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Show MEXICO DESTROYS WHISKEY AND WINES DOUGLAS, Ariz,, Sept. 14. More than 600 carloads of whiskey, champagne cham-pagne and other wines, valued at ?3,-500,000, ?3,-500,000, were dumped Into the bny at Guaymas, Sonora, under orders of the state authorities on August 28 Jast, according to a.statoment today by Ives G. Lelovior, Mexican consul hero. Photographs Pho-tographs of tho scene attending the confiscation and destruction of the liquor, li-quor, together with tho official notification noti-fication of the action, were received by the consul today. The bovorages thrown into tho ocean were tho accumulations of shipments to:Sonom ecdzed-by-tlifl state slnoe the abolltlon of the liquor traffic on January Janu-ary 1, 1915, and the stocks on hand which were taken over when the prohibition pro-hibition decree became effective. Every Ev-ery government warehouse In the state has been emptied of liquor, it Is declared, de-clared, and the information to Mr. Lelevler says that so far as the authorities au-thorities aro aware, there Is not a drop of intoxicants In the state. |