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2 ' Liquor in 11 1 boats, sometimes on?, sometimes as many as six or seven, or even more, often so many that the task of transferring their louds of booze to the deck of the dishonest skipper's ship consumes the hours well along to midnight. Then as silently as they came out from the unllghteds mostly uninhabited islands, rocks or cays the island bootleggers recede again into the darkness and are gone. Their pay is received from the Bahama representatives of , the bootleggers when their craft pats In again to the Bahama shores. Ocean Deeps Hold the Secret Oi Many a Disappearance Though weather conditions since the first of the year have been perfect for such work It Is not always so and more than one mysterious disappearance of native Bahamians has its explanation locked at the bottom of the sea or behind the sealed Hps of the men of the ships with whom he was carrying on his Illicit trade. N'ot many minutes pass after the last of , the small boats' contents drop npon the ( deeli of the bootlegging sbip before her sklpl?er has her under way. The booze has come aooaru in sacks, which nave iue sunpe nf small pyramids. There are four bottles In the bottom layer of the sack. The sacks are sometimes of a rubber and cloth tissue, but more frequently any strong cloth serves the purpose. Only threo bottles form the second layer and they are Inserted neck downward between the .upstanding necks of the first bottles to enter the sack. The next row* contains only two bottles and finally a >lngle bottle fits In at the upper edge of the sack. Then the top of the sack Is | drawn and tied very tightly?the tighter , It Is tied the more firmly the single bottle forming the apex of the pyramid is pressed , down to hold securely those beneath it. * , Three Important Operations While the Ship Speeds to Pott i Three things are being done as the ship i with the booze, sometimes as many as a I hundred cases, ploughs her course swiftly, i straight toward the Florida coast, all the way from 50 to 100 or 150 miles, accord- ' tng to the spot where she received her 1 prpclous load from the whlskeyteers. First, 1 me agents in uie nana inns, ijy a menus impossible of discovery at least to the correspondent of The New Yokk Herat.n. are Informing their Florida confederates of I he successful departure of the' treasure ship. Next the crew of the ship carrying the contraband liquid get to work attaching long strings?varying in length from six to even ten or twelve feet?to the tied end of the sacks. And, last, a generous sized cork or sponge or other material that is certain to float, be It a block of wood or other such substance, Is tied to the free end of this string. Then the second bootlegging group :,re prepared for their last eonnectlbn with the illicit transaction except, eventually, tor the collection and distribution of tnelr share of the prom taking. It Is not yet daylight when the big ship vlth Its argosy of spirits arrives Just out ide the three mile limit somewhere off he coast ?f Florida. The spot may be anywhere from north of Jacksonville to off Key West, according to the instructions of the Florida bootleggers. It hnpi>cns frequently, as when delivery ' Is called for In the neighborhood of Jacksonville. or at Key West at the other end of the long, mostly desolate Florida const, that a whole day or even longer Is required for the ship to carry her load. There Is more danger of detection In these cases timn whore the straight run Is made, say to the neighborhood of either Palm Beach, Mintnl or Intermediate points. Smaller Boats Quick to Meet The Ship Laden With Liquor Arrived at the designated spot the ship rarely has long to wait In the dark for the signal thnt announces the arrival of the smaller boats to which the boose Is to he transferred. This is accomplished quickly and easily In good weather; with considerable danger and frequent Injury or loss of life in bad blows or rough seas. Then the ship, free of her Illicit burden, proceeds peacefully along her way to her next fiort of call without the slightest trace of suspicion attaching to her. She never has appeared within sight of land with any of the contraband aboard. Still under cover of darkness the tinier vessels that have received the precious burden skim inside the three mile limit. These craft are piloted by men who know every Inch of the Inland waters. As they approach land, and when the proper depth of water Is reached, the sacks are taken one by one and lowered gently over the -ides of the smaller craft. There is a slight splash, a ripple and tho sack sinks to the bottom. On goes the little bobbing vessel, perhaps a hundred yards or so. Then overboard goes another sack. And so on up or down i lit- rim^i , ^vmrri iii^iuu xjiaua.vne j whereon rests Mlnml Bench and the swiftly j