Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-12
BISMARCK IS DRY
GOVERNOR BURKE lNSTRucTS
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE
TO SEE THAT LIQUOR
SELLERS

OF BISMARCK ARE PUT OUT OF
~ BUSINESS, IN CONSEQUENCE
OF WHICH THERE is A
SCRAMBLE FOR COVER
: THE prohibition law In Bis =
4 r,1arck Is no longer joke. II y
Z will be enforced from now on. II
= Every officer In Bismarck will =
: hereafter be required to see that =.
= the prohibitory law is enforced. =
= Any officer WilfulIy falling or =
= negIecting to do his duty will be :.
= prosecuted for nisfeasance In =
= office and an action win be y
brought for his removal. It is y
= nonsense for police and other Of =
& ficers to claim they have no =
& knowledge Of violations when =
= more than dozen open places :,
= are run, where Intoxicating liquor =
: is openly sold. There Is not an =
= officer In the city Of Bismarck y
= from the highest to the lowest =
= that does not know the law is :.
= openly and Hagrantly violated. :
= II Is also nonsense to claim that =
= the laws cannot be enforced. =
= There is no man or set Of men in =
= Bismarck greater than the law. :
= am acting upon Instructions :
= from Governor Burke and his =
= instructions will be faithfully =
= carried Assistant Attorney :
= General Andrew Miller. =
There is no uncertain sound about
that, is there?
From the above statement, which is
authorized by Assistant Attorney
General Miller, it is apparent the long
| looked for movement on the part OIL
the state administration is on.
| AS a further evidence Of this fac
1.-THE governor authorize S the state
ment that he was behind the move
]ment in this city and had instructed
the assistant attorney general to SCI
THAT the law was enforced, and tina
this was but the beginning Of the
state campaign for the enforcement
of the prohibition law and all thu
flaws. ll
There is little doubt but that Gov
ernor Burke is in dead earnest. Ant
there is little doubt that in Attorney
Miller he has an assistant who vii
obey orders to the letter regardless
4 of who is hurt
4 Yesterday morning Chief Mcdonald
who is also acting as chief deputy ii
the absence of the sheriff, was re
i quested to appear before the governor
who gave him his views on the sub
i ject and Assistant Attorney Genera
Miller told him 1t was his duty, an,
the duty of all officials directl.
charged with the enforcement Of Til
prohibition law, to seek out evidenc
i that will convict and see that it wa
placed in the hands of the prosecutin,
officers; that it was the duty Of thes
officials to seize liquors Of an intoxi
icating nature wherever found, Whetf
er on a dray in transit or elsewhere
j and the chief said there would be h,
ground for complaint on that score il
the future.
Sunday Assistant Attorney Genera
Miller announced his platform il
practically the above words and i'm
mediately there was spiriting ava,
of the stores usually found in th
booze emporiums, and last night /
was difficult proposition for th,
i thirsty to wet their whistle.
Yesterday there were a number O
Mandanites In the city, among then
the assistant states attorney, and al
of them were much interested IN tn
proc eedings and wondering when tn
I enforcement wave would reach thei
section. They opined that no jur.
could be found over there to convic
saloon men il arrested, but did no
relish the suggestion that numerou
and continued prosecutions and til,
cost thereof to the taxpayers woul,
eventually win the day.
This action on the part of the stat,
authorities has been the prime subjec
LOT conversation since Sunday and /
is rather astonishing how many .
1 Bismarck's citizens seem to feel tina
a personal affront has been placed
upon one Of the leading industries o
4 the city. It is equally pleasing. how
ever, to know there is much satisfac
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