The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

(COnt1nued from rage One-l
Records from about 20 of the 1o5
counties of the state serve as an eSt1-
mate regarding the liquor shipments to
Kansas under the Mahin act. While
the entire records are not obtainable.
the reports indicate that with the
Mahin law working day and night,
Kansas is drinking something more
than q million quarts of liquor
month. Yet the estimate that million
quarts of liquor are used in Kansas
every thirty days, is hardly a fair
statement under the circumstances.
The estimate is based on reports for
May, the first month that the Mahin
law was in effect. At that time Kan
sans feared the new law and were slow
to order the regular consignments OF
LIQUOR from the Missouri and eastern
breweries Now the law is more thor
oughly understood. And it is just
about as easy to slip a case OF peer
into the cellar as it ever was-proVld-
ing your orders are not sufficiently fire.
quent to warrant the suspicion or the
law enforcement officials.
Then again, the scattering reports
for May, do not indicate the demand
for wet goods at this particular sea,
son of the year and IN June, july anu
August it will probably require ABOUT
a million and a half quarts OF whisky
beer and lines to satisfy the monthly
demands In prohibition Kansas. Ellml-
mating the whisky, wines and other
drinks it would require about $4,000
cases of beer to satisfy the million
and a half men, women and children
in KanSas-Or a quart month 1or
every resident of the state.
OF course, when reports are received
from all of the counties, it may show
a great change. 1t may increase the
figures in the estimate and it may
make some reductions But in a gen
eral way it is believed that the esti-
mates for May, the first month the
state operated under the Mahin law,
arc not far from being correct.
County Clerks Refused to Answer.
Some of the county clerks have re-
fused to report the liquor shipments
to their counties. Both the Crawford
and Cherokee county officials refused
to send figures of liquor shipments, in
response to a request from the State
dotte, Leavenworth, Atchison, Sedg-
wick, Reno and other counties in the
state which would naturally show a
big shipment of liquor. OF the re-
quests made to all of the los county
clerks for figures regarding the May
liquor shipments, the State Journal re-
ceived actual figures from but IT of
these counties. Most of the counties
which reported were in the western
dry section of the state and on the
face of those returns, the evidence
might be bit misleading. Yet those
II counties reported that in May they
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and beer.
In June Shawnee county received in
round figures $4,000 quarts of liquor
and beer. There are probably six 9TH
er countieS-Crawford, Cherokee,
Wyandotte, Sedgwick, Leavenworth
and Atchison-which will show liquor
shipments as heavy as those in this
county. That would total $4,000
quarts a month.
Then there are ten counties which
will probably consume an average of
$4,000 quarts a month. These coun-
ties are in the class with Montgomery,
Reno, Allen, Bourbon, Saline, Doug
las, Franklin, Barton, Neosho, Cowley
and Sumner. They will add a quarter
of a million more quarts to the general
total.
With 50 counties left, 1000 quarts a !
month are taken as a fair average for
each. Some of them will run far in
excess of the amount, others will never
be able to reach the standard. But
that 1000 quarts a month in the 50
counties, adds $4,000 additional
quarts to the general total. OF an ag
gregate estimate for May of 1,103,0 900
quarts of liquor for Kansas
Not a Drop to Morton.
In replies to State Journal inquiries,
which came from 25 of the los coun
ties, Morton county ranks as the prize
dry county of the state. According
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