The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-09-16
FEDERAL OFFICIALS MAKE
WHlSKEY RAID ON NlIN0T
fore Federal Clerk R. E. Hopkins
Monday, each Of whom furnished bail
in the aum Of 81 0lQ for their annoar

fore Federal Clerk r. E. Hopkins
Monday, each Of whom furnished bail
in the sum Of 81 900, for their appear
ance in term of federal court in
Minot before Judge Amidon in Octo-
Der. A list of the goods found at each
place is also given:
Roy Vaughan, % pints of Canadian
beer and Is ounces of Canadian whis-
key.
Herb Bum, quarts of Canadian
whiskey. Bum claims that the whis-
key was left at his cigar store Sat-
urday night by it's owner who was
carrying it down the alley.
Grace King and Mabel Allen, of
the Vendome hotel, Familiarity known
as Nudge and Twidge, one quart of
whiskey.
Sam LOOMS, SO quarts of whiskey.
Oser Webb, colored, 16 quarts of
beer, 10 pints of beer and one-half
pint Of moonshine.
Bob Murray, 70 quarts of whiskey
and 20 dozen one-tenth pints Of whis-
key.
VIM. Stoddard, quarts of whiskey
and 2 1/2 quarts Of alcohol.
All of these defendants with the
exception of Vaughan are represented
by Attorney Dudley L. Nash. Vaughan
is represented by Bosard e. Twiford.
Dago Frank Roses barber shop was
searched and large quantity of home
brew, several crooks and the ingredi-
ents for making home brew, were tax
en- in dray to the dump grounds and
poured out or destroyed. A warrant
was issued for the arrest of Dago
Frank but he had left the city the day
before. 1t is reported that he had
gone to Chicago to see his daughter,
who is attending school there.
Whiskey was found at Sam LOOMS
residence but none at his pool hall.
At the Loomis residence two 12-guage
sawed off shot guns were found in a
closet and these were cOnfiscated.
These shotguns are like the ones used
by bootleggers to protect themselves
while bringing whiskey across from
Canada in their cars.
At the Rex hotel, it is said that
eight rifles were found under bed,
but these were not taken.
At no place was any resistance Of
fered and those placed under arrest
did not appear to get excited, con-
Isidering it all as a part Of a days
work.
A complete copper whiskey still was
found at the home of VIM. Kelley,
Lot Is Block ID, and it was confiscat-
ed. Kelley has been out of the city
for the past two months.
Samples of the whiskey and beer
taken in the raid were labeled care
fully and placed in charge of Mr..
Hopkins to be used in the trial. The
moonshine and home brew were first
poisoned and labeled as such, and
later two dray loads were taken out
and dumped. The bonded whiskey
was shipped to Fargo in charge of
the government and later it is said it
will be sold to hospitals and licensed
drug stores.
The two sawed off shot guns found
at the Sam Loomis home bore no evil
dence of having been used recently.
With them was box of No. shot
shells. Loomis' attorney made a re-
quest for the return of the guns on
the grounds that there was no evil
dence of their having been used in
the liquor traffic, but Chief Darby re-
tanned them.>
Judge S. L. Nucholls of Fargo, AS
sistant U. S. District Attorney, ar
rived Sunday and appeared for the
government in the cases before Clerk
Hopkins.
An Overland touring car owned by
Chas. Wistrom, Columbus druggist,
was found in garage back of the
Dacotah hotel, with bottle of whis-
key in it. There were evidences that
other whiskey had been taken from
the car. The car has been confiscated
by the government and will be sent
to Fargo to be sold to the highest
bidder. Mr.. Wistrom came to Minot
last week to visit friends. He states
that his car was taken by two Of his
friends who used it for joy ride.
They failed to remove all of their
whiskey, hence the car was confiscat-
ed. According to law, any automo-
bile found with whiskey in any guam
tity in it, may be confiscated by the
government and sold.
During the raid, the roads leading
out from Minot were closely guarded,
and many people on their way out of
town or coming into the city were
stopped and search for whiskey was
made. A farmer and his wife were
on their way to church and prohi-
bition officer stopped their rig, order
ing the occupants to throw up their
hands. The woman appeared very
much frightened and the officer ex-
planned that she had no reason for
feeling that way, that he was only a
federal prohibition officer. ooh, /
thought you looked like train rob-
her," the woman replied.
Darby states that couple Of fed
eral officers will remain in Minot for
some time. Concerning the raid, he
said to an Independent representative:
"We had an awful impression con-
corning Minot before we came here.
We were told that the people Of Minot
had no regard for the law and that
we were all sure to be killed. found
that the reputation Of your splendid
city is much worse than your town
really Isl, We were treated fine ev-
erywhefe we went, even by the people
we arrested. There was no resist
ance anywhere. We are only here
to do our duty and are not looking
for unnecessary trouble. suppose
that Pm about the worst hated fellow