The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-26
LANCER TILTS
LID A .TRIFLE
FOR FLU CURE
Attorney General Directs Ac-
ceptance Of Liquor Ship
ments for Medicine.
ROBINSON SERVES NOTICE
Sends Letter to Twin City Car.
riers Telling Them They >
?, Must Take Booze.
ROBINSON SERVES NOTICE
uANGER's STATEMENT.

E -s, AII0rnSy 0SNSTdl William Ian
ger has issued the following state
ment: ~ III
': "Within the last few days many
physicians and health authorities
from various parts Of the state
have advised me that whiskey
and brandy can be used advant-
ageousIy in treating severe cases
Of influenza and pneumonia and
have asked permission to secure
limited quantities of these liquors
for such purposes.
"Upon the strength Of such
representations on the part Of
these physicians and health auth
critics and in order that nothing
may be left undone in the efforts
to check the further ravages Of
these diseases | have held that
whiskey and brandy. may be con-
sidered medicines and can be
y brought into the state for their &,
treatment in the manner pre-
scribed by law during the period
Of this epidemic only. Under the
, law such liquors must be obtained
through registered pharmacists
Who are generally informed con-
CCTuluA kIS ~ 'SSSNNb -" " w w.
!. lowed. Private importations are
absolutely prohibited.
! [''WiLLLAM-LANGER,'
"Attorney General
For few hours this morning 1t ap.
peared that North Dakota had been
restored to the semi-wet column, jus
tice James f. Robinson, who has
a. = on tho
North Dakota bone dry statute, which
he declares to have been grossly faxed
In the house OF the fifteenth legislative
assembly, early this &snorning notified
The Tribune that Attorney General
LANCER had advised him oyer the
phone that he had wired or would
wire the Twin City headquarters Of
express companies serving North .Da-
kota, advising them to accept ship,
ments of liquor for any point In North
Dakota. Justice Robinson was under
the impression that the attorney gen
eral intendeds that the North Dakota
lid, as applied by the bone dry statute
of 1917, be removed entirely, in &C
scordance with recommendations
which. the jurist has hade in recent
communications to the press. Justice
Robinson wrote the Twin CITY ex-
press companies Friday evening advis-
ing them that such an order wouiu
come from Mr.. LANCER and declaring
it their duty in this emergency to ac-
cept shipments of liquor as directed.
Only For Medicinal Use.
Personallyh interviewed on the sub
ject, MIR. LANCER this morning said: 81
have directed the express companies
to accept liquor for delivery in North
Dakota in accordance with the laws
Of this state" .,-M,., r..
Does that mean under the social
ed bone dry statute?"'~ Mr.. LANCER
was asked. csd..
eyes," replied the attorney general.
"This statute, which is still in full
force and effect, provides that liquor
may be imported for medicinal. scien-
tific, mechanical or sacramental pur-
poses. That clause covers the present
emergency. Ny order was issued in
q case where an express company re-
fused 10 accept shipment Of liquor
ordered by q physician for use in his
practice" b, s....
Have Stretched the Law.
! "These is in force an old statute
which requires that pharmacists be-
fore selling liquor for any purpose
must have permit issued. by the dis
,trict judge said States Attorney
McCurdy this morning. None of our
druggists has taken out such a per-
nit, because they did not wish to be
bothered with the handling of liquor.
Legally, Intoxicating liquor can be;
handled in this state only by pharma-
cists who have permit issued under
the provisions of this old statute,
which was not repealed by the bone
dry statute of 1917"
It is understood, however, that Ny
agreement between U. S. Attorney
NJ. A. Hildreth and Attorney General
LANCER an order was promulgated
about year ago under which any in
dividual having need of intoxicating
liquor for medicinal purposes may
place on Norder through registered
pharmacist, who will remit the same
to some liquor house outside of the
state. The liauor house Is required
to pack this order and to ship it d.
rect to the pharmacist but in a con-
tainer bearing on its exterior the
name of the persongin whose behalf
the consignment was ordered, and the
pharmacist upon receipt of the ship
ment, after having satisfied himself
that it is to be upsed purely for medi-
'cinal purposes. is to turn the consign-
men over to the purchaser with the
original package intact Under this
order. it is said that all liquor actual
ly necessary to cope with the present
emergency NAV be brought into the
state.
The impression which Justice James
f. Robinson conveyed this morning
that the lid is off, at least for the dur
alton of the emergency, is not, how
ever, correct. $50 far as am con-
cerned, l will accept no liquor ship
ments until receive positive instruc-
tions to do SO from the railway admin
istration,' said w. A. Mcdonald, Bis
marck agent for the, Northern Pacific,
this morning. -
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