DRY UTAH IS
NEARLY FREED
FROMDRUNKS
Enormous Amount of Liquor
Seized Since State En
tered Prohibition Col
umn Last Year
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 23
(by Associated Press).—When na
tional prohibition under the agricul
tural appropriation bill rider went
into effect on July 1, peace officers
of Utah breathed a sigh of relief.
Since Utah went into the “dry” col
umn of States in August, 1917, the
police, sheriff and federal officers
have been busy with the so-called
“boot-leggers” and not with ordinary
“drunks.”
“Rum-runners” was the name given
those who brought liquor into Utah,
and they gave officials more trouble
than did the heavy drinkers of the
days of the saloon.
Since Utah became a prohibition
State arrests for drunkenness have
been few and infrequent. It former
ly took two pages of the “blotter” at
the police station to list the arrests
for a 24-hour period. Now, accord
ing to Chief of Police J. Farley White,
one sheet generally is sufficient.
Since liquor was prohibited (he po
lice have seized thousands of gallons
of liquor, valued at $40 a gallon—pro
hibition state prices—in former years
worth about $8 a gallon. Chief of
Police White estimates that the value
of the liquor his department has
seized and destroyed or given to hos
pitals is $175,000. During the recent
influenza epidemic much seized liquor
was turned over to hospitals. Sev
eral hundred gallons were sent to the
war department at Washington and
used by the motor transport corps.
The few breweries here, in Ogden
and Provo, have recovered from the
first shock of national prohibition and
are being utilized as cold-storage
bouses, soft-drink manufactories and
other legitimate enterprises.
With the coming of prohibition in
adjoining states, it is the expectation
of the police officials that their work
will be lightened. Liquor was form
erly brought into Utah in quantities
from Montana, Wyoming and Nevada,
after Ihis state went into the prohibi
tion column. Montana and Nevada
uecame “dry” states in December and
February respectively, and Wyoming
was the nearest “oasis.” Work of
the police and other officials was
doubled in watching Wyoming lanes,
with the result that some of the big
gest seizures in two years were re
corded during the last two months
before national prohibition became
effective.
There are many who have been
making their own “beer” since pro
hibition became effective, but there
have been no prosecutions for this.
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MOVIE ACTORS
ARE BASKING
IN SPOTLIGHT
The past week has been a period
full of keen interest to local moving
picture fans, among whom are includ
ed, of course, every small boy in town,
as well as most of the adult popula
tion. The good weather has brought
great activity to the members of the<
Beaux Arts picture company, and
they have taken advantage of their
opportunity to record some stirring
scenes of real Alaska life. It is noth
ing unusual nowadays for the traffic
of the main thoroughfares of the city
to be blocked while the cinema man
takes a yard or two of film which is
to make an integral part of soml stir
ring drama which in the future shall
move to tears or laughter hundreds of
thousands—yes, millions—of the pa
trons of the silent drama throughout
the world.
And there is nothing of petulance
displayed on the part of pedestrians
who are asked to accommodate them
selves to the desires of the movie
men, but rather a universal desire to
assist them in every way possible,
perhaps with the idea that the suc
cess of the picture may in some way
redound to the credit of the com
munity in which its scenes are laid.
There have, of course, been many
amusing incidents in connection with
the taking of the pictures—enough, at
least, to tend to accentuate the in
terest already developed. One of
these was when Ivan Supphelin, the
local Douglas Fairbanks, was supplied
with a bale of bearskins which he was
to display in his character of trapper
as the results of a season’s trapping
in the wilds. Ivan, however, was too
much of a realist to stand for this, and
he demanded and obtained a valuable
collection of marten, beaver and fox
as emblems of his skill in his make
believe part. There seems to be a
general opinion that Ivan would make
a great actor if he could overcome his
stage fright before the camera.
Another incident which tended to en
hance the humorous element of the
occasion was when Charley Game, en
acting the part of a sky pilot who is
being driven out of a disorderly min
ing camp by the irreverent populace,
and is placed on a log and floated
down the river (the stream being the
placid Lake Eyak), inadverently
fell off the log. This being no part
of the picture, it is said that a large
portion of the scenario had to be re
written in order to gain an excuse for
recording the antics of the actor while
trying to regain his seat on the log.
i A big dance hall scene was enacted
! at the studio of the company in Old
! town Friday, and yesterday big
; crowds gathered to witness the tak
* ing of the pictures, which are reported
to have been an entire success. There
were men in mukluks and parkas, in
mackinaws and overalls, with pacs
and mocassins; there were gamblers
and dancing girls, bartenders and
booze fighters, and a great scene of
revelry as it was supposed to have
1 been in “the good old days.” Firearms
of all descriptions were in evidence,
and a perfectly care-free mining pop
j ulace was gathered together, and the
; blue sky was the limit.
Judge Medley, from a coign of van
tage behind the warehouse, was ob
serving the lively scene with Brady
Howard. As they looked through the
window one of the actors approached
with a piece of artillery of ancient
design and nonchalantly “sighted”
it at the window through >vhich the
judge and his companion were gazing.
Then, an idea having occurred to the
actor, he examined the breech of the
rifle and extracted therefrom a loaded
shell before the eyes of the two on
lookers. They moved.
• Manager Gittens is gratified at the
results of the efforts of the company
so far, and anticipates some splendid
pictures.
SNAKE-LIKE PROCLIVITIES
OF NEW FRUIT PEST
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Aug. 14
(by mail).—A new citrus fruit-tree
pest, “the vine boa-constrictor,”
has been discovered by J. P. Coy, hor
ticultural commissioner of San Ber
nardino county.
The origin of the new parasite,
which is a species of dodder or lover’s
vine, has nearly “choked” to death
a large lemon tree in an Upland or
chard, is puzzling government and
state experts.
So tightly has the string-like para
site wrapped itself about the branches
that the flow of sap had been cut off.
To halt its spread, half of the tree
has been cut and burned.
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with any billiard player in Cordova.
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BE UTILIZED BY FLEET
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 15 (Corres
pondence of Associated Press).—
Some of the vessels of America’s
new Pacific fleet may next month be
floated through the Lake Union-Puget
Sound locks here. Once through the
locks the vessels can cross Lake
Union and proceed through a canal
into Lake Washington.
The Seattle locks are said to rank
only second in size among North
American locks to those at Panama.
Ships 780 feet long can be put
through the locks here. The con
trolling depth for passing into Lake
Union from the sound is twenty
nine feet and the width 100 feet.
All the destroyers of the new fleet
and a number of the smaller cruisers
can be moved through the locks.
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