The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-12-10
DEADLY STUFF
FROM CANADA
Bootleggers Have Secret Routes
All Along Border.
FAKE LABELS ARE ATTACHED
Alcohol Shipped to Canada 10 Doc
tored and Slipped Back Across Dor.
der by the ootleosers-sham Rob-
berries Part Of the Cameo Dominion
"Drua Concerns" Are Doing ThriV.
ing Business,

ing Business.
From every province In Canada to
every state bordering on the boundary
line, bootleggers are working certain
routes with all the secrecy of the Ku
KluX Khan. Fake companies, called
drug concerns are formed In Canada.
As such they receive permits for the
importation of alcoholic mixtures, but
more frequently pure alcohol. Once
that alcohol is on the Canadian side
Of the border the booze doctor adds
extracts and ingredients to make fin
ished articles. Then the doctored mix
ture is struggled across the line by
bootleggers."
The foregoing statement was made
at Regina, Sask., by DIR. II. G. Mat
thews, prohibition commissioner for
the United States government, at an
international conference this week at
tended by representatives of four
Western provinces, Ontario and the
United States.
More Drastic Laws.
AS a result of the conference the
governments in Canada and the Uni
ted States will be asked to supple
ment each others liquor laws; Amer
lean authorities will be asked not to
grant permits for the shipment Of
liquor into Canada, except by con-
sent Of the provincial governments,
AZ inI ,,.iIl hn
asked not to release liquor from bond
to be shipped across the line.
Members of the Saskatchewan
Liquor commission told the conference
that 10000 gallons Of hard liquor are
in the province in warehouses; 1851
600 gallons In bonded warehouses, and
10000 gallons of alcohol held in bond
by five companies.
One instance was cited In which
a car was shipped from Kentucky to
Winnipeg. The shipper, Canadian,
made arrangements to have the car
robbed In Minneapolis. During the
framed" robbery man was shot and
killed; the conslgnee arrested, and,
after being liberated on bail, sent the
car to a Regina liquor firm. After II
was doctored here, 1t was handed out
to smugglers. To give the doctored
liquor the appearance Of the genuine
article, fake labels are attached and
fake excise stamps affixed.
BY the Tralnioad.
II was stated at the conference that
not only are carloads of liquor com.
ing into Canada from the United
States, but that whole tralnloads are
being shipped northward into the Do.
minion. These huge shipments are ap.
parently quite legal, for they are be.
ing shipped across under United States
federal permits and ostenslbly for me-
diclnal purposes. This liquor returns
later to the United States in the form
of bootleggers' stock.
One feature of the Illicit operations
Is that Canada does not get the bene-
fit of exchange on American currency
paid by bootleggers Cor this American
whiskey, or doctored whiskey made
from American alcohol. Vast sums In
American funds paid by rum runners
from the South are transmitted to Chi
cago and other points by express to
pay for alcoholic importatlons. 1t is
even stated that the recent hold-up of
a railway express messenger near
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and the rob-
berry of an express car were perpe-
trated by one international crook look.
ing for a shipment of such currency.
Police officials from Minot, N. D., on
a recent visit to Regina, declared
they had seen forged American revenue
labels being printed in a Regina estab-
lishment.