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INTERFERED WITH A REFORMER Barney Oldfield commenting on dry Los Angeles rnd the possibility of Ixjotlegging there tells a story of a bootlegger in Kansas who during confinement in the county jail received a visit frohi some tem ¬ perance women who brought him flowers and tracts The bootlegger instead of thanking them berated them for their ingratitude You folks busted up the greatest temperance movement in this country in years I was selling them fellows whisky that was diluted as high as 75 per cent and if yous left me alone another month Id had cio driukiu pure Witter