Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-06-15

Its Workings In washinstsn Territory

Its Workings In WashtnGtSn Territory
Correspondents S. r. Chronicle.
SEATTLE, w. t., June 2. 1874.
Well. how does ii work p
what ~
This new lymph your Legislature
has injected into the body polite"
"Oh, woman suffrage, Well, the suf-
fraee does well enough. So fev women
vote ne hardly notice it. Bot how would
you like to be Wireless IN M, say forty
eight hours, while your wife Was hung
on Jury duty s., il was here the last
term. There were two or three. / don't
remember the exact number. ladies' IL
Was an iil-fame case. Jury stood ten
for and two against conviction. One of
the two was finally converted Bot the
survivor, hardened old fellow, stayed
out against the eleven. The ladies'
stood the confinement a. well as be DID
and better. They wouldn't give up I;
kept talking to him about principle.
principle - what did be care about
principle y; kept 1t up all night. FINAL
iy, in the morning. when be tried TO get
a little sleep, they stuffed sand In DIS
mouth to keep him awake for more taik'
and so wore him out.
us cDnNtTRttlOu 1ho O.
YESTERDAY. At Seattle my informant
said I:
I'VE come TO the first voting expert
rpent with our new citizens In about
three veeks-the occasion OF our cIty
election. We have a Mayor, Chief OF
Police, Assessor and nine Councilmen
10 elect. An entire change in the com
pIexion of our city government Is posi-
bic. The last Legislature increased the
number of our Councilnen, as the city
now covers twice as much ground az 1t
used 70, and contains one half more
population. Well, already the new
electioneering tactics of the candidates
have begun. They 20 to all the church
fairs. patronize the grab bags, buy
chances for rings in the religious lot
terry cakes. and are SEN pretty con-
stantly at prayer meeting. They are
now always 10 be found at church On
| SUNDAYS, and give the loudest amens,
but they don't whooPit up among the
boys az they used to-"
| THE BOYS BROKEN UP"
Indeed. the boys" must have re-
ceived backset. / talked with one of
them, a venerable sAloon-keeper on
/ Front street. an old citizen and proper
lty-owner. Quoth he: Yes, they've
raided rs pretty heavily here, and hurt
the saioon and cigar business good
deal. You see, Just a. soon AZ the
women got on the Grand Jury they
went to work and indicted every saloon
in the city where women were kept
found bills against five in all. MiHd
YER, they didn't modest the girls kept IN
the saloons. Not at all. Nor did they
poster the houses kept by women. Not
one of them Was hauled mp or fined
But the men, bosses, they lad 10 take IT.
Aud the Judge, when the GASES were prov
en-, lust crowded il en-$500 fne-iusi
the fullest extent of the law, and -
lecture with 1t. We fought our case
every way we could. In Tacoma we
olai aied that no acts were proved, but
blamed IL the Judge didn't claim that
this wasn't necessary and the jury
they went in body, women and all
and inspected one of our places. They
even had diagrams prepared and made
= thorough Inspection, too. On, they
found out all a sout our rooms and the
way business IL conducted. The gam
blers were made to suffer even worse
Why, there isn't public gamblinG
place open in this city today. You can't
find the chips anywhere. just think OF
il, All the dealers were fued $l00G
apiece, jailed fifteen days and put IN
der bonds. In week there wasn't one
on the street. Court adjourned tive
weeks ago, and nov they're coming
back. There are four places where faro
ia dealt just opened, but with closed
doors and keepers. you bet! But there
are only n faw Qamaa lafto I danartad
smelling the sigh with which this was
Il anSl