The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-08-06
Volume XVI, Number 10.
H. R. CAYTON, Publisher

genuine wind fall has Ellis DeBru1er's way
and he with his many friends, rejoicing his
good fortune. The federal position
Ellis DeBruler of emigration commissioner has been
Gets Good job created for Seattle and Mr. DeBruler
has been named by President Taft for
the place For the past eight years he has been convict
ing hoboes in the police court and it be said with
fear of successful contradiction that few if
escaped He has twice served the Republicans of the
state as chairman of the state central committee.
Whether the community is troubled with good or
bad times the attendance at the baseball games to
never decrease. Just how find
Baseball Craze time to leave their various business
Is Not Abatng. enterprises and spend one afternoon
after another at baseball game is
more than the average explain and yet they do
The directors Of the Seattle Baseball Park have bo
nanza this year all but the equal of the A-Y-P. expo
sition from financial standpoint. Unlike the race
course the devotees of the baseball game compelled
see it to appreciate it. while the devoees
may remain at home and still bet just heavily if
they looking at the ponies go round the circle
Every evening at the close of the baseball game the
street cars running the park taxed to their
limit for those desiring to get home, and
the hrongs may be many Of the leading business
of the city. It is not the money that costs them
to attend the games which counts but the time they
take from the business and they will give nothing else
that precious time except the baseball games 1t is
certainly strange what great hold the baseball
has the American people.
The constant clashes between the sheriff and the
prosecuting attorney of King county strikes being
very peculiar coming, they do
Earring Officials from supposed to be above the
Continue at Outs. average intelligence For the good
of the common veal it would
that the sheriff and the prosecuting attorney would get
together talk their troubles and at least try to
attend to the countys business in way,
and two pteousy ignorant Of the duties devov
ing the holding Of such positions AS to who is right
and who wrong the public does not give tnkers dam
but the tax payers do want to the affairs OF the
county conducted along the lines of good and they
do not want official to stand in the way of another
performing his duty he should do Within the
past month the papers have had columns of stuff about
the jars between the sheriff and the county commission
ers and between the sheriff and the prosecuting aor
ney all of which should come to an abrupt end or all
concerned will show that they unfit to hold the
offices that have been entrusted to them.
Suppose it did cost Harry Thaw $325,000 to kill his
man. he had the money and he would have put it to no
better use than that if he had not
Half Million killed his man. Young Gould did not
For His Nee. kill his man. but he married his woman,
and it has doubtless cost him ten times
much for his rash act has young Thaw for his
The of milonares who amassed fortunes by ques
tonabe usually spend it just reckessy they
made it, and if Thaw had not spent that amount OF money
trying to his neck from the galOWs he perhaps
would have spent twice much in trying to get
opportunity spend the money for the purpose that he
did 1t may be Popusm, and it may be pessimism, but
the laws of this country should be worded to make
it impossible for to pile up such fortunes as
hundreds and thousands Of them have done which for
tunes are usually spent in riotous living, in corrupng
courts seducing innocent young to satisfy the
damnabe lust of such degenerates
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