The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-04
SINNER HAS LOST
0lD:T|ME SPIRIT
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The Manufacture Of "Mountaii,
Dew" Not So Romantic
as Of Yorc.
NOT MUCH FIGHTING NOW
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Report Of Yerkes Shows That
There Was No Loss OF
Life Last Year.
NOT MUCH FIGHTING NOW

(Trom Our Regular Corrcspondent)
WARRINGTON, D. G., Dec s.--That
ancient fcud between the moonshiner and
the "rrvenuc's' has It's record III many
Il notchcd gun.stock, but according to
the annual report Of the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue, John WI. Ycrkes,
no officer of the government lost Ills life
during tho fiscal year ending June 80,
1901. But one man was wounded, Deputy
Collector George T. Rives being shot
while on q raid near Marysvlllc, VA,
November 90 1903.
During the carttlierc were 9S5 Illicit
distillciigs seized and. destroyed, 80 seized
and removed and o91 arrests were made.
Georgia led the list Of moonshining States.
with n total OF 1863 stills seized and 1is
arrests made In the year. North Caro-
lima came next With 262 stills seized and
% arrests. Kcnticky there were 81
seizures and s arrests. In Tennessee
there wero 80 seizures and 1G arrests.
In Alabama there were 100 stills de-
stroycd and So sinners arrested. The
total expense Of the year in apprehend-
ing and prosecuting Illicit distillcrs was
SO, 1850. III
Fewer Fatal ARRAYS.
The loss Of life BY officers in the reye-s
n,,es service Il not what II was twenty
J y
man is by 10 means safe In certain
mountain localities. In the fiscal year
or 1903, there were 1858 seizures and
1895 arrests. the greatest number OF any
year, vet no casualties to officers were
reported. III 1902, there were 1,048 seiz-
ures and 1,036 arrests. One officer was
killed, Marshall 1olsonback being shot in
Marshall county Ala. on January II.
1902 Two posser1en were wounded on q
= ,4,,o, fv
ncssec. on July %. 1891. Deputy Mar.
shall Price was made q, cripple for life,
and indeed was left for dead on the scene
OF the. battle with the 1noonshiners. Cord
Alackie was also badly wounded
In 1901 two officers were killed anr
four wounded. Deputy Collector. John
f, Lanier, was Killed in Alabama, Deputy
Marshall. a. 8. Nvaitley, was killed; and
w. a. Hess WAS wounded in Lincoln
county. Georgia; Jolli, II. Chapman and
Charles Gee were wounded in North
hampton county, North Carolina.
Years ago the casualty list was much
larger and the number OF arrests smaller.
IN 1873 there were fewer than 800 seiz-
ures,t yet men were! killed and ~
wounded. ~
Not What It Once Was.
Modern moonshlninE is not nearly SO
romantic as the old time manufacture
I OF mountain dew" The 'shiner4of old
would defend his still with his life and
a %.'!ocation''f'an raid meant a battle.
Nowadays the moonshiner thinks dis
erection the better part%oft ralors ind when
the revenue men find him out. he de-
camps. It'll 81. liz. I.
Moonshining is no longer a strictly
mountain business either. -Four stills
were destroyed and six arrests were made
in the city OF Philadelphia last year
b Now York, Chicago, Vi New Haven, and
F Concord are other places where the rove
Snue officers made raids and found ille-5s
gal liquor tricltling through an unlawful
worm into a vat that knew n ott the
sanctity of governmental projections:
These moonsllners were all wise enough
when discovered, to make no armed res
sistance. Probably they could not un..'
derstand the sentimental side Of moon
shining which makes Il Georgia cracker
or a Kentucky mountalneer willing to-
give ups his life In defence OF what he
believes to DO his right to turn his own
grain into whiskey. vi.
~. Eastern Kentucky and East Tennessee
arc coming to be prohibition districts
now and many mountain counties that
were once tile ilnunts OF the b0ot-legger5
are now .dry" by virtue Of the popular
will expressed In local option elections
III Kentucky and through the medium Of
tile four-mile law$in Tennessee.
Maybe the mountainecrs prejudice
against taxed whisky has been an agent
Of tcmperal &C. aa-. -