color or
condition. The nineteenth century
can truthfully be said to have made
more advancement from a scientific
and commercial standpoint than all
the centuries combined since the birth
of Christ, and thus left easy sailing
for the twentieth. Whether or not
the improvements that have been
brought into operation during the
nineteenth century are Of more real
value over and above the methods
that were used in the eighteenth
century is question. In the rush
and push of this age, new inventions
are brought to light and then newer
inventions are brought to light, and
the one is soon discarded for the
other, without the former having it;
real merits thoroughly tested
Whether man could not have accom-
plished more with less scientific i'm
provements and more useful i'm
provements, as was the case a cen
fury ago, is 4 very debatable ques
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04
UNCLE SANS ISLANDS.

Uncle Sam is having some expert
ence in establishing independent
governments with his island posses
sions at present. Although the Porto
Rican legislative functions have been
in session now for more than a month
no laws have been passed by the
bodies, owing to the fact that the
higher branch of the legislature
which is appointed by the President
clashes in every instance with the
lower branch of the assembly, which
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04
WEST POINT A DISGRACE.

The investigation by the Congress
sional committee concerning the
death of Cadet Booz, who was hazed
at West Point, and died from the ef-
fects, has developed enough to say
without fear Of successful contradic-
ton that the students at West Point,
aided and abstted by the superin'
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04

If you wish to spend an evening
Of rare enjoyment that comes but
once a year, see the elegant enter
tainment at the Third Avenue the
ater next week, opening Sunday
matinee, when Isham's ''King Ras-
tus'' company, with such famous ia
vorites as Smart and Williams, NAL
lory Bros. and Brooks and thirty
others. King Rastus" has proved
to be one big novelty of the season,
and fattering reports are heard from
everywhere.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-01-04
THE QUEEN
CITY NEWS
Moves in Mysterious Ways
Wonders Performed

An Excellent Annual Review of the
City-Moran Brothers Must Have
the Big Contract Griffin Got
GOody-Seattle Is to Have a New
Telephone System to Handle Its
Big Business Boom.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18
THE COAL STRIKE LIKELY
TO OCCASION A FAMINE

was TO discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of de
claring the strike.
The sense of the body of miners at
first was equally divided as to wheth-
or or not n strike should be made.
Prominent members of the local union
argued both sides of the question, and
after considerable debating the strike
was almost unanimously declared. This
means that the entire coal mining ele-
ment of Fremont county is to quit
work until the trouble of the northern
and southern miners is adjusted.
Denver. Jan. 14.-At the beginning
of the third week of the strike of the
miners employed by the Northern Coal
md Coke Company. yesterday it was
announced by the officers that there
was no prospect of settlement. Both
the strikers and the company are play
ing waiting game and no overtures
have been made to end the trouble.
James Cannon, Jr.. president of the
company, said last night: THE situa-
ton is unchanged. The mines have
been shut down indefinitely. No plans
have been made for the employment of
men TO take the strikers places"
Scofeld. Utah. Jan. 14.-Five hun
dred miners employed mt the Winter
Quarters mine where the accident Oc-
Cured last spring, struck tonight. 1t
is expected that their action will he
followed by the men at Clear Creek.
Sunnyside and Castle Gate. The men
submitted demands to the Pleasant
Valley Coal Company, which the eXecu-
tive officers asked further time to con-
slider BY close vote the men refused
to wait and decided to strike Mt once,
leaving the mines as they are. There
is considerable excitement already and
serious trouble is feared.
Coal is scarce already in Utah and
Idaho, and II continued strike may
cause serious famine.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18

Salt Lake, Jan. 14.-With the as
sembling of the Legislature to-day the
Utah senatorial fight begins in earnest,
with eight candidates actively in the
field and the prospect of further en-
tries later. The candidates so far an
nomced are w. S. Mccormick. eX-Sen-
ator Arthur Brown. Postmaster Arthur
l.. Thomas. George NJ. Cannon, o. j.
Salisbury. Thomas Kearns and
Thomas Fitch, all of Salt Lake, and
Reed Smoot of Provo. At present it
is impossible 10 pick the winner.
The Mormon candidates are George
NJ. Cannon and Apostle Reed Smoot.
Mr.. Smoot withdrew once but his fol
lowers refuse TO accept the with
drawal.
George @. Cannon, first counsellor of
the church. is expected TO be figure
in the race although he has not an
nounced himself formally.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18
"LEST WE FORGET" CHANGED
TO ALAS WE REMEMBER

London. Jan. 1i.-Great Britain's de
cadence is becoming quite popular
theme. establishment and self
flagellation seem to be congenial to the
chastened spirit of the nation. forced
to realize through the accumulation of
reverses, military, diplomatic and in
dus1rial. that Great Brilain's predomi-
nance dream is past. II is almost
daily occurrence for some great Lon
don newspaper to parade the shortcom-
ings of the country. instituting COM
parisons with the United States and
Germany little complimentary to Great
Britain.
Lost opportunities" says the Morn
ing Post, lis the keynote. and the
Britain which could dictate its will to
the ends of the earth is to-day myth
The great wooden and allied trades
threaten to be revolutionized by the
American machine which is now Oper-
ating at Bradford. What it all will
open up is not fully apparent at frs
sight" says the Bradford Observer.
but it looks as if the position ut pres
ent occupied by Arkwright and Cromp-
ton in the world of inventors during
the nineteenth century is to he super
seeded by Drury in the twentieth. How
is 1t that this idea was left to Yam
kee lawyer to bring out!'
Drury's invention is described as the
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18

