The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-03-28
CYCLONE OFLIQUOR LAW
1T BURSTS UPON AND CLEANSES
5i A WICKED CITY.

H ORSIS OPON AND CLEANSES
H A WICKED CITY.
Heavy Fines and Long Terms.-One
Hundred Dollars Fine for Every
Glass Of Liquor Sold, While the Ven
ders Also Go to Jail.
1et From the ". 2. World.]
Kansas City, Kan, has had social
and municipal revolution in the past
week. A vigorous enforcement of the
prohibition law has sent dozen liq-
uor dealers to prison for long terms,
besides imposing on them fine of
500 Tor every glass of intoxicants
they have been convicted of vending.
Three dozen others await speedy trial.
Gambling-dens are closed and other
dives have put up their shutters. The
following from Kansas City explains
the matter:
Across the State line from this city
lies the consolidated city of Kansas
City, Kansas, composed of the for
mer cities of Wyandotte, Armstrong,
Armourdale, Riverside snd Old Kan
sas City. Since the day when prohi-
bition was first inaugurated in Kan
sas, this collection OF cities has defed
every attempt to suppress the sale of
intoxicants- Among the 10000 in
habitants there have been openly
running over 100 saloons, forty gam
bling-hells, two cock-pits and deg
pit. The open violation Of the law
was SO notorious that no attempt has
been made in years to enforce it. The
public indignation at last rose to such
height that at the last election
Joseph Fife was chosen County Pros.
ecutor ON the narrow platform, that
he would suppress the dives. No one
thought that he would be able to do
this, but the eyes of the "Jointists"
were opened when, after the last ses-
sion of the Grand Jury, fifty saloon
keepers were indicted and lodged in
Jail.
The law is rigorous and peculiar.
The sale of single glass of any in :
toxicant ranks as single count in an
Indictment. Each conviction on a
count carries with it fine of from
800 to $500 and from thirty days to
six months in Jail. On Thursday the
trial of George Dunbar occurred on
twenty-five counts, the jury bringing
in a verdict of euilty on the twenty
second count only. The saloon men
were jubilant and the citizens depres-
sed. On the evening of that day the
Jail was broken open and seven men
escaped, but not the saloon-keepers.
They had too soft a thing, they
thought. On Friday Tobias Hogan
was tried for selling twenty-three
glasses of beer and was found guilty
on the twenty-three counts. His SEN
tence was to pay $1,000 and to spend
$50 days in jail. On Saturday 4. r.
Dunbar was tried ON TWENTY-FIVE
counts, found guilty on all of them
and was fined $4,000 and sentenced to
$50 days in Jail.
Fite's music was not enchanting
The court room was crowded this
morning. Twelve of the "Jointists'
who had been in Jail for several weeks
came to the front and pleaded guilty
Here are the penalties awarded te
them: An Arnourdale tough plead
ed guilty to five counts and Judge
Miller assessed fine of $500 anG
$50 days improvement. II. Swigard
.Black" Murphy, Charles Hurd
John Cheatwood, Joe Gettry, Jo'
Osier and James Croning also plead
| ed guilty to five counts.
Edward Hogan Give counts), 500
I fine and $50 days in Jail.
II. Swigard, "Black" Murphy, Charlie
Hurd, John Cheatwood, Joe Get
try, Joe Osier and James Croninl
Give counts each), $500 each ant
80 days in jail
Alexander Rick (ten counts), $1,OO
fine and 800 days in Jail.
Will Hogan (three counts), $500 fin
and ninety days in Jail.
r. w. Hubbard, (two counts). 500
fine and ninety days in Jail. I'm
prisonment suspended in this cas-
50 that Hubbard may support hi
family. f7Ef
Hank Campbell Gone COUNT, release
after pleading guilty.
The pleas of guilty were receive
only with the understanding that tn
defendant should quit the whiske
business. Should any of them b
caught engaging in it again they wi
, get the full rigors of the law. Th
, total amount of fines to date is $9, Ion
: with which go 2,73O days in Jail.
/ Thirty five other whiskey dealer
are in Jail awaiting trial, and ther
: are about fifteen out on ball. Th
: citizens are jubilant, and there wei
/. only eight arrest for drunkenness
. the prohibition city yesterday. Mayo
Harmon, the friend of the whiske
. element, and under whose rule tt
, "joints' have been able to fourisl
was completely knocked out in tt
Republican primaries Thursday nigh
and did not receive a solitary vote
the Convention, so bitterly oppose
: are the citizens to his Doodle whiske
reign" The Democratic policema
who arrested Aldermen Regan an
: Looney, of this city, as they were lea.
: ing gang Of repeaters to the prim
: ries in the interest of Harmon, was t
: day promoted to captaincy, an
: would have been made Chief if he hs
been a Republican. {
The saloon-keepers confined in Il
Jail refused to talk, but one of Il
convicted men said 81 have recei
. ed my death sentence, No one coul
1 spend two years in this jail and live
. The man was right, for there Is I
l wfraa iail anvwhere -.4t .5irt