The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-11-25
DETROIT SALOONS .
CLOSED; new BLOW
FEARED IN BEM|DJ|
Squad Of Agents Led By Brent. Force
-Four Place. Shut But Spare.
Liquor.
"ALL GO" SAYS "PUsSYF00T"
Specifies This Place a. One of Dry"
Ones; Smiles at Mention of Mayor
Dumas.

Detroit, MIMI, Nov. as (Daily
Pioneer Special Wire Service) ALL
the saloons doing business in Detroit,
four in number, were closed by a
squad of deputies under command
of Special Officer Brents this after.
noon, who arrived at lao p. m. trcm
Bemidji.
The saloons closed were run by
John Swanson, John Adiar. Frank
COPYRIGHT and Martin Christensen.
In each place Brents ordered the
saloons cleared and the doors locked.
The dealers were given until 7 o'clock
tonight to have their supplies ready
to be sent outside the dry district.
No liquor was dumped. Dealers here
recently received seven carloads of
beer and so barrels of whisky.
With Pussyfoot" johnson on his
way to Bemidji from Minneapolis
where he said positively that he in
tended to close all saloons affected
by the Indian treaty of 1855, there
is much speculation as to just how
much longer the dying saloons here
will live.
They are on their last legs"
said a man close to the Indian bu-
reau agents hete today, and if pre-
sent plans carry there will not be a
bar in action in Bem:dji a week from
now"
Certain it is that the liquor dealers
here are convinced that the worst is
yet to come and they will not be
surprised when the new blow falls.
1t is known that the agents, act
ing under instructions from w. E.
Johnson, will systematically make
all the doomed towns as rapidly as
possible and close the saloons.
No liquor is to be DESTROYED, ex-
cept in cases where fragrant dis
regard for previous orders from the
government is discovered. The
saloon men will be told to ship their
goods outside the dry zone within a
specified time.
In Minneapolis interview yester.
Pussyfoot" Johnson said:
"MY orders now are to enforce
the law in the whole territory. 1t
will all be dry. That applies to
Bemidji and Brainerd, which were
not originally included in our dry
territory, and also to Cass Lake,
Walker, Detroit, Grand Rapids
and other places which were al
lowed to have a limited number
of saloons in the hands of men
known to be law.abiding. Our
duty and our power is clean and l
wish to inform the people Interest,"
ed that there is no relief in the
entire territory except through
congress.
what our plans may be as to sec.
tons of the state covered by other
Indian treaties I am not prepared to
say. We have had trouble at Moor
head, but it may be adjusted. Min
neapolis is covered by the same
treaty."
Says the Minneapolis Journal.
Mr.. Johnson smiles when the
name of Mayor D. F. Dumas of
Cass Lake is mentioned. Mr.. Du-
mas is the mayor who swore in the
fire departmentanda hundred or more
citizens as special police to resist
Mr.. johnson and his agents. Later
heland a delegation went to Washing
ton to confer with Secretary R. A.
Ballinger of the interior department,
and obtained an order on Commits
sioner R. A. Valentine of the Indian
bureau notifying him that there
must be no determination" in the
enforcement of the laws prohibiting
the sale Of liquor to Indians. To
Mr.. Johnson it looks as though
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