Show BOOTLEGGERS r 1 PLAY TRICKS OF BABINO r Uncle 4 Sams Sam's Officers Led a aMerry at t Merry Chase by Fear- Fear I f p less Vendors P PEDDLE LA LAWLESS ILESS WHISKY n I Hii n a s cs Men of or Sn- Sn I Quality Wl Who End Career Trion In Jn or 01 i I Jn In the liquor I business the bootlegger bootleg bootleg- f ger get fills Identically the tame same am position Mrs fills Na Na- to the tho legitimate trade that riot fills In lit the cause of or temperance lie TV l an outlaw because he lie not only Iia hies fit ili regard for fOI the law but studies ls up all nU 1 kinds of A way R to break It 11 The bootlegger Is IN a pretty tough proposition lion iron In an any community and ami gl gives the entire liquor business a Cl had bad name but hut he ire In lIS in hi the he h height of or his glory in the Indian reservations where the strict laws government has A cry el against the sale of liquor He lie coul could make a much better beller living at some other line of or business In I nearly every instance It Is the tho fact that he Is isbit bit t a law getting gettin ahead of the theS' theS S' S ct nt that appeals to him The Tho officers at MusKogee ee recently dlO discovered cled a new method of or smuggling smug smug- gling the liquor into the Indian country country coun coun- try y A tl teamster canister am working on the railroad railroad rail ralI- road lOAd grade tear near that point devised the plan lie had two cr very ery large howe collars made and they were watertight He would make o rc regular ular trips trip to Texas rexa and every he hc re returned returned re- re turned the laborers In camp would get drunk After watching him for fora a long Jong time the officers discovered that he ha would would- take the extra horse equips collars with him and bring them back full ruJI n of whisky Each collar would hold Muhl about bout two gallons of liquor Severe Sc Defied During the last year oar according to the report of ot J J. 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L McCracken of the Federal prison at Guthrie they have hn ha hail had fi Ii S prisoners in their Jail and anllo o of these more thin than were charged wit with bootlegging whisky among the he Indians Indiana or 01 tal taking I tt H upon the Uw reservations reservations reserva reserva- the penalty for Cor which is Just Justas as aM severe severo as for tOI selling it ft During the last Jast year there thero was wa but butone butone one woman in hr the federal jail at Guthrie and she was convicted at J Okla OIla of selling whisky to Indians It She was teas an nn old hand at the business b an and was WS haul hard to catch as she ho understood the tho business sufficiently sufficiently rte 0 o keep Jeep the officers off h her r track and was good at leaving Ica a blind trail ball Only recently just over the OI Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- ln- ln homa border order three men and two women wore were arrested and taken to tolu lu Tulha on nit the charge of or selling liquor to 10 the Indians Upon searching them it Jt was as found the women had hall pockets on the tho Inside of ot their dress skirts skirls made mode to fit a pint bottle snugly and from the thC C five VC prisoners officers took lIT ITS pints of whisky v they could t tw r T T w U 11 I U DU vi U Ill H a 11 i 1 Y y the members of o l' l the the- Creek Clec t tribe The federal officers have become so strict on the trail of such offenders I that all manner of schemes at ate are batched hatched up to avoid old suspicion and each cach bootlegger gel thinks 5 that his platt platy I Is infallible until he Is at last caught I Only a few months ago ado a 3 man hig a 3 hand handsome ome team hitched to an nn ordinary loo looking farm wagon was surprised In camp b by a posse of United Slates marshals and arrested in ht A. In the camp at the time lime were plenty plenty plen plen- t ty I of f r Indians and amI al of them with pIer t y of or money with which to buy whist whisky and the fellow was as running the out in buckets from the axle of his wagon Both axles wore m n-d n 0 of Iron hon and were hollow hollo and when hen filled U up with whisky had a capacity t of oC several ral gallons and by bv removing ln a tap from rom one end of each axle the whisky would come corne out the same as a. from a spigot II lIe had hal been hoen carryl carrying ng on a n successful bootlegging business In this manner for tor a number num num- ber bel of years The fellows engaged In this class of bu bust business ress neg sometimes work oll U up schemes scheme to fool the Indians but it is I needles to say they do clo donot not resort re t tto to any an- such methods until they thoy are aro preparing to shake the dust of th the I Territory from their feet iCor forever fore ver as I the they would not fare well at the hands handsor of or tho the Indians If H th they thoy y were cau caught ht A roan man was vas recently arrested In the neighborhood of or I. I T. T on tho the charge e of selling whisky to the Indian Indiana and was a later laler released when t tIt it was found that he had been selling them bottled coffee The Indians are ale i cautious and slip in and out of a a. I bootleggers bootlegger's camp an and use every effort ef et- effort fort COIt to throw of off the suspicion of the watchful officers This particular lar vendor vondol was taking advantage c of or orthis this wariness rine R. R and knew that they thoy would not attempt to open the flasks until thc they were far Car away from the camp and he had sold several gallons gal bal Ions lons of fit coffee at a fanc fancy pi price Ice anti and was about read ready to leave camp when arrested cd He got ot off much mut easier casler than If if it the tho Indians had caught ht him after aHel finding out they were fooled |