Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-08-12
IS KANSAS DRY
"JOINTS" AND "BLIND TIGERS
ARE BEING RUN IN EVERY
COUNTY AND TOWN.
Brains Of LaW-Breakera Are Taxed
to Find Ways to Sell
Liquor.

Topeka, Kan.-In spite Of all that
mas been said in praise OF the Kansas
prOh!bltory laws, a recent campaign
conducted by Attorney General J. S
Dawson involved the burning Of tur
ner hall, with all its contents, the con
fiscation of a carload Of bar fixtures,
and the arrest of sixty men and WON
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. Stubs
that there were violations of the pro
hlDitory 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 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 'jointistsr loss is
not great, especially If he manages to
get away himself, which he usually
does, as he chooses his place with that
| object in view
The "Bllnd Tiger"
THE blind pig or blind tiger
takes another form. The customer
makes his way through devious ways
up back stairs and through alleys tc
! n door upon which he must give a Ger
! tain rap to have it opened.
I'm the clubs supplies are bought BY
subscriptions among the members anC
left in room. A pass word mus be
given the discreet guardian of the
; door before the visitor will be admit
ted. Such organizations see thai
! their members do not drink more thar
Is due them from the amount of theil
contribution
Have Various Schemes.
Fine liquors used to be introduced
into the state by means of electric
light bulbs. Another method was tC
| send sealed packages addressed t.
fictitious names and then have the
consignment sold for express charges.
| In Wichita recently six convicted
'0olntists' were fined an aggregate O.
! $3.50, and sentenced to total O
fifty one months in Jail. A raid on
Coffeyville hotel resulted in the find
! ing of twenty-four pints of whisky
stored away behind the mOpboard O.
one OF the rooms. A panel in the
kitchen Of the same hotel had in i
q hook which, withdrawn, let the pan
Ell down and revealed large stock O
bottled goods.
! A hotel raid in Wichita brough
forth seventeen cases of beer, bal
and d library table with hollow legs
the latter containing four dozen bot
ties of beer. In Topeka a young mar
was found carrying two bicycle tire:
filled with liquor.
Many Women VioIators.
Women conducted both Of the no
! tells mentioned. One good-lookint
! young woman, whom the authorize!
had long suspected, recently appeared
, in hObble skirt which fit her SC
tightly that the outlines Of severa
concealed lfalf-pint TASKS we're plain
~ visible. A kindly faced, moth rly
looking woman who was always seer
wheeling around baby carriage, wa.
followed one day into the countr,
! where she turned over u a confeder
| ate two dozen half-pnt TASKS of whis
! ky which She had cohcealed in The
, baby carriage among the childs cloth
( ing.
A woman of Norman was arrested
! by Sheriff Sale Who found that there
were twenty pockets in her wooer
skirt each containing a half-pint fasl
of whisky. Another woman Kept he1