expanding city of Mlnml; some up or down | the fndlnn River, the Inlnnd route to Palm , Bench, or the Mlnml or other rivers or ^ sheltered wnters, , The o|>erntlons of these smaller boats nlwnys nre completed before daylight, eo thnt when the tropical sun blazes the , only trace left of the bootleggers Is the occasionally bobbing cork, well out of sight from land unless n glnss Is used. i The bonze Is snfp there until the boot- | ledgers are ready for the neit step In the i operation, which Is not undertaken nnfll gnnrds have l>een posted several hundred yards In either direction from the spot vltere men In rowbonts?or, 1n Infrequent cases, by wading?put ont to snlvnirp the i sunken hooze. Waiting to receive It on shore as It comes dripping from the wrfter nre the bootlegger'- aiMomohllps. nnd It Is i whisked away to where It may do the most good, or harm, and bring the best price. i Most of the ships participating in this i t IT I 7 TH Waves o Flying boats take tourists frc the left. A?t the right is a harbor at Bimini with local craft tied u] . -***?? ^ -*sr -? |W"1 WW": : Mtm?irtf k V.j;^ v*. s- x :/:jFy sort ol trade are freighters, some steam, some schooners, a good many tramps. Their crews are a rough lot, rowing frequently, and well versed in the old chant i hat places fifteen men on a dead man's . I * n?l..l. nv.,1 4U. ? ..11 Kn. ,1AT>A LiiVM. L/iiiin aiiu tut? uevu una uuuo iui mnny of those, but those that remain never were more prosperous In their carefree, criminal lives. Others of the rum runners are smaller craft?anything from twenty-flve to a hundred feet In length can make the trip to the nearest Bahama Islands from Florida' In good weather and smooth seas. Almost any Island they strike can and will for a price yield a cargo of booze, and the tiny Islands ?say in the vicinity of the estnte near Miami of James Deering?will provide a hiding place, once the string and corks are attached to the ten bottle sacks. The Deering estate Is one of the biggest of Miami's <how places, and more than one visitor to Hint vicinity has wondered at the queer in tics of equally queer looking men darting furtively about In small bouts which seemed to be headed nowhere but nevertheless were dreadfully in earnest in. getting there. While the price of the bootlegged booze varies outrageously once It get9 Into the United States, it remains about stationary In Nassau. In the main port of the Bahamas all the standard brands go to the bootleggers or their secondary gatherers of Hie stuff at from $35 to $45 a case, according to the brand. These prices rise once the outlying Islands are reached, despite the fact that the sale of liquor there is sntlrely legitimate. Pretty Little Penitentiary Sometimes Houses a Conch Sometimes conchs have been caught running their booze galleons out to waiting Hilps at sea. And sometimes they have neon locked In 1a 11?in the nrettv little penitentiary in Nassau. But even that has its compensations, for in that near by land where it still is no crlmd to sip a highball >r drink it straight some one with a real :ouch of humanity in his makeup was given :he Job of making the bastilo walls?they ire not high as such things go?a little more difficult to climb over. So the top if the wall is covered with broken bits of ilass. And the glass forms the remnant of CJorlon gin bottles. Square ones. Like those Broadway once fondled on hot summer lights when real rickeys still could lie constructed. Could the "queen resort of the tropics"? vlilch means the city of Miami?have hosen a congenial neighbor for these days if questionable drought there seems little lonbt that her choice Immediately would iave fallen upon the Island of the Balamas that ts closest to the Florida coast. Ine of the mysteries of the seven seas Is Ills queer, quaint little Islet of Bimlnl, tearing n name so strange that apparently here is none who knows whence It came. Bonce de Leon .sought It vainly in the days .'i i-tpii man L-oiiMiitii iiun, rur luruugu me lowering beauties of the new found land there cnme to htm the whisperings of the intlves that "In Blmlnl" there was gold ind the wonderful fountain whose waters lield the secret of perpetual youth. As Miami waxes strong now upon the patronage of winter sojourners from the North, so Rlmlnl In the dawn of hone wetness extends an alcoholic arm across die Gulf stream, and quite regularly little <hlps?and sometime^ airplanes that do not rlajm Miami as their home port?put ashore well saturated persons who turn up Inter ln add to the worries of police court Justices. For intoxication these days is by no means an unknown charge to be placed against prisoners In Miami. Inrit&d, It Is a 'hnrge that Is more thnn ordinarily common. Honest John Kelly Among Those Tasting the Glories of Bimini There are fountains In Rimini to-dny, hut they are fountains not of youth perpetuating waters. They are literal geysers if booze and gold and of refuge for the tired resident or visitor to Florida. Here rhe best of the world's store of alcoholic beverages may be hnd In the old fashioned way, and from here too they may he ob falned In ways that arc now. Ingrnlons, unique, bui never failing. Lord Astor fasted recently of the dories that are Blmlnl!