Weekly journal-miner., 1919-05-14
.I[YBOOTLEGGER HAS BIG BAG
 OF TRICKS

PHOENIX, May 6.-"For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the 'bootlegging' man is peculiar" would be an apt paraphrase of well known poem on the history of the illicit liquor trade of Arizona since the state went dry December IA, 1914.
 The original "bootlegger," say those who profess to know, carried the whiskey with which he did un- lawful trading concealed in flat flasks in the legs of his boots, hence fine name. One of these gentlemen, the first to come under the eyes of the officers for many months, was captured in Phoenix recently, but the up-to-date purveyor of liquor Ill Ari- zona resorted to much more elabor- ate tricks to import or manufacture and sell his wares.
 The copper lined trunk with four compartments shipped in from a non prohibition state by express was a favorite up to a short while back, when federal officers arrested one man in San Jose, California, and an other in Phoenix, who were making a business of shipping these trunks back and forth.
 In Jerome, recently a large sus- picious-lookinp barrel arrived by ex- press, according to the story told by the federal officials. It was heavy and the deduction was that it was full of something. It was deposited on the station platform, but nobody came to claim 1t. Officers investi- gated and found 1t filled with whis- key, SO a close watch was set or the barrel, day and night There it stood for several days till the arms of the law became weary of the vigil and decided to remove it to head quarters for safe keeping. 1
 Then came the suprise. The bk krel that arrived full was empty pd when it was moved the mystery as explained by a large augur hQi n the station platform immediate der it. Its owner knew it h1 watched, so, without sA
 undue attention, b
 derneath the PlF
 through the pla+ snd~
 the barrel and drawn off rnS desired liquor. At $1O a pint, prevailing price, he made a goocN haul.
 An automobile tire travelling by ex- press has been known to bring whis- key into the state, and recently large consignment of condensed milk was found to have nothing iacteal about it but the label, while the interior of the cans were decor tied with "old rye"
 Suit cases carried along as person al baggage also have furnished means to introduce the forbidden drinks into Arizona, but alert off cers have developed the nabit-un- pleasant for the guilty-of careless ly pumping into or gently kicking suitcases and any telltale "tinkle" all most always is fatal.
 While the ingenuity of the import or of whiskey into dry Arizona has devised many elaborate and some ex- ceedingly clever methods of trying 10 outwit the law, his brother, the 'moonshiner7 has been just as ori- ginal.
 Illicit stills, grading all the way from a small gas stove, with a can and a copper pipe to the modern and fully equipped article have been raid ed and confiscated, but the most elaborate discovered for years was unearthed in a raid in the Verde dis trict.
 The still room was exoavated al distance of twenty feet from a we'll it's roof being about four feet below the surface of the ground The room was ten feet square with walls six feet high and could be reached only by d tunnel running from the well with the opening twelve feet below the well curb.
 Ventilation and the escape of fumes from the still were assured by a stack running from the roof of the subterranean chamber, and to afford a plausible excuse for the appearance of this above ground, the stack was run through forge standing immed- iatelv above the still-room.