The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17
THE MILWAUKEE, ROAD
CARRIED MUCH LIQUOR

Mandan, June 1O.-In his applica-
tion for restraining order to pre-
vent the Milwaukee road from ship
ping liquors into the state of North
Dakota, Attorney General Linde
claims that upwards of $4,000 casks
of beer and $500 barrels of liquor,
including brandy, wine and whiskey,
were shipped into the three towns of
Linton, Strasburg and Hague, En-
mons county, from January, 1914,
to May 8, 1915. ..... .t.
The application for an injunction
was filed in Judge Hanley's court. -
The population of Emmons county
is less than 10000. ..|. ..w
| All the figures secured and pre-
scented as evidence are taken from
the records in freight Offices of the
Milwaukee railroad, and were Sc
cured by Assistant Attorney General
Francis ]. Murphy.
The complaint AYERS that consider
ing that it has been tacitly admitted
that a man may ship in three cases of
beer at a time for his own consump-
ton and in a reasonable length of time,
figures were given to show that R. L.
Volk of Strasburg received, from
April, 1913, to May 1915, 1,09S cases of
beer, 81 casks of whiskey; in October,
1914, 237 casks of beer; in June, 1914,
1913 casks of beer.
M. Lipp, Stresburg, June, 1914 to
April, 1915, received sos casks of beer.
B. Void, strassburg, April, 1913, to
June, 1914, received 1890 casks of
beer and 80 casks of liquor.
J. Kundert of Linton, from January,
1914, 40 May 8, 1915, received 2SS cases
of beer besides several barrels of liq-
uor.
At, Hague, N. D., according to the
figures gained by the attorney gen.
eral, L. P. Muenz received, from JAN
uary, 1914, to April, 1915, a total of
1882 cases of beer. Others who re-
ceived large shipments are listed.
All of the above consignees will be
subpoenaed to appear in court.
The records gained also show that
during the past year and half there
has been great quantities of liquol
shipped into the three towns, con-
being shipped in varying
quantities to 1872 parties in Linton;
1850 parties at Strassburg and 4S2
parties at Hague. %.
When the injunctional order was
signed late Saturday afternoon. by
Judge J. M. Hanley of the Twelfth
Judicial district it was. made return
able at o'clock, June 80. ..,..
The hearing will be held here in
Mandan, unless the defendants take
a change of venue to the federal
court, as was done in the case of the
Northern Pacific. In that. case the
attorneys of the railroad stipulated
that the Injunction remain in force
until the final hearing.
1T is not our intention,'' says At
torney Linde, ito prohibit the ship
ment of all liquor into North Dakota.
Under the North Dakota statute, only
liquor which is shipped into the state
to be used in violation of the law,
can be prohibited. Under the Webb
Kenyon law, which takes liquor ship
ments out of the hands of the inter-
state commerce commission, the
North Dakota law becomes operative
and the railroad companies are de-
prived of the defense that such ship
ments are interstate commerce. r /
"The result of these cases will un-
doubtedly be that the railroad COM
panies will require satisfactory proof
that all shipments of liquor accepted
in Minnesota and other states for
North Dakota parties is for private
consumption only" H.
Mr.. Linde concluded, YState En-
forcement Officer F. L. Watkins in
forms me that since the Injunction
.