Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-16
FEW LIQUOR STILLS LEFT
 IN COCH|SE
County Holds Record for Mum
 Der of Successful Raids on Moonshine Operators; Lo- cal Constable Is Praised

DOUGLAS, Nov 15. If there has not been more illicit liquor manufac- tured in Coehise county than in any other county in the state, it's is prob ably due to the fact that the county seems to hold the record in the num- Der of stills successfully raided by federal officers, assisted by deputy sheriffs and local police. In the last eight months no less than IS outfits for distilling liquor have been cap tured in Cochise county.
 There is a room in the post office building (which is kept carefully locked) that is a veritable museum of the art of ''moonshining" It contains a large and varied assortment of stills that have been captured in this county, from little homemade affairs, constructed of tin tunnels and lard pails, to big manufactured outfits made of copper, with complicated coils that would produce 90 or 40 gal Ions of liquor day.
 Tn this same room there is collected enough liquor to stUCK an old time family liquor store It runs from mes cal to white mule;" from ''the beer that made Milwaukee famous" to bonded whiskey; besides nul,svruur unnamed but high-powered liquors manufactured from most anything that will produce a 'kick." All of this material has been taken in the raids mentioned Much Of It is being kept as evidence in cases that have not yet come for tris.F Derore the fed eral court. All of it will probably be destroyed eventually.
 Besides the cases of operating illicit stills, there have been numerous cases of manufacturing wines or sim liar liquors that require no still Practically all of the defendants in these cases have entered pleas of guilty. In many of the earlier cases, on account of the newness of the law, the common practice of violating it, and the ignorance of many of the violators the mash and the liquor was
 
 warned without any caarges being placed against them. EencerortR, ac- cording to federal officers, every charge will be pressed. Judge Saw telle, federal judge for the Arizona district, announced recently at Tue son that he was going to put stop to violation of the federal H.q;.c- Isws if he had to fill all the jails. It looks as if he might do it, too, for in Globe federal officers recently swore out warrants against 11S alleged viola tors.
 It is noteworthy that of the many stills taken in this county most of them were of commercial capacity and were obviously operated for com. mercial purposes. In several cases according to the officers, the opera | tors were well armed and prepared | for resistance One man was killed | by officers recently when resistance was offered during a raid near the Double Dobes. Mack Keton and | James Afford are now racing yrIaI in | connection with the same case. -rnree defendants are fugitives from justice, having escaped across the line into Mexico.
 | It has been the practice of a cer tain element in Bisbee, according to the federal officers, to purchase raisins each year by the carload for the manufacture of liquor. They say that raisins have not been purchased in any such quantities of late Fur thermore. in the woros or an officer they can purchase all the raisins | they want" The officers are only in. | terested in the use they are put to Under the federal law it is not only | unlawful to manufacture intoxicating liquor of any sort, but it is unlawful to use food products in the manufac. | ture of liquor.
 Federal agents here declare that they have been assisted in every way l ious towns in the county. They place much of the credit for their success with these officers. A. F. Sheppard constable of BisDee. proba bly, holds the record for unearthing more illici liquor operations than any other one man in the state. His fellow officers without intending any levisv, declare that he possesses an unequalieC nose for booze"
 n spite of all that has been done tC | eliminate the illicit traffic in liquor federal agents here declare that the work has only started. At the same time they express the fullest determ ination of continuing with the worl until they have accomplished theil | end -- namely, the complete elimina l ton of the illicit manufacture and sale of liquor.