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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
Negroes and Daqoes.


A year ago or thereabouts Seattle
was rent almost in twain over the
bootblack war between the Negroes
and the Dagoes. Seattle was a rich
field for the class of gentry who made
their living by ''shine," and these two
nationalities were fighting for supre.
macy herein. For time the Dagoes
seemed to have the upper hand of the
Negroes, and almost succeeded in driv.
ing them from the city as bootblacks
when all Of a sudden the Negroes turn.
ed to on their Italian brothers and by a
flank movement succeeded in COM
pletely routing them from the field and
now the alleys, doorways and other
places in which a bootblack stand can
be stuck in is run by Negro instead
of a Dago, as was the case year
and half ago. For some reason the
Dago in this country is not an adept
in politics, but the Negro is, and find
| ing that he could make his vote bring
him not only the usual two dollars or
election day, but make it bring him
certain influence with those for whom
he voted he did SO very effectively by
going to his various ward councilmen
| and getting their promise to stand by
him in his bootblack fight against the
Dagoes. This was done and now the
bOotblack stands run by Italians are
few and far apart, and Mr.. Shine
Shines" the passers by
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25

own risk, and that Mr. Carnes will be
able to institute legal proceedings and
recover every foot of property that has
been disposed of during his absence
No administrator, he claims, has the
right to dispose of persons property
who is confined in an asylum whether
temporarily or permanently, for it is
the belief OF the law that such per-
| sons always have a chance to recover
and again assume control of their af-
fairs and only such property as it
requires to keep the estate from going
to pieces should be disposed of. AL
ready Mr.. Carens, so it is reported,
has two able lawyers employed and be-
fore many moons a sensational suit
at court over the restoration of his
property will be begun in King county.
AS to Mr.. Carnes being an incurable
insane, even those at the asylum knew
that there was nothing very serious
the matter with him, and it is report
ed that DR.. Goddard said that he never
ought to have remained there over six
months from the time he first entered
the institution, as after that time he
was as rational as anybody on the
outside. While Mr.. Carnes was a
patient at the asylum he was frequent
ly permitted by the superintendent to
visit Tacoma and other places all by
himself and return at pleasure. Fol
the past year and a half, so goes the
story, Mr.. Carnes has been staying
on little boat that belongs to DR..
Goddard, not far from the asylum,
where he f1shed, hunted and lived all
to himself except when he was
running the launch for the Goctor's
pleasure and only visited the asylum
when he felt so disposed, and during
that time when he was riding around
at pleasure an administrator was dis
posing of his property on the grounds
of him being an hopeless insane.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
He Wants Too Much.

1t is learned from the Mount Vernon
Argus that J. Henry Smith of that
town is getting a bit anxious over the
receivership of the Seattle United
States land Office, which position he
was promised some weeks ago, and
not only is Mr.. Smith bit solicitious
over it, but other lawyers of that
county are in a similar boat, as Mr..
Smith is to be nominated for prosecut-
ing attorney in case he does not get
the appointment. The Republican sug-
gests to Mr.. Smith that he get the
nomination for prosecuting attorney,
for "a bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush," as there is
always a chance for a slip between the
cup and the lip-that is to say, he
might not get the appointment.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
No Redeeminu Feature.

In speaking about gambling being
closed up in Seattle and Aberdeen,
the Chehalis Bee-Nugget remarks !:
Gambling has not one redeeming fea-
ture to recommend it to anyone" In
this we quite agree and there are
many others who should add thei1
voice and vote to the same sentiment,
for they see hundreds of good honest
toiling souls, who as regular as Sat
urday night come go to the gambling
houses and give them up all of their
hard earned cash, believing that they
can win from those men who do moth
ing but sit up in the gambling hell
holes and study how to cheat the la
boring man out fo his money, large
sums of money
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25

A Remarkable Divorce.

