Jacksonville post., September 21, 1907, Image 5

THE LID IS ON
IN JACKSON
Sheriff Jackson will Enforce the
State Gambling and Sunday
Closing Laws.
The Tribune, in its issue of Septem­
ber 18, carries as its leading editorial
an article entitled “A Meddlesome
Meddler.” Regardless of whether or
not slot machines should be allowed to
run or whether or not saloons should be
allowed to run on Sunday the law
should be enforced in Medford to exact­
ly the same extent that it is enforced
in Jacksonville, Ashland or Gold Hill,
or any other place. Jackson county is
bigger than Medford, and the State of
Oregon is bigger than Jackson county.
The Tribune lays special stress npon
the fact that Medford can and will
manage its own municipal affairs, but
it does not do it. Just a few days ago
a woman from the bad lands of Med­
ford plead guilty before the Circuit
Court to the crime of conducting a
house of prostitution within the corpo­
rate limits of the city of Medford.
Where is the boasted management of
their own affairs? Did Sheriff Jackson
have his head swelled, as is alleged in
the editorial, when he went over to
Medford at the request of the law
abiding citizenship of that city and put
that house out of business, or was he
doing his duty as the statutes of the
State command him to do? If the slot
machine law is to be invoked in Jack­
sonville and throughout Jackson county
it ought to be invoked in Medford, and
the Tribune will probably learn when it
gets to be a little older that Medford
has no more right to license crime than
any other municipality in the county.
The real gist of the whole trouble is
that the Tribune does not wish to state
exactly how it stands on this question.
If it is in favor of Sunday opening and
of slot machines, it ought to say so.
If it is opposed to that, it ought to have
the backbone to assert it. But it
should not straddle the fence and say
that the law should be enforced in every
community throughout the county with
the exception of Medford. If the sher­
iff would attempt to enforce the Sun­
day closing law, the gambling laws and
the siot machine law throughout the
county and would exempt Medford or
any other place from the operation of
the law, the Post would be against him
first, last and all the time. It has no
use for an official who will grant favors
to one and withold them from others.
If it is his duty to enforce these laws
in the county over which he has been
elected sheriff that duty plainly extends
to every part of Jackson county, even
including Medford. When Medford
wants a new bridge built within the
city limits at the expense of the coun­
ty it does not hesitate to claim to the
County Court that it belongs to the
county, and when it comes to the en­
forcement of the law it should be
taught that it is a part of Jackson
county and amenable to the State law.
So if we are to have a closed county,
let’s be fair about it and if we close a
part of it, let’s close it all.
Beginning tonight at 12 o’clock all
the saloons of Jackson county must re­
main closed every 24 hours on the first
day of the week, commonly as Sunday,
and all slot machines and games of
chance must be relegated to the cellar.
In other words there is “nothing doing”
on Sunday in Jackson county in the
future.
Sheriff Jackson notified the saloon
keepers of Jacksonville Sunday that
the State law would have to be re­
spected in the future, and Monday
morning he visited other county towns
and served notices upon them.
This is the last county along the line
to be placed “under the lid, ” as Jose­
phine county only last week joined the
long procession.
The Medford Daily Tribune in its is­
sue of September 16th volunteers the
assertion, that inasmuch as the city
charter of Medford delegates to the
common council the authority to regu­
late gambling and the sale of liquor,
that the saloons that are inside of the
city limits of Medford are exempted
from the state law upon those subjects.
In support of this contention, the Tri­
bune points to the fact that the city
charter was passed after the state law
was enacted. However, this is giving
the sheriff nor the district attorney’s
office no uneasiness whatever, and in
an opinion rendered to the sheriff de­
fining his duties, the district attorney
holds that in his opinion the state law
governs Medford as well as all other
places within the limits of Jackson
county.
Sheriff Jackson claims that he was
not correctly reported in the issue of
the Tribune under the date referred to.
The article in question purports to give
a conversation which took place be­
tween the sheriff and Mayor Reddy
and quotes the sheriff as saying to the
mayor that the sheriff’s office would
expect the mayor to enforce the city
statutes. The sheriff however states
that he simply asked the mayor of
Medford for the assistance of the Med­
ford police force in the enforcement of
the state law, and that the mayor re­
plied that the matter would have to be
referred to the city attorney for his of­
ficial opinion, and in any event the co­
operation of the police force of Med­
ford would be very unlikely. It was
then that the sheriff told the Mayor,
that even with the non-co-operation
of the police force of Medford, the
sheriff and his deputies would enforce
A happy wedding took place last
the state law regardless of any ordi­
nance which the city of Medford might Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Houston on upper Rogue river,
have on the subject.
The situation in Medford on the sa­ when their daughter, Florence, one of
loon question is a peculiar one. Under the charming and popular young ladies
the city charter of Medford, as amend­ of that section, was united in marriage
ed by an Act filed in the office of the to Sanford Richardson, a prominent
Secretary of State on February 7th, rancher of the Rogue river country.
1905, the right is given the city to li­ Rev. T. M. Jones of Central Point of­
cense, tax. regulate or prohibit bar­ ficiated. The bride is a cousin of A.
rooms irrespective of any general law D. Houston of this city.
upon this subject enacted by the legis­
lature or the people at large; but six
A number of Jacksonville citizens re­
days after that by Senate Bill No. 245, ceived invitations last Tuesday to at­
the legislature in the same session tend a banquet given by the W. B.
amended sub section 19 and gave to the Sherman Realty company at Grants
city council power to license, tax, reg­ Pass September 17 in honor of A. B.
ulate and prohibit bar-rooms; provided, Carson, father of the grape industry in
however, that said city shall not at any the Rogue river valley.
time license drinking shops or other
places where intoxicating liquors are
All the new fall shapes in hats, both
sold, to sell intoxicating liquors on Sun­ stiff and soft, including the new brown
day.
| shades, at the Toggery, Medford.
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