| Show HINDUS AND BOOZE GATHERED IN about yesterday morning charlei cheal was making his rounds at the 0 S L depot and yards and lie he espied three individuals divi duals with a heavy suit case each officer cheal immediately suspected thair tilo suit cases contained some thing else be besides sider wearing apparel so he promptly gathered the three individuals under his wing preparatory to bringing them up town to the cites lodging house tile the transients proved to be two hindus and a greek and just as the march up town was about to begin the latter decided lie he would not put the officer to the trouble of finding him lodgings so started off on a run down the alie county road west of the depot the officer fired several shots into the air for the purpose of frightening the man mail and halting him the shots frightened him all right for lie he ran the faster and got away the man concluding that it was better to keep two of the inen men and the booze than lose the whole gang in an endeavor to capture the one the hindus were brought brou glit up town and they and their grips were locked up in the city jail Blar marshal burt and sheriff zundel were called out of their beds and they made a quick drive over to corinne in the hopes of apprehending the greek but saw nothing of him yesterday the two east indians appeared before justice 11 II J packer and after exercising a great deal of patience and skill in interpreting their story the officers deciphered the hin dus had come from sacramento upon the request of their greek friend who represented to them that lie lad iad a big farm at corinne where lie he would employ them the greek also instructed the indians to bring on the supply of booze the men gave their names as ram singh and Ger dotte singh as near as the officers could make out the statements the court found the men tul guilty of having liquor in their possession for illegal purposes and fined them each one ot of them had in cash and the other had and because of the difficulty to understand what the men sald said the court decided that it would be a good goad thing to have one of tho the hindu farmers of corinne brought over to act as interpreter accordingly officer julius wright motored over orver and got B E S toni tom who substantiated the version the officers had got of tie the story told by his countrymen mr tom and others of his friends at corinne gave a bond at the first national bank tor for the difference between the fine and the amount the hindus had on their persons and the men were released the court has ordered the booze destroyed which order will be carried into effect by the marshal |
