the men's vote and a wet majority of 2,570 with the women's vote. In only four out of twenty-five precincts did the women fail to return a wet majority.

Danville was carried by the wets by a majority of 189 out of a total vote of 14,249.

Springfield, the State capital, voted for license by 4,001. Of that majority, the men gave 3,725 and the women 276.

Rock Island was the scene of another wet victory, the men voting for license by 2,026 majority and the women voting against by a majority of 181.

In the larger cities, the wet majority of the male vote showed an increase and with few exceptions, territories voted dry were so carried by the votes of the women. The most striking change of sentiment among the men was in Rockford, where the mayor stumped the State for the drys. Two years ago, the men voted dry by 200; this Spring the men voted wet, by a majority of 800. The women, however, kept the city without saloons.

In twenty townships, the majority of the women voted for saloons.

As one of the results of the anti-saloon vote, Lockport and Minooka had to dismiss their police force and in Minooka, where the streets are now unlighted, the offices of city attorney and treasurer will henceforth be unsalaried.

The Local Option election by which Pontiac was placed in the dry column has been declared illegal by Judge Gibbons, in the Livingston county court, because it was shown that the petitions by which the election had been called were signed by others than legal voters. For the same reason, the election at Minonk, also resulting in no-license, was declared null and void in the Woodford County Court.

A list of territories (towns, cities or villages) which voted dry in the elections of April, 1914, follows:

Annawan, Antioch, Apple River, Arenzville, Ashkum, Assumption, Atkinson, Atlanta, Au Sable, Bald Hill, Batavia, Belvidere, Benton, Blackhawk, Blairsville, Bloomington, Bradley, Brookside, Buckhart, Bushnell, Canton, Carlinville, Carmi, Carterville, Chadwick, Channahon, Chatsworth, Chemung, Chenoa, Chebanse, Clintonia, Colfax, Coloma, Concord, Cortland, Corwin, Crescent City, Crystal, Decatur, Deerfield, De Kalb, De Soto, Des Plaines, Door, Dou

glas, Downers Grove, Dwight, Earlville, East Galena, East Marion, Effingham, Elgin, Elmwood, Erienna, Essex (Stark county), Essex (Kankakee county), Fairbury, Farmington, Fayette, Florence, Forrest, Forreston, Freeport, Galesburg, Geneseo, Geneva, Genoa, Gray City, Hampshire, Hampton, Hennepin, Herrin, Herscher, Irvington, Kampsville, Keithsburg, Kewanee, Kingston, La Grange, Libertyville, Lockport, Lyndon, Maine, Malta, Manlius, Marion, Marissa, Marseilles, Martinton, Mattoon, Maryland, Maywood, Meridian, Mineral, Minonk, Momence, Monmouth, Montrose, Morrisonville, Mt. Pleasant, Mt. Sterling, Mulkeytown, New Berlin, Newport, Nokomis, Norton, Nunda, Odell, Odin, Oregon, Orvil, Oswego, Palistine, Palmer, Pana, Papineau, Pecatonica, Peotone, Pesotum, Pigeon Grove, Plainfield, Plano, Pocahontas, Pontiac, Reddick, Richland, River Forest, Rochelle, Rock Falls, Rockford, Rushville, Rutland, Salina, Sandwich, Shabbona, Shawneetown, Somer, Somonauk, Sonora, Squaw Grove, St. Anne, St. David, Sterling, Stockton, Sycamore, Taylorville, Tiskilwa, Tyrone, Vernon, Warren, Watertown, W. Frankfort, W. Marion, White Rock, Woodbine, Wyoming, Yellowhead.

A list of territories (towns, cities or villages), which voted wet in the elections of April, 1914, follows:

Algonquin, Altamont, Alton, Andalusia, Artesia, Athens, Auburn, Aurora, Avon, Bath, Bellwood, Benld, Braceville, Brookfield, Burgess, Cabery, Carlyle, Chester, Christopher, Clayton, Coal Valley, Collinsville, Colona, Compton, Coral, Danville, Divernon, Dixon, Edwardsville, Edwards Station, Ela, Forest Park, Fulton, Ganner, Garfield, Georgetown, Gillespie, Granville, Harmon, Harvel, Havana, Henry, Hillside, Huey, Joliet, Lebanon, Limestone, Lincoln, Litchfield (south), Lone Grove, Manhattan, Manitou, McHenry, Melrose Park, Mendota, Metamora, Moline, Morris, Mound City, Mt. Pulaski, Nameoki, Naperville, Nashville, Nauvoo, New Douglas, Orland, Otto, Palatine, Palos, Proviso, Quincy, Richmond, Riverton, Rock Island, Sandoval, Sand Ridge, Savanna, S. Moline, S. Rock Island, Springfield, Stauton, St. Charles, Steeleville, Sublette, Thornton, Utica, Valley, Venice, Virden, Virgil, Wauconda, Waukegan, W. Galena, Winfield, Witt, Worden.

Indiana: The wet and dry situation in this State has shown little change since our last report. The legislature made prac

tically no change in the license code, but allowed the Proctor City and Township Law of 1911 to stand.

