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Show ' ' Smuggling in Arizona. Washington, December 2. Governor Zu-lick, Zu-lick, of Arizona, has addressed the following follow-ing communication to the Secretary of the Interior: "I deem it my duty, through you, to call the attention of the Interior Department Depart-ment to the evil of smuggling carried on between Arizona and the State of Sonora, Mexico. The counties of Pima and Cochise have a border of several hundred miles along the Mexican frontier, over which smugglers cross by unfrequented trails, bringing into this Territory the products of Mexico without with-out let or hindrance from the United States customs authorities. There are within Arizona Ari-zona 20j000 inhabitants of Mexican origin, the national drink of whom is mescal, a liquor li-quor distilled from the cactus plant, thousands thous-ands of gallons being annually consumed by them, all of it being manufactured within the borders of our sister republic. " Hardly a gallon pays duty, and hundreds of thousands thou-sands of Mexican cigars and quantities of tobaoco, to say nothing of beef cattle, horses, mules, etc., are also smuggled. In this connection Governor Zulick includes in-cludes an extract from the report of the last Grand Jury in support of his assertions, and concludes as follows: "In order to enforce en-force the. customs laws of the United States, I would respectfully recommend that four mounted inspectors be appointed by the Department to,- be assigned to duly along the borders of Cochise and Pima counties; that they' be selected on account ac-count of their familiarity with the country, their knowledge of the trails and of the bypaths by-paths leading into Mexico, that they speak the Spanish language and are frontiersmen. |