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The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-07-01
BOTH ARE KNOWN HERE.

Some Honolulans will remember Mrs.
Hugh Weisman and DR., +. b. Morrill,
of California. who were in Honolulu in
the fall OF 1901. Or. Morrill, Travelled
with Mrs. Weisman as her physician.
she being an invalid. and his wife did
not like his apparent intimacy with Mrs.
weisrnan. Mrs. Morrill, sued Mrs
The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-07-01
WILCOX
LAUGHS At
HUMPHRE
The Office Seeking
Judge Is
Crank.
DELEGATE THUS
is PUTS OPINION
Sudden Activity Over Trsmways
Bill Peck and his
tillo Bills.
Especial to The Advertlser)

"a TAsHINGToN. D. G., June t.
VA There was some connection
" among the Home Rule contin-
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

relate to her his most marvellous
dream, which being finished, he died
Immediately of heart paralysis. He
was reported to be man of highly ner-
vous temperament.
A man was asked to invest some
money in an insurance company. He
saw in the list of directors such names
as Chaucey M Depew, John Jacob AS
tor, Benjamin F. Tracy, Levi P. Nor
ton. He invested 100000 The insur-
ance company is now dead. He has
lost his money and is now suing the
directors to recover it. Several prom
inent men have already paid him
$4,000 each, realizing that they were
duped in allowing the use of their
names.
Less TIM 100000 wage-earners were
employed in American manufactures
fifty years ago. Today approximately
100000 are SO employed. Meanwhile
the 100000 of people maintained by
farming half a century ago have grown
to 10000, ,000-an enormous increase in
itself, though relatively less than the
increase in other industries. Within
the same fifty-year period the products
of agriculture have increased in annual
value from 81, 900, 100000 to $4,70O, ,OOO,-
600, or not quite three-fold. The con-
current increase in the value of manu-
featuring products was from a little
more than $1,000, 100000 in 1850 to a
little more than $4,000, ,OOO0 900 in 1900
"a twelve-fold increase. Yet the
American farmer and planter, with
their grain, meat, provisions and
cotton, are still the two main pill
lars of national prosperity. They sup
port but one-half the people, but they
still furnish two-thirds of all our ex-
ports. From 1898 TO 1902 inclusive
our total exports were valued at S.
700,000,000. Of this total our farms
contributed $4,27O, 900, 900, or 81 out of
every 81 worth. Our factories con-
tributed to the same total $1,880,0OO
00O-only So out of every $11 worth
Last year 124,542 men applied for
enlistment in the United States army
Of whom only 81 ,461, or 80 per cent,
were accepted. The army standard
maintained in this country is unques-
tionably the highest in the world.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

are good and essetial measures for
the benefit of the general public woe
fully killed for fear some one man
may get more public and political no.
toriety from its passage than an other.
Politics is fast supplanting patriotism
as will be seen from the above state
ment. Men elected to congress con-
spire to defeat even patriotic meas
ure rather than to see some one man
get more prominence from it's passage
than they. When the lawmakers of
any country SO far forget their coun-
try's interest to become conniving and
scheming politicians, then the coun-
try is rapidly drifting into a most de-
plorable political condition and the
sooner the halt is called the better
for the entire country.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
Dirty Dog Fight.


The moral status of this city is GER
tainly at ebb tide when such disgrace
full scenes as took place at the Sc
attic theatre last Monday evening are
permitted to transpire in an uptown
play house and one which caters sole
ly to the respectable citizens for pat
ronage. The dirty pug fight which
was pulled off last Monday evening.
which resulted in a free for all fight
with every one present could only be
expected to occur in a semi barbarian
country where brutality plays the lead
ing role among the inhabitants. De
spite the fact that a score or more
policemen were present no effort was
made by them to stop the fight until
IL had almost reached the riot stage
and much bloodshed threatened.
Talk about your superior Anglo-Saxon
civilization of the twentieth century.
but here it is in all it's glory.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
BROTHER IN BLACK.


