The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-12
MEAD'S DRUG STORE.

Judge Elliott Refu~es a Permit--3Iead
WIN Appeal to rhe District Court
Dr. Charles Mead il not discouraged
by the refusal OF Probate Judge Elliott
to allow him a permit 70 sell intoxicating
liquors At I'll East Fourth street. and
Will take his Case to the district court on
appeal
This is the second time DR.. Mead has
made a similar application he had
asked to begin the sale at about June 1,
but was refused on the ground that he
had not complied with the clause of the
law requiring him TO have in his store at
least $1,000 worth Of drugs aside from
fixtures, etc.
In making his refusal the Judge said:
IF the common report on the streets Is
true, that parties who wish Intoxicating
liquors at licensed drug stores. can get
liquor ad libitum. with or without max
ing an affidavit, then no drug store ought
to be licensed, but as u test is to be made.
the court will wait and see what truth is
in the rumor, and what merit there is II
the prosecution commenced
And further: The court holds that in
order to be entitled to a permit, other
things being proved, the court must find
from the evidence that the applicant has
at least $1,000 worth OF drugs as stock at
the time the application is made, and
that in the term drugs is compre-
hended a name ordinarily applied to sim
pie medicines, but is now extended to
every substance employed to cure dis
ease. The court believes, holding to
this definition, that the applicant has not
that amount Of stock, and is impressed
that with nine drug stores in the Second
ward with permits, no more ought TO be
licensed in the ward to afford liquors for
the purposes for which it may be sold.
and if the permit is sought that the APP
plicant may sell liquor without comply
ing with the prohibitory law, then it
ought to be refused"
In his second application made few
days ago, Mead declared that he now had
more than the required $1,000 of drugs,
not including the fixtures. The judge,
however, thought that in the strict detin-
itiOn of the term drugs" there was some
shade of doubt in Mead's declaration and
SO made a second refusal
In case Mr. Mead's application had
been successful there would have been
ten drugstores in the Second ward
alone, each striving to do its duty
in the world TO counterfeit the I'M
healthy influence of the rattlesnake-
Nine, the Judge thinks, is quite sutfic-
lent number to attend the ills of men
who insist on loating along the banks Of
the Shunganunga barefO0ted.
For these reasons one DR.. Charles
Mead is transacting 4 good deal of bust
ness in and around the district court
today.
In the entire city there are thirty four
drug stores now selling intoxicating IL
quors under the protection Of permit
and for the month of June these thirty
four satisfied 1866 legal thir5is and
the county received through the probate
court the sum of $7449 for taking legal
cognizance Of them. There are no
drugstores in the county outside Of To-
peka that have permits
Following Is a list Of the number Of
applications reported by the various
druggists for June:
Lee Jones 295; D. Holmes 60; Rowley
Bros 216; J. A. Waltmire 13I; W. H.
Wilson 200; H. III. Washburn 80; A. 3.
Woolverton 1854; Henry Page el76; Jas.
T. Brown n; L. ). WooIverlon 230; w.
Z. Kuntz 50; w. D. Woodford 81; Geo.
w. FIad 224; Chas Il. Payne
50; George w. Stansfeld 143; VI
A. Funchess 81: J. i. Scheme ley. 167
A. II. Merrill 81 A J. Arnold = Son
235; f. b. Walker l61; 3. A. Barrett 1873;
/. .. Mckinley 1853; VI. Weig htman 106;
j. *. Jones 5O4: Fred Holler 30: A. w.
Lacey 155: A L. Webb 1873; w r. Ken
nedy IT'S: r. w. Squires TO- Swift q
Holiday 276; ". S. Merrick 165: 2. H.
Sheafor 81: III. A Warner Az; Frank
Hobart 100.