Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-07-04
PRUNE JUICE THE ONLY THING NOW
Keep Dry Counties Dry
Iaght Law Make II Hard to Get Mornings
(PocatelIc Triiure)


| In Idaho. No longer will the taI1ne
| vote his county dry while secret
l maintaining a refreshing jug cache
under the baystack. TheibOOtlea
I ger will be really dry, for the Web
| bill is now in effect, and as ii worl
n conjunction with the recent.
enacted Haigbt bill, attorneys o
the state are Of the opinion tha
the sale Of liquor in dry counties
will absolutely cease.
G. II. Lmgerfelt, United Statft-
attorney, received his Instructions
Monday from the attorney general
in regard to- the enactment OF tie
Webb federal law relating to the
shipment Of liquor into dry terri
tory.
The new federal law has not been
constructed as criminal statute
hut II has The effect Of keeping HE
! Interstate commerce. law from inter
iering with any laws the various
states may have enacted with re-
gard 70 the shipment Of liquor in
to day territory
Raymond l.. Giyens, district at
toney for Ada county, is Of The OPP
inion that dry counties iN Idaho
Will not be really dry. The Haight
law was designed to prevent the
shipment of liquor in any IcOnsid-
erabe quantity from wet county in
The state to dry one, and the
Webb law will have the same ef-
feet with regard to a shipment
from another state into a dry
county.
The Webb law will place the
responsibility on the railroad or
express company or other common !
carrier, said Mr.. Owens, and will |
have the effect of determining such |
common carriers from accepting IL
legal shipments of liquor for trans
portation. phe Haight state law /
makes The shipping Of liquor in a.
mount TO exceed one gallOnfof whis-
key or one case of beer from wet
INTO dry territory an unbeatable
With the new fedearl 1aw in ef-
feet any common carrier that ac-
ccpts a shipment of liquor in excess
Of the amount stated 70 be shipped
into dry county VIII be guilty Of
a violation of the state law. The
shipper will be equally guilty hat
since it is not an eNtraditable Of
Tense the law will not reach a
party residing outside the state.
The common carrier, however, will
)e held responsible.
The law exempls shipments of
vhiskey of less than one gallon
md beer in amounts ess than one
ase of "a pints, but the law is
uch that | venture to say railroad
@npanies will reject any and all
hipmenls of liquor into dry terri
ory whether from a wet county
5thn the state or from outside
he state.
The Haight law says that it is
D be literally conslIand TO prevent
iolaiions With that language in
he law the supreme court might
I said might so interpret The
wv to hold The common carrier re-
nonsible even for shipment of
IS than a gallon Of whiskey or
use OF beer fit were shown that
he shipment was consigned TO
erson who used the liquor for
legal purposes. such as bootleg
ng'
From now-on the common carrier
thin the slate Will maintain reg
tcrs where every shipment of b.
nor must be registered. When
viewed by the consignee il must
z receipted for by the person TO
hem shipped. Zach shipment IN
anSit must be plainly labeled al 4
iholic liquor, and the law ap- II
les TO person baggage as well as n
on as 70 freight express or par