Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-11-09


license In November, 1907.
Florida-Thirty seven dry counties
out of forty-fiye Governor Broward
out for state prohibition.
Georgie-Prohibition law passed
Aug. 8. 1907. 70 take effect Jan. l, 1908.
Idaho-Iicense. Sunday law only
passed In 1905.
Enthusiastically 600 dry towns.
Local option law recently passed. Ten
dry counties.
Indiana-Half of population in dry
territory.
Iowa-Sixty-fiye out of ninetynine
counties dry. Eleven other counties
have only one saloon town apiece.
Prohibition since 1880. Of
the los counties in the state, only
twenty-one have any paupers; thirty
five have their jails absolutely empty;
thirty-seyen have no criminal cases
on their dockets. After Maine. Kan
sas spends more money relative to
population for schools than any stat.
In the union.
Observation-Disclosures out OF 119
counties dry. Only four counties
wholly wet Saloons closed on Sun
days.
I4ouisiane-Seyen-eig of the coun-
| try districts dry. Orders may not be
| solicited or received in dry territory.
Least prohibition sentiment of any of
the southern states.
NATURALIZATION law enforced in
nine-tenths of the state. Maine was
in 1855. the year it went dry. one of
| the most drunken and poorest of
| states. In 1900 il had more banks and
S22, 100000 more money deposited in
/ them than the wide open state of Ohio
! with six times as many people. Maine,
I without 81 revenue from the saloon.
1 has more schools 70 every 10000 of
4 her people and more teachers in pro
portion to her scooI population than
any other of the forty-five states.
/ Maine newspapers have largest circu-
/ lation in proportion to population in
/ the union.
| Observation-Disclosures option BY cit
les and towns, $50 being dry and Ice
| wet. Laws strict and well enforced.
Michigan-County option with a few
/ dry counties. No chance to vote by
smaller units. If county votes wet,
( it reyerses dry vote in smaller unit.
! Minnesota--License with village To-
cal option. 123 dry municipalities, Sun
! day closing in entire state. County
I option, defeated in last legislature,
dominant issue for pending campaign.
| ssissippi-Seventy out OF seventy
live counties dry. State prohibition
| campaign actively underway. Gov.
| Noel nominated at recent democratic
| primaries on state prohibition plank.
! acknowledgement out OF il5
counties now dry as against three dry
| counties ia 1905. Sunday arrests have
| d decreased So per cent in st. Louis and
rs per cent in Kansas City since en-
forcement of Sunday closing law
| throughout state by Gov. Folk. In
this falls elections eleven counties
went dry and one, Benton, wet by
majority of only so
| Montana-License.
Nebraska-Village and city option.
Four Hundred wet and 500 dry towns.
Nevada-License with little restric-
| ton.
New ampshire-Sixty-two per cent
of population in dry territory. State
| prohibition defeated in 1902.
New Jersey-LocaI option law. Ii
quor question seething. Republicans
| wish to extend law still further; dem
ocrats lodging. Election November.
| 1907.
| New Yorktown and township OPP
| ton. Three hundred dry towns.
North Carolina-Few saloons, Cam
paign for state prohibition with Gov.
Glenn leading fight.
North Dakota-Prohibitio since
1899. In a recent interview the gov
| ernor OF the state, John Burke, said:
| We have had prohibition so long in
| North Dakota that in some counties
J there are no jails."
Ohio-One thousand one hundred
4 and forty out of $40 townships dry.
Sixty per cent of municipalities dry
and $4,000 people living in dry resi-
| dence districts in wet cities. Coun-
| a. -IaEalaihitinn- nEnhahle next season.
Over hall of dry territory has become
so since 1902.
Oklahoma-State constitution rati-
fled September, 1907, makes state pro-
hibition obligatory for twenty-one
| years, and thereafter until contrary
statute is passed.
Oregon-Twelye dry counties and
10 dry municipalities in other coun-
ties. Recent local elections show in
crease in prohibition sentiment equal
to Californias.
| Pennsyivania-Lie with privi-
| lege of remonstrance.
Rhode Island-Sixteen dry munich
| palities cut of thirty eight.
South Carolina-County local option.
Move for state prohibition. No license.
Counties choose between dispensing
and straight prohibition.
South Dakota-Large sections Of
state dry.
Tennessee-Saloons excluded from
all but three municipalities in state.
Texas-Two-thirds of state dry by
local option.
Utah-~License.
Vermont-One hundred and seven
teen OF 40 townships dry.
Virginia-Much dry territory.
Washington-Only fifty dry towns.
West yirginia-Thirty dry counties
out Of fifty-five.
Wisconsin-Local option Six hun
bred and fifty dry spots.
Conditions in the territories are:
Arizona-Idcense
District of Columbia-Ratio OF sa-
looms to the population cut in half
during last fifteen years.
New hexico-License.