Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-29
LIQUOR WAR NOW RAG|NG ALONG
 RID GRAND[
Six Are Killed In Last Few Months Result Of Fights
 At Border Points

 the backs of burros and men. Old women and young boys are employed as bootleg runners.
 Most of the smugglers are MeXicans, but the men who direct their activi- ties. who give orders for the killing of United States officers, are citizens of the United States.
 Here is the casualty list for the past few months
 . F. w. Walker, prohibition officer. s. E. Beckett. prohibition officer. Arch Wood. prohibition officer. Lenaro Lopez, smuggler.
 Jose Avila, smuggler
 Ramon Mena. auto driver
 Wounded
 Joe Davenport, customs officer Joseph F. Thomas, immigration offi- cer.
 Corporal Kurns
 Private Keller.
 Private Petrowski
 Gertrude MontaNa, smuggler.
 Many engagements between federal forces and smngglers, in which no one is wounded or no liquor confiscat- ed, are not reported. A number of smugglers have been wounded, but were hidden and cared for by com rades.
 Gertrude Montlaya was wounded when, it is charged. she attempted, 70 o$ cly ho river Smugglers attempted to pro- tect her by laying down a barrage be- fore her as. she waded the river. When officers fired at the place from which the .barrage was sent they were fired upon from three directions.
 Davenport was wounded when he and two other officers routed band of .snugglers and captured 3S4 quarts Of whiskey Six armed men rode in the van of four pack horses and seven brrrros
 Lopez was killed in pitched bat tie between revenue men and 20 smugglers.
 E. w. Walker was killed in bat tie with 20 smugglers fortified in trenches and adobe houses.
 AviIa was killed in fight that en- sued when he and four others refused to halt at the command of officers.
 All-Night Battle
 Thomas and the three soldiers were wounded in a. battle frat start ed at 10 D, m. and lasted til day break. Three wounded sr,uselers es- caped A street car snbs'Giz "i ,oI csrry soldiers from Ca5la rierne to- t.c battle Was fired upon
 Mena was killed when he jumped from his auto and ran after being told to halt
 Beckett and Wood were killed when they went t6 a hog ranch with a search warrant to hunt for liquor. They fired only one shot before they were shot down by men hidden in out houses.
 Tn a previous engagement the auto in which Beckett was pursuing snug klers was riddled with bullets. He confiscated 13S quarts of liquor and five gallons of alcohol.
 WOOu III HIS HISl luICc NCCho oS Fl Paso captured 1000 quarts of !. whisky, 1O.90O grains of narcotics and confiscated five autos.
 Other officers seized booze valued at s2O0,O0O the day after Walker was killed.
 The extent of liquor smuggling is shown by the dockets of federal court here. In one day Al men appeared before Judge w. R Smith on liquor charges.
 Mixed Liquors
 Six hundred gallons of contraband liquor are stored in the basement of the old federal building. Uncle Sans cellar" It Is of. American. Mexican. Canadian. Scottish. Cuban and Chinese manufacture.
 Fl Paso had ten prohibition off cers until three were killed and Su- pervisor James Fl. Shelvin resigned. Immigration men have quit because of the danger and there are only ten of these left.
 C. c. Chase. son.in-law of Secretary of the Interior Fall. has been named collector of customs here.
 Soldiers. police and men in the three branohes of government service unite in the fights against armed smugglers. but even then are out numbered.
 C. A. Perkins, head of the immi- grafton force. estimated that he needs 5O mon to nafrol EIs paao couutv and 150 for the remainder of his territory. He has recommended that a guard on the order of the northwestern po- lice be formed. He would have men ride the border in shifts and have strong. searchlights at crossing places. He would equip the guards with high-speed armored cars. They would work in conjunction with all depart s7 ments of he government.