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Show STILL LOCATED IN BOX ELDER Japanese Fined $250 For Alleged Al-leged Operation of Hard Liquor Manufactory. (Special to standard-Examiner.) i BRIGH M i IT. July h Located b both local and federal officers, a whiskey still said to be equipped wit'i enough mash to supplj all the rest's rest-'s of Poxelder county with bird llipior or iaki. for months, was dis- ovcred at 9:S0 o'clock Tuesday morning morn-ing on the farm of William Ejltton. between Deweyville and Collinston Harrj N'aguchi was placed under arrest ar-rest by Sheriff Job Veiling and CltJ Marshal W n Lee of Brigham. Federal Fed-eral Prohibition Agent, J. E. Shields. A line of $250 was placed on the Japanese Jap-anese when he appeared before the jjustice of Peace, Russell Wight, later j In the afternoon. Receiving advanced information on a whiskey still in the community, Shc-rifl Welling notified Federal I'ro-. hlbltinn ' iffleer Shields and City Mar- siial Lee and together thc Investigated Investigat-ed The farm upon which the still was found is owned by William Hit-! ton of Salt lake but was In charge at the time of the arrest of the Japanese. 1 1 his sm. Qeorffe BItion. the officers I said. Finding that the place heeded more attention than he could give It. George Bltton contracted thirty acres ot it to the usl of N'aguchi, who intended in-tended to plan' it In beets The Japanese Jap-anese planted half of the land In corn j the officers said. ) A small butldng located beside a j pond was discovered bv the officers-' This contained a s'oe and some per-isonal per-isonal effects of the Japanese. Rising back of the cabin was a small hill In, the side of which was a dugout Upon Up-on searching the officers said they found a complete outfit for the manu-factur" manu-factur" of whiskey; There was one 50 gallon barrel cf rice and gram mash one 10 gallon barrel of rice and' grain mash, one la gallon barrel of! rice mash, one 1 gallon contalrer partly filled with the finished product.' genuine w hiskey made by the Jap-1 ,anese on July 10, according to th officers offi-cers There was also located In the I I dugout a number of rice sieves, and I one large copper cooker sixteen Inches l In diameter and thirty inches in depth i The officers estimated the output of' jthc still at fifteen gallons of whiskey twenty-four bours. Kaguchl is allege to have admitted that he was conducting the still and had held possession of it since Feb. 1. The equipment for the still was brought to the arm by a friend of the Japanese now In Nevada during the firsi of Januar he said. Whet tier William Bltton and his son. George l'dtton were aware of the still on the farm was not determined by the officers. |