SEC. 8. The city of Whatcom shall have power to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive or unhealthy, and to cause any nuisance to be abated; to suppress and restrain disorderly houses, houses of ill-fame, dance houses or gambling houses, and to authorize the destruction of all instruments or devices used for purposes of gaming; to regulate the transportation, storage and sale of gun powder, giant powder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, or other explosive or combustibles, and to provide or license magazines for the same, and to prevent, by all possible and proper means, danger or risk of injury or damages by fire arising from carelessness, negligence or otherwise; to prevent and punish fast or immoderate driving of horses through the streets; to to prevent any riots, noise, disturbance or disorderly assemblages, and to protect the property of the corporation and its inhabitants, and to preserve peace and order therein; to regulate and prohibit the carrying of deadly weapons in a concealed manner; to regulate and prohibit the use of guns, pistols and fire-arms, fire-crackers, bombs and detonating works of all descriptions; to restrain and punish intoxication, fighting and quarreling on the streets; to control and regulate slaughter houses, wash houses and public laundries, and to provide for their exclusion from the city limits, or from any part thereof; to regulate the driving of stock through the streets; the building and repairing of sewers and the erection of gas lights; and to control and limit traffic on the streets, avenues and public places; to regulate the use of the streets and sidewalks for the use of signs, sign posts, telegraph posts, awning posts and other purposes, to regulate and prohibit the exhibition and hanging of banners and placards or flags in or across the streets, or from houses or other buildings; to prohibit the exhibition of deformed or crippled persons, and to prohibit professional begging upon the streets or in public places; to regulate the numbering of houses and lots on the streets and avenues, to provide for cleaning and sprinkling of the streets and avenues, and to punish those who shall refuse so to do; and to prohibit persons from roaming the streets at unreasonable hours.