Show URN r M federal revenue officers make raid on alleged den and secure fifty pounds of the drug Chi chinatown n was the scene of 0 much excitement thursday evening and a great crowd eagerly watched nat elied from the bridge the raid made by the federal officers upon the alleged opium den of tat tal loy whose proper name according to government records is yuen chong chone the other chinaman arrested in connection with the raid is known as ng mom both are familiar characters on the streets of 0 park city and have been here tor for years the place has been run as a C chinese store the raid was conducted by L W elliott El ilott special agent of tile the revenue office in charge ot of the prosecutions of 0 drug law violations ile he was accompanied aed by D A plumley immigration and chinese Cli inese inspector john griffin deputy revenue collector and T F thomas collector of customs marshal charley mair and policeman harry wilson made the arrest under mr ar Ell alliotts lotts direction and the prisoners were locked in the city jail until today when they were here taken to salt lake by a deputy marshal no resistance was offered the celestials celesti als being seared scared to a shiver for a time after the officers entered the place only a small quantities ot of the opium could be found hidden in various places in the store after a few hours of search the main cache was located in fruit jars buried in the ground under the floor of the cellar the raid was started at 7 and it was after 10 before the place was cleaned out and the opium and paraphernalia removed in addition to the half hundred or more pounds of opium and a considerable sid erable quantity of zenshee yen shee seven opium PIP pipes es together with lamps for smoking them were confiscated it is understood that money principally gold coin to tile the amount of 2500 was alao found and taken charge ot of by the officials the records of 0 the two chinese which were looked up by inspector before the trip to park city was made show them to be chock gee residents residents of tile the united states tills this means that they were born in aliina and came to the united states before the pass passing ing ot of the exclusion act tile the chock gee being the certificate of registration at tile the port ot of entry it is thought that a strange chinaman nith midi mexican or spanish blood in his veins who was around here tor for a time squeezed to the ot of bleers but at any rate so complete had been tile plans laid by special agent elliott for the raid that nothing went amiss at any time it was known that tile the litty fifty pounds of opium should be in the place and the search was persisted in until it was found the salt lake tribune quotes mr elliot of the opinion that the park city den was a distributing point for a wide area in utah it places the valuation of the confiscated opium at and says that it is by tar far the largest single confiscation ot of opium in tile united states in recent years the den was as found fitted with tour four bunks for the repose of opium smokers these were in a room extending back under the hillside against which tile the shack occupied by the chinese was built numerous playing cards smeared with opium were regarded as evidence that a retail trade had 0 been engaged in the usual means of retailing the drug in small quantities to smokers is by means of placing it within tile the fold of 0 a playing card |