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Show GUNNISON TO HAVE SALOONS The liquor contest case, appealed to the supreme court by the "wets" and referred back to the district court for new trial, came up before Judge A. II. Chrlstenson at Manll last Saturday. By stipulation, no defense de-fense was put in and Judge Chrlstenson Chrlsten-son was obliged from the evidence to find in favor of the contestants. The case is one in which a special liquor election was held in June, 1915, and which resulted in a tie vote and leaving conditions as before the election elec-tion dry. The "wets" brought a contest, to throw out certain alleged illegal votes and lost out in the district dis-trict court. They appealed, with the result as above stated. Gunnison is now declared in the 'wet" column and there is talk of having saloons here galore. There Isn't one yet, but three applications for license which it is expected will beieted upon favorably at a special session of the city council tomorrow night. The.council has fixed on a li cense or $1,800 a year and has limited the number of saloons to four in Gunnison Gun-nison city. A strange anomally is the jubilant attitude of certain prominent ones who posed before the people at the recent election and all thru the preelection pre-election campaign as the advocates of prohibition. |