Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER fastidious in truth must be e the taste that cannot find bething me thing congenial among the events da dally g ly occurring in our ma mar loua chicago the grave and 11 the morbid and morose the gloomy and cheer cheerful fW the optimist and nd pessimist the cynic and poet tile e epicurean and christian can alike find here a resting place as well veil as kindred affinities every offense which the dark catalogue of criminality describes as well as deiy er y virtue which the bright roll of oj rectitude emblazons embla zons are co ex latent in this city of paradox and perplexity the three most sensational subjects on the surface at present axe are the e mrs rawson case the sewerage question and the police I 1 putridity 1 charges there are a number of other matters which though considered trivial here would in st louis ouis or omaha be looked upon as ordering bordering on the cataclysmal our bayor to is charged with being a member of the united order of deputies leall but he strenuously repudiates ell M connection with the said order hese ese chicago deputies axe are a formidable host your salt lake deau deputy 11 is a mild creature in com alson rl son n the order of deputies has 8 sprung up within the last two years ut only recently has it come into prominence its object is that no ionian catholic be permitted to old public office nor any lucrative ment 1 whatsoever this pledges r itself to agitate for tion of church property and to withhold ith hold from catholic institutions ar win ta in privileges leges now granted by muX u municipality every member of als order is sworn to scratch any didace di date for public office who is ia a own catholic no matter on what varty W ticket this catholic appears the ine order is also pledged toworu to work enst statehood for now new mexico olvil such time as the protestant 1 population Pu lation there outnumbers the joaan catholic the order dis daims all pretense to being religious a purely a political affair and is to geato to work politically against ganaan n C catholics at holics even to the dis of citizens of the winan wan feith faith our mayor john A e is charged with being a ber of the order the chicago espouses the cause of the byor may or it says that mr roche boche was at I one time a member but becom I 1 Ing cognizant of the radical crimes of loolu tale order he withdrew this 88 as if the commencement of a wS war was at hand A any an cywie outside chicago it would 1 be regarded as aa a serious affair the ba baptist t ministers at their air wee weekly y me meeting n last M monday aday all but endorsed the the order of deputies they pronounced the withdrawal of the bible from the public schools a piece of political demagogy demagg gy to suborn catholic votes the rev bev mr thames read a paper on this subject and advocated religious teaching in public schools holding that the intellectual tel and religious must be more closely associated in education he scored the catholics as vehemently as pat hannans Lan nans newspaper would pour its billingsgate on a mormon and said there were 1500 female teachers against 69 males in chicago schools he wants the female eliminated from the teachers stool the railroad presidents are now assembled in convention here endeavoring n deavo ring to perfect their gand combine seventeen roads have already agreed to enter this gigantic trust there are four roads still holding aloof but tt jh is thought that these will ultimately come in then there are the twenty one great corporations po rations of the united states joined in one great whole and virtually under one management success for such an enterprise as this means death and disaster to industry and probably disruption of the united states or their consolidation into a vast and powerful empire the lessons taught us by our protectionist orators last november are now beadi bearing unlooked for fruits mr blame blaine told us we had free trade among our states and territories but he did not say how long we were to have it the states of pennsylvania kansas and ohio and other purely protectionist commonwealths mon are considering the question of interstate inter state protection in inthe the legislatures of four of these states laws are now being enacted to exclude chicago dressed beef only yesterday the board of trade of this city adopted a preamble and set of resolutions strongly condemnatory of the states legislating for home protection if protection is good for the united states it is also good for pennsylvania and finally it must be good for pittsburg which must protect itself from Alleg allegheny alleghany hany city chicago society does not trouble much about deputies combines or dressed beef night after night receptions entertainments balls festivals and musicales musi cales axe are chronicled glowing descriptions of these affairs are given A reporter must enter into botan botany millinery jewelry and cookery the he florid descriptions of the shoemakers household whose head only a few years ago had to borrow a quarter to pay car fare to carry home his work yes these descriptions script ions don dont donit it help to make socialists oh nol no socialists don dont donit it read don dont donit it think don dont donit it see yes but there are working men who read and think and see and when ill gotten wealth is flaunted in their races faces in balls and receptions they are apt to think there is a screw loose somewhere the process of selecting a jury in the notable rawson ease case consumed several days one side aide endeavored to get jurymen juryman who had been divorced three or four times but the other side wanted jurymen juryman who never saw a divorce court then the states attorney was compelled to ask a prospective prospect ivo juror whether he was acquainted with any of mrs lawsons Baw Raw sons counsel the counsels names were th then en given i holden amends green ar dexter allen alien furthman Purt hman collier bisbee becker gondy berrick walker judd hulett trudye the poor juror found himself confronted with the whole chicago bar association collier is the famous prank frank who was received as Chi cagos representative by queen victoria judd is our late postmaster and gondy bondy is carter harris harrisons ons great rival mr rawson has done a great deal for that noble refuge of genius the bar A quarter of a million of his wealth has gone to lawyers when he cast his eye on mrs rawson it would have been better for him had he founded a law institute instead of doing what he did mrs rawson details coldly and calmly the story of her life she has three husbands li ving living she was divorced from no 1 and no 2 before meeting rawson but she claims that her former husbands courted her after the divorces were obtained she tells how rawson used to make love 11 and how he used to leave the dye of his whiskers on her lips when he kissed her she says rawson did not marry her for love but wanted to paralyze paral ayze 11 the third presbyterian church of which he was an elder W with th a stunning ni wife mrs rawson relates e s th this Ts with a laugh and a chuckle she was born in new orleans 87 37 years yeam ago she was a teacher government clerk in washington hotelkeeper