Arizona republican., 1901-05-14
TEMPEST IN A TEA POT
How Citizen Gang Slipped Away From
 the Persecution of Mayor Gang.

The city council chamber never looked more like teapot than it did last night and there was a bigger or more harm less tempest in any teapot.
 At the last meeting of the city coun- cil MT. Gang. who happens to be the mayor. announced that he desired to remodel and work over the building oc- cupied by Tribolet's meat market and the one adjoining. where Anton Gould for some time maintained an emporium for the alleviation O. human thirst. It was also suggested that the old adobe walls of these buildings might some or them be unsafe and at some ones sug- gestion it was moved and carried that for the protection of life and property the matter be referred to the fire chief and also tO the vity engineer, the for mer to see that the mayor did not de- liberately erect fire trap and the lat ter to report to the street and alley committee upon the safety of the walls. In accordance with that instruction the city engineer inspected tho walls and submitted his report to the street and alley committee and in further har- rlony with the ordeI the latter commit tee instructed the marshal to notify MT. Gang that certain of the walls must come down. The marshal did his duty and all seemed to be going smoothly and the mayor was being treated with just as much consideration as though he was plain citizen and not the mu- nicipal head of a great city. There seemed 10 be some misunderstanding about the matter yesterday and there was an imminent clash. somebody told somebody else that unless certain part of a certain wall was pulled down the street and alley cvmmitte would or der it done at the mayors expense. The mayor heard of it, ana fearful that he was violating law of some kind he called special meeting of the city council last night to have himself con- demned.
 Meantime he had been in consolidation with all the architects, contractors and builders. pioneer constructors of adobe walls. etc. that he could lay his hands on. and had his defense carefully out lined with Attorney J. l.. B. Alexander fin the saddle ready to tie his law partner, City Attorney Bullard, up in n hard legal knot in case matters SnpNlO AOAllt to dl l~Nufs w uNli Nlit meeting was called 10 order the lobby of the council was packed with repre- sentatives of the building trades. labor unions and the press, together with a lot of anxious citizens who wanted to find out just when the adobe walls along Washington erect might be ex- pected Co fall. The chair called Mir. Dyer to the chair and took the floor. He made the longest speech he ever made in his life in a defense of his building operations. in which he clearly convinced the gentlemen in the lobby that he was not engaged in the con- struction of a deadfall for the taking of human life. Mr McNeil seemed to be bearing the brunt of the battle. as he Is chairman of the street and alley committee lie a:ked a few questions of detail and the mayor consecutively placed his carpenters. contractors ct al. on the stand to further enlighten the alderman.
 After the defense had rested Mir Sanders rose to inquire as to what the prosecution was and called for state ment from the city engineer. It was. made and seemed to satisfy MT. Gang that he as mayor had no case against himself as a private citizen who wanted