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FIfn-EENrGASES OF BEER SEIZED DAY BEFORE ELECTION WAS THE CAl .-HUFFMAN GOT THE BEER, BUT TEMPERANCE DRAYMAN WOULD WOT ALLOW HIS MULES TO DRAW THE BOOZE—'MADE HUFFMAN UNLOAD JT IN THE STREET, ?Like armies holding each other at. as it stood on'thexiy, ‘ the. temperance ’ force and the iboral force, faced each other in the .minvstreet of Royal Center today, •cady to'engage 1n conflict, if favorably. opportunity was given.. Fifteen, ifises of beer tha(: were piled in theitreet. gutter. were the cause of .war-' Jke-attitude of the citizens. The tem-: i^rnceRemoved .from the street, and the more radical ones in the. party threat-arfed' to get busy with axes, but the bold: front put up by1 the liberal elemented eterred them from emulating Carrie‘Nation, Wesley Huffman, who had been given the- custody of theesvalk and had it carted off to jaiipwlrrants were then sworn out for Wesley, Huffman and a«.vman named MiJbtnr;. charging them with'-feeing tbe/'-ovners 0f the beer. Despite ' the - fact 4iiat the beer, wasrs of the Royal •Center, jail,‘v,a'.guardf of two men was kept continually ^n’fthe alert to prevent anyone .from; freaking into .thetL.. LagV Satur-a gainst. “Huffman^ and ’ Milliom :came up'-in 'Squire Kistler's court, and; the. affidavits against tho men were quashed on technicalities. This ujurQiug ilie period in which the owner.-. oL the beer-had to appear and c.Mlm. Che boose,, expired, and but for the fact that Wesley Huffman appear-beer. In . lt;{he meantime. - rushed.; ed and-claim9d o^T?ership. it is possi-fi anticariy : about,• endeavoring to get -Ne that., Marshall Gaby would havet.iat ha would get an ax* and destroy the cases-and bottles unless he did, Huffman, got Lemaster’s dray .and recruited a number of his • friends to assist him in carrying .the beer out of the jail and load - it on the wago.ni Friends eagerly went to',the- .task,’ but for -every; case, they .carried out they swiped ...a half- dozen- bottle6^ Hlnally the cases*were air-.loaded'' on the wag-d. t he: dri y e. .dqw^fathe»a tr»et\wax started. But the vehicle had pat pro: ceded far ..when Lemaster cj£iti6 oiii oi a store,,-aucl seeing his. dray loadedwith beer, halted 'the boo?d; parade and indignantly demanded ''that th8cases-be unloaded. “ / . »« *.»•.» •'*•*• •!'**• • '. ‘‘You can’t'-carry any .beer on my.dray,'*-1 he shouted. y' He is ft radicaltemperance miih,' and vowed that be■ Would not let his mules carry, boer fora vehicle in which to cart it away, j got busy with hts ax and beer would I anycpe. The beer was'unloaded again;Bur bis efforts met with little sue- nave flowed; through the gutters of'and'there It lay,.piled in.a contusedceBS- Royal Centers streets. [mass in the gutter. Short!v r largeThe heer in question is that which But Huffman, through his attorney, ' crowd caine upon the scene’, and thev;as. seized the day previous to ele.c-[James Fry, appeared in Judge -Wins; [temperance men aemanded that.it be to on-by Marshal Wellington Gaby, im-, low's count, and on being questioned.1 removed from sight, vowing ttfar.thef mediately alter it had been unloaded by B. C. Jenfcines, .who had been dep-[. would-, destroy it if it were act., But from a wagon upon the sidewalk in. htized by Prosecutor George A.. Cus--,'Huffman's liberal friends rallied'■•to' bits front of A. J. Conn's place. Temper-, tor, to try tho'case, swore that cha‘ ar-sistahce, and they' threatened to mice men had been given a tip that a.b.ccr that had been -shipped to Royal' start trouble if au effort yyas made to wagon load of beer was. on its way,Center was.for his own personal use. 'destroy the beer. Huffman-sought an-' from Logftnsport to'Royal Center, and • Fifteen cases of beer for one man are ether.drayman lo remove the beer, but they believing that it was being con- an awful lot, even If the town, is 'the latter, atemperance man, refused, signed to-Andy Conn,secured a search ( cry,-'.’, hut when' Huffman swore that Kis modier rerused'to let hint, bring warrant under the provisions of ..the, H bad bought the beer for his own ; ibe -beer home, and the last that theGaby, much t /ndn. were lined up In the street cj) ditfijuaITO a little too . enthusiastic, j disgruntled, ordered him t0- get tho ed6h-side of‘ the; beci\ ready to* pitch aXd .Instead of malting until tbe beer booze out of- jail, -instantcr, and gave into each other on ibeVlightcst provo^ had been carried inside.'he.seized it • blm. but a short time to do it, vowing cation:
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Logansport Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, Nov 21, 1908
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