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Show CHINAMEN AND OPIUM CAPTURED NAMPA, Idaho. Ken. 2. Two Chinamen China-men were arrested and nearly $12,000 worth of opium seized by the local police po-lice yesterdky. The opium la supposed to have been smuggled across, the Mexican Mex-ican border by s band of Chinese smugglers. smug-glers. Four suit rases contain Inr; the drug were checked at the Oregon Short Line depot checkroom by t.vo Chi. .amen. An investigation of their content revealed the opium and the police lay In wait for the Chinamen. They reeurned, accompanied ac-companied by six other Chinese and were placed under arrest. A display of automatic revolvers by the men who cuecked ;he suitcases aroused the suspicions sus-picions of the baggageman. The haul Is said to b- the largest seizure of contraband drugs ever made in Idaho, the rases containing about i thirty pounds of opium each. |