Ss"t7''SDS0S-SFS~S's VT'V'TS'TT'S
the Negro's claim for public office, if
otherwise qualified than the mere cir
cumstance of color of skin, the issue is
squarely presented in social problem
at the national capital by the marriage
of the aged head Of a department to a
Negro woman. This was his second
marriage, and his two grown daugh-
ters Immediately repudiated their
fathers action. He purchased a resi-
dence in the ''swell'' part of the city,
and when he installed it's Negro mis-
tress, great was the commotion in the
neighborhood because of the variegat-
ed colOrs presented in the family COM
bination. AS there is no law against
miscegenation in the District Of Co.
lumbia, nothing can be done in legal
way, and very little by society, if the
realm obeys the edicts Of the ''f1rst
lady of the land" by official CUSTOM
Mrs. Roosevelt, whose hunsband has
showed his legs under the mahogany
with Booker Washington, and declares
his intention of appointing a colored
man collector of customs at Charles
ton, or Negro to Office anywhere else
if he possesses mental fitness for it's
duties.
In fact, we expect to witness lining
up of the presidential "set' with the
prescribed clerks associates, in opposi-
tion to those presumptuous upstarts
who announce that they will surrender
their leases and move to other quar-
ters, unless the color combination is
not summarily removed from the
neighbOrhood. An appeal to the de-
partment will, of course, prove abor-
tive, and it seems that the issue of
race equality will be presented to the
chief executive in a manner that was
altogether unexpected by him.-Wash-
ington Standard.
Is Mishter Moorphy getting jealous? :?
News from Dawson City report the
narrow escape of George Rideout of
drowning not long since Mr.. Rideout
was at work on one of the river steam
ers and fell overheard, and owing to
the extreme coldness of the weather
he came very near freezing to death
before assistance could be given him.
He, however, writes to a friend that
he is alright now, and he and his wife
have quit work for the winter
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

The question has been frequently
asked since last Saturday, "WiI the
call of a grand jury on the part of
Judge Bell have any political effect?'
The Pie-maker is of the opinion that
it is probelmatical It may and it may
not, but he has every reason to believe
that it will, unless he misses his guess.
If it does, it will certainly mean the
ultimate defeat of Tom Humes for
any Office and it may go further and
defeat the aspirations of many others
who have taken their political inspira-
tions from Mr.. Humes. If the grand
jury does not give this city and coun-
ty white wash some ugly political
stories will be the result of it's inyes-
LEGATIONS. 1t may not criminally con-
meet any one with the stories, but
they will reflect very severely on the
characters of some men, who now
stand, apparently, par excellent in
the community
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

DR.. J. r. A. Grassland, minister to
Liberia, is said to be in trouble. It is
learned from late reports from there
that he perhaps fatally shot Thomas
]. R. Falkner, an engineer and cleo
trician, who formerly lived in Brook
lyn, N. Y but who went to Morovia to
install telephone system in that city.
Serious charges have been filed with
the president against Dr. Grassland,
and even it transpires that he shot
Falkner in selfe defense he is in for
diplomatic investigation.
Mississippi prison officials announce
that under the system of working the
prisoners on state farms, instead of
leasing them, the state has made a
profit of $101, ,432.O9 in six months. How
the balance will stand when the full
crop is garnered is, of course, another
question.
This is but slavery in another form.
for only Negroes are worked on those
farms, the white convicts being kept
within the walls where humane treat
ment is always accorded them, which
is never true of the colored prisoners
in the state Of Mississippi
Touching the political conditions
now existing in Alabama, it has been
given out that President Roosevelt
has designated Joseph o. Thompson,
G. H. Scott and VIM F. Aldrich to con-
stitute a board of referees to make
political recOmmendatios and to pass
upon applicants for federal positions
in and from that state. The above
named referees have consistently and
persistently opposed what is now
termed the Lilly White" Republi-
cans of that state and favor the regu-
lar Republican party made up and
composed Of both white and black vot-
ers. This movement on the part of
the president prompted the colored
politicians of the state to call a state
convention for the purpose of reorgan-
izing the Republican party, and in this
the above committee of referees stand
at the head
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

Xmas eve musical will be given at
the Old Masonic Hall, corner Pike and
Second avenue. Promises to be So
cial event. Mrs. Ben Williams and
w. M. White are in charge of the en-
tertainment.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

1t is utterly impossible to run q
newspaper unless those to whom 1t is
sent pay for the same. If, therefore,
you are indebted to The Seattle Re.
publican it will be deemed a favor if
you will come up to the Office
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
McGraW Goes East.

