Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-22
HAVE DAMAGING PROOF.
Officers Say They Can Show Liquor
Sales to Indians.

Mahnomen, Minnesota. - William
e. johnson, who led the raid on the
saloons here this week, and nine of
his Indian service policemen were
bound over by Justice Schulind on the
charge of destroying property malici-
ously.
The applications for the release of
w. B. Johnson and his nine lieuten-
ants, now in Jail at Crookston, Mimi,
will be made by Assistant Attorney
Oakley before the federal court in st.
Paul. Mr.. Oakley will apply for writs
of habeas corpus.
Have Saloon Books.
Minneapolis, MINI Unless the sa-
loonkeepers in the White Earth reser-
ness and clear out, government agents
assert they have ample evidence to
send dozens of retailers, and even
wholesalers, to the penitentiary, and
that they will do it.
]. P. Brandt, special Indian service
officer, with headquarters in Minneapo-
lis, who returned from the White
Earth reservation, driving twenty-five
miles to Detroit, and taking the train
there to avoid arrest, said today that
the government will certainly proceed
in this way unless the law is obeyed.
1--WE seized books and invoices in
the Saloons" said Mr.. Brandt. In
the ssloonkeepers' own handwriting
we have a list of more than $50 In
dians who owe them money. More
than that, we took samples of the Ii
quors destroyed and confiscated, and
under the law we can proceed against
the wholesalers.
1--WE were acting under orders from
William E. johnson to defend oursel-
yes if necessary" said Mr.. Brandt.
after the work was done, arrest was
not objected to. T. E. Brents, another
special officer, and myself escaped it
because Mr.. Brents had some import
ant court work on in Iowa, and didn't
want to be held up. Mr.. Brents led
the raid at Waubon."
Mr.. Brandt said the notice to saloon
keepers in Cass county, above town
ship 1873, expires Oct. II, and that
unless the saloons are closed prompt,
ly, the federal forces will undoubted.
ly make similar move there"
The treaty of 1855, under which
William E. johnson, special officer OF
the Indian bureau of the United States
interior department, made his raids
and has been tested in the supreme
court of the United States and up
held.
Its constitutionality was brought
into question in 1879 by the late Cush
man X. Davis, when he was United
States district attorney. He had caused
the arrest of man at Crookston fol
selling liquor to Indians. The case be
came famous as the "forty-three gal
Ions of whisky action.
The saloonkeepers who have beer
selling liquor to the Indians claim i'm
munity under decision of the su
preme court of the United States, il
the matter of Heff, filed April 10, 1905
This was an action started in thu
United States circuit court of Kansas
following the arrest and conviction o
John Brown, kickapoo Indian, TO
; selling liquor to others Of his tribe
But the supreme court of the United
States held forbidding the sale of Ii
quor to Indians law unconstitutional
because in 1887 the congress enacted
, law providing for the allotting O
lands in severalty to Indians, and thi
law distinctly took the Indian out O
the apron strings which had tie,
/ -, IN ho
made him citizen of the Unite'
States, subject to it's laws, and wit
all the privileges accorded any either