Show I T TABLES TU 1 0 ON THE C U CIL Health Commissioner Wilcox Was W s sI I Sinned Against Than Sinning MAKES SATISFACTORY TALK points Out the Need ced of an un Emergency Hospital for Cases Such as Those Complained Of When City CIU Health Commissioner C WI WIco cox co ca appeared before Vie Vio police and andrin I rin rl lIlI of oC the city council to citation from list ll t night In answer a n the council It was a thought by the tho of oC f the committee that they thoy had n II grievance him but In bout bou five minutes after lie ho o commenced to talk It became bo be very vary evident that ho hou who Had tho grievance u 1118 the Hie one Ho lie was called upon to tu explain purported charges against him him that he lie hail iad refused to attend n a cUy Uy prisoner Irl who Wilt lIall hati a It cut In inthe th Ih the k In itt u a street light at ut about 2 1 i lock Io k In III the morning that ho he refused to 10 respond to 10 n a call when wh n a atil til lineman tell fell from tram a polo pole op opposite opposite tho tue City and County building lust lost I t week and was Willi seriously Injured third that he lie hull had not visited the quarantine antine hospital but bu once since he be bo became came health commissioner fourth that a 0 member m mbar of at bin hl department had accepted nr ft a bribe of ot 25 to keep keel a II man vho Iio had hall smallpox from being sent Bent to the quarantine hospital Not ot only did Dr Wilcox thoroughly thorough convince tho tim committee that the tho charges Were ero absolutely ungrounded and some of ot them thorn maliciously false tallie but buthe buthe buthe he pointed out how bow the tho council was negligent In not providing an emergency racy ency hospital for Cor or just met such canes cne as ns n those complained of at and how the tho city himself are being Imposed 1 upon by persons seeking necking tho the aid old of ot the tho city vity In tho the matter of ot medical attendance who are not entitled U tJ t It but hut who are tiro perfectly p able to pay 10 for tor such assist assistance Race ance and are aro not proper charges upon the city By Dy the tho time Dr Wilcox hail had concluded hIN statement It wan waH proc practically decided to give ghe him an on assist assistant ant out physician nt at a salary of at 50 GO per pel month so ho that all 1111 emergency emorgene cases rim can an be bo attended to by one or tile the other othor of ot them thorn and thus avoid having to pay m bills blu to other physicians who are called In when the health commissioner can cannot cannot Cannot not be bo found In all au probability some Rome will bo be taken laken towards fitting up upon upon on nn emergency hospital also aiRo NUMBER ONE In regard to his bis refusal to visit hit the theman mann man who WItH was cut out in a street tight fight Dr Wilcox said enid that ho hind had been bean severely Injured that night In a n Sight light with sith a n bull dog doi do and anil WItH was unable to leave heave hU hili home Further than that ho said Raid that the man had plenty of ot money lIoney and wan perfectly able ablo to pay his bis own on doctor huh hill ami his Injury wan wall not so eo serious but that he lie waR wan able uble to leave tho the sIn sta station tion lion tho the next neat morning lit In that con connection connection he said Raid that on one occasion ho hu hail had been called colleti up III In the middle of ot the thc night to go to the police station to visit a man mail whom the tho police pollee knew was dead drunk and who had hod already been examined by a II physician Such luch mat matters as ItS that ho considered mi an impost Imposition then lion upon him Another Imposition both bolh upon himself and tho time city ho he said was having to visit the morphine fends In tho tito Jail anil furnish thorn with mor morphine morphine phine Such things lI he lie thought were welo not right rl hl at nt all and the city should not nOI expect him hint to do It especially on such sucha a It salary as Is paid vallI the health commis commissioner MARTIN MAnTIN MISINFORMED As AB to the tho second charge concerning his refusal to visit the man mun who fell rell from Crom a telephone polo tho the doctor said that the tho statements made by Council Councilman Councilman man 1 lIn Martin Marlin on the tho floor of at the tho council on that matter were untrue Ho lie said salt that he ho was not In his bis office the telephone t call rail came and did not riot know Imo of ot tIm the accident for tor hours after when hien he lie returned to the tho about six nix Mr Martin assured Dr Wilcox that he lie made mado his statements statement upon what he had been told and that ho lie had halt no enmity or personal feeling In the matter at nt all r HOSPITAL NEEDED Continuing Dr Wilcox said that the tho need necil of ot thin this city is an nn emer emergency gency Jeney hospital and that it Is a disgrace to 10 the city that It one oneAs oneAs oneAs As to his bis not visiting the tho Isolation but once since ho ha took charge of ot the department lie 10 said that was ab nb absolutely false that he visited the hospital whenever r tho tim nurse In Informed informed formed him that Ills his services were need cd ed Ho lIe lb had hm not nOI been called thieve there Very WIY often because e none nono of ot the tho cases were very serious and amid ho lie considered con tho tilo nurse competent to care core for tOl them themA A FALSEHOOD l The fourth charge against t him hini and the he department Dr Wilcox character characterized us lIS u a II malicious falsehood and said that his department was wan W H not concern concerned ed N In the tho matter at nt all but hut It was wo a It proposition between the man and his private physician Tho The man hind had small smallpox POX x nail his hiI private physician agreed Jo to 10 treat him at itt home honie for tor JIB 15 und and not have hrie him removed to the tho hospital The Theman milan man paid him tho the money mane but hut when whon Dr nr Wilcox arrived he lie