An unusual divorce proceeding was
begun in the superior court one day
this week in which well-known colored
folk in this city played the leading
role. Mrs. Mary B. Rideout has sued
her husband, Con A. Rideout, for a
divorce, and thereby hangs a tale.
In 1896 Mrs. Mason came to Seattle
and went into the restaurant business.
Mr. Rideout became her star boarder
and finally became smitten with her
charms. Soon thereafter the Klondike
excitement broke out and Mrs. Mason
with her usual vim at once started to
the gold fields of the North. She was
among the very first women that reach
ed the camp after the first excitement
broke out, and spent the winter in the
Klondike, and during her stay there
she ran a laundry, did baking and
other such things, and in twelve
months time managed to save up
snug fortune, which has been various
ly estimated all the way from five to
ten thousand dollars. She returned to
Seattle the following summer, and her
liege lord was still waiting patiently
for her home coming, and as soon as
she arrived here and rested up from
her sea voyage the couple were quietly
marned. Mr.. Rideout was a well-known
politician and lawyer about the city
and had eked out an existence in
way, but always managed to put on
a fine front, which gave him the ap-
pearance of a man living on easy
street. Mrs. Rideout admired, loved
and wOrshiped her new husband, and
for those very qualifications. She seem
ed perfectly willing to set him up in
business, so that he would be an hon
or not only to her and himself, but
to his race, and she did; but things
came entirely too easy for him and
instead Of forging ahead he gave up
what little prace he already had and
sat around in his finely furnished Office
perfectly oblivious as to the outcome
of the future. He finally grew rest
less in this country and haunted her
by day and by night to go to South
Africa, which she did after selling
out thss most of her effects ii this city.
After long sea voyage they finally
arrived in South Africa, and soon
thereafter Mrs Rideout discovered
that her husband was only her hus-
band in name, and that he had mar
ried her for no other purpose than
to work her for the money that she
had earned while in the Klondike-in
other words, an adventurer. He soon
deserted her and went into the in
terror and she only heard from him
periodically. Taking seriously sick,
she finally concluded to return to the
United States and to her first love, Sc
attic, which she did, but on her re-
turn voyage she was shipwrecked and
lost most of her valuable effects, for
which she has never been able to re-
cover but a small sum of money from
the steamboat company. Since arriv.
ing in Seattle she has had but few let
ters from Mr.. Rideout, and firing of all
this she finally seeks now to be legally
separated from the man that she has
already been bodily separated from
for many months. 1t is a sad tale
of woe and one of these tales that
pessimists use to prove that marriage
is a failure,
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
COUNTRY PRESS OPINIONS
Boycotting Bad Business.

If the Spectator of Tacoma and it's
followers ever attempt a boycott on
the Ledger and the News they will
find that they have run up against the
real thing. Boycotting newspapers
that have the circulation and the
standing in a community as these pa
pers have and that have stood the
financial test for years is like trying
to drain the sea. Any attempt on the
part of the business men of Tacoma
to inaugurate a systematic boycott
on either one or both of Mr.. Perkins
papers will result in such merchants
going broke, is a prediction of The
Seattle Republican.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
Municipal Ownership.

municipal Ownership.
From the Tacoma West Coast Trade
it is learned that Washington state is
to have one town that proposes to
give municipal ownership fair and
impartial trial. The town of Tekao
has has decided to resolve itself into
a company and all of the business
including stores, banks and industries,
have gone into the company and will
be under the presidency of Gay LON
bard, and if it is a success dividends
will be periodically declared for those
in the concern. The experiment will be
closely watched by other towns both
in and out of the state.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
Seattle Will Stand Pat.

Yes, Seattle does want a. senator
or something else to represent her in.
terests at Washington City, as says the
Yakima Herald, and in the opinion OF
The Seattle Republican, Seattle is
going to have one or both of them
The Herald's advocacy of Seattle hav.
ing something may be a selfish one
as it says: Seattle is a big customer
of Yakima, and no one out this way
would like to see her fall behind in the
race" and this may have prompted hel
to speak kindly of Seattle. Seattle
is going to have something this year
and if she can't get it from the Re
publicans she is going to get it from
the Democrats.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
Get Your Stock.

