Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1916-03-03
DR.. CARTER AND
STOOL-PICEONS

a. eASiOo ilOll YOUR newport cor
respondent, who, | am reliably
INFORMED, is one DR.. f. M. Car
ter, erstwhile coroner and for
merly druggist at Newpol. va
quina and elsewhere. This
correspondent seems unduly
worked up over the stool-pigeon
business, as he chooses to call
1t. In looking over the records
OF Lincoln County l find that
the good Doctor really has a
grievance against stool-pigeons.
The record Of the Circuit
Court OF this county shows that
at one time, while running a
drug store at Newport the good
Doccor sold pint OF whisky to
a stool-pigeon. 1t seems that
this sale was made on Sunday,
violating both the dry law and
the Sunday law.
1t seems that this infamous
stool-pigeon went into the
good Doctors drug store at
Newport or Sunday and told the
good Doctor that he wanted
some whisky, and the good Doc
tor looked at him and conceived
the idea that he was sick and
sold him the whisky and took
the money for it. And this in
famous, wretched stool-pigeon,
who had never even signed a
prescription, affidavit or any
thing, but who made an open
purchase of poor whiskey from
the good Doctor in open viola
ton of the law, went and in
formed the authorities of the
fact. In truth, this evil-minded
stool-pigeon had been employed
by the authorities to catch the
good Doctor who had been max
ing many and numerous sales
Illegally and doing landoffice
business
On the oath and testimony OF
this low-down stool-pigeon,
Doctor Carter came into Court
and pleaded guilty and was
fined, il | remember correctly,
something like $3.50 for his Of
tense with the costs amounting
to about $50, which fine and
costs the Doctor paid. And to
make the matter worse, even,
Doctor Carter's partner in the
business at the time was a
druggist at Toledo, and the
Court records show that this
druggist was also caught by
stool-pigeons and plead guilty
to the charge and Doctor Carter
had to help pay that fine.
Now, | will leave it to any
fair minded person that if any.
one has a right to feel sore al
the stool-pigeons it is Doctor
Carter. For my part, car
readily understand how Doctor
Carter feels that he is outraged
and can not get over it-just
think of having to pay some
thing like $400 fine, besides
having his lucrative business OF
illicit and illegal bootleggine
whisky-selling broken up.
There is no doubt in my mint
that no liquor case could bt
strong enough to convince the
ex-bootlegging Doctor Carter
and his stripe of people, that the
law has been broken. and i an
aware that it Is time lost to an
swer Doctor Carter upon. The
bootlegging proposition, as the
Court records show absolutely
where he stands, from which i
is impossible for him to escape
For my part, / prefere to b'
on the other side, and want Il
say to Doctor Carter, and to al
of he illegal-llquor sympathiz
ers of his stripe, that so long al
! am district attorney, / am go
ing to make every effort t
prosecute men who make illega
sales of liquor, and / do not ex
pect at any time to please Doc
tor Carter or any bootlegger.
/ feel grateful to Doctor Car
ter for one thing, however, tina
his continued trade against thu
enforcement of law is having ;
great effect in lining up the law
abiding people for its enforce
ment. And | say to him and Il
his kind of people. II they eve
expect to meet the old wide
open days in Lincoln count,
again, they are doomed to dis
appointment, no matter who 4
district attorney, and that th
people will not permit now, o
ever again, the law to be mad
a laughing-stock or a farce o
TO be winked at by any law of
flcer.
The good Doctor also seem
to have more or less OF peeve,
feeling against the district at