| Show A SMUGGLERS PARADISE how flow chinaman often gain access to the united states looking at tho the map ono may see that tho the forthm cat est corner of the state of washington is torn off and the app ce that is left is filled with water doted with an archipelago the island of Vanro vancouver fits partially into the gaping corner as if it had been torn out by some gigantic convulsion tho the tatters and debris of tho the rent form tho the archipelago our national interest centered in that corner comer long ago when that portion of tho the boundary was in dispute and the tension of a v ar feel ing was only relieved when a foreign arbitrator settled tho the boundary and gave us the island of san juan the most mos important of the group tho the city of victoria confines nearly all abi population on that corner comer of vm ducr island the ali city jf f vancouver is the main settlement on tho the columbia shore and on our borders are such little place What com now Dungen esq cas and port angeles in the state of washington port townsend on puget sound is the principal amer lean town near by and tho the hoad of tho the scant scanty force of customs officials who are aro to guard against the smuggling and who ar aru entitled to the presumption that they are doing their best beit in this direction victoria has only population vancouver fewer still and the islands only hero here and there a house door abound upon the 0 islands which are am hea headily timbered and the waterways between thorn thom feel the keels kools of but few vessels of at ull all except the ci el aft abo main C channels nels it would bo be hard to imagine a more difficult region to I police ilice lice ora or a fairer gold field tor for smugglers old london lAndon itself haa has sea scarcely coly a greater tangle of crooked and confusing thoroughfares than this archipelago possesses und water are so narrow and sheltered that mero mere oarsmen can safely and eiliv travel many of them it is ii a smugglers paradise |