Get Your Stock.
Anyone wishing to buy stocks Of the
International Council Of the World
will please address the Secretary of
the International Council of the World,
423 New York Block, Seattle, Wash.
ington, who will furnish all informa.
ton relative to the same. By order
executive committee.
SAMUEL BURDETT,
President.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25

ment of not being able to get his meas
ures taken up when he knew that those
measures were of vital interest not
only to the state of Washington and
the Northwest, but of vital interest tc
his own success, one can readily see
why brave Western boy would read
the riot act, not only to Speaker Hend-
erson, but to the president himself, il
he got the opportunity The Pie-makeI
is inclined to think that Mr.. Cushman
merely exercised his American inde
pendence without any intention what
ever of popularizing himself either at
home or abroad when he made the at
tack on Mr.. Henderson, but whatever
his intentions may have been, he has
popularized himself in this state as
has no other man that this state has
sent to congress. From every section
of the Evergreen state nothing but
praises can be heard for Francis Cush-
man, who showed his Western spirit
ny demanding OF the speaker OF the
house of congress that Western men
be heard and their measures consider.
ed or they would be heard FROM Mr.
Cushman is rich with satire, sarcasm
and Overflowing with wit and humor
and with these elements combined and
turned on an antagonist with the in.
tention of deriding him, he is a most
complete success, and being an adept
at handling the queens English the
effete East heard something drop the
other day such as it has never before
heard since the West has been a part
and parcel of the United States con
gress.
A political story is going the rounds
of the city just now which has laugh
able as we'll as serious side to it
The story is, some time ago, perhaps
about Christmas, James D. Hoge, ir..
who is at the head of the First Ma
tional bank of this city, and who has
had a longing eye on the job of state
senator from the Fifth ward, made an
effort to strengthen his political fences
by taking Josiah Collins, who is a
recent Democratic convert, down
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
An Alaska Railway.

An enterprise of gigantic proper
tions has been set on foot by a mum
Der of Washington's leading public
men which promises in the very near
future to connect the interior of AL
aska with the ocean by a railway
system. 1t is perhaps one of the most
gigantic undertakings that has been
conceived since gold was first discover
ed in the interior of the Alaska ter
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25

Two nicely furnished rooms, colse to
town and with a private family.
Rooms suitable for lady or gentleman,
but no cooking. Call at 1928 Seventh
Avenue.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
Splendid Chance.

A great purchaser of steel ranges,
stoves, graniteware, refrigerators, from
Crane Co., of the John Schram Co., by
the Daulton Carpet Co., at so cents on
the dollar. They are selling the en-
tire stock at the same price. An op-
portunity to get a range at your own
price.
DAULTON CARPET CO..
1920 First Avenue.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25

The well-known shoe dealers, Mr..
George F. Raymond and Mr.. L. A..
Treen, have opened a new shoe store
on Second avenue. Both of them are
well known in the city and will need
no introduction to Seattlites.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
Was Never Violent.

Speaking about Rev. Carnes, it is
learned from well-known attorney
and real estate dealer that if the ad
ministrator sold property belonging to
Mr.. Carnes during his confinement
in the insane asylum he did so at his
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
HE Right to Vote.

The Puyallup Independent is correct
in it's assertion that "the right to vote
implies the duty to vote,' but the right
to vote and the duty to vote do not
necessarily mean that the voter will
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25

