The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-05-05
PERSONS TALKED ABOUT.

but there should be nothing of unusa interest IN that
for men and women do that self thing every day.
but Monohan has been heavy tax payer in King conn
ty forty years and all told has perhaps paid multiplied
thousands of dollars in taxes and yet under the law ne
can not legally get penny from the poor commission
er and all because he has relatives amply able to care
for him. but for some reason do not once on time
Monohan had property and other belongings IN King
county that placed him to dollars and cents in the
six figure Glass; but at ninety he confess he is
pauper and asks for aims What ending to an active
and perhaps useful career If he has and daugh-
ters who dc not go to the county and place sufficient
funds at his disposal for the balance of his fe then
such sons and daughters too mean and dlsplcabe
to be called citizens of the United States OF America
and that too despite the arbtrarness of the aged faith
err
R. L. DAVIS and Clint Lee, the two Seattle print
ers, are not the only Seattle business men that are
killing time in New York city waiting to testify IN the
case of the wireless end but five Seattle bankers are
also waiting at per day testify for the
ment in the case The waiting and likewise Disguised
bankers are R. " Ankeney cashier of the Seattle Ma
tiona Bank j. T. McVay cashier of the Metropolitan
bank c. S. Harley cashier of the Mercantile bank;
J. W. Swawell vice president of the National Bank OF
Commerce and David H. Moss, cashier OF the First
National Bank These men will be from their business
nearly five weeks and will get $3.50 per day and ten
cents mile both ways
JOHN CoRBETT the Seattle jailer, has been dis
to the community since he has been connected
with the police department and when city Official
sourmes about to keep him in the lime light such oic
als must have some selfish and sinister motive for
doing Every lawyer in the city that has had client
in the clutches of the police know thot said client was
treated like brute in the city jail However be it
said to the credit of Corbett he has been more brutal
to the prisoners in the city jail than has Chief Detective
Tenant but that is not saying very much IN his 1avor
ID oo1o 70 thOn nnf1Q TU
years ago for his brutality to prisoners in the city jail
T, DAVIES state dairy and pure food commissioner
of Washington is to move his family to Seattle, which
is to be his official head quarters The business has
grown so rapidly and there such wide of terri
tory to cover that he says he operate more Success
fuv from Seattle than from any other point OF the state
'Some day want some one of the representatives OF
the press to make tour with me and then give the
nubc the benefit of the work the state is doing in the
interest of the pure food and dairy products" Wash
ington has dairy system that is not surpassed oy
MANY other states of the union and it is being constant
y improved.
BIG BILL. NORRIS the we'll known criminal law
YER has been at it again. recently he having cleared
man charged with perjury, who in previous trial,
practically admitted his guilt. Unless some way can
be devised to send Morris tour around the world
or somewhere else there does not seem to be much
hope of sending very many persons charged with crime
to state prison from King county, In legal battle
Morris is simply whirlwnd.
MAYOR DILLING is now tasting few of the bitter
draughs that always to the man that is mayor OF
oreat overgrown and restless city like Seattle being
damned if he does not and damned if he does.
Over in Tacoma Mayor Fawcett was bitterly opposed
by both the church and the saloon element while Sey-
mour sat on the fence throughout the campaign and
fell over on the saloon side soon as the election was
over.
THOMAS P GREENE the well known steamboat
man. put one of his most commodous steamers at the
disposal of the Seattle Press Club for an excursion to
pr Anoees last Sunday and large number of editors
with their wives and children took advantage OF the
opportunity and saw the booming city on the peninsula
Such is the way an editor has of drowning his sorrow
WILLIAM T. FORREST former state land commiss-
Toner of Washington and subsequently prominent