Show I i STORMS MECK BOOTLEG BOOTIES CRAFT I Six Rum Ruin Boats Battered on Rocks Off Coat Coast By fly IFF I FI O Examiner S Standard d r Special Six Ial Cor- Cor l Cor-l c Copyright 1924 by the th Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Pres Association SAN FRANCISCO April 12 12 Most of o the tho th outside world worlo has i herd heard of the th fight that Is 1 waging against the th foot toot and mouth disease That Is serious rlou enough for forthe the tho but farmers farmers but I 1 doesn t affect the tourist trade trad like lik another dis ease ellSe the hip hip and drought mal mal- malady mal malady ady which also 1110 has bas descended up- up upon up upon on the Golden StAt State Bootleggers are ar walling about It Patrons Patron of bootleggers bootleg are ar pouring forth verbal blue smoke amok about It and prohibition enforcement agents who ard ar trying unfairly to claim the credit are ar chortling with aith glee OV over r the predicament of ot both hootch purveyors purveyor and hootch con con- consumers con consumers sumers The Th only persons person Immune are Aro W C T U tI members and nd those ho aho make their own onn bo It hundred proof or home horn brew rather Father Neptune It seems seems con con- conspIred conspired con conspired with himself to do clo what the prohibItion forces force ha liao ha hanot a not been able to do effectually In several years Entering Into thc the story also are Aro such uch Illegal things thing as ax tr In re restraint of hade and profiteering DISLIKE MEX LIQUOR V w hen hen bootlegging first be became becam a popular occupation wIth most mot of the th states state's liquor sup sup- supply supply ply was brought south southward ard across the Canadian border by automobile Mexico It developed never did c hae ha a liquor supply fitted to lean AmerIcan tequila tastes taffs and mes- mes cal mes-cal cat cal being too hot hot hot Canada had a shorter haul and a bond ot of brotherhood with the th ot of million cases of good food Scotch For Fora Fora a long time there ther were ere a lot of ot In- In Independent In Independent dependent dependent bootleggers who ho main maIn- maintained tamed California s alcoholic son US-son with credit They owned their au- au automobile au automobiles took their O o-e o oV-i oV t chances and pocketed their own profits without having to dIv 1 up I MAlt n RUM RUI TRUST Then two ears ear ago afo a trust took hold of ot California s liquor Instead of using auto auto- automobiles automobiles automobiles mobiles they pressed Into service a halt half dozen old wind which were acre era rotting In Oakland es- es estuar es estuary The wind Ind layout layout- lay out out- outside sid out side tile tHe shore shor limit A fleet ot of launches also owned by the th trust went out and brought the cargoeS ashore 1 Transportation by water being cheaper the trust soon put the lit lit- little littie lit little 1 tle tie fellow fello s sith with ith the automobiles automobile out of of business There they t I quit a Il tip to prohibition prohibition I tion headquarters headquarter produced the same me result I Since Sine then the trust has been conducting California liquor busi busl- busi- busi business business ness with a a high hand It raised prices Until the pre pr ailing quota quotA- quotations quotations I tor for a quart bottle botti of anything I lIh aith a D kick hick were wre around 12 12 You could pay the I trust prices prIce or co o thirsty WRECKED BY DY B STORMS I It seems however that rather Neptune Is la even more mor powerful than the th trusts trust Three Thre ago agoa agoa oa at-oa a big bir trust liquor runner was WB 1 ling Ing oft off Mendocino coast cot to dis- dis discharge discharge dis charge Its lis cargo careo Along Alone e cin-e a storm and ond kicked It on to a reef Fourteen hundred cases of liquor floated ashore hore were prompt prompt- promptly ly s seized by the authorities A week later another trust tru t oat boy hov- hovering hov-erinc hov ering off oct Santa Barbara also went wenton wenton Ion on the rocks but there wa was wai nothing Ilett left of the cases which i she sheI I carried Since Sine then four tour other trust I ships have hove met a 0 fate And when hen rather has hanot not been kicking up enough of a 0 storm in the th Pacific to run them ashore he has puffed putted up enough squalls qualls and gales to prohibit any small craft from goIng tolne out for tor the cargo The rhe actual lot log book ot of f the th tr tr ts bootlegging bootleg operation operations is I r n ru reported to show that In the th lat last three months month less than one on thou thou- thousand thousand sand and cases of o liquor have boon been bo landed the normal con con- consumption consumption con consumption capacity ot 01 of the th Golden States State's thirsty Is said to be bo cases case a month |