River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-11-23

and shall pay into the state treasury
an annual fee" The same rule ap-
plies to transient merchants, either
on or off fair ground.
g Section 1878 provides penalty
of not less than twenty five dollars
fine or imprisonment in the county
Jail. As head of this department, the
writer is charged with the admins
tiation and enforcement of this law.
3. Former Attorney General, Wal
ter c. Owen, now justice! of the
Wisconsin Supreme Court, in an opin-
ion dated July II, 1914, held that, eff
any person who is nonresident of
a locality makes a business of going
about from place to place where
fairs, circuses, and the like are being |
held, selling or offering to sell crack
CRACKS, lemonade, etc. (Which also in /
cludes lunches) must have state Ii |
eense," and the fee according to this |
ruling is twenty dollars.
4. This phase of the law, from |
what | can learn, has never been en-
forced before and we met with bitter
opposition from many fair officials |
and others who are sworn to enforce
end uphold the law. You refer to the
arrest | made at the Pierce County
Fair. These transients, Kurtz and
Ref, had an indian blanket stand at
the fair grounds. They sold the
writer a blanket and offered to sell
me all they had. They had no license
and refused to take one out 1t be-
| came my duty to arrest these men.
Kurtz pleaded guilty in justice court
and paid fine and costs. Reif, the
partner, pleaded not guilty. The
next morning district attorney, Ken
meth White appeared in court and
moved to dismiss the case and per-
sonally stated to me that Kurtz made
a mistake in pleading guilty. / in
auired why he was having the case
dismissed and he answered, "for want
! of evidence" / said | was prepared
/ to testify, also Assemblyman c. E.
Hanson and others, but he refused to
listen, and the case was dismissed.
5. You state in your article that
the deck" which presume refers to
me, made complaint against the
Pierce County district attorney. l
have not as yet done so. However, /
was certainly surprised to know that
a public official whose sworn duty is
to enforce the law should take sides
with law violators and you appear to
approve of his action
6. Now in regard to the district at
torney of Pepin County, C. A. Ingram,
part of the petition l filed withst the
| Governor reads as follows:
II, c. B. Ballard, State Treasury
Agent, hereby petition your Excellen-
cy to remove c. A. Ingram from the
office of District Attorney of Pepin
County, Wisconsin, and S. fomit the
following charges against him, as
grounds for making such removal.
THAT on the Pepin County fair
grounds, and during the time the fair
was in progress, on or about Sep
TENDER 28th, 1922, when /, C. A. Bal
lard, went on the fair grounds to see
IT any persons were there doing bust |
ness without a license, where they |
were liable for violation of the law in |
not having license to sell goods as |
a hawker and peddler, by Chapter |
Gig, Laws of the State of Wisconsin;
and when undertook to arerst GER
tain persons, to-wit. r. E. Mckenzie |
and VIM. SHERMAN, they resisted my |
efforts in placing them under arrest. |
| secured the assistance of the |
sheriff of Pepin County to aid me,
when the said c. A. Ingram appeared |
on the scene, and ordered the sheriff |
to release said Mckenzie and Silber- |
man, and stated further he would |
hold the sheriff liable and responsible
on his bond, if he did not do as he di-
rected. He lstated further that he
Gnu the rdlT ASSocIdCioH Would ue-
fend them and make a test case of
the law right here in Pepin County:
and further told the sheriff he would
be required to put up more bonds if
he persisted in aidingg Mr. Ballard:
and the defendants repeatedly said
Mr. Ingram had told them TO pay no
attention to Mr.. Ballard as he would
protect thCgn. Thus he rendered no
service to Mr.. Ballard when he need
ed it. and did aid those who were
vjolatino such laws and opposing pc
titioner."
Z. IN closing, l wish to state that
with the cooperation of deputy agents