The Topeka state journal., 1911-07-27
new ROW IN SIGHT
Reno County Attorney PeeVed
at Attorney General.
State Officers Interfered When
He Started to Clean Up.
TOWN WAS WIDE OPEN.
DISPENSERS Waxe6 Fat and Pros
porous in Short Time.
Then FOOte Raised His Hand
and Crash Came.
TILTS IN THE LID
Liquor May Yet Be Had But 1t
Comes High.
Hutchinson Now Trying to Re-
cover From Shock.
Hutchinson Now Trying to Re-
cover From Shock.

Hutchinson, Kan, July 27.-For
three months hilarious Hutchinson
drank its soothing beer, swore because
of the drouth. suddenly returned to the
straight and narrow path and Is now
an+fcinating d healthy row as to VINO
viii receive the credit for the victory
It was E. T. Foote, county attorney-
ana a Dernocrat-who first put the
skates under" the jointists. Then tue
state administration came on the
grounds and returned to Topeka
claiming the victory.
Perhaps the staid old town might
vet fearlessly sip its brew had not
Foote interfered. For month con-
ditions in Hutchinson are said to have
rivaled those of Cherokee and CraW-
ford counties. But StUbbs and Daw-
son were busily exchanging letters
concerning the situation IN ne
southeast and Hutchinson continued 70
celebrate unmolested-
Not until the attorney generals Of
flee received news of the Foote raids,
did it take a hand. Assistant prose
cutors and spoilers were busy IN otIlel
fields and not since Carry Taylor leIr
the town had an assistant been on
the grounds Then when Assistant
Coleman hastened to Reno county
raided the Midland and BaiqWln
the lob and Foote was peeved. rms
occurred after Foote had cleaned the
MATTER But the delegation from the
state house announced that IL was OF
the lob and would take charge OF the
n Hnfchfnson did not applaud. Foote
was grieved He candidly admits that
his ardor for Stubbs and Dawson IS
l,.,+ IuLeyyarn and he did not con-
gratulate Coleman for his enort 70
steal the glory. which he thinks justly
belongs to the Democrats
When Coleman invaded hutchinson,
he sent no word to FoOte. Later DaW-
son asked Foote to prosecute the Cole
man cases, which FOote declares con-
tain more holes than sieve But
TFoote is not so easy he IS not sure
4ha+ he will relinquish his glory to the
state and then handle the hopeless
cases which the attorney generals OF
flee filed. Even the street mum pers IN
the Coleman cases are wrong ana me
actions are a wreck, so it is claimed.
Just why and how Stubbs and Daw-
son overlooked the Reno county joints
is quite as mysterious in hutchinson
as the solution of the war between
those officials as to who deserves credit
for the closing Of Pittsburg and Colum-
bus.
When McCarty Ruled.
The story of Hutchinson's 80 palmy
davs is similar in many respects to the
fond memories of other towns. With
each day the jointists become more
bold. Liquor was sold openly. At the
Midland hotel. separate room on the
second floor of the building was de-
voted to the cause Then the Baldwin
entered the game and a dozen places
were selling liquor right over the coun-
ter at tremendous rate. Perhaps
harmony would have prevailed had
not bold Dan McCarty been seized with
an ambition to earn too many easy
dollars.
Of 10 10
almost did it. too. McCarty supplied
the small retailers and the large pri-
vate consumers. He sold only in keg
lots. McCarty was prospering when
suddenly something happened. The
last day McCarty's wagons operated in
Hutchinson he disposed of SO barrels
of beer. An inquisition was held the
following day. That same evening Nc
Carty's health failed and he started for
the watering places. He has not re-
turned. With ATcCarty went a num-
Der of others Some were less for
tunate in diagnosing their complaints.
Two hours after McCarty left town, a
car load of beer was gathered in a
dozen raids. McCarty had queered the
game.
The wide open conditions in Hutch
iuson prevailed in the very hours of a
heated contest among state officials as
TO who was the simon pure reformer
of the state. So warm did this con-
test become, that brazeu Hutchinson
sold her beer in the shade of the burn
ing argument. Only history can tell
what happened in Hutchinson while
Stubbs and Dawson We're busy else
where.
1t was when Frank Vincent, a con-
servative of the first RANK. was elected
mayor against Frank Hettinger. rabid
reformer that things began to happen.
It was in those promising days that
Tim Casey and William Mead con-
ceived the idea that the Midland hotel
i'm the very heart of the city. was a
wise investment. II required argu-
ment on the part of Casey to lure
Mead into the deal But the hotel paid
dividends. So fast did the currency
come over the counter tLat Mead was
seized with a desire to own a farm
I'm the few weeks Mead had saved
$500 from his share OF the earnings
Mead dug this money ur from under
tho carpets. in the pillows and a dozen
secret hiding places in the hotel
81, Nov" duoth Mead, who had ar
p ranged for payments on the farm 81
feel I can raise $500 the day follow
ing the big picnic The Fourth of JULY
is worth $500 and 1 Will pay that the
5th-"
So Mead bought his farm. paid fol
his half interest in the hotel and was
RAPIDLY becoming a rich man when The