White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-07
Licenses Are
Not Revoked
COMMISSIONERS REFUSE TO
WIPE OUT RESORTS AT Smell
TERVILLE, CLAIMING DISTURB
ANCES HAVE BEEN LACKING.

Evil days have not yet fallen upon
the saloons at Smelterville. The
though Commissioner North was will
ing TO lay the relentless hand of the
county board upon the two thist par
lors conducted by Mike Bosta and
company and Madaline Stoddard be-
cause a girl 13 or IA years old was
permitted to tend bar In the former
place. while the latter tolerated wo-
men of i'll repute.
For a time the board bore a repu
tation for unmitigated seriousness
which left no loophole for grim.
They acted like timetable or
hardware catalogue that shuns the
festive grin. Commissioner Melon
aid called the attention Of his col
leagues to the fact that Bosta on more
than one occasion had aided the Of
ficers In ferreting out crime at Riepe
town and at McGill.
During the course of the tete-a-tete
is was brought out that women were
permitted to frequent saloons in Ely,
and that If the same privilege were
not afforded to persons engaged In
the same business outside of the sa
cred precincts that injustice would
be dealt out to them on large
and Irregular wads
Sheriff Grain started a little thnn-
der OF his own. declaring that the sa-
looms AT Smelterville did not cause
him as much trouble In six months as
similar institutions in that locality
caused him in one week.
I'VE are interested in ascertaining
whether these places are law abiding
said District Attorney Zurich. aBosta
gave the Information to the officers
four years ago that lead to the arrest
of murderer He has always sup
ported the officers. and during the
last five years the authorities have
never been sent TO his place to quell
a riot Il favored revocation OF the
licenses at Ragtown because those
places were too close to McGill" de-
cIared Sheriff Grain
The people In that locality don't
favor those places" said Commission
er North. and / see no reason why We
should not accede 10 their request.
I'VE should cooperate with the
sheriff instead of putting him TO
grief said the district attorney. "It
Is not right to allow women TO fire.
quent saloons in Ely. and deny them
that privilege elsewhere In the eoun-
ty. II these places are closed up the
hotels will be filled with prostitutes.
This Is a bad policy for mining camps.
II the owners of these places are not
willing 10 do right. let's close them
up"
Frank Peersheen, who has been
scanning the local situation with a
half closed eve, encoutered nothing
but disappointment from the COM
missioners. when he made applica-
ton last Monday for a retail liquor
license at Riepetown. The board
OF the opinion that there were already
a sufficient number of joints where
liquid tumult Is dispensed al the
mines
1T is better to discourage the new
arrivals said Sheriff Grain in dis
cussing the situation with the board
They have been in the habit of get
ting place ready before applying for
license. believe rigid inyestiga-
ton should be made in the future be-
fore license are granted to late arri-
vals.''
The sheriff was instructed TO notify
Mike Bosta that minors woud not
be permitted to tend bar in his sa-