McGraW Goes East.
Hon. John H. McGraw, Banker ia
cob Furth and Lobbyist Erastus Brai-
nard, a committee representing the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce, is now
hurrying to Washington City as fast
as steam can take them under ordinary
circumstances, for the purpose of first,
to contradict the mistatements made
about Seattle by the business interest
of San Francisco, and secondly, to urge
on Secreary Root the advisability of
giving the Seattle business men what
they have fairly and sqIarely won.
The Boston Transportation Co. made
a bid for the government transporta-
ton business to the Orient, it's bid
was lower than that Of any competi-
tor, it stands ready to carry out its
agreement, it has the necessary finan.
cial backing to doubly indemnify the
government in case it should fail and
it is but right and justice that the con-
tract be let to the lowest and best
bidder. To see that such is done has
taken the above named gentlemen to
the national capital, and if the con-
tract can be secured for Seattle's
business men they will secure it.
Later-The contract has been
awarded to Seattle and San Francisco
will soon be a dead one.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
TOPICS OF THE TOWN


per, replied, ''Well, I ges' had to ketch
dat durn mule fo' 1 could skin him,
an it tok me all day long to ketch
and kill him, so | could skin him"
The boss then learned to his disgust
that the mule did not die, but the
Negro did not propose to be cheated
out of a reward for a little thing like
that. The burglar reward may not be
a parallel case, but it might be.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
CURRENT COMMENT

Mrs. Grant Dead.
Last Sunday night the wife of one
of Americas most distinguished citi-
zens passed away. Mrs U. S. Grant,
whose husband was the United States
greatest general and ranked favorably
with the worlds greatest military ge-
muses., and who was at one time the
chief executive of this country. and
at time when it required a man of
iron as was U. S. Grant to manage
the affairs Of state, which was then
IN most topsy turvy condition, was at
his side during all of those dark and
dreary days. 1t is wholly unnecessary
in this connection to eulogize Gen.
Grant, for he has been pronounced by
the worlds greatest thinkers as one
of the profound men of this country.
Amid all of his greatness there was
one grand supporter always near him
and that was his noble wife, who so
recently passed away. At the time of
her death, Mrs. Grant was about rs
years of age. The surviving members
of her immediate family, with the ex-
ceptiCn of her son, Gen. F. D. Grant
were with her at the time.
Venezuela Bombarded.
Unexpectedly war powder" has
been burned again on the American
continent and Uncle Sam did not do
it. The British and German govern
ments, having legitimate financial
claims against the Venezuelan gov
ernment and those claims having been
refused payment by the venezuelans.
her ports were declared closed, her
navy destroyed and finally her leading
coast town bombarded by the gunboats
of both England and Germany. Thus
far in the embriglio the United States
has taken no part, but has pacifcally
watched the proceedings, evidently
not thinking that the Monroe Doctrine
was sufficiently encroached upon to
warrant her preventing the further
devastation of the little republic. On
this point, however, public opinion in
this country is much divided. It is not
believed by the general public that
our government is showing the proper
spirit in not preventing those Euro
pean powers from bombarding the
venezuelan forts, and yet Venezuela
has not, until recently, asked any in
tervention on the part of the United
States. If what has been purported
to be the facts about the Monroe Doc
trine be true then the United States
should not have waited for Venezuela
to seek her assistance, but she should
have stood between the little republic
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

The Negro Surgin1 to the Front.
On the heels Of the announcement
made by President Roosevelt, that he
would in no case distinguish againt
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

For some reason the contest for
speakership in the house of represen-
tatives of the eighth legislature of this
state has been permitted to lag. Each
of the candidates is perhaps making a
splendid still hunt for it, but if they
are, they are certainly keeping their
own counsel, and not allowing the
newspapers to get tip as to their ac-
tions. One thing, however, is certain,
King county will not have a candi-
date for the speakership. This has
been decided on by the delegation at
the request of Senator Preston. Mr..
Gleason would have made an admirable
presiding officer and, owing to past
experience, would have received a
warm support, not only in King coun-
ty, but in other parts of the state, but
the Preston influence prevented him
from entering the race. It is sur.
missed, however, that Mr. Thompson of
Kitsap county is still a prominent fac
tor in the fight, but the odds, it would
appear, favor the election of Hon. J.
G. Megler of Wahkiakum.
Hon. E. G. Hughes is still in Wash
ingtOn City lobbying for the creation
of his iudPoshin which he THINKS bo
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

