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Show Kansas Postoffice Is Stuck With 115 Cases of Whisky FORT SCOTT, KAS. There was $5,000 worth of whisky sitting back of the postoffice here and nobody was willing to try to move it. The whisky, 115 cases of it, was seized by the federal alcohol unit when found in a truck near Oswego, Kas. Marion Ernest Kirk, Perry, Okla,, was charged with a federal liquor violation and the liquor ordered forfeited to the government. But the government later dismissed the action against Kirk. Then a federal fed-eral court order was Issued, rescinding re-scinding the confiscation order. Then a truck driver appeared at the back of the postoffice and called for the liquor. It was understood that it was to be shipped to Jop-lin, Jop-lin, Mo. Sheriff Russell Simmons and Daniel O. Lardner, county attorney, weren't sure who was doing the shipping, but they advised the truck driver that If he moved the liquor off the postoffice property they would seize both the truck and the liquor under Kansas' dry law. The liquor was unloaded and 80 cases were left on the platform in the rear of the postoffice. State authorities are watching It closely. The ofher 35 cases are in the post-office post-office vault. Postoffice officials say they'd like to get rid of the liquor. But so far no one, who might have an interest in the liquor, had found any way to move it without running into the state's dry law. |