The Dalles Weekly Chronicle The Dalles, Oregon January 9, 1919 CARRYING BOOZE SOLDIER ARRESTED Pays Fine of $50 For Having Clinking Bottles In His Possession (Daily of January 6, 1919) Carrying a dress suit case which was suspiciously heavy and from which there emanted suspicious gurgles, Robert L. Boehmer, a discharged soldier, was arrested by Chief-of-Police Gibons last evening. Examination of the suit case showed that it contained a number of pint bottles of whiskey. When interrogated, Boehmer declared that he had secured the bottled goods in Portland and that he was taking it as a gift to friends in Sherman county. When arraigned before Police Judge Cates this morning, however, he pleaded guilty and was fined $50, which he paid. Papers which Boehmer carried showed that he enlisted at Prosser, Wash., and was assigned to service in the spruce division. He was given his discharge at Vancouver Barracks on December 18. He was still in uniform when arrested here. Earline, Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society http://community.oregonlive.com/cc/genealogy 78th Annual Wasco County Pioneer Association Reunion May 5 & 6, 2000 The Dalles, Oregon http://w3.gorge.net/dzopf/wcpa.htm