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Show Two Chinese Arrested and Drug Worth $100 Is ' Confiscated Ono of the most complete opium smoking sets ever taken by local police po-lice was confiscated this morning at 4:30 o'clock, when Sergeant A. M. Edwards Ed-wards and Detective W. A. Jones arrested ar-rested Leo Sing, 55 years old, and Lew Lewie, 63 years old, in a room near Twentyfourlh street and Lincoln avenue. ave-nue. Tho equipment consisted of three pipes, one of wood, 'another of a hard, clay-like composition, and tho third, a brass atfair which tho officers allege is used to smoke opium .pjlls. Cards of opium, a small can partly full with tho drug, and several ounces of yen shee were taken by the police. Four muslin tobacco sack3 filled with yen shee and a cardboard box were removed re-moved to the station as evidence, say the officers. The men were locked in the city jail and bail arranged, SI 00 for Lew Sing, and $150 for Lew Lewie. Charlie Sloan posted ball for tho men who will appear tomorrow before the city court. Charlie. Sloan, "Mayor" of Chinatown, China-town, stated that Lew Lewio had been addicted to the opium habit for the past forty years and during that time had spent thousands of dollars for the drug and almost an equal amount for jail fines. The confiscated yen sheo and opium represents nearly a hundred dollars although tho weight of the drug will not exceed eight or nino ounces, the police said. Pill needles, files for sharpening them, lamp3 to cook the opium, cards upon which a quantity of the drug had been pasted, and several bottles oi Chinese medicine of some sort, was, Jobtained by the arresting officers. |