PROHIBITION LAW
REVENUE FROM LIQUOR TRAFFIC OFFICIALS SENTENCED Vancouver, January 2. A curious phase of the liquor problem is apparent in the Idaho towns of Mullan i and Shoshone. Recently, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Chief of Police of Mullen were indicted and stiffly sentenced for breaking the prohibition laws. The district is a mining centre, with a sparse population, aud the floating community paid no taxes. Tlie aldermen believed that the only way to get money to build highways and schools was to license a number of saloons and speakeasies, which tlie police allowed to operate so long as they paid for the privilege. This scheme worked well enough until Federal agents invaded the territory, and finally sent to gaol till the municipal authorities. The latest development is that the citizens are raising a fund to get their leaders out ot prison, and a petition, widely-signed, is being sent to tlie White House for a pardon.
CHARGES AGAINST COASTGUARDSMEN
(Rec. January 5, 11 p.m.)
New York, January 4. A Uew London (Connecticut) message states that twenty-four coastguardsnieu have been court-martialled, charged with intoxication and the theft of liquors from the Flor del Mar after the rum runner was captured. Mr. 11. Chin, who lias been spending Christmas and New Year in Palmerston North with his parents, Ims now gone to Auckland.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 86, 6 January 1930, Page 6
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221PROHIBITION LAW Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 86, 6 January 1930, Page 6
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