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The State of Washington
County of King
City of Seattle
To the Honorable, the members of
the City Council of the City of Seattle, Washington;
composed of the House of Delegates and the Board of
Aldermen:
The undersigned, a citizen of the City of Seat-
tle. in order to prevent a great wrong and gross injustice
to his reputation as a citizen and an irreparable injury to
his business, most respectfully begs leave to submit to
your Honorable Body the following to wit:
That from
information obtained through the City press he has learn-
ed of a certain communication addressed to your Honora-
ble body by the Prosecuting Attorney of King Co in which
the aforesaid officer, not in the discharge of an official
duty, but rather in the guise of a public benefactor and
pro bono publico, nor by any legal indictment nor infor-
mation, but in an open letter, makes by innuendo, not spec-
ificily grand and serious charges against the undersigned your
humble respondent and indirectly petition, by suggestions
and an offer of his services. your Honora-
ble Body to cite the undersigned to appear and show cause
why his license as a retail liquor dealer should not be
revoked.
The facts specificily set forth are that certain
men had been convicted in the superior Court of King Co-
of the crime of defrauding a certain Tennessean of his
money by certain swindling games alleged to have been
played in the saloon of your respondent: and inferential-
ly drawn the conclusion that the undersigned is propriator