Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — ACTIVE TEMPERANCE WORK. [ARTICLE]

ACTIVE TEMPERANCE WORK.

A special dispatch from Des Moines, Ia. T says: The State Temperance Alliance is closing up saloons in localities where the local authorities have neglected or refused to enforce the prohibitory law. Presides t Harvey, of the alliance, and ex-Attorney-General Baker have returned from Carroll, where they procured injunctions against all the saloons there, seven in number. At the first trial the fact was developed that there were some witnesses fronr _ Des Moines who had been at Carroll as detectives procuring evidence. At night a mob was organized, and headed by a saloon keeper, for the purposeof getting rid of the Important evidence The witness were arrested and placed in jail, but soon were released. The mob continued to make hostile demonstrations, but the witness were not intimidated. A dispatch from Fort Dodge says that applications for injunctions against twentyfive saloons have been filed by the StateTemperance Alliance. Detectives kava . been at work gathering evidence forweeka and the alliance hopes to close every solooa in the country.