Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-07-03
WE'LL ALL take WATERl
The Operation Of the PrOhibi.
ton law Stops the Sale Of
red Liquor.
Original Package Houses Com
ing Before the Boys get
Real Thirsty.
Sounds of Revelry Heard Last
Night Long After the
Saloons Closed

saloons ClOScN
July 1st.
North Dakota's prohibition law went
into effect last night. 1t provides heavy
penalties for buying. selling or giving
away malt, vinuous, spirituous, fermented
or alcoholic liquors and throws about
druggists such restrictions that it will be
almost impossible to get drink except
upon prescription Of a reputable physi.
clan. The law has been aptly termed
''iron clad" 1t contains the strongest
features of the time and law tested en-
actments of numerous prohibition leg
islatures. Given a state the exclusive
power to regulate the sale of liquor with
in it's borders and it would probably
come nearer making prohibition pro-
hibit than the laws of other prohibition
states have done. But under the recent
supreme court decision the state has this
control only over residents and the situ-
alton in this as in all other prohibition
states thus becomes one of peculiar in
terest The recent original package de-
cision of the United States supreme
court, until nulllfied by congress or mod
flied by the court itself, renders practi-
cally imperative all prohibition laws.
While residents of the state are amena-
bic to the state law and can neither sell
nor give away, tho supreme court holds
that resident of another state or his
agent can import and sell liquor 10 orig
inal packages and any hindrance on the
part of the state is violation of the in
terstate commerce act. With this de-
cision as basis and following the same
line Of logic, an Iowa judge has decided
that one bottle of beer is an original
package, although twenty-four bottles
come in case; another judge, that such
original package of beer can be sold and
drank on the premises; a Pennsylvania
Judge decides that the original package
houses can not be licensed. This is the
present status of the original package
matter-with bill pending IN congress
to amend the interstate commerce law so
as to give the state the right to regulate
the sale OF all importations.
just what figure the original package
decision will cut in jamestown is not yet
apparent. At 2p. m. the saloons shut
down on the sale of liquor and today a
drink OF whisky or beer cannot be had in
the town unless it comes from the ''pri-
vate stock" of friend. This condition.
the saloon men say, will continue all
week. No original package house has
been yet been opened out and none will
be this week,a at any rate. The drouth in
the town which is predicted for this
week is due to an agreement Of the saloon
men to sell no liquor in any shape. Not
even an original package can be pur-
chased and unless the boys have thought
fully laid IN supply they will be good
and thirsty before they can get drink
in Jamestown. The druggists cannot
sell liquor. even on prescription, until
August 1st.
Most of the saloon men have worked
of their stock and look at:the situation
philosophically. They have not had the
heavy ':jug' trade that was seen in South
Dakota during the last week in April
People have banked on ths original
package and neglected to lay IN a cellar
supplies. The retail business, however,
has been sufficiently brisk to dispose Of
the supply. Among the local saloon
men Billy Buckley has locked his doors
and goes to Morris, Mlnn., tomorrow.
Barrett & Driscoll, Pete Haas, Lawrence
Hauessinger, Billy Cowan, Pat Moran
and the other saloon men will sell no
LIQUOR but will keep open, selling soft
drinks and cigars and running their
pool and billiard tables. The outlook
for dry week is bright enough to make
the prohlbitionists happy; Several
original package houses will be opened
out IN the course OF a week or ten days
but there seems to be disposition to
becomes known what action congress
proposes to take on the pending legisla-
ton aimed at the business.
Conditions have changed during the
past two months; prohibition does not
carry with 1t the meaning it did when
South Dakota's law went into effect and
III NOILn DdhOGu GIo vi J POI AOA was AoU
ushered in with such universal tribute
to Bacchus on the occasion Of his ban
lshment, as in the case of our twin of
the south. Some of the boys celebrated,
but the majority concluded that as long
as original packages can be SO
cured, there is no call for demonstration
of any kind on their part-the old busi-
ness will he continued in new form.
Bauer's beer wagon made It's last trip
with beer yesterday. This morning it
was around collecting ''empties" and the
feelings of the brewer we're aptly ex-
pressed by two black flags that waved
over the heads of the horses.
All over South Dakota original pack
age houses have been opened out and
all attempts to close them have resulted
in failure. At Fargo this morning II of
these places we're opened.