Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-16
REPORTER N CONTROL
Reform Movement in Minneap.
oils Lands a Police Reporter
in Power.
Mayors Secretary. Who Was a
Newspaper Man. Acting as
Executive.
Wholesale Changes Made in the
Police Force.--Dives Order
ed Closed.

| Minneapolis. Mimi. July ia po-
lice reporter is now the ruler of Mime
apolis. The mayor of the city. a. A
Ames. has gone to West Baden, Ind.
chief of police Fred w. Ames. is in hid
| ing somewhere, probably at San fran
cisco, and an acting chief of police has
been appointed in his place.
Under the law the president of the
council u. p. Jones, is acting mayor
but he is to go east Friday for an eX-
tended vacation and there is no provi-
sion of law for succession. The vice
president of the council does not be-
come acting mayor. and the legal wits
are busy trying to solve the problem.
Acting Mayor Jones is paying no at
tention whatever to the office, as his
ideas are so radical they could not be
carried out in the space of a few days.
When Mayor Ames left he gave his pri-
waite secretary, Thomas r. Brown, full
authority, not only in the mayors office
itself but also in the police department.
Brown was police reporter for To-
cal paper until !Ames was elected, when
he became private secretary. He was
not in office long before he became
managing editor of Mayor Ames' news
paper. and later, in connection With h.
e. Wheelock. the mayors stenogra-
pller, purchased, a cigar store with
poker games in the rear.
A receiver is now in charge of the
place. and the developments show that
a captain of police stopped the poker
games. cutting off the profits.
Brown has also been out of the may
or's paper for some time but today he
is to all intents and purposes the mayor
and chief of Police of Minneapolis.
Captain c. r. Hill has been appointed
acting chief, but he takes his orders
from Brown. who has sole charge Of the
Office at the same time.
Mayor Ames is an extremely sick
man. In addition to his ordinary ali
ments the work of the grand jury has
RULED him down, and his friends believe
that he will not recover sufficiently to
4 turn and face the indictments now
pending. Chief of Police Ames. his
brother, is also not expected to return,
and the city council will declare his Of
flee vacant if he is not here by July rs.
The mayor was hardly out of Mime
apolis before Secretary Brown decided
Oh complete reorganization of the po-
Ice force, and Minneapolis is to be
purified at last. That he does not eX-
poet Chief Ames to return is shown by
the fact that he has filed the vacancies
all along the line.
Captain Krumweide, who had a coll
lision with Captain Fitchette, was
transferred to night position in the
suburbs The detective force was di-
vided between the different stations,
captains and lieutenants switched
around. and now strict orders have
gone forth that the laws must be en-
forced. First of all, grating must
cease The saloons are to close prompt
|y at midnight, there must be no gam
bling. women must not frequent wine
rooms, fake auction shops must put up
the shutters and there is to be a genu
me house-cleaning.
There is reason to believe that Secre
AIRY Brown is in earnest, but what
Mayor Ames will say when he hears of
what has been done is question. He
nay summon all of his strength and
hasten back to Minneapolis by the first
rain, as he has absolutely controlled all
matters connected with the police force
since his Inauguration.