hotel keeper boarding boari boar ing Jing house mistress etc the sewerage question is one that is engaging eng na the attention of chicago at present it is thought by many that chicago sewage goes into lake michigan well some or of it does one of your salt lake councilmen said the whole of it did and that chicago still obtained its drinking water from the lake the fact is chicago sewage has been going down the illinois river for the last quarter of a century and the prospect now in contemplation is to turn the whole sewage in that direction but the citizens of the illinois valley strongly only part of the sewage at present labe goes oes that way but so offensive has it become that even fifty miles from here the air is polluted the illinois valley people want constructed from here to joliet a channel feet wide and 22 feet deep with a volume of water equal to cubic feet a minute they claim that nothing less can dilute chicago sew sewage e so as aa to render it innocuous ahen then all the river towns are growing and abd the combined sewage of authere towns with st louis thrown in must ultimately do serious injury to the health of the interior of the country the great problem of the future for inland cities and towns will be if all the sewage of this city were to be emptied into lake michigan pure water could not be obtained without going ing out 10 or 15 miles into the ake lake the sooner some process of utilizing sewage for agriculture or for disposing of it in some way by the aid of chemical science is arrived at the better it will be for the sanitary condition of inland cities and towns the present source of our water supply Is two miles from the shore and it is well known that in flood seasons sewage reaches this source A tunnel is now being built four miles into the lake in order to get a purer supply the chicago timea is making things lively for our police andretty and petty judges it has charged the chief officers with corruption of the grossest kind the police claim that the influence of the he socialists is at the bottom and that spite or malice is the cause the truth is the police force of chicago is at present the most incapable the most mod corrupt the most arrogant of any to be found in the whole civilized world the times is fully justified it la Is doing a patriotic work and if it should succeed in routing out bonfield and mayor roche koche it woula would delay the destruction of the city at least another decade the herald and globe are now taking the side of the police this to is most unaccountable only a few months ago the herald vigorously denounced them it published the names of 36 35 officers who participated in the haymarket riot and who had been dish discharged arged by mayor roche boc he and king bonfield for voting a democratic ticket and gave the names of 35 officers in all who had been removed for political reasons it published accounts of over robberies burglaries murders m u aders etc which had occurred since si ne e bonfield had become king but not a clue to any of them has been obtained it denounced mayor roche as the I 1 isto stool 0 1 pi pigeon bon of a political machine and as the merry andrew of hubbard and bonfield now that the kerald has taken the mayors side people begin to wonder As to the globe nobody reads it though it has been distributed gratis for two weeks mayor roche boche came into office by reason of that socialist scarce and by reason of the cowardice of the democratic party now he is working to retain his hold by the same means all this excitement about the arbeiter Ar belter bund and the anarchists was only a scheme to reelect re elect roche next april and to make bonfield kingl king I in reality they overshot the mark this ponce police corruption undoubtedly exists it is 18 certainly worse than any form of socialism and is the worst word kind of anarchy the city is rotten with agencies and private detectives the friends ends and henchmen of politicians I 1 only today a vase ease is being bein tried t I 1 in I 1 judge holtons hortons hoi Hor tons court wh wherein I 1 are re concerned a justice a constable a lawyer a detective and a citizen A poor girl named maggie aggie M clark incurred the displeasure of a rich man who thereupon sought a private detective mage maggie was kidnapped rid kidnapped napped into his hii 0 office ce and the poor girl was fairly terrified the ease case became public by some means and the papers ers pago raised such a racket that thew the whole le crowd were arrested judge horton yesterday expressed hl his is opinion nion of the methods often adopted OT b by y private detectives he was rendering his decision in the motion to have the jury instructed to return a verdict of not guilty in the case of sweeney and others when attorney douglas in behalf of the state had bad finished his argument against the motion the court said 1 I think it is high time public opinion should be aroused against this taking of people to a private detective agency and subjecting them to this sweating process it is an outrage it may not be conspiracy sp iracy and I 1 will not pass on that question but it is an infamous proceeding ce this species ot terrorizing has been practiced long enough there may be no law to reach it but there should be one the case calse must go to the jury the motion is overruled this is not the first case of the kind the regular police WID wink k at the crookedness of private detectives here is another case much worse than that above A pocketbook was found on th the street estreet and its contents revealed a story which surprised even lawyers themselves A justice lajudice of the peace named young was the culprit in the case the pocketbook was taken to the judge of the county court who has jurisdiction over ovel justices and this is what occurred when the judge read the contents judge eyes bulged out as lie be carefully perused the documents and then turning to the offending justice administered to him one of the most severe judicial rebukes ever heard in court do you know what this pocketbook contains mr young asked the court calmly no sir 11 was the reply well sir said the court tit it appears to be the pocketbook of an attorney named charles and it contains a number of official chere papers pers signed in blank by you there are here affidavits of attachment garnishees garnis hees in attachments writs of restriction summonses and they appear to have been placed in the hands of this attorney to be filled out by him at will your signature being attached to them that is one of the greatest outrages upon the law on the part of an official entrusted with the administration of it that has ever come under my observation innocent peopled I 1 les property could be seized and nT carried off peoples peopled wages garns dished in fact all kinds of hardship inflicted upon the public by irresponsible persons and without a chance for defense being afforded to the persons so distressed let me advise you that your offense is an indictable one and further advise you that the best thing you can do is to resign at once all this work goes on under the eyes of the police but buthot abot a word I 1 this is the anarchy which will kill our country JUNTOS jumus CHICAGO january 26 1889 |