Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-24
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! The foregoing quoted expressions
appeared on the bottle. That was con-
sidered by the officers as an indisput-
able assertion and not desiring to be
Cuibblers, they accepted the state
ment at face value. They took the
bottle. AS limited, that was not the
only reason. That was just corrcbo-
rative fact, putting it in court par
lance. The bottle will never get to
court for settlement was made in
stanter by the original holder of the
bottle and the first of the month the
bottle will be broken
All of which is recording the fact
that the holiday was observed by
Deputy Collector e. M Specht of the
Customs Service, as he had suggested
in advance of the date ION call"
Being on call with them meant being
on duty watching for infractions of
the law at the international boundary.
And they discovered the infractorS,
something like nine of them, to be
exact.
The evidence rests on the desk in
Collector Specht's office perhaps by
this time in the vault, for it is care
fully kept, this evidence of which this
story is a record. There apparently
were no gin-fighters in the lot There
were those who liked "ye old fashion"
bourbon. The evidence hints there
were two of the pint size and one of
the half pint calibre There were
others who were partial to Tequila--
the other six, to be specific.
Here it ought to be explained, due
to the fact that this is presidential
year, that bourbon has no political
Significance. The collector made no
inquiry, but there is not even circum-
Stantial evidence that the bourbon
bottles ever were owned by democrats
The explanation is made only to be
fair to the democrats for there rre
republicans, so it is said, who never
hear the word bourbon except they
think Of it in terms Of a democrat.
Perchance the two had a conceptual
birth in the fact that both democrats
and bourbon whisky for many years
were native products Of Kentucky
This lot of bourbon did not, however,
come from Kentucky. 1t came from
Juarez via Aqua Prieta and was,
captured as the driver of the car inl
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the line from Sonora to Arizona.
It is the government rule to allow
the person from whom the bottle is
captured to make payment of five dol
lars and close the case and that was
what happened Wednesday, In the
work Of gathering the bottles the in
spectors found people very much in
harmon with the oft repeated stcrv
of the outstanding characteristics Of
George WASHINGTON. They could not
tell lie. Not that they enjoyed any
kinship to the Father of his Country
but how could they lie? There W9s
the bottle and lie would do no good.
So they merely grinned, peeled off the
required currency bowed politely 70
the officers and continued their jour
ney. The officers were convinced theyj
might sometime get their face back toj
pearance but it was agreed by all that
they would never forget.
According to Collector Specht, the
Mrs. John Armstrong I'll
Mrs John Armstrong is reported !
to be i'll at her home. 1121 G avenue.
VIM. Eichbaum Sick
VIM. Eichbaum is confined to his
home with a Slight illness at 919I
Fifth street.
To Cave Creek
Mrs. George Doubleday and Mrs.
G. F. McCord motored to Cave Greek
to be the house guests OF
Mrs r. M. Roush. They will return
sometime today.
L. L. NalIey at Home
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. L. Nalley have
returned from Tucson where Mr. !
Nalley has been in the ST. Mary's !
hospital for several weeks. He is
now at home and improving slowly
From Phoenix
Mrs. Sam G. Bailie, national COM /
mittee member Of the Y. w c. A. !
board, arrived in Douglas yesterday |
and will be at the Hotel Palomar
for several days. She is attending |!
the Arizona state conference being
held at the Y. w. c. A. here.