The report OF the work of the dead
letter ONCE for the last year shows one
branch of the government service of
which 1t is no longer feasible to center
all the business in Washington. 1t
was found that the despatch of dead
letter matter from the Philippine is
lands to Washington not only involv-
- great delay but on account of the
difficulties of language. prevented the
handling of it to the best advantage.
SO a dead letter Office has been estao-
lished in Manila, and business between
this country and the islands is con-
Quoted In the same manner as between
the United States and any other coun-
try of the Universal Postal union.
The same is true OF Porto Rico. The
dead letter once first established there
was abandoned, but has since been re-
vived.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18

Denver, Colo, Jan. IA prominent
coal dealer said yesterday: IF the
coal strike continues and spreads as
now seems possible, yes, probable.
people may have to let their houses go
cold and live in the kitchen" The Den
YER Republican says:
1.-THE second week of the strike Of
the miners employed by the Northern
Coal X Coke Company closed yester-
day, with no material change in the sit
uation. No overtures looking toward n
settlement have been made by either
side. The company has declared
from the beginning that it would not
increase wages as the men demanded
The men have formed no strike organi-
cation, and have made no Overtures
either for settlement or for mediation.
1t is now believed that the struggle
will be long one. This opinion is
shared by the more conservative class
of the miners. many of whom are seek
ing positions elsewhere, leaving their
families in Louisville or Lafayette,
hoping to return to the Ignite mining
after the trouble blows over"
Florence, Colo. Jan. 14.-Pursuant to
n telegram received Friday by District
President John Geer from John Nit
chell, president of the United Mine
Workers of America. asking that the
miners of Fremont county quit work
in sympathy with the striking miners
at Gallup. New Mexico. and those at
Erie, Colorado, n walkout was decided
upon at n meeting of the miners of
Coal Creek Rockvalc, Bear gulch and
Brookside this afternoon ut Rockvale.
l,,II To- l,n tptx
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18

In 1900 our country was a plucky
flsaElinE, healthy, vigorous, ardent in
hope, high on resolve. Our total popu-
lation was less than 100000. Ger
many and Britain each had four times
our number, Spain twice as many, and
even little Portugal had as big fam
lily OF sons and daughters as Uncle
Sam. West of the Mississippi all was
wilderness. We had 13 little states
and few cities of prominence, except
Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore,
Boston and Charleston. The entire
revenue Of the United States govern
ment under our first administration
was only s4,5O0.OO0 while 1t now costs
annually sos, 1904 to dsfray the
expenses OF the government Of Greater
New York. Washington was then a
new settlement, with only a few thou
sand population, and had been only
lately made the capital.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18

The study OF the sponge fields of
Florida is to be undertaken by the gov
eminent with view to developing an
important industry, Florida is the
only part of the United States produc-
ing sponses of commercial value
There are $40 vessels with more than
1900 men employed in the industry,
and 1t is estimated that the 1soo-1S0j
crop will have commercial value OF
$s5O.000. Sponges are found on the
eastern and western coast, owing to
the equable temperature and moderate
depth OF the water, and the absence of
fierce hurricanes. The sponge grounds
OF the Gulf of Mexico extend from the
Florida reefs to st. Marks, and for a
distance of fifteen miles from the
shore.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18

New York Ian. LITTLE Electrical
Review announces the purchase by the
American Telegraph Company dhe
parent Bell company of the patents of
DR.. NJ. L. Pupin of Columbia college.
which, 1t states, cover the art of ocean
telephoning and which enable tele-
phone messages to be sent over any
length of land lines. 1t further states
that the sum of 100000 has been paid
TO DR.. Pupin for the invention, with
an annual salary to him during the
life of the patents of $500.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18
THE DUTY OF MOTHERS.

What suffering frequently results
from a mothers ignorance or moro
frequently from mothers neglect to
properly instruct her daughter
Tradition says woman must SUI
fer" and young women are so taught.
There is q little truth and a great deal
Of exaggeration in this. If young
woman suffers severely she needs
treatment, and her mother should see
that she gets it.
Many mothers hesitate to take their
daughters to physician for examina-
ton but no mother need hesitate to
write freely about her daughter or
herself to Mrs. Pinkham and secure
tho most efficient advice without
charge. Mrs. Pinkham's address 10
Lynn, Mass.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18

London. Jan. 1.-THE war office has
received the following dispatch from
Lord Kitchener:
"Three agents of the peace commits
sioners We're taken rs prisoners to De
Vets laager, near Iindley. Jan 10
One. who was British subject, was
logged and then shot. The other two,
burghers, We're flogged by De Vets
orders.
About fourteen hundred Beers
crossed the line. attacking both Zuur-
fontein and knnlfontein stations, but
We're driven Off. They We're pursued
by cavalry brigade
Lord Kitchener reports also several
skirmishes at different points, with
trifling British losses.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-01-18

Mrs August Pfalzgraf, of South
Byron, Wis, mother of the young lady
whose portrait we here publish, wrote
Mrs. Pinkham in January, 1899, saying
her daughter had suffered for two
years with irregular menstruation-
had headache all the time, and pain in
her side, feet swell. and was generally
miserable. Mrs. Pinkham promptly
replied with advice, and under date OF
March, 1899, the mother writes again
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound cured her daughter OF all
pains and irregularity.
Nothing in the world equals Mrs.
Pinkham's great medicine for regu-
lating woman's peculiar monthly
troubles.