The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
new ORDERsFOR SALOON MEN
Police Instructed to Arrest Any Saloon
Man Found Selling Liquor to An In
toxicated Person Confiscate Gal
Ions on Saturday and Sunday.


Waukegan bootleggers who have
sought haven in Kenosha and Keno
sha soakso who feel the necessity
Of having something in the bottle for
the morning, will have to reform or
have. their pockets made bigger for
Chief of Police O'Hare late Saturday
afternoon issued an order to all po-
lice officers to arrest all people found
carrying liquor in the "open.' 1t is
explained that this means that man
should be able to carry enough liquor
in his hide or in his pocket and that
there is no use Of toting bottles.
The chief admits that the order may
be an abridgment of personal liberties
not provided for in the laws or the
constitution, but just the same the or
de- has been delivered to every man
wearing a police uniform in Kenosha
and he is supposed to enforce it until
some one comes along and shows the
city that it has no right to prevent
walking saloons on the streets.
AS result Of the enforcement of
the order some twenty bottles Of con
fscated liquor decorated the floor of
the police Office this morning and al
most as many other bottles were broken
in struggles between the police and
men who insisted on carrying them
away. In every case the men who
carried the bottles had enough to carry
without them.
The same order Of the chief carries
q notification to all saloon men in the
city against selling to people who are
intoxicated. The police are instruct
ed that they shall be the judge as to
when man is drunk and make arrests
on their own Judgment. The order
states: "Saloon men found selling to
intoxicated persons will be arrested and
prosecuted according to the law and
officers are expected to submit to the
chief Of the department. the fullest
facts in regard to such cases in order
that the evidence may be used in de-
mands made to the common council for
the revocation of the license of such
saloon men as persist in selling to in
toxicated persons. The order is ex-
pected to stop the sale of "package
goods'' to men from Waukegan and
other cities who are already intoxicated.
The effect of the Waukegan boycott
was apparent in Kenosha on Saturday
night and Sunday and not nearly as
many arrests of bootleggers from the
southern city was made as were made a
week ago. It is supposed that the
Waukegn men went to some other city
to get the over-Sunday supplies of wet
goods. However, the police office had
about two gallons Of exhibits''
which are being held as evidence
should any of the Waukegan men de-
sire to fight.
The Waukegan men arrested were
meek as lambs this morning and paid
their fines without bubble. Not one
of them demanded the return Of
bottled liquor which had been CON
fscated by the officers.
Chief O'Hare declined to 90 any
further into the order than was shown
on the face of it. cit has been declar-
ed by the police and fire commission, =
said the chief, "that sales to intoxi-
Gated people are too numerous in Keno
sha. This order will give the police
officers something to work on. They
will have chance to make arrests when
they suspect that the intoxicated man
is getting too much liquor. 1 hope that
it will not be necessary to make any
great number of arrests to have saloon
men in Kenosha understand just what
the order meanso
The residents in the Girls club en-