The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-26

violated this section OF the statute at any
time within one year prior to h appli-
cation for license cannot be re-licensed
The evident purpose Of this law is to
require all places where liquors are sold
at retail to be kept open to public view,
so that any and all infractions of the
law may be observed by persons on or
passing along the sidewalks in front OF
such places Of business, and a place Of
business where liquors are sold which is
so constructed or obstructed that the bar
where the liquors are sold, or the per-
sons to whom sold cannot be seen and
observed by the passerby from the out
side, is clearly guilty of violating the
spirit and intent Of this statute. 1t is as
,uch the intent Of the law that the per-
sons who deal and drink at the bar of a
saloon shall be open to public view as it
Is that the seller shall be exposed to
view. This is necessary police regula-
ton to aid in prohibiting and detecting
violations of the statute prohibiting sales
TO minors intoxicated persons, etc. The
evidence shows that Miller's pace Of bus
mess was properly constructed with glass
doors and windows, in such manner that
the interior of the building was unob-
structed from the sidewalks In one win
dow there were few green plants grow
ing which did not In any substantial man.
ner obstruct the view on the other side
there were a number or bottles placed
on a rack in the window, which to some
degree, obstructed the interior view from
the outside, but the evidence is not very
satisfactory or positive as TO whether this
window or the bottles obstructed the side
or portion of the saloon where the liquors
/ were sold. / a m 1uah1p T., J,tor,ni,o ero,,
the evidence that these partial obstruc-
tions in any manner cbstructed a view
of the bar or part of building where IL
quors were sold. There was testimony to
the effect that the curtains over the win
| dows were usually pulled down on Sum
| days; there was no proof that any per-
sons were in the building on Sundays or
! that any liquors were sold or drank there
N Sundays. In the absence of any proof
| showing that persons were in the saloon
visited it, or that liquors were sold on
Sundays, do not think pulling the cur
| tains down on Sundays when the law pre-
sulnes the place of business is unoccupied
and business suspended constitutes such
/ violation of the law as will defeat the
applicant in securing license.
Upon the record before me | think the
applicant is entitled to license; the order
| Of the board granting license is affirmed
and the clerk of Logan county is di-
rected to issue the License on production
! of treasurers receipt for the SUM of two
! hundred dollars and the payment of all
costs and fees, except the costs made by
the remonstrants and the remonstrants
are ordered to pay the costs in this court
and the costs occasioned by the remon-
STRANGE in this court. The clerk of the
court is ordered to record this decision
end order in the journals Of the court
and transmit a certiefd copy to the coun-
ty clerk.
JNO. II. BURFORD, Judge.
Filed June 23 1900.
NJ. c. HART Clerk.
Territory of Oklahoma, FIRST Judicial Dis
trict, County of Logan, IS.
I'M. c. Hart, clerk of the district court.
Logan county Oklahoma, do hereby GER
tify that the above and foregoing is a
true, correct and complete copy of the or
der and judgment of the judge Of said
court in the therein entitled matter as
the same appears Of record and on file in
my office.
In witness whereof | have hereunto af-
fixed the seal of said court at the city of
Guthrie in said county and territory, this
twenty-third day of June, A. D., 1900.
(SEAL.) M. c. HART, Clerk.
f. n. WEINICK, Deputy.