The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-06
WHOLE FAMILY IN JAZZ.
They Have Made $4,000 Gallons OF
MoOnShfne Whisky.
Louisville Courier-Journal.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
narIisoh Gibson and his, three sons
Jack, Brown,ow and Hanney, probably
TOUR OF the most notorious moonshiners
IN kentucky, are serving sentences I'm the
county jail. Confined in the same section
OF cells are Joe Stamper and William Mad
den. sons-in-law CT Gibson Fleming Glib
son, fourth son, was recently released
from the Jail after serving a sentence for
violating the internal revenue laws. and
Henry Gibson. another member of the no.
torious family, was arrested not long ago
In jackson county for moonshining, but
was released
Harrison Gibson estimates that he and
his i've sons have made no Tess than 50. 600
gallons Of whisky. on which not a cent of
revenue was ever paid to the government
he further computes that he ard his fam
lily have realized between $4,000 and $50. 900
from the distlllation of the whisky.
The seat OF operations of the Gibson
family is in Jackson and clay counties
Harrison Gibson says he has been arrest
ed so many times for moonshining that
he could not say exactly now many times
he has been tried before the Federal COM
missoners and In the United States court
Jack, Browniow and Hanney Gibson have
served about six terms each, while Film
ney" and Henry have escaped without be-
ing arrested more than two or three times
joe StdlipeE ana w HIian MaQueN, VINO
married two of Gibson's daughters. are
both expert moonshiners and are regarded
as dangerous men. Their wives are also
skilled in the art of making "doubin''
and disposing OF the whisky and help to
battle the Federal authorities. When seen
in his cell at the jsii yesterday afternoon.
Harrison Gibson said:
'Yaas, think am the real king of the
Kentucky sinners. l am nigh on to 50
years old. and i have been making the
stun ever since I was a boy Is years old.
I have made enough of ii to float that
battieship that blowed up. ] hev had lots
of scraps with the marshals, but kin say
one thing. hev got my first time to shoot
one of 'em. / hev shoy at EN- though
but some way tother the bullets never hit
right.
Now I brought them boys up" con-
tinued the old man, 40 make whisky.
When Jack was but years old took him
to the still with me. WRnln three days
that boy understood the biz thoroughly
and could make 'doublins' to fare-yo,-
WELL When he was II years old he was
as good sinner as his pa. and the mar
shals arrested him and took him TO jail
/ made the other boys learn. too. Brown
low. Hanney, Flinney and Henry wuz
right up TO stuff before they weke Is
years old. and could turn out gallons OF
the stuff without me even goln' around to
see how they wuz gettin' along. My gals
took their medicine. too. j made EN- all
learn. What's the use Of havin' children
anyway. II yez can't use EN-? My old
woman understands 'shnin' just as wei
as I. All my sons are raisin' children
and I'm going to see that they all follow
the business OF their grandpap or know the
reason why. Wen all be out again soon.
and we'll make enough corn juice TO flood
Kentucky. If we don't make 1t, they'll
arrest us anyway"