Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-25
BOOZE BARRELS
ARE BOUNCED
Sheriff BOnde Pays Unexpected
Visit 10 ElkS Hall and a Sud-
den DrOuQht Follows.

Sherlt BOnde ana the ElkS Club
at Willmar had an interesting time
during the Street Fair, which re-
suited in cleaning out a quantity Of
liquor from the premises. At the
time of the removal from the city
of l.. A. May, under whose aus
pices the bar at the club had been
inauguratcd, it was quite generally
reported that the strong drink fca
ture at the club rooms had been
abandoned. A number of members
Of the order had openly denounced
the practice and assured the au-
thoritics that there would be no
violations Of the prohibition policy
permitted at the club rooms.
Sheriff Bonde was therefore inter-
ested to know whether or not the
government retail liquor license
held by the club, which expired at
the end of the fiscal year June 80,
would be renewed. 1t always takes
some weeks before the large num-
Der Of licenses issued at the Inter-
nal Revenue Collectors office at the
beginning Of the year are entered
in the books so as to be available
for examination. and it was not un-
til a couple of weeks ago that
Sheriff Bonde received the word
that the license for the club rooms
had been renewed for the ensuing
year in the name of Albert Scud-
der, the chef and porter at the club.
A few days before the street fair
Sheriff Bonde traced a shipment of
four barrels of Hamm's beer to the
club basement. Armed with this
evidence, the sheriff sWore out a
complaint against the place as a
public nuisance, which paper had
been duly prepared by County At
torney Otterness, and presented it
last Thursday afternoon to Judge
George Muller of the municipal
court, asking for a search and
seizure warrant. The judge re-
fused to issue the warrant. De-
feated in this, the sheriff at once
made his way to the club and, Sc
curingss ssadmittance, had an! interest
ing interview with the porter. He
demanded to see the posted license,
which was shown him back of the
door in locked room stocked with
liquors. The porter confessed that
the stuff was disposed of to mem
bers in exchange for coupons, the
coupon books being sold to them by
the club. Subsequently the sheriff
had interviews with the head Off
GERS Of the lodge, who professed tc
be very much surprised at the
sheriff's discovery, which practice
of selling and disposing of liquor
they declared was without their
knowledge and consent. They stat.
ed that the offending liquors woulc
be promptly cleared out from the
premises on the Monday following
The sheriff insisted that they be
taken out and shipped out Of tow1
before Friday evening, which wa:
agreed to. Thus it was that dray
crew was seen busy hauling ou
barrels from the basement under
tie Elks club Friday afternoon
Several big wagon loads were takel
out, but the officials of the orde.
stoutly maintain that with the ex
ccption Of four barrels the larg'
number of empties had accumulated
under the former regime.
While the thirsty Individual
whose practice was interfered wit
naturally are indignant at tn
sheriff for trying to stop thei
source of supply, people generall
strongly commend him for doin!
his duty without fear or favor.