The Independence Daily Reporter Montgomery County Friday January 6, 1911 One Of His Last Acts. Sheriff Love "Spilled" the Booze This Morning. Both Empties and "Fulls" Were Smashed, the Officer Showing No Mercy. Could the one time famous Carrie Nation have stood on the old stone steps on the south of the court house this morning between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, her eccentric notions of what ought to be done with booze and booze fighters would have been endorsed most heartily by the action of the sheriff and his deputies. There on the sidewalk stood Harvey Backus, with a corps of assistants, some of them from the county jail, others hired to assit in the awful slaughter, breaking bottle by bottle, barrel after barrel, of good old "redeye." Tom and Jerry, Old Port and Blue Ribbon were flowing in common, down the gutter of east Main street, as free and easy as had it been the purest of God given rain. Men were forced to look on in awe, heartsick at the idea of the awful waste and extravagance, helpless to stop the officials in their heartless work. About five barrels of beer, wine and whiskey were bursted, bottle by bottle, and fifteen or twenty barrels of empties. All were hauled away, barrels and cases all, after they had been broken. It was amusing to watch the expressions on some of the faces surrounding the scene. Some looked as though there would never be anything more in life for them. Others looked as though a man who had the heart to do the awful deed would as one person said, "pull up young corn."