The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-18

| Harry Croft, 40 Kansas avenue.
Gus Kuyler 525 Kansas avenue.
Mike Thompson, SO Kansas avenue.
Al Bates. 404 Kansas avenue.
! Nick Chiles, 116 East Seventh street.
| VIII Sullivan, south of Chesterfield.
| Jas Brown, bartender at 116 East Sixth
| street.
Adam Oelbrech, bartender at SIS Kan
! sas avenue.
Chas. Simmons bartender at 80 Kansas
avenue.
This is the record of the police depart
| ment for last night All these places
were raided,' seven proprietors and three
| bartenders were arrested. 1t was a red
letter night for the police department.
| over thirty kegs of beer, some nearly full,
! others having little more than billygoat
smell were seized as were numerous
| pumps, faucets, glasses, etc. All of this
/ was placed in the cold storage room under
! the city jail. The raids occurred during
the time between 1880 and 1890 p.
Sergeant Owen and his officers were
! kept busy and the wholesale raids caused
much excitement and CONSERVATION
among the sporting fraternity. One man
on lower Kansas avenue, who has been
doing small beer business hurriedly
moved all his beer out of the back door
on hearing of the raids.
IN all e1SnL places were Ta1QeQ- Al LILO
East Sixth street, the proprietor, ''Conk''
Jones. could not be found, but the fix
lures were seized and his bartender, Jas.
Brown, arrested.
The charge against the proprietors was
maintaining a nuisance in violation of
the new city ordinance recently enacted.
Against the bartenders, Simmons. Gel
brech and Brown, the charge was made of
selling intoxica ting liquors. Al Hayslip.
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800 cash bond and we're released. Bonds
were signed for Mike Thompson, Nick
Chiles and Chas. Simmons. The other
four men remained in the city jail all
night in default of bonds.
In all of the places fully equipped bars
were found. Hayslip's place is in the
room recently vacated by Geo. Hanley.
Hanley still owns the building. Mike
Thompson's place was the rooms formerly
occupied by Jackson's band.
These two places had become notorious
and were little else than open saloons.
Al Bates, who used to be associated with
HaysIip, had recently opened bar in the
basement of the Metropolitan building and
was doing a good business. Harry Croft
recently moved his billiard tables from
the second floor to the first and was run
ming place in the rear which was rather
more quiet than the rest. The smell of
stale beer which arose from the basement
under the Pacific Express office told
that a lively business was being done
there, and Gus Kuyler, who has been ar
rested before, is in Jail charged with
maintaining a nuisance. VIII Sullivan,
just south of the Chesterfield hotel was
supplying stuff to people on Smoky Row.
but his career was short. Nick Chiles.
who used to control coIored politics in
Topeka, runs a rolored hotel at 118 East
Seventh street. At 116 East Seventh he
has a billiard hall and lunch stand, and
in the basement a commodious bar has
been operated. Chiles used to say that
this place was o. NJ. B. lodge.
These raids. together with the arrest
yesterday OF John o. Brien, agent for the
Ferd Helm Brewing company, and L.
Hoffman. agent for the Lemps Brewing
company, makes pretty thorough clean
ing up of the city's drinking places. There
are about six good big places which were
not pulled.
The raids were made on warrants issued
by Police Judge Atchison based COM
plants signed by different members of
the police department. It is understood
that the state law which makes the
property owner responsible for the pay
ment of the jointists fine, will be tested
by the temperance committee. Last year
at Lawrence a test case was made of this
by County Attorney Mitchell. Judge Ben
son sustained the motion of the prosecu-
ton and it appealed to the state su-
preme court. AS yet no decision has been
handed down by the higher court.
The temperance committee has been at
work collecting evidence against prohibit
tory law Violators lately and they say
they will see to it that there are some
convictions from among the list of last
nights raids. They will also try to make
the property owners responsible for the
sale of the liquor.
There are said to be 121 United States
government licenses issued for Topeka
alone. This includes liquor licenses for
Topeka's 50 drug stores, and a few for
places where oleomargarine is sold. The
rest show the number of people engaged
in handling liquors.