h sent tho the man to the tho hospital After Aler the tho mon man Will was re TC 1 leaned ho demanded that 12 of ot tho the money bo be returned to hilT by his hlll private vate ale nto physician but hut the tho latter claimed that he made two Visits vi 11 It II anil kept W ti 11 of the amount and ond returned G 9 D t him The rue rh man maca then went to a morning paper with l ith h his story anti claimed that It was wall fl flan NII an It II of the tho health department who accepted the tho money mOMY This same Mme f fellow fallow Dr Wilcox Bild HIhl called nt II time the health after atter be ho was released and nud vIlely ll IIiI ly abused the tho clerk until the th latter hat hail him arrested While his homo was In m quarantine it to the time department that the quarantine regula regulations ero being violated l An Aim tor lor wont went to the house but the tho mans ito saId mild 11 n III that thol sho hail had not lIot permitted persons onH to 10 enter the tho house hOUM willie while It was quarantined The Time Inspector went In searched the house home and fount found a 11 woman hid behind the curtains The commissioner told that just to show the tho kind of ot a man muon the fellow tellow was lIe as who made malic the charge chare WILL WILI GET ar l AN ASSISTANT At the conclusion of ot his hi statements It ns decided by the committee to 10 pay Dr bill of 15 1 for tor attending the tIme nina man who was cut In Iii the tho neck neek and ami It wn S 05 practically decided to give Dr Wilcox Yb an assistant with tho time assurance from him him that the two could handle the tho emergency eases cases and amid tho tim hIlls bills coming In to the tho city from other phy physicians ph for tor such work TIm TILE CASH CASE Immediately after atter tho time tension of oC th police and prison committee 11 Dr Wll Vil cox ox fl called before time the sanitary corn com to exploit why wh he lie discharged Sanitary Margetts Coun Councilman cilman Hobday who under the division of lit patronage made had tIme the naming of ot tho time sanitary Inspector demanded an all explanation of the time mutter Dr DI Wll cox replied that ho hc mo discharged Mr MI because he considered him In Incompetent incompetent competent lie sold said he lie sent pent Mr Margetts out to Inspect the tho he place pin co of ot n it nII Mr Tr II Winters inters who had hod maintained n II nuisance In tho the of ot a hog hOI pen and pile at his hog hOJi reach Inch across the Jordan river Mr Margetts re ro reported roo ported that the time place was In a sanitary condition con ml I t ion I IOther Other complaints Wen mads against the place and Dr DI Wilcox sent Int two other Inspectors out there anti they that the place was na In iii n a n horn ble ide condition and Food Inspector Mey Meyers Meyers ers elB swore out complaints against Win Winters hn tars and anti the latter laller guilty he be before fore toro Judge Diehi and nial was given four days to 10 abate time the nuisance Dr DI Wil Vil Wilcox cox also said paid that Mr Ir had 1111 misrepresented matters to him In con coil connection with the tIme condition of ot the thio Mar Margette nr gette brewery Time The foul tOil I stench aris arising lag ing from the ditch at tho tIme brewery brewer Mr reported as ns being hur caused from rout tho the lowing wells well III in that vicinity In view of these two 10 Instances tIme tho doctor thought ho lie was Justified In iii discharging Mr 11 THAT POLITICAL SCHEME In regard to the tho statement that It was tR purely purel a mt political scheme to 10 put Henry Arnold n a Democrat and ft a t broth W of ot the health commissioner In place Dr Wilcox Bald that ho lie did not Arnold hut but that thaI Republicans had hall come conme to him him Amid told laId him that they had fixed lI cd It up UJ with ith the councilmen from the Second to 10 put Arnold In place and Den lIen Harmon who ho In is a n In Arnolds place In time the street department This was as a It choice dID Ice bit of ot Information to the time Republican members and time the th conn COUll from honl the Second He denied 1 they had anything whatever to do with the nt at nil all unit and charged that It must have 1100 been fixed up lip by Harmon and amId his bis friends alone MAKES MAImS DENIAL Mr made ninde II n statement aln lenIent In answer to Dr JJr Wilcox and denied that he lie had misrepresented the tho conditions at nt atthe tho the Winters ranch He lie had bad Council Councilmen men amid lIlI state tho time conditions nt at the ranch us mis they saw them They The each PaIl ald In III that time the plarl was Willi kept in Iii as good rendition condItion ns mis It could coull he lie but that the Ihl slough on omi the premises was liR responsible for tor the time foul stench mind and Mr f hUll had taken tallen steps to drain It and ald fill It up lip HOnDA YS Hobday moved that 1111 Mr bo be retained In iii his position but said alil that he ito dill did not mint see StO what the tho committee could rould do to because tho time le Intro Intra Introduced clu cd by A J 3 DavIs and amid passed by hY bythe the time council authorised tIm tho heads bends of ot the tho departments to tim 0 their men until otherwise And did dl l not nol require their actions In that matter to tobe tobe be he approved ty to tho council Hence ho hI argued that the coun could take toIle no action In III the matter tit lit nil all Dr Wilcox said that the Ibm committee could us liS much ns as It wanted to but hut that so mO tar far as ns be lie was waA concerned tho the matter was ended flu Mr Mn I ell could not re ro return turn to 10 his Hobday still Insisted that hint Margetts be bo and threat threatened ened to use hiss bin Influence towards re rl releasing releasing leasing lensing of ot time the Democrats In Imi tho time employ of ot Republican heads beaus of oC depart departments meats ments No report on time the matter was wal manila so that It li l I doubtful whether or not tho time matter will be bo brought before beforetime time the council |