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Show U. S. OFFICERS CAPTURE WELL HIDDJ5TILL Lookout Gives Warning to Comrade in Carbon Raid, but Officer. Had Planned to Block Retreat What is aald to- have been (ha rloeeet approximation to a genuine Kentucky "moonahlne" 'still yet found In thla atate. and tha chief eource of booties supply to tha cool camps of Carbon county, waa raided aarly Friday by federal prohibition offlcera. Oeorsa Jouflaua and Chrlat Oolluraa were arrested and released under I&00 bond each.' Mora than i0 gallons' of flnlahed product, 114 pounda of ausar. 1000 aallona of maah and a eiill capable of producing produc-ing more than 100 gallonaor liquor per day ware seised by tha offlcera Determined to "knock over" tha diatlllery dominating tha coal camp liquor trade, of which ha had heard frequent rumor a. Prohlbltloa Director Direc-tor Joseph 15. Rlcharde dispatched a poeae of four agenta Thuraday with Instruction to "Go get 'em." Tha -auartet took train to Price, doubling back at night to Caatlegata and then taking trail for tha faille west of that place. . ' HOOSBACK HIDES STILL. Splitting their forces, tha federal agents proooeded to acour tha region re-gion north 1 of Spring Canyon. Prowling up Bow Belly gulch, tha officers came open f precipitous hogobeck, which, from tha mapa they had, seemed to furnlah tha logical log-ical hiding placa for the atlll. From tha top of thleTlogsback one trail leada down tha gulch to connect with tha atate road juet above Caatlegata Caa-tlegata and another takes down over tha ridge Into the Spring Canyon district. Two of the offlcera lay In wait at the foot of the flret trail while tha other pair circled the hogeback to ahut off retreat In the opooelte direction. - Shortly after t o'clock Friday morning those waiting received the signal to' advance. Aa they cams Into the open to commence ascent of tha trail a fire biased up from the ridge crest mora than 1000 feet above them. The bootleggers" lookout look-out hsd espied the strangers and the fire signaled the atlll tender to get out. Ordinarily there would have been time, tha offlcera aay. for tha major portion of tha outfit to ba transported by pack over the ridge to a hideout near one of the coal camps. But aa tha parade started, alx park animals herded by Goluraa on horsebsck. the other two agents stepped out and stopped them. LOCATED NEAR SPRINO. Jouflsus, the lookout, was taken Into custody aa ha ran down through the plnea to Join hla companion, unaware that the law was waiting. The still, federal officers ssy, wss located on a spring In a grove of plna trees which shielded It from view from the trail. A one-room cabin held the barrela of maah. Jouflaua and Oolluras hava for tha past two or three yeara herded aheep on tha grassy slopes of ths ridge. Previous attempts to fasten on them responsibility for a large share of tha prohibition violations in the Spring Canyon district have been futile, because the one with the 'herd haa always successfully warned off his associate. At least two others are believed Implicated In tha diatlllery ownership and an attempt will ba made to bring them under arrest, It la aald. The still wss located on federal lands, tha arreetlng officers say. |