Show ti BOOTLEGGERS IN ZION Effort to Evade Sunday Closing Ruio I 1 j THREE MEN ARE ARRESTED iI i I I Charged With Violating Liquor Selling Ordinance May Also Bo Called Upon to Answer Other ChargesChief Determined to Enforce the Law The strictwatch kept by Chief Sheets over the saloons on Sunday and the consequent inability of the proprietors to sell whisky in this way resulted on Sunday in an effort to start up the old bootleg game well known to townsin Kansas and other nocalled prohibition prohibi-tion States Several men understood to be In the employ of saloonkeepers concealed bottles of the beverage about their persons per-sons and supplied thirsty ones at prices a little In excess of the usual rates They also had a room fitted up it Is said where those known to be right were steered and fitted out Believing that they had at last outwitted the police po-lice they plied their trtac merrily and great were their profits When the sun went down Sunday evening their Joy knew no bounds and they chuckled during dur-ing the night in their sleep THREE TAKE IN But there came a sad awakening In the fresh cool hours of the morning when policemen armed with warrants entered their domiciles and hauled them before the court to answer to charges of violating the Sunduy liquor ordinance ordi-nance The three men arrested were Roy Watts a negro < 0 L Whltbeck and Joe Jones They asked time to plead and their bond was fixed at 150 each Reilly Bros proprietors of the I Buffalo and Elk saloons went on the bond of Whltbeck and Jones as these two men are employed by them After trial on the charge mentioned they will probably have to stand trial on charges of selling liquor without a license and of selling liquor to minors All in all It is thought tho occupation of bootlegging boot-legging will not be popular In future CHIEF AFTER THEM Chief Sheets Is determined to make the saloonmen obey his orders and intends in-tends to station men In plain clothes on guard over suspected saloons every Sunday as he did last Sunday He Is quoted as saying that he would slop Sunday opening If he had to put the whole force in plain clothes and put a watcher over every saloon In town The Chief secured his Information In part from three young men arrested for drunkenness on Sunday He questioned ques-tioned them yesterday and found out the names of the vendors The three young men will appear against the accused ac-cused They are Henry Shlvenly 18 Robert Wright 20 and William Wade 22 |