*. Honest John Kelly, whom Broadway and other parts of New York's night life has known for long, lasting' of them, and only n.few days ago Col. Lou Belts, u^o recently was sheltered Ity the Commonwealth of Virginia against the strong arm of Nassau county on I.onR Island, was only foity miles away In Miami, gazing wistfully across Blscayne Bay In tlie direction whence stretche* Blmlnl, Its rnpldly rising wells of pleasure nnd of wenlth, and Honest John's good fortune. I/et there be no mlstnke regarding Hon est John, ne Is not forsaking his trade. Ho Is not a bootlegger. Whatever the exact reason for his presence on the Island of Blmlnl may be he has had no part In E NEW YORK HERALD, S n Florida < >m Miami to Bimini in an hour and a in the Bahamas showing a schooner ai v., not,.. 11 .. -v J " x< ' : . : . , ; - :''x 'i ; lcBritish Rum Exports TripL With Most of It Coming - r ectal Cable to Tits New York Herald. Coj r? INCE America went dry the ex O has grown to be one of the gi and the countries nearest to the Un. the exported intoxicants. Canada is second and the West Indies a close at the Custom Houke, and given at i YORK HERALD, show not only ast ing increase of the exports for ig20 < During the first eleven months c of whiskey and. gin exported to Cai and one-half times the amount expor The same ratio of increase is rec the exports for last year, including 1 The amount exported to the Bahan Mexico a/|o is in line, getting 34431 Cuba did well with 43,log, and Pam The greatest exportation, compai Bahamas, which, excepting Canada India, bought more than all the othi fVn* hnntloi*crlrio' nn^pntlnna nut nf fho 1 Bahamas. Except in those musty volumes of history perused ' mostly by those to whom smoky Scotch means no more thnn a dose of wood alcohol, the name of Blinini meant little until the dreary blight of bone aridity settled upon the neighboring States. Though only about fifty miles as a crow would fly from Miami, Blmini gave sustennnce to a nondescript, discouraged, freedom loving, work hating, shiftless population, that rarely If ever passed six or seven hundred. Now it Is rising?note the bestowal upon It of the presence, for Instance, of Honest John. Kegularly twice a yeek steamships from Miami set down upon Its shores excursionists In numbers which only a few years ago might easily have doubled the population of the Island. Others there are who come?in cabin airplanes cnrrylng ten passengers in wicker cbnlrs and beside open portholes that let In the tropic breezes; In palatial yachts bearing the Insignia of all the big yacht clubs of the world; In more reserved craft denoting lesser fortunes; In i tenders nnd launches from houseboats and Florida boat clubs. Instead of shores of drenry waste and occasional palm trees these excursionists look ' now upon the modern clubhouse of the i P.lnilnl Bay Rod nnd Oun Club, which Is ' extensively advertised across the waters In Miami for the delectation of America's tired, or retired, or dry, business man, his wife and his friends. And stretching away across the Island beyond the clubhouse some have seen a queer looking structure, tarpaulin covered, rising In rows nnd columns nnd made tip of square hox like units. It Is a structure of whiskey, destined? well, the ways of Blmlnl are as much a mystery as Is Its sudden dip Into popularity, or the exnet occupation of Honest John Kelly upon the Island which Ponce do Leon obviously left for John to And. There are those who In recent months have counieu inesc rows or crises or wnisaoy nna then multiplied the reunite, to arrive at the conclusion thnt It requires In the neighborhood of 160,000 cases of bnoxe to make up the whole structure. And on the face of the boxes there Is not lacking a single one of the brand names thnt, exhibited on Brondwny to-day, would cause nothing leas than a riot I When, how or whence on mo the vnst mount of American stock thnt Is there? such brands as Snnnybrook, tlreen Brlnr, Wilson, even the old faithful Idol of the Sixth avenue bnr (at 10 rents n drink once) known ns Okalonn, Is not to be lenrned for the asking. Thnt It wns thero Is enough, 1 hut It wns disappearing fast. Sufficient. 1 you are told, thnt for the asking you may partake y>t prices, according to the place selected for the drinking, ranging from 10 to 20 cents. Certainly Blrnlnl's tide of prosperity Is 1 not upon fho ohh. Nelfbor#l? It vet upon I the flood, hut only n few days more nn<1 i ttye winter season will he In full glow In UNDAY, JANUARY 80, 3 Coast Fir daily service is maintained A ty] t anchor awaiting?well not a load . .v.v/'.v" ; '; y > . v w-.