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Show CUSTOMS OFFICIALS 1 - ; MAKE SUCCHSSFUL RAD- rind Oppim Valded at $2000 In Ventila-tor Ventila-tor of Steamship Mln; i nesota. - By Associated "Press. EATTLK. Wash.. April 22. 'Opium vulued at. 52(100 was found in a gunny sack In tt -fcntllHtor tube over the boilers of . tile .Ci'eal Northern steamship Tvllji -nesota today. Customs officials had been advlsod from Hongkong thnt the -Minnesota was carrying a .large iuantlty of opium', and when tho sU-amshfp arrived here a hundred hun-dred men, nc.-ir.ch.ed the big craft, but found only a trivial ouunllty of opliuu. The senreh was -discontinued until today. to-day. w)ien Inspuc'tor Fred C Dean; with a roue about his feet, crawled inlo;. a ventilator '.and was lowered thirty feet. When he. -called to be pulled out hu brought wl.th him the opium. , ' The other ventilators Will be looked into |