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W. J. Monroe Sheriffs Office Everett Smith Attorney at Law Bynn Phelp Co Treas Fred Gasch Co. Comm's A. R. Fink Deputy Auditor Fred S. Twichell Deputy Auditor Fred F French Auditors Office W. W. French " " C. D. Andrews " " W. G. Wilson Draftsman W. C. Buxton Copyist Nathan Bewan Clerk J. W. Graff Civil Engineer F. A. Twichell County Auditor Hamm & Schmitz Hotel Keepers & Bakers Henry Shahan Copyist N. G. Ronald Merchant J H McGraw Banker T. R. Fisher Book Clerk N. H. White Starr Boyd Bld J. E. Bonden Mechanic A. E. Barton Butcher Kline & Rosenberg Merchants Levi Iseral Kline C. H. Teaff Traveler-Gordon Hardware Co. G. B. Adair President - Seattle Board of Trade Gordon Hardware Co. (Hardware)

Reily Gardner, Butcher B. H. Doz, Farmer G. W. Birgdun, Dentist Chas F. Longfellow, Decorator Rufus H. Smith, M.D. T. D. Curtis, Bookkeeper Dr. A. V. Marion Dr. J. Wotherspoon L. C. Gilman J. B. Hewett P. W. Linagle Isaac O. Dodge J. B. Metcalfe Chas M. Fisher

Seattle,Washington. July 9th 1891.

To the Honorable City Council, of the City of Seattle.

Gentlemen:

We the undersigned, producers or consumers of milk, sold in and about the City of Seattle, hereby respectfully petition your Honorable Body, and respectfully submit as follows: That we are informed that alarge quanitity of the milk, sold in and about the City of Seattle, is milk produced from cows fed on malt, after being used by the breweries for the purposes of brewing beer; that it is a known fact, that the milk produced from such feed is very injurious and conducive to diseases, more especially ailments in which infants are affected; that we are also informed and believe that such malt or swill milk, which is now being used in the said City and vicinity, is produced from about Six-hundred cows, which are then fed upon the refuse malt from the breweries. The milk from this number of cows form a large portion of the supply at present sold and distributed to the families in the City of Seattle. The sale of this malt or swill milk is prohibited in all well regulated Cities of the United States, and it should be prohibited in the City of Seattle.

We therefore respectfully petition your Honorable Body, to pass such ordinaces as will prohibit the sale of such milk,and that such ordinaces provide for the appointment of an inspector with the necessary powers to prohibit the sale and distribution of the all such milk, and all other unhealthy milk, and condemn the same. And your petitioners will ever pray. The sale of swill and malt fed milk is injurious to health and is the cause of a great number of deaths from Cholera Infantum. Such sale should be prohibited by law. Geo. H. T. Sparling MD Health Officer

John Nelson, Farmer M.E. Titus, Farmer F. W. Markus, Contractor and Bidder J. Sampson, Farmer Richard OConnell, Farmer James Gharkey, Farmer Elsa Zengler J.E. Yates A. Washburn G.J. Cameron John H White Geo White R.A. White J.D. Iddings, Farmer William Cochrane M. McDougall P. Emerson Saul Grund Edw. VandeVauter, M.D. Fred Shute Morgan OBrien F.W. Woodauran N.H. MColough P.J. Calhand John Costello John Field O.E. Root