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CITIZEN FINED; CITY EMPLOYEFREE ON THE SAME CHARGEWHAT IS THIS LODGINGHOUSE SECRET NOW?Where lies the stadin of the alleged lodging house conducted at ltfc Front avenue, over Jahde’s old saloon stand?Recently The Press had occasion to hear that this house was paying tribute to the police for winking at the retention of a lot of women in the place for immoral purixrses.A visit was made to the place and the Information given that the house was being run solely for alodging business.The Press has information to the effect that this place less than a year ago was paying $20 per week to the police for protection and that the officers who collected themoney are still on the force. When the police demanded more money and the landlady couldn't afford to stand for it. she moved out. Then the present proprietors came in.This house is owned jointly by two women. Blanche McDonald, who conducts a house at 217,/fe Front avenue, and a Mrs. Gould, who has charge of 1V2. The records at the police court will fail to show that this place has ben paying any fines, such as have been required of the licensed resorts, yet it has been run as such for nearly a yar. and in fact, almost continuously since the district was closed there years ago by Mayor Moore.HEA VY TOLLTO WAR GODIt Is a heavy price, in men and money, that Uncle Sam is paying in sacrifice to the war god in connection with the army maneuvers at AmeHcan lake.Three battalions of four companies each passed through Spokane last night and early this morning. The third battalion of the Secondinfantry, from Fort Assinoboine. litar Havre, Mont.. lost one of its men by drowning in swimming in the Missouri rivet.!iOne man was killed in the third battalion of the Fourteenth infantry. from Fort Missoula, Mont., at some town in Id ibo by being struck by a passing train in the railroad yards.Three men of the Second were hurt at Great Falls, Mont., in a lunaway of an armv team, in w'hich one man had a leg broken another three ribs broken and a third had the muscles torn from one of his legs.The maneuvers, it appears, areBecause he was fined $1 and costs, or a total of $6, for riding a motorcycle on a cinder path, and because a city employe, Floyd Brower, arrested on the same charge, was allowed to go scot free, on the recommendation of the board of public works, F. L. Berry, 02414 Cincinnati street, is highly and just indignant. He thinks that the board of public works has no right to hutt into the affairs of the police court and hand out advice to the prosecuting attorney.He thinks also that because a man is a city employe, and is on city business when an offense is committed, that that should be all the more reason for severity and allowing the law to take its course.Berry and Brower appeared before Justice Stocker yesterday afternoon, and were charged with riding their motorcycles on a cinder path, which ought to be devoted to the sole use of bicyclists. Berry had been caught riding on the path on Mallon avenue, just opposite the courthouse. He says that he had been sent on an errand and had been told to use the motorcycle, in order to make all possible speed. It was not his owm machine and was the second time within a year that he had used one.But he was arrested and released on $10 hail, and fined 06 of this, after he had related his story to Stocker yesterday afternoon.Then Brower’s case wras called and the prosecuting attorney read a communication from the board of public work6 asking that the case be dropped because the defendant was engaged on city business at the time. He admitted that It was his own machine, but the interposition of the board saved him from the fine, and he received all his $10 bail money back.Berry charges that there was un due discrimination.
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Spokane Press
Spokane, Washington, US
Fri, Jul 29, 1910
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