Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-11-11 | Page 7 | Montana Looks for Real Drouth

MONTANA LOOKS FOR R REAL DROUTH Federal Deputies to Run RunDown RunDown RunDown Down Illicit Sale of Liquor By Associated Press HELENA Mont 1 Nov 11 The n.-The The recent decision of ot the United States department of Justice to send hundreds of deputies into this state to enforce the prohibition act comes comes comes-as as the culmination of a a. flood of rumors that the prohibition statutes state and national are and for months have been openly disregarded in many of the cities clUes and towns of Montana Helena it is generally believed Is fairly dry Arrests for illicit selling and manufacture of liquor here are rare and those whose taste for alcohol survives are I wont dolefully and dolefully and daily to dally to admit that It is very difficult to get a drink While numerous stills have been found especially espe espe- fy fyI I in declare c and e about that the Butte u amount ouo officials I of drinking drink drink- drinking privately privately ing is exaggerated There is Is so 50 far as asIs asis asis is known no city or town where liquor is openly sold and there thero Is no city or town where the officials have not made mad strenuous lous efforts to get the illegal dealers deal deal- ers