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Show J tiii ixaxly , J IE . .. i. .21 1 . ! . - i". Tiimuisi:: gaxjT liAiu: 1- ;. :. : - v vJL " mjM P nr irm 4 v - t ; --- 1 j. .j 5ioijmTG, December city, tjtah, sunday ir ir .; ...(.. . ).,... t-.t- .w ' .'''-',- - " ' ' ' .';.... j .... ' . ' 1 r- : ' 1 ! i. i, , " ... . V PRINTERS BINDERS, r j - I .. .. ilBSISSlS mmm 1 i '. ... " ttt . .: , iso, g, f ; 4 ' j 1' t it d " - - ! - 1 , ' .': . , - WE ARB FULLY EQUIPPED IN EVERY DEPARTMENT FOR I. cseIabb commisirgial, ! 5 PS j 1 - ! ra ILROA0 t. ' ; I 04 ' AND IN PRICE QUALITY OF WORK WE Gil ARANTEE SATISFACTION, ! 5 .1 I l: I !i , --i if- I. REVENUE. the authorities tumbled to ome time ago' was conducted by means of bonded packages. For Instance, the Michigan Central Railway, en route from Chicago eastward, travels through Canada for quite a long distance and then returns to the United States at Niagara Falls. Itwas easy enough for a baggage master to bind a, trunk or other package with wire ropes and lead seals before the train carrying ft left this country, in such a manarranging the eonld fastenings be pulled off and rener1 that they placed without breaking the seals by a' on the confederate baggage-mastother side. The latter could then stow opium inside of the receptacle and make it all right again for transportation to New York, there being nothing about it to excite suspicion. Another most profitable species of smuggling from the British possessions is of wool. Small vessels and boats fetch it over from New Brunswick, and the same method of importing it is practiced on the northwest coast. Since a tariff of $30 a head was placed on bucket horses and 81.0 on cattle, a considerable however! the ordinary-lookin- g had a double-shel- l, and between the in- business has been done An driving them side and the outside opium was Con- across tlie Rio Grande from Mexico by cealed. I fording the shallow stream at night, Some of the most remarkable Incidents A XEW GAMK FOB SMCGflUSG TOBACCO which have come under the observation has grown up since the adoption of the of the Rfevenue Marine have to do with McKinley tariff law, which imposes a the smuggling of Chinese 1" Into the duty of S3 a pound on wrapped tobacco United iBtates. Certain instances came and 35 cents a pound on filler tobacco. to the knowledge of the Government The surrepitltlous importers conceal hot so vry long ago, where the crews of wrapper material In bales of filler, agd vessels engaged in affording assistance so get it through cheap. A great to this sort of surreptitious immigraIn that way was reprepared quantity tion frorjji the Orient actually killed and at Tampa. With cigars captured threw overboard many unfortunate pig- - cently a is similar method frequently stalled passengers when in dauger of to that followed in thepracticed case of opium; eapture.fin jorder to destroy all evidence they are thrown overboard at Quarantine against htnselves. Some most extra- in rubber bags with floats attached, and ordinary expedients are resorted to for men in boats pick them up. A; revenue from the Flowery getting these people on the watch for such; dodges Land through. On one occasion several tug 18,000 in a single bitch one captured of them were hidden under the boilers day last summer. duty on cigars is of a steamer en route from Vancouver. S3. CO a pound withThe 25 per cent! of their On the way they literally roasted, 'and value additional, so that it pays well to their cries of agony attracted the atten- get them In free. Opinions differ so tion of the Inspectors who came aboard much as to the value of cigars that the at Port Townsend. They were dragged customs officers would 'find It veryftmrd out, and some of them died from their to set accurate valuations upon, them, burns. Another time a Chinaman were it not that the Cuban manu' climbed nto the space facturers have lists giving the names PADDIJE-BOIX A and prices of all their goods. Customs where he had just room to cuddle up inspectors have copies of , these lists, and hold on, secreting himself before but persons jwho desire to swindle the the vessel started from . "Vancouver. It revenue have a way. of getting around was a cold day in February, and every the difficulty. 'A dealer 'will go to I revolution, of the, wheel deluged him Havana and say to a manufacturer. with icy water so that he was soon ren- want so many thousands of a certain dered Insensible and was taken out more brand of your cigars, but I must stipudead than alive. After spending late that you put upon them the name of In the hospital, he was sent a cheaper brand." This-- , the manufacI back. turer does, and the good pass the for a fraction of the duty Recent; arrests have to some extent custom-hous- e Interfered with the, business of tailors they ought to pay. Not long ago it was in Canada who for some years In Denver have learned that a under-sellin- g extended! their custom by past was the" trade largely soliciting Com trade in the United States