Show EIGHTEEN OPIUM SMUGGLERS Their Trial Will Bern in Portland on Monday Portland Or Nov 25The trial of eighteen persons charged with smuggling smug-gling opium and Chinese into the United Unit-ed States from British Columbia will begin in the United States district begn court on Monday Each defendant has from one to ten indictments against him The alleged operations of the ring extend over two years and the rng value of the opium smuggled into the country is said to reach hundreds of thousands of dollars I Is claimed by the government that the evidence against the defendants is conclusive I Many of the defendants are prominent among them being exCollector James Lotan and anexspecial agent of the treasury C J Mulkey The case of Nathan Blum will come up first and owing to the many rumors he has made a full confession exposing all I the operations of the ring The greatest interest has been aroused I A Professional Bank Wrecker I Tacoma Wash Nov 25 Governor McGraw has offered a reward of 1500 for the arrest of Samuel H Hart president presi-dent of the State bank at Buckley who disappeared a week ago leaving a shortage of 30000 I is claimed Hart is not his right name and that he has wrecked five other banks during dur-ing his career He formerly lived in Skowhegan Maine Tie Olympia Slay Be Queen Santa Barbara Nov 25The board of engineers have made an analysis engneers of the run of the cruiser Olympia yesterday yes-terday up to the time of the break Between Be-tween Giovata wharf and Point Conception Con-ception the Olympia went for a short distance at the rate of 2612 knots per hour The average for 43 knots was 222 The spurt of 2612 was greater than that of the Columbia in her recent re-cent trip |