The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-30
RAIDED A CLUB.
At Lebanon 1t is a Social and Ath-
1etie Club-0fficers in Charge
Now.

NOW.
Lebanon has a Social and Ath
letic Club. The Corvallis Social
and Athletic Club is said to have
been fashioned after it. The Leb-
anon club was raided by the sheriff
of Linn county Saturday night. The
story of the affair is thus told by
the Albany Herald:
"Sheriff R. l.. White and Dep
uty Sheriff Q. E. Propst went to
Lebanon last night and raided the
Lebanon Social and Athletic club
recently organized there, capturing
Andrew Jennings, the man IN
charge of the bar, and over dozen
men, members of the club, who
were present, some of them drink
ing at the bar when the raid was
made. The work was done under
the local option law. the charge be-
ing that the men arrested were
keepers of a place wherein devices
are resorted to to prevent detection
of violation of the local option law.
The complaint was made against
the club by DR.. w. II. Booth, and
was signed before Deputy District
Attorney Gale S. Hill several days
ago. He consulted with the sheriff
and under his instructions the sher-
iff and his deputy left this city at
7:3o last evening, quietly drove to
Lebanon, and after Deputy Propst
had been posted at the front door,
of the place occupied by the club,
and which was formerly used as a
saloon, Sheriff White went to the
rear door and knocked for admis-
sion. Andrew Jennings in charge
of the place, came to the door and
opened it, when the sheriff forced
his way into the place and formally
placed all the meu present under
arrest.
He found three men in front of
the bar drinking, glasses were On
the bar, on side tables stood several
glasses of beer, and cards and chips
were scattered about on the tables.
On the back bar were bottles of
whiskey and other liquors, and in
an ice chest keg of beer was
found, from which some of the
contents had been drawn. A num-
Der of men occupied the room, some
sitting at tables with liquor in front
of them.
Sheriff White took the names of
all the men present, declared them
his prisoners and released them On
500 bail each to appear before Jus
tice w. S. Risley in this city at II
O'Clock Monday morning, three Of
their number, men of influence and
financial responsibility, standing
good for the appearance of the men
at the time specified.
The club was recently organized
| and the members are all supplied
with keys. The club rooms are'in
the building recently occupied by
the Jennings Brothers as saloon,
opposite the St. Charles Hotel. It
is fitted up for a saloon, and when
the officers raided it, no club para
phernalia except those of the ordin-
ary bar was there. The Jennings
Brothers were put out of business
by the passage of local option in
Lebanon, and since that time have
been out of business until the club
started. Andrew Jennings, one Of
the men arrested last night, was re
Gently arrested and fined for selling
liquor without license, and if he
is again convicted he will have g
Jail sentence staring him in the face
for under the local option law {
second conviction is not Enable.
The case will come up before
Justice Risley tomorrow and viii
doubtless attract considerable at
tention for the matter will be in the
nature of a test case as to the right:
of club, organized as was the on
at Lebanon, to supply its member'
with intoxicants.
| Before leaving Lebanon las
night Sheriff White appointed
Grant Lindley of that city to take
charge of the club, ordering him t.
leave everythingjust asst was foune
and to allow no one to enter th
place. He also instructed the dep
uty to arrest every one attempting
to enter the place and lock him up
and the officer will comply with
the orders given him.
Many of the people of Lebanon
! have long asked for the suppres
sion OF the club, and they will bach
the officers in the attempt to enforc
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