Willmar tribune., 1909-10-20
HAVE DAMAGING PROOF.

HAVE DAMAGING PROOF.
ohlcsrs Bay They Can Show Liquor
Sales 20 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.
walton lie down and be good, quit busi-
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.
J. 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-
I'VE seized books and invoices in
the saloons" said Mr.. Brandt. TN
the saloonkeepers' own handwriting
We have q list of more than $50 In
dtans who owe them money. More
than that, we took samples Of the H.
qu0rs destroyed and conf1scated, and,
under the law we can proceed against
the wholesalers.
I'VE we're 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
wasn't 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 13S, expires Oct. II, and that
unless the saloons are closed prompt
ly, the federal feEces will undoubted-
ly make similar move there
The treaty Of 1866. 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
heidi.
Its constitutionality was brought
into question: i'm 1873 by the late Cush-
man, r.. Davis. when he was United
States district attorney. He had caused
the arrest Of q: man at Crookston for
selling liquor to, Indians The case be-
came famous as the '.fosty-three GAL
Ions Of whisky" actieu-
The saloonkeepers who have been
selling liquor to- the Indians claim i'm.
munitw under q decision of the su.
preme' court Of the United States, in
the matter Of Heff, fled April 10, 1906.
This. was an, action started in the
United States circuit court of Kansas,
following the arrest and conviction Of
John Brown. a Ktckapee Indian. for
selling: liquor to others q his tribe.
But: the supreme court ef the United
States held forbiddine the sale Of H.
quor to, Indians law unconstitutional
because i'm 1887 the congress enacted
q law providing. fbr the allotting Of
lands in severalty to Indians, and this
law distinctly took the. Indian out of
the apron strings which had tied
Poor Lor' tn the government, and
made him a citizen Of the United
States,. subject to- its laws, and with
all the privileges accorded any citizen.