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Crooked Lake-michigan Whisky

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
May
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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Yesterday we nifct at the depot a man ïaraed Shaffner, who formerly lived ïere. He said that he had been for ome time employed on a propeller on jake Michigan, but, not likiug tho busncss he was engaged at, he gave up liis rituation. He would not Bay what the business was that he had relinquished, )ut said it was $200 per month to him. ■haffner is a distiller by trade, and said ie had been at work at it nntil reoently. ihortly afterward Shaffner remarked liat the Government oiïicers were nol mart enough to catoh the crooked disillers along Lake Michigan. In exjlanation he asserted that some of the jropellers that ostensibly traded in ;rain and lumber were, in reality, enaged in the illieit production oL spirits. 'hey had on board the complete appartus for roaking and distilliDg, and they onverted much of the grain they tcok board into spirits. The vessels were moved in quiet, otit-of-the-way, little ïarbors, distant from ports, where they were able to produce from eight to ten arrels of whisky per day. The spirits were run into large tubs, and these were mptied at night, when tlie vessels ran nto port, by means of hose which caried the spirits into tubs in certain warehouses at the dook. This was the tory shadowed by Shaffner, and he aserted that a large amount of whisky was produced by the sailors along Liko yiichigan, and was put on the market without paying tax. Shaffner was on lis v?ay back to Michigan, but he did ot intend to engage in tho crookedwhisky business. He said there was money in it, but he thought there was öo much dangcr in it. TKere may bc

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus