Weekly journal-miner., 1918-10-23
HAIR TONIC AND l. BAY RUM MADE |. A FINE SOUSE
PICKLED PILGRIMS DIS TURB SABBATH CA M AND 3 COPS NEEDED TO LAND THEM IN JAIL; PEG LEG WOULDN'T WALK.
(From Tuesday's Daily.l

Jailor Ben Powers and Deputy Sheriffs Dick Twomley and Fred Jes- sen spent the larger part of Sunday rounding up bunch of six convivial souls who had gathered in a North Cortez Street hotel and had manag- ed to acquire life-size jag by mix ing and drinking the contents of a number of bottles of outlandish liq- uds which ranged all the way from collie cure to Sloan's liniment. The rodeo started at II o'clock in the morning and was not completed until about three in the afternoon. The six men who were taken to the county | jail following the chase gave their names as John O'Brien, David Dill lon, Robert Lee, John Murphy, Frank Quinn and Frank O'Brien. All of them were arraigned in the court of Justice McLane on Monday morning and each drew a jail sentence of 60 days on charges of drunk and dis orderly conduct.
 Bay Rum and Soothing Syrup.
 All of the defendants were quarter cd in hotel on South Montezuma street two nights before they were ar rested and had raised such a dis turbance that the cops had to be call ed in All of the men promised at that time that they would henceforth lay off the grape and go to work at once, and upon these representations. all were released. However, on Sum day morning the bunch had secured room at the Valdrini Hotel, and hay ing laid up a supply of denatured alcohol, bay rum, Jamaica ginger, soothing syrup and collie remedy, they all managed to get into various stages of intoxication. The cops were sent for after the men had be. come noisy and were passing the time by such innocent amusements as breaking furniture and smashing win dow lights. When the first call came in, Powers and lessen responded. At the sight of the officers, the roister- CTS at once separated and made at tempts to leave the hotel by various exits. They were all heavily laden, how6ver, and none of them could travel more than few knots an hour. The cops found it a most difficult matter to get the whole bunch round- ed up in one place, for no sooner were three or four of the happy party corraled, than the others would make off in drunken efforts to escape, and finally Powers sent for Officer iTwomley, a skilled man-catcher, and by combining their talents, the depu- ties at last succeeded in getting all six of the men crowded into one cor ner.
 Peg Leg Wouldn't Walk.
 The trouble was not over, for as soon as the cops suggested that the party move in body to the county pickle parlor on the top floor of the court house, John O'Brien, who was a one-legged man, Hoped down on the floor and refused to walk. Pow CTS at first decided to carry the man to iail, but as the fellow was no light weight, Ben gave up the idea few seconds after he had thought of 1t. The two other cops started off to the jail with the remaining five men and Powers was left alone with Mir. O'Brien. Ben then decided that he would take the mans wooden leg away from him and go for help. He .unscrewed the leg and then happen ed to think that while he was out seeking help, some of the mans friends might show up and carry him off to-a place of safety, thus cheating the officer out of the prisoner which he had worked so hard to catch. Ben put the wooden leg back where 1t would do the most good and managed to drag the prisoner downstairs, where he hailed a passing auto and had the man transported to the hoose gov as third-class matter.
 It Produced a Kick. The cops searched the room where the gang had been making and drink ing the snake developer, and found 1 fully a dozen bottles of wierd concoc- tions which had been used in brew ing the intoxicant. The base of the drink upon which the bunch had liq- uored up was found to have been bay rum which contained about 55 per cent of alcohol.
 The officers state that all of the six men were box car tourists and that they had all refused to keep their promise made several days before their arrest, that they would go to work and lay off the aurora borealis stuff.
 SSSSSSoSSSSSS@ quite a shock to see the first ones, but you get used to it and don't mind 1t at all
 The one thing l want now IS clean clothes and bath, but all of our things were left behind and we don't know when we will get them. The one nice thing, was that we got a big bunch of mail yesterday and also today. You will have to pass this on,