Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1914 — “BUND TIGERS” RAIDED AT GOODLAND [ARTICLE]

“BUND TIGERS” RAIDED AT GOODLAND

Member of Town Council Under Arrest Charged With Dlegal Sale of Intoxicants.

Goodland had a “blind tiger” raid last Saturday night, when, (headed by Town Marshal O. H. Mohney, a dozen citizens searched the pool room run by Chan Smith, the tailor shop of John Weickert and a “club room” over the tailor shop. Evidence of an iricriminating nature was found in each place and Fred E. Noel, a bookkeeper in the grain elevator at Goodland and a member of the town council, was placed under arrest. Noel is accused of operating a “blind tiger” in the room over the tailor shop, which has been designated .a club room, a real estate office and a few other things, but which, good citizens claim, is really maintained for the purpose of selling liquor. Noel is what is termed a “square out bad man.” He admits that he is in favor of saloons and of the liquor traffic and he was elected a member of the board of trustees of the town by the liberal element. He is an expert bookkeeper but his good qualities are said to be sadly soiled Iby his association with the most demoralizing conditions in the community. Noel was present when the raid took place and he demanded that she marshal and his deputies withdraw and not search the “club room.” When they advanced he jerked off his coat and defied them; saying that he would take any of them single handed and if he did not “get” them at that time he would later. His threats were of no avail and the room was searched and it is said a keg of beer and a number of bottles were found. Noel was arrested and this preliminary trial took place at Goodland today (Wednesday.) In the Weickert tailorshop 16 quart bottles of beer were found, which the tailor claimed were purchased for his own consumption. He was not arrested but his place will be watched carefully. Chan Smith’s poolroom gave up a quantity of “Ritz,” one of the numerous beer substitutes that ufacturers claim to possess all the palate satisfying qualities of the real article, but which retailers always try to make temperance people believe Is as “soft” as the neck of a goose. The “Ritz” was confiscated and will be analyzed and upon the result will the proscution of Smith depend. The marshal was assisted in the .raid by Rev. Geo. E. Deuel, pastor of the M. E. church; Rev. B. H. Truman, pastor of the Baptist church; Warren W. Washburn, formerly of this city and head of the telephone company; John W. Baer, a Justice of the Peace; and John Sage, Harvey Hill, Will H. Gilman, George Stillman and others. Since licensed saloons were voted out of Goodland the town has had a number of bootlegging conditions to contend with and recently the bars have (been let down and to get a drink required nothing more than the appetite and the price. The good citizens are determined to break up the evil and will probably resort to various methods to accomplish the result. ■Noel, the town councilman, is planning to go to Montana and was to leave about April 15th. It was his plan to leave the state that caused the raid, as it was believed his conviction would serve to break up the clandestine selling of intoxicants.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Ranton, Su arrived home last evening from their winter’s sojourn at Santa Monica; Oal., and have taken up their residence at their Front street home, the former J. J. Hunt residence; They had been absent since the 18th of December.

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