The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1905, Page 5

sy EVEN AS HIGH UP AS VICE PRESIDENT THEY G UPON GOVERNMENT PAYROLL—CABINET MEMBERS AND FAMOUS SENATORS WORK THEIR SONS AND OTHERS INTO SNAP JOBS WHERE ABOUT ALL THEY DO 1S TO DRAW THEIR SALARIES—NOTORIOUS NEPOTISM BY GILSON GARDNER fand for Jaaper WASHINGTON D C—When ary to B va pha f “graft” which | ices of his ae predicted congress will » | Then a ad ht after it meets, the Keep commis. | Brigha sion is likely to have some disc! r nt ures to make on the rege V President Fairbanks took Repo non the same day he entered The practice of car fe eon at office to appoint his son @aughters, wives and m 1 ‘ 1 his private secretary, The relatives on the government pay t receives a salary rolls has been growing of la $2,220 a year, and up to the pre it is said that ent R has had no duties to per fs oppos: we xeopt it with his Principles of th vesine erit | fathe nding social functions! @ystem ae h n e campaign for the The Keep com 48 nomination which tall gon miasion ha . Oy eman from Indiana is so ardently that Jaape Wilson $. € - tary Wilson, acts as ath i? gy TTS A epee priva y in , nt : of ag Recen young man took a trip to A Special nm” to inv killing of big game there, and had | pursuing. The secreta an outing at government expense don while his salary as secretary con-|in Ind tinued. the federal rolls as “messenger The late Colonel Joseph H. Brig-) Consid exeit bam, assistant secretary of agricu!l-| caused a The arrangement at first was for| United Stat the Brigham boy to serve as pri-|— YERXA vate secretary to General Wilson, | We wit } to $15.00 tver orders arr 4 upwards, © t there will be ca Salt, per bag b. Hage Half-Ground Sa ) Large Bare White Fieat 83 Brag & » extra large b box s 25-Ib. boxes of very fancy new California Black Pigs 12-, kits new Sockeye Sa Ib. kits Salmon Bellies, each All lengths One-Man Saw, 3%. 4. 4%, 5 | ft. 50. foot. : | Wonder Buck | Tea. | | | Buck Saws, Men's and Boys’ Axes. Just received, something fine and cheap. cording to size package. per Bhe to nted pure Ba Flour; it flour on the Granite Ware, | make 300 1 40 per cent list | and the rong : | per bbt j on Hose, while they last, %& Walter Baker's Cho 60-ft. lengths, | mesa Cured Smoked Mame, fresh. $5.50 at $4.50. | per It, < | Mild Cured Bacon, per ib } eager F. R. YERXA @ SONS, and Oceidentat. C, W. BOYNTON SAW AND HARDWARE CO., \§ 300 PIKE STREET, Cor. Third OLD RELIABLE SPOT KLINE @ ROSENBERG, le Double Me can best | Sc Heavy Giass Sewing Ma-| Lemon Handie 2-quart Tin chine Oi! Se Squeezer Be eather ie Pails. be THE “AFTER 6” SALE Shows Still Greater Bargains ‘26e box 14-in. Pure Wax Candles, || 50 dozen %-pint Fluted Bottom get of six, ...... seees BBe@ || Jolly Tumblers e 40c package best quality Fancy || 107 Cake Williams’ Shaving Paper Napkins .,........25¢ || Soap proces Be 25e package Souvenir Letter || 35c dozen Trout Flies, well wrap Heads of Seattle, all new..15¢ || ped silk body ihe 6c Opel Air Hole Gas Globes || 650 box Excelsior Loaded Sh o- te eeeeee eee oe 15¢e | warranted tra Quality Ge One-allon Stone Pot, with- || 10¢ out coved . Je! y = & Hurlbut Second and Union T RELATIVES | could not possibly be ren rm tal work is Y A young man named King apolis, who ts carried om t was ort time ago in the leg ture, the first thing he did was tolislature of Wyoming by a charge secure an appointment for his son.|made by one of its members that s Senator Warren $1.00 | An extra quality untoldred Japan otnily at seventy-ffve cents per Ib, the wholesale price, ac h & man reputed to be very ithy, was carrying bis son on senate payroll, in the face of the fact that this samé son was @ nt at Harvard university, and ing stud rial services There is hardly @ senator of any influence who is wot guilty of this | particular sort of petty graft, The | late preatdent pro tempore of the | senate, Willlam P. Frye, of Maine, }had his nephew as his secretary Benator Lodge son draws @ salary as one of th lerka of his commit te and even Senator Knox, who is believed