The herald., 1897-09-08

Mr.. PreusS wanted to Know Wnetner
or not Mr.. Gibbon did not think that,
if given show, Reese would do better.
| To this Mr.. Gibbon replica that he did
not think so. Three years ago Reese,
then in partnership with Lewis. now his
der, had their license revoked for
similar offenses, but the incident seemed
to have had no effect and the character
| of the saloon had gone from bad to
worse, If that were possible.
| Commissioner Wyman ably supported
Mr.. Gibbons remarks. Chief Glass was
called upon to tell of reports received
by the police department and by former
commissioners in regard to the place.
He said it had been a source of frequent
| trouble. Reese again stepped forward
and said that his bartender, Lewis, had
agreed to get out and go to the mines
and he would run the place alone if only
the commissioners would be lenient. A
vote was finally taken, resulting in
| tie, as follows: Yeas, Gibbon and
| Wyman; nays, McLain and Preuss'
Mayor Snyder then said that to him the
evidence was too clear against the sa
| loon as being disorderly and violator
of the laws, besides being a detriment
to the property in the neighborhood. He
should therefore vote for the revocation
of the license. That settled it and the
crowd which had thronged the commit
tee room slowly filed out with various
expressions of countenance, jubilant
and otherwise.
A QUEER LETTER
Sitting to one side during the whole
of the foregoing proceedings had been
woman, attended by a gentleman, and
as soon as the decks were cleared for
further action Clerk Todd announced
that he had in his possession a COM
munication from Henry Elliott, which
was the name of the gentleman in at
tendance. He proceeded to read the
mssive amid suppressed smiles, but at
| the close the. whole matter was laid to
one side with alacrity and the couple
| departed to appear again at future
meeting. The communication in full
| was as follows:
Los Angeles. Cal, Sept. 7, 1897.
To the Hor orable Board of Police Com
missioners.
| Gentlemen-On the night Of Septem-
ber 1st 1897, between the hours of 10 and
II o'clock p. m. heard some one trying
to force the door of my store open. I
was going to bed and 1 went with only
my pants on to see what was the mat
| ter, anG 1 see a drunken man out there
and asked him what he wanted and re-
ceived no answer, SO l opened the door
and then he jerked me out on the side
walk and said he was going to run me in
and pull the house. l asked him what
for and he said he ha6 just seen man
and woman go in. 1 told him that had
| bi,,rr To Irv Il r nt
ming the house, and told him to go and
arrest the landlord and pull the house
if he wanted to. l had done all I could
| and the house was perfectly quiet and to
leave ME alone. He gave me another
jerk and said he was going to take me
dead or alive and then showed me a
badge under his coat and pulled pistol
and stuck it in my face. Mr.. Smith and
others were looking through the win
dow at the time and they rushed down
stairs, thinking he was going to kill me,
and told him that he had no right to
pull that pistol on me. He put it up and
replied that he never did it. Then I saw
that it was F. A. Weinshank, No. 240
East Second street, but he was SO drunk
and seedy looking that I did not know
him in the dark and so I said is that
you Frank and he said yes and I am
going to let you know that 1 am running
Second street. I asked him what was
the matter with him for you must have
lost your head and gone Grassy. He said
come with me or I'll settle you. 1 am
yours most respectfully,
HENRY ELLIOTT,
Il 314 East Second street.
i The communication was referred TO
the chief for investigation and report.
REBATES RECOMMENDED
The matter of rebates asked by Bob
Kern, $3.50; E. L. Maxwell, $1SS.1S! NJ
L. Polaski, s225; and Jerry Hitch, 5000
saloon license paid by them while the
buildings which they now occupy We're
being constructed, came up on report
from the chief. Mr.. Preuss moved that
the commission recommend to the coun-
Gil that the rebates be allowed. which
was seconded by Mr.. McLain. Mr.
Gibbon interposed, saying that he did
not believe that the council would allow
the claims, and offered an amendme n
that they be referred to the council di-
rect without recommendation and let
the city fathers do what they pleased
with them.
MdyOA A1hy eFSA CPohC uP, Say ms thd
as for himself he was in a peculiar po-
sition. When in the council he had
voted to allow demands of similar ma
ture; in fact some of the same claims
which had before been presented to the
council. He found himself in a minor
ity at that time and supposed he would
be in the same company this time. How
ever he had taken his stand then andhaG
since found no reason to change. 1t die
not seem right to him that the city
should collect license from a man wher
he could not possibly do business. He
: would support Mr.. Preuss' motion.
Mr. Gibbon said that he saw little us'c
in discussing the matter-the council
would probably kill the claims on sigh
and he would therefore withdraw his
amendment. The recommended ton was
thereupon carried and the claims or
dered transmitted to the council.
CHARGES WITHDRAWN
The matter of the charges against tht
Arcade depot saloon, which were pre-
ferred by Commissioner Wyman at {
!; former meeting. were taken up at thu
; instance of that gentleman, who stated
that since the last meeting he had hat
!, an interview with the proprietor, Mr.
Miller, who had told him that hereafter