Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-11-17 | Page 1 | Girls Sold for Opium

GIRLS wis SOLED SOLD fOJ OP UM Natives o Philippines Are Bartering Off Their Children ran II a XO Nov of a group of oC to the south of Mindanao are offering lu is barter arter young oung girls each fur lIr ono one ounce of opium according to W r S Lyon Lyou a who returned from a trip lI II h the south coast of fir r Lyun I fa engaged lI abell rut ill illI I specimens of i for the of at I Washington Mr tr I Lyon yon reports that this traffic In opium In hs south Mindanao i is carried on by wa way of 1 The gas gov government cutters cullers visit this district oc oe but they are lacking In ht facilities to suppress the lie truffle traffic I