Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-10-21
JOHNSON TO FIGHT BREWERS
CASS LAKE TIMES FACES $4,000
LIBEL SUIT.
Deputies Quietly Sent Into the Re
stricted Territory to Enforce
Closing Order.

Minneapolis, Oct. 17.-Thratene(
legal proceedings against Minneapoli!
breweries If they attempt to ship Ii
suit for $4,000 against the Cass Lake
Times and an absolute order CLOSING
all the saloons in the northern terri
tory, including not only the town.
mentioned under the old order, but
also Bemidji, Grand Rapids, Hibbins
and other cities are. latest develop
ments in the Minnesota Indian liquor
treaty situation.
Inspector VIM. E. johnson dispatch
ed a dozen deputies into the prohibited
country to look over the situation and
to see that the law is strictly en-
forced. He declares the order given
by Secretary Ballinger to the mayors
of Moorhead and Cass Lake few
days ago was miscOunstrued.
Instead of opening the saloons OF
northern Minnesota it has been all
the more extensive and closed every
liquor selling place in the territory
covered under the Indian treaty OF
1855, he says.
secretary's Right Denied.
Il have orders to enforce the
treaty" said Mr.. Johnson. 'The PEG.
pie ought to know what that means.
The secretary of the interior has no
authority to annul the old Indian
treaty which puts northern Minnesota
into the prohibited district. Only con-
gress has that right. When Secretary
Ballinger revoked all the previous ord
ers he did not favor the selling of
liquors but made the original orders
all the stronger. Every saloon which
is doing business in northern Mime
sofa today is violating the national
law.
This means that I have the right
to contfscade every pint of liquor that
can find in the district. 1 can raid
every saloon in the entire territory
and throw the liquor into the Missis.
sippi river. Secretary Ballinger's re-
cent order is the most sweeping that
has ever been made. l look for no
violence The people of the north
realize they are bucking up against
Uncle Sam and must submit. l don't
believe the wild statements credited
to Mayor Dumas Of Cass Lake, were
ever made. This talk of violence is
all nonsense
Keeps Movement Secret.
Mr.. Johnson would not say when he
is going into the district. The agent
Simply smiled at the reDOrt that he
was afraid to go into the restricted
territory because of threatened vio-
lence. He points to his record in Ok
lahoma where he handed half
hundred outlaws who threatened in
stant death if he appeared in their
section as proof of his bravery.
The deputies who left for the north
Sunday are expected to have the
situation well in hand by the time
Mr.. Johnson arrives and after con-
ference with them he expects to make
definite announcement as to what
steps he will make. 1t is believed that
the deputies will visit every town in.
cluded in the order and notify the city
authorities the saloons must close.
An attorney representing Mr.. John
son left for Cass Lake to serve notice
On the Cass Lake Times that an edi-
torial charging him with receiving
$4,000 from the saloonkeepers of Be-
midi be retracted. He is also pre-,
pairing to bring suit against that pa
GER for $4,000 damages for libel.