The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1903-03-13
Culled from the Local Columns of
the Country Exchanges.

the Country Exchanges.
Some unprincipled fellows working
on the streets for the city took
mean advantage of Councilman James
while he was out of town and dumped
parcel of dirt on his vacant lot,
which was some ten feet below the
street grade, and completely filled it
up to the street grade and thereby
despoiling a beautiful idea that he in
tended to execute by building a resi-
dence on the lot and having a fine
cellar in which he could have plenty
of room to store away some Seattle
Electric bonds, which he found while
rumaging about the city, which must
have been lost by either Chief Seattle
or some of his ancestors. The mis-
creants, if caught, will be severely
punished.
Our thriving little town can justly
the fish dealer, in his efforts to make
her name famous throughout the en-
tire country on account of her great
fish shipments Only this week our
| George sent a large box chuck full
of fine fat suckers to Boston, which
/ is to fill long felt want His efforts
are very commendable and it is hoped
that Mr.. Cassidy will repeat it, and
thereby give our town more and wider
advertisement as the headquarters for
suckers.
Little Mary Hall, poor girl living
on the outskirts of the town, was
murdered last Sunday by big burly
brute to satisfy his criminal passions
and was buried Monday by her friends
and relatives. Public sentiment to
some extent condemns the man, but
as the girl is of poor parents aid is
not generally known there seems to
be no need of unduly censuring the
gentleman charged with having
wronged her. However, it should be
warning to the mothers of such girls
to keep them home or send them out
under the protection of a policeman.
If too heavy sentence is imposed
upon the gentleman he will have the
Supreme Court knock out the law. He
is a valuable citizen and men of his
push and pluck can't be spared in our
efforts to forge to the front.
Representative Reube Jones has re-
turned from the legislature, where he
has made a most brilliant record as
a law maker and our citizens turned
out by the wholesale to welcome him
home again. We are very proud of
him for the many measures he failed
to pass in the legislature. Mr.. Jones
was very popular or he would not
have been able to drive majority of
the members of the Legislature from
any measure which he did not want
passed by supporting it. With our
Rube in the Legislature, no measure
is likely to pass which would be detri-
mental to our county, if only he will
support it.
When our contemporary declared
the legislature "whitewashed" one of
the representatives whose utterances
had been under investigation, it went
out of it's way to libel the gentleman,
for we have been creditably informed
that the bleached appearance of the
gentleman was the results of pure
soap and water and no whiting pre-
paration had been used at all. Our
contemporary is always barking up
the wrong tree or barking at the moon,
and if it does not change its barking
the CRATES before many more corn
planting times.
Our little town has begun to put on
city airs and the time is not very
distant when it will be the chief city
of this neck of the woods. The latest
is that Lawyer Hughes, Gas Operator
Hill, Capt Farrell, Contractor Henry
and Swede, whose name we failed to