Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-02

carp, as assistant engineer, WIS noxl
flled- c. r. Kurner and Louis Nclt<
were placed in nomination, and Kurnsu
was successful by vote Of six u
four
The resignation OF ]. H. Coen, ST.,
as road supervisor Of precinct IL in
Liberty district, was accepted.
License Fight.
When the Board took up the applica-
lions for liquor licenses in Fulton and
the country district, Clerk Moffat read
the record of the Fulton Council, which
had granted license to all applicants
then before the Board. Next the
clerk read the petition Of thirty-two
residents of Fulton, praying that license
be refused to Mother" Bunch and
Frank McFadden, whose places were
designated as fake hotels and the
communication from Prosecuting At
torney Frank w. Nesbitt, Directing to
license being granted to Mother"
Bunch, Frank McFadden and William
Happy. the allegation against the latter
being that cock-fights were conducted
there. Mr. Nesbitt's communication
was as follows:
ITO the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners:
"Gentlemen-I have been asked by
several members of your honorable
body if, when persons apply for liquor
license in any of the villages or towns
of our county toutSide of the city Of
Wheeling) it is incumbent on the
Board to grant its certificate authoriz-
ing the issuance of the State license in
all cases where the applicant has all
ready secured a certificate from the
village or town Council; in other words,
is the Board robbed of all discretion in
such cases?
This question is of considerable i'm
portance, especially at this time, and l
therefore take this opportunity of pre-
senting to your honorable body a for
NAL reply. My answer is, No.
You have the same discretion where
the application is for license to sell in
village or town that you have where
the application is for license
to sell in the country; and
and have the same duties. A per
son who applies for license in a town
or village, must run the gauntlet of
both Council and Board of County Com
missioners, and if either body find him
unworthy he can secure a State Ii
cense.
Further, feel that it is my duty to
inform your honorable body that in
my opinion no certificate should be is
sued to any of the following, who have
places of business in Fulton, to-wit:
To Dorothy Bunch, Frank McFadden,
or William Happy. The Buffet, Frank
McF'adden place and Dorothy Bunch S
place are notorious resorts for disor-
derby characters, male and female, and
for the proper police regulation of the
county, no license should be issued to
any person whatsoever to carry on bus
mess at any of those establishments.
William Happy has on his premises a
cockpit, and few days ago q most
shameful and brutal exhibition of cock
fighting was carried on there. When
the officers of the Humane Society ap-
peared on the scene they were insulted
and, in fact, threatened with assault,
and after they had departed the brutal
sport was renewed.
Il feel it my duty, as the officer must
enforce the laws, to emphatically pro-
test against license being granted to
apy nf tha abnua mad pprcopc
License was refused the three Full
ton applicants named auove, and the
application of Charles F. Miller, of
Point Mills, also was turned down, as
chronicled above, this being the action
that brought about the personal en-
counter between Miller and Commits
sioner Bowman
License was granted George Fleah-
mann, Joseph Marshall and Herman
Kreutzer of Fulton; Joseph Green, Of
Triadelphia (town), Mozart Park Asso-
citation, and William Fette, of Cald-
wells Run.
COnstabIes Protest.
A communication was received from
Cons able Samuel Moran, of the Ohio
County Constables' Protective Associa-
ton. protesting against the election of
ex-Police Officer Samuel Wells, as con-
stable in Washington district. 1t was
alleged that Wells, while a member of
Chief Clemans' force, did special con-
stable work, and that since leaving the
force he has been doing special con-
stable work. The communication also
Tecites that Wells said that after the
first meeting of the Board he would
run to suit himself a certain part of
the city" These are practices which
the 0. c. c. P. A. is opposed to. The
Board went into the election of con-
stable, and Wells was chosen without
opposition despite the protest.