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Show THE DEALER ANTE'S. AN OLD RULE AGAIN ENFORCED BEFORE BE-FORE COMMISSIONER PRATT. I'nitefl States Marshals Carry Out a Sn-. cc!sful Kaid ou the Liquor Dealers Invited to His Own Wedding The IHllon Murder Trial. 8even vendors of the arde ut were raided by deputy United States marshals for selling the nutritious on the seventh day and this mo.niug :ip5eared Ixfofe Commissioner Pratt, entered a plea of not truilty, paid the fiddler $50 each and departed. The cruade on the bars M-as a genuine. surprise at ail save a few places the proprietors - which seemed to have been visited by eome pro-p'.ielic pro-p'.ielic tip aud who kept the doors closed aad curtains drawn, whereas on the preceding preced-ing Sundays frothing lager was ou tap in unlimited ijuantities. Deputy Marshall Can-uou Can-uou had planned the raid and notified his satellites to report bright and early Sunday morning. The enemy was running along a'l unconciou o the surprise and one by j ! one they fell into the. cleverly set trap, i j Nor was it dilHeult to entrap them. Without ; any legaKa, to denote their connection with ! the culls of justice the deputies moved through the threshold and ordered their drinks. They were promptly served and the deputy having convinced his palate that it i was bourbon he was drinking at onee tic-; tic-; eland the dispenser under arrest. Seveu dealers or their representatives wire ar-; ar-; rested, the news in the meantime j spreading like a contagion. The bar-room doors swunir to with a bang and ' rattle, curtains desceuded with a whirr aud the herds who were browsing on the walks suddenly found themselves cut off. They howied a blizzardly how 1. d d the deputies and their chief, ascribed the raid to polities, to religion, the bench, but liually took their medicine. To kick was useless their lawyers told them so. Thv were under a total ellipse and this ! morning the following keepers were lined: Jl. C. Cline, keeper of th : Yellow Front. Hetier Mai key, keeper of the Alhambra. Morris Ley, State road. Joseph ami Charles Murans, the Italian's Rest. Joseph Klunipp, First South aud State road. (ieorge K. Collier, West Tennde. t fimmissioner Fratt having won the fiaht without a blow followed it up wnji a curtain lee lure. and read from the statute which provides that any one giving away or selling liquor ou the ahhalh sbaii on eon vieT ion. be. riiie.i in sum not nre than j:sH and imprisonment for six months in the county jail. The statute, stat-ute, said the court, seems to hove become a dead letter under the city, and the position of the city seems to be to license these shops in the face of a law w hich prohibits their operation on Sunday. The law doe.- not seek so much to punish mankind as to repress an evil, aud as the court assumes as-sumes this to he- the first offense the fine is placed at 5"0 each, j Deputy Mar. h.J Camum said to a reporter shortly after that certain persons had denounced de-nounced them as actinsj the part of spotters. "We a.e not,'' said he, "but doing just as I the law duvets and Judge Zar.e has told us I that, if e reflect to do it we are subject to indictment." ( ass Mite on the Stand. The tragedy at Green River in which Cass Hite. and Adolph A. Kohler were the principals, princi-pals, was re-enacted in Judge Blackburn's rxmrt chamber nt I'rovo on Saturday last, j nt which time Hite came into court on ' an application for continuance, and also to be admitted to bail. The continuance was allowed but bail w as denied after the evidence evi-dence had been gone into. Cass Hite, told for the first time his story of the homicide in detail. He said he had known Kohler over two years, and on the evening of September 8 met him in a Green River saloon where they joined in a drink. He had been admonished by friends to "look out for Kohler," as he intended to ! kill him (Hite), and that he was carrying a Winchester rifle for that purpose. Witness arrived at the conclusion he Would have to leave the country if a peace talk with Kohler did not effect a settlement of the affair. In the afternoon Sumner informed him that Kohler was after him with a Winchester. He found Shaffer and with him started towards the cabin to settle the "account.'' Shaffer informed him that Kohler had threatened to killhim (Hite) the night before. be-fore. They moved on towards Kohler's cabin when the latter came out w ith a Winchester. Win-chester. Witness sat in a chair and said; "What is this excitement anyway?" Kohler raised his gun and said: "You , I'll show you vrbat the matter is." Witness told him to put his gur down w hich he did. After a few more words Kohler again drew bead and shot over witnesses head. Witness then tired on Kohler and started around the corner cor-ner of the cabin followed by Kohler who kept on tiring. Each fired five shots and the last seen of Kohh r by witness he was staggering stag-gering through ti e eahin door. burgess and Shaeffer who were subsequently subse-quently arres.ed as accessories to the offense were each admitted to bail in the sum of :ooo. |