to be n of th wealthicat men in the senate, has a son on the Jerieal rolls, Senator Gallinger has | for some years past had his son as lerk of his committee, and Senator Foster has a relative performing similar servien When Senator Cockrell left the senate he took with { him to the Interstate commerce commission a son who had the sanatorial rotia ad two of his sone tr of the # ficial list of rament & similarity of names which are familiar to the gee Senator Hurton, of Kan . # had on the rolls as messeo Ker §. Burton, but whether W. sy vite daughter or son is not [apparent. Senator Mitchell, of Ore had as assistant clerk J. Mit Handy; Senator J who ts chairman of the on organization of the ex department (which never ything to do) has for clerk of that committee J. F. Allee, jr; and ts amusing-to find as messenger that committee Newell Ball ( other senatot from Delaware be! Ball). Senator Tillman, of North Carolina, and Senator Daniel, of Virginia, both bave their sons on the coma pay rolls R. A. Gam yin is messenger to the committee on transportation routes to the sea board (another dead committer) rman is Senator Gamble, th Dakota. There is a nephew also of this senato’ on one of the rolls Seregant-at-arma of the Senate Col. D. M. Ramadell has his son on the pay roll, as has Fin ancial Clerk Nixon, of the senate Senator Simmons, of North Caro lina, has a daughter helping to draw the public money, and Senator Berry has a son. , These are a fow examples. There are others. Many relatives whose pames do not show the conne are found o« tion—nominal oc cupation—and good salaries in places about the capital. And in the executive departments of the government the condition is worse. Beginning with the son of the sec retary of the treasury, recently junketing in Hawail, and extending down through heads of divisions they ail carry from one to five rela tives, by virtue of their influence and in open defi of the morit syst of the civil service. nce m and the rules ee ee STRANGE STORY OF GIRL. WIFE a 1 him, but b would make me love him. I way only 15 and he re erced me into marrying him tr the firmt y then he min represénted my age to get said he AOE RRR Ee 1 only lived with him six Jays, judge. 1 simpty couldn't are for him, and when he said he'd force me to love hin nade me away. 1 knew I never could. This was the story told by the girt-wife of Samuel Todd in the divorce court on Saturday ning Jude Morris allowed the di eC ceee eee eee > Peete eee eee eee eee ee eee tnehen, ‘waist & Inchon an | anteed. harmless remedy, witho hes in @ short time, by @ gua. ercise or starving, L want to t enclone stamp a 4. 8 ODWAK Oregon City, Oregon: Excursion to Olympia August 2%. Round trip, $1.00, from Gal braith’s dock at 9 a.m. Str nomah All Kinds of Sport SEATTLE BTAR—SATURDAY. nifc. Petty Grafting by Men Who Are Away Up | nificent new submarine Plunger ton | f the spirit} MEDS ‘A FEW JOLTS 4/48 THAT ot ROOSEVELT TAKES A TRIP IN THE NEW SUBMARINE OYSTER PAY, L. L, Aug. 26.— maneuvers of the Plunger from {aboard the yacht Sytph, ore Hill Extreme precautions were taken » al by the naval constructors at th Brooklyn navy yard In making thetr f the Plunger for t w known that the president conte Stealing away from Saga hout reveating oul, President F than three hours aboard ¢ the three hours he was on board was below the surface about 50 min- | realms of Neptune on by utes and wt of the time he “rar ond Navel Contractor Roberts the bo fused to accept the report, “every He made her dive and reappear on | thing satisfactory,” made after she the surf go ahead, reverse, with | had and without tights, He discharged | severa imaginary torpedoes at imaginary | “we ¢ take any ch hen battleships and had the time of his | she drops in at Oyster Bay win fo. He congratulated Lieutenant. electric pumps, hand pumps and air olson and his ten on on the | flasks, if one faite, we can depend splendid action of the Plunger on the other, so there will be little ‘The president today watched the danger in a trip on the Plunger after -~ —— BOTH THE PLAIN