The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-01
JAG WAS IN Vain
Chicago AwakeS To Find Booze
Still Sold.
Few h. C. Saloons Open for
Business Today.
LAST NIGHT WAS WILD, WILD
Wreckage in Cafes Mark Riot
Gus Funeral Scenes.
Atlantic City Bars Are Selling
Whisky Today.
LAST NIGHT WAS WILD, WILD

sixty day licenses for saloons to sell
~ per cent beer and light wines.
Action OF the council was taken last
night following announcement by At
torney General Brundage that so far
as the state was, concerned saloon
keepers would not be prosecuted for
selling beer and wine until the courts
had ruled that ~ per cent alcoholic
content was Intoxicating.
Anti-saloon league leaders took is
sue with trainers of the council special
hill and with action of the state at
Sorney general. claiming that the new
Illinois search and seizure bill would
be used in enforcement of the prohi-
bition laws.
Wld Scenes Enacted.
Wild scenes were enacted in the city
last night and early today. In most
cases stocks were exhausted, especial
~ at the larger and more popular
hotel bars and downtown cafes. Nor
NAL night crowds on downtown streets
were swelled by thousands more, who,
while not former drinkers, desired to
get in on" the last big night.
Police reports a few accidents and
many arrests for minor infractions.
Offices and stores were late in opening
today. business in general being de-
layed from half hour to two hours.
Saloons were open and doing busi-
ness nearly "as usual" here today.
Beer and light wines were on tap.
In some places stronger drinks were
4NPDA A1h ~ blC AOA AOuDAC
days prices.
a policeman and a 7-year-old boy
were shot and killed and two men shot,
one believed fatally. during the wind
up of the celebration last night at
Blue Island. near here. The police
man shot and wounded his assailant
after being MORALLY wounded.
Kansas City Is Arid.
Kansas City, July Broken bot
ties and glassware, smashed furniture
4 .ral A4nnrAar1xr a. nm, raj n = lie
all that Is left Of last nights mem rial
service to the disappearance OF "spir-
ituous and vinous' liquors in this city.
Today only few of the many sa-
looms were open. those selling soft
drings. light wines and 2.75 per cent
beer only. Local brewers are con-
ferring with Francis NJ. Wilson.
United States district attorney, and
viii wait for his sanction, they de-
clared. before resuming the manu- |
facture OF the war time brew. Mr.. |
Wilson is awaiting final instructions
from Attorney General Palmer before |
making any statement to the manu- /
facturers.
Last nights celebration took on the
noise and appearance of New Years
eve. but shortly after midnight with |
the exception of a few JOY riders the |
streets were clear and vacant.
Fnvorlte Excuse LAST Night.
Kansas City, Mo. July AT 1855
n. m. the Denver bar had twenty
customers. Patrolmen Niles stopped
in. Business so rushing and the clock
stopped on us" explained Thomas
Holland. proprietor.
Awakcs With Headache.
st. Louis. July 1.-St. Louis woke
this morning with a headache and no
The city celebrated last night. The
places to gamble with the legality OF /
-2.75 per cent beer were few. The
majority OF saloons had their doors
bolted.
Springfield. Ill. July What ef-
feet will the search and seizure act.
passed by the last general assembly
have upon liquor selling in Illinois
now that 2.75 per cent beer and light
wines are not under the ban until
January /?
This is the question Illinois ''wets"
are anxious TO get ruling on.
The consensus of opinion is that
tho new act will absolutely prohibit
the manufacture and sale of intoxicat-
ing liquor of any kind in those parts
Of Illinois that are now dry" The
bill Il Is believed. will not affect the
wet" spots until January l. when the
national prohibition amendment be-
comes effective.
40 Million Gallon Surplus.
Louisville. Ky. July 1.-Notwith-
standing the enormous amount of
whisky sales In the last week, Ken
have a surplus of forty million gal
Ions. How to dispose of this, they say.
Is undetermined.
Vets Give Up All Hope.
New York. July Open bars
where beverages of 2.75 per cent al
-cohoHc content could be purchased by
the drink, offered the only conSola-
ton obtainable in New York today to
the friends of hard liquor on the first
hay OF war time prohibition.
Thruout the city the last few hours
of the unrestricted sale of all bever
ages were ushered out without much
hilarity, but with considerable drink
ing as Il to see how much could be
consumed before the dry period set
in Inside the popular hotels and res
taurants. the 'celebrators bought fast
and lavishly and watched the clocks.
What little hope the distillers, brew
ers saloonkeepers and liquor dealers
may have had up to last night that
something would happen to postpone
further the advent Of the great dry
SPELL was dashed aside when they
analysed the opinion of Attorney Cen
eral Palmer. Hundreds Of saloon
keepers decided 10 quit business and
those that remain open will offer
nothing containing more than 2.75 per
cent alcohol
Novel Booze ads.
San Francisco July Local cafe
proprietors solved the drinking In pub
lie problem by inviting dlnerS, tnru
advertisements in the newspapers to-
day. to bring their drinkables to the
grills and be served at a minimum
"corkaEe" charge.
Tho advertisements quote various
legal opinions in substantiation OF the
claim that II is entirely legal to take
YOUR own booze to a cafe and drink
IL openly.
ScrupIcs TO the Winds.
Louisville. Ky. July Louisville
IN pf Jnhn RarfFvrnra
last night and drank deep, long and
bitterly.
- People who never tasted the nee
tar before threw their religious and
onscfeuffo1g ecrtln1as into the dfsca I'd