The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-30
RUN wide OPEN.
"Lid' Is No Longer in Place in
Topeka.
Sunday Saloons in Operation
Without MOlestatiOn.
1T LASTED TWO DAYS.
Fear Of Assistant Attorney
General Has Vanished.
Watchers No Longer Employed
to Guard the Doors.
1T LASTED TWO DAYS

Regardless of the fact that there is
an assistant attorney general in the
county to prosecute the violations of
the prohibitory law the jointists are
running their places in as open defiance
of the statutes as they did when they
had only the police and the regular
county officials to deal with
"A few days after the assistant attor-
ney general was appointed a quiet tip
was sent around to the proprietors of
the joints, presumably by the police,
that it would be a good thing for them
10 close and most Of them did, but it
was only for a couple of edaysg Since
then they have been running their
places more openly, If such thing were
possible than they did before.
Many of the places are run as openly
as are the saloons in states where it is
not against the law. to sell liquor Many
of them are fitted up just as convenient
~ for the traffic in liquors as are the
places in those states. All of the APP
purtenanees of a saIoonare in them, from
the mahogany bars to more makeshift
affairs of this character. In many
places beer is drawn from the key and
this is not usually done in a prohibition
town where a jointist has any fear of
being disturbed.
All of the joints in the city that in
fest lower and upper Kansas avenue
were running fun blast last night
There was not even a semblance of a
watcher on the doors of any of them
to see that the thirsty man wanting
drink was safe to admit.
The notorious "Owl restaurant on
the avenue. between Fourth and Fifth
streets. with its oak bar as close to the
street as it possibly could be placed and
with nothing but a curtain to screen it
from passersby was as open as any sa-
loon could be and the Chop House, -
on the other side of the street a block
further down was crowded as usual, not
only with men but with women An
ediet was issued recently by Mayor
Davis directing the prCprietOrS of the
Chop House" and other places of a
like character from admitting women to
them under any pretense whatsoever,
but this order has been disregarded.
Several of the drug stores on the av-
enue that have bars in rear rooms were
open last night as usual, among them
being the one in the Crawford theater
block and the one in the Copeland no
tel annex. one OF the druggists of that
iiE, Charles Kohl was arrested last
week for maintaining a bar in connec-
ton with his store on the avenue near
Eighth street and the place was raided.
Kohl was forced TO surrender his drug
gist's permit to sell liquor. His arrest
apparently has not frightened any of
the other druggists who run places in
the same way he did. for as stated they
were doing business as usual last night.
A good many druggists who run bars
have not even the druggists permit to
handle LIQUOR.
over in North Topeka on the avenue,
between Norris and Laurent streets is q
joint, or rather an up-tO-date saloon.
with a. mahogany bar and with draught
beer on tap. This is in the rear of a
billiard room which adj ms a bowling
alley
There are several other places on the
North side that have bars and are run
ming just as openly and in several OF
them beer is drawn from the key.
But the Joints. or saloons, whichever
you wish to call them, are not the only
place of i'll repute in town that are flour
ishing in defiance of the law. Down on
lower Kansas avenue in rooms over
stores and manufacturing establish