- vr ? X , ed Since U. S. Went Dry to Our Nearest Neighbors [)jnloht, 19tt, t>v The New York Herald. New York Herald Bureau,! I.ondon, Jan. 2#.) port of Engfish'and Irish spirits reatest branches of British trade, ited States are taking the bulk of far in the lead, with the Bahamas ' third. Official figures compiled the special request of THE NEW onishing figures, but the astonish over those of 1919. of last year the number of gallons oada was 1364,740. This is three ted in 1919, and sent to Canada, corded for the West Indies, where December, reached 1017,039 gallons. jas last year was 118,599 gallons, f, compared to only 9,266 in 1919. tma's quota reached 17,863. red to the population, went to the , Australasia, South Africa and ?r British provinces put together. Iflaml and the other nearby coast resorts n Florida. Primarily, the Rod and Gnn 3Inb Is what Its name Implies, and Its advertisements feature the genuine sport to >e had toy lug with the game fish of the Sulf Stream. Rut even United States Atorney Howell, for the district embrnclng dlami, knows the difference between Broadway's fish and those of the Gulf Stream, and recalls the presence on Rimini >f Honest John. While the further one gets In Florida rom RInilnl, the greater becomes the repn atlon as a booze supply station for Miami tnd Its environs, it is likely there is ess potent liquid smuggled from there into Horldn thnn from any other of the Rahama Islands from where the stuff is run across he prohibited shores. Rimini lias its own id vantages and Its own influences, and ipparently Its native population has seen he wisdom of not taking too big a chance. Booze there is aplenty, but its natives inve choBen for the most part to have hose who would partake of it come and lo so. Wondering Why No Passports Are Required to Reach Bahamas Still, District Attorney Howell and Chief [>11 Ion of the Miami police force are wonlertiig together how It came about that the Bahamas, of all the places In the wide vorld, should be exempted from the pnss*>rt repilatlons of the United States. Of nurse, they recognize the closeness of the Btmlnl Rny Rod and Oun Club nnd the leslre of a good many Amterlcans to take idvantage of the opportunities it affords. BtlH, there are those In Flnrtda who wonler why the single passport exemption ihould have been applied to n Rrltlsh poslesslon, where almost no American capital s Invested. where comparatively Instgnlfl nnt American sales nre made, nnd Cuba, iver which thin country exercises at least i moral protectorate, In which more than tint),000.000 of Amerlcnn capital la inrosted, and where American salesmen flow n streams at thts time of the y?ar, should tot tocelvu similar consideration. Truly, >ny those who spend hours arranging vises tor their passports while preparing for a uslness trip to Havann, the ways of Wasbngton are unique. Getting a drink In Miami embraces about 'he same difficulty as obtaining hotel ae;ommndntlnns, which Is mainly a question if price. To all Intents and purjMtses, Miami, so far as n easnnl drink of boose Is concerned, Is unaffected by Mr. Volstead ind %I1 his works nnd pomps. Of conres, It Is not peddled openly In the streets, hut Ihe pedlers are there nnd It is only the deJvery thnt Is done carefully nnd under ;over of darkness and secrecyTour dining companion at a table In th? traMlc restnnrants; Invariably your bellhop trho brings Ice water to your hotel room; the man. nnd frequently the woman, whc dts beside yon either at the hand eoneert In the park, on the pie* at the foot of the main street; In the sightseeing bus, or the L921. ids Quick pical hydroplane is shown below at of cocoanuts. In oval Is the wharf / . am&.c ' ' : v?. . sightseeing boats that peuetrnt^ neur seclions of the Everglades?themselves perhaps the most wonderful booze cache America holds to-day?not Infrequently Is, or are, the proper person or persons through whom negotiations may be entered upon for slaking the thirst carried down from the North. nanny uie uuiei proprietors nave set about the task of preventing booze running or selling In their hotels. It probably is safe to say tbnt there Is not a reputable hotel in Miami In which there Is a drink for sale?on the premises. The sales are made furtllfely, by the bottle, or the case, and delivery is made to the buyer outside the hotel. When the purchase is by (lie bottle, the demanded price first is in the neighborhood of $12, according to the appearance of the buyer. It will drop as low as $5 or $0 for real, undiluted booze, when the purveyor of the stuff realizes that his customer knows what he Is about. In these transactions purchases by the case are few and far between. That variety of transaction