Show CAN SUPPRESS LIQUOR TRAFFIC uncle sam has strenuous methods has secured more than 1000 convictions vict ions for selling liquor to indians in nineteen months according tv tu the following article which appeared in a recent isue issue of the deseret news the federal government goes after the sale of liquor to indians in a way here is the arbit article lc seven ot my mv men shot and four killed and a reward offered for my mv life dv by thue of the country was wai just one chapter in my first days spent in the indian service of the go government ment down among the natives in indian territory said W E johnson chief special officer for the suppression of the sale of lintur among the indians today on man now in jail jn there testified c ci I 1 the stand he be had been hired to kill mr clr johnosn it was an experiment of the federal government when about four lears ago it sent W E johnson to the andrin territory to fee ee mint he could do toward sio the sale of liquor bi the whites to the findring when he sized up the situation he found himself all alone among amone people with but four courts and eight judges 6 crimi nil eases cases on the dockets untried and a strong sentiment favoring favo let well enouch alone but with a spirit bi a mountain of difficulties with a resolution determined and fixed mr hir johnson faced the army of obstacles that arose before him the result was that he did his work well the government covern ment wa was S so much pleased with it that it thereupon established a new department and placed tir mr johnson at its head the first years appropriation for this work of suppressing suppress mc the sale of liquor among the indians was as next bet year it was increased to the next to the next net to and friday mr johnson ree received ived a telegram from washington that this lear had been recommended and will no doubt be appropriated pria ted this increase will permit him to add to his hie force of nine special officers working on salaries he also has 70 to 75 deputies in various arious parts of the Lou country besides sheriffs and U S marshals who assist him on occasion in addition to this regular appropriation the department of justice pays probably aply a year toward covering certain court expenses where it is necessary to pros acute criminals so with criminal cases set before him vr mr johnson could hope for no assistance down there from the regular courts so the only thing thine I 1 could do was to institute a regular knock down drag out plan of action ile he rallied about him a little band of stalwart young fellows and started in to raid the dives he broke into the places smashed up the bottler and barrels of whiskey and beer threw the furniture into the street and burned it up he broke up bottles of liquor pouring the contents ino the streets ile he destroyed 75 gambling houses within a few months it wan wail about thil time that he had his running fights with the bootI bootleggers and seen of his men were nere shot four of whom acre cre kallid when this bureau ws wis establish ed I 1 tint thit silt lake city be fiade the beado wirters on 1 ici blount aunt of its cantril IOL volition loLi tion and that before I 1 ind bein here Consi considering derina the alie numer leally it is tile the hobt n ot ous 1 pint let on the mib m ib for handling ml mi and in men to the bariou beats blats ot sail mr lr johnson Ju linson anil and thia tin week I 1 ve bican LI ti ebrat ing I 1 n g in clait 1 I 1111 hijii 1 asb d the ahw ind mark lit in of liquor bliler i ll rs and ani h chivi to I 1 biero of mv friends i interested in ID the nork annun announcing cing the fitt to be specific lc lai in just 19 or sinie sini e 1 aj laese connections ere in new ork wisconsin and in even avei st ite west of the texas Ms missouri arkansas and kansas and ami there are morr more liscs pending I 1 have sent not less lebs thin fellous to the penitentiary in th it tune time |