Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1909 — Four Crown Point Saloon Keepers Fined. [ARTICLE]

Four Crown Point Saloon Keepers Fined.

A Uetective worked up cases against four Crown Point saloon keepers, and secured evidence for the government that caused heavy fines to be imposed. Those fined were, Henry Schmidt, $224; John Foss, $185; Edwin Laws, $175, and Elmo Mann $l4O. The warrants were sworn out by United States Deputy Revenue Collector C. L. Laßue, of Hammond, charging the men with selling beer in kegs in quantities over four gallons. The charge was that they received orders for beer and communicated the orders to the breweries and that the shipment was made direct to the consumer and the saloonkeeper credited with a per cent of the sale. This is contrary to a federal law. The temperance people of Crown Point are causing the saloonkeepers no end of trouble, and just as they were making the people of that town fool sure that they were obeying the law, the government authorities step in and hand them another jolt. It is said that s the breweries will help pay the fines.