The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1914, Page 12

STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1914. One Has Tragic Story SURPRISE VISITORS | 3 Among the many surprises the |Junean is nearly $500,000 — per Rourists receives in the northern | month, practically all of which sum Country are the enterprising towns is spent tn the efty Of Alaska. Growing rapidly into Cordova Is Modern. me he city class are the larger of Cordova, located on Orea sound these places, aud throughout the one of the many Inlets on the east | empire one finds enthusiasm and jern shores of Prince William sound, © pride in town life to a marked det» the terminus of the Co; Riv % er & Northwestern railway, which s Several of the Alaska towns are connects Chitina with the stage @escrided briefly in the following, | mal! lines to Fairbanks | Juneau, the capital, being the first} It has an excellent wharf, 80 feet | fo attract attention. wide by ) feet long, on deep} was settled in 1880 and| water frontage, and all modern | the o American town in | conventences A branch of the] a. it le the capital of the railroad to the east traverses the ferritory, the metropolis of Alaska /xreat Chitina copper the and the center of mining opera-!products of which ere shipped tions in the north. It is referred! south fo as the “Gold Belt City | When Cordova comes tnto tts It wae named for Joseph Juneau,/own the exports of coal, copper ‘Who first discovered the rich placer/ gold and other minerals will tr and quartz deposits that have made ase by leaps and bounds, it be this region famous. ing the logical center of all the Port Never Closed. Copper River valley and the outlet ‘The city lies at the head of Gas-jof the Hering coal field —— channel, an arm of the sea Fishing Indust: miles northwest of Seattle, the | The tf prs a He to fa { iearest American Pacific coast} Th fishing Industry ts an tm ‘and about 700 miles from {POrtant item, and the tourist can| eee B.C from | take his fill of aport on Lake yak, | Eats B port that’s never closed. | coset and the cht of oll artints duneau is in communication by sea Vancouver, Victoria, Serttie, _ 'Y What ; Rortiand, San Francisco *i" oF open hr ! 3 other Pacifc coast ports, and| miles from ttle, and the trip advantages to be derived by| 8 mede tin four days or less; by} s known as the “out route, it is 1,250 the “inelde” passage, via Juneau, Deserted viliage of Kasaan. The inhabitants fied from it, oy eal ol the | the distance is somewhat greater|leaving behind silence and mystery. Photo by Curtis & Miller be shared by Juneau. and the time about five days. TWO] ot nee become of the Indians, hurried call was sounded through in Gold Belt. Mnes of steamers make this port ¢.| the vilage, « »| who once dweit in the quaint, pi Juneau not only ts the center of| °f “Al! about six tmes monthly, be: | wi What was {t? mining industries comprising | "tes Bumerous freighters turesque little village of Kas@an,) Woartng apparel, fishing tackle, Juneau Gold Belt,” but ts Skagway Now Peaceful. & queer jumble of shacks and to-/all the crude furniture belonging the center of the salmon and| From a few tents to a city of|tem poles on the shores of a quiet/ to the natives, were left behind t fishing tndustry in Alaska.| 15,000 men and women: springing | ia) on pri ow leland? when they fled the past year a large cold|to existence almost over night, the; °*¥ 0” Prince of Wales lela! | Did some hostile tribe drive plant, where imm ccene of the wildest excitement,| Kawean today ts deserted. Quiet) them out? Or were they fright tities of fish are now handled, the starting coint for the Klondike reigns along the beach that once) ened away by beasts of prey? The Deen erected in the feverish days of the gold|rang with the bark of dogs and the| whole thing is shrouded in mye#| \ “Almos a million cases of fish| rush in ‘98, and now a picturesque,| happy cries of Indian children. | tery | ped from this vicinity each | thriving, peaceful community, sit-/Rank weeds have pushed through Rather Skeery. Whaling ts also carried on ting at the feet of towering moun-|the cracks in the old, tumbledown| The village proves an interest: Juneau, there being a station | tains, Skagway, the transfer point| buildings and have grown over the|ing spot for tourists every sum on Admiralty island which | from steamer train for