The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-05
Board commissioners COndOne
Violation Law by Permitting
Outsider to Become Goat.
LIKEWISE ISSUE LICENSE
COVERING LAW BREAKING
Board Also Violated the Stat
utes by Holding Star
Chamber Session.

liauor without license has been violated
by the management at Saltair beach,
and ii has likewise been violated by
he board of county commissioners OF
Salt Lake county
1t will be remembered that on the
night of March % there was funG-
rion given at Saltair beach at which
liquor aud beer were sold over the bar
and served tn customers on the lower
1oor OF the pavilion. This was done in
direct violation OF the statutes OF Utah
regarding the sale of liquor and beer
in that no license had been granted
any one at that resort to dispense IN
toNicants,
The laws of Utah bearing upon this
question are very stringent and severe
penalties are provided for & violation
of these laws. Section 1858 Of the Re
vised Statutes of the state reads as
follows:
What the Law Provides.
Section 1858 Selling without license,
Any person who shall sell or otherwise
dispose OF, for gain. upon any preteNl
liquors or any intoxicating drink without
first having complied with the conditions
Of and obtained a license as set forth III
this tltle, shall. for each offense. be
upon conviction thereof, shall be pun
ished by a fine in any sum less tnan
$500, or by Imprisonment not exceeding
six months in the county or city jail,
or by both such fine and imprisonment
and shall be liable IN all respects TO
the public and to individuals the same
as he would have been had he given
bonds and obtained license as herein
provided.
That no license had been issued to
the management of Saltair IS clearly |
shown bv interviews with Commission |
crs Mackav and Murdoch. in The Trib'
une of March 81, wherein these two
gentlemen stated that not only had no
license been issued, but also that no
application had been made for any H. |
ccnse.
Investigation by Sheriff.
At the next meeting of the board Of |
commissioners thc sheriff of Salt Lake |
county was instructed TO make au ln-
vostigation of the charges made against
The Saltair beach management. OF sell
ing liquor without a license, and he was
likewise directed 10 submit the result
of his inquiry to the board. This was
done.
Sheriff Sharp on Saturday last report,
ed to the commissioners that he had
made an investigation and had found
that liquor had been sold at the resort
on the night in question. and that the
company had taken out no license for
that privilege. Two days after the oc-
curreuce, however. and after the matter
had been aired in the newspapers, an
application for a license and bond
was fled with the sheriff and check
for $S43.+3 was paid in as the amount
Of the license.
Chairman Mackav took the stand
that the Sling of the bond two days
after the illegal sale Of liquor did not
help tho Saltair people any, and IN
structed the sheriff 10 direct the man,
Hnfn M rH
on Monday and show cause why the
officers Of the company should not be
prosecuted for violation of the liquor
ordinances OF inc county. IN view that
liquor WAS sold indiscrlminatcly at the
resort without license.
Board Violates Law.
On Monday. when the board of com
missioners convened and the question
regarding The violation Of the liquor
law al Saltair came up, the board OF
commissioners proceeded 10 violate the
law themselves by holding star-eham,
bor session; that rs. session behind |
closed doors at which all except those
who were said to be directly interested |
were barred out. Section 50l of the |
Revised Statutes of Utah reads thus:
All meetings Of the board must be pub
lis and the books. records and accounts
except such as kept by the county audi |
Tor when he is not also clerk, must he |
kent AT the office of the clerk open at |
all times during usual business hours for
public inspection.
Star Chamber Clique.
IL Will be seen from this that the
star chamber session was absolutely IL |
legal and in direct violation of law.
After the star chamber session WAS over |
and the doors were reopened it was said
that "'Alhert Herr. who runs tho bar AT
the resort. appeared and pleaded that |
he had intended to take out license,
but had been little late iii getting his
bond into the sheriff S office. 1t was
finally decided to charge full quarter
oven part of a day. This year the re-
sort Will pay at least 5000 TO the coun-
ty for its liquor privilege Hitherto it
has been the practice TO figure the NUM-
Der of odd days outside the regular sea
son and charge a pro rata sum-
How Did Herr Get In2
Who is Albert Herr, that he should
appear The order of the board Of COM
missioDers cited the management of
Saltair beach to appear, The manage
ment was certainly responsible for the
compel the management TO come be-
fore them? The managers or Iessees of
Saltair beach are Joseph Nelson and j.
Il. Langford or al least it is 80 under
stood and they are the persons who
are asking a franchise over the streets
of Salt Lake City to run cars to and
from the beach Why. then, should
Herr appear2 There is nothing of pub
lie record to show that Mr.. Herr was
empowered to act for the Saltair beach
management. If he sold liquors and
beer at Saltair in the open it was Ger.
taInlY due to an understanding with
the management of that resort Hell
could not have been an interloper. But
he is apparently put forward by the
Saltair management as the goat to save
them from prosecution.
Mr.. Herr has gotten into the game ap-
parently, and If he violated the law as
the board says be did, he certainly
should not have been granted IL license
And the management of the bench GER
tainly should not have license granted
them, but vigorous prosecution should
be made. According to information and
evidence secured by the commissioners.
Albert Herr runs the bar There is
nothing to show that he owns it or has
leased it.