, 1889-12-05
FOR LAW AND ORDER.
A Detailed Report OF the Proceed
ings Of the Citizens Meeting
Last Night.
Resolutions Passed Endorsing the
Action of Judge Blake and
Sheriff Hinchliff.

In pursuance Of IL call issued by
the committee appointed at the
union service on Thanksgiving day
a mass meeting of citizens was held
at Concordia hall last evening
There were eighty people present,
the meager attendance being un-
doubtedly caused by the inclemency
of the weather and the condition Of
the streets.
Those In attendance took great in
terest I'm the proceeding, and spirited
remarks We're made by those called
upon to give their views.
Mayor Furth was called upon to
preside, and Prof. C. +. Reeves
acted rs secretary of the meeting.
In calling the meeting to order
Mayor Furth thanked the audience
for the honor conferred. He pre-
sumed that from the points in the
newspapers everyone present was
conversant with the object of the
meeting. TO those who were not
informed he would say that the
meeting had been called for the pur-
pose of endorsing the action of the
sheriff i'm closing the gambling
houses of the city. He hoped that
none of those present who would
he called upon to express their
views would be In any way back
ward in expressing them.
Whereas, The unprecedented fire OF
August 4, the most destructive in pro-
portion to population that ever beicll
any community. so shattered our
social fabric as to leave MS almostwith.
out municipal sail or ruddor to guide the
municipality, a condition of things very
inviting to the vicious and depraved.
And,
Whereas. With undaunted energy.
characteristic of a people drawn from the
best blood of the older states of the Tn.
ion, we began at once with pick and
shovel and Masonic trowel to lay, the
| foundations of the new and grand city
whose blocks of brick, iron and granite
have arisen almost as by magic, soon to
be the pride and glory of the magnifi-
cent state bearing the name of the
noblest man and character Of all history.
The iniu1 of immigration has brought
| TO our midst a number of the vicious,
whose aimless lives and wicked practices
are greatly detrimental to the moral, in
tellectual and material growth of the
city, and menacing to good government.
I Therefore be it
.Resolved, BY the people of Spokane
| Falls, IN mass meeting assembled
| That all laws of the state and ordinances
of this city, prohibiting gambling In all
It's forms and the keeping open oi
saloons on Sunday, must and shall be
rgidly enforced, and in the enforcement
OF all laws restraining vice and punish
ing evil we pledge to all officers oui
united moral and material support; and
| further
Resolved, That we demand of each
and every officer, both state, county and
municipal, whose duties are executive,t to
see that those laws are enforced and
obeyed.
| Resolved, That this meeting tender O
vote OF thanks to Sheriff Hinchlitf fol
his manly conduct in ordering the
closing UP of the hells of this city, and
to Judge Blake for his timely and logical
instructions to the grand jury on the
subject of gambling and we trust the
grand jury will carry out said instruc-
tons tn gambling in all its forms shall
be .exterminated, and the fraternity
made to understand that their business
does not belong to our civilization.
| Resolved, That we pledge our supper
to the press of the city, and expect 1t,
support to all measures for the enforce
ment OF law and order.
A COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
Upon motion committee of tor
was appointed with power to increas,
the number to 100 or more, as the
representatives of the citizens to "a
sist the officers in enforcing the
laws. The committee consists o
Messrs. Donald, Ross, A. p. VOL
verton, William A. Taaffe, +, f
Curtis, G.. o. Bump, I. :. kaufman
Il. c. Smith, II. Abernethey, G. b
Idc and r.. A. Routhc.
The meeting adjourned subject tC
the case of the committee.