Michigan Liquor Sellers

Detroit, Mieh., May 1.- Thirty-seven counties in Michigan voted this winter for prohibition under the local option act, which takes effect "the first Monday in May," and suspends the existing tax law on May 1 in those counties that have "gone dry." This phrase in the law gives practical ly one week of "free rum" over a large área in the state. Dispatches received yesterday from over onehalf of these counties show that many saloon-keepers, taldng advantage of this mistake, have taken out a government license, and will sell all the liquor possible now, and until next Monday. ( ithers declare that they will continuo in the business and defy the law. In Clinton and Morenci, Lenawee county, saloons have run for the last year without payment of the state tax, and will continue in defiance of the law. "Soft drink'' places will also be started by Hudson saloonists, and Adrián druggists are purchasing a large stock and a variety of liauors. Ingham county saloonists have a de f ense fund to fight local prohibition. In Newaygo county 'social clubs" have been forined! It is understood there will be a test ■ case, as soine saloonists claim the local option law unconsl itutional.