Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-11-30
D6ERIN S
ST Ii FOUND
COLLECTOR SAM FERGUSON
AND a POSSE OF DEPU-
TIES MAKE A SECOND
RAID INTO LIN
COLIN COUNTY.
End of a Moonshine Still Which has
Furnished the Exhilarating Corn
Juice Quaffed BY Many
Mountaineer.
Huntington Herald, Nov. 2slh.

bSputN INTERNAL revenue OOllCC
tor Sam Ferguson and brave poss,
of deputy marshals have placed THEN
names very high in the scale of no
toriety as moonshiner hunters dur
ing the past ten days,
For many years the southwestern
portion of Lincoln county has been
the home of some of the most dar.
ing and desperate illicit whiskey
distillers to be found in three states,
where "moonshining" has been re-
duced to a science.
Many raids have been made by
revenue officers and more than once
have their efforts been rewarded 10y
the capture OF one or more persons
who were charged with thus break
ing the revenue laws. So far, how
ever, all those made oaptives have
been only accessories or accomplices
of the one great chief, who has been
the leader of leaders among the
makers of ''mountain dew"
This boss moonshiner Is said to
be Henry Deering, about whom
much has already been said in the
newspapers, and whose name and
fame are probably known by every
revenue officer in West Virginia and
Kentucky. He has grown old in
years and oldand supremely cunning
in his chosen vocation. His seven
tieth birthday is said to have been
celebrated sometime ago and il was
one of the notable events in "soci-
ETY. circles" of the neighborhood in
which it transpired.
From that time until the present
1T is said that he has been seen by
less than half dozen of his chosen
confidents, he having spent most of
the time alone in the mountain fast
nesses enjoyed IN operating his still.
But behring's business now seems
to have been completely broken up.
Only short time ago deputy Fer
guson determined that this leader
of the craft should be suppressed
and In some way succeeded in loca-
ting his still where only a month
ago il had a run of several hundred
gallons.
A raid was made by these officers
about week ago. The place of OPP
eratious was found and the mash
tubs, worm and other things were
captured. But on Wednesday night
the final and it is believed the sue
cessful work was done.
Ferguson, with deputy marshal
James Bartram, Col. Deck Bowen
and four others started from Wayne
about sunset of Wednesday and by
midnight reached the neighborhood
of the Deering headquarters on the
head of Roy Branch of Guyan river.
Here they have succeeded in finding
located some four hundred yards
from the ''dew" discovered OH their
former raid, the still which Deerinp
had used for years. # was Of eighty
gallons capacity, and though il
weighed eighty pounds, it was car
ried through the mountains a dis
lance of fifty miles by two Of tn,
deputies, and is now intact and viii
be taken to the United States cour
and added TO the big collection o
curiositles in the moonshine manu-
featuring art, now IN possession o
the government authorities.
But one other still il known {,
exist in Lincoln county. That IS
small one and the worm having bee
captured sometime ago it is not like
ly it can be operated.
Still Deering is al large aud Is Dc
faint Of the authorities and sine
has property is gone and he has no
the funds to replace it he has grow
desperate and woe be 90 the Office
who invades his kingdom hereafter
s e
Rev. G.. w Marston, Of the Al
kansas conference, VI. e. Churcl
and who was formerly pastor here
admirably filed the mint at ia