The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-04-05
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broke my leg. came back 10
0Axie and secured q room q; the cid oc-
c1dentai hotel Hiliory Butter and his
wife lived just across the street. where
the Butler block new stands. and my win
dow On the first floor looked out on their
place. One dag I lett my window mp. and
went 20 sleep. When awoke my crutches
were gone. and ] feared some one haA
stolen them During my next nap thsy
were returned. Mrs Butler, whom ! had
never met. had taken and padded them for
me. God bless her memory; she was enc
o. ths ktndest-hsarted wemen ever
knew"
Captain. they .sy you are sood col
lecfor. In that eor'
"oh, ! known what you are after. Yea
want me to tell you that Mssggs stery.
Well. II was lite this: ! had worked for
q. A. Meigss, OF Port Madison. for . long
time and wanted 70 20 hack to China I
had some nonAy TO spare and asked
MsigGs II he could use IT. He said he
could. and loaned him 8. 30 taking his
note for the amount. Three years after
ward came back, and being little short
OF funds ] called on Mr.. Nesgs for my
money. He explained to me that during
my absence he had failed In bus.ness
made a settlement. wiped out all his old
Indebtedness and started in again On .
new deal i told him that the old deal
was not over a. far as / was concerned
add that / wanted my money and wanted
II bad. He said he could do nothing for
me. and i then notified him that at
O'Clock the next day / would be around
again for my s.. 2so and would have It or
would have trouble l came over to Seat
tie. bought a 32-caiiber revolver, loaded II
TO the muxxle, and the next day at the ap-
pointed hour I was .; the Port Madison
store ready for business. Mr.. Me1ggs met
me pleasantly and asked my errand. TAX
ing out my persuader, / told him l wanted
800 or his life, and I must have one or
the other before left the store.
Well said he. II THAI IL tho way you
feel about II. / will give you the money
Opening tho bag safe. he counted out
the gold and handed IL to me. ] placed
500 In my pocket. and turning to Mr..
Meiggs asked him IL he had any use for
the money. He said he did have need Of
It In the business. and showed 1t over to
him. and started out. He asked me II
did not want a note for II. and told him
no; that when / wanted the money
would come for II. Two years later I
called for the money and got it Meiggs
means all right. He Is a good man, but
has been In hard luck. / hope TO hear Of
his recovery from his present business en-
cd on like Splinter TO catch ths Grant
street car.
Judge J. r. Lewis, now on q visit to Be-
attic from his California home. was . ter
ror to eviI-doers while on the bench In the
territory of Washington. Judge Lewis
was appointed to the bench first In idaho.
but was resigned out OF once by some
ND af
till his successor appeared on tho scene
with a commission In his pocket. When
the facts became known to the president.
he appointed Judge Lewis judge OF the
Third judicial district OF the territory Of
Washington. embracing the Puget sound
counties. and ex-ofiicio chief Justice OF the
territorial supreme court This was In
1875. At that time sauaw dance houses
fiourished on the Sound like green bay
trees. Olympia being about the only town
on the Sound that did not possess one OF
these institutions. During the first term
Of court held at Port Townsend Judge
Lewis Instructed the grand jury very ex-
plicitly as 10 the law against sQuaw dance
houses and ST nilar nuisances, but 70 his
honor's surprise, when the grand jury
finished its work and sent In its report ask
ing to be discharged. 1t made no mention
of the nuisance he had referred to. Think
ing the jury might have misunderstood
the first instructions. the court gave them
q second and special charge on the mad
house business and sent them back Next
day they came in and asked to be DIS
charged, reporting that they found no
further business to consider. The Judge.
after administering a scathing rebuke, dis
charged the grand jury. and calling the
sheriff informed him that the court took
judicial notice OF the fact that a nuisance
in tho shape OF a souaw brothel. or mad
house, existed at the foot OF a certain
street In Port Townsend. and that In the
name OF the law and the people OF the ter
ritory of Washington, he was commanded
to aba,e said nuisance forthwith The
sheriff frightened half TO death. pulled
himself together. and inquired how he
should ahate II. by fire or water. sir"
replied the Judge. That night Port Town
sends mad house went up In smoke. ana
the good work was continued so effectu-
ally that within q very few months the
last squaw dance house on Puget sound
closed its doors. and by strange fatality.
every building built and used for hat pur-
pose was destroyed by fire. Among tho
last 70 go was the one at West Seattle.
which was used for time by
George T. Myers as cannery.
but the curse seemed TO be on
the building and one night II burned. The
Penrsil msd honse IN Seattle was tho
largest and most prctertouS on tise SOUND
l. stood on the site now occupied by the
electric plant Of the gas company and cost
several thousand dollars in Its construc-
ton. It's proprietor was q man OF moro
than ordinary ability. and had large po-
ntioal following. When Judge Lewis sent
forth the cdict that mad houses must 80.
John Penneil closed his Joint. and moved
20 a large stock ranch IN Eastern WASH
ington. which he had purchased from the
earnings - his famous mad house. A year
or two later without any apparent cause.
tho old Pencil mad house illuminated the
tho city with It's lurtd flames and passed
into history. mad house WAS q saloon
and dance hall combined. where iewd In
dian women and lew-iived men would
congrerste nightly. dance TO tad music
and drink worse whisky. The vice became
so common that men who had some claim
TO rNspcctn bility wouii sometimes Ia seen
on the floor dancing with III alibut- Mouth
e. Emma" '-Scarfarad Jennie" or some
other devotee OF The place. then they
would go home 10 their families feeiin.
that they has net done anything very had.
after all thus illustrating the wisdom OF
the man who wrote:
.svlee Is a monster OF such hiaeous rne.n
That 20 be hated, neefs but 10 b seen:
We nrs. endure. then psty. then en-
brace"
& l. CRAWFORD.