The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
Beer WAS ON Tree
Happy Hollow Has Such Fruit
Bearing Products.
Leak Escaped Attention of
County Prosecutor.

Fort Scott, June 27-Beer literally
grew on trees in Happy Hollow and es-
capped the attention of w. F. Jackson
| the county attorney. A leak in the lid
| existed in Happy Hollow without in
| terruption until the police department
made a raid on the neighborhood. They
made wholesale arrests but none of the
arrested appear to know anything
about who handled the wet goods or
who paid for it, or, in fact anything
| else that pertains to the oasis OF
| Bourbon county.
| A number of the Monroe family and
Jennie Loveland. are among those who
mony of a number of the witnesses In
police court, the trial of the above
persons which was held in police court,
a real Kansas joint, of no means in
proportion. has been conducted with
immunity. Chief of Police Ed Ball was
the one to make the discovery and
they also learned of escapadeS which
were staged with unbridled reinS.
According to the testimony of the
witnesses, beer literally grew upon the
trees and shrubbery. Draymen carted
the intoxicating stuff all the way from
Yale, unmOlested. Indeed, the traffic
became so profitable that one of the
colored women, so it was testified to on
the sand, bought a light road wagon
and horse-perhaps for the facility of
handling the booze or cutting down the
cost of drayage. One drayman, living
here in Fort Scott testified that at one
time he only brought ten cases of
beer to the Monroe house. Whisky did
not prove so profitable, and did not
make it's appearance at the Monroes,
SO frequently, although testimony was
submitted wherein a number of pack
ages were carried to the home. The
Mahin law to StyXi Draymen also
hauled booze from the express offices
as the testimony showed and delivered
it. Oh. every day was Sunday over
there in Happy Hollow.
Who drunk the beer? Colored people?
Not quite dear sir, hold yourself as
the best of the testimony is related.
White men, plenty of them and some
of them with good homes, unSuSpect-
ing wives. and yes, boys, not more than
a quarter of a century old. When they
couldn't get the booze for the reason
that white customers were outside and
had bought the complete stock, color
ed applicants for cooling draught,
grew FESTIVE and started a rough
house throwing rocks through the
doors or windows. And there was
guide there, a young colored girl, of
school years, so one purchaser swore
to on the stand, that led him through
the shrubbery to the way, while
others (men this time) dished out the
beer from iced tubs or gCnny sacks
but it was always cold.
And there was a piano player, who,
while the Bacchanalian jewellers i'm
bibed the beer (Pabst export if you
please) struck up martial music or
ditty, just as the brazen bawds and
stinkadoras might wish.
And this within the hearing of the
astute prosecutors ears. At times the
beer was so plentiful, according to the
sworn testimony, that some of the
hangers-on, stole the stuff, real beer,
took it away in sacks, then, before they
had the pleasure Of drinking it, were
set upon and the beer restolen, a dou-
hle crime, that of Juggling lawless con-
traband thievery and rethievery Sacks
of beer stolen right here in Fort Scott,
and the lid nailed down Jackson tight.
Who received the profits and the
cash for this beer and whisky-no not
much whisky but enough to give it a
name. No one of the bunch knew.
Two different parties on the stand, de-
clared that the beer was ordered, the
pay for same pitched into the grass
or up in the air, and that was the
end of it all. Only that the beer kept
coming as long as the dollars went up
into the air. No one cared to see who
the statesmen were, just so long as the |
stuff flowed, foamingly and cool.
Sometimes the night was so dark, |
that the faces of the statesmen or sales |
ladies' could not be discerned. What |