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Show SALOONS WILL BE BARRED All Ante-Quake Licenses Revoked la San Francisco by Police Board. San Francisco. Ever since th earthquake San Francisco has been i city without saloons. While martial law was in force th drinking places were closed by ordei of tho military commander, and violations viola-tions of the regulation were punlshei by the bullet. The board of police commissioner! Indorsed Mayor Schmltz's suggestion that all licenses In existence be revoked. re-voked. Tho commissioners aro a unll In tho declaration that tho city will b better off In future with fewer salooni than before Its destruction. Mayor Schmltz goes oven farthci than tho commissioners. Ho says thon Is no possibility that tno liquor dealers deal-ers will be permitted to resume business busi-ness for "a long tlmo to come." Ho attributes the remarkable ab-'sence ab-'sence of crime from tho city to tht edict against the sale ot intoxicants. Several saloon men who havo been erecting temporary quarters have been warned that it may be a long tlmo bo-fore bo-fore they will be permitted to sell liquor li-quor at all, and that licenses will nevet bo so freely Issued ngaln as in tht past In San Mateo, Just across the border, tho supervisors recently permitted the saloons to reopen, nnd drunken orlglcs Immediately followed. Chief of Police Dlnan appealed to Sheriff Mansfield to force the dealers to close up again until conditions are moro settled, and the sheriff has re plied that he will comply with the request re-quest despite the supervisors' action, even though ho may be compelled to call for state troops to aid htm in enforcing en-forcing his orders. |