The Alaska citizen., 1916-04-17
COAST CITY IS
 IN THROES OF
 BOOZE BATTLE
SEATTLE HAVING GOOZE TaOU 5LES-MANY VIOLATE
 THE DRY LAW.

SEATTLE, AprI 1G-- Seattle is in the throes Of booze war. That is. the iry law recently passed by vote Of the people of the State of Washington has been the occasion Of a great dell of trouble For numerous residents of Seattle III insist on violating the law. and as a consequence the city authori- ties are hard put to find a means of putting stop tJ booze peddling. Mayor Hi Gill has announced that Ee is now ha vine a ci-v ordinance prepared which will. in a manner, amend the state wide dry law. That is, 1t will strengthen it to con siderable extent For if passed the city law will prevent druggists from violating the laW by dealing in liquor for any reason whatever. and vii. prevent the taking ol booze into the cafes and restaurants of the city.
 The Gerald cafe. which has been one of the most flaEr7nt y;olators of the law againSt the sale of liq- uor. was "a icd last nieht while a arge crowd vas in the place. The raid took place an hour after tho place was ordered to close is doors for the night Nothing Q suspi- cious nature was found, and it is therefore obvious that the place was warned t2at the raid was to be made.
 The proprietor of the place was however, placed unuer arrest, charged with diso5cying the orders of the police in the matter of closing his establishment There has been nothing secret concerning the sell ing of liquor 1t the Gerald as it has been served openly on the ta- bles
 The consumers of liquor in Seattle have taken all manner of means 10 procure il. And the sellers of the various beverages have done likewise in the matter of selling.
 One of the chiet methods of puT chase seems tc have been by phy. sicians prescription. That is, con sinners would get prescriptions for liquor from doctors. go to the drug stores and get them filled and thus be fixed up.
 Several of the drug stores which have been selling Iquor wern raided last week. And an examination of their records and files shows that one doctor ha, issued 40 prescrip tons during the past six weeks, calling for a total of 2,5OC quarts cf beer and b0 quarts of whiskey, or an average per prescription Ot approximately 10 quarts of beer and one-fourth of a quart of whiskey One prescription called for 24 quarts of beer for a headache Another for 15 quarts of beer for fatigue
 A large numoer of fishermen are still at work ir the bay trying r recover, by the use c' uragnets rome of the J2,00O quarts of beer dumped into the bay last Friday. And some of them have been ac- complishing their object Their work is being carried on without interference on the part of the pc lice.
 OFFICIALS AT OUTS.
 SEATTLE, April 16.- Prosecuting Attorney LunC'n uas instructed the state and couptry detectives work ing under him to rip out the bar fixtures of every place ra'ded at the time the rid takes place. The instructions were delivered in the face of the ruling of Judge Ronald, who ruled that the bar fixtures could not be removed from a place until after the case against the pro prietor of the establishment had been disposed of
 E. P Short, the well known Ester creek mining man, arrived in town Friday night from the Outside, where he spent the winter.
 Colin McPherson, the Brooks merchant and freighter paid a busi- ness visit to town last week.