Show SMUGGLED OPIUM Reasons Given for the Seizure of the Steamer Haytien Republic SEATTLE Wash = Iay30The steamer Haytien Bepublic was seized here on a charge of smuggling opium from Vancouver Van-couver B C I appears that John Wil son agent of the Haytien Republic at Victoria had 1 falling out with the owners own-ers and furnished the customs officials here with a mass of correspondence some in cipher giving indisputable evidence of smuggling of a large number China men and large quantities of opium into this country by this vessel and that some customs officials had levied tribute on the traffic |