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Show f HISKY IIU! 1 11 110 K Nevertheless Government Di-' Di-' rects Armed Force to Proceed Pro-ceed Against Violators IRON RIVER, Mich.. Feb. 23. "Thoro hasn't boon such a hoax put over on the country since the fake armistice report as this report of the 'rum rebellion' in Iron county," said District Attorney Martin McDonough in an interview today with a staff correspondent cor-respondent of the Milwaukee' Journal. Continuing, McDonough said: "There is no rebellion in Iron county. coun-ty. Prohibition is being enforced to the limit and my office is giving the federal agents every aid possible. "I wired the governor and tho attorney attor-ney general of tho slate and the attorney attor-ney general of tho federal government at Washington today demanding a full and complete investigation as to who started tho report of this so-called rebellion." re-bellion." CHICAGO, Feb. 23. Major A. V. uairympie, leoonu protuoiuun commissioner com-missioner for the central states, received re-ceived word at 12:30 o'clock that telo-i graphic authorization for him to lead an armed expedition of United States agents into the upper peninsula of Michigan had been scnL from Washington. Wash-ington. t, Prohibition Director Kramer, at the capital, was Iir communication with Mr. Dalrymple by long distance telephone. tele-phone. Dalrymple, with about thirty men. will leave Chicago at G p. m. for Ne-gaunce, Ne-gaunce, Mich., where thy will be joined by a troop of Michigan state constabulary. oo |