Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1911-08-10
GOVERNORS Of ALABAMA AND
CONNECTICUT TELL Of THE
EVILS OF PROHIBITION LAWS
IS KANSAS DRY
JOINTS" AND "BLlND TIGERS"
ARE BEING RUN IN EVERY
COUNTY AND TOWN.
Brains Of Law.Breakers Are Taxed
to Find Ways to Sell
Liquor.


Liquor.
Topeka, Kan.-In spite of all that
has been said in praise of the Kansas
prohibitory laws, a recent campaign
conducted by Attorney General ]. S.
Dawson involved the burning Of tur
ner hall, with all its contents, the con
hscation Of carload of bar fixtures,
and the arrest of sixty men and wom-
en-. The campaign was waged in the
southeastern part of the state, and
the attorney general reached the con-
clusion, in his report to Gov. Stubbs,
that there were violations Of the pro.
hibitory law in other parts of the
state as we'll.
Joints" In Kansas.
John Calhoun Logan, who comes
from one of the Southeastern Kansas
counties, says of prohibition in Kan.
sas:
There are no saloons in Kansas.
The "joint" as a usual things is in
an obscure room on an obscure street
or up an obscure stairway 1t is a
room without furnishing, even chairs.
There are few glasses or mugs,
some bottles of whisky and a tub OF
Ice packed full of bottle beer. If the
place Is pulled the jointist's' loss is
not great, especially if he manages to
set away himself, which he usually
does, as he chooses his place with that
object in view.
The "Blind Tiger"
"The blind pig or blind tiger
takes another form. The customer
makes his way through devious ways
- ok staJrs-a-<-4 l-9V
4 toor upCn which lie must give Ger
tain rap to have 1t opened.
''ln the clubs supplies are bought b!
subscriptions among the members ant
left in room. A pass word mus b.
given the discreet guardian of thu
door before the visitor will be admit
ted. Such organizations see tina
their members do not drink more thai
Is due them from the amount of thei
contribution.
Have Various Schemes.
Fine liquors used to be introduced
into the state by means OF electri
light bulbs. Another method was I,
send sealed packages addressed Il
fictitious names and then have tn
consignment sold for express charges.
In Wichita recently Sax convicte
"joiniists' were fined an aggregate o
$3.50, and sentenced to a total o
iitly-one months in Jail. A raid on
Ccffeyville hotel resulted in the fine
ing of twenty-four pints of whisk
stored away behind the mopboard {
one of thu rooms. A panel in tn
, kitchen Of the same hotel had in
, hook which, withdrawn. let the PAL
, ell down and revealed large stock {
/ Ecttlod goods.
\ hotel raid In Wichita brougi
forth seventeen cases of beer, bC
p and library table with hollow leg
the latter containing four dozen bo
! ties Of beer In Topeka 4 young ma
r was found carrying two bicycle tire
/. filled with liquor
' Many Women Violat5rs,
, Women conducted both On the h
tells mentioned One good.lookir
, young woman, whom the authcritit
, had long suspected, recently appearC
in a hobble skirt which fit her
tightly that the outlines oil sover
concealed half.pint TASKS We're plai
ly visible. A kindly faced, mothell
looking woman who was always Sc,
Wheeling around baby carriage, W
e followed one day into. the count
y where she turned over u conled,
Q alto two dozen half.pint TASKS of VIII
y ky which she had concealed in t
l. baby carriage among the child's clio
ing.
y A woman of Norman was arrest
$ by Sherlf Sale who found that the
D. were twenty pockets in her wool
s. skirt each containing a halGpint fla
= of whisky, Another woman kept L
3" stock in bottles tied to stake driy
In the mud beneath the surface of I
Arkansas river
p Whisky In a Cane.
=, The officials closed u Joint In
- - lena and the "jointist" immediate
" " became stricken with an attack
~ rheumatism and was forced to lii
" around supported by large cane.
examination of the cane showed Il
It was hollow and filed to the han
n with whisky.
n A man opened blind tiger" IL
little dark room lighted by a weak
n jet. BY putting n coin in the slot in
wall md turning the cock at the Q
er end of the gas fixture, stream
beer would flow out When this y
discovered the "jointist' began I
ding garden truck, but a raid on
wagon one day showed that he
forty.slx bottles OF whisky hid,
among his potatoes and cabbages.- ].
/, next undertook trucking, but was
q tected one day selling drink by
ping the large collar worn by his
!. mule.
"a 6ootlegger Turns Farmer
After this mans release from