The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
TEMPERANCE UNION PLANS.
Will Force County Attorneys to Hold
Liquor Inquisitions.

The State Temperance union is open
! ing up on the jointists over the state.
J. K. Codding, state senator from Pot
/ tawatomie county, is helping in the
legal part of the plans. The plan is to
check information about joints up to
the county attorneys and insist on the
county attorneys holding inquisitionS to
get evidence. The union also employs
attorneys to assist the county attor-
ney, as is provided for under the state
| law.
The action of the state in going af-
ter" Henry Trinkle, county attorney of
Linn county, and bringing suit TO
GUST him from office in the supreme
court, has encouraged the union to this
action. If a county attorney should
nation concerning law violations is
furnished him, the case of Trinkle
would be cited to him as an incentive
to come to time. The law gives the
a lawyer to help in liquor prosecu-
lions, and the county attorney cannot
dismiss prosecutions, without the con-
sent of that lawyer.
The plan is to collect evidence con-
corning the existence of joints and the
names of men who are known to
patronize them. These are placed in the
hands of the county attorney and he is
required to hold an inquisition to find
out what each witness knows. In this
way evidence to convict the jointists is
pretty sure to be forthcoming.
The union is also looking after the
joint drug stores and is calling the at
tention of probate judges to those drug
gists who seem to be doing too much
business in the liquor line. Here is a
sample notice which has been issued by
the probate judge and county attorney
of Pottawatomie county:
NOTICE TO DRUGGISTS.
''Westmoreland, Kan, July Is, 1904.
Complaints have lately been made
Il. i. l.
abusing their permits issued by the
probate judge by selling intoxicating
liquors to persons without requiring
them to take an oath, stating what
purpose they were needed for, and that
they were actually necessary for that
purpose. Besides, it appears evident
from the monthly returns of the drug
gists made to the probate judge that
some of them have been selling en-
tirely too much whisky for medicine
to some persons. When a druggist
makes fifteen or twenty sales of one
pint each of whisky to one man in one
ina ginary diseases and Affections, he
must have good reason to believe that
the man desires the liquor for some
thing other than any actual ailment.
1.-The law provides that any druggist
or pharmacist who signs any false GER
tificate to an affidavit without admins
tering the oath to the applicant, or sells
any Intoxicating liquor to any person
whom he has reason to believe desires
the same for use a beverage, is gull
ty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con-
viction thereof may be fined not less
than 800 nor more than $500, and be
in the county Jail not less
than thirty days nor more than ninety
days and his permit be forfeited and
he not allowed to obtain another permit
within five years thereafter.
THE law imperatively requires an
oath to be made by the purchaser be-
fore the liquor is delivered, and the
druggist must see to it that the oath is
according to law to the |
before the liquor is delivered |
to him. It is not enough to have the |
applicant simply sign the affidavit, but |
he must be actually sworn The oath |
must be administered in proper form ]