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Show WHISKY IS SEIZED 'IN SHERIFF'S RAID Pifty Pints Found at 53 South Fifth West Street; Deputies Wait in Vain for Operator. Evidence of bootlegsmg on an extensive exten-sive and loiiff-continued scale was se-: se-: cured in a raid vesterday bv Sheriff ; Corless and deputies on a "blind pig" ! Et 53 South Fifth West street. Fifty j pint bottles of whisky were found and I confiscated. Though deputy sheriffs kept a vigil i of thirtv-six hours at the olace. in an ticipation that the operator would return, re-turn, it was unavailing. Finally convinced con-vinced the man had been tipped off. they removed all the liquor and personal per-sonal property to the county jail. The liquor was found in a barrel. It had evidently been shipped into the city recently, with three other barrels which were found empty except for the sawdust in whii'h bottles evidenilv had been packed. That the operator of the place had become apprehensive of late was evidenced by the fact that he had started digging a hole under the floor of a back room, evidentlv for hiding his stock, and had gone to the troublo of concealing the dirt taken from the hole by crowding it under the floor of the front room, tearing up some flooring to do so. |