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[Marcia Moore]

Removed.

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Howard Courant
October 20, 1921

CAPTURES TWO STILLS

Sheriff Warner Raids Booze Factory in the Flint Hills and Brings in Truck Load of Stuff

Sheriff H.A. Warner, Under Sheriff John Blizard and City Marshal Wm. Hasty,  with two deputies from Butler County raided an illicit distillery out at the Farrell Ranch, in the northwest corner of Elk county, last night, captured a stranger, who declines to give his name, and his full equipment of two stills, 14 barrels, 50 gallons each of mash, all ready for working into booze, and about 20 gallons of the manufactured article of corn whiskey which is said to test 80 proof.  They also found four sacks of sugar and two sacks of corn chop.  The man in charge was heavily armed and had a Dodge commercial truck on which the stills and finished goods were loaded and brought into town.  The mash was poured out. The stranger who appears to be about 23 years old, weighs 180 pounds and is light complexioned, declines to give his name or talk with the officers. The officers found this whole outfit at the old stone house on the ranch which has long been unoccupied and is at least three miles from any habitation and only a few hundred yards from the county line.  This is the first haul that amounts to anything that has been made in Elk county, and was made on a tip from parties living not far from the scene of operations.   There were doubtless several other parties interested in the game, as the promises have the appearance of being occupied by others besides the man captured. A comfortable room, with shaving outfit, magazines and other articles were found, proving that the operators were comfortably fixed for their winter's work.  Booze would undoubtedly have been plentiful in this vicinity, had the officers not interferred.

[Janet Harrington]

Picture of Elk County Sheriff H. A. Warner.