The Democratic vote was as follows:
Geo. F. Cotterill 34,315, Frank B. Cole
32,968, Mr.. Holcomb 32,11S, while
Judge Reavis received 1854. It will
thus be seen that the political senti-
ment of this state is overwhelmingly
Republican. None of the lesser par
ties showed any great amount of
gain, save and except the Socialist
ticket. The three Prohibition candi-
dates received respectively 1885, 1774
and 1862, while the Socialist received
on an average of 4,631 votes each.
Their highest candidate, Thomas Neill,
who ran for supreme judge, received
4,739 votes. Summing up the entire
vote the figures show the Republican
candidates received an aggregate ma
jority of 10,454 over the combined op-
position vote and 26,127 over the Dem
ocratic vote.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
Mullins Big Reward.

Councilman Frank P. Mullen may
have meant it as huge joke when he
introduced a bill in the council offer
ing reward of $500 to the policeman
bringing the dead body of a burglar
to the headquarters, but jokes occa-
sionally become serious. There is not
the slightest probability of the bill
ever being passed, but should it be-
come law the council would soon find
that they had laid the foundation for
the bankrupting of the city treas
ury, for every cop on the force would
vie with each other in seeing how
many extra $500 he could earn during
the month. His salary would be a
mere bagatelle in comparison to his
extras. 1t would be a picnic for the
undertakers and cemetery sections,
and both good and bad citizens might
nightly fall by the wayside for the
sake of $500. Better reconsider your
bill, Mr. Mullen, or you might get
yourself in a pack of trouble.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

has steadily grown in political favor
until he has reached the top of the
made fight in congress against
Speaker Henderson, it was limited that
he had injured himself, but the subse-
quent vote did not bear out the pre-
diction, but rather showed that he had
strengthened himself with his con-
stituents.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
False Public Economy.

False Public Economy.
1t learned from Washington City
that there will be no "ship subsidy"
legislation so far as the present ses-
sion of congress is concerned. The
deferring of this ship subsidy IegisIa-
tion is matter of spite work on the
part of both Democratic and dis
guntled politicians, because they be-
lieve that it will in some way further
the political opportunities of Mark
Hanna. 1t has been Mr.. Hanna, who
has fathered this measure ever
since it was first introduced into con-
gress and, inasmuch as the entire coun-
try recognized it as judicious meas
ure, the politicians will not let it be-
ccme law lest Mr.. Hanna reaps many
political rewards therefrOm. Thus
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

At the meeting of the board of pub
lie works last Saturday a petition
praying for the permission to reopen
bootblack stand in the rear of the
P.I. block, which had been closed up
on the charge of being public nui-
Sance was signed by HI. T. Bailey AT
ter listening to the reading Of the
lengthy legal document Chairman
Thomson, waking up, perhaps, from
a Cedar river light plant dream, caught
the name Bailey, which he thuught
was familiar sound "Is that the
Rev. Mr.. Bailey, who was arrested
some time ago for seduction?" With
out any one replying to his question,
a curious grin spread over the faces
of all present, and the situation was
only relieved when some one drolled
out, 'The old, old story, all coons
look alike to him." The H. T. Bailey
signing the petition is in no wise con-
nected with the church, Rev. Bailey
is no longer living in the city and the
man arrested for seduction was Rev.
Mack Scott. No one of whom bears
the slightest resemblance to the other.
All of this is brought out to show
how the average Anglo-Saxon classes
all Negroes however honorable some
may be with the one guilty of crime,
and if one of them is a failure, all are.
There are good and bad Negroes the
same as good and bad Anglo-Saxons.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

