Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-07 | Page 2 | Smuggled Opium is Seized; One Arrest

SMUGGLED OPIUM IS l SEIZED ONE ARRE ARRESI sp Frisco Custom House Officials Believe They H HMan Hav Man Who Is Connected With Gang FRANCISCO Cal Cat Feb The house custom-house officials here have SAN smuggling With him was capture of rested Frank D. D Burton ott on a charge r j 33 valued at 1290 1200 i pounds of opium which seventy five k containing from Tacoma to Oakland been shipped rhe fhe es believe that B Burton is Is connected with a gang that for e. e smuggling opium acrO the Canadian border has been successfully time Saturday Collector Stratton received a telegram from Collector Patterson trunk that had been checked hecl ed at Tacoma as Portland telling him that a baggage for Oakland had been seized there and In It were vere tins of opium Collector patterson was asked to take all the opium out of the trunk ex had not bee Intercepted This one tin and forward the trunk a as though it I Idone done clone and Burton was caught in the act of opening the trunk He claims have havo recently arrived from the Klondike and says he got the trunk for a ij Me e eTile seized would amount to WO The Tile duty on the