The elections held during this year were instigated largely by the drys in an effort to carry cities which had been wet since the repeal of the county option law in 1911. They succeeded in but one instance.

The following cities which were previously wet again voted for license: Richmond, Peru, Connersville, Bicknell, Greenfield.

Cities previously dry which voted dry were: Muncie, Angola, Bloomington, Greencastle, Bluffton.

The City of Greensburg changed from license to prohibition by a majority of 61.

The result of the election at Muncie, where a dry majority of 462 was reported, is being contested in the courts.

As a result of the November elections, the Democratic party will control both branches of the Legislature and all the State offices, and whereas that party declared in favor of allowing the present liquor laws to stand, it is probable the Legislature next year will make no changes in the Indiana situation.

LEGAL

In the case of Cox v. Timm the Supreme Court declared that the Proctor Law, which limits the number of licenses that may be granted in a town to one to every thousand inhabitants, did not prohibit the issuance of one license in a township having less than the required number of inhabitants.

The Supreme Court has set aside the suits filed by the Attorney-General who had demanded that the charters of several brewery companies in this State be repealed on the ground that they owned saloons and were engaged in the real estate business.

The Indiana Brewers' Association stands for law enforcement, and has filed charges against several saloonkeepers, alleging numerous law violations and demanding the revocation of their licenses.

Iowa:-The Supreme Court ruled that wholesale licenses are not included in the Moon Act, which limits the number of liquor licenses to one to every thousand of a cities' population.

The Webb-Kenyon Law was held constitutional.

Kansas: Judge Pollock, of the Federal District Court of Kansas, ruled that under the Webb-Kenyon Law and the Mahin State Law, breweries and liquor dealers cannot solicit business in that State.

In Kansas City, Kansas, anyone displaying brewery advertising in street cars or windows, on billboards, wagons or automobiles will be subject to a fine of $500 or thirty days in jail, according to an ordinance passed by the City Commission. Newspaper advertising is not affected.

The Webb-Kenyon Law as well as the Mahin State Law were upheld by the State Supreme Court.

The State Supreme Court holds that Jamaica ginger, lemon and vanilla extracts, cologne, camphor and similar tinctures and essences are "intoxicating liquors" and that druggists selling them may be prosecuted under the prohibition law.

Kentucky:-Four bills affecting the liquor interests of the State of Kentucky were enacted by the Kentucky General Assembly during the Regular Session of 1914. Of these only one is looked upon as favorable to Kentucky shippers of liquor, affording as it does, the right to ship liquor from wet into dry territory, provided it is labeled "for personal, family, medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific or sacramental purposes." Under the old law, railroads and other common carriers were prohibited from carrying liquor, no matter how labeled, from wet to dry territory within the State. A test case was made by Crigler & Crigler Company of Covington, Ky., against the Adams Express Co., and the Kenton County Circuit Judge ruled that an express company can be compelled to receive and ship liquor from a wet territory to a dry territory when labeled as required by the Act in question.

A new law provided that 25 per cent. of the voters of a county may call a local option election in a county.

Another Act provides for the search of premises in local option territory whenever there is good reason to believe that liquor is being sold therein, for the arrest of the person or persons in charge of such premises and for the purpose of declaring such intoxicating liquors contraband and directs the confiscation and destruction of

same.

Another new Act provides that the General Council or Commissioners in cities of the second class, shall have power by ordi

nance to license, tax and regulate the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors; to authorize and designate the proper officers of the city to issue and grant all licenses in accordance with such regulations as by ordinance may be prescribed, and to fix the prices and fees to be charged for.

Twenty-seven bills affecting the liquor business were introduced but failed to pass; the most important among them being: a bill to prohibit transportation of liquor for sale into local option territory, to require common carriers to keep records of such shipments in separate books and make such records prima facie evidence in proceedings under local option laws; a bill to authorize issuing of search warrants in prosecutions for illicit sale of liquor; a bill to provide for commitment of persons to a State hospital who are so addicted to use of stimulants as not to have power of self-control; a bill to make it a felony to sell liquor without a license; a bill to prevent manufacture of liquor in local option territory; a bill to prevent soliciting orders for liquor in local option territory; a bill to confiscate and destroy liquor in local option territory; a bill amending the constitution so as to provide for State-Wide Prohibition; and a bill to prohibit brewers and distillers from owning saloons.

MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES

At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen in Covington on October 10, 1913, an ordinance restricting saloons to one to every 500 of the population was passed. The ordinance does not affect saloonkeepers now in business.

The General Council of the City of Georgetown passed an ordinance limiting saloons to five and fixing the fee to retail liquor at $1,000 per year.

In March, 1914, the commissioners of the City of Lexington issued 120 liquor licenses, which was seven less than in the previous year and fixed the license fee at $500.

The City Council of the City of Frankfort limited the number of saloons to one to each 1,000 population and increased the license fee from $400 to $500.

ELECTIONS

Pulaski County-A local option election was held in Somerset, the only wet city in Pulaski County on September 29th, 1913, and