Show IJ LJ Ei 1 J t LJ 75 Jailed V In Whisky and Drug Raids I Billings and Evanston Prove Headquarters of Illicit Smuggling Ring N INVER Colo Cole Aug ug u 28 Whisky 2 S. Whisky and d drug ug raids during the last week D DENVER In which seventy seventy- seventy five five arr arrests st were made liquor and narcotics valued at confiscated and scores of ot stills seized throughout Colorado Wyoming and Montana were made public tonight by federal prohibition pro pro- 3 arents here The Tho men men in custody custod include merchants merchants mer mer- I I II chants prominent ranchmen a justice of or tho the p peace ace and hotel owners the officials said ald V WELL ORGANIZED rhe They declared their Investigations In revealed that the tho whisky was vas smuGGled smuggled smuggled smug smug- from Canada and distributed I throughout Western Vestern states b by mail mall I The alleged rings were well or organized or- or but operated Independently th the officials declared The drug ring tile the they said had Us lis headquarters InI in Billings Mont font Headquarters Headquarters' of ot tho I I whisky whisk ring was in and n near ar I Kem- Kem emi em- em i and Evanston Wyo Wyn 0 LARGEST HAUL M. M I. I C. C Wachtel and A. A S. S Roach agents a of ot the federal prohibition of office ot- ot fice made most of ot the whisky raids The largest larlest haul they said w was at atRock Rock nock Springs Wyo Wy yo Thursday when five stills gallons of or whisk whisky pounds of at sugar and 2000 pounds of at fruit alleged to be lc c used in the manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture of ot Illicit liquor were seized V H. H V. V Williamson head of oC the narcotic nar nar- cotic V division of the federal prohibition prohibition tion bureau directed the drug raids Forty eight arrests ho ha announced I were made mac in His investigation a. a I tion began AU August I 12 Williamson said containers for tor shipping drugs through the malls mails were found in Billings raids STILL STILt ON FARM Marion arion Heap a. a on whoso whose Star valley ranch seventy five nty miles north of ot Kemmerer Kemmerer Kem- Kem the raiders claim to have found a till still prune mash and nd coloring matter was named b by the federal agents as the I leader o of the whisky ring Heap was arrested F Federal m men n ay ay they found I hO hogs on Heaps Heap's ranch prune mash and ami followed tho the trail tran to the un near neara a mountain stream about yards back backof I of the ranch house I I One hundred eight quarts of or bonded I whisky much wine nine and moonshine were alleged to have been found In the possession possession pos pos- I session of or John Gruff proprietor of ot a toft ott drink parlor near He was arrested I VICTIMS OF DRUGS Officers in charge of ot the dru drug raids described conditions unearthed unearth d In Billings Billings Bill Bill- ings Inga as similar to popular conceptions of Chinatown They claimed d to have havo found young oung men and girls drugged Headquarters of or the drug ring the of officers of- of said Mid were In two brick buildings buildings' in the outskirts of the elt city The They de declared de- de dared the they confiscated twenty seven I de-I complete dope sets anI and largo large quantities quantities ties tics of or drugs I I |