The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-14
NOW LOOK OUT.
Chief Stahl viii Soon Make a
Grand Round Up.
Expects to File so InjunctiOns
Against JOintists.
DRUG STORES
Says He Has No Intention of
Giving Up Fight.
viii Stay in Topeka and Battle
On.
DRUG STORES

Driven back and defeated, hemmed IN
by thanking assault and battery attacks,
Chief of Police Frank Stahl and the
State Temperance union will make
last grand Tie Pass stand this month
the parting shot of the old booze fight
ing Kuropatkin-by filing injunction
suits against about so joints and drug
stores to prevent them from selling IL
quoI.
Il don't want it to look like part
ing blow" said Stahl this morning, but
I'm going to do it anyway
YES, we are going to do it, said Sec
rotary ". L. Dexter of the State Tenn
perance union. "Stahl has the evidence
and the injunctions will be made out in
the name of our organization"
Then when Stahl leaves his frayed
and tattered job as high and extraordi-
nary chief of the city bastile. he will
continue to abide in Topeka. He may
take Job with the State Temperance
union. This is, however, not definitely
settled. But stay he willard but for
one purpose-this is the reason he him
self gave, Ito finish the fight have
commenced, to be true to the trust or
the people by whom l was placed here,
and to tight TO the last ditch the battle
against the illegal selling of liquor.
beginning with last Thursday, the
day after the landsliding republican
I
ried down Bergundthal and Stahl to de-
feat the chief has been the recipient of
continued calls from the hardest tenn
perance workers in the city. Just what
the new move being planned was to be,
was kept a silent and buried mystery.
The conferences which the temperance
people had with the departing chief
! the last of the MOhic3nS-Were or the
protracted nature. In fact it was al
most like getting into Mukden, to get
into the chiefs office for the past few
| days.
is up?" And he shelled out. AT what
I have the temperance people been so
busy since the primary was the ques-
ton put to him.
We'll. I'll tell you, was his an
swer, IN tell you. We have evidence
against drug Stores and joints all over
this town. We have. real good live
court it is of the kind that sticks
and we plan to use it It is worth
something to US. This fight is not
! over by any means. Just because l
I dication that 1 am going to give UP
my ffssht. I'm going to live right here
| la Topeka and keep it up We have
decided definitely within the past rev
days to get out injunctions against
every jointist and druggist OF whom
we have knowledge is selling liquor
/ contrary to law. We are going to use
/ it every word. 1t makes no difference
get injunctions against the prominent
/ sellers in this town, we will put them
out of business. We have testimony
against the main ones and they are
not going to get away.
Il know" continued the chief, that
injunctions will stick. The point has
| been threshed out in other parts Of
the state. The same answer which
! the defendants have filed here, name
/ w. that our proceeding is violative OF
/ the fourteenth amendment to the ma
/ tional constitution, did not hold Wa
! ter. We have the joints and drug
/ stores right by the neck and we viii
put the screws right to them. They
are violating the law and they know
it, and we have proof of it.
Then the chief launched off into his
stereotyped abuse of Judge Hazen and
| the county officers. He declared that
Hazen's ruling on the search and
seizure phase of the law had caused
him all his trouble. AS usual he said
that if the county officers had done
the right thing, the joints would he
that the supreme court will reverse
Ffazen On that ruling" He said a
good deal more of a similar nature.
| 1t has been printed so often, how
| ever, that it is no longer new.
The hearing on seven injunction
| suits already filed, will come UP be
fore Judge Dana in the district court
on next Monday. The temperance
4 people are sure that they will win.
But if they do not, if Judge Dana
rules adversely they will go right to
the supreme court They declare that
they cannot lose out.