The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-14
THE WHISKY TRUSTS COUP.
1t Has Purchased All the Visible Sur
ply and -Four Moro Distllleries.


New YORK, Dec 13-At the quarterly
meeting of the directors of the whisky
trust today dividend of 1-27, payable
January 3, was declared. No change was
made in the prices of whisky. The an
nouncement was made to stockholders of
the purchase of the Star and Crescent dis
tilIeries. of Pekin, ILL.,. the Nebraska dis
tiiiery, of Nebraska City. and the Central
distillery, of st. Louis. with an aggregate
capacity of 10000 barrels daily. These
purchases were made. it is said in the an
nouncement, in view of the probability
that the government would increase the
tax on whisky and the big demand for the
product, and these causes induced the
trust to depart from the settled policy not
to buy more distilleries because of the
big profits in sight.
CHICAGO, Dec. 13-William Mills, ed
itor of a trade journal in the whisky inter-
ests, says the whisky trust has secured .
corner on whisky and as result prices
are going up. He declares that the trust
owns all the whisky in the country and
has bought up the output OF nearly all dis
tilleries several months in advance, acting
on the idea that congress is about to in
crease the whisky tax. The whisky now
being made will not come on the market
for about three years. The annual con-
sumption is &c, 600 900 gallons and the Wis
ible supply on hand is only $1,000 900 gall
Ions, so they are masters of the situation.
The Operations OF the Haicyon.
SAN Francisco, Dec 13-The Post prints
an interview with Barney Maynard,
known among the "smail fry" smugglers
of the Northwest as Sim Reed, who left for
San Jose yesterday. Reed alleges that in
latter months he had been individually
connected with the same ring of SNUG
glers who manipulated the Halcyon, and
gave some very interesting facts in con-
nection with the recent operations and the
alleged operations of the schooner yacht.
Reed said:
There is no truth in the rumor that the Hal
cyop landed opium at Lime point, or, in fact, at
any point in San Francisco harbor during the
past six months The statement that opium
had been landed a. a point on the coast further
sou h, and that an agent of the ring, named
Vreeman. superintsnded the sale OF a cargo in
San Francisco ana elsewhere is substantially
correct Vreeman was also in California In the in
terests of a scheme to land 300 Cinnamon across
the Mexican border, which was accomplished
only q short while ago. Whaiey's exploits
have been oyerrated and uuderrated in turn.
The story of bis having swiudled his associates
is TO a certain extent true. In fact. he has been
the means OF my losing so 900. AM not, how
ever, at liberty to say how. AS regards the
number OF successful trips made by the
Hacyon, there have been but three The ring
which does the most smuggling il operated by
an entirely different clique and is more power
full and far eaehing. There has been great deal
OF trouble among the members OF this ring and
OF late u sensational expose has been imminent
upon several occasions.
Where are tie headquarters Of the ring in the
North?
Well, that is asking me too much. Blu; will
say one thing, thst Lulu island, which has
often been mentioned in the newspapers. was q
rendezvous for years, and the customs officials
could not help knowing il