The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-16
Old Girl Who has Long Been Champ
Booze Destroyer Of the Country,
Loses to keokuk
smashers.
ATTENDED WITH SIGNS
An Audible Groan or Two Went up
From the Bunch Of Watchers
Who Saw Beer and Red-Eye
Smashed Today.


said the driver Of the transfer wag-
on as his tongue hung out foot this
morning.
And the "oil" if it may be called
that, surely did swim along to the
river. At half past eight, the moving
van called at the door of the police
station in Lucas Avenue and loading
in the four and half barrels of beer,
half barrel of whiskey and two large
boxes containing some of the best
manufactured bottled in bond" whis-
key, proceeded to the river front.
Preceding the "oil'' wagon was the
chief of police and two newspaper
representatives. Down to place just
back CT the mouth of the city sewer,
the procession drove. Then out of the
wagon jumped five prisonera from
the Jail and quickly the barrels and
boxes were dumped upon the ground.
Several of the birds carried large
stones to the hollow and at once oper-
ations began.
E The Oil First.
I The half barrel of whiskey was the
first quantity of red-eye tackled. With
| a large sledge Judge" Breheny at
tackled the end of the giant cask and
with squirt and gush, the whiskey
/ poured from the inside. Then it was
that the darkey driver could no long
er hold in his ejaculation.
After the whiskey barrel had been
demolished to sliyers, the five bar
i rels OF bottled beer were rolled forth
/ and with Ratchet and sledge the lids
were smashed in and the glass car
tons dumped upon the ground. Stimuli
taneously, five smashers lifted the
/ bottles in the air and with a crash
the glass oblong TASKS came down
on the rocks of execution. How the
booze did flow, not to the river be
cause the masonry of the sewer en-
trance was built up in the way of the
liquor flow so the wet stuff seeped in
I to the ground. Five hundred and fifty
two bottles were destroyed of beer
alone.
The bottled in bond whiskey Grated
in the boxes filled with straw and re-
failing as high as any gin on the
market, was smashed mercilessly and
the beer and eye-opening fluid, ming
ling together caused strange, smell
ly odor to arise from the ground.
We VIII All Have Just
4 One more little drink, then we'll dc
what?-Get sick. The bottled beef
that was opened this morning, surely
would have made anyone sick who
tasted it but then there are some
with hearts like lead and stomachs
like rocks, for dear people there is
no use thinking any more that no.
one of those men who went to thu
river front this morning to destroy
good booze by the gallon, did not nil
Just little bit. Out of the whole lot
two bottles of beer were consumed
. and when 1t is known that Minnie
Mulhern was on the job doing thu
smashing act in a way that woult
have downed forever the name o
Mrs. Carrie Nation, there will be lit
tie surprise Mulhern had to have on
but not until after the colored team
ster had his cold CD bottle.
Too Bad.
+. Pretty nearly hundred dollar
: worth of stuff that makes mems AM
other peoples brains whirl, was dc
: stroyed today ON the big flat rocks,
block below the Talbot elevator.
d TIA nntti of red and brown fizz tina
would have soaked the camp of tn
Keokuk Squirrel club for a month o
more was forever put out Of existenc
by misunderstanding course of the Law
Only once before and that was las
June, when Chief Schevers steppe
!. into office, was there ever a demon
; stration like the one this morning
when thirty-three half pints of whi'
: key was cracked open on the rock
in the jail yard.
Today's little seance was one wort
witnessing though 1t was pitiful to
degree to notice the sad expressio
on the faces of some of those VIII
stood around. police officers and pres
men excluded, please.