Arizona republican., 1910-03-31
SALOON LICENSE CASES
 PUT OUT 0f THE WAY
LICENSE GRANTED TO HOTEL
 ADAMS BAR.
The League Thereupon Withdrew the
 Other Complaints.

The saloon license cases were sum pervisors yesterday morning. AS Tn" Republican stated yesterday, the board arrived dt a decision regarding the whole matter in an executive session On Tuesday afternoon when il Was agreed to issue q license to the Hotel Adams bar as well the Bank EN- change the Cabinet saloon. the Wash ington Street saloon and the Capitol. It was also decided at that t,rne that 10 license would be issued 10 John
 Stroehle on the ground that he was q StockhOlder in the Casino saloon whose license had been revoked II vas also
 decided that no license should be is sued to the santa Fe saloon on the ground that il was outside of police surveillance. And it had been agreed by the board that the application of A. IT, Woods for a license for the Midway saloon dt Five Points would be finally passed upon at a meeting al | o'clock today
 Licenses hdd previously been grant ed to all the other saloons in the city except the Porto Rico and the StIr. which had been refused. No action
 was taken with regard to the Mission.
 for its license k not near expiration.
 When the board convened, yeSterddN
 morning il announced it's decision with
 respect to the Hotel Adams bar d~
 follows.
 The board is in some doubt a. L.
 whether the Adams bar has violated
 the law or not. the evidence being s'
 conflicting. The law. however. leaves
 the matter Of granting the license in our discretion and We are satisfied thl'
 the Adams bar has endeaVorel to obey
 the law and that if the sale oi liquor to minors was made it was accidental and not with the knowledge of the bar tenders that the parties were minors
 While this iS no excuse in law. if the saloon in question was one that Was accustomed 10 cdreleSsly disregard the law. still we believe that the true test
 is whether the particular saloon iS SD conducted as to be q menace tO tn" community. II so the license should be refused. We do not find that th' Adams bar is q saloon of that kind. but that an honest endeavor has been made to keep minors from freQuenting or drinking in said saloon. At the same time We wish il understood that We do not coincide with or approve of Mir. Adams opinion or statement in regard 10 the Anti-SaIoon league. To the con traTy we believe that they are animat- ed by the best of motives and that if , the saloons are taking extraordinary precaution not to sell any liquor to minors it is very much due to the activity displayed by said league. As we said before. however. from all the evidence We do not think that the Adams bar is conducted in such q man. ner as to be a menace to the COmmuni- 1 ty. and we therefore deny the protest and unanimously agree that a license shall issue to J. C. Adams to conduct a slaoon at the Adams bar
 On the reading of this decision the representatives of the Anti-Saloon league announced the withdrawal Of all 1 the pending complaints. MT. Langston. i the attorney for the league, said that his action was not taken because he felt a lack of confidence in the board . He believed that the case of the league | against the Hotel Adams bar was the ' strongest of all. so that a prosecution ] Of the other cases was hopeless.
 Other members of the league said ! that though their efforts had not been i crowned with all the expected success, ! they were satisfied that much had been | accomplished in making the saloons | more nearly law abiding.