Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-01 | Page 3 | Alaska Goes into 'Bone Dry' Column

ALASKA GOES 10 'eoiorcoLiH Saloons in the Vast Expanse of Territory Up North Close Their Doors. JUNEAU. Alaska. Dec. AUWa wi ;zo on the list of "hone dry" Mttites and territories at. midnight, tome of the saloons which will close their doors have, been operating since t he days -uf tho gold rush in iiO. A la ska will hid an ela bora to fare we 1 1 to the demon ruin, and from Nnino to K'etchikH n bund rods pliiued to aiay un lo w a tct i ho pni-siiu,' ol t lie to loon ;j nd the elof.iim ir i he bars in the road houses aloiiR the (rails. Prohibition will fxl.end front the Arctic ocean to the e ; i fm iiia-eKet40ii line pfter tnii-lnicht, ;is British Columbia, Oregon and Washington are flry now. I'cpotls from many purls of th tr-ritor tr-ritor shv thousand: of dollnrs wurl h of li'i'ioj- t;is he"ir hirortcd recently and strircd ;twav nKffinst the timo wlien tlic dry law Is effective. Al;c kfl Indifirut jo-olvihly will rerB o tho create! benefit m from tlio di-y law, .as 'inUtors nf the prrsenl lawn have profited by selling 1 1 iern vhieky in the pa si. One ft' the governinpiifp bur ta.sks has been lo keep whisky from (lie India np.