East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-23

The Walla Walla Union gives the
following detailed account of the re-
vocation of five saloon licenses in that
city by the city council Tuesday night.
mention Of which was made in yester-
days East Oregonian:
Ostensibly upon the complaint of
the Good Templars order the council
last night summarily revoked the H.
| cense of five saloons of the city and
instructed Chief of Police Brown to
carry out the order Immediately.
The saloons coming under the re-
vocation order of the council are the
Elk, Idle Hour, Bismark. Louvre and
owl. Immediately after the adjourn
ment of the council the order was
carried out by Chief Brown and Cap
tain Mike Davis, who personally Wis
tied all the places accompanied by a
reporter for the Union.
To say that the episode created a
sensation is putting it in the mildest
form possible. The parties affected
assert that they will fight the matter
i'm the courts If the order is not re-
scinded. In this connection incrImin-
ating charges of one kind or another
were freely made last night and II Will
not be surprise If there are some
very sensational developments TODAY.
Beneath it all there slumbers a
veritable volcano that may break into
active eruption at any moment and
furnish the city with the most lurid
explosions 1t has ever beheld.
The fuse of the fireworks was
lighted when the clerk began to read
a communication from the Independ-
ent Order of Good Templars calling
attention to the fact that a committee
OF that organization had in its possess
sion evidence to the effect the Sunday
closing law was being violated bv
every saloon in the city and specified
the dates and hours on which il was
alleged gambling had been carried on
IN the Idle Hour, the Bismark. the
Louvre the owl and the Elk.
The first intimation, however. that
a bomb had been planted and the fuse
o
OF the council was during the grand
perforation of an oratorical effort hv
Councilman Kirkman on a question Of
personal privilege shortly after tho
council convened, i'm which he desired
TO correct the intimation i'm an edi-
torlal of the Evening Statesman that
ne mad gone to Seattle last week to
prevent MS attendance at meeting
When there was a possibility that the
gambling and slot machine questions
might be probed He stated thai wbo,
war on gambling started he would
oe round working i'm hearty co-opera-
uoh with those against the vice
After the reading of the comn,,,,,i
cauoh from the Good Templars the
clerk was handed five resoIutions
signed by Councimen Kirkman GIas-
lord Bridges and Cox, each one of
which read as follows.
whereas. 1t has been demopstr,t
ed to the council that gamblinp has
been conducted in violation ~ 49,
state law in the saloon known as the
! -); therefore be it resolved
that the liquor license granted hv the
city of Walla Walla to the nronriatou
or proprietors of the said soloon ba
ana the same is hereby revoked
councilman Mexican arose 70 in.
qulre the extent of the knowledge ana
evidence possessed by the four conn.
eiiiheh as to whether gambling had
peeh conducted i'm any of the saloo,,s
ana thought it a little queer that fo,,r
members of the council would NOT
consult with the other three ON II.
question of the evidence wber ,t,,.
three were in the city. and not .r /
Seattle" III
The authors of the resolution yo,i,
not however give him any satisfoc-
'loh except that they were a maiorit,.
Of the council and the evidence sa,is
ned them that the resolutions ,,.,,.,
eminently proper
councilman Glasford Thought that
oy only passing the resolution revok-
ing the licenses of the saloons in
question was very lenient and consid.
1rate on the part of the committee of
tour' for the reason that all woro
guilty of crimes punishable |
by imprisonment in the penitentior,,