Beer Knee-Deep

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 11, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 19.

BEMIDJI, Minnesota, has had a very interesting experience. A brewery company in that place failed to comply with the treaty of 1855 with the Chippewa Indians, as recently construed by the Supreme Court of the United States. As a consequence, government agents, directed by Henry A. Larson, chief special officer for the suppression of the liquor traffic among the Indians, seized the Bemidji brewery, and emptied great vats containing seven carloads of beer into the streets. The beer, valued at $4,500, flowed down the gutters and into the lake. Men in rubber boots waded in beer one foot deep on the brewery floors while policemen kept the crowds back.