New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
800 Mounted. Police Patrol
States Southern Border
TO Enforce Injunction
w Ell Trail Still TInronged
s 100000 Worth of Liquor
Carried Openly Across
Boundary in Three Days

SPcctGS correspondence
DETROIT, Fen. 21.-"I'll say they'd
better quit right nowl" That's what
Attorney General Grosbeck remarked
to-day after the issuance of a mo
booze into Michigan" injunction by the
Monroe County Circuit Court. Armed
with blanket injunction, state con-
stabulary took the road again to wage
more drastic war than before on the
rum runners" and $50 mounted po-
lice are now patrolling the southern
border OF the state in an effort to turn
back smugglers from Ohio and Hi
nois
The injunction, according to the At
torney General, is designed TO meet
the emergency created by the over
throw of the Damon act by the Su-
preme Court last Tuesday
The programme includes the posting
of copies of the injunction notice at
various points along the border. Per-
sons who persist in violating it will be
arrested for contempt of court and
their liquor contiscated.
wet Trail Still Throrged
In spite of the activity of Federal
agents in Toledo and of the police in
Detroit, thirsty Detroiters to-day con-
tinued their pilgrimages to the Ohio
line. News of arrests in Ohio seemed
not to affect them, although the To-
ledo-bOun cars were not SO damned as
they were on Thursday. Nevertheless
all southbound interurbans were
packed with persons carrying the tell
tale suitcases.
A continuous stream Of men and
women flowed in and out of the office
of District Attorney Kinnane seeking
10 reclaim liquor contiscated by the
police.
A light snowstorm last night and
thaw to- day left the Dixie Highway in
a very treacherous condition. Auto
drivers took a chance on speed, with
the result that many wrecks were add
ed to last nights large number. Every
turn in the highway showed at least
one crlppel car.
$150O,0O0 Worth of Liquor
Forty miles an hour is the average
pace, and the driver with slower de
sires either drops out of the process
sion or risks accident. Gasolene tanks
are hard pressed in their efforts to
supply the Demand and every pumping
station has long line of waiting cars.
A conservative estimate places the
value of liquor carried openly across
.hc Ohio Michigan border during the
last three days at S1.500,000. An Off
clal estimate made at noon to-day
places the number Of people travelling
over the steam and electric lines be-
tween Toledo and Detroit yesterday at
1880 This number of course, does
not take account Of the never-ending
string of automobiles. averaging seven
tv-tiVe per hour day and night.
80 Arrests in Toledo
TOLEDO, Feb 21.-The record to-
day Of the Federal officials who are
trying to stamp out smuggling Of liquor
10 Michigan was thirty arrests and four
barrels. 305 cases, 20 gunnysacks, %
suitcases, IS Jugs and $50 bottles of
whiskey confiscated.
Hundreds of Michigan visitors, an
able to get home last night, spent the
night here in doorways, in railway sta
tons and in hotels.
Early cars and trains from Michigan
points to-day brought hundreds of per
sons with sultcases and travelling bags.
Several OF Toledo's largest saloons and
Wholesale houses were closed to-day-
their shelves bare.
Holdup men and pickpockets reaped
2 harvest between Toledo and Detroit
last night end to-day Paul Schultz,
Frank Schmtt and Harvey Johns, all
registering from Detroit. reported they
we're held up on Dixie Highway and re-
lieved of sixty dollars and their auto
mobile containing thirty-five cases of
liquor.
Andrew Seamski. Wyandotte, Mich,
was held up on the outskirts of Toledo
and relieved of sixtysseven dollars and
two cases Of liquor, he reported.
Four pickpocket eases alone netted
the dips" S167 and S400 diamond
ring.