Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-12
SALOON MEN ARE
FORCED TO ACT
DEADLOCK FINALLY BROKEN
IN SAN DIEGO
LEGAL MUDDLE CLEARED UP
Serious Difficulty Arises From Council
Granting More Licenses Than AL
lowed by Law and Transfers
Become Impossible
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 1.-THE saloon
men of the city have taken upon them
selves the burden of seeing that the
recently passed saloon law is obeyed
in at least one particular The law was
passed by the vote of the people as an
initiative law under the provision of
the charter. At the time there were
two saloon laws before the people. One
related to Sunday closing and the
other to miscellaneous provisions re-
garding saloons, and was known as the
anti-screen ordinance because 1t pro-
vided for the removal of all screens.
One of the other provisions of the
ordinance was that the number of sa-
looms be limited to 55, the number in
existence at the time the ordinance was
first proposed.
Both ordinances passed, but mean
while the council granted two more
licenses so that when the law went in
to effect there were 81 licenses out
standing, all legally issued. 1t was de-
cided that there was no way to stop
the keepers from running the saloons
under these licenses but no new licenses
were granted. One saloon went out of
business but the other Sc desired to
continue in business. and they con-
tinued.
1t was found however, that no sale
of a saloon business could be made
under the Circumstances, for the pur-
chaser would have to apply for new
license and the council would not
grant 1t so long as there were So others
outstanding. Two or three possible
sales were spoiled in this way, and fin
ally, on Saturday the saloon men got
together and decided to form COM
bination and purchase one Of the sa-
looms for the simple purpose Of retir-
ing it from business so that the number
of licenses might be reduced to that
fixed by the ordinance. The Victor sa-
loon on D street was selected and pur-
chased.
The cable of the Home Telephone
company which is to connect its ex-
change on this side of the bay with the
subscribers on the other side, has been
successfully laid and the phones at
Coronado are now being connected up.
The company's suburban lines TO Ell
Cajon are also completed. 1t is pro-
posed to have the final touches made
on the line to Chula Vista before the
close of the week. The line from Los
Angeles has reached Santa Ana and
will be pushed south as fast as pos
sible.
After vacation that has lasted five
or six weeks the Sunday evening meer.
ings at the Isis theater were resumed
last night with a program by men,
bers of the Raja Yoga school. The prin-
cipal paper of the evening was by Miss
Wood on Build Thee More Stately
Mansions" a text we'll known to all
Raja Yoga pupils.
Will Spend Vacation in Work
Word has been received from Prof.
w. E. Ritter of the University of Cali
fornia saying that he will be here this
week to take up the study of biology
at the biological station at La Jolla.
He left here only five weeks ago to
prepare for the opening of the school
year at the State University. 1t hap
pens that this is the time for the regu-
lar vacation of the professor and he is
taking advantage of it. Every seven
years the regents permit the professors
to take a year off to be spent as they
please. Usually they elect to spend
the time in study, and Prof. Ritter has
announced that he will come here to
take up the work that he left a short
time since. He expects to remain dur
ing the entire year of his vacation.
Fire In the upper part of the resi-
dence of Mrs. DR.. S. A. Winn yesterday
afternoon destroyed property to the
amount of some $1,000. The origin of the
fire is not known but 1t was in the up
per part Of the house and almost one
half of the damage was caused by
water.
A letter from the Imperial country
says that the valley is simply over
run with ducks and that the ranchers
are compelled for self protection to
break the game laws. The Alamo river
and the lakes are covered with ducks
and the Salton sea is a fine place for
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