and ts reached the authorities on smugplain gling the clothes across. In this way the subject, and suspicion being aroused; the next lot imported by him was subpeople were able to obtain suits to i order of British pattern for jected to examination by experts. It much'lesi than they would have had to was found that the cigars were Invoiced of their "value. It is pay here, agents being employed to at travel about from one-citto another In usually .by underselling their compet this country and take measures for- gar- I tors that fraudulent Importers attract v ments. The latter were mostly con- attention to their doings. J i: ? over the border by; conductors veyed Quite recently there has been an ei-and porters on the railways, who were posure of smuggling on a large scale by much as 10 per cent on the fashionable dressmakers in New York paid as value or the goods Tor concealing them City. Theso enterprising persons have In' transport. .Sometimes they were been accustomed to employ women to hidden actually in the berths of inno travel to and from Paris, who would cent and; unsuspecting passengers. As come back as fine ladies with many soon as they were got across, the pack trunks containing elaborate wardrobes ages were taken to an express offlce and which they claimed as private property shipped to the parties for whom they and merely wearing apparel suitable to were Intended. By the same means a their condition in life. These agents certain btg establishment tu Quebec has would go to the Fifth Avenue or some been sending over great quantities. of other. hotel with their baggage, subseValuable furs. delivering the trunks to ths A lucrative style of sniuslin which quently dressmakers. In this manner tuany, cf : er ot Wabiii'Soton, Dec. 1, 1891.v So long as Ue pyoflts of smugglers are blj? tholr businjesslwlll flourish, notwith capturo as standing such Jan occasional that of tho exporter of illicit opium In Nfiw.York thejothjor day. The customs detective service, Controlled from Washpossibly keep under ington, cannot frontiers and coasts of the entire guard so vast a country 4s the United States. Is only now Hud; then that they can git strike hj blow at the trafllc by exercising not merely vigilance but dovices of thd utmost ingenuity. For example about two months ago three revenue Inspectors In Puget Sound dressed themselves up as tisherrnen and started out aft0r herring with an equipment of nets. jThelr purpose was assisted unexpectedly by a tremendous ' storm that camo up, capsized their boat, and cast them Upon the shore of San J uan Island. They Were taken care of by the resident fisher folk and lived with them for some time, partaking of their occuIncidentally, pations and amusemeuts. Inthey discovered that the hospitable habitants wcr0 engaged in smuggling opium and llouor from Canada, the whisky being (sold to the workmen in the great limes factories there located. As a result, oiTeii persons have been arrested, and If Is surmised that in future the people of that locality will be on their guard against rescuing shipwrecked strangers. r Not long ago a novel and very Interestmethod of smuggling opium was ing discovered by pfiicers of the Revenue Marine iu Pugot Sound. Larg sticks of timber were: sawn in two lengthwise and hollowed olit, the halves being afterwards fastened together with wooden no one would have suppins, so that posed for a moment that the big logs were filled with contraband material. found out by the The scheme was only chance of coming f across some of the about on the water. empty logs floating After their contents had been removed, of course the hollowed timbers were of no use for any purpose, and so they were carelessly: thrown away, instead of being cut Up and burned, which would have been more prudent. Doubtless, however, the sirue ingenious plan is still being pursued. Two or three good sized logs will holdt many thousands of dollars worth of opihm, and they are not likely to be picked' out of a vessel's cargo of timber by the most vigilant In. . spector. ' - :r ! , . AND STOKEBS TIIK FIHKMEIf steamers ( 3 beard of tl 3 trans-Faelfi- c s ?:reat dexl, of smuggling, because t 7 Live so raany convenient hiding , 1 I c ' 1 ". ct their disposal. They hldo t.3 cc tl, wliera It is almost l. i3 t'j 21 It. '', a 12 cl Get Our Irice&. (Deill SALT LAKE CITY, UTAHi cannot iery well shovel' over hundreds of tons f coal on board a ship In order to discofver whether there is anything eontrabflind concealed among it. Hollow Iron masts frequently afford places of as do for cans of concealment How Opium ami Other Contraband also th4 pumps of vessels,opium, down which the stuff is lowered with Strings. Be(Jootls Are Smuggled. tween t le walls of staterooms and the 'skln" ff a steamship excellent hiding-place- s are found. Once brought into port, there are CHINESE ARE THE GREAT EXPERTS AT IT. varlousi ways of getting the opium ashore, f A favorite method Is to drop thecansoverboard "with sinkers attached to themj so as to keep them from driftfar, and floats of cork or wood to ing Queer Wkjs if Gctttlnjt the IJ riijc Into mark them. Then small boats come Unci Sam's Territory Tragedies along ami pick them up unostentatiously. the dodge was of Chinese Importation Transport' For a ldng time before found the drug was carried off the In Clothes Across the llorder- steamers in buckets by the sailors.; A Growth of the pplum Vice. Jolly tar would come along with a wooden pail full of odds and ends, and the Inspector would empty them out, only to find that the; receptacle conCORBElfONDIUCB TRlX3TK.l In reality, tained hothing besides. H ( 1 - THE CHEATING t I. . 