White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-10
STATE TAKES A. HAND IN WH|TE|
PINE COUNTY'S ALLEGED LAX|TY|
OF PROH|B|T|ON-LAW ENFORCEMENT

1V'h htih Wy AouhA9 pIiAl1Ars ca
plotted as a subject OF local interest
in the columns of the News for the
last two or three Issues and the sub
iect OF suit in the local courts. has
resulted in a statewide mental lag"
productive of more or less violent
outbursts, particularly at Reno and
in the envlrons of the Honorable
Governor and the State Police.
The whiskey represented 300 cases
oonfscated by the county sheriff; the
suit was of Peter George ct al and
Grover Stoltz against Sheriff w s.
Enslow TO recover whiskey claimed
by plaintiffs to have been taken and
held illegally. etc. etc.
Then enters the state with the ap-
pointment of James NJ. Lockhart as
deputy attorney general with In
structions to get busy and do some
thing to prevent the return of the
whiskey to the alleged owners. AS
told in the News last Sunday. Deputy
Attorney General Lockhart got busy
and issued restraining order where
by the return of the whiskey to the
plaintiffs is prohibited.
Whatever other complications may
be associated in the case, the main
issue at present is the implication
cast on White Pine county by the
chief executive, who has ordered the
state police here to enforce the dry
law, because, as stated in a Carson
City dispatch in the Reno Gazette,
of information reaching the govern
or and attorney general within the
last few days to the effect that con-
ditions relative to the liquor traffic
In White Pine county are very bad,
and that the officers there have
failed to act when action was lusti-
fed"
Other state papers have taken up
the story more or less amplified, and
the lnleItuCt Ia tHul tiito eouhey ioo
.'seceeded" from the commonwealth
and is the only section in the great
and glorious state of Nevada where
Bacohus is openly worshipped and
John Barleycorn holds sway in de-
fianee to law and order.
Great Corks and Bottles,
The county commissioners, the
county sheriff, the district attorney
and others are sorer than boils; reso-
lutions have been adopted. and the
wires have been kept hot with tele-
grams pro and con, mainly 10 the
effect that White Pine county is per
foctly we'll able to handle the liquor
situation without the help OF the
governor. the state police or anyone
else.
Deputy Attorney General Lock
bart is we'll in the center Of the
limelight and having the time OF his
life pulling the tail and whiskers of
the reealcitrant public morals. The
Gazette forgets for the moment Its
divorce scandals. gambling dives and
blind tigers and plays up White Pine
county under streamer heads, and In
Fridays issue quotes the deputy at
torney general as stating that "one
of the saloons of Ely has closed Its
.booze-selling annex and discharged
its $10-a-day man"
Hundreds of good. clean drinkers
of the past wet regime are viewing
the spectacle with slavering chops
and wondering why, II all this con-
VITALITY had been going on. they had
not gotten in on 1t.
The governor arrived last night to
discuss the strike issue and as sup
Elementary issue he will in all prob
ability have an opportunity to dis
cuss with county officials the booze
issue. The chief executive and the
state police are noble In their inter-
pretation of that lovely character
who said:
Lips that touch liquor shall nev-
er touch"-it any more II we can
prevent II.
The county commissioners have
taken n hand In the matter and pass
ed resolutions condemning the action
of the state in sending state police
to the camp and placing o deputy
encouragement In charge. John
Weber, chairman of the board OF
county commissioners, sent tele-
gram to the governor relative TO the
affair and the governor replied IN
telegram as follows:
"Your wires of this date received
Continued protests regarding viola
ton prohibition act moved the super
Intendent of state police, who Is ex-