Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Daily Press
Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa
May 10, 1904
Judge Byington Shuts Up a Saloon
Frauenholz Must Close Alleged Nuisance in North End -- Mulct Law
Not Observed, Says Court.
The gathering place of the faithful devotees of the "booze
game," yelept? in in Bacchanalian circles, the "Last
Chance," etc., must close. So declared Judge Byington in the
district court yesterday after a nice, warm trial of the case of
Rev. Mr. Streyfeller vs. Frauenholz et al. The defendants have
been conducting a thirst parlor on North Dodge street, near he
Aldous hot house, and the neighborhood and other people protested
to the court declaring the saloon was violating the mulct law in
various ways. The clergyman averred that the place was at times
run by a minor barkeeper, that habitual drunkards bought the
inflammatory stuff there, and that the frequenters of the resort
used such disorderly and violent language as to disturb the
people living thereabouts. After a large number of witnesses had
been examined, the court seemed to agree with the plaintiff as to
the violation of the law along these lines, at any rate, and
accordingly, he handed down a decision yesterday, permanently
enjoining the saloon as a nuisance. As soon as the decree is
enrolled, etc., the injunction becomes of force, and the saloon
must run no more, under the mulct law's severe penalties,
including the imposed for contempt of court.
[transcribed by C.J.L., June 2004]