Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-04-06
WOMEN GAN SING U IN OWN SALOONS
Attorney General Clark Gives It as His Opinion that They Are Not Debarred by New Law from Engaging in Any Line of Business They May Wish.

During office hours yesterday the dis trict attorneys and sheriff's offices were visited by a large number of per sons engaged in the retail liquor busi- ness, seeking information concerning the operation of the different laws passed by the last legislature, regu. lating the liquor traffic and the em- ployment of women in saloons, says the Bisbee Review.
 Attorney General F.. $. Clark has given it as his opinion that any woman dependent upon herself for support and owning a saloon could continue the business and even work in the saloon itself. He sets forth, as a principle of law that any citizen, man or woman, cannot be prevented from engaging in or carrying on any business or oecupa, tion recognized by the law.
 As result of this interpretation of the law barring women from saloons, which allows woman owning a sa. loon to conduct and work in her own place of business, it is said that own CTS of certain saloons in this vicinity are considering the advisability of in cooperating their business, taking in women as partners, so that they can thus evade the recent law.
 Just how the theory, in actual prac tice, will work out, remains to be seen, but a number of prominent lawyers of Bisbee, when questioned as to what effect the opinion of the attorney gen eral, were it correct, would have, said they failed to see how any woman own ing an interest in a saloon business could be barred any quicker than one owning the entire business, as the law does not, in that sense, differentiate be tween an entire owner and a part own CT.
 The opinion of the attorney general has raised possibilities, which, 1t is said, some of the saloon men will be quick to take advantage of.
 The law barring women from saloons, according to the terms of the bill, took effect April ,, and is as follows:
 An Act to Prevent Women and Minors from Loitering in or Frequenting Saloons or Places Where Liquor Is Served or Furnished.
 Be it enacted by the Legislative As. sembly of the Territory of Arizona:
 Section l. That it shall be unlawful for the owner of any saloon within the Territory of Arizona to permit any woman or minor, either for hire or otherwise, to sing, to recite, to dance, to play on any musical instrument, to give any theatrical or other exhibi- ton, to drink, serve drinks or any other form of refreshment or viands, or to solicit for the purchase or sale thereof; to engage in, or to take part iu, any game of chance or amusement, or to loiter in any saloon or in any room or apartment, except the lobby of legiti. mate hotel, opening from or into any saloon within the Territory of Arizona. Section ?. Any person who shall vio- late any provision of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be BuhiohNh DN ~ nht ol HOI ltHs bHdn Fifty Dollars, nor more than Three Hundred Dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than. thirty days or more than one hundred and eighty days, or by both such fine and Imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
 Section 3. This Act shall take effect from and after thirty days from the date of its passage. T
 NELL E. BAILEY,
 Speaker of the House. A. J. DORIAN,
 President of the Council. Received March 4, 19O7 a Approved March 5, 1907.
 JOSEPH H. KIBBEY, ea
 Govarnor,