The herald., 1895-11-29
SOME PEOPLE ARE SCARED
Revoking Bauer's License Has
Raised a Tempest
TO BE TAKEN INTO COURT
A Pot Is Being Raised to Help the
Little Corporal
D BE TAKEN INTO COURT
Talk OF Mnniamusing the City CIerk-cons
fiscation Is Charged-Guy Bar.
ham May Resign

The most thorough scare which that
secton of the town known as the Tender
loin district ever received has been oc-
casloned by the summary revocation of
the saloon license of Theodore Bauer, the
"Little Corporal of l. tile faris, and as a
result OF the action of the board OF police
commissioners last Tuesday morning
scvera. of the push OF both high and low
degree are today quakins in their several
shoes. Theodore has for years been
known both in and outside OF the
immediate circle of which he is such
SHINING ligat, as good thing, and the
hlg brigade OF men who pretend to do
politics who have almost from time i'm
memorial pushed MIN along under the
pretense that they ] o them held some
sort OF % mortgage upon the powers that
be. would fill several volumes. That Bauer
spent money light and left when his APP
plicatton for his Horseshoe was first up
for official action tn re is no doubt.
Bauer himself privately admits as much,
put ne declines absolutely to furnish
either names or dates. The statement
has been made, anu that, too, more or less
openly, that the Horseshoe license cost
$500 spot cash, and now that Bauer has
been played Doth coming and going, he
is verv mad and he threatens to cause
al explosion beside which the Smelling
OF Los Angeles by hostile fleet would
be the sweetest of dulcet music Bauer
informed councilman few days ago
that he was broke.
lie had been squeezed dry and hen
kicked into the gutter. He was about
the city hail on Monday afternoon, and
it is IA fact which those most interested
nave not sought to conceal that as soon
as he appeared every councilman IN the
chamber, excepting two, made hurried
exits AID concealed themselves, aud re-
manned hidden until the now incenseG
king rad left the city hall. Councilmen
kingerv and Savage were the only two
membe who stood by their guns. For
the member from the Fourth ward Bauer
appeared to have no use, bur he did not
hesitate to at once veer in the direction
of Savage. The latter. who is from his
own ward Informed Bauer plainly, in
answer to his questions, that he had
voted to revoke the Horseshoe license,
and he had no apologies to make for his
action.
On Tuesday morning bright and early
Bluer was again at the city hall, waiting
this time for City Attorney William e.
Dunn. He wanted Dunn to help him.
The latter. however, mad only the coldest
OF chilly comfort to bestow u pom the little
corporal, and Bauer left the city hall
muttering something abnut ingratitude.
The hat is beingEpassed around and q
big pot is to be raised to assist Bauer to
get back what he has lost. Now that the
king has fallen the common herd of dive
keepers are all of them fearful that their
several turns may come next. The plan
of campaign is to employ Henry T. Gage
or an attorney of equal repute to man
damus the city clerk to reissue Bauer ae
! license. The contention in the jssu
| which is to be raised will be that saloon
| license is a part and parcel of a legiti-
| mate business and its revocation is the
conliscation of that business. Should the
courts uphold this view of the situation
AM there are attorneys who say that
this is undoubtedly the law ami tine
equity--the police commission will be
even more ornamental! body than it is
at present.
The statement is made that az a result
of the action of the council on Monday,
Pei .ce Commissioner Guy b. Barhani
will, as 500: as he returns from San
Francisco, resign mis- position. There are
rumors also, of other contemplated resi-.
nations from the commission.