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Stormy Jordun is keeping a 9aloou again in Ottumwa. That is ho win until tho other dry when the police made a raid 011 him and stopped the business. Stormy was not oxpcotlng viaiLors, eepeoiully not the visitor! clad with tho municipal authority and ariis* bullous. Ho keeps his stuff generally in the noil nr and p lira pa it ip lb rough a tube into the bar-room. )ftlcur* Crawley. Kiltcrirmn and ,’onnur mndc tho visit. They went j |nto tho bur-room and the two latter | proceeded diroeily to the collar with-I put asking permission of 1'Stormy11 | |tnd without any plat or guLdo to tho j | jmiLdinjr being furnished. A demijohn and sonic bottles of stuff were discovered behind the bar. Officer Crawley was guarding thorn very sa-predly while tho duott of uuthrily wore raking in tho beverage from be« low, Si or my 1h a largo man and sometimes powerluh lie weighs 25G In his stocking feet und when ho aits clown on a man the man generally groans. Stormy wus angry, It was a bright election morning and ho was dreaming of the boodlo he would pull In on the sales. Tho unox pec tod arrival of tho coppers rudely awakened him from his dream, lie saw hia profits vanish. . So he gathered up hU massive frame and resisted tho Boareh. The two minions of tho law who had gone below he locked in and then began to contest Officer Crawloy’a possession of the demijohn, llo wound hia arms about the officer’s nock with considerable moro force than affection und proceeded to break the demijohn. Thou ho left tho premises to the coppers. Officers Kitterman und Connors pried their way out and when they took an inventory of tho moist a'-oak they found one half barrel of beer two eight gallon kogs of the game hoppy stuff, and some hottlon of whisky. Stormy will bo prosoeulod for resisting an officer.
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Humboldt County Independent
Humboldt, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 13, 1890
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