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Show YUKON IS ASSURED PLENTY OF LIQUOR DAWSON. Y. T.. July 19 Special permission from the United Bbrtes government for the transshipment through Alaska of a consignment ot liquor to Yukon has aaeured thi te?f rttory a two years' supply 0f drlnk- When an order Issued at Wahlnc--ton recently banned the shipment of intoxicating liquor through thi United Unit-ed States territory enroute from one c,,nntry to another, it began to look as if the lulcon would have to go dry in spue of its popular voto in favor of government .sale of liquor All present roads to the Yukon lie through Alaska At that time, u consignment of liquor worth $70,000 was enroute from the I nlted Kingdom to the Vukon the property ot the Yukon government. In the emergency the government here purchased R like amount In Vancouver and had It shipped by fast freight to Dawson It paMed the International boundry line Into the Yukon a few hours before the United States ban went in'o effect; Th the territory's liquor Supply for a . ouplc- of years" is safe. |