The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-15
I'll. E. Whites Place at 222
Kansas Avenue.
LARGE SUPPLY FOUND
Liquors of All Kinds COnfiscated
by the Officers.
Evidence That the Business Was
Loosely Conducted.

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store of H. z. White at 222 Kansas
avenue at 10 o'clock this morning and
cOndscated the entire supply of liquor.
This is the third time the same place
has been raided, each time under a diff
ferent proprietor. Once it was the
famous joint of Otto Anderson run in
conjunction with the celebrated Har-
mony club on the second floor and the
two were put out of commission. Then
Grover White had a drug store there
and was convicted of maintaining
cocaine den and dispensing the dope al
though the dope was never found be-
cause IL was claimed he had it lock in
the safe and refused the combination.
H E. White, a young man from Mar
shall county, where he had some ex-
perience, purchased the store last Au-
gust and his father, w F. White. and
]. w. TaSSel a registered pharmacist,
cIerked for him. Somehow the drug
store reverted back to its old propensi-
ties and has been fourishing joint
from the evidences obtained. Six
counts are filed against each of the
men. five for selling the stuff and one
for keeping the nuisance.
The proprietor was the only one in
when the officers entered. He heard
the warrant and stood stolidly about
while proceedings began. His father,
w E. White, had suddenly left the city
and the other clerk, Tassel, was not
found until later at 500 West First
street.
Going to the prescription counter in
the rear of the store none of the ap-
planes of the prescription business
were found and the drug bottles sat on
the shelves covered with dust and Sc
curely corked, but whisky bottles with
thimble covers were lined up in i'm
posing array along the counter and
measuring cups containing the dregs
proved recent drawing from the barrel
in the rear. In the room behind the
store were found fourteen cases of beer,
a barrel of whisky from which seven
teen quarts had been drawn. several
cases of pint bottles of whisky and
cases of unnumbered empty bottles
were scattered about the floor. Then
it was found that the most of the liquor
was not even kept in the rear room but
on the shelves and under the counters
where ~ pints, u half pints and Ii
quarts of whisky were found. The pa
troll wagon and two TRUSTEES to carry
the cases were called for by phone and
soon the stock was being piled onto the
wagon A little discussion arose among
the officers whether two quarts of
KeummeI were liquor and should be
confiscated- The proprietor said no and
almost had his story credited when the
chief interfered and proposed that it be
analysed and took it along. The bottle
said it was distilled anyway and what
If a few caraway seeds are added unless
as the label announced to make it a
toner for the stomach A key was Sc
cured for the floor above where the old
Harmony held sway and the place was
found Invested of all trace of its
former wetness, without even an empty
bottle when it was hoped to find there
some hundred cases
'tA1I ready, let's 60 No, wait; the
eagle eyed chief had caught glimpse
of some more under a counter. A
case of Susfquehanna bottled in bond
with 6 points still unopened, then an
other II half pints were found, and
then an unopened plain case from the
Arnold wholesale house marked
tod
the attention and was opened discIos-
ing four dozen half pints Of Glad
Hand whisky which invited one into
another world with outstretched hand.
Further search revealed several
Jugs of blackberry brandy and a large
supply of the stickers OF labels, Glen
Rock Kennel Brook and w J. Gavel
brands all bearing the firm name of
Levy, Schier Dist Co, Kansas City
Mo These labels were pasted on
most of the bottles with the exception
of few of Susquehanna and other
brands which were bottled in bond
which shows that they were kept in
stock and pasted on any old bottle OF
dollar five which the proprietor chose
to make that brand. Then the chief
seized the corner of the blankets on
the bed in the rear of the room and
throwing them off found beneath the
mattress two quarts of whisky and a.
half dozen little wine glasses which
proved without doubt the nature or
the sales in the place but still better
evidence was found in the account
slips kept on a hook every one of
which is an account of a number of
sales of whisky some of them dating
far back and showing that the cheer
could be brought there by the drink,
by the pint or by the jug and could
be paid for by the month. by cash, or
perhaps not at all now as the business
has been broken into by the death
warrants of the police on such a
profitable drug store.
Bonds of $500 each will be required
of the men implicated with the rum
ming of the joint, and that is what it
was for that is what it was suspected
of, that is what il smelled like, and
that is what investigation proved it
to be-