Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-25

shall in the South. He mas earned
the reputation of being most eff
cient officer by several years expert
ence in Kentucky and Tennessee,
during which time he has found it
necessary to kill several moonshiners,
and carries several testimonials Of
the esteem of Bowman and his men
in the shape of gunshot wounds.
An Awful Fight.
The fight in which the HendersOns
and their negro deputy distinguished
themselves particularly was the sequel
of a raid they had made in the
mountains of Northeastern Tennessee
a few months before, in which they
had surprised several moonshiners at
work and captured them and de-
stroyed their stills with a quantity of
Illicit liquor. In return ten of the
friends of the prisoners watched their
chance and surprised the Henderson
brothers as they were en- route to
their home in Kentucky. They were
riding along the mountain road,
when they were suddenly fred upon
from the timber hundred yards
L
the first fire and one of the brothers
shot in the arm. The other was
caught beneath his horse and could
scarcely manipulate his rifle. He
was doing his best to keep their assail-
ants at a distance, when the negro
Clay and two other officers riding in
the rear heard the firing and lost no
time in coming to the rescue. The
outlaws were closing in on the Hen
derson brothers when their compan-
| ions came up One of the officers
was killed moment later, but the
intrepid manner in which Clay and
! his companion charged the ambuscade
compelled the moonshiners to retreat.
Al Henderson succeeded in eXtri
eating himself from his dead horse
about the time the re-enfOrcements
arrived, and, springing on the horse
| of the man who had been killed,
| Joined in the chase of the enemy.
He killed one and wounded two
Others, while his negro companion
shot one fatally and captured an
other. In the fight both the Hen,
dersons were shot almost fatally.
| Probably one of the most efficient
assistants Uncle Sam has in suppress.
ing Illicit distilling is a young lady of
this vicinity, Miss Hattie Hart. She
is 4 school teacher, and knows every
| glen and cavern in eastern Kentucky.
having spent much time in the woods
with her father. She furnishes rev.
enue officers all the information i'm
| her possession on all occasions. She
! is typical Kentuckian, and declares
that she is opposed to moonshining
because she knows it is productive of
evil. She is the only person in tho
| State who ever defed this lawlesA
element and lived unmOlested. She
has frequently been warned to leave
the country, but merely laughs at the
| threats Of the moonshiners.
The efforts of the revenue force in
Eastern Kentucky appear at present
to be directed more against prevent
ing the moonshiners marketing the
product of their stills than toward
destroying the source. The new Off
| Ger in command in this district, Col.
| John ID. Edwards, has declared his
intention of deviating from the
course adopted during the last twenty
| years in dealing with Illicit diStillers,
and threatens the source through
which their whisky is placed before
| the consumer. The usual course is
to ship it down the Big Sandy in fiat
boats to the Ohio, where secret
agents see that it is distributed all
over the country. This channel is to
be closely watched in the future as an
| experiment. The only difficulty in
! this theory is that no matter how
| much liquor is detected in transit,
the plan will never capture the
moonshiners, but Col. Edwards ar
CUES that the industry can be rem
dered so Improbable by frequent con-
! flscations of the output that the
thousands Of men now engaged in the
| traffic in these mountains will seek
other vocatiOns.
A conservative estimate places the
quantity of whisky marketed by the
Kentucky moonshiners annually at
nearly one-fourth of the output of a |
the distilleries of the State. Col.
Edwards thinks that as the moon
sinners have flourished SO wonderfully
under the old system he will contine
his efforts to the new plan, with bet
ter chances of serving the Govern
ment.
A Salt Water Bath at Home.
A cup of rock salt added to the
water for cold or cool bath will
| lessen the shock to persons who can