Show CITY OFFICIAL DUTY THE velocity with which the lately deceased city council transacted business relating to the maintenance of the peace and good order of the municipality c ci i lity was illustrated by an incident r th that t occurred at last nights regular meeting of the city fathers A petition addressed to the mayor and council during last winter had been drawn from its pigeonhole pigeon hole bole and the dust shaken from the venerable document the petitioner mr duncan M me allister asked ked tor for more adequate protection tor for citizens from footpads highwaymen and thugs wbk at that time thronged thron ged the town and kept up a reign of terror by their depredations mr mcallister McAll lster was backed by a potent reason for bis big request he having been waylaid on his road home from business choked kicked battered and robbed by a couple of lawless human brutes the class of criminals to which his assailants belonged had had bad for many months an an excellent time in their way as they met with little or no official interference the reign of terror continued for quite a time after the petition referred to was presented yet only oaly now after the city has entered the haven of comparative peace so BO far aa street assaults and robberies are concerned the be reasonable request of a respectable citizen is resurrected for consideration in view of the changed situation in respect to the special evil complained of common commod sense would have suggested that the petition be disposed of without reference perhaps however it Is well to give mayor buskin baskin an opportunity port unity to state in his blandest blankest blan dest tones that all alps alla a well in our growing city that under a more efficient rule to say may nothing of the approach of summer there is now no need for the regular police force tobe augmented or to be assisted by auxiliaries the thug the footpad foot pal ana aaa highwaymen having fled to more cn c n genial pastures when they can ply their vocations with less asa fear of official molestation than they can here when the mayor shall make this declaration cl it is to be hoped that he be will be sufficiently thoughtful to consider some features connected with the present situation of the city that have not mended in the least Rei reference ference is now made to the fact that the proprietors of drinking dens constantly and flagrantly violate the ordinances for the regulation of the sale sae 0 of f liquor nearly all the saloons in this city are run ori on sunday the same as any other day of the week the exceptions to this rule are few and far between of course it is understood that the liberal officials owe their positions to the saloon element without the support of which they would not have been electea elec teJ that furnishes no reason for whisky men being permitted to violate the ordinances as they are now doing if they are permitted to do this with impunity it will place it as a fact beyond reasonable doubt that there was prior to the election an understanding between them and the liberal 11 managers to the effect that they could run their establishments coit contrary to law without fearon fear of molestation the evil referred to is a grievous one the amount of sunday drunkenness in the city is a shame upon the community if the wrong to is not remedied by the municipal officials then it will be appropriate for other officers of the law to act in the premises according accordi to a bugger suggestion tion made some time at since nce by chief justice zane |