Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-12
IT APPLY HERE
INr>, Opinion Given That the
bOAHan Treaties Do Not
feet Northern Wiscon-

November al,
ord Co.'S Co.'S, get IA re is a possibility that the
Eagle Rive oler e.! % arm of the government
-, so effectively wiped out
County aadersi saloons in certain parts of
County W.T. W. on bern Minnesota NAV reach
Bo Boz Inc aiinual and do likewise in northern
the 9Th spperva ,onsin and Michigan. The
I'd day of No,ama ms in Minnesota were closed
KAsfkE order from the government
of Arbo,st,.. account of the treaty of 1854
the Indians, which forbids
MN ingtcn ,or on territory covered by
of Lincol treaty. 1t is said that there
m ~ rs, similar treaty which takes
.LoY River large part of Northern Wis
Of Plum 1at. 1sn and Michigan, and an
e. NIB5lERqER. stigation is now being made.
how % = 'akton rcerning this matter we print
pervisora4 49, ~ following from the Ashland
"a annual SESSIONS under date of Odanah, Ian
Nice at the g.
h day ofN NJ The question of whether near
clock P. Nj, all of northwestern Wisconsin
the onairn nd large portion of the upper
ed members ennsula OF Michigan are includ.
IL; by treaty in Indian territory
al '0Fuas been submitted to the prop
n of Como authorities at Washington. 1t
., said here that petitions are
+ ~ low being circulated among
rmington. Pie Indians on the Bad River res
q.u, vation asking for prohibition
tllquOr traffic In their reserve
LncoIn, Phe stir that has been made by
ho,n. hese moves recently is likened
Plum go that which occurred in north
rn Minnesota when the subject
OF PrestTas first preached there two
State ,tars ago and which resulted in
banishing nearly 100 saloons
OF Washirom the district short time
neetine : ago after long fight between
the federal officials and the
ttee on tsaloon men and wholesale liquor
Board interests.
mty Some of the same agencies, it
u IS said, that insisted on the gov
eferre erred II eminent enforcing the provision
Boland +, of the Indian treaty in northern
uo lespes Minnesota are now engaged in
1t Hnndra similar work in northern Wis
cOnsin and upper Michigan
NJ Philip Everest, Indian agent
g. told newspaper men recently
- that the government was prob
1S,n ing to see if the treaty between
cad Eisb the Chippewa Indians and the
sS50.oO) government, drawn up in 1854
aoce ra and STIMULATING that liquor
OF this should not be sold in that reser
were in vaton in northern Wisconsin
pyaer a Tor and upper Michigan. has ever
Ind used been annulled
to the District Attorney NJ E. Dillon,
WIN :, ofAshland, is of the opinion that
ard and neither the treaty OF 1854 or
aid toll that of 1912 will make northern
,o ,n d bap Wisconsin dry" He has looked
to give into the question and made a
study of both treaties and in a
| Of statement to the Ashland Press
hildren declared that while northern
I'd and n Wisconsin, e ar,hraced IN the
. q. Or ID treaty made by the United States
until government and the Chippewa
Do sho Indians in 1912, there is no anti
liquor clause in that treaty. In
Il the treaty of 1854, there is an
super antiliquor clause but the treaty
I'd Of &C does not embrace Northern Wis
the consin but it is confined to
s true -, Minnesota alone The treaty of
lions 1854 he states is the one that
]. Su caused the saloonkeepers of Hib-
-. -. bing and other cities in Northern
a. jCn