The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-03
TACOMA GRAND JUDY.
Water and Warrant Buyers
Have No Need to Fear.
ANALYSIS OF THE LIST oFNAMEs


dred names from which . grand jury Ii 20
be selected were announced today by the
county commissioners. There are on the
liss many who could have been LEFT of
without detracting from the integrity and
ability OF the total, and probably many
would have been dropped j. is was not de-
sirable on the part OF some one to please
them or their friends.
Since the list was made up one name has
been dropped because the records showed
that he was serving term In the peniten-
tiary. The name dropped was that OF
George Ref and the name that was sub
stituted il James Abercrombie, railroad
man. It was not discovered until some
time after the list was given out that the
county commissioners had made such .
bald mistake. Then the name Of Ref Was
scratched ont and that of Abercrombie in
serted.
Much interest IL manifested In the list,
and IL would have been closely scrutinized
even If man shown by the records to be
in the "pen" had not cropped out in it.
An analysis of the list, rs far a. the names
from Tacoma are concerned, shows that
there are eight ON the list who have no vo-
cation. while there are many others who
have had vocations but are Just now sail
Ing close to the wind. But they may be
good iurymen for all that, the fact that
they are out of job not incapacitating
them.
However. the taxpayers were promised
an unusually strong list, composed of rep
resentative taxpayers and business men.
I. Both the leading undertaKers Of the town
are on the jury list, but there are no law
yers, not outstanding there are among the
hundred several radical light and water
company men who ''whooped" ii up for
the sale OF the light aud water plant
for a million dollars more than the
board of public works figured it worth.
Six or seven of the names are not in the
city directory. There are four or five
saloonkeepers and q thick sprinkling of
draymen, carpenters, bookkeepers. mill
wrignts. blacksmiths and now and then a
"laborer." Nearly all trades are repre-
sented except cigarmakers and street car
men. Besides the vacations referred to
above, there are collectors. feamsters,
printers, painters (house psinters), q mes
senger for bank, five carpenters, life
insurance man, two or three hop buyers
among those from the country, q brick
layers and less than a half dozen men who
are down in the directory as real estate
men.
Chas. r. Hale Is the only representative
Tacoma business man on the list, and be
voted for the water purchase deal. Charles
Hotchkiss, who euthused over the pur-
chase and iabored for the sale for motives
stu unknown, Is also on the list. The
country list seems above the city list both
in brains and success IN life. Ex-senator
Thompson is on from Sumner as is also
A. w. Stewart In the Tacoma list the
men Of affairs are only here and there.
RsIf, whose name was erased, is down in
the directory as q real estate man. But
George Haskins, ct one time the avowed
enemy OF ''de gang" is among the hun
drcd. Here is the list, with Refs and
Abercrombie's names in italic:
A. E. MeMurphy, Brock johnson, John
Lyons. ID. A. Rice. Harry Holland. J. G.
Murray. George z. Wood. Dan Mon,,. J.
w. McCiaster, William Alexander, Will
lam kandai. Ike Carson. George w. Addi-
son. William Mahon, William T. Soule.
Edward Grousman. II. 5. Collins, James
Tut, Henry Burger, II. z. Goodwin, g.
Layher, J. T. Stewart, q. ID. Spur, William
Seaman, James Knox. l.. +. Thompson,
f. c. Meade, A. W. Stewart. C. Ii. SPIN
ming. Henry Beckett, j. t. Elliott, T. A.
Boatman, r. Bison, [. Williams. w. +.
Sergeant. J. McNeeiy, +. Atstine, NJ. Me-
Hugh. ". J. Bowman. w. b. Kelley, w.
Fetlig. J. n. Jeffrey. H. s. Liiligar, from
Tacoma: ID. z. Foley, b. b. Brownson,
William Zinrarn, George Haskins. A. r.
Patrick, osorge Ref. James Abcrcrombie.
Joseph German, Jasper Chandler, Il.
| J. kintz. Dave LEVIN, Henry kresch,
A. $. Bailey. \. +. Hoska. w.
| Ii. Jennings, l. b. S,royer, r. III.
Cans, John Rave, Oscar BOOK, J. A. Over
man, A. Radeyenzei, Charles 4. Hale,
| Charles Holchkiss, Charles Catlin. 5. X.
| Baikseii, Timothy Cosgroye, James Fraee,
| George Anderson. George 5. Smith, Z. {.
| Field. Max Seibert, ]. ii. Lister, ]. L.
| Mann. Joseph Ziegen, T. T. Macarthur.
| Walter +. Whitney, L. Bertelson. Chris
| iyerson. August Rieschei, Joseph Gala
| gner. J. W. Bowers, Al Hoffman, w. A.
| Bragg, Charles Wisseis, George Fechter,
| X. Hogerson, Frank Waller, J. u. Stay
/ Den. J. \. Sprouse. J. Mcfarland, J. ].
/ Macrea.y. Hearf Jorgenson, w. T.
| shute, William Walsh. r. McGaw, r. G.
/ Hart. Thomas Mahoney. Henry IL. Yong.