The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-24
PLAY LAST CARD.
Chief of Police StahI Serves
Formal Notices.
Owners of Property VIII Be
Enjoined.
THE JOINTISTS LAUGH
Say That the Scheme Has Been
Tried and Failed.
Those Who Received Notices
Today.

The police played their last card
against the jointists today, and if it
does not win the joints will continue to
run wide open as they have done for the
past month. Chief of Police Stahl to-
day served notice on the owners of the
property in which joints are running
that unless they abated the nuisance
they would be enjoined.
The following notices were served:
Kate, Henry, Fred, Herman and Edward
Buechner were notified that Ed Mosier
and Sell Field were running a joint in
their building at sos North Kansas ave-
nue.. The Maryland Savings bank,
of Baltimore, Nd, was notified that Dan
E'inney was selling liquor at 421 East
Fourth street. Amazi Dodd, Of Newark
n. J., who owns the building at SIS
Quincy, was notified that the tenant,
Wade Watts, was selling liquor unlaw
fully. M. Snattinger was told that Geo.
and Herman Klauer were conducting a
joint in his store room at 526 Kansas
avenue. George Hanley got a notice,
which viii of course be a surprise, that
Mike Thompson, Wood Fowler and Bob
Shelby were selling liquor in his building
at 10 Kansas avenue. Mary E. Sterne
owns the building at $50, and she was
notified that Geo. Klauer, Geo. Buford
and H Bowling were selling liquor
there. Chas. Sardou, who owns the
building at All Kansas avenue, was no
titled that Ed Timon and Ed Ryan were
conducting a joint there. Morris L.
Gage, owner Of the property at Ill East
Sixth, was told that Frank Murphy was
dispensing booze at that number. Laura
James was notified that Ed Timon and
Geo. Anderson were using her building,
at S22 North Kansas avenue, as a joint,
and Mrs. c. o. Butts was notified that
her building at I'll Madison was used as
a place in which to sell liquor unlaw-
fully.
Attorneys Stebbins & Evans made out
the notices for Chief Stahl, and they in
formed him that the place run by Ed
Timon in North Topeka was Timon'S
property, so that no notice could be
served on him. If action was taken
in his case it should be direct
Chief Stahl said this morning that
after the notices were served the prop
eT'ty owners would be allowed ample
time in which to abate the nuisance, and
if they did not do so injunctions would
be served against them.
In the notices served the following ex-
tract from the general statutes Of KAN
sas was printed:
1.-The attorney general, county attor-
ney, or any citizen of the county where
such nuisance exists. or is kept. or is
maintained, may maintain action in
the name of the state to aLate and per
petually enjoin the same. The injunc-
ton shall be granted at the commence
ments of the action, and no bond shall
be required. Any person violating the
terms Of any injunction granted in such
proceedings shall be punished for con-
tempt by a fine of not less than one hun
dred nor more than five hundred dol
lars and by Imprisonment in the county
Jail not less than thirty days nor more
than six months, in the discretion or the
court or judge thereof"
The notice also contains the infoTma-
ton that the chief will personally take
steps TO have an injunction served In
case the notice is not needed.
The jointists are laughing at the no
tice. and say this measure has been tried
and failed so often that they will pay
no attention to it.