The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-22
LOCAL.

Does the prosecuting attorney &C
knowledge his inability to prosecute
Rev. Scott, which prompts him to en-
p'oy outside counsel in order to bolster
up what seems to be pretty bad case
o, blackmail?
Six gigantic brick blocks are now in
the course of erection on Second ave
nue. between Columbia and Pike streets
in this city. If that is not proof suf-
fcient that Seattle is the only live
town on the Pacific coast, then where
would you go to get your proof?
Now, if mothers would stop their
little baby girls from galavanting
about the streets by day and by night
and with every Tom, Dick and Harry,
as many in Seattle are doing, there
would be fewer Mary Hall cases to be
exposed in the papers and courts.
1t can be said without fear of sue
cessful contradiction that the Afro
Americans of Seattle own more valu-
aye real estate in comparison to their
numbers than in any other city on the
P"cific coast, and yet there is room for
more of them to buy dirt.
Rev. S. S. Freeman, who has been
pastor Of the A M. E. church at Roslyn
in this state for the past year, passed
through the city last Tuesday, en- route
to the annual conference, which is be-
ing held at Portland. He was accom-
panied by his wife. They only re-
manned in the city for few hours.
One day last week young man
showed up in the city in quest of typo
graphical work, and for the first time
for good many years Negro pulled
his card" Whether he got work or not
has not been learned at this Office,
but, from labor union standpoint, he
was a coon that came all right"
Will H. Morris, the well-known
criminal lawyer, has been retained to
defend Rev. Scott. Unless the states
witnesses tell mighty straight story
Big Bill Morris is going to make them
look like 30-cent pieces with holes in
h0fnrn
stand.
Another celebration among Afro
Americans in this city is being con-
templated, and if they decide to pull it
off it will be September %, the real
day on which Lincoln emancipated tie
slaves of this country, which emanci-
patton proclamation went into full
force and effect the following first day
of January.
Just why Negro cannot edit
newspaper with sufficient ability to be
Of general interest to colored folk who
read is a problem that you must go
farther than here to get solved. How
ever, such seems to be a fact, and it
is so despite the fact that the same
editor and paper are considered jour-
nalistic gems by the leading Anglo
SaXOnS.
When Jerry Doheny returned from
New York the other day, whittier he
went for his fall and winter stock,
he was overheard to say to friend:
w len l get my new goods open and on
exhibition | will make the women
folks mouths just waller for me-" Per
haps Jerry meant his goods, but his
friend thought he meant what he said
and wondered why the women would.
Let no one even get the idea into
their heads that l intend to give any
Negro work in not only the county
auditors Office, but in no other Office
with which l am connected now or at
any other time," came, so it is said,
from County Auditor George B. Lamp
ing, who is now candidate for re-
election in King county. Now, Mr.
Twelve Hundred Colored Voter how
do you like it?
Now that the A. M E. church of this
city is in a bad muddle on account of
the Scott rape case the bishop of the
F"get Sound A. NJ E. conference would
act wisely in sending Rev. S. S. Free
man to this charge. He is the only
man in the conference at present that
has sufficient ability, both educational
and otherwise, to l4Old the work, and
he should be assigned to this place
Seattle demands the best in the con-
ference because Of the fact that Seat
tie is the best in ,-e conference.
1t is rather strange that Rev. Scott
should have been arrested, charged
with a heinous crime, just few hours
before the appointed time for the bur
ing of the church mortgage was to
come off. In view Of the fact that a
woman who is well known in A. M. E.
church circles boosted but few days
prior that Mr.. Scott would never burn
that nnOrtoaCo makes If look little
Ike sne knew what was going to take