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Show DENVER PEOPLE WAITING FOE UQIMDERS DENVER, Colo , Dec. 17. Six hundred hun-dred persons were standing in line In a heavy snow storm this morning when the American Railway Express company opened its doors to deliver liquor packages received before midnight mid-night last night, at which hour the "bone dry" law went Into effect. Leslie Hubbard, attorney-general of Colorado, advised the company officials of-ficials he would take action today to prevent further deliveries. Meanwhile, Mean-while, at the district attorney's office, clerks were busy issuing blank warrants war-rants on which it was planned to arrest ar-rest persons receiving the liquor.. Attorneys At-torneys for the company assert it has the riht to deliTer the packages accepted ac-cepted by it before the law became operative. The packages were shipped ship-ped into Colorado from other states under permits issued by the state under un-der thc'Horton law. The express office remained open after midnight delivering consignments consign-ments of liquor to those who called. |