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Show CHINAMAN SEIZED LADEN WITH OPIUM ' -Al.T i.AKi:. Feb. 15. Laden with j contraband opium, valued at thbu-; thbu-; sands of doll.ir. Charley Sam, Chl-, Chl-, oose walked into the arms of v. j Patterson nnd Itobcri A, Newton, fed-' fed-' era I narcotic agosts, last nipht. anf -. now In the city jail. He will be arraigned ar-raigned this morning before i nitod i States Commissioner TL V Van Pel. Agents Patterson und Newton were ; not surprised to see Charley Samj ! Th;. were expecting him and bad been ever since they hud known of I his diippearance from Butte. Neither (were the- surprised to find the catlS ; oi opium wrapped In a newspaper ; published in But,te under the date o'j j Saturday, Pcbruary 1'.'. They wcr-1 surprised, however, at the grade f I opium carried by the celestial. The ' marks Indicated that the cans contained- the best grade of smoking 1 I opium. The pans elliptical in I shape, about five inches long, three; inches wide and nearly an inch thick' Kach can, the Cefderal agents estimate, would net a retailer more than $300. so that the twenty car-j would rep- ' resent between 16000 and $10,000 if i -sold out retail. It was only through extraordinary alertness that the federal agents sav-' ed themselves from being made a laughing-stock by Charley Arriving in S il' I -iKi- with lh- opium in a t;r;p. , the Chinese had disposed of the grip. ! and putting some of the cans In his po. k I and the others In a paper bax was prepared to make the last leg of I his journey In the guise of a resident of Plum alley going home with some! ordlpary purchase in tite most ordinary ordi-nary oi containers. 1IO |