The Hog Question Again

The hog question is getting another stirring up. The ordinance against keeping pigs within the city limits is being enforced. Yesterday complaints were heard against Sebastian Seyfried, Frederick Frey, John Jahnke and Gbdfrey Boetke of South Fourth avenue and Cari Kajuske of second street for keeping pigs. They all paid $3 costs and agreed to dispose of their pigs. Officer Collins made three of the arrests and Marshal Banfield, two. The marshal has also made several other complaints. There are two sides to this hog question. The hogs have hitherto been kept only in certain quarters of the city. Most of the pens of those arrested were kept as clean as such pens can be kept. While the immediate neighborhood of these pens may have suffered, the rest of the cities have been gainers, by the hogs providing a way for the disposal of kitchen refuse. When the crusade was made before, this refuse in most places was allowed to fester and was much more Hable to cause disease than the hog pens. With the suppression of scavengers who disposed of this refuse without public compensation, the duty is imperative upon the city fathers to provide some method for the prompt disposal of kitchen refuse.