Hon. Francis w. Cushman has done
and said a good many things about
which the newspapers of this country
have editorially and otherwise com
mented, but he has never done a more
meritorious thing about which the pa
pers are devoting columns of space
than when he roasted Speaker Hender-
son to a queens brown few days
ago for the arbitrary and tyrannical
ways he presides over the lower house
of congress. If what Mr. Cushman
said be true, and it is not doubted,
only such measures as pleases Speaker
Henderson and his coterie of dyspeptic
politicians hailing from the Eastern
states can be considered by the lower
house, and the members of that body
are nothing more or less than mere
figureheads who do the bidding of
that dyspeptic coterie. Of course
those things work well for a while.
but men from the West soon tire of
them, and Mr. Cushman is one of those
men. Chafng under the disappoint-
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25

among the boys, DR.. Ames and others
and introducing him as his friend
and incidentally asking the doctor and
| others to help Mr. Collins out in a
political way in some things that Mr.
Collins wished to put through. DR..
Ames, being pretty busy with his prac.
tice, did not have time to 70 around
and fix up the states and so he in.
trusted it, so goes the story, to Mr.
Collins, and while he was fixing up
states for the municipal campaign he
likewise fixed up states for himself,
and no sooner was the late municipal
election over than Mr.. Collins, who
| had previously announced that he
would be a candidate for the lower
house of the legislature, changed his
mind and announced him candidacy
for state senator in opposition to his
friend Hoge. For six weeks after
Mr.. Hoge's introduction of Mr.. Collins
Hoge was attending to business in the
East, and when he returned he found
the boys had all pledged themselves
and especially those boys from whom
Hoge expected the greatest amount OF
political strength, to Josiah Collins
for state senator, and then if you think
Jimmy didn't get wrong you are off
your base. He swore and he tore and
he ripped and he damned, but finally
concluded: "All right, | am skinned
but I'll be if the First National
bank don't go bankrupt before Josiah
Collins will go to the state senate.
There is blood in his eye, and if Jimmy
will only furnish the sinews of war
there are plenty of fellows up in the
Fifth ward that won't do a thing to
Josiah.
Recently the Democrats of this city
held Jefferson Day banquet, and &C
cording to those present, there were
but 1877 Democrats in the whole city
who could be induced to pay dollar
for plate at that banquet, and half
of them were paid for by the other
fellow. The Pie-maker has always
been of the opinion that Democracy
in the Northwest was rapidly waning
but this is proof sufficient of that fact.
Once on a time such a thing would
have had more calls from aspiring
Democratic politicians than all the
halls in Seattle could have been able
to accommodate, but so weak has
Democracy grown in this county anc
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25

Speaking about George Turner and
Colonel Blethen, it is reported that
Turner and Blethen are both headed
again for the Republican party and
as soon as they get things just where
they want them they will enter the
grand old party again with tinkling
brass and sounding trumpets holding
the absolute control Of the party in
the hollow Of their own hands. George
Turner is politically ambitious and
Colonel Blethen is financially ambiti.
Gus. If George Turner will only see
to it that the Colonel gets all the
spoils and patronage that the party
can throw his way, the senator can
have all the Office honors than he can
lug under. Colonel Blethen has no
desire, so it is currently reported, to
expect anything from the Republican
party should he return to it, and there
seems to be no doubt of it, but the
patronage Of the state for his paper
and the opportunity to hold up the
various state candidates and appoin-
tees for write-ups and monies for party
support and thereby amass a fortune
as he has already, to some extent done,
since his first advent into the state in
1896, when he lead the Bryan move
ment in Seattle by abusing and traduc
ing Ex-Governor John H. McGraw in
a most shameful as well as diabolical
manner and on this point it would not
be out of place to say that he is now
SOLDERING all over the ex-governor
because he believes he has an oppor-
tunity to work him also for a nice
round lump sum of money.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25
POLITICAL POT PIE.

