Salt Lake Herald | 1901-08-18 | Page 5 | Marshal Miller Will Stop Moon-Shining in Dixie

Ma Miller Will Stop Moon wooi shining in Dixie by y Dixie DIx e wine Ine I leave you Tough Though TIa It my y heart with pain Seni day y Til rn greet you When the bungholes bun holes out again Somebody who had lapsed into a ame mournful t me mood mOOt and had bad presumably I bee beast struck with the sentiment of i G ft Dally Daily Gray Cray laid the above aboe on 01 Marshal Millers desk yesterday It was wan affectionately inscribed to the ap appointment of a deputy United States marshal for St George The marshal announced that tbt he had conferred the e eaM above aM title on Joseph T Atkin who has hu just returned to Washington county after atter an absence of ot two years in ta the missionary mi field in California H Ha said aid also that his main reason for having baying a deputy at St George was the conditions condition there as ae regards illicit distilling There will be grief in Dixie that the wave of reform has struck the mar marshals marshal shaVe office Since the days when Young sent out a hardy de detachment of ot the advance guard of western civilization to settle the Dixie country cou try marshals have been unknown The grape and its possibilities how however h however w wever ever have became beame be ame familiar to every everyman man woman and child from St George to T and on to Parowan Not that th t the people of Washington WashInton county have h ve had any intention of violating the laws There Theme Is TIO no intention of con conveying conveying here that Impression But If you ever went through Dixie you probably probably ably had It brought Drought to you In a 3 cask out of the back door at per pint and paid the money willingly Now there will be hardship in Dixie There are four tons of grapes to every resident and th the crop cannot possibly be disposed of In its native form Un Unless Unless less it Is converted Into the luscious insidious beverage known only to the inhabitant and occasional visitor to that part of Deseret it must spoil span Still the marshal intends to enforce the laws He says that for many man years a deputy marshal has bas been a necessity In that country but not un until til Jl now has his way been clear to ap appoint appoint appoint point a deputy to tu put a stop slop to illicit distilling Marshal Miller yesterday received Mr Atkins acceptance of the theoffice theoffice theoffice office and let he who has that under underground underground underground ground plant take warning I