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cards in his saloon when he by the order of the parties handed them the drinks, but that at no time was there of did he see any money or other valuable thing displayed on the table, and so far as your respondent knew the parties were playing for amusements of for the drinks". That your respondent has no apartments in his saloon in which gambling could be carried on without his knowledge That your respondent was not called as a withness in the aforesaid trial, that the Prosecuting Attorney, nor anyone for him has conferred with your respondent as to the facts and no opportunity has ever been given him to explain or to deny otherwise so serious, if not slanderous, charge would not have been so hastily made. Your respondent further represents that he has never been arrested and no complaint was ever filed against him and in view of the circumstances he most ernestly but repsectfully insists and petitions that before your Honorable Body shall place the stigma upon him and put him to the expense, to say nothing of the great injury to reputation and loss in business by being cited etc. that your Honorable Body will require of the Prosecuting Atty facts & proof to substantiate his charge or such evidence as would show to a reasonable man that there is a probably cause before your Honorable Body shall cite your respondent to show cause why his license should not be revoked. Wilhelm Efer The State of Washington County of King Personally approved before me W W Stewart a notary Public in & for said State & County residing at Seattle, Wilhelm Efer

Office of the Prosecuting Attorney Union Block Seattle Washington ____%%____ June 3, 1891. To the Honorable, the Board of Aldermen and the House of Delegates, City of Seattle. Gentlemen:I desire to call the attention of your Honorable body and especially the Committee on License and Revenue, and each of your Honorable Body regarding the license of a certain saloon, situated at #1413 Front Street. The comptroller of the city informs me that the license of that saloon is in the name of William Efer. The facts to which I desire to call your attention, are briefly these: For sometime past, three men have been operating a swindling game of most disreputable specie, swindling strangers of considerable sums of money, making this saloon their head quarters throughout all of their unlawful acts. These three men I have just convicted in the Superior court of this County of carrying on and operating swindling games. The victum in thier latest act was an illiterate countryman arriving here from Tennessee. He was accosted on the street, and under the guise of obtaining employment was conducted to this saloon, and there swindled out of all of the money he had by one of the most notorious and disreputable swindling games that is known. The propriator of this saloon cannot be in ignorance of the acts of those swindlers who make that saloon their head

quarters The ordinance of the city relative to the conduct of saloon keepers, and especially carrying on gambling games in the same room with the saloon, is especially plain and concise, Should you desire the co-operation of the Prosecuting Attorney of this County, or should you desire to cite the proprietor of this saloon before your Honorable Body, to show cause why his license should not be revoked, I am at the service of the city authorities, and assure the city authorities of my ernest co-operation in any effort they may make to summarily stop saloon keepers harboring, it not eccouraging these unlawful proceedures. I remain, gentlemen, Most respectfully, your obedient servant, John F Miller Prosecuting Attorney King County, Wash.