The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-08-16
Guardian Of Red River District
Tells Of Traffic in Forbidden
Fluid and Schemes of
Transporters.
MAKE MERRY LIFE
FOR LAW MINIONS
Big Cars with LigSs Dimmed BEAT
r. tor River Bottom Points
and Detour to Elude
the Officers

~ A'o5ihr convention OF all
the bootieggers in Oklahoma, called 80
the more enterprising could discuss
with each other the best methods or
running in on the purchaser of rot
gut" for bottled in bona" and the
surest methods Of running any kind
past the officers? Col. w. A. worley.
deputy Y. s. marshal. thinks such a
convention might be attended by a
considerable number OF people. More
over, he thinks good many OF them
would be men Of money! and above
all, men of some shrewdness.
Deputy Marshal Worley is the guar
dian over that district below Ardmore
on the Red river over which venders
of booze must haul their wares before
they can get them from the wholesale
liquor houses in Wichita Falls, Tex.
into the old territory country. Booze
and booze sellers keep him busy most
of the time.
The officer has just passed through
chfckasha enroute from Oklahoma
City back to the Red river bottoms.
where he is laying for" some men
he got information on in Oklahoma
City, Tom Wilson and Abe Enloe,
who we're held after hearing in com.
missioner Hamilton's court, last week.
we're two of the catches that the Unit
ed States officers and Sheriff Jim Bif-
flies of Jefferson county have made re-
Gently. The two were held under
bond of $1,000 each. They were not
caught with half pints in hip pockets.
An eight cylinder Cadillac was taken
with them and at the same time Off
GERS found 40o quarts Of beer not fifty
yards from the car which they claim
belonged to the motorists.
This is declared by Deputy worley
to be just one case that looks like
transporting on big scale. "Automo-
biIes," he said, leave Ardmore with
lights dimmed and with mufflers on
10 speed down into the Red river bot
toms. twenty-five miles south. They
detour possibly hundred miles In
getting there. then load up from an
accompIice who is waiting for them
with the goods, brought up from Wich-
ita Falls.
There are a dozen ferries across
Red river in less than hundred miles
along south of Ardlnore. and we be-
lieve most of them are kept up chiefly
by bootleggers," the officer said Just
to show how much travelling there is
between Oklahoma and Texas down on
the meridian line, Col. Worley says
there is new toll bridge across the
river that charges a dollar vehicle
for crossing He stood at the bridge
one day and counted twenty.one teams
in six hours.
An example OF big catch that the
officers didn't get is told by the Unit
ed States officer who knows southern
Oklahoma as well as the county as
SCISSOR knows Grady county. He was
raised down there more than fifty
years ago.
Jim Biffles and /. he said. went
down to Wichita Falls to watch feI.
low that looked suspicious. We saw
him take his wagon around to the
wholesale house and fill it up to the
top of the sideboards with whisky. He
had a cover on the wagon, and big
mule and a big horse hitched to it. He
piled bedding over the whisky. put
woman and one child in the wagon.
got kid and put him on pony to
ride along with him. then started back
toward Oklahoma.
"We followed that man." the officer
said. for two days, trying to catch
him after he got the booze over into
the territory. He got on TO the fact
that he was being watched. mixed us
on the crossing he was to make and
got away with the booze before he
woald find him.