East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-11
OBSERVE THE LAW
HOW MINNEAPOLIS SA-
LOOMS ARE REGULATED
Doors Are Closed From Saturday
Night Until O'Clock Monday
Morning-High License of $1,000
Has Driven Most Disreputable
Places Out of Business-City Keeps
Record of All Suspects.

Saloons are shut tight in Minne-
apolis from Saturday night until 8
o'clock Monday morning." said Detec-
tive f. HELM, of the Minneapolis po-
lice force yesterday, says the Spokane
Chronicle. He is in the city to get p.
Lee, wanted there on a charge of get
ting away with liquor house funds.
"The lid is on in the city as tight
as though 1t were clamped down with
railroad iron. The richest man in the
city could not buy drink In a saloon
on Sunday, because such procedure
would mean the forfeiture of the sa-
loon mans license. Furthermore, the
police court fine for being intoxicated
Sunday has been changed from 81
and costs to 80 days in Jail or its
equivalent. 1t has been facetiously
said that the liquor men have asked
for the imposition of the heavy fines
for being intoxicated Sunday in order
to make the men of Minneapolis stay
at home and spend their money in
town Monday.
1T has proved a fact that the
$1,000 license, known as the high IL
cense. has driven the toughest and
most disreputable saloons out of Min
neapolis. We have no saloon boxes
at home.
Regarding the social evil, the city
of Minneapolis confines 1t to district
the same as II is confined to a district
in this city. But in Minneapolis the
violators are not fined. Here they
are fined monthly. To prevent street
walking. two plain clothes men are
assigned steadily to its suppression.
City Tabs Its Suspects.
THE Minneapolis city government
and police department have put in
operation an excellent system of
Keeping track of undesirable people.
This is done with the aid of the IL
cense for expressmen and tluckmen,
No expressman or truckman there can
move family without writing in a
book the name of the person moved
and the address formerly occupied
and the new address. This informa-
tion is turned over to the police de-
partment daily and typewriter rec
ord of 1t is kept by the department.
This same rule applies to baggage
passing to and from the depots. II
provides the police department with
an index to the movements of all sus-
picious persons, l am told there is
no such system In Spokane.
"Patrolmen in Spokane receive SIC
| L.
Minneapolis and $40 a month more
than they are paid in st. Paul. I be.
lieve that there is fully $40 difference
between the cost of living in Mime.
apolis and the cost Of living in Spo
kane, with the difference in favor o.
Minneapolis. 1t is the belief of ole
police officials that $65 a month, tn,
st. Paul rate of pay. Is not enough
salary to get first-class men for thu
police department, the salary being 8,
small that it tempts men to graft.
est. Paul is wide open town, TIL,
saloons run day and night and ever,
day in the week, The police depart
ment and the city government arr
said to wink at the conditions tina
prevail"
"As regards the social evil, for in
stance" said Mr.. Helm, II saw NOR
women tonight in two buildings thar
in the whole city of Minneapolis
There must be $50 in the Yale an,
Main buildings opposite the city hall
are there not, Sergeant Sullivan"
Sergeant Sullivan admitted ther
were 1876 in the buildings when tn
last count was taken.