Daweon-| windows, mer. They go here and there over for a number of years been | bound travelers from the outside, Mystery Call. the beach and peep into the silent! otem, now electric light pole fully operated. | ie a place worth seeing. The houses, however, show no| houses, There's something £ho8t-| The owner wae eaten by a be. : Pay Roll City. | Here, in the days of the stam-|deterioration. The window panes|ly about the place, and although Juneau been designated “a! pede. “Soapy” Smith and his mur-|are unbroken and the interiors give| sightseers are intensely interested] ‘phe world at large has displayed of pay rolls.” Being the capt-|derous followers plied their trade,|the impression that the occupants|they always breathe easier when | great interest in tho totem pales Of the territory, tt hae the gov-| looting outfits bound for the in-|bave just left. Cooking utensils | safe aboard the boat again with alse Ajaske since the conntey wae gd payroll of the office forces | terior, holding up, robbing, and, if|are scattered about just asthe wom-| widening expanse of water be | “discovered” by the gold 6 Pada the offices of governor, sur- necessary, killing nugget-laden menjen left them when that mystertons, | tw them and the shore. Much has been writt “y about the ye general, secretary of Alasks.| coming ont. Here he met an un-/ ne Weenie: 2 ig |totem pole) yet white peop wttit States land office, United timely end and here his grave may | wharves on deep water. only, This ts the only available | understand but little concerning It customs office, United be seen today Douglas and Treadwell. winter route w travel, During Only the Indians can see the true bureau of education, United; Situated at the head of Lynn| Douglas and Treadwell, with|the open season on the Yukon the/symbolism and significance of the} steamship inspector andj| canal, 110 miles north of Juneau,| Juneau, practically form one com-| journey can be made by way of | totem Se etek soert. and 1,000 miles north of Seattle.|munity of 4,500 to 6,000 inhabl-|“kagway and down the Yukon, or} To the average whit 4 Rays Res the -fge Bete wad the | Skewes ts the American ocean |tants, mupported by the operations | by way of St. Michaels up the ‘rty-| spite all explanations, the. totem fiom the industries within the city|ocean with the Yukon river. Five|stamps, with a crushing capacity Spiariionne Oeite vente Ap mel Sean rs ns, “ consisting of lumber mills,| miles of steamships, sailing every|of 6,000 tons daily, w’ all are! Fairbanks ts pee porta pa dis-| beasts, and stories m th ty A ie eee ereeaon, Cnetioa] exw Says, Diy between Sasitlo andlin operation. Of these $00 heloss | tribating point Of © wide placer |of the creation 2 2x cove toed p> para obi Juneau, it has alllto the Treadwell group of mines, | region, how also dorelopiog, into Bear Ate Him. !@ payroll for! modern conventences and excelient/on Douglas island. & quartz region of great promise ‘Tho totem pole overtopped by the Other enterprises now being car | its development has been greatly | bear in the photograph ts supposed [ried out expect to increase this/ aided by the construction of the |to represent the sudden taking off, tonnage to more than 10,000 every | Tanana Valley railroad. | vin a bear's stomach, of the Indian }%4 houra, There are two banks, four news | for whom it was carved. The bear's papers, five churches, two hospi-| tracks are plainly visible on the tals and well equipped schools. side of the pole—they are huge, tineau channel, about 900 miles! Mail through the summer reaches | terrible tracks, and they tell the north of Seattle, on the route of/ Pairbanks about weekly by way of| Story of how, when the Indian had all steamers plying to the rag St. Michae and triweekly dur-| progressed to a certain stage in jof the Alaska railroads at 4 ing the winter by the stage route | life, he wan overtaken by the bear | way, Cordova and Seward, which| i vaidez and Cordova, | which devoured him. The bear ts pass every few days and are oye It fa the center of a population | thus represen as being = thi noone! Pg oP gre or pt in ghd numbering from 5,000 to 6,000. overtowering and final event in the elegrap! . The towne are equipped with all Nome Always Digging. coe yg eo roe is the conventences of modern lifo,| Nome exists in a constant state! )flectac Lignt on Totem. | istores. machine — shops, milln,|f Upheaval, for men are alwaye| Modern light ix now belng she Schools, churches, electric light and | #aging In It, around it and through | 7". this totem from an up-to-date |water under pressure. it, Searching for gold. The sands | |ncandescent slectric bulb, sacrk on which | jegiously nafled oh its side, and fed Fisheries form a secondary tIn- t is built have yielded | |” * . miltions of dollars and who can|%Y Wires that swing fearlessly at " Z t dustry to the mines. tell how many more millions lie | Had Stormy History. hidden beneath its i | Wrangel was established by the| Dim ae "ine voate of the wold ox. | lvillzed Indian chief just beyond {Russians in 1831, passed under the | a4 a a The Indians’ totem has ite coun- control of the Hudson Bay Co, and| front was dug tp and ifted tar |tetpart in the symbols of many | finally was taken over by the Unit-| poiq and great mounds arose along civilized nations, The American is ed States, Its careor was ® stormy | the beach until there was the ap-| 2" example, the Russian bear, the one, for when the whites and) iearance of an immense barricade. | 0" Of Great Britain, the thistie Indians were not fighting, there| The work of sluicing still goes on, |of Scotland, the rose of England was warfare between the whites! ang no part of the sity ts immune {2nd family arme are really but lit- themselves. The town gradually| from destruction when gold in| t@ different in their significanc fell into a sad state of decay and! tound, for buildings must move out | RF Prought ail alaska into a sudden|° ‘2 Way ae, WER the Mite oo he’ noel FOL 5 Ds e closing © state of feverish prosperity. Mining Headquarters, fields and the preien Drlig aad Wrangel revived with a rush and| The city, which, ike many oth-|on the road, experi since been a thriving commun-|¢T* of its kind in Alaska, had @/times. It is, however, the outlet ity, Ite industries are lumbering,|™U*hroom development in the} tor the promising quartz and placer fishing, mining and furs, and it| Stampede days, is on Seward pen-| mines of the Susitna, Yentna |has considerable trade with British |{#ula. It is the headquarters for) Knik and Willow Creek districts, Columbia by way of the Stikeen|®!! its mining camps. Telephones | ag well as those on the peninsula river, which is celebrated for its|TU" to the mines and cable and) itseif, and has great agricultural big ‘game. There are three| Wireless telegraph connect the | possibilities in Ite back country. It churches, schools, sawmills, can-| two with the States. is also the terminus of the Seward. nerles, electric plant, stores, hotels|, It 1s reached by steamship dur-| Nome winter trail to Nome and complete telegraphic communt-| {9 the open season of about five! ‘The town is well equipped with cation, but it is not on the regular] months by way of Dutch Harbor,|91 the requirements of modern schedule of all the steamers|the distance from Seattle being | tite. passing north, It js 120 miles about 2,372 miles. During the win-| Valdez Good Town. south of Juneau and 78 miles north| ter months the mais are carried| Vaidez, a flowerdecked little oe etattan, by dog teams from Seward and|oity that sits at the edge of a Ketchikan Prosperous. letters from the States take about) gincier, at the northeast corner of Ketchikan is the most southerly | IX weeks for delivery. Prince William sound, on Valdez | port in Alaska, the center of an ex-| It has two banks, four churches, | iniet, has steamship mccommoda- tensive region, rich in copper, gold, | *Chools, custom house, land office, | tions the same as Cordova, marble and other minerals. It is | 00d streets and the usual supply! Tt ts the ocean terminus of the the port of entry for all South-|°f stores and other conveniences, | valder-Fairbanks mafl and stage eastern Alaska, It has large fish-| ncluding automobiles route, which connects with the ing as well as lumber interests, Sitka Former Capital. route from Chitina at Willow and steamship connection with all Sitka, capital of Alaska until! Creek. It is well provided with all the mining campe. It is served by Junean stole the plum, was settled | the, necessaries and comforts of 900 Miles Away. ‘These towns are located on Ga home of an old but highly Restaurant north by the inside route. It is| west side of Baranoff island, 980/the headquarters of a gold quartz well