The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
MAY GO DRY
Saloons May be Put Out of
Business.
Duluth Civic League Has
Stirred Things Up.

VI OSpl. ~, LOTT oIlo ~. 80
1855, between the Chippewa Ind
ians and the United States govern
ment are enforced, the manufac-
ture, use OF and traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors may be absolutely
abolished in Northern Minnesota,
Northern Wisconsin and Northern
Michigan
The Civic League of Duluth has
been preparing a nice, noisy bomb
for the liquor interests of the north
ern part of the three states. The
activities of the Federal officers in
the Cass lake district probably fur
nished the inspiration and also gave
color to the claim that the Federal
government may abolish the brew
cries and saloons in Duluth, Sup
erior, the range towns and all other
municipalities in northern ends of
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan, as they have in Cass Lake
and other towns in the western
part of the state.
For the present, the officers of
the League have nothing to say,
but that they have been in CORES
pondence and consultation with
the officials of the bureau of Indian
affairs of the department of the In
terror, and they have established
beyond a doubt, the fact that art
icle 7 of the treaty of Sept. 80,
1854, prohibits the sale or manu-
facture of liquor in the territory
named. The next move, they say,
is up to the Federal authorities.
What the government will do is
hard to forecast.
Judge Morris decision in Federal
court two weeks ago, holding that
federal officers had right to close
saloons in municipalities in the ter
ritory covered by the Indian treat
les without Interference on the part
of state or municipal officers, is
important in support of the con-
tention that the sale of liquor can
be prohibited, and saloons abol-
ished.
Article 7 of the treaty of Sept.
80, 1854, reads as follows: No
spirituous liquors shall be made,
sold or used on any of the lands
herein set apart for the residence
of the Indians, and the sale of the
same shall be prohibited in the ter
ritory hereby coded, until other
wise ordered by the president. "
The correspondence between
the president of the Civic league,
and Chief Clerk c. T. Hanke of
the bureau of Indian affairs of the
department of the interior, has de-
veloped the fact that the president
of the United States has never
modified the prohibitory provisions
of the treaty.
The treaty of Sept. 80, 1854,
was drawn up and signed at La
Pointe, Wis, and under it the
Chippewa Indians of Lake Super
ior ceded to the United States all
of their land lying east of the fol-
lowing line:
Beginning at the point of inter-
section of the east branch of the
Snake river with the southern
boundary line of the Chippewa
country, thence north in straight
line to the mouth of the East Saw
annah river, thence on up the St.
Louis river to the mouth of the
East Swan river to its source,
thence in a northwester1y straight
line to the farthest westerly bend
of the Vermilion river and thence
down to the mouth of the Vermil-
ion river.
The east branch of the Snake
river intersects what was the south
ern boundary of the Chippewa
country in Kanabec or Mile Laos
county, and the end of the line is
at the mouth of the Vermilion riv-
er on the north shore, so that all
of the territory east of that line will
take in the western part OF st.
Louis county, Cook and Lake
counties and large portions of
northern Wisconsin and Michigan.
Reservations were made for the
LAnse, Odanah and Fond du Lac
Indians.
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