The weekly soliphone., 1915-01-08
HuppLEsToN AND THE LEE LINE.

,e which various points in MISSISSIPPI
county and supply liquor to negroes and others Oh
Low, order who are responsible for about nne-tenths Oh
tho ,awlessness which has in very large measure
brought shame upon the eastern section OF our state
Mr. ruddleson that tolerance has reached the
o;n where it is unwise to permit present condluohs
,nger to exist 1t the belief of Mr. Huddeston and
1ndse Driver that the "Nete Johnson" and the WINS
NOR are doing more corrupt Mississippi county than
anv other single agency and result OF legal lnVes'
cations which have carried on for some time behe
is expressed that ample authority is vested IN the courts
to bring the offenders to an accounting.
For years has been the practice OF these hquor
boats to make landing at some point on the Arkansas
side take on load of bootlegging negroes loop the
loop, and land them back at the same point Looping
the loop applied to the practice OF these ooats
in clearing from the Arkansas bank with thelr car
goes Of niggers to point east OF the center Oh the
stream where theoretically the actual sales made
1t has been that because of the failure OF the
legislature to jurisdiction to
Arkansas of the latter state are poweress TO
make arrests upon citation specific offenses which
had been committed point east of the center OF the
Mississippi river the actual boundary line of the
two states is existent 1911 the Arkansas legislature
extended concurrent Jurisdiction Tennessee but for
to reciprocate.
Politics in Memphis little peculiar For
great many years mayors Memphis celebrities
who possessed patriotism than morality have eX-
ercised decided influence over the achievements of
solons at their conventions Nashville 1t extreme
" injurious to the commercial of Memphis to
permit Arkansas their deputies to exercise
official functions in their with Memphis boot
yho to do hing
more shameful than barter Mississippi county ne
groes for the avorite brands of cheap
rum to the shady contingent of the bordering state
Memphis has long known the open city. and,
regardless regardless of the peadings and the
labors of her better citizens regardless of the formation
and order leagues and vigilance committees the
back doors Memphis saloons have never been closed
for length of time Some OF the liquor dealers knew
how prosperous would the communion between their
agents and negroes of Eastern Arkansas and they
have persisted years shipping liquor out into the
stream east of Arkansas boundary, where it has
been low order of beings. The programme was
winked by Memphis officials. Even if arrests were
made juries to convict seldom found
Proftng marveously result of the lax en-
forcement Tennessee and Arkansas liquor laws was
Bob Lee of exclusive monopoly in steamboat
from of the landings both north and
south Bluff City. Lee inaugurated the dodge of
looping the loop and for long time has been i'm
mune prosecution. His boats, usually the "Nette
Johnson" the whisper" would touch at some Ten
nessee point take load dusky gentlemen carry
of the of the stream, and sell supply
of liquor which usually re-sod in Arkansas. Lee
could not arrested prosecuted in Tennessee be-
cause the Tennessee officials cared very little what
done on the Arkansas side and they did not take the
get the boats and proof that actual
sales we're made on the Tennessee side The Arkansas
position to exert themselves because
Arkansas laws ostensiby, had been violated the
western side of the boundary.
Mr. Huddeston, however, has hit upon meth
procedure and according to his construction of
opinion by the supreme court October
6. 1913, which involved the right of Virgil Brown to
gamble a house boat tied to bridge the
Francis river better results will follow. At the time
the gaming occurred, the houseboat two three
ST. river opposite county, Arkansas
POUNDS upon which the defendant sought
nGpent that the offense not committed within
AEitory which the circuit court of Greene
Id jurisdiction. 1t pointed out by the SUI
that both Arkansas and Missouri had by
respective legislatures, extended concurrent
that accordingly, the waters of the ST.
pom property in so far the right of