The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-27
MUST KEEP ..LID"
ON INDIANA TOWN
No One Can Buy Land in Cuzco
Without Taking a Pledge
Against Liquor. -

governor o, need need trouble himself about
putting on the "lid" at Cuzco, for the
reason that Cuzco will never need any
such restriction. ,r@r.-s>- ..
The little community is strictly a
Temperance town, - and the indica-
tions are that it will remain such, for
caused to be placed in. every deed to
Cuzco property an iron-clsd provision
that prohibits the sale Of any intoxicat-
ing liquors on any of the land. Mr..
Nicholson purposes that the place which
he has founded shall never be tainted
by the curse Of drink and his slogan is:
eff I cannot have town without a
saloon, do not want one at all. -
I The fame Of the new town and its
founder has gone abroad and. with at
tention thus attracted to it has come
the village. Behind this there is a story,
When the question Of name arose peo-
pie suggested t'Union Valley" as an ap-
propriate cognomen for their postoffice,
owing to the fact that they had formed
themselves into union to see that the
| laws were obeyed and the community
| kept free from disrepute. But the au'
thorities at Washington Informed the
citizens that there was already one
!
It was then that the village school
master took up the question and pre-
serted it to his pupils. They had the
word Cuzco in their spelling lesson on
the day in question, and the oddity Of it
| had led to inquiry, which brought out
| the story Of the founding Of the city OF
Cuzco in South America, by Nance
1 Capac, Il child of the sun.
This was the name for the. town
where Mr.. Nicholson hoped to establish
an empire Of temperance that would
was no other name in Indiana like this
! AS town, it is hardly large enough
to be listed in the "gazetteers, but il
is growing and is soon to have rail
road. Its citizens have caught the spir
it of it's peculiar features.
1 Mr.. Nicholson is about As years old
a widower and the father Of two daugh
tiers, one Of whom, is married. He il
! the son of Joseph H. and Elizabeth
Nicholson and a distant relative Of the
4 author of the Nicholson liquor law
His firm jaw, open countenance and de
termined expression all bespeak thu
!, straightforward and unsw erving char
!, acter of the man.
Mr.. Nicholson is bitterly opposed t,
!. the liquor traffic. 1t is this bitterness
? that led him to put into every deed exc
!. tcuted by him what is believed to be on
!, Of the strongest barriers against tn
Il liquor traffic ever written into a dec
:. in the state. It reads:
l "The grantee herein takes this rea
estate subject to the following limita
, tion which the grantor and GRANTEE
) have, mutually agreed upon, to wit:
"That no Intoxicating liquors are t.
be sold on real estate hereby conveyed
or gwen away thereon for the purpos
of gain, between this date and Jan. ]
1915, and said grantee herein agree
to embody this limitation in any deed O
conveyance he may make for said rea
estate or any part thereof.
cit is further understood and agree,
, that any violation Of this limitation b,
!, the grantee herein or those claiming un
der or thru him, shall render this cor
I veyance void and the land herein cor
, veyed shall revert to the grantor, hi
heirs or assigns. The grantee by ac
!, ceptance to all of the above condi
tions. -