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Show 1050 GALLONS OF MASH FOUND I K. Sato, Burch Creek Japanese Japa-nese Arrested; Outfit Destroyed. H ' , The nir In the vicinity of Burch In' creek smellcd strongly of hooch" thin morninc when Deputy Sheriff D. F nSI; Steele poured a total of 1050 gallons j of fermented grain mash Into a gulley IB whern a cache was dlncovered and HI Mn its hod the larrels with an axe. IK. Sato, a Japanese farmer of that In district, was arrested late yesterday by sheriff It. I). Pincock and Deputy Steele after the officers had dlsco-. dlsco-. red the "booze cache" and hud waited h th whisky distiller for more than two Hr hours He was released upon b:ill of 1 1 00 to appear In the city court to-Mr to-Mr morrow morning. H The mash was found bubbling mcr- m l rily high In the hills m a thl. k .lump Hj ol'oak brush, 11 was contained In ii ifjjj barrels of 30 -gallon capacity Hags if Rfl sugar and yeast were found at the Hff(j cache, hut th.' officers wer-j una!-;-Hsjli locate ll, e still. K A large space had been excavated II in the oak brush where the barrels HH1 were found A water pipe line carried HUT! water from a spring higher up to the excavation A place had been provided tor th. b-.t 1 b "I ( . -I ""t; 1 "' HE mash to boil Itself Into readiness for j distilling DEAD BEES IN M sH. Thousands of beas had sipped of the Iffl. mash and had fallen Into the liquid and had died "nc barrel contained H f. large ho'.t owl which bad al been trapped when It came down to I uM drink of the bubMinc Jlquld. B Deputy Steele went to the cache this - H morning' and poured the liquid out Hfln "upon the ground M hon he had com-1 com-1 pleted his task the liquid was two feet H, deep on the floor of the excavation. H Eio then smashed all the barrels con- talning mash and several others found empty nearby. W The officers found thf? cache yester- HM dav afternoon and laid in wall foi dis-tilling dis-tilling activities to begin, but their lffll HHfj was without avail for the owner failed to appear. I ARB ESI SATO. Hj Toward evening they went to the HH house of Sato, whose land the cache was on. and placed him under arrest : Bj He was taken to the county jail. Hi Sato was arrested lust spring for Ht having liquor in his possession and hij, H, team and wagon were confiscated. H The cache of mash was the largos' U -which the officers have yet discovered VV elnce prohibit .ing It HSKi the officers bell. I r e flow of Illicit liquor wh.ch has been i matt coming from the Bun h creek district |