The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-18
They Close Their Doors Tight
This Morning. =
Orders Issued by Chief Of Police
Goodwin.
LOVE GOODS AWAY.
They Are All Taken to the Cold
Storage Houses.
Whisky Drug Stores Not At
fected by the Move.

Something was done today which
done several times before but which
has never been permanent in it effects.
Every jointist in Topeka packed up
his stock Of wet goods and hurried
them back to the cold storage as fast
IS possible.
At noon today it was impossible to
get drink at any of the 35 or 40
hitherto wide open joints. AS natural
sequence the drug stores are doing a
land office business.
The magic word was not uttered
until after o'clock this morning, al
though the jointists have been rather
skittish since last Wednesday, when
Chief A. C. Goodwin issued his
threat. He said at that time that he
was too busy with the state fair to
fool with joints, but he was willing to
bet that he would make things UNI
comfortable for the fraternity as soon
as he could get his men back on their
beats and discharge the army of spec
tals: Other chiefs have issued threats
With the same ferocious ring.
AT 3. O'Clock this morning every
wholesale liquor wagon in town was
busy hauling liquor away from the
Joints, and about two dozen public
drays and express wagons were assist
ing in the work.
A man who got a drink in one of
the uptown joints at 8 o'clock sharp.
returned at 9:15 for a little more of
the same and found the door locked.
Not knowing the cause, he pounded
on the door until a scared looking bar
tender unlocked it and stated that
there was "nothfn' DOM" The
would be drinker thought it was
joke and insisted until the bartender
took him in and told him to help him
self to what he could find. The big
ice chest contained nothing but ice, the
pump was disconnected, and rot 1t
single driak of whisky Couil be
found about the place.
The miracle was worked by tele-
phone, and 1t is strongly suspected
that Chief Goodwin issued the order
from his own home.
Sergeant Voiles, after a converse
ton with the chief over the telephone,
overheard an officer remark that the
North Topeka joints had all closed.
The rest of them had better follow
suit" said Voiles.
This officers refuse to say much
about the change except to hint darkly
that tie id is on. tf
It is positive that the joints did not
receive The final threat until this
morning, as nearly all of them re-
seiVed their regular days supply of
ice, which would not have been done
had they known that it was doomed to
melt unused.
1t is more than probable however
that some of the smaller dives will
try to keep open regardless of the
threat, and that the police will make
several raids this afternoon.
Mayor Davis and Chief Goodwin
have taken big contract, but they
are not alarmed. A promise from
a jointist, when it concerns the clos
ing of his place, is worthless. as they
will find out. and the joint which is
closed tighter than a rat-trap while
the scare is ON, will be wide open to-
morrow unless watched closely.
While the lid is on the joints the
liquor selling drug stores, many of
them joints masked by few dollars
worth of patent medicine and permit
viii do a rushing business, and the
police will have no way of suppressing
them. For this reason no dangerous
drauRbt is expected, and the man who
wants q drink or dozen of them
will be able to find what he wants.
Consistent work by city and county
officials would however result in clos
ing these places as well as the rest.