In a message dated 6/17/02 4:06:33 PM, [email protected] writes: << HERALD DEMOCRAT - MAY 30, 1927 AROUND THE TOWN a.. Everybody went still hunting over the weekend. Friday night the city authorities raided two buildings, seizing three stills and a quantify of mash whiskey and other equipment. Saturday morning they placed the two alleged owners of the stills under arrest. Saturday afternoon the federal men drove into town, stopping at a cabin in Jacktown where they found a 100 gallon still in operation. Besides the still, thirty barrels, part full of mash, were found together with six gallons of whiskey. The still was made if two candy buckets, turned top to top. Sheriff Harry SCHRAEDER and Undersheriff Charles OTWELL decided to do a little still hunting on their own account Saturday and visited Tennessee Park, where they found the biggest still of the season, equipped with a large gasoline burner. Three barrels of mash can be run off at one time in the still. Twenty three barrels of mash were found on the premises, together with 10 gallons of whiskey. Three empty barrels were also found, the contents of which had been poured into the still, indicating that the batch being run off was the first made at the Tennessee Park place. The Herald Democrat, as a result of the raids conducted by the city authorities Friday night, has been threatened with a libel suit. J. L. BROWNIE, said by the authorities to have been the owner of the two large stills found at 213 E. 6th ST. a little building next door to the hall formerly occupied by the W.C.T.U. early Saturday morning appeared at the newspaper office and threatened to bring suit against the paper. "If it's my still," he declared, "why don't they arrest me?" He left the office and a few minutes later met city Marshal D. J. O'NEIL and Alderman Douglas PLATT, who were looking for him, armed with a warrant for his arrest. Later in the day he was released on $300.00 bond. b.. Wages for Leadville union carpenters will be raised from 87 1/2 cents an hour to $1.00 an hour, it was decided at a meeting of Leadville Local No. 850, U.B> of C. & J. of A., held on May 20 to go into effect July 1. c.. Undersheriff SCHRAEDER narrowly escaped death or serious injury Saturday night when a revolver he had leant to a friend and which had been returned to him, fell from his pocket as he was alighting from his automobile, striking on the hammer, and exploding the cartridge. The bullet missed the sheriff by a narrow margin, all though his face burned from the explosion. d.. Two miners were seriously injured in an accidental explosion at the Greenback Mine Saturday morning, resulting from picking into a missed hole. Both men will probably lose their eye sight as a result of the explosion. >>