3t3 .Lsirie of IoqeiI Blei.r2l&. S. .: 1 i TLacustca olicers : ' -- STEAM-B0AT- " 'S X some-month- s j cigar-mercha- nt well-mad- e: one-four- th - . . , the latter have aceuniulated large I tunes. - for- 1 ; A FAVORITE WA Y OF SMUGGUNO is through the empldytees of big ocean who find? if easy to conceal steimshlps, goods on board. Notjl being subjected to search unless therd Is some special reason for suspecting them, they readily convey the contraband articles ashore. mariner that six superb It was in this snuff-boxof pure gold .were imported the other day, only to jimeet the misfortune of seizure by, the Ibustoms officials. Much clothing has been brought over from Paris and London in the same fashion. The inspectors have also to be for pretended constantly on the watch by law "antiquities." It. is provided that antique objects made before the seventeenth century .shall come in free, and. so there is very often an induce ment to pretend that things are older than they are. Queer ways of smuggling are only limited by the resources of human in genulty. People have been known to carry diamonds beneath, porous plasters, in the heels of their boots hollowed out for the purpose, and in cakes of soap. Some time ago the doll carried by a d child wis found to conIn one case tain a treasure In genis. valuable jewels were-- Concealed in for a rifle, the powder, behind cartridges each bullet being remoyedJ The jewels went through all right in that shape, but the man who employed the scheme was so foolish as to mention it on board the ship. A small boyj who overheard the conversation, afterwards grew up, was employed as a; detective by the Secret Service, and had the man ar rested. The duty on cut diamonds Is only ten per cent of their value, because, if It were made higher, all of them would be smuggled and! the Government would ge,t nothing. They can be so easily hidden that it is almost hopeless to try to find them by search. There .was a recent report of a person who folded up several precious sparklers in a hunk of meat and perniitted his dog to swallow It just before reaching port. The animal only cost him a dollar on the other side, and it was a small affair to kill the poor beast and becure the jewels after landing. It is recorded that again iu one case a customs officer, having a passenger in the act of swallowcaught ing a big diamond, tojadministered an wait. Another emetic and sat down man. being subjected to search, dropped some gems from his band into a water-pitchthat stood by, afterwards means to recover them A story taking that is a petrel lean probably untrue concerns which brought some priceless rubies through the Custom House tn its pouclu es richly-dresse- it - er A5fl TRACES are often found enclosed between the leaves of books mailed from abroad. A while ago an Inspector found hidden In that way half a pair of silk tights for stage usethat Is to'" say, the covering for one. leg. He thought he would wait awhile and see if the other leg did not turn np, and sure enough It came along about a fortnight later In another volume wjth the same address. Customs officers are always on i the look-ofor trunks and boxes with false bottoms, this being a favorite devico with smugglers. They assert that women are all born smugglers. There are no expedients to which they will not resort for the revenue, Their favorite beating hiding-place- s are- on their persons, and many a time is the inspectress In charge obliged to take a lady of suspicious proportions into her private quarters and compel her to. disrobe- - Costly point lace sewn, upon the underclothing is a device. ut : f - only commonplace Sometimes their .bodies will be wrapped around and t round with lace, and the fat woci7-3- . vho hts conelnto the prlvata room to be searched may come out thin of. Importatlons of large value were artiten carried in bustles, when these ficlal deformities were in fashion. On tn rronuer rerries, from Windsor to Detroit, and from Sarnii to Port Huron. the women passengers are constantly smuggling goods across, So popular is this form of evading the law that Amer- lean silks are actually largely inportea into Canada, ; paying! the jturty, and smuggled baek into thif country to be sold as foreign goods at fancy prices. Nevertheless, tit 1$ airuile that women shall not be prosecuted for such offenses. They cannot help doing ; so, because' they are built that Way The inspectors largely for hints as to whom depend to watch upon informers. Pefpl abroad, knowing that a reward is given for suh intelligence, convey notic to the customs authorities that persons! named are likely to bring contraband roods.