is left for the men whose launches swing at anchor in Biscayne Bay, fronting Miami; in Lake Worth, near Palm Beach; In .the Indian or Miami rivers or the waters adjacent to the other big resorts of the east and west coasts of Florida. Perhaps an even greater store of the smuggled booze finds its way in cases aboard the luxurious houseboats that occupy the same waters. Truly Miami, Paint Beach and the other resorts, for those who wish to seek a way out of troubles that are dry, harbor-no terrors grenter than those, #ny of Nassau or Havana, where prohibition relgneth not. Only an infinitesimal part of the hooze that Is run over the Florida coast?east or west?Is for the accommodation either of Florida or Its residents or transient population. Few persons realize that the const line of Florida Is grenter than that of any other State in the Union, approximately 1.200 miles. It Is frequently a barren coast, great stretches of mile upon mile harboring nothing more than sand, sheltering palms and, greatly Important to* the booze runners, conchs. Real Danger Begins When Bootlegger Hits Dixie Highway If the ship that carried booze from the three mile limit of the Bahamas to the three mile limit of Florida desires to put into any Florldn ports?Miami, St. Augustine, Jacksonville. Palm Bench, Tnmpn?she does so with Impunity and freedom from customs troubles, for when the customs men go aboard she already has discharged all of her contraband and her manifest Is shipshape for the most rigorous examination. She goes about her business and puts out to sea again. In all probability for another hurried trip to the Bahnmns, another load from the skulking hoots of the conchs, then back to the Florldn three mile Urntt, another meeting with conchs nnd other bootleggers, then on up or down the const, a few hours late, hut her skipper and crew richer by more than an additional month's wages?frequently richer by several months' wages. The really dangerous bootlegging begins when the boozers deposited upon the unlnhabltated, Isolated stretches of Florldn roast, from which It must be transported by automobile to Its destination. Thereupon enters the Dixie Highway, 4n great broad nvenne from the north, stretching strntght Into Miami, and with excellent crossroads lending Into It all the way down. So great Is the booze traffic along this highway that It has come, since prohibition's blight, to bo known locally as "Alcohol Trail." With the customs sen-Ice defeated before the booze ninntng ships come within their sight, with hundreds of fishing hosts, tramps nnd launche^all plying their trade, and only n meagre fleet of, at the most, six or seven const guard vessels to run them down, the Florida const has been nble to yield hooze for the Northern market In such generous quantities that almost regular schedules are maintained for the automobiles. Not all of these automobile conveyances sre come by honestly. Chief Dll ion or Miami is imiiKing mat pernaps It would bo wine fbr him tA request his municipal government to employ New York detectives who know (ho faces of New York criminals. His Idea Is that they could catch these folk as soon as they rettched the Southern resort and chase them out of town. Another of their duties. If they are employed, from the gossip one may pick up nlong the Florida const, might well be the watching of strange automobiles sweeping up or down the Dixie and other htghwnya, since there Is good reason to believe that many a stolen New York automobile gets Into (he boorc running trnde In Dixie. Those that do, though, generally stay in the South. > Other cars tnke the stuff North from 1 Oeorgla, Virginia or the other States through which It passes. Some of them 1 never get into Florida at all. There are stretches of Georgia and North and South t'nrollnn coasts that offer almost as good i booxe running conditions as any part of I. , M ;1 "Market" 9 Florida. They hare not been overlooked by the bootlegger?. Miami boasts the longest wooden bridge in the world. It connects Miami proper with Miami beucb, but now there Is a parallel highway of concrete covering the same course. The tide of booze laden automobiles that cross this bridge, day and night, Is exceeded perhaps only by the Heel of nervous little craft whose put-put-putting disturbs the warm winter nights almost from the time the sun goes down on 111scayne Bay. Ostensibly they are on plcasnre bent. But moat small boat skippers know the rendezvous of their particular group of bootleggers and that darkness is v the better time to seek It out. Ex-Bartenders Flock South To Become Rivals of the Conchs Though the Conch is a natural booze runner he has an excellent counterpart in the deluge of one time bartenders and cheap ginmill keepers from the Northern cities who have flooded Into the South since booze running there became perhaps