supplied with all the neces-| miles northwest of Seattle, Though| mining industry which bids fair ries and luxuries of life, churches, | peopled largely by Americans now,|to be wide and prosperous, Its schools, electricity, newspapers and|it still retains its old Russian at-|trade extends to all the mines of water. mosphere, and there are vivid re-|the numberless {slands and inlets Ketchikan, the first port at| minders of the stormy years when|of the sound, which are now ship- |which boats land after leaving| Alexander Baranoff carried on aj ping copper ores in large quanti- here, ia 700 miles from Seattle, and| reign of revelry there as agent for| ties, to be greatly increased in the is reached the third morning after|the Russians. future, the boats stream out of Elliott bay. Sitka is the headquarters of the Iditarod Has 3,500, A substantial looking court,|agricultural department, a naval Iditarod City is located on the |whingle mill, sawmill with a dafly| station, now converted into a min-| Iditarod river, 300 miles above the |eapacity of 25,000 feet, machine|er's home, and government mag-| junction of the Innoko and Yukon, shops, salmon cannery, cold stor-| netic observatory, During high water big steamers age plant, hotels and stores, sup-| The old Greek church, built 50/can reach the city, but at other plemented with mug-looking homes] years ago, contain many valuable| seasons freight is brought in. by climbing over the hill in green| paintings and other treasures, and|smaller boats and — gasoline terraces and surrounded with| the Sheldon Jackson Museum many | launches, lawns, make this an all-around lit-| interesting curios. Mail service is from St. Michaels jtle city The town has two monthly ateam-|in summer and in winter twice a “Chicago of Alask ers and tri-weekly mail. month from Fairbanks by dog | Fairbanks is often called the The surrounding country {fs not-| team. “Chicago of Alaska” because of ite|ed for its sylvan beauty, which ts Besides numerous mercantile central location and the fact that|emphasized by the lofty, extinct | houses of all descriptions, the town In future railroad development It| volcano, Mt. Edgecombe, which] has two sawmills, a weekly paper, is believed Fairbanks will be the} dominates the landscape, several machine shops and a cold hub. Seward Well Equipped. storage plant for fresh meats, Situated on the Tanana river, in| Seward is located on Resurrec-| It is the center of a population | the fertile valley of the same name,|tion bay, a magnificent deep-water | of 3,500. jit is one of the moet thriving, up-|inlet on the south coast of the Ruby a Young "Un, to-date towns in the north Kenal peninsula, and ts visited by| Ruby City is one of the younger |_ It 1s 280 miles above the Junction | the steamships which call at Cor-| mushrooms of Alaska, of the Tanana with the Yukon, 441] dova and Valdez Developing rather recently as a miles from Cordova by stage and| Seward was selected by the| placer town on the Yukon, at the railroad, and a somewhat shorter| Alaska Northern railway as its|mouth of the Melozi river, it is distance from Valdez by stage road! ocean terminus for the exploita- growing rapidly, the bear’s claws and extend to the| ed hard! all the ocean steamers plying to the|in 1802 by the Russians, on the|life, like {ta sister cities, and is| SEATTLE LAWYERS AND JUDGES '¥ ARE BOOSTERS FOR ALASKA | | Hugh C. Todd. | William Wray. | Carl J. Smith. Le Seattle high} Mr. Carl J, Smith came to Beat- ugh C. Todd was born in Bpo- William Wray 1s 0 fe cod ts a native of the|school boy who has made good,|tle in the early part of 1906 from state of Washington, For the last| proving himself or f the most| Putte, Mont., where he enjoyed @ ten years he has been actively en of the members of the| lucrative practice of law for many aged on the public forum and in legislature elected in|years before coming to the coast, office in standing for the success Mr. Wray, as representa-|and since his arrival fn this city of democratic principles. Mr, Todd the 43d district, went to be has had offices at 65456 New is a public speaker of reputation the legimlature as republican and| York block, where he can always He was elected to the position oduced and secured the sage |be found in attendance on an ever of county clerk in Whitman count number of important bills,/inereasing circle of elents, eight