The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-14
IN THE FIERY FURNACE.
The Tools Of the Pssssme Club Reduced
TO Asses.

AZ police headquarters Saturday night
there was fire. rot an ortlnary coal fire,
bar one that must lsayr made his satanic
ma 5essg and ali his in.ps weep tears 81
modification. There has not been 50
much heat s.sffnsed through the old build
Eng for four years. but II poker games
continue 10 run there will be more occur
renees Of the same kind. All of the Col
ored PasfIme Clubs gambling apparatus
went NJ in smoke. Even the famous rules
ami regulations. including the page Gu
which, A. A. Gamers name appeared. was
fed 20 the hungry flames Jailer Surry
acted as fireman. while Chief Rogers SUI
perSatsrsicd the operation.
In the old days gambling apparatus.
when destroyed. Furnished q bonfire.
Saturday fsght, however. the weather
Was 50 Indictment that the big furnace
which throws out heat for headquarters
ard the city hal was Used. 1t must have
been that Jaiser Surry was informed on
the amount OF heat gambling tools, the
devils piaythngs, generated. for he kept
mis- hand on the safety valve and at the
first Signs Of danger blew of steam. II
ex-Dos Catcher Coleman could have seen
the waaton destruction OF that gambling
apparatus. he wogid have she'd big tears
and undoubtedly declared that he was
playing the game for fun when the eff
GERS bounced down upon him and his
friends.
Ths last bonfire OF gambling apparatus
was made ny Chief of Po.ice Rogers in
1881. after the raIdlng of the BudwssseT,
a place on Washington street. opposite
the old NJ. 4 N, now known as the Lyten
house. T.ae Budwesser was conducted by
Frank Hiclsok, who afterward went in
sane. and in taking charge cs the build
ing the police seized everything-taxing
chairs. tables, spittoons and all articles OF
furniture. until there was whole wagon
lead OF the implements ara utensils
One of the largest raids on the gam
blers OF this city was made by .'BAl''
Cochran. sheriff, in the old terrs torial
days. the year following the noted Chi
nese riots. and the amount of the luggage
seized is said even to have exceeded the
drayloaa from the Budweiser Along IN
1851 the sheriff made his descent on the
games. and the property having been con-
demned BY the district court he set aside
one day for the destruction of the APP
paFatus ami finally lighted &c on Pioneer
place. In a short time all the costly
converted into eharged remains
There was time. however, when gam
blers were holder AMI more open than
the average man nowadays realizes. and
consequently when efforts we're made. TO
suppress II. a determination that brooked
no opposition was necessary About the
day when the first tide OF the second
stage Of immigration began to roll on the
Sty ~
the established institutions OF the hardy
loggers. who represented the one inzllls-
try of the infant country. and who held
themselves in readiness TO bear down on
the law in case il snterfered with them.
How lie Ahated "a Sutsencs.
II IS related OF ex-Calef Justice j. r.
Lewis that when he was appointed judge
OF the third judicial district of the terri
tory Of Washington. in 1874. with head
quarters at Seattle. he found mad
house At almost every town and mill
port within the radius OF his district A
mad asoase" was saloon with a dance
haH attachment where Indian women asri
| The bower class Of sailors. iongslloremen
and loggers would ccngregate nightly ana
hold high carnival, to the music of a
] whcezy old bass vioI and a dllapalaiesi
| wind jammer.
/ These establishments dated back from
/ the time when there were very few white
woanea in this section OF the country, and
/ has grown 10 be looked upcn as a
sort of a necessary evil, and the propra-
/. esors. who were generally men OF con-
! sAierahle political influence, were seldom
I sntevferesi wssh by the officer OF the law.
! Judge Lewis Immediately decided that
! this state 81 affairs should cease 10 exis,
/ In the District over whsssa he presided.
/ The frst term OF court under his admin
/ s%ifat3on wss helss AT Port Townsend
where one ef these mad houses flourish
/ "a ia al its glory on an immense ran or
| ffsai close % the city front In his charge
~ the grand jury Judge Lewis cited all
/ the aw, which was ample, bearing on me
suppression 81 the mad house. evil bur
10 his surprise the grand iaTy ee@her III
afetei she proprietor nor made ally AIM
/ sion - tsra establishment In It's hstl re-
{ port Thanking that II had pvshahly mis-
Understood his instructions, the Suysga re-
{ charged the jury GA thar special Subject
AMI sergs il back 10 deliberate Two days
/ ia.es the grand Jury again filed into The
ported that IL had found nothing farther
to bring before the court. and asked TO
be excused.
wassa ssaea 20 Soussnse.
w this tSsye Judge Lewis was thorough
iy aroused Afser a most scatagag lecture
from so beneh ne discharged the grand
Jury aad exclaimed;
us thn sheriff Of jefferson county IL, the
court rcomgH
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