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Show iif nti i TO Oil BOOZE Some Defender Of Booze In Bingham Writes Letter To County Sheriff Warning Him Not To Destroy Any More Booze In Bingham Or The Sheriff And His Deputies May . Come In Contact With Nitroglycerine He States That Some Of The Miners Are Connected With The I. W. W. People Of Bingham Consider Same As A Joke Some Say The Deputies Do Not Waste The Booze. ' , In the Salt (Lake Tribune, Wed-nTsday Wed-nTsday was a lengthy article and a copy of a letter received by Sheriff Corless from a Bingham man who indicated in-dicated that there would be danger to his men in case they continued to de- , stroy liquor or if they kopt up the work of preventing its free and un-i un-i limited passage Into this territory. The Tribune tskes the letter seriously but it is not likJy that the sheriff 1 does. It appears on the face that it was written by some one who wanted to kid the sheriff a little. He evl- . dently knew that the sheriff and his ) deputies did not break bottles of ' boore. No there would be little dan-' ger from nitroglycerine along that line. When they find a bottle of booze they carefully uncork the same to avoid spilling the same and then they take the necessary steps to find for a certainty Just what the bottle ' contahiB. Now The Tribune says the ' sheriff told it that the bottles were tforf broken, but that the contents hereof were poured into sewers. That does not Bound good at all If he used the word "sewer" wjth its generally accepted meaning, but It is difficult to know Just what he d'd mean when he said the booze was emptied into sewers. 'Booze fighters sometimes' give . a restricted meaning to this word, and HJSlght be the. sheriff had this in mCu when he talked to The Trib- une. but of course it is not our bust-ness bust-ness to interpret these things The letter wfiM the sheriff Tecetvedwas 4ate6 at Bingham and reads as fol- lows: ' '''" ;' " " Mr Jack PorleVn:-' ' " You want to slow up on this whiskey whis-key b(HfrMs. Some of it has been doped Vith notroglycerine and when you break a bottle it will explode and bUm-you to pieces, as some of the nrrs are associated with the I. W. W.,' and there is some dynamite laid ready to touch off at some of the stations sta-tions in the canyons where the officers offic-ers have their cabins. As a miner and member, of the F. O. E. and I. O. O. F., 1 warn you. You know whiskey Is the first aid given to us if an acci- j dent happens to us in the mines and ; If we ae deprived of It we shall re-1 taliate. , ' The matter. The Tribune says, has , been turned over to the postal authorities auth-orities to determine, If possible, the Identity of tho author, and if he is apprehended he will be tried for blackmailing. It looks like it might be easy to catch Mm since the letter was written with a pencil, but may be this w'll not be worked verv hed until un-til some bottles of booze explodes or until one of the canyons Inhabited by the officers is blown up. |