The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-07-06
THE MEDICAL LAKE WAR.
Charges and Counter charges Freely Banded
Between the Conflicting Forces What Both
Sides Say.


jec,ed a sensation into the arena Of pol
Isles that is stirring mp the politicians of
the state rs never before. The P..I. #
Saturday and Sunday has cartoons of
Governor Rogers and II. j. Snively, and
its columns teen with sensational state
ments in relation to the Medical Lake
scandal
When Dr.. Lnckhart was removed from
the SUPPLEMENTARY of the asylum and
DIR. Mclean, his assistant, promoted to
his place, DR.. Lockhart fiercely attacked
ii. j. Snively, calling him a scoundrel.
Mr.. Snively retorted by counter charges
against DR.. Lockhart. Governor Rogers
then took mp the cudgel and wrote an
open letter addressed to Wilson Lock
Lake hospital for insane. in winch he
referred to two written charges, sup
ported by ailidavits from young women
formerly employed in the hospital,
charging Lockhart with uuprofessional
and ungentlemanly conduct, and with
the making of insulting proposals." DIR.
Lockhart comes back at the governor
and names the women in the case-whom
he Discharged and calls upon him to
print the charges of the female attend
ants, whom he discharged over year
ago. DR.. Lockhart aims the charges
we're trumped up by Snively in order to
fJrestall the charges which he was in
fear DR.. Lockhart would have presented
to the board against h reputation for
immoral behavior. Dir. LOckhart's Ian.
guag', IN part, is AS follows.
II now demand il nv own defense
and for the nfornstiol of the public
and for IT," sake ol the good name If
the Medical Lake asylum for the insane,
that the two atfidavIts signed and sworn
70 by Helen Dixon and Miss Stewart,
discharged attendants of the institution,
and which afhdayis were placed in the
hands Of the board of audit and control,
he produced by Gov. Rogers and given
TO the press uf the st ate OF Washington
for publication. These
two women, Helen Dixon and Miss
Stewart, were cent to the asylum osten-
sibly as train nurses, at the urgent
solicitation of Snively, who had GER
tain interest IN them and that later he
,Snively) used them for the accomplish
ment of my downfall by the utterng of
false charges against me, to be used to
forcstall serious charges that he knew
were Likely to be ms de against Dr. Nc
Lean"
On Saturday last fourteen employees
OF the asylum rendered their designations
to Superintendent Mclean. to take eff
feet in thirty DAYS, as the law requires.
Col. Rdpath has also his say in the mat.
ter. Replying to Snively's attack upon
him. he said for publications
with that nice observance of the gen
tlemanly amenities that should obtain be-
tween man and man. that fellow Snively
Of the board of audit and control seeks
20 divert the attention of the public
from the disgraceiul act of the board IN
the removal of an experienced and com
petent official, by referring to my finan-
cial condition. Respecting this, have
to say that | would remind the courteous
members of the board that whatever |
have acquired in money was not OBJ
tanned by enlightenment nor other
questionable methods; nor am | fu-
gitive from justice, nor from public
opinion on account of it. Further, the
public will not be able to discern Just
how the matter of nv private affairs ap.
plies to tue subject Of !le change in the
Medj, al Lake asylum, or To- other NAL.
al rnistrati,e features of the present
snh rDatorial administration.
MIR sNIvELY's SIDE
Il shall not discuss DR.. Lockhart in
connection with thi matter said Mr..
-uiVelv.
ale is an old imbecle, too old for me
10 quarrel with. propose now to 60
behind The hnsh, and attack the man
that is hidden thrre-the man who is
responsible for Lockha,t. refer TO
Colonel W. N. R,dpath. known in
Spokane AS Red Billy.
In The first place let me say that if
tdpath wants To 20 into the question OF