White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-26
BABBLING BROOKS
IN THE DESERT

expanse OF country not remote from
Ely which. while il may not send all
of its dollars this way, can at least
spare us its little squibs for h So
ciety columns once in a while. Here
is one such sqIiblet, and though II
reads like a joke in spots, IL is the
eternal truth.
One Harder. a dweller of said ca
panse, had been employed on n OF
The outlying ranches of Beaver II
ty sheep outfit and got fired. Said
Harder also had a few specks on his
Reputation as being a sort OF itiner-
ant b~ootlegger. which reputation and
IL few eorroboratiye circumstance
got him into some little trouble and
for a time what they used TO call
"durance vile" Hearing that a
moonshine still was located on the
ranch from which he had been fired.
and being especially sore at the sheep
king, il was easy for him to jump AT
the conclusion thai the latter was its
owner. chief chemist, salesman. etc.
Accordingly he made such a report
10 the sheriff OF Iron county. This
resulted in a posse of sever officers.
including the sheriff and Harder,
headed by a Mr.. Arthur, who is pro-
hibition enforcement officer for seven
states with Office at Denver. headed
for the mountain fastness. Having
heard that Harder was the sort of a
man that his name would indicate,
and %suspecting that himself and
PARTY we're being led into a trap TO be
slain, as the men emerged from the
rinions into the alfalfa patch to APP
proach the cabin, Arthur lined hen
up single file and placing a big auto
matte in Harder's two hands forced
him to take the lead, The idea was
that If friends of Harder We're am
pushed there TO kill the officers Har-
der would be most likely to be shot
first and would be the main victim
his own trapping skill.
But ii was no trap and when the
cabin was reached the only person
there was Tom Mulhall. a former sa-
loonkeeper of Milford, Utah. He vas
on the shoot at all and Arthur
proceeded TO introduce himself. say
Ing he was a United States marshal, |
headquarters at Denver. with iuris-
oyer v states. Naturally
he threw out his chest quite a little
delivering himself of such an irl-
information. but Mulhall vas
more impressive. Throwing out
lis chest ae least two inches more
han mis- captor. he said:
Now will tell you who | am. ]
I'm Tom Mulhall. the greatest moon
in fourteen states.
This inspiring self-introduetion
would all but obscure the fact that
he most surprised nan in the bunch
vas Harder, the b%ootlegger. Null
lall and he had been friends and
had no intention whatever of
ON him. He was after his
employer and caught the
wrong party.
Well. Mulhall was by habit oblig-
having for years had the repu-
tation of being one of the %cleanest
saloonmcn in western Utah. and he
the officers to his still and
delivered to them upward of a gallon
of moonshine. telling them 10 help
or words to that effect.
Accounts agree hat whatever the
amount that is represented by the
vague term upward" a full gallon
Of it was saved for evidence.
During the little ~sociability over
the liquor Tex Ratliff, a ranch EN-
ploye. showed up with a packhorse
laden with supplies. Instantly seven
men grappled with him and overpow-
cred him. The two prisoners we're
marched down through the woods
and the journey being arduous the
prisoners were given a drink of
Tom W hootch TO buoy them up.
From Milford. which is in Beaver
county, as is also the ranch. the men
were taken TO the little Jail at Cedar
CITY. county seat of Iron county.
where they were held for about ff-
teen days. Meanwhile the headline
writer on the string of Beaver coun-
ty newspapers, including Beaver and
Milford, perpetrated the headline.
"Bootlegger Catches Moonshiner
This is the end of chapter one.
On or about the fifteenth day Sam
Dougherty a deputy United States
marshal aud "A Jolly good fellow IL
yer there was one. showed up at
Milford 10 take the prisoners to Salt
Lake. Being slightly indisposed. so
IL is said, he telephoned the Iron
county sheriff at Cedar City to bring
The prisoners TO Milford. it being a
federal case. The latter baked. Sam
insisted and wanted SOME person
t'ph'iN'd WI AHf luI postss INC Sit
III said there wis no one To deputize.
Sam had known Tom Mulhall for
| years.
Call Tom 10 the telephone said
sam to the sheriff
rs that you, Tom?" said Sam
upon hearing his voice. Say. Tom"
he went on. Il deputize you To bring
that other son OF a gun up to Mil
ford
The doors swung open and Tom
delivered Tex and himself, as direct.
ed, and from Milford the two were
taken to Salt Lake. Both were
locked up there and Tom pleaded
guilty and was given a n%inety-day
prison sentence, which will end in
June, after which ii is said that Har-
der will make himself rather scarce
in Utah and neighboring states, az
the one-time friendship. so far as
Tom is concerned. no longer obtains.
As for Tex. he demanded a hear
ing time after time and was told that
he could not have it as there was no
evidence against him. After being
held thirty days he was released