, 1923-09-26

now many tdApdycIS VI IL AoiA
State of Wyoming, dry farmers, ranch
ers, sheepmen, cattlemen, business
men and workers, r willing that
their hard-earned money, paid over in
excessive taxes, shall go to pay for
booze parties, sometimes of several
days duration, for stool pigeons, un-
der the employ of the State, while
they are getting the goods" on the
b~ootleggers?
For four years the taxpayers have
been putting up thousands of dollars
to maintain a state law enforcement
department of suppress bootleggers
and their nefarious traffic. Last Jan
uary another 100000 was secured.
This money was appropriated from
taxpayers money at the solicitation
of the Anti Saloon League, which,
during the last legislature, had more
power than all the taxpayers of Wyo-
ming combined.
The Anti Saloon League even fore
ed Governor Ross to appoint a man to
head the state crew of enforcers to
its liking, whatever the governors
personal choice may have been. 1t has
conn to Wyoming without invitation,
and has taken charge of a depart
ment of state government at taxpay-
ers' expense.
The Kemmerer Republican, in the
name of an outraged taxpaying public
of this state, demands of the heads of
the state prohibition department, Mr..
Wachtel, chief, to produce and publish
the amount of the state warrant that
went to pay for the debauch of Ney
Geer of Kemmerer, and his companion
a Greek, by name, G. Patrakes, at
Rawlins, recently.
The Rawlins Roundup
Recently the Cheyenne Tribune an
nounced with large headlines that
Wachtel and his crew had secured the
evidence through unknown parties
that had brought Approximately fifty
law violators before the bar of justice.
Emphasis was laid upon the fact that
not n of the v~iolators knew who the
"informers" were.
The Kemmerer Republican a few
days later vas informed that a local
youth, Ney Geer, had been one of the
"informers", since which time this
"S"sBbBtI mas CoIluutbto a. NoHipitNS
investigation, uncovering the methods
OF operation of Wachtel and his pro-
hibition crew, operating without
strings upon the public treasury.
The Republicans report from Raw
Inns is that Ney Geer, ostensibly a
garage employee at Rawlins, was given
a commission as al assistant in Wach-
tets department, and ordered to Sc
cure evidence. He was literally pro-
Vided with taxpayers money to go
about and secure evidence against
anyone suspected of selling liquor. He
was Joined by another stool-pigeon, a
Greek, named Patrakes, and the two
proceeded on their Rawlins mission.
Geer, being acquainted with several
persons in Rawlins, one of them, Mt
least, being n former resident of Kem-
merer, Geer's home town, induced
them, on the pretense of needing IL
quor, to show him where he could
procure 1t, and he was Accommodated.
With his Greek friend, he made the
rounds and established an acquaint-
anceship, that admitted him to the
select places, behind Chinese res
t~aurants, in alleys and other places,
where they dole out questionable
moonshine at so much per drink.
At only one place was n bottle pro-
cured, so far as known, and all the
evidence Geer and his Greek compan-
ION secured, was drunk by them. One
VISIT wasn't enough. One place, II
not all, was visited by the pair on