The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1889-06-22
Blood River Glacier.
HOOD RIVER, Or, JUNE %, 1889.
The Enforced sObriety at Seattle Com
tinues.

SEATTLE, June 1G.-One thousand
laborers were paid off at the ArmorY
to-day by Captain Carr, as head Of the
labor bureau, for work done in behalf
Of the city. The men were given sums
from $6 each down for work done dur
ing the past three days. Some had
worked since Thursday and others less
time down to half a day. Each was
paid at the rate of So per day, and the
total amount disbursed was over $4,000.
From each mans wages was deducted
fifteen cents for every meal eaten by
him at the Arinory or relief tent, but
nevertheless the balance was satisfac-
tory to all.
The saloons are closed yet and these
men will doubtless be able to place to
good advantage the money obtained by
toll. There have been many abstainers
in Seattle during the past ten days
and consequent absence of drunken
ness. Many worshippers at Bacchus'
shrine, however, have found paradise
of gin near the race track outside the
city limits and weary pilgramages that
are daily made thther, haye rendered
the road leading over the Grant street
bridge drunk and dusty monument to
thirsty devotion. There are three
saloons there, and they do a smashing
business. One man from each is kept
buy continually hauling beer on a
wheelbarrow from the adjoining brew
cry, and still they have a hard time
filling the demand. The race track is
also the rendezvous of a great many
prostitutes. who were rendered home
less by the fire, and the houses are
crowded to accommodate them. A
community OF vice and sin has sprung
up and fourishes there, and the inhab
itants do not always dwell in harmony.
Rows are frequent and one Of them
once gave occasion to a report that
riot had occurred and several hal been
killed. Officers were dispatched to the
scene, but they found everything reason
ably quiet and that the report af fatal
turbulence had been greatly exaggera-
ted.
A petition is now being circulated in
Seattle asking the council to keep the
saloons shut up for the ensuing three
months. Among the reasons recited
for this prohibition is one that the
earnings OF thousands of laborers now
employed here will be devoted to a
rightful purpose and the community
will thereby legitimately benefit by
their expenditure.
Saloons are still forced to submit to
the proclamation of the mayor suspend
ing their licenses, and they are growing
restive under the restraint. One or two
have attempted to engage in the traffic
secretly, but they have not been fairly
started before they are discovered and
their liquors confscated. The summary
examples that have been made of these
violators of the emergency law, is eff
fectiAe in preventing others from
opening up inside the city limimits.
The militia is still under strict dis
cipline, and few .or no, acts of vandal-
ism, occur in the burnt district. l
is now felt, however, that sufficient
number of men under police control
could maintain public peace as effect
lively as the militia, and it is altogether
likely that the guardsmen will be re-
lieved from duty and allowed to return
home. A band from Franklin has been
in the city for several days, and daily
gives a concert at the arlnory, which is
listened to with pleasure by hundreds
of people who are otherwise utterly de-
prived of all sorts of amusement or
antartainu1anf