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Show I ALL EFFORTS I TO ENFORCE I FAILS Hj The Cropeka) Kansas Dally Capital, H a prohibition organ that colors every- H thing to prove the efficiency of. the j prohibition program, on June 9 carried Hi a telegram) from Pittsburg, Kansas, H which read as follows: fl "Mobilization is the word that most H accurately describes the activities just H now of the Crawford and Cherokee , H Volunteer Association instituted and M chartered at Topeka recently. fl "At Mineral and West Mineral great fl quantities of liquor are buried on M farm lands. It is impossible to find M this liquor and for that reason the lo- M cal authorities have been unable to M punish its owners The Volunteers H say that they will find this stuff if they H have to plow up every foot of land in M the two counties. M "Everything now depends upon the H arrival of F. M. Stahl and his co-work- M ers from Topeka. Stahl, it is under- Hi stood, Is to have charge of the sup- M prcssion of the liquor traffic. The M six men that are to come with hira M are to form his Immediate contingent H The Crawford and Cherokee county M members arc to lend their moral sup- M port to the work and, if necessary, arc H to go into the field and aid in making M raids and arrests That this volunteer M organization had been perfected was j H a surprise to the people of the two ! H counties. No one had put any faith H in the repeated threats to send armed B invaders here to enforce the prohibl- H torv law. M "In Mulborrv, Mineral, West Miner- M al, Frontenac, Dunkirk and other small B towns, both wholesalers and retailers H are doing a thriving business." H Tho sale of liquor in Kansas or liny H i other state will only cease when the H demand for it ceases. |