To a man up tree there is every
indication of there being a niger in
the woodpile when the Seattle Times
rushes to the support of Harold Pres
ton for United States senator, know
ing as it does his attitude toward
railroad companies and corporations
in this city. Colonel Blethen in his
support of Mr.. Preston is anything
but consistent, for there is no man in
the state of Washington that is more
indebted to railroad companies for his
present exalted journalistic position in
Seattle than he. If reports be true,
Colonel Blethen borrowed every dol
lar on which he built up the Daily
Times from James J. Hill, the railroad
king, and the man whom Harold Pres,
tons political ascendancy would mean
the most harmful to. Knowing this
as Colonel Blethen does, it is most
remarkable that he could come Out
editorially and otherwise supporting
Harold Preston for United States sena-
tor simply because he halls from Sc
attic, when he knows that he is aiding
a political element in this city whose
sole object is to strike death blow
at railroads and railroad interests, and
especially those that give to Seattle
her greatest opportunities, which is
done for sinister motive and perhaps
with the belief that after Seattle's
commercial interests have been Grip
pied it will redown to the interest OF
some other section of the state. Does
Colonel Blethen want the world to
understand that he is fighting Jim
Hill and his interests in the state OF
Washington? Does Colonel Blethen
want the world to understand that
after having been assisted to the ex
alted position that he now occupies
that he proposes to be ungrateful tC
the man who helped him there? Does
Colonel Blethen want the world to
understand that he is an migrate on
general principles and stands ready at
any time to hit the hand that gave
him aims? If he does not want the
world to understand these things the
course that he is pursuing in this
political situation is the same as
though he had not only attempted it..
hut was actually doing the things here
in mentioned Either Colonel Blethen
proposes to strike a death blow at
his benefactor or he is doing some
fine Italian work among the Republi
cans in the interest of George Turner
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-25

Continued on page 2.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-07-11
MOURNS At MORGUE
Her THIRO time
Mrs. Elizabeth Hasse in Six Years
Claims Bodies of Brother,
Sister and Husband.

Three times In six years Mrs. Elizabeth
Hasse of No. 2233 Gasconsde street has
been called TO the morgue TO identify
bodies of dead relatives.
At noon yesterday she was summoned to
see the body of a man taken from the river
at the foot Of Cherokee street. She iden-
tilted it as that of her husband, Theodore
Hasse, who was drowned in attempting TO
board the steamer Rees Lee at th'ac9Ot OF
Olive street Tuesday night.
-Four years ago Mrs. Hasse claimed the
body OF her sister, Louise Wiley. which
had been taken TO the morgue. Miss VIII
ley was killed by falling down an elevator
shaft at the Blanke Candy Compauy's
plant.
Six years ago her brother. John Wiley,
was drowned in the river and she arrived
at the morgue not more than an hour be-
fore dead wagon was TO depart with II
for Potter's field.
Mrs. Hasse visited the morgue yesterday
morning and gave a description OF her hus-
band. She requested Assistant Keeper
Walter Graham TO notify her II sulh
man was brought into the morgUe. as she
feared he might be buried in Potter's field.
Mrs. Hasse had hardly left before the
wagon arrived at the mOrgue with her hus-
bands body. She identified the body.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-07-11
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VISITORS AT ST. LOUIS HOTELS.


w. H. Bradish OF Springfield. H.. i
stopping al the Planters
William ]. Collier Of Chicago ia al the
MoseT.
Among the guests at the LHcleie sIe
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Martin OF Kansas city.
Oscar Weber. a merchant or " st
Plains. No, is a guest at the Lsndeli.
Frank Norton OF Appleton City spent
yesterday at Horn's.
w. r. Glover of In Belle. Mo-. spent
yesterday at the Laclede.
Wallace Eyerets Of Belleville, Ill, Is OF
Horns.
George II. Williams OF Philadelphia ar
rived at the Planters yesterday.
Emmett Vaughan and son OF Des Arc.
Ark. are at the Ldndeil.
George jenkins Of LeavsnwOrth. Has-.
Is visiting at Horns.
William V. Baker of Chicago Is At the
Planters
-wiIl.ar. B. Barr OF Sprinkle. Tex. is CT
the MosCr's.
Edward Miller OF Fayeite, No. Is
stopping =: the Laclede.
T. j. IuheTt Of Seattle. Wash. spent yes
ierJgny at the Lindeil.