Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-12-17 | Page 2 | Ban Placed on Turkey Raffles by Commission

iii BAN PlACED ON TURKEY RAFFLES BY B COMMISSION Merchants Object to Method 0 of V r Disposing of o or Birds As Ast J Injury to Busin Business s i Turkey r raffles n s arc are barr barred d In Salt Lake Lal e. e Upon orders from tho the city commission commis commis- sion the tho chief of police pollee Is to notify all operators to o cease raffling their birds They may sell sen their turkeys as do other dealers but thoro there must be no element of t chance J in Jt the method of oC disposing for of or them Fo Four r or five places places' wore vis lied ed b by the chief chic yesterday estet la Ho told the proprietors that the raffle feature must bo be eliminated or they would be bei i arrested Yesterday m morning a committee of ot retail re- re r tall tail merchants went before beCore tho commissioners commissioners com com- missioners and arid protested against the raffles The merchants claimed the they Were paying regular merchants' merchants licenses to tho the city to do a a. legitimate business while these raffle m mn men n were paying practically nothing and were conduct conduct- apt a game that seriously Interfered with the trade trado of oC regular dealers Tho The chief of t police held himself helpless help help- less because the operators held business bust busi ness licenses from the city On the pro rata basis on which mer mer- Chants Chants' licenses are Issued the turkey men nten paid about 85 cents for their li licenses 11 censes for December and this Is all the revenue the city got out of them TheL Tho The regular refu L rr merchants pay from 10 10 to S 50 5 0 or more each year