The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-05
NOtDispensing Liquor But Pack
ing Up Goods.
Say They win Respect Orders
Of Officers.
RE DISAPPOINTED.
Expected That Davis Admins
tratiOn Would Be Wet.
win Have TIL Saturday Night
to Move Out.

Between 4 o'clock and midnight on
Thursday afternoon every joint in the
city was notified by some member of
The police force that it must shut up
shop In person Chief Goodwin made
a tour Of ali the drug stores in town
and informed them that hereafter no
Illegal sales Of liquor viii be tolerated.
Today many OF the jointists are
busy getting out of town. A number
Of places which were visited this
morning by Z state Journal reporter
gave out the information that they
would lock up their ice boxes and pull
the spigots from the kegs at noon
We are not going to monkey any
at all" said one of the barkeepers.
we know that the officers mean
business, and We amt goin' TO to take
no chances. I guess the jig is Up
Wen get the worst of it if we buck
the orders, and there is nothin' in
that for Us The shop closes here at
noon today and from what the other
boys say this morning, they are goin'
to quit right OF too"
Quite a number of the white
aproned gentry were seen on the
streets this morning apparently Ioafing
and out of Jobs. The joints evidently
took the order as it was meant and
are going TO stcut il cut
There was q good deal OF kicking 70
the officers yesterday when they made
their rounds Of the drinking places It
was generally felt that this would be a
wet administration, and many of the
jointists said that they were led to
believe that way from the talk of the
political supporters OF the present
mayor.
''They had no reason to do that"
said Chief Goodwin this morning.
Not a bit in the world. None of the
men who we're at the head of the ad-
ministration in the campaign ever
said anything of that nature We
not want joints and we are going to
close them up.'
When do you expect them shut
up2"
Right away" was the chiefs an
sWer. We viii give them until sat
urday night TO move out their stun
and quit the business entirely. We
said that we would allow them IS
hours They are not to run after
Saturday night If any are selling on
Sunday or Monday we shall at once
proceed to get evidence and arrest
them We won't arrest any, however.
unless we have convictiug testimony
We want to make sure shots
Chief Goodwin this morning instruct
ed his officers to make everybody in the
city limits drive on the right side OF the
streets, and unless the order is Obeyed,
arrests viii follow There is a city or
dinance covering the matter, but It is
practically dead letter Every chief
has tried TO enforce it. but none has
succeeded Now Mr.. Goodwin VIII try
his hand at it.
That law ought TO be enforced, and
I am going to see If 1t can be done" he
said this morning 1T is done in other
towns and there is no reason why it
should not be done in Topeka
A man whose name might be most any
fv-- los 4-e-1
lice to have fallen into the rive- In
vestigation was made and a man about
45 years Of age. plentifully soaked with
water and bespattered with mud. was
arch bridge. drying his clothes He was
taken to the station and there said that
he had been thrown off the Rock Island
bridge by some boy, and had been fshed
out of the kaW after floating about two
blocks. He was kept at the station
over night. and when released this
morning said that his hat had found a
watery grave So Patrol Driver Bill
White made search in the attic and
found a tai silk tile. which fitted the
chapeau and struck out boldly in a
direction north By west. The officers
did not believe his story about being
pushed off the bridge They think it
simply q case Of a plain drunk who
tried TO walk across the bridge but
failed.
Chief Goodwin posted another order
this morning at the station which has
been posted and not respected before
Tt is to the effect that no persons but
officers and newspaper men viii be al
lowed in the waiting rooms at the
bastiIe- .fI don't want everybody IN
der the sun floating around in here, .
said the man who wears the gold star,