The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-26
CASE OF nBEE" ADAMS
His Road in This Vale of Tears Is Get
ting Steep and Rocky.

Relentless is the warfare that is being
waged by the county peace Officers
against the inveterate Tlolators or me
county. And they are as resourceful as
the man who could skin a cat in eleven
different ways. If one method OF pro-
ced1Ire doesn't work as it should they
have another and yet another up thelr
sleeves that they are not SLOW 10 put IN
This was made apparent in the tenn
porary injunction that was obtained TO,
day from Judge Whitcomb, OF the SECOND
division of the district court, by county
ATTORNEY AtchiSon, with Attorney General
John s. Dawson, as one of the moving
parties in the suit against the wei known
bee Adams. his wife Johanna, and their
assistants. 1t is returnable in the district
court on July s. and if it is made pei
manent IT will be a mandate of the court
forbidding Bee and his helpers from
selling liquor at any place IN shawnee
county whether in building, or in the
streets or alleys of Topeka or on the high
Davs and hvUsys of Shawnee county.
And the temporary injunction granted TO
day has that force until the date set lor
the hearing as to whether or not the in
junction shall be made permanent. In its
scope this injunction is the widest thSat
has ever been sought In shawnee county
against the sellers or peddlers OF the con-
traband booze Usually this sort OF an
injunction seeks to prohibit violator OF
the prohibitory law from selling liquor at
a certain place. But in this case, an effort
IS being made to prevent the Adamses
from selling liquor at any place in the
entire county ana II SuCih an lH1uHCIiOH
should be violated by them. they would
be guilty of contempt of court, and their
punishment would be most severe.
Judge Whitcomb granted this temporary
Injunction on the petition of Mr.. Atchison
and Mr.. Dawson which set forth these
facts. Bee" Adams was convicted in the
district court on April O. 1905 for selling
liquor in violation of the law. He was
sentenced to the county jail and fined on
this conviction On January %, 1912, ne
was convicted in the same court for be-
ing a PERSISTENT violator of the prohibitOry
law 4 penitentiary sentence goes with
such a conviction He appealed this con-
court sustained the judgment of the dis
trict court.
Ii is stated in the petition that Adams
has instituted or is about to institute pro-
ceedingS in an appeal on error from the
decision of the Kansas supreme court to
the supreme court of the United States,
whereby his Incarceration in the peniten-
tiary under his conviction will be in
definitely delayed.
Assertions are made that Adams con-
tinues the violation of the prohibitory law,
not alone at fixed place of business but
also in the streets and alleys. Being I'M
able to describe with particularly the
various places in Shawnee county where
Adams, his wife and his assistants. ply
their unlawful trade, the county attorney
and the attorney general asked for an in
junction that would prohibit Adams from
selling liquor at any place in Shawnee
county. and Judge Whtcomb promptly is
sued the temporary injunction that was
thus requested.