The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-07
City Council Refuses to Revoke
Four Licenses.
EVIDENCE NOT suFfIclENr.
Charges Of selling Liquor TO Minors
Not Backed Up ny Competent Tes-
timony Ordinance Forfeiting
Telephone Company Franchise
IL killed on Account OF the
Settlement Of the strike.

council TO revoke the licenses of the Ida
no. the Skagit and tho Esmond saloons
and the Columbia beer hall, for the al
legged sale OF liquor to minors. failed of
passage on their Anal reading Mt the
council meeting last night. The ordinance
for the first-named saloon was defeated
and the other three were indefinitely
postponed.
The first case to come up was that Of the
Idaho saloon, in which Attorney Barnes
addressed the council on behalf Of the sa
loon. Councilman Navin opposed the pas
sage of the ordinance. stating that the
evidence was insufficient.
III we are going to enforce tho law so
rigidly," he declared, 1--WE won't have
saloon left in Seattle. There are some
places below the dead line that need at
tention. but they are never brought be-
fore us. We should deal with them be-
fore we go after place which has al
ways been conducted In an orderly man,
ner."
on the motion to revoke the vote re-
suited IN tie. 8 to 8, and the measure was
declared lost.
The ordinance dealing with the Esmond
saloon came up next and the evidence
against the place appearing insufficient.
was Indefinitely postponed The Columbia
beer halls case provoked a lengthy dis
cussion among the councilman. Muldoon
criticised the evidence against the saloon
and said that the two boys who were Wit
nesscs on behalf of the prosecution were
absolutely unreliable and were. In his
opinion. the best educated" witnesses he
had ever seen.
same lines. The action of the justices OF
the peace and the prosecuting attorney
getting together and advising man TO
plead guilty. as had happened In the case
OF Peter Emit. the proprietor. he declared,
was very strange.
Byers. In an impassioned speech. replied
10 the two previous speakers and declared
that he believed not one of the proprietors
OF the aforementioned resorts had spok-
en- the truth In their evidence before the
council and that the boys who had APP
peared against them had evidently not
lied He asserted that Deputy Prosecut-
Ing Attorney Hart had stated In the coun-
cit that he would not have advised Emil
20 plead guilty II he had not thought he
The council then voted to postpone IN
definitely the ordinance regarding both
tho Columbia beer hall and the Skagsi
saloon.
President Relnhart reported regarding
the revocation OF the Sunset telephone
Company's franchise from the committee
nf the whole which considered the matter
at the meeting on July II.
'sIn view OF tho settlement Of the
strike" he said, and also because me
company has promised 20 be good. ] move
We lay the whole matter on the table.
The motion carried unanimously.
Protests were received frem the property
owners on Mercer street north az First
avenue against that thorong hfAre being
Improved by assessing the property uoid-
ors for the full amount. They asked tnai
the city stand some Of the expenses. The
matter was referred 70 the city "ngsn"er
with instructions 20 report On September
The petition q Christopher. Nicholson
and others for a franchise Tor 4 new
telephone company IN Seattle was referred
to the committee on corporations.
a petition from the property nelderS on
sixteenth avenue for Us improvement ee-
tween East Alder and East Cherry ~
grading sidewslking and parking tue est.
mated cost heinz ssleo. was granted and
the preliminary STEPS ordered token
Protests were received from J. No
Gllvra. Jacob Furyh and the Seattle
Electric Company against trio piankirg OF
Madison street from Twsnty-ihird avenue
10 lake Washington, TheT were referred
10 tha committee on streets,
The petition q f'rca r Sander for
franchise for an clee,ric txht. heat and
power company was fefeffNd 70 the COM
.rhe seattle Automatie Telephone Ex-
change Company. which was ETeNtei
franchise almost year sg0 on condition
that n should have AZ telephones IN op-
cratfon ia years time. presented a Pc
il,ien Cor an extension 81 time. aAsging
necessary machinery for the equipment
ef It's plant IL WAS referred 70 the com
mitsee on corporations
Tha oregon & TrAnScOntinsn;d and the
Columbia & Puget sound Railway CON-
r.a ries petitlOned for permission to change
the positions ~ their tracks on Rafroad
aVeniis tetN Nesier way and Columbia
street The Petition gas granted
The usual monthly Appropriation 0Tain-
ance was PASSED ard the following ap-
propriationS ordered 81 - IS from the
general f0nAs SNiN from the water
fanA and SIT from the HeFRry fund
iatxc uUulhcr ~ minor local Improve
uent Bills were PASSED tiN vas In
troAucsd 20 tax kingltrs Bro = circus
ysA when e comes here In September
wiih an additional tar % s. fer each
sac show. II was referred 10 a special
committee