Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-11-25

tSL25 a sack. Eggs 40 10 80 cents a
pound. Meats In proportion Hired
girls get $40 to $40 q month, accord.
ing to ability. The plumbers get sal.
aries like bank presidents in Oregon.
Jacob Furth, deepdyed Hebrew.
runs the town. He owns the Seattle
electric light and power and stroet
and cable plant runs a bank, owns
stacks OF property ana business mon,
and controls thousand mons votes
on election day.
In the newspaper 6eld the PostIn.
telhgencor is stiil tho Republican or.
gan. but has not been newspaper
since Ted Piper left II. Tho Blethons
run the Tlmos--a Democratic paper.
edited by Republicans. who stand solid
with the Humes city graft, and graft
about $4,000 year out Of the city
printing, A Judge has decided that a
little Seattle real estate daily Is a
newspaper, and eligible 10 bid. and
the Blethon graft ls cut hut the old
man is fighter The decision was
rendered one day. and the next morn.
ing Blethen came out with a duplicate
OF the real estate paper cutting it's
price from ftOO n month 20 20 cents.
TO drive Il out OF business. Ho cut hla
own price on city printing from 30
cents an inch TO Ave cents and threat
ened by all that's holy and sacred end
righteous to drive tho publishers OF
the little real estate paper out Of busi.
ness and to retire the Seattle Judge
who dared render that decision into
oblivion
Such Is the disposition 10 live and
lot live the world over, and especially
as manifested at timea by the high.
minded molders Of pAbnc opinion.
The Star is scripps News Associa.
tlon daily, and has built ap rapidly un.
der H. +. Chase, who Is establishing a
similar paper at Tacoma
The Star prints four editions daily.
takes no printing graft, runs no med.
ical ads. and ls owned by no corpora.
tlon. Il Is letting In tho daylight ON
the Seattle political machine Only
j Hast week II showed up $4,000 Of uncoi'
. lected paving oontraetors iinoa. II
employed an expert and exposed adul.
terations Of milk that brought n two
libel suits. but reduced tho death rate
OF infants from milk poisoning from
about so a month 20 almoat none. The
star does things, and then talks about
them afterwards.
Has Seattle a graft7 what city
has notg The Seattle gran In cold
cash, and, while Il might be- hard 20
put yonr finger on a particular indi'
Vidual case. the thing exists 10 ne OK.
tent Of from 100000 20 $500. 900 por
anrum. just the same.
The boast Of low taxes and eiean.
honest business odmlpistratioa is
lmyth. Taxee have gone 40 10 three
years from 10 i2h mills for city pun
poscs, estimated revenues from $780,
900 In 1901 10 s2.22o. 900 In 1908, While
valuations have Increased from sac.
100000 10 $4,000 600 in three years
anG population from 5000 TO i2O 900
since the 1900 census Seattle Is bound
10 be an asphalt town ia all the rent
dence parts. the hoayy-tmfle down.
town streois being laid with brick. The
residence streets are nicely parked.
cement walks and ourba. bfick cutters
and Alcatraz asphalt roadways, 30 10
, 40 feet wide-no big trees. Win high
percent eraoos and lttle or no haul.
I. ing from the country. these streets are
! practically permanent and duatless,
The city bears about one fourth the
expense of paving
. ~ had the willamette valley lrib.
= utary % this city ! would male u
hum. said the tranic manaFor of the
Northern Pacific nut Seattle viii b.
great city "a spite u unfayoraole
2 ltopognphy wilderness surroundings
and unpr0duciiye farming oouniry
= around H.
> In every city there - painful 70
mlndings Of mans cruelty 70 aairiala
Seattle Is very hard town on
, horses Streets that are not paved ars
= 0uagmire. through which tho pool
2 beasts stagsor wiih awful loads 10
hlnd each wagon ia dragged = shuci
block. 20 hold the wheel on hiils
TbousaHds d ans aorses. large aEaf