Moonshine Whiskey
This formerly full glass jug of moonshine whiskey was dug up on the north side of house at 631 Lakeview Blvd. (next to ball park parking lot) in 1960 by Millard A. Evenson
“America’s public enemy No.1 is not a Dillinger, “Baby Face” Nelson, nor even Al Capone, but Al Cohol…to be indicted of first degree murder for the toll it takes on the highway. Innocent boys and girls must be shown it is not a food, it is a poison – a murderer that masquerades under the mask of respectability, and is accepted in the highest social, and even religious circles, as a friend of man and spur to business.”
Prohibition arrived earlier to Bonner County than Idaho and the rest of the country. In 1913 the county made the decision to go dry. Idaho followed suit in 1916 and the rest of the country in 1919. Of all the mayhem in the county, bootlegging certainly takes the bill as most prolific. Newspaper headlines spout such claims as “Red Barn and Chicken Coop Add to Sheriff’s Booze Supply,” “Rum Runner Runs over Sam Webb,” and “Prettiest Still Yet Taken at Matchwood.” The combination of railroads crossing the county and our proximity to Canada, Bonner County was perfectly situated to capitalize on the bounty of bootlegging.
One of the more daring ruses occurred in 1923 when a bootlegger cheated the law out of confiscation of approximately eight cases of whiskey. The liquor had been cached at the elevator of the Farmers’ General Supply where it was found by employees. The sheriff’s office was notified immediately but before they arrived, a car driven by a single runner pulled up. Not knowing the sheriff’s deputies by person and assuming the car belonged to law enforcement the employees aided the criminal in loading the liquor into his car. When Sheriff Kirkpatrick arrived at the scene a short time later, he and the employees were dumbfounded to discover the error made in release of the liquor.
It was not all a game of cat and mouse. In 1924, 21 year old Albi Jacobson was shot in the head in a booze raid. And a Sandpoint man named Sam Webb was badly injured during a raid when the suspect ran into the sheriffs car.
Donor: Loren Evenson
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This formerly full glass jug of moonshine whiskey was dug up on the north side of house at 631 Lakeview Blvd. (next to ball park parking lot) in 1960 by Millard A. Evenson
“America’s public enemy No.1 is not a Dillinger, “Baby Face” Nelson, nor even Al Capone, but Al Cohol…to be indicted of first degree murder for the toll it takes on the highway. Innocent boys and girls must be shown it is not a food, it is a poison – a murderer that masquerades under the mask of respectability, and is accepted in the highest social, and even religious circles, as a friend of man and spur to business.”
Prohibition arrived earlier to Bonner County than Idaho and the rest of the country. In 1913 the county made the decision to go dry. Idaho followed suit in 1916 and the rest of the country in 1919. Of all the mayhem in the county, bootlegging certainly takes the bill as most prolific. Newspaper headlines spout such claims as “Red Barn and Chicken Coop Add to Sheriff’s Booze Supply,” “Rum Runner Runs over Sam Webb,” and “Prettiest Still Yet Taken at Matchwood.” The combination of railroads crossing the county and our proximity to Canada, Bonner County was perfectly situated to capitalize on the bounty of bootlegging.
One of the more daring ruses occurred in 1923 when a bootlegger cheated the law out of confiscation of approximately eight cases of whiskey. The liquor had been cached at the elevator of the Farmers’ General Supply where it was found by employees. The sheriff’s office was notified immediately but before they arrived, a car driven by a single runner pulled up. Not knowing the sheriff’s deputies by person and assuming the car belonged to law enforcement the employees aided the criminal in loading the liquor into his car. When Sheriff Kirkpatrick arrived at the scene a short time later, he and the employees were dumbfounded to discover the error made in release of the liquor.
It was not all a game of cat and mouse. In 1924, 21 year old Albi Jacobson was shot in the head in a booze raid. And a Sandpoint man named Sam Webb was badly injured during a raid when the suspect ran into the sheriffs car.
Donor: Loren Evenson
Adopted by: