option elections since the passage of the Local Option Law by the Legislature of 1911; eight counties voting wet and eight counties voting dry.

A primary election for Governor was held May 11, 1914, resulting in the nomination of a Local Option Governor; nomination is equal to election in this State; in this election Congressman Hobson was repudiated by the people in the vote for Senator, on the prohibition issue.

Arizona:-State-wide prohibition was the issue in the November election. The drys won by about one thousand majority.

The Amendment briefly is: "Ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors of whatever kind shall not be manufactured in or introduced into the State of Arizona under any pretense. A violator shall be guilty of a misdemeanor penalized by imprisonment from ten days to two years and fined from $25 to $300 and costs. Nothing in this amendment shall apply to the manufacture or sale of denatured alcohol. The Legislature shall, by appropriate legislation, provide for the carrying into effect of this amendment. This amendment to take effect on January 1, 1915.”

1913.

Arkansas:-Nothing new in legislation has taken place since

The Supreme Court has decided, in the case of City of Texarkana v. Hudgins Produce Co., that cider is an alcoholic beverage.

The Supreme Court also ruled that the Act of 1913 known as the Going Law, regulating the issuance of liquor licenses and providing that when a majority of the adult white inhabitants of a city or town sign a petition for the granting of such licenses the County Court may issue such licenses in wet territory, is constitutional.

California:-A town may pass laws prohibiting the sale of liquor or soliciting, or making contracts within its boundary, but the Supreme Court holds that, since the town has no power over the local traffic outside its corporate limits, the law only prohibits the soliciting and contracting for the sale of liquor to be delivered within the town, and does not prohibit the taking of orders in the town for delivery outside its limits.

In the case of Golden & Company v. Justices Court of Woodland Township, Yolo County, the Court of Appeals held that ad

vertisements in newspapers circulating in dry districts, addressed to the general public, and not to any particular person, are permitted.

ELECTIONS

During the past year, that is to say, from June 1, 1913, to June 1, 1914, there have been 56 elections. Fifty under the Wyllie Local Option Law, and six under the Initiative and Referendum. The cities of Hanford and Willows also voted under the Initiative on the same ballot with the Wyllie Local Option Law.

Thirty-five cities and twenty-one supervisorial districts voted. Eighteen cities voted wet. Fifteen were wet, and three-Merced, Hanford and Watts-had been dry for two years. Fourteen districts voted dry. Seven voted wet.

In Hanford there was a change in favor of the license forces over the result of two years previous of 117 votes, and in the City of Eureka, there was also an increase of 889 votes.

Seventeen cities voted dry. The vote in Orland was a tie, and is the only wet city which changed to dry. This election was contested in the courts, and decided in favor of the wets. Avalon voted dry, but since February 25th of this year, both bar and table licenses have been granted.

There appears to be an increase in sentiment in favor of the adoption of regulatory ordinances in the smaller cities of the State, for the reason that the Wyllie Law simply decides whether the community shall be wet or dry, with no limitation as to the number of licenses or other regulatory features.

The State-wide prohibition amendment was defeated in November by 191,800 majority. The vote being 540,612 in favor of the measure and 348,771 against it. An initiative measure providing against holding local option elections oftener than once in eight years was lost. San Francisco showed upwards of 83,000 votes against prohibition and only 17,000 in its favor. In Los Angeles County 124,324 votes were registered against the amendment and 122,550 for it. Prohibition would have meant the wrecking of the wine industry, the most important business in the State.

There was incorporated in the proposed law a clause providing that a second conviction for serving wine at meals in one's own home should be punishable by imprisonment. This drastic clause cost the drys many votes, as did the fear that prohibition would effect the attendance at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.

The Los Angeles Tribune of November 8th says in an editorial in part: "California was not prepared to inflict that injury upon its vineyards that would have resulted had this amendment been adopted in the form in which it was submitted, but it is clearly manifest, as the returns are studied, that had it proposed merely to put an end to the retail traffic in liquor, the saloon would have been banished.

"If the liquor sellers of California possess a grain of common sense they will henceforth do everything within their power to divorce their traffic from political affiliations. They will keep out of politics. Only as they separate themselves from the forces and institutions with which hitherto they have made common cause and entered into alliance can they hope to placate that profound public sentiment that manifested itself so strongly in the election.

"The men who are engaged in the liquor traffic must cleanse that traffic, in so far as it humanly can be done, of the objectionable features wherewith it has been surrounded."

Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, which has been a closed town on Sundays ever since its incorporation voted at the November election in favor of an open Sunday with regulated saloons.

