Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-02-04
ARRESTS WILL
TAKE PLACE IN
TOBACCO CASES
Large Number of Small Boys
Tell Officers Where They
Have Been Buying the Weed
Lately.

AT a special meeting Of the boz I'd
OF education last night it was resolv-
Cd to put a stop 10 the wholesale
cigarette smoking that has been ma he
public through the investigations con
dueted in the Lowell school the past
few DAYS. and which show that girls
OF tender years usually a. that age
above the plane of cigarette flencs
ard tobacco chesers. are becoming
as badly addicted To the habit as the
boys.
This VII be a last warning de-
claTed Parker Woodnan. THE board
wants to De fair in the matter and
know that he bulk OF opinion Is with
US before we recommend any action.
But from the disclosures made yester-
day, ! viii say that after this, every
dealer win be arrested and prosecat-
ed TO the full extent OF the law. uDcn
the word of any child to whom he may
sell the ncxious weed"
The board recommended that SUM
mary action be taken. The board
had a list of names OF every child
questioned at the Lowell school. to-
gether with the names of the dealers
whom. according TO the chiidrens'
statements. sold them smoking and
chewing tobacco. or this number,
twenty-eight claim they have purchas-
ed it outright from vendor known as
'Dago Sam" who conducts a tobacco.
4 confectionery and fruit stand on Main
street at Lowell. as wei as half a
dozen others.
According TO the members Of The
beard. Mr. Woodmaa. DR.. c. L. Ed
mundson and I. W. Wallace. these
parties viii all be prosecuted and
brought face to face. all at the same
time. with the aggregation of youth
Ill accIsers # may be then that
they viii come to some resolution AID
refuse 90 sell further tobacco to the
children. say the board members. II
not, the prosecution viii go on.
In the fist appears the name OF Z
10y named Drago. a tiny mite but five
years old. Roy English. aged I, claiil-
ed that he smoked. but that his father
gave him the tobacco There are a
dozen in the list of eight and nine
years OF age who purchase the tobac-
co themselves. according TO their
statements. The oldest one on the
list is II. while the majority Of them
range in ages from 10 TO -.
| According to the statements of shc
children Dago Sam is the one WIN
is in bad he having been guilty OF
disposng OF more tobacco than all the
others put together
Justice Murphy was informed yes
terday Of the matter and sent Con
stable Bailey around to warn the par
ties whose names appeared upon h
list that they were violating the law
and to cease selling 10 minors
/ Truant Officer Riggieman went q
~Dago Sam IN regafd TO the matter
What do ! care what you do" i
the remark he is alleged to hav,
made. I'm only get fined ten COL
lars
BY a little systematic investigation
and quizzing. Prof b. r. Dennis o
the Lowell schools has -unearthed
state Of affairs among the childre
absolutely startling and which wi
! probably result in warrants bein
! sworn out for the arrest of a numbe
!. lof Lowell tobacco vendors charge
4 with selling the weed to minors.
For some time Prof. Dennis Ia
y suspected that a number of the boy
: were using tobacco. Tuesday mornin
9 ing he rounded up half-dozen and b.
J gan questioning them. They imp
Gated other boys in the school an