Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31
BO|SE|. LAUNCHES
LIQUOR CAMPAIGN
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Movement for DRY County Re-
ceIves Enthusiastic SUP
port in Idaho Capital.
is FAVORED BY Gov G BRADY
Thieves Blow tip safe and Secure
s3sO--Casc Against Barber Lum-
bcr Company outlined.
lSncnlal GolFespoMdencnN.

.s5ast5 tSipcElstl5 Correspondence 5l
- 3oISE, july 29,-+tITnder the most
Favorable conditions that have
D ever attended q moral ref"rH
movement III Idaho, Ada county
launched her campaign against the
liquor traffic last Monday night. in a
meeting at the Pinncy theater over
which Gov. Janes III. Brady presided
The principal address of the evening
was delivered BY Dr.. Purley A. Baker.
OF Ohio. superintendent of the National
Anti-saoon league; but Coy, Brady
: preceded him in a speech in which he
unsbeathcd his sword Observation-Disclosures
business and declared himself in such
n manner that. IL people have hereto
fore conjectured as to where Idahois
executive stood on the local option.
question they need not guess further
or at.all bother their minds as to where
4 he stands. The great audience, which
packed heStheater from pit to dome
screamed aloud assin one mighty voice
when Gov. Brady reached the climax
& of his address
In the course of his address the gov
crnor stated that Idaho n1aintains IS
sWllOleSul''a anu tlUU ICtdll
atsthe present time; that the average
daily receipts of these licensed places
is $50 per day each, Of. $4,000 q. year.
that the annual receipts of these 500
saloons amount to si.500,000. is"Or, in
other Words" the governor said, the
people of the state pay out $4.500,G0O
annually Notwithstanding liquors.
W the close Of his speech Gov. Brady
introduced Dr. Purley A. Baker, who
followed with an eloquent and master
full address.
LOCAL OPTION ELECTION.
September s, is the day set for vot-
Ing on the local option question in this
county, over 40 per cent of the quail
fled electors OF the county have ac-
cording to the law petitoned the coun-
ty. commissioners and their petition
has been granted. for an election on
the date above given.
sS, DRASTIC LAW.
Idaho has, 1t is claimed one OF tho
2 most drastic local option LAWS in the
United States extending In Its opera-
tons, where the majority vote is for
prohibition, To Wholesalers retailers.
clubs and to homes, where liquors cam
mot be served to the guests of the
family. As TO penalty the statute is
also not wanting. Any person. it is pro-
x yided. who. within the limits of IA
prohfbitiondistr solcits or receives
any order for Intoxicating liquors,
shall be doomed guilty or a Inlsdc-
lneanora punishable by flne8of not less
\ than 5000 or more than $500. or linz
! prsonment not less than 80 days or
more than six months, for both. The
sale of Intoxicating liquors shall be
& confined entirely to prescriptions BY
physicians, to be issued only in case
of sickness.
IDAHO GOING DRY.
1t is confidently asserted by those.
competent to Judge that, If local option
elections were held in Idaho this fall,
two-thirds Of the counties OF the state
would vote dry Oneida county and
Latah county have both gone dry
under the old law, and these are two
representative counties of the state. the
former In the southern part and the
/ latter in the northern part.
THIEVES BLOW UP SAFE.
Early Sunday morning Il .yeggman
cut his way through ,tIe back door Of a
Main street saloon, THE Mint and
blew open the safe and carried off the
money5it contained. The robbers Sc
cured $3.50 in cash, and no clue is left
for the police to work upon One sus-
= IleCl Is HOW tlhu'i III resi-, pul LIE Upllte
are not very hopeful of making any
thing out of him Nitro lycerine was
used in blowing open the safe, and in
an excessive quantity. it would appear
as the safe is completely demolished.
4 Several people reported the following
day as having heard the explosion: but
did not inngine at the time 1t was
the result of safe cracking.
GIRL ACCIDENTALLY. SHOT.
There was brought to a local hos
pital from Caldwell the first of the
week, little S-year-old Ruth Hanson
With q bullet from a 90 caliber rifle
lodged in her side, as Il result of u
CHANGING shotafron a gun in the hands