Volume 15 , Issue 37

One Hundred Years Ago - 30 September 1913

As we search the "Chronicling America Newspaper archives" we found that a hundred years ago, 30 September 1913, Tuesday, in The Daily Ardmoreite, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, reported on their front page the following headline: "Clever Scheme To Ship Whiskey." It was nipped in the bud by a deputy marshal at the town of Miami, Oklahoma.

Muskogee, OK, September 29 (1913) -- "One of the cleverest and boldest schemes to ship whisky into the Indian country was nipped in the bud by deputy U.S. Marshal Carl Garman at Miami. As a result Jack Street is in the federal prison here and 75 cases of whisky are held for confiscation."

Garman was prowling around the Miami railroad yards watching for shipments of liquor from Joplin. He noticed a car that had a horse, a man and about a half a carload of hay on it. It was sort of a queer combination, so Garman asked the man in the car what about it. The latter said that he owned the race horse he had in the car, that he was on his way to the races at Tulsa and that he was taking the hay along for the horse because he couldn't buy hay in Tulsa. The horse didn't look like much of a race horse and the officer also saw harness marks on him. But when he saw the horse was rough shod, he knew there was something wrong. He decided to take a look at the hay.

The first bale he pulled out showed that there was just one tier of bales securely packed across the car and back of that were stacked the 75 cases of liquor.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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