The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-28
CITIZENS OF PITTSBURG WILL
GATHER IN MASS MEET
ING OF PROTEST.
GRAFT TO Be DENOUNCED
Circular Letter Is Read in Churches
Urging People Of the City to Gather
the Exposures Of Scandal Recently
Made--Malefaetors Ars Denounced.

Ilttsburg, MafSn 2I-Inc~ Icntcn
season. which ended today, has been
too short a season of penitonce for
Pittsburg and 1t will be continued
with promise of even more startling
confessions Of graft this week In
several hundred churches today an
UNUSUAL feature of the Easter serv-
Ice was the reading OF the circular
letter issued by "A civic committee yes
terday urging the members of every
congregation To attend huge indlg-
nation mass meeting tn be held some
day this week. Sermons too, were de-
signed 10 arouse public condemnation
of such practices as have been re-
vealed. Lessons in civic cleanliness
We're drawn by many pastors.
II having been pretty thoroughly
established according to District At
torney william A. Blakcly. at least
$l02.50 was used in influencing legis-
lation. the source of the money and
the dispensers of II are to be the TO-
Gus of the grand jury's attention to-
morrow morning. A considerable por-
tlon OF the big bride fund is charged
to certain banks that sought to get
city deposits. They succeeded but 1t
IL the desire OF the grand jury as
pronounced In It's report of Friday
last, that the bank deposit ordinance
be rescinded and the banks, II found
guilty, be deprived OF the use OF city
money. II is known that some rep
resentatives OF the banks are TO be
called tomorrow to testify The six
banks that have been named by the
grand jury as involved In the scan
dal, are the Columbia National, the
German National of Pittsburg. the
Farmers National Deposit bank, the
Second National. the German National
OF Allegheny and the Worklngman's
Savings & Trust company.
viii Comply.
The directorate OF the Farmers
National has announced that II Will
com.d.t with the district attorneys
call for information. The other banks
have taken no action. 1t was still un-
learned tonight whether Charles Stew
art yesterday In his talk with Dis
trict Attorney Blakely told all that
he is believed to know about the
men higher up. Stewart is former
select councilman who was declared
by the grand jury in its presentment
Saturday to have been the man to
whom $4,000 of bribe-tainted money
was given at the Hotel Imperial In
New York
The chy's councils meet tomorrow
night Twenty of the present mem
bers Of the councils are under indict-
ment In connection with the graft
cases. II Is expected that some will
protest their innocence, but the ma
jorlty are expected to hand in reslg-
nations as meckly az they confessed
las. week
While the big show continues there
Is lively side feature In crusade
against all varieties of graft and
wrongdoing In Pttsburg. Disorderly
houses are being closed up and every
night lately there has been a roundup
of women in the tenderlon district
AT II meeting of citizens in the Fort
Pitt hotel at which a committee was
formed to further the mass meeting
plan, 1t was openly charged the graft
collected in the red light district
amounted to $l,000oOO year.
Klein Muzzled.
John +. Klein, whose confessions
and exposure of others has netted
such a scandal, has been muzzlcd and
Is now kept In room at the Fort
Pitt hotel pending disposition of his
case. He Is under sentence of three
and half years. Yesterday he issued
an appeal for clemency and aid for
his family. The authorities have for
hidden him to give out further pub
lie statements.