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Show I WINE POURED INTOJTIESS Government Men Tap Barrels Then Call for Gas Masks When government officer from Salt LeJce came to Ogden yeBterdO they came in anticipation of accomplishing accom-plishing a delightful job According to the papen they hold cney wer Eb "destroy sixteen barrels Of real old wine and fifteen gallons of sulci" which had been held in a local warehouse since laet spring. Shortly nfter 3 o'clock they repaired repair-ed to a warehouse in the rear of the Kcclcs building and rolled the huge barrels to a platform where they prepared pre-pared to pour the valuable fluid into the sewer. One officer procured a pick and made ready to smash In the head of the first barrel and pour Its crimson contents Into the gutter amid sighs and appropriate words. A goodly sized crowd gathered :infl as the officer raised his pick they mingled with the government officers .ind closed in about the barrel to get the first whiff of the old fluid. The pick came crashing down and the barrel bar-rel head fell'ln. The crowd simultaneously simul-taneously took a long, deep breath. Whew!" howled the nearest to tho barrel as he held his nose and ran. "Wow!" cried another as he staggered stag-gered away. "H I," said the government man. "get mo a gas mask." Tho good old wine may have given off a fine odor at one stage of the game, but yesterday it could be classed class-ed under but one word, "rotten." They poured the contents of the first barrel into the alleyway and the crowd disappeared. Horses passing back and forth past the platform even shied when they got a whiff Someone Some-one had bored a hole In each barrel, letting In the air and spoiling the contents "If they ever convicted a guy for having tills In his possession as booze, 1 they sure have done him an injustice." declared one government man as he smashed in another barrel. At last the officers had disposed of all the barrels and brought out small keg. They smashed it In find the odor changed. This keg contained Japanese Japa-nese "sakl" and was nearly pure alcohol alco-hol One man appeared with I want to put It in the radiator of my car to keep It from freezing," he said. The liquor was seized last spring in North Ogden from G. Abbe, a Japa-nese. Japa-nese. It has stood In the warehouse since that time until yesterday when en order was Issued for I oo |