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Show BEAR LAKE CONTROL HELD 'INTERSTATE" "Houseboat Saloon" Appears Ap-pears to Be Bone of Contention Con-tention for Officials The state of Ltah as we as the eta e of Idaho has Ju Isdlctlon o er Bear ake part of which Is In each state and e en though t e ake is a na Igab e body of water 1 juo cannot be od from a boat house In the middle of the lake w thout the se er be ng liab e to he county au t orl les of one of the two count es in either of which he may be Th s Is the substance of an op nlon sent by the attorney general s office to the officers of Rich county in wh ch a part of Bear lake Jles covering a ques tlon of the right of the county officials to arrest George Dais who is al eged to be operating a floating saloon In the ake The opinion was written by G A Iverson ass stant attorney genera and sxpresses the opinions held by both him and Attorney General A. R Barnes Accord ng to Mx Barnes many com . plaints have been rece ved at the office here asking for authority to ha e the houseboat liquor establishment raided Var ous off cers of both Utah and Idaho and private citizens of Rich county have . compla ned that liquor was being sold without 1 cense from the floating saloon and that a row boat carried customers to and from the houseboat. They stated that Dav s I ad boasted that nobody ex cept Lnlted States officials had jurlsdic tlon o er the ake In a letter to W am Johnson cou ty atto ney of Rich countv the attorney genera and h s ass stant have, suggested that he take some act on as the house boat Is sa d to be this s de of the state line and therefore within the ou ty s power of search and seizure |