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Show CARLOAD Of BOOZE IS QOEER iXTORE I1DEED Idaho police authorities are complaining com-plaining bitterly of "boolleg" booze traffic between Ogden and southern Idaho Last Tuesday the police at Poca-tello Poca-tello found a box car in the railroad yards. No. 22095, shipped from Ogden. Og-den. billed as containing live stock and emigrant's movables Suspecting crookedness. Deputy Sheriff Wheeler left Policeman Gar-bett Gar-bett in charge of the car and went to obtain a search warrant Before Wheeler returned, two men jumped out of the box car and fled The policeman pursued them, firing several sev-eral shots, but they escaped The men were recognized as Steve Adams, alias "The Kaiser. ' who is under bond to answer "bootlegging" charges, and George Jeffries. Search of the car revealed two scrawny, flea-bitten ponies, ready only for the boneyaid, forty-seven sacks of power-house whisky, each sack containing fifteen to twenty five bottles, bot-tles, a piano box (with no piano in it) full of cheap whisky, one dry goods box full of similar booze, several rick-etv rick-etv chairs, a few miscellaneous articles arti-cles of furniture of small value, a bale of hay and a bale of straw. The shipment was billed as the property prop-erty of an immigrant or new settler. The capture is deemed important by the Idaho authorities. This is the first discovery of booze shipped as household goods. Several kinds bf prosecutions are threatened. |