Visalia, Tulare County, voted wet by 1,042, a majority of 260 against prohibition, reversing the dry majority of 400 voted last spring.

Colorado:-In the Spring Local Option elections, La Jara, Manitou, Nederland, Rifle and Swink voted in favor of license; Akron, Brighton and Grand Valley voted against it.

The vote on State-wide prohibition in November resulted in a majority of 11,572 in favor of the amendment; 129,589 voting for and 118,017 voting against it. Denver County voted strongly wet, the majority against the amendment ran over 9,000. The wets carried 24 counties and lost 39.

Briefly the amendment runs: "After January 1st, 1916, no person, association or corporation shall, within this State, manufacture for sale or gift any intoxicating liquors; no person, etc., shall import into this State any intoxicating liquors for sale or gift; and no person, etc., shall sell or offer any such liquor for sale, barter or trade.

"Provided, however, that the handlers of such liquors for medicinal or sacramental purposes may be provided for by Statute."

As the matter now stands the measure is merely an addition to

the Colorado Constitution, and as such it does not provide penalties for violation.

Delaware:-The Court of General Sessions upheld the WebbKenyon Act and also sustained the constitutionality of the Hazel Law is the cause of many complaints from wholesale liquor dealers Intra-State shipment of liquor into local option territory. This Hazel Law is the cause of many complaints from wholesale liquor dealers and bottlers of beer, who have their money invested, pay taxes and licenses in Wilmington, yet because of the decision of the Supreme Court, in the case of Van Winkle v. State, they cannot supply the demands of dry Kent and Sussex counties, while outside states can legally do so.

Retail liquor dealers have organized at Wilmington for the purpose, as declared in their constitution, of eliminating from the trade all those refusing to comply with the laws of the State and the ordinances of municipalities.

Florida:-Four counties have held wet and dry elections, viz: Dade, Pinellas, St. Johns and Calhoun. Pinellas and St. Johns went wet and the other two went dry. Dade went dry by a very small majority. Pinellas was first declared dry by a very few votes; the election was declared illegal and another was held at which the county went wet by a good majority. St. Johns, in which county St. Augustine is located, went wet by an overwhelming majority. Calhoun voted for the first time and went dry by a big majority. Saloons had been established in the county less than a year, having been kept out under a law which prevented the putting of a saloon within three miles of a church or school house except in an incorporated town.

The Supreme Court of Florida holds that the liquor law of that State is unconstitutional.

Georgia: A bill to legalize the sale of pure beer, a bill to abol.ish locker clubs and a bill to make effective the national law in regard to shipping alcoholic drinks into prohibition States were defeated. The Courts decided that social clubs are not authorized to sell liquor to their members or others.

Since Georgia became a Prohibition State the number of illicit distilleries in this commonwealth has increased approximately 300 per cent. Internal Revenue Officers have so far sized and destroyed

hundreds of illicit stills, but it is stated that nearly 1,000 are still in operation. The number destroyed last year was 480.

Idaho:-American Falls voted wet on May 27th, although it was supposed to be safely in the dry column. Rockland voted dry. In the interesting saloon case of Village of American Falls v. West, the Supreme Court held that when a new county is made up of parts of wet and dry counties all of the new county is to be considered wet until the voters rule otherwise at an election held for

that purpose.

It is still further held that a saloon is not a nuisance, since it is authorized by law, and that it cannot become a nuisance so long as it is conducted in accordance with law. By this decision the saloon may exist as long as it remains orderly.

That it is not unlawful for a common carrier to transport and deliver liquor in Idaho when the shipment originates without the State and is consigned to a private individual in a prohibition district, provided the liquor is to be used for no unlawful purpose, is the opinion handed down in a case against a local agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company.

Illinois:-The results of the local option elections held in 239 territories (towns, cities and villages), in seventy counties, in April, 1914, indicate:

First. That public sentiment, as demonstrated by the male vote, has not materially changed on the wet and dry question.

Second. That in the senatorial and congressional districts where male citizens, only, are allowed to vote for legislative or congressional offices, at primaries and elections, the male voters usually vote in favor of license and against prohibition.

Third. That in sixty out of the seventy counties, the male vote showed a total wet majority of 54,254 and that in ten out of seventy counties, the male vote showed a total dry majority of 1,425, making a grand total wet majority among the men, in the seventy counties of 52,829.

Fourth. That in four out of the seventy counties, the women's vote showed a total wet majority of 2,898, and that in sixtysix out of seventy counties, the female vote showed a total dry majority of 55,503, making a grand total dry majority among the women in the seventy counties of 52,605.

Quincy voted for license by 7,688; a wet majority of 5,118 with