The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-18
UNCLE SAM is IN IT
he Sw00Ps DOWN on THE SWo0PERs
AT TIE COUNTY JAIL
Revenue Omce1 Want to Find Out Who 10
Violating the Law-SheriH Royse h
Asked to Account for the Liquors He
Took from . Saloon-Col0nel Huffman
Captures Two Empty Whisky Barrels ut
the Jail and Stores Them in the Govern
ment Building-Royse Is Scared and
Says His Deputies Disposed OF IL.

meue BuidsnS-hOyse Il scared ana
Says His Deputies Disposed OIL
There was comomtion at the county
jail yesterday when Revenue Collector
Huffman swooped down into the pro-
hibition fight like a sparrow hawk from
the top OF a forest tree on an unsus-
pecting foolish mouse by a hedge fence.
Sheriff Royse has surrendered the
majesty OF his Office conferred upon
him by the sovereign people into the
hands of impractical theorists and they
are getting him in trouble.
II begins to appear that while acting
on the advice OF such a legal light as
Billy Smith that the laws Of the United
States are winding around the sheriff
of Sedgwick county with the grip OF an
anaconda.
Colonel HUFFMAN was notified that
the revenue laws OF the United States
were being violated by the over Jealous
officers Of Sedgwick county in their
zeal to enforce the prohibitory law OF
the Sunfiower state.
1t was reported TO the revenue officers
that the sheriff OF Sedgwick county had
seized certain liquors OF Otto thinner
man and that a portion Of IL was in un-
broken packages and stamped and
marked according TO the direction OF
the revenue laws of the United States.
When this information was given TO
the revenue collectors they charged on
the county jail and captured two empty
whisky barrels that were in the sheriff S
possession.
An empty whisky barrel does not or
dinarily appear TO be OF much value but
in this case it would have been better IL
they had been full OF good old bourbon
because in that case Sheriff Royse
would not have been called upon by an
officer of our Uncle Samuel TO explain
what disposition he made of that liquor.
Royse trembled before the modest
revenue officers and even the kindly
face of Henry HUFFMAN locked terri
bic 10 him and Royse made answer that
his deputies had emptied the liquor into
| the sewer.
The very idea Of Bill Hayes and Bill
Johnson. Charley Burrows and Charley
| Horner pouring old Kentucky Bourbon
down sewer so overcome Colonel
HUFFMAN that he came near dropping
dead in his tracks right there in the jail
| Of Sedgwick county. Kansas.
The two empty whisky barrels were
| taken by the revenue officers and stored
carefully in the government building
| and people wondered what that meant
Every lawyer and liquor dealer, how
ever, knew what il meant. 1t is crime
against the laws of the United States 70
| draw liquor from a cask upon which
| the revenue taxes has been paid with.
out destroying the stamp and the num-
! Der over the bung hole.
Sheriff Royse admitted that the
| liquor had been drawn from those casks
| while in his possession and here were
! the stamps and number intact. That is
| the reason that the officers took the
| barrels. They may want to roll them
| into Judge Williams court for evidence
! in a criminal case against somebody
while the court convenes in September
| An attorney last night remarked thai
| X a distiller could I'LL up barrel anc
| have ii stamped and numbered and
| then have an augur hole in the heac
! and draw off the liquor while the stamr
| and number is preserved that he coul(
retail out OF that one barrel for al
! time TO come and just fill II up every
! time il was empty.
1t is to prevent such frauds that th'
United States revenue laws makes Il
| an offense to do such a thing.
, A reporter for the Eagle called a
! Colonel Huttmann's residence after M
| had gone from the office to enquire
| about his visit TO the jail. In answer
TO questions Colonel HUFFMAN said
81 want you to understand that we
are taking no part in this prohibition
! fight. We were informed that the reve-
! nue. laws were being violated and we
! are simply investigating. and further
than that do not wish 10 say now.
us the barrels taken by you the same
that were taken from Zimmerman"
II do not want TO say word more
for publication. You will know IL all
in time
1t was evident that the revenue Of
/ ficers are making up a case and the
hope Of getting them 10 say more was
given up. IL is plain that there is some
thing in the wind and a Democratic
friend of the revenue collector said last
night: wait a little while and you
viii hear something drop"
F. K Rawlins OF Caldwell was at the
Carey Yesterday