Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-20

Pssf IovssHD. jan L.
fhs ssisarso ~, 0oe worth Of optam,
made iass Thursday BY shs revenue
cutter Oliver woicost- under command
Of Captain Moore, ID without exception
the heaviest ever made BY any revesoe
vessel t0e past twenty years- Thoosh
the fact that the people on the Idaho
bad been carrying Opium between Vie
toria and Portland had GONE 70 the
know ledge Of the Collector. and By him
and bis force the clue bad been Oh
taintd 40 to the Whereabouts OF this
large amouut of Opium, Il veuld have
been impossible to havs made the
seizure bad NOS the Woisots steamed
dsv and night through tie iotHicaie
pnssaess OF tse inland waters OF the
porsh. Lieut. Rhoad. vas the hrst %
discover the barrels containing the
opium, thoua1 assured bs the suo men,
Michael Martin and Charles Borch. that
the same we're flied With furs landed
the steamer idahs on Der last tsip
north. That the Opium vss stored at
Ksssan Bay vss we'll assured by Henry
Hansen. q seaman belonging to the
steamer Idaho, who saw toe fourier
barrrIs placed in she warehouse, ano
Who BY Q strange coincidence happened
to be q passenger On board tne Woicoss.
Your correspondent, Wishing to get at
the true invardness of this great CAP
ture Of opium. vas fortunate enough TO
fud the right man as the riRbt time,
Who 50 -cs~d himself TO an interviev.
Hog did the eastoms officials drop
on this man HsnsenT
well. YOU SCI, after the Idaho left