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Show STILL FOUND AS DEPUTIES TRAIL MINERS Supposed Mine at Stillwater j Declared Moonshiner Headquarters ONE MAN IS NABBED Other Who Acts As Look-! out for Partner Flees From Raiders Scones' similar to those of the old Kentucky moonshine days were en-1 acted .shortly after daylight this morn-I ing when four depytv sheriffs, afti-r. an all-night vigil, raided a moonshiner's moon-shiner's lair in the mountains near ;den canyon, arrested one man. selz- .-.1 ., large Still, .-evcral gallons of llq- u.ir .ind mu h parnphcrnalla. The moonshine nest was hidden in' .1 li" canyon one and one-half niile.s in the mountains. due north of a: Small mine which is a familiar sight near ih" siin sratei in Ogden canyon. The box canyon th.it contained the, still branches off from Shanghai canyon. can-yon. Men who lived in a rough house I and a tent near the paved road as, apparent miners wore the alleged moonshine niakers M i l I II T WORK .More 111 in u ween ao ijuijui)- ouu-Ift ouu-Ift 1 . II .Mohlmin started to w..ri I lo locate the still after many com-Plaints com-Plaints had been made from Ogden valley that liquor was being sold there Past night Deputies Mbhlman, 1 barles Plncock, George Theobald S,nd John Hidden went to the familiar camping place at the stlllwater and I remained there as campers. Hours ' before daylight Mohlmun ;md Pineoi I. .1. t. nired In the hills and climbed t .tin- box ranyon whkh r-ontiiinoil ihr . ,11 Hore they hid in the brush to ! await dawn. SHOTS ARE WARNING Arrangements hud been made (or Theobald and Holden to watch the tents below ind when the moonshln- . ers starteil forth to the box canyon I to fire U11 ShOtfl In the air . minutes before a o'clock thl morning Theobald and llolden saw I two 111 merge from the tents and - .it die climb to the hills. Two j shots were fired as the signal for the I officers. Mohlman and Plncock had secured a point of vantage in the brush closo I to the still and lay hidden. I iinlv one man. who later gave h!s 1 name as L. A. Larson, but who is snid I to be J L. Peters, arrived at t) nest The other branched off before the canyon was reached and went to .1 point of rocks where he stationed himself as a lookout III LIGHTS MILL. Mi.hfniaii and Plncock watched as Peters arrived nt the nest, threw down a pick he carried and lit the fire under the still. When the steam had began to emerge from the still and Larson was. making preparations to place 0 rubber rub-ber hofe to the condenser, the orn-1 leers sti pped foi b ardi i "What tho h is thif '.'' exclaim-1 I ed I-arsun. completely surprised. The officers told him their mission mis-sion and he submitted Two shots were then fired by the officers u, , notlfs the waiting deputies below ihat ,1,0 oi k had I.. -n done. They slat :-ed :-ed UD the mountain in an endea. r lo capture the lookout, out ho had dhappi ar n ' I" hrush TWENTY-GALLON 81 ILL Several barrels of wheat mash wcr dumped out, the still was cooled down Xnd 'he officers carried the paraphernalia parapher-nalia down the long hill to the car. Th(. -mi hud a capacity of 20 gal-,ons gal-,ons WUh it wore glass unnels coloring. WOOl yarn for straining and .m'ch other stuff. Three gallons of new mooniblne wera also token Larson when booked al th erlf ufflre eald he was a 'ormer railr oad man from Three Forks. Mont He IS fl rears Of ace Me would say noth-Iiie' noth-Iiie' about his partner With the arrest of Larson and BSis-r BSis-r . ,r 'the still it s believed that the "holeaale liquor distribution m Og- don valley has been slopped. Larson Is now ln the county Jail. |