The Barber's Daughter and the Midnight License

When a man is seeking the county auditor's office at night for the purpose of getting a license to wed, there is usually a romance behind the affair.

This was exactly the case last night, when Edward E. Miller, a Washington Street barber, started up the Yesler Avenue hill with the avowed intention of securing the document that would allow Hattie Miller, Mr. Miller's pretty 15-year-old daughter, and C. R. Quade, a young barber who had been rooming at Mr. Miller's house, to wed.

In reality there had been a sudden change in the feelings of the parent within a day or so, for at one time he was not pleased at the thought of a marriage.

It is really nothing more than a love affair. The young people lived in the same house and grew to like each other better than passing well. On good authority it is said that young Quade went to Mr. Miller and asked his permission to wed his daughter. Mr. Miller was astonished and as a result flared up. History is silent as to what followed immediately, but Quade got out of the house in double-quick time. Then the second climax came when both young man and young girl disappeared, and Mr. Miller sought the assistance of the police to find his daughter. She was described as plump, large of her age, well developed, and dressed in dark clothes.

The young people kept out of sight, and last night Mr. Miller evidently came to the conclusion that when young people want to wed, the easiest way out of the difficulty is to give them their way.