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Show IBEIITlGfiOIO Peculiar Find Is Made by Contractor Con-tractor While Excavating for Building. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Aug. 1. An underground passageway 36 feet long by'lS feet wide, of mysterious construction and doubtful use. was discovered by Contractor W. C. Gale this morning while making, the excavations ex-cavations for the new Lyceum theater on lower Twmty-(lfth street. The subterranean sub-terranean hal.wny leads to a dark, un-ventllated un-ventllated chamber. That the passageway passage-way was constructed by Chinamen of Ogdon. Og-don. and that Wah Sing Lung, the proprietor pro-prietor of the Oriental tea store next door to the theater site. Is the custodian, was made manifest today when the Celestial, after making artxlotis inquiries of the contractor how deep he Intended to excavate. exca-vate. Unaliy admitted' that he was afraid the excavations would interfere with the underground ohamber. One of tho men on the work told the Chinaman thut they Intended going down twenty feet. After being assured that the workman was joking about the depth of the excavation, the Chinaman appeared ap-peared to be much chagrined that he hod given up the secret of the secret chamber cham-ber and refused to discuss the matter. It is believed that the underground room was constructed by the slant-eyed opium smokers and 1 being used as a den where the seductive pills can be smoked without police Interference. The dlscovory of the existence of the room recalls a story which is going the rounds In police circles today of a criminal crim-inal who was traced to the building by the police a year ago, and after surrounding surround-ing the place and making a vigorous search, the officers failed to locate their man, who had apparently been swallowed up. The theory that tho underground chamber is used for the storing of opium for Ogden's Chinatown, and that it frequently fre-quently comes in handy when some friend of the Celestials doslres a hiding place, seems to be the most plausible explanation explana-tion of Its existence. |