years ago and for four yeart|among them an act regulating the| He js a member of & num served that county in the mate of milk and cream and one ber of fraternal and social or- legislature as its representative |in relation to garnishments in jus-| ganizations, among which may and was there the floor leader for|tice courts, He was chairman of|be mentioned the Odd Bellows, the democrats, Mr. Todd was a|the new insurance code for Wash-|Modern Woodmen of the World, Jeandidate for governor in the last | ington. Mr. Wray took a leading|Arctic club, Munielpal League, | primarte , and as is well known to| part in the debates that obtained | Swedish Business Men's club, ete. all, nearly became that party's can-|the adoption of the eight-hour law|Has always taken an active in- t in political and civic affairs, | didate, receiving only 307 votes|for women, the Initiative, re ter less than Governor Liv and refe fum and the work was a nominee for judge of the su. Mr. Todd will be a candidate for | men's compensation act perior court on the non-partisan the democratic nomination for eee ticket in 1912, also one, the first nited ates senator at the com to open in this elity free classes he siastion Walter S. Fulton. for foreigners desiring to become | He was engaged by The Seattle Mr. Fulton was born in Pitt®| naturalized, and is at the present Star as its legal representative on| burg, Pa. August 10, 187%, the 800 | time one of a committee conduct behalf of the pe of Seattle in| Of William P. and Hartha (White) | ing such classes at the Y. M. C. A the fight for fourcent street car| Fulton. He came to Washington ee fare and was successful with the|!n 1881 and was educated in the George Olson. ublic schools of Seattle, later at- peng reabaage ge ee Ener w.| A real self-made man, who, with- lout any schooling to speak of, |fitted himwelf for the law while jpursuing his trade of blacksmith {s George Olson, one of the best known among the younger genera si ‘ feasion In Seattle: served @F ing | tion of lawyers in Seattle William A. Gilmore. | ''% Prowecuting attorney oF eine | Born fn San Francisco in 1883 William A. Gilmore was born Inland as prosecuting attorney, 1900|he removed with his famfly to California to 1870 and when six|to 1902.’ He ie a member of the corporation counsel's office in win nfhg the case before the public service commission. The case {s|!ngton and the Untversity of Mich! now in the courts on appeal. Mr.) san at Ann Arbor. He was ad Todd's law offices are at 206 Col-| mitted to the bar in 1894.) Mr. Ful jlins building, Seattle ton began the practice of his pro- | ee fession in Seattle; served as tending the University of V Washington six years later and |months of age his parents moved|gons of the American Revolutio, 5&8 ince made his home in this to Washington. He was educated| and the Phi Delta Phi Fraternity,|*t#te. He was unable, by force in the schools of Washington, a ye of circumstances, to obtain any Oregon and Illinois and graduated . education whatever, with the ex- in law fn Chicago, In 1898 he re- Milo A. Root. ception of two terms in a country turned to Seattle to practice and Milo A. Root, formerly judge of|school, as he had to hustle for « was well-known in Seattle and|the state supreme court, was born|living. His first work was around Washington while serving as sec-|{n Bureau county, Ill, January 22,|logging and lumber camps and at retary of the republican state cen-| 1863. He was educated in the Al-| the age of 14 he decided to become tral committee, bion high school and the Albany|a blacksmith and soon mastered In 1900 he went to Alaska, Jocat-|law school, Union university, N.|/the trade. He continued as a ing at Nome, where he has sine where he eived the LL. B.| blacksmith until he was 22 years practiced his professic He . in well known all over Alaska, having | Washir He removed to|old when he suddenly decided to » elected mayor of Nome,|of that year and taught school for n territory in the fall 4 lawyer and he applied if to this task with the same jand in 19 ran for delegate to)a term in ma while waiting to| concentration that had fitted him congress on the republican ticket.