The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-01-28
HARD BLOW FOR
FROSTY DEALERS
Every Place Of Business in Ellis
County Closed by Writ
Of Injunction.
COUNTY ATTORNEY ACTS
Restraining Orders are Sweeping and
Cover All Kinds Of intoxicating
Liquors-Defendants Served
with Citations.

A bomb was exploded in the ranks
| of those persons who have been dis
| pensing Frosty, Hiawatha, Uno, Ino,
| Teetotal and other intoxicating IL
! quors at various places in Ellis coun-
ty when they were temporarily put
out of business Thursday by sweep
ing injunctions issued by District
| Judge Hawkins, who is now holding
court at Kaufman. County Attorney
Pippen has had the matter in hand
several days and so quietly did he
prepare for the execution of this
coup that no one outside of his office,
the sheriff's S office and the district
clerks office had the slightest ink
ling of the sensation he was plan
ming to spring. This new move on
the part of County Attorney Pippen
and Sheriff Forbes has been the sole
topic of street conversation since the
closing of the first house here Thurs
day morning. The elimination of this
action by the county attorney and
the sheriff came as an unexpected
surprise to the FROSTY" dealers, and
they were caught off their guard
when the county attorney played
this trump card. There were thirty
two of these places of business in
Ellis county and every one has been
closed. Just how long they remain
closed is for the court to decide The
writs are made returnable to the
February term of the district court,
which convenes the fourth Monday
in next month.
County Attorney Pippen and
Sheriff Forbes have had this move
ment under consideration for some
time. They have been quietly collect
ing evidence and arranging the de-
tails so that there would be no hitch
in the proceedings. Mr.. Pippen and
his able assistant Hon. w. H. Fears,
studied the question in all its legal
phases and then began the prepara-
ton of their petitions asking for in
functions against the proprietors of
houses where Frosty, Hiawatha, Ino,
Uno and Teetotal were kept for sale.
The petitions were finished Monday
and Tuesday they were taken to
Kaufman and submitted to Judge
Hawkins. He granted the restraining
orders as prayed for and directed
that the district clerk of Ellis county
issue writs of injunction against the
defendants named in the petitions.
The house at Midlothian was closed
Wednesday afternoon by Sheriff
Forbes. Thursday morning they were
turned over to Sheriff Forbes
and officers from his depart
ment proceeded to serve them on the
defndants here, at Ennis, Italy, Pal
mer. Ferris, India, Crisp, South
Prong, Pluto and Maypearl. There
were ten houses in Waxahachie, nine
at Ennis and three at Italy.
The list of defendants is as fol-
lows:
Herman Egger, Jim Roper, Jim
Gilley ct al, Frank Dano, Jim Ro-
per and Jim Gilley, H. j. Hale, w.
M. Pennington and T. H. Penning-
ton, Pete Ellis, two places, Pete Ell
John Hutchison, Pete Ellis ct al, O.
Gilbreath, w. w. Newland, Wise
Anderson and T. T. Firth, Lem Bur-
ton. Elmer Leach, F. 0. Roger, j. M.
Willoughby, F. w. Peter, Vernon
Stewart, l.. c. Carroll, E. l.. Feray,
Larry Grych, w. D. Bateman, ]. S.
Guthrie, Ed Zinn, G. II. Hurley, Sim
Allen, Will Allen, Hamp Williams,
s. N. Creech, George r. Crump &
Co.
The wording is practically the same
in all the petitions, the chief differ
ence being in the names of the de-
PENDANTS and places OF business.
Each defendant was re-
quired to give bond in the sum Of
$2500 The full text of the petition
in one of the suits Is given as fol-
lows:
The State of Texas, County of Ellis.
In the District Court of Ellis
County, Texas:
To the Hon. F. l.. Hawkins, Judge
of said Court:
Now comes the state of Texas,
plaintiff herein, by c. A. Pippen,
county attorney in and for Ellis
county, Texas, and complains Of j.
s. Guthrie, hereinafter styled de-
fendant, and for cause of action re-
spectfully represents to the court as
follows:
First. That G. A. Pippen is the
duly elected, qualified and acting
county attorney in and for Ellis
county, Texas, and as such offlcer,
as provided by law, he files and
prosecutes this suit in the name Of
the state Of Texas, and represents
that the defendant Is q resident citi-
zen of Ellis county. Texas.
Second. That Ellis county, Texas,