more / productive in earnings than any legitimate enterprise In which these men might have engaged at home when their natural means of livelihood was taken from them. D. G. Gant, supervising prohibition enforcement officer for the district which embraces Florida and Georgia too, was In nn !.. Omtnnnnlt x l|UUiUU IU (IU unci ucw 111 Oil > Ituilllll Ucently as saying that his troubles in enforcing prohibition were added to by rea son of the fact that at least one in every twelve men he hires to help in the enforcement is open to bribes and can be and is bribed. Perhaps these bribed agent> are those who are responsible for the stories that seem to explain why booze running is so easy along the Dixie highway. It is whispered that now and then members of tlie nil too inadequate force of eu- ' forcement officers have known of automobiles filled with .booze buzzing along the Dixie roads. They have known tlie license lumber, the make and the general appearrnce of the car. They have known even Its booze and human population. And they have given chase to it, a really good chase, bristling with excitement, shots and all the other business necessary to Impress. And the car got away. The officers have hurried to telephones and sent messages of alarm, containing an exact description of the automobile and its contents and occupants ahead, say into the next county. But while the messages were being sent?the chase stopped just where the chased knew it would-?the booze was being transferred from the escaped car into another. The car that was chased then hurried along Into (he next county by the direct rood, was stopped, searched nnd found to contain nothing beyond the law. A pretty woman, perhaps, whose indignation was Interesting to see as she protested against such high handed business as thai practised by the booze hunters, sometimes Is all that is to be found in the car. Others of the booze runners, those who operate on a smaller scale and almost entirely within the South, find drawing rooms in trnlns admirable places In which to carry their suitcases full of booze. It Is only occasionally that these persons are tapped on the shoulder and their baggage Inspected. < Rut the trains, some of them, convey an even more adequate Idea of the freedom x with which the booze running Is being car- | rlcd on In Dixie. Many Train Porters Are Wise In Ways Productive of Money A good many of the truln porters hall from the North and are wise In the ways thnt are productive of money. Tips ordl- | nnrllv flv f?o no roil sir on fho Innff rtlslnni?o trnlns Into the Sooth. Rut a negro porter will shoot dice and once the berths are made up there have been times, mostly at night, when the day's tips have been exhausted say In an unoccupied drawing room on a few tosses of the galloping ivories. But lately on the way North the tips gathered on the down trip with a deal of frequency have been turned Into liquor?good liquor, not of the variety thnt comes out of the moonshine districts of the South, but mostly the kind that seeps over the Florida coast from the Bahamas, Cuba, or the other islands of the West Indies. And so. when the few remntntng dollars . In the porter's pockets have been swept away hrMins scrntched his head thoughtfully while awaiting his turn to roll the bones. His turn comes. " Shoot a quart I" he chirps arid?he wins, I perhaps. "Let It lay nnd roll a gallon," he bellows as the tide turns in his favor, and so on, if fortune favors him until the time comes when it la possible for him to withdraw his quart, or more, as the case may be. from the table, and go on shooting the money he wins. More often, however, the one running la such bad luck that he Is | "cleaned" of cash to the extent thnt he must shoot his booze, loses It and himself withdraws until tips shall replenish his < hank roll. M Small Farms in Florida Take On sudden Values Not nil of the booze that wnshes over the Florida const from the Bahamas, or drifts In-over the keys to the south of Mlnml. stnrts Immediately over the highways for the cities and the markets to the North. So great is the demand for Scotch brands that that variety Is held In the South perhaps leas time than any other. But booze hunters who know their Job says It Is strange how many men from the North, and from the more northern sections of the South, along with a sprinkling from th middle West, suddenly have realized the nine of small farms in outlying districts of Florida. These farms usually ?re on a passable road that hooks up with the Alcohol Trail, or Dixie Highway, and per linps the buildings on the farms give shelter to other things thnn farm stock and crops A great deal of It Is held In these caches until an actual market for It Is obtained at a good price. District Attorney Howell In Miami, says he believes that most of "h Continued on following Pago. *