- It often occurs that employees iJ big jewelers' or other shops in Paris ob London, being aware of purchases hade, will suspect that they are likely ti be smuggled and will send warning secretly. It Is provided by law that the aniount of the reward Shall be determine by the Secretary pf the never to exceed 85000. though Treasury, In geueral, the rule followed ts that the informershall receive 85 per cent of the value of the seizure. No officer of the Government can receive a reward for information given, but, if he himself effects the Seizure, he gets 50 percent of its value, after duties and expenses have been paid. There are!' many persons in France and England who make a regular business of spotting passengers who are rich and sending . " - hither that they carry contraband articles with the Intention of smuggling them In. If the guess proves by ac- word . cident correct, they get tho reward; otherwise It costs them nothing. Last year $143,000 worth of goods were seized. a. irtrxirr thixo occubbed 1 case In in the trial of the was which other the day Philadelphia not reported in the newspapers. The Government on its part contended that many things, such as pieces of silk, were imported at a low rate of duty under the designation of trimmings for bonnets and hats, when In reality they 3hould have paid a higher tariff. Witnesses for the Importers had been carewas prefully drilled, but a little dodgeunawares. them one of pared to take This expert was testifying as to what a variety of articles were used to trim handed hats, when the District Attorney bonnet. up to him a very He said, "Such materials: as these are familiar to you for making bonnets I affirmasuppose?" The reply was In the the wit-tive, after careful inspection by "Well, that is certainly remarkable!" -For the said the District Attorney. is bonnet this of Is fact that the body and the made out ot a lady's under-veof stockings." trimming out Of a pair smugNaval officers do a good deal of rom f gling. When a vessel comes them is like.y to foreign station, each of commissions for have filled a few little his friends, In the way of rugs, silks, sets of china etc., not to mention wines and cigars: When the ship reaches the Navy Yard these ' articles are shipped paid a cent by express, without havingSSOO worth of of duty. A few years ago from brought been had cigars which were seized, Havana by the "Kearsarge" at an express odee in Boston. JVHeni Mr. Sherman ' was Secretary Treasury, he asked Secretary ln Navy Thoa pson to join with allhln naval that effect making a rule to the .the- cusvessels should be examined byPorfcir: toms u cn Thompson wt3 It Cut Inclined to regard hat-trimmi- ng nice-looki- ng st re-chi- n? ' the proposition favorably, but, after discussing tho subject withfseveral officers of the Navy, ho changed his opinion and refused to accede Ito Mr. Sher man's suggestion. In the last Congress, when It was proposed to hand the Revenue Marino, which is a sort of small navy attached to the Treasury Department, 'over to the Navy pepartruent, Senator Sherman opposed the motion, it would be absurd to declaring anthat transfer institution for protection against smuggling to persons v. ho were themselves smugglers. Secretary Thompson's view of the case was that naval officers had small pay and ought to be allowed to get a few things in free if they wanted to. ; DIPLOMATS ACCREDITED to this country are permitted! by law to Import whatever they please without paying duty, and the property they bring over Is not subjected td examination.- They have more than once been accused of taking advantage of this permission to smuggle things which they disposed bf by sale. United States Consuls and Ministers abroad are given a certain license through courtesy In such matters, and It has been charged that they also have profited by illegal Very frequently. Importations Most bf the opium smuggled into this country comes from Canada. The business of getting it across the border employs enormous capital and the industry of hundreds of men who have acquired expertness by experience. It is vastly profitable, as may be conceived from the fact that the importation of 100,000 pounds duty-frerepresents a clear gain of 1,200,000, the tariff being $12 a pound. Thus the persons engaged are willing totake considerable risks, and these need not be so very great with caution, inasmuch as the customs officers cannot keep 3000 miles of frontier constantly patrolled. The stuff can be conplace along the veniently shipped to any line and conveyed over the border whenever It is desired. Where there Is a river, men' In boats ferry it over by night. It is shipped across in every imaginable disguise as household goods, stationery, desiccated