WORK AND GARMENTS ARB WHIGHED TOGETHER! AND CHARGED FOR AT THE RATE OF @ CENTS FER POUND. WE IRON ALL THE FLAT WORK FREE AND STARCH ALL GARMENTS THAT NERD STARCHING, IF YOU DE SIRE THEM STARCHED. WE DO WOOLEN BLANKETS WHICH ARE VBRY HEAVY AND HARD TO DO AT HOME, AT THE REASONABLE RATE OF 5 CENTS FOR DOUBLE, OR 25 CENTS FOR SINGLE BLANKETS Palace Laundry Co. Both Phones 177 MAIN OFFICE AND PLANT EIGHTH AND OLIVE 12 IXTH AVE. NEAR ITRE DOWN TOWN OFFIC au.” crew are picked men of the| service, and they personally guaran snaidered by ae marking the by plated taking a Mttle trip to the! na i of her, | highest TENDERLOIN ee much talked ter police noid. the veteran the pening night embered in the hist THE LAUREL Laurel Heaters for Wood, Coal or Slack AMUSEMENTS. GRAND [son cor SEATTLE Both Phones 65 | Mana ager Both Phones vi ide Week of See Wed A. and Friday, Saturday Sept. 1-2 Wilton Lackaye ‘Brigadiers Burlesque Company In Wo “The Pit” Saturday Matinee, “TRILBY” ; Pretty V m $ day and Mat HIRD AVENUE) * 1% 00: THEATER | “Yhosionn Both Phe Matinee Prices—Aduits 20c, Child Tonight, Saturday, Last Time Taylor ( LIFE AND POSITIVELY LAST APPEARANCE of the favorite Chartes Taylor’s New York Company MATINEE, SUNDAY, AUGUS TOMORKOW NIGH es of Their Former Triumphant In “HIS DOUBLA Two Special Perfor cess The White Tigress of Japan LAURETTE TAYLAR, in her former character of “THE YELLOW PERIL. MISS AILLEEN MAY, as Kinumle, “THE WHITE TIGR’ ALL THE OTHER FAVORITES IN THEIR OLD PARTS—Don't Miss Seeing This GREATEST OF ALL WAR PLAYS by the Beet Company That Has Ever Made a Long Stay in Seattle. v NOTE—The Taylor Company Appears at Beck Theater, BELLING- HAM, August 28-29; 1. O. O. F. Opera House, Anacortes, August 20, Wednesday; Tacoma Theater, Tacoma, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of This Week Next Attraction at Third Avenue Theater, Next Sunday, Sep- tember 3, an Eastern Company in Marie Corelli's “FABIO RO- MANA” “'Tis ever the same, near or fa The very best show is seen at the Star.” BILL FOR beh 8 OF AUGUST 3—Dierion aeere—4 German Acrobats and Herculean Marvels. Rome—Mayo—Juliet Cinke denit- Burlesque Minstrels Onsiow & Garnett shows will be pe ree Comedy Sketch. ida Russell continuous ards. Most Comedienne. Steve Jennings from 2 p. m. thrilling act “The Man With the Cane.” Thomas W. Ray, totam of the cen- New Song Itiustrator. Starascope “The Moon Lover.” Tomorrow is the ta 7. omorrow chance to positively the Ge. Daily Matinees, “te. Eve 8 vod Holidays Reserved Seats, 20c. Box Sea s, 2be. ee circus Opposite Recreation GROUNDS »?.-. TONIGHT! LAST TIME. The Most Stupendous, Thrilting and erg: a THEATER Beginning Monday Matinee, Aug. OMPEII 28th—-All Week. FAREWELL TOUR And Magnificent $1,000 Nightly Fire- Tee Great ant’ Gaby works, Awe Inspiring Earth - walle end On JOHN L. SULLIVAN admission, including seat In a 3-Round Bout with His b0c extra; pri Sparring Partner, o: on sale at Jim MeCormick. Grand Opera House box office, 9 - » tee Tee Semel | The Richard K. Fox — |] Diamond Medal— Lulu Beesou Assisted by the Comedian, Harry Ferguson. ST. PAUL, Mi Aug. 26.—How ard James has been promoted to the position of director of purchases of the Great Northern railway, the po- Julia Hamilton sition having been spectally created The Peerless Coon Shouter, for him by President Hill ttervey & Lane Operatic Stars tn an Original Sketch from Comic Opera, en- titled, “Hearts and Hands.” Wood & Jones Weber & Fields. RANGE Signor, Cordella Is made of polished steel, and I} Musical Entertainer of beautiful design; the nickel Pete Dunsworth plating heavy and durable. Song Ilustrator, The quick-heating steel oven os and DOUBLE FLUE making Biograph. them fuel-saving. They are Matinees, 2 to 5; evenings, 7 handsome and ¢ asting to 1p a SOLD ON EASY PAY- We-—-ADMISSION—100 MENTS. You i stove tak part payment on ne Ghe Hegdahl Co. Incorporated Agents, 1622 First Ave. 818-824 Second Ave. Batlard H, LEWIS & CO. 700 First Ave. LOOK FOR OUR ADS, IN MONDAY'S PAPER. You will profit by so doing, We are going out of business,