Speaking about giving rewards to
policemen for the dead bodies of bur
glars, reminds the writer of a Vir-
ginia incident that was once related
to him. On a certain plantation,
which abounded in Negroes and mules,
both of which frequently died, and
especially the latter, the owner, a
Southern white gentleman, sub, made
a rule to pay so much extra for the
skins taken from the dead mules.
One night a very fine and valuable
animal took sick The master and all
hands worked faithful to save it's life,
but there seemed to be no hopes for
it. Late in the night all left for their
homes believing that Mr. Mule would
soon be in kicker's heaven. The
next morning the master told one of
his pet Negroes that he might go and
skin the mule and get the reward.
At early sun rise Sambo was out and
gone. Hours passed but no Sambo
returned with the mule skin. He did
not show up until night fall and as
soon as the master laid eyes upon him
he began to upbraid him at a terrific
rate for taking a whole day to skin
a mule when an hour was the greatest
plenty. Finally, Sambo losing his tenn
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

and the European powers, but insist
ing at all times that Venezuela pay her
honest debts and liquidate her govern
ment obligations. While considerable
damage has already been done no lives
have been lost, and it is hoped that
the trouble is at an end, for it cannot
proceed much further without involv-
ing the United States, which might
mean war with both England and
Germany.
An Indian Uprising.
And now comes the scare headed re-
port from Dawson City to the effect
that the Hiuako Indians have taken
to the warpath and are devastating
the country thereabouts. According
to the report one store has already
been robbed and the owner murdered
and other mischief is being perpetrat-
ed. That this is another Alaska fish
oCO1J LLdu pIODdUI0 IOT the
Indians in Alaska, nor anywhere else
in this country, will ever again take
to the warpath, because there are not
enough of them at any one place to do
any material harm to the citizens if
they did, and certainly could do the
Alaska miners no greater harm than
the miners could and would do them
in few days after an outbreak had
become general. There are doubtless
not enough Indians in and about White
Horse or Selkirk, nor through that en-
tire section of Alaska to more than
cause a furry of excitement, even if
they were on the warpath and even if
they did kill one or two persons, they
would be suppressed before any great
amount of damage could be done and.
therefore, all this talk of Indian up-
rising at this stage of civilization is
both idle and likewise foolish.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
SeattIe's Curfew Bell.

City Attorney Ellis De Bruler has
decided that Seattle has curfew law
and has further decided that in future,
it must be enforced, which is now be-
ing done. Owing to the fact that it
is about Christmas time, when girls
and boys are delighted to go to town
evenings to see Santa Claus in the
various store and shop windows, it
will apparently work an awful hard
ship on the little folk to have to ske-
daddle home by o'clock. It, however,
is a good thing, for if parents want
their children to see the sights they
themselves should take them to town
and show them to the children. The
congregating of girls and boys of ten
der years on the streets at untimely
hours of the night lays the foundation
for bad women and men and if parents
are so unmindful for the future of their
children, then the municipal authori-
ties are perfectly justified in taking
hold of them and regulating their noe
turnal goings and comings.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
Scott Was Guilty.

Scott Was Guilty.
Rev. Mack Scott, who for two years
was pastor Of the A. NJ E. church on
Fourteenth avenue, and who, while
pastor of the church, was arrested,
charged with having seduced Mary A.
Hall, 15-year-old girl, and member
of his flock, and whose father was at
the time stewart of the church, was
found guilty by a jury in Judge Grit
fms court last Tuesday evening as
charged and and is now awaiting SEN
Continued on Page Four)
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

Hon. E. G. Hughes is still in Wash
ington City lobbying for the creation
of his judgeship, which he thinks he
has cinch on if it is ever created.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

relate to her his most marvellous
dream, which being finished, he died
Immediately of heart paralysis. He
was reported to be man of highly ner-
vous temperament.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19

Prior to the last election the Seat
tie Republican predicted that COn4
gressman Cushman would run ahead
of his ticket, owing to the popularity
he had gained in the last congress,
and likewise owing to the excellent
speech that he made in the last state
convention. According to the official
returns Congressman Cushman re-
ceived 1886 votes, Congressman
Jones 59,095, while Congressman
Humphrey received 58,323, and Judge
Hadly 59,017. 1t will thus be seen
that Cushman, who ran behind his
ticket, both four and two years ago,