The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-10-23
GILL PLANS TO
CLOSE UP WET
"DRUC" STORES
Action Follows Smashing OF
2 Drug Stores by
Dry Squad
COUNCIL HAS POWER

Mayor Gill took q hand In the
bootieaaino crusade Monday by
requesting council 10 revoke
licenses OF all drug stores that
have gotten Into trouble with
the dry squad curing tho las,
fe~ weeks.
He sent q iiss Of the places
where illegal safes have been
made 10 police investigators.
The list Included the Wash
inason Annex. Peoples. seeord.
MoIln and Auto pharmacies.
TN going 90 ask that these
places be prohibited from doing
business In this town from nov
on. he said. regardless OF whether
their cases have been cleared up ia
the courts or not"
The recently passed dry ordl.
nance gives the council power to
revoke the licenses OF offenders.
Vets Quote Seattle Paper
Mayor GIN received a copy OF the
Baltimore American Monday. in
which was fuiipagc advertise
men, OF the brewery people. qnot.
ing Seattle papers on the bootleg.
ginE situation.
I'm going 70 use II in my
speeches he said.
Ruins In the war aons rad
nothlno on the WAshianfna An-.s.
svs., snd the psepIs'e ohsr.
macy. 7fo Pike ss-. Men6ay.
Each establishment wss -
euced TO wreckaee BY the 20.
lice dry SQUAD during the week.
end for violations Of the liquor
Law.
After Or. r. W. oBrien OF the
city hospital had removed all ex.
plosives and dangerous acids. hns-
Ky officers swung into the Kiass
cases and shelving II took them
less than an hour 10 destroy furni.
'ure and fixtures
Marked Money Used
Marked money had been ex.
changed for booze by dry squad in
vestigators prior to each wreckins
crusade.
At the Washington Annex phar.
macy. which was wrecked at 1890
D. m. Sunday. Manager Carroll Da.
Wis. and his Japanese porter. Roy
Oko, were arrested. and each re
leased on $500 bail.
Denies Hitting japanese
Officer Ford OF the dry squad de-
MED Monday that he had struck q
Japanese employe OF tho Washing.
ton Annx drug store. who cursed
the dry squad officers. when they
wrecked the place Sunday night.
Pressure was brought upon Chief
Rockingham to discipline Ford for
striking the man.
Even n he had struck the fel.
low, which he denies. wouldn't
suspend Ford" the chief said.
.ie's one OF the hardest working
officers on the dry squad"
At the Peoples pharmacy, wreck.
ed Saturday night. Manager Felix
Harper and A. J. Macarthur, phar.
mscist. were arrested. They each
put up $500 bail.
Many Complaints
| Complaints had been coming 10
police headquarters thick and fast
against both drug stores Small
quantities OF lianor were located
during the searches that preceded
the wrecklng. The Peoples phar.
macy had duslh waiter that con.
nected the counter with the store
room In the basement
The biggest cache Of liquor. how.
ever. was uncovered by dry squad
officers in the Lennon apartments,
at 10 w. Thomas st.. in the Queen
Anne residence district. late Sstur
day.
There they found 25 cases OF
whisky In pint TASKS. identical
with the shipment confiscated when
former Patrolman r. j. Marfgett
was arrested
Find Gambling Outfit
Harry STANLEY, known as "Frls.
co." who occupied an apartment In
the place was arrested for having
more than the legal amount OF
liquor In his possession,
In the basement storeroom. with
the booze. was gambling parapher-
MALTA worth about $4,000. IL had
been Grated and stored there. to-
gether with a dozen or 10 opium
smoking pipes.
/ The police seized all OF the stuff
and we're destroying II Monday.
PatroInen Help Now
Police officers on the beats have
begun 10 cooperate in locating
bootleggers. according 10 Chief
Rockingham.
THE tip on the iannon apart.
ments came from patrolman," the
chief said, "and two detectives stay
ed on the job all Friday night.
checking up on II.
"Officers who cooperate In en-
forcing the dry law ought TO get .
little credit"