vegetables, pianos, and what not. There is almost no limit to the ' Ingenious resources of those engaged in the traffic On one occasion two men were arrested and twenty cans found in their poseesslon were confiscated. The cans were stored At Ogdensburg, N. Y. for and, in order to get rid of evidence against the parties concerned, their confederates 'used bribery and - obtained access to the captured goods, replacing the opium in the cans with wooden blocks made to fit them. Fortunately the scheme was discovered immediately afterwards, else the prosecution would have been put to ridicule by the exhibition of the blocks of wood in court, and the accused would have escaped. Some months ago an opium Smuggler was arrested who confessed that he had been engaged for years in carrying it across the frontier by the satchelful to and fro by at a time. He traveled from the train, concealing his hand-ba- g customs officers when possible. Otherwise, he let it He openly on a seat other than that which he himself occupied; If a suspicion as to its contents had ever occurred to the inspectors, he would simply have denied that he owned It or knew anything about it. In this simple manner he had Imported more than $100,000 worth on his own ace- - safe-keepi- count. - ng MOST ' OFTHE OPIUM BROUGHT from Canada is manufactured at Victoria, where alone 123,000 pounds of the crude article is annually trsnsferraed into about 70,CC3 pounds' of tl 3 prepared product. It comes chfeSy fi'Otn Turkey, tEin-- inferior In uHty."i ttiat 5 ; Imported from China, and Iarrives in' shape of balls. After the petals of the opium poppies have fallen, the seedpods rapidly develop, incidentally producjng a gummy juicet This juice is gathered by cutting and openj the pods at the 'proper-timscraping it off with knives when it has exuded. It is collected on leaves and dried in lumps. Finally it is made Into balls. of a certain welxjht and the balls are covered4with poppy petals agglutinated with a paste of opium waste and other substances. After being dried in the sun, the bulls aro packed in chests' for export. It is iu this shape that the reaches the factories at Victoria, opium where the balls are removed from their covert lngs of petals, and the material Is boiled to a thin paste with water. This paste, with some cold water added, is permitted to stand for 15 hours,, after which It is filtered through bamboo - fibre brown liquid is paper. The concentrated resulting by boiling down until is resembles molasses in consistency. After being kept for a few months it is ready for smoking purposes and is put up in cans for market. To make it ready for tho pipe, it is merely necessary to take a little of the opium treacle) on'the end of a little instrument mads for the purpose and twirl it deftly for two or three moments In the flame of a? candle. Thus it is roasted, and. tho small pellet, being transferred to1 the bowl of the pipe and ignited, affords tha. n inhalations which send the smoker off into a dreamland Paradise, The extent' to which the smoking di? opium prevails In the 'United States if, not generally realized. : It is usually 4 secret vice, and its effects are not apparent when it is indulged in very moderately. There Is reliable atatistif cal information to the effect one million people In this country smoke the drug, while at least 5,OOOare opium, Of eaters, consuming it in other forms. the 70,000 pounds of tho prepared article produced at Victoria alone, nearly all li sold and used in Uncle Sara's dominions, and to the Canadian: product must be added great quantities of the 'stufl which are Imported, free of -- duty 01 otherwise, from China. The opium habit, particularly that of smoking, If said to be growing rapidly in the big cities. Opium has been raised in Virginia, Tennessee and California, bu( it did not pay, chiefly because labor cost too much and the domestic article could not compete with the foreign at market Reite Bachk. prices. V e t - -- ( - half-doze- j f : - thafr-nearl- -- y -- . Wales am a Grandfather." The Prince of Wales is human, aft all, and as I have already ventured t remark, it is curious to notice the di taste with which the approach of age i regarded by men of all sorts and condli tlons, and the ridiculous shifts they art put to in the endeavor to conceal It evei from themselves. By combination 04 circumstances H. R If. is somewhat un comfortably handicapped in his position in life. From the cynosure and th arbiter elegantiarum of a very few yean ago the transition to the elderly gentle man and the grandfather seems ver sudden and oddly unexpected. To som men who have vecu, and hope encore, ' the unavoidable position of grandfather is fraught with horrca Even Charles Dickens, with all h!j straightforward common senss, coull not oear is. as mue rererenco r i pea slble was niaue In his family tD tl. dreadful fact: tha ord rr r. . to-c.'- utterly tabc or 11 Lo children, E..3 him which, I - . i t - r, evn I? I' . ! 1 ,"! ir. 4 1 . 1 r t i I |