| Show 04 ADVER advertising 0 T LOTTERIES A VA ina MANY NY BREAKING BRE AuNG hi TILE M LAW 0 considerable discus Is iii been the otate amborg others recently about abolt the scope law in the raffle by fellows bellaw at city hall a f few days aj were given away and an gt was given to the news without at itin that it wa was tle the hd k containing the go our tur t chere wn gothing ho thing to leai lead r to inquire hott iby were to of pf but when the potters posters nt agouni I 1 town telling of the in new advocate submitted the tl solicitor of the post office bat t at washington to see seo if it construed aa as a violation of lawa law A prompt answer ad ehst it waa was a plain and breaking Iret bin over the iba U which i any reference ref ereneo wt w alever bing being i t lottery in any matter winch which nati the mall malls technically oteff liable to a fine of 1000 care ia in leavenworth bo so did the law baa has never been en taj ry carefully but ome some one t busy on it without lad pit there are sei aeral eral paper papers number amber of business concerns coue erne mt which will get into trouble base ruse work aall drug store heads in t that they could get ly by giving out keys to a chist of silver one key with each CO 50 cent tent pur chase only one key out of 1000 given atit would unlock the cheek chest and when nil all keys leys were those holding them were allowed to try to unlock the drizi until the person with the right key aria found that person got the chest tho post office department stooped stop jed the scheme on an the ground grounds that it wt lottery and no advertising ro re Iz arding it could go through the malls without advertising ruch a pinn plan is of little benefit to the stores manager nicholson did not even eren try to use the plan here the telegram of tuesday evening tell tells of the stopping of rafflea raffles lu in salt la a county by the county attorney aud the article contains some valuable information on the subject s it reads deputy sheriffs under instructions from county attorney arthur 1 more ton today notified the I 1 I 1 business mena Is league of sugarhouse and every individual merchant me rehart I 1 a ati md 4 ao th eastern section of t e city that they mutt must discontinue the raf fie being advertised and staged inder the title of community christina christmas tree it this bort sort of raffle where a consideration is placed upon tjoe tick ets et is according to the county ator ney a lottery and in plain violation of pf the law ho no merchant or group of merchants chAnto will be permitted to conduct A haftl mr moretha Ifor etor declared the matter came to the utti att atlon of mr moretons tons office on the of other merchants who had been stopped from conducting eini si nillar ilar affairs recently merchants ia in the bon district through the the business mans league deela ed to conduct an Ini immense menie holiday raf r in which prices prizes to talling several hundreds of dollars were nere to be buted to customers 0 of the Sn garbous housa stores chances have been tested on the basis of 25 2 cent 50 cent and 1 pur par hudee accords ig to the class of mer chandise old sold the tub stub of these chances were tc be deposited in a common bat bal lot bix and two tao days before bafo e christmas the drawing and aa awarding of prize were to be ole bafas widely advertised Advert lied posters advertising the raffle under the name of Corom unit christmas tree r 11 were given prom ment positions posit lone in th t display windows of th augar a houie house stores dodgers bearing bearer stream like of the raffle alli detailed information on the terms of tb drawing draing were scattered throughout the resident ci section centering on bu barhouse Igar gar house attention was ailed called to tae the aaen that last year a similar drawing had distributed hundreds of dollars in prizes to the customers of these stores several merchants in the downtown section hav have been prevented by the county attorneys office from rom conduct ing lug similar raffle raffles for the purpose of attracting trade some of these theme learn ing of the action of the sugarhouse merchants inquired ait ali to why one see permitted to conduct such az affair r when this privilege was others county attorney moreton ain mediately dispatched deputy sheriffs bit ith instruction to ind ad 1 vise the leaders of the move lutat thai thal they aie ale lit in violation lo lation of the statutes and asuit discontinue the 06 n now being ton acted eted moreton outline thee these raffles wt am u alear of th statutes etau tea ond nd will not be toler abed 1 mr ur ilo ito toa ton declared imy my of 0 flee has topped and ana will continue to top stop any ally game of chancy ei for Pl private lytte gala gain when the matter comee comes to our attention la in the cases of reli gione or fraternal organization coa conducting ducting similar raffles to balse funds fundo this of flee ICO ball ha initiated no action consi considering derins that under such circumstances some lee way might be granted if however any citizen elects to enter r a complaint against any such organization my of bicel fice alu arill issue the complaint ami sno are cute he lie charge la in the case ct ef private busine a 9 fa the field of chance games we bay prevented ted thee these alo 10 lo latigu when called to our A raffle for charity and a riffle tor for zate ate individual gain are decidedly all 1 ferent ia in the moral aspe ats at least lenal Wit within fila the peat post month my office W ha stopped half a down dozen mordant iron instituting such contest con teet on OIL adai advice te that we would be forced to prose eute ente if they did the kner merchants chants of tho the southeastern section probably did not realize that their action was in violation of the stat utes and f tor or that reason I 1 sent deputy sheriff sheriffs to investigate and alviad them to disco |
