The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-02-25
A NOTE OF WARNING
Through the Prosecuting At
torney the Commissioners
Issue a Mandate.
THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW
Is to Enlisted to Enforce Certain
Provisions Made to Compel the
Toeing the Moral Mark.

The following communication from
the prosecuting attorney, Hamilton
Johnstone, is given space at the re-
quest of the county commissioners:
CONCONULLY, Washington,
February 10, 1910.
EDITOR OROVILLE GAZETTE,
Oroville, Washington.
DEAR SIR: The attention of the
board of county commissioners having
been called to the allegation that in
some instances in the past, saloons in
this county continued to operate be-
fore the granting of licenses to them,
while the applications of the saloon
proprietors for licenses were pending
before the board of county commits
sioners: and that there had been seri-
GUS complaint to the effect that minors
were admitted and allowed to remain
in pool and billiard rooms: the board
Of county commissioners, therefore,
directed the prosecuting attorney to
write to the editors of the newspapers
OF Okanogan county, calling attention
to the provisions and requirements of
the laws in these respects and warn
ing all persons that prosecutions for
violations of these laws would imme-
diately follow complaint.
Accordingly, wish to emphasize the
fact that the pendency of an applica-
tion for a saloon license, accompanied
by the necessary bond, does not confer
the right upon the applicant to begin
and conddct such saloon business, and
that the actual operation of saloon,
during the period that no license for
the same is in existence, is at the
peril of the person offending and will
upon complaint be vigorously prose-
cuted
Further, with regard to the admis-
sion Of minors to certain places of pub
lie resort, the statute passed by the
legislature at the extraordinary ses-
sion of 1909, p. g. approved by the
governor August 2G 1909, is herewith
set forth in full:
SECTION |. That section 1913 of an
act entitled IAN act relating to crimes
and punishments and the rights and
custody of persons accused or convicted
of crime, and repeating certain acts
being section 1913 of chapter 249 of the
session laws of the regular session of
the legislature of 1909, be amended to
read as follows: "Section 1913. Every
person who |. Shall admit to or allow
to remain in any drinking saloon,
dance house, public pool or billiard
hall, concert saloon, or in any place,
except restaurant or dining room,
where Intoxicating liquors are sold or
given away, or in any place of enter
tainment injurious to health or morals,
owned, kept, or managed by him, in
whole or in part, any person under the
age OF twenty-one years, or any female
person, whether as employe, visitor or
patron; or in any of the places herein
before enumerated shall sell or give,
or permit to be sold or given, any in
toNicating liquor to any such minor or
female person. or,
SEC. ,. Shall suffer or permit any
such person to play any game of skill
or chance in any such place, or in any
place adjacent thereto or to be or re-
main therein, or admit or allow to re-
main in any reputed house of prostitu-
tion or assignation, or in any place
where opium, or any preparation
thereof, is smoked, or where any
narcotic drug is used, any person un-
der the age of twenty-one years; or,
3. Shall sell or give, or permit to
be sold or given to any person under
the age of twenty-one years any intox-
icating liquor, cigar, cigarette, cigar
ette paper or wrapper or tobacco in
any form; or,
4. Shall sell or give, or permit to
be Sc. o. g'T-n to any person under
the age of eighteen years, any revolver,
pistol or toy pistol; shall be guilty of
gross misdemeanor.
1t shall be no defense to a prosecu-
tion for a violation of this section that
the person acted, or was believed by
the defendant to act, as agent or rep
resentatiye of another"
SEC. ,. That section 437 of said act
be amended to read as follows: Sec