The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
Tomorrow Morning About Nine
O'Clock the Police VIII Destroy
over ! Hundred Gallons
Of Liquor.
THE CoNFIsCATED BREW
Drink Was Taken from the Montrose
Blind Tiger Operators Over
Week Ago and no Objection
to Destruction.

Not at sunrise but just few hours
later tomorrow morning, will occur
the execution OF enough beer and
whiskey to stock buffet on State
street, Chicago, for a year. This
morning writ Of execution was made
out by Judge w. L. Mcnamara of the
superior court in which the state of
Iowa orders that all liquors taken
from the parties at Montrose a week
ago last Friday afternoon by the
sheriffs and police officers, shall be
destroyed.
SO tomorrow morning in accordance
with this order, "a dray wagon will
haul the brew and "red-eye" to the
foot OF Bank street where there is an
old hollow and here amidst stones the
breaking of bottles and the squirt of
gallons of intoxicants will be seen by
the small band of officers of the law
and early rising citizens who hapnen
around
To the old soak the sight will be
one which will bring the tears to his
eyes and despair into the drawn
lines of his face, if any of that ele-
ment should see the execution. but
bravely those who have been entrust-
ed with the dutySo breaking up the
bottles, will do their work and aft
tie whiskey ring and blind tiger game
which has been going on for months,
will all be over.
Just Think of it.
When one stops to consider that
there will be Ill gallons of liquor,
both beer and whiskey, flooding the
ditch about the river front in the old
dumping grounds tomorrow, the de-
struction of tremens and snakes can
easily be seen at a glance. There are
554 pint bottles of beer, half barrel
OF wflfskey, 2S quarts and IL pint bot
ties of whiskey.
A CONFIDENT.
Just week before the local police
officers went to the places of Barber,
Wilcox and Latta at Mpntrose, a Mont
rose man was arrested here by Mont
rose authorities one evening. when
he was found driving from a local
liquor house on lumber wagon with a
half dozen kegs of beer and some 9TH
er species of brew. The man was lat
er released and started on the road
out home with his lumber wagon load
OF beer. On the way several of the
kegs rolled from the wagon and prov
ed too much for the lone driver to
again load back, so he sat down and
waited. Soon Keokuk automobile
hove in sight and the Montrosei man
asked the assistance of the dam city
residents to help him with the kegs.
At first the Keokuk party thought
the man was joking but on getting out
OF the machine and going back, they
were brought face to face with the
real articles and couple of cold
ones" didn't go bad before completing
the trip to iMontrose town.
Thus it was that too much OF this
hauling back and forth traffic came to
the eyes of the authorities and the
raid Of little over a week ago re-
suited In the bringing of so many
gallons of eye opening fluid to the
realms of the local police department,
and the final outcome of the matter
that it should be destroyed tomorrow,
since none of the three Montrose
men from whom the liquor was taken.
appeared up until today to protest
against its destruction or to say why
It must not be DESTROYED.