The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-10
NO MORE GINGER.
Stop Sale of Alcoholic Medicines
to Drunkards.
Attorney General Holds Drug
gists Are Liable.
CHIEF EATON is BUSY
Will Try to Collect Evidence to
Stop Practice.
CHIEF EATON is BUSY
Passing of the Well Known
white Horse Brigade"

Another chapter has been written
in the passing of the White Horse
Brigade-no longer will the knights
that fourished half dozen years ago.
be allowed to intoxicate themselves on
Jamaica ginger. which has been sold
in large quantities by various Topeka
druggists; for it has been held in the
attorney generals office thar VINO
soever sells Jamaica ginger IN SUM-
cient quantities to intoxicate. and VINO
shall be guilty of such sales, es-
pecially to habitual drunkards. is
guilty of a violation of the Kansas
statutes.
During that time since the strict
prohibitory enforcement has heiu
sway, the allied topers who formerly
congregated in the Office BLOCK,
Fifth and Quincy streets. have given
over their indulgence in White Line
as the pure alcohol is called, and have
taken to Jamaica ginger, and nave
have been able to purchase from the
drug stores.
Fully Is per cent of the arrests dur
ing the last year, since the strict pro-
hibitory law went into erect, nave
been Jamaica ginger DRINKS, accord,
ing to Police Chief r. w. Eaton, ana
the labels of the pharmacy where the
drug was purchased has almost m
variabIy been found upon the bottles
taken from the men arrested A con-
ference was held with the attorney
generals Office with the result that
an opinion was handed down. and
efforts will be made by the ponce ue-
partment to stamp out the practice
The old brigade which was formerly
composed of some thirty members mas
scattered to the four Wlnds-only
few. some half a dozen still remain,
but it is this same half dozen tnaI
have begun the purchase OF the
Jamaica ginger which practice has ex.
tended to others until the greater part
of the Illicit sales of lntoXlcaItS en-
bodv the tender of the West indies
product.
One Meets Violent Death.
Written in the last chapter, of the
nassing of the brigade, is a story
which recalls the days when the mem
bers of the band fourlsheo. JONI
Dahlgren. the leader, also the hrst OF
the Congregation to meet f Tioten Of
the Office building stairs one morning
fo1Iowine a debauch at which time
he stumbled and was preclpltalteo
headlong down the flight. There ne
lay for a couple of days ana WIZ 4Sa
found. the rats which inhabited the
structure. had with grewsome irony
pnawed at his body, and disf1gured MS
face. 49,. .,o,.o,, ~
From that time on times began 10
change; the little band scattereui hIss
nnQ member TepdlTeQ u nAo .
Then another disappeared from ms Ola
haunts and has since remained obscure
tud unheard from. Now only Lew
remain the skeleton of an organization
which flourished only rev years a.
A notable fact cOincident with the
,.eien of the White Horse brigade, was
that it's members were perfectly non
orable citizenS-men VINO althouSn au
4 jcted to the strongest character ol
2rinlx were vet irreproachaDle IN
cborocter otherwise. Occasionally one
=, more of them was hauled IN by the
authorities because of petty. thleVery'
Int that was not true of the majority,
and even then those VINO We're eull.y
money with which to purchase alconoi-
This was not frequent, however, 1or
al those who composed the organlza-
tion were hard working men, and men
who generally were not Wllnout LuIius'
ALWAYS they shared together as broth
.rs and when finances of one We're at
low ebb another substituted his snare |
e the funds, so that never was the
Bacchanalian worship allowed to Ian
guish on that account
But the gang has gone; never again
will Topeka know the citizenship OF
her White Horse brigade, and the
scattering few which remain but tell
the tale of the organization that
f1ourished for while and like sput- |
tering candle went the way of all
-hings.
With rs per cent liquor sales en- |
bodied in the retail of Jamaica ginger, |
there remains only 25 per cent of the |
illicit sales being carried on by boot |
.eggers. Due to the effort to stamp out |
his latter practice there are now con-
fined in the municipal bastile seven |
who are working out fines imposed |
upon them when found guilty.
Included in this number are Bert |
Bolles and Gilbert Branner, who have |
been operating in North Topeka; Mike |
Kelley, between Fifth and Sixth on |
Kansas avenue; B. w. Vanderveer,
Third and Kansas avenue; Ralph Ma
.heny, near Rock Island depot; Roy
Todd, First to Fifth on Kansas avenue.
FREDDIE WELSH Is COMING.