|reach his majority to be admitted |#®0 quickly to be a master black. He has spent the winter in Se-|to the bar. In 1884 he began to|#mith, with the result that three attle and has an office in suite| practice his profemion in Olympia,| years later, at the age of 25, he 200 Central bullding, making a spe-| where he resided until 1897, when| admitted to practice at cialty of mining cases and consul-| he came to Seattle and entered into| bar of the state of Washington. tations on Alaskan business and| partnership with Hon, John P.| As might be expected his record Htigation Hoyt, ex-chief justice, and subse-|#ince then has been one of con. eee quently became senior member of | stant progress upward. His large the law firm of Root almer &|suite of offices in the Central Boyd J. Tallman. | Brown, which was dissolved in|bullding ts among the busiest in Judge Boyd J. Tallman, of the 5. when he became judge of|town. The case of Mra. Ida P, |superior court, is « Pennsylvanian | (0% 08 cme court.” He| Westerman, who was last Septeml |by birth, but has lived in Seattle | vo as probate judge of Thurs-|ber sequitted on the charge of jfor 27 years. In tga grt 19} ton county for two terms and pro-| first degree murder, filed against he was elected judge of the supe-| (00 county lor two or that, coun-|ber in Kitsap county following the |rlor court for King county, to which position he has since been) re-elected three times, this being} his fourteenth year of continuous service upon the bench, he having held that office longer than any ty for two terms and was the first/death of her husband, and whose president of Washington State case was handled by Mr.- Olson, clety of Charities and Correction.| Who personally spent thousands of He is a member of the Sons of|“ollara in working up the evi- the American Revolution and of|@ence that reguited in her acquit rs adihnenl pact fraternal Peep ge is Homi reine ont ony . ape Boni 4 president of the Beacon m- uy to gpd apm bee Bag gr provement club, one of the most| public notice. poodles em sy Hy = Th 4g active and influential in the city. . ee cept that of indge. | Since leaving the bench he hi: Wm. Rhine. built up an excellent law practice. wi é Herbert W. Meyers. — [iesites services to bis regular citea tf Ge ame tea Herbert W. Moyers is one of the| clients, he is consulted and em- +4 prominent young attorneys, having | ployed by other attorneys in their come to Seattle from Washington, | cases to an extent second to none |D. C., where be attended the Col-/{n this city. In 1890 he married umblan college from 1899 to 1902,| Miss Anna Lansdale. They ha and George Washington Univer-| six children. was born back in Iilinois in 1880, graduating from the University of Tilinois, then going to San Fran- cisco, where he was in business for 12 years. Mr. Rhine was three | | - : wity from 1908 to 1906, having| fo eyo Great Necthond hatter eee graduated in the law department | William Martin. going into business for himscif. in June, 1906. . Mr, Meyers served in the Span- William Martin, the subject of ish war and was elected a national| this sketch, was born in Burns officer of the Spanish War Veter-/township, near Kewaunee, TIL, an organization in Detroit, Mich,|March 24, 1864. His father and in 1904. Mr. Meyers was major in| mother were from the north of command of the first batallion of | Ireland and came to this country In minute men and won a prize con-|the early “40s. They landed at test Madison Square Garden, | Philadelphia, where they remained INew York City, In 190%, He fs a| for a number of years, later remov- jprominent Scottish and York Rite| {ng to Bellefontaine, O., and from Mason and was formerly eaptain|there to Kewaunee, Ill, In 1865 of the Nile Patrol, Nile Temple,| they moved to Mount Horeb, Wis. Mystic Shrine, and was employed | They were always active in educa- ag social secretary in the White | tional matters and insisted on their House {n Washington under Presi-| children attending the best schools dents McKinley and Roosevelt | their means would permit. After from 1900 to 1904, finishing the country schools the Mr. Meyers won some very im-| Subject of this sketch preparedsfor portant cases in the United States | the university in the high school) district court, In the federal court|@t Madison, Wis. He entered the of appeals and appeared in the] University of Wisconsin with the supreme court of the United States| class of ‘89, graduating June 19, and handled some very important | 1889, with the degree of bachelor of litigation in our state courte, He/letters. In 1889 he entered the recovered judgment for $12,262 for| aw school of th me institution ® laborer in Judge Hanford’s court.) ®nd graduated Ju 6, 1890, with The same was set aside by Judge | the degree of bachelor of laws, fin- Hanford for the alleged improper|!shing what is now a three-year es of the word “aa This case| Course in one year, and was ad- figured in the Hanford impeach-| mitted to practice in the supreme ment and was finally won by Mr.