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Show BEPORT OF TEE COMMBIONER OR INDIAN ABFAIRS. 33 ~ and then replevin the shipment in some local court when the car had I reached the desired point in the Territory. Inasmuch as such ship-ments constituted interstate traffic, they wuld not be interfered with i until after they had come into possession of the purchaser; and thus a considerable number of the old joints have recently reopened in the western, southern, and northern districts: In the central district, i where the United States attorney's office was able to lend particu-larly effective aid, the joints have been kept closed; and even in the 1 other districts his unceasing campaign of harassment has resulted in keeping the beer down to a very low alcoholic standard. The sincere cooperation of the railways and express companies in enforcing the law stimulated the ingenuity of the smugglers, who devised schemes for bringing in liquor wncealed in gripsacks and trunks, checked as baggage, and for transporting it. overland in wagons. By stationing deputy marshals and Indian police at stra-tegic points, however, it has. been possible to seize trunks and hand bags containing whisky in transit on the trains, and a discouraging blow has thus been dealt to tra5c of this character. Hereagain, the Congress came promptly to the aid ofthe O5ce in its work of enforcing thelaw. Section 2140 of the Revised Statutes confers upon Indian agents, subagents, superintendents, and com-manders of military posts on Indian reservations, certain powers of search and seizure in liquor cases, and also empowers such officers to seize and sell, under libel proceedings, teams, wagons, boats, goods, and peltries which are used by persons in transporting liquors into the Indian Territory. The current Indian appropriation act (34 , Stat. L., 1017) carried the matter one step further, providing that- * * * the powers conferred by section twenty-one hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes upon Indian agents and subagents, and commanding oI3cers of military posts are hereby conferred upon the special agent of the Indian Bureau for the suppression of theliquor tr&c among Indians and in the Indian country and duly authorized deputies working under his supervision. ,4vailiug himself of this authority, Mr. Johnson has seized 32 horses, 13 wagons, 13 sets of double harness, and 5 saddles, which have brought at public sale $482. During the eleven months ended on June 30, he and liis deputies have made 902 separate seizures, and destroyed intoxicating liquors in the following quantities: Acobo . .g a o u s 269 C o w b e e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .d o 247 p i c ider........^. 3,829 Intoxicating bittera_---------_-----------------------~------boftIes-- 3,286 Beer--------------.--------.--.--------..------.------------.piuta-- 4,637 W e.. ...............................................d. o 286' Low-grade 25,949 Whis~------.------~----..-..-.--.--.--.----.--.---.----------doOOOO 28,559 Brandy and liqueurs-_._---------.--..------..----..-.--~--.--doOOOO 175 2 2 8 4 9 4 W |