The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-17
PIG PEN LAW BECOMES
HOT POLITICAL ISSUE
Winchester Council Balks When Asked to Go on
Record-Arrested on Charge of Breaking
Into Soda Water Esta blishment.
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winchester. Va. July l6.-Members
OF the Common Council. who are all
ways willing 10 be obiiging and at the
same time sensitive to public criticism
baked fey nights ago. when tbev
were asked to go on record in REGARD
10 the local pig pen law. in which two
iemale neighbors of the rashiona hla
section of Winchester were at odds
one neighbor had installed several
iittie pigs in pen in the rear OF her
house. the premises of which happen
TO be near those OF a person living on
another street. and the following day
'ne iatter reported the matter to the
authorities. filing a complaint. Mayor
IL Il. Baker. and a number of police
men went to the premises and investi
sateo' and claim they found the pig
pen IN a sanitary condition. The Navor
said ne was certain no law had been
broken. City Solicitor Williams. how
ever, was asked for an opinion. and
ne dictated quite lengthy disserta-
.toh' quoting eminent authorities and
former court decisions relative TO MIC
pens ana was prepared to hand down
tho same at the meeting of the Council
In the meantime the pig pen question
had suddenly become a political issue
and many people who raise pigs de-
ciared they would not support Council
men Tor reelection IL they voted 10
GUST the pens from the community
Inc result was that no pig pen legis-
iation was proposed at the meeting
and the pigs are still in the pen.
william snapp. member OF an old
Winchester family, was taken 10 tail
Yesterday and will be given a hear
ing In day or two on the charge Of
breaking into the soda water estab.
nshment OF John P. Sartelle, on North
Main Street, early the other morning.
:. 6. Noakes, who has sleeping apart
ments In an adjoining building, heard
some one leaving the rear window OF
Sartelle's place and fired several sbots
one of which lodged In Snaps back
Two Inches from his spine Notwith
standing the wound. Snapp went homo
and had no medical attention until
yesterday. He left here early Friday
morning on a freight train for Staun.
ton, where his mother had been Visit.
Ing. and she came home with him yes
terday.
Officials OF the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad have promised to make n
formal reply within thirty days to the
Business Mems Association OF Win
chester and Frederick county relative
to n physical connection between that
road and the lines of the Cumberland
Valley Railroad In the northern part
of this city. The Cumberland Valley
has already extended its line TO within
thirty or forty yards of the Baltimore
and Ohio's tracks, and has indicated
Its willingness to make the connection
The authorities of Jefferson county
have thus far been unsuccessful in
their efforts to identify the remains
OF man who was killed by a Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad train near
Shenandoah Junction few nights
ago. He had in pocket n miners
check bearing the characters "40S2 L.
P. C. Co."
Relatives here have received intelli-
gence OF the tragic death of George
Andrews, member of an old Jefferson
county family. who was instantly
killed one day last week in an auto
mobile accident in Portland. Ore. He
was forty five years old. and a son OF
the late Rev. DIR. Andrews, for many
years rector OF the Shepherdstown