| court of Wisconsin June 25, 1890, Meyers in circuit court of appeals.|!n October of the same year, be- eee lieving that the West offered bet- . ter opportunities for a young man, Hon. John E. Humphries. | i) cime direct to Seattle. He suc. John E. Humphries, now judge! cessfully lived through the young of the mperior court of the state! lawyer's starving period, and by of ‘Washington pedlngy Le sayy hard work kept afloat during the it pe) @ ve practice o rd times so 897. a iw for more than 40 Years hav: |fue'nis Sd sents et practice ‘ae |f SOHNE. SAVAGE, ng been admitted to the bar in} Martin has accumulated a comfort- Rockville, Ind., in 1872, where he| able fortune, and says he never Manager. at once entered upon the general|once accepted a fee or retainer practice of law and served a8/ from a public service corporation. I H deputy prosecuting attorney for] He has always been willing to help Parke county, Ind., until 1878. In| those who have not had the means 1878 he resigned that office and | to tect th located In Crawfordsville, ie tae ee Judge Humphries belong to the eee Humphries family of Virginia, His —t em father, Francis) McFarland Hum.| George H. Rummens. OCATED AT |phries, was a native of Augusta] George H. Rummens, one of Se- lcounty, Va. and belonged to the| attle’s best known attorneys, is a 1017 Scotch Presbyterian church. Francta| native of this state, born in Klicki- [McFarland Humphries, after at-|tat county, March 16, 1878, His|| FERS T AVE. |tending college at Crawfordsville,| early lfe was spent in that part * studied law and entered upon the|°f te state, and he was admitted practice of that profession, locat-|to t! . bar on May 13, 1899. From is now under the management ing at Olney, Ill, and, two years| 1903 to 1907 he was prosecuting of John B, Savage, ustiing after the birth of John BE. Hum-| attorney for Asotin county, shortly hotel man of many years’ ex- phries, passed away, leaving his|“fter his term expiring coming to perience. Prior to coming to wife and boy without money or/ Seattle, and from that time mak- property. ing this city his residence. In Mr. Humphries was admitted to| 1911 he was made deputy prosecut- the bar of the state of Indiana and| {ng attorney for King county, Mr. ‘The New Cecil has been tm- has been engaged in the active|Rummens is a member of the Arc- practice of his profession ever| tie Brotherhood, the Elke, Seattle || Pre'se secciee moce maces since. Judge Humphries 1s an| Press club and other organizations. |B hotels. Tne os indefatigable stu He is a son of William R. and war. ly and early commenced gathering a{bara Rummens, well known pio- library, He now has one of the|neers of Eastern Washington, oe ek Cleat Cake ee largest law libraries in the state sfldtd of Washington and he has always J. M. Glasgow Jac accommodations: 10 kept up with the profession. He id which are equipped with {s the author of many {mportant| ,J; M. Glasgow, attorney, with vate baths. laws now upon the statutes of the|ffices in the Pioneer building, ts ts a decided f state of Washington. some sticker when {t comes to prac- ment, os ies par 3 perv law, Judge Glasgow is the much Ise from attorney who atronize it. The buf- Dan Landon. croditetie -ahcwing ta ateoding ether notable fen re Dan Landon, attorney, with of-| Peter Miller. Glasgow does not|[f trely in mahogany and feted fices in the Empire building, {s|fume and tear his hair, as some up in the most clegant way also known ag one of Seattle's lead-| lawyers do. He puts his questions — = pt |ing progressives. Landon fought/to witnesses in a manner of his for the eight-hour law, the compen-|own, and, judging from results, sation act and many other neces-| most satisfactory. Mr, Glasgow has sary laws. In fact, Landon is not| been a citizen of Seattle for 25 iefied unless he is going down] years. He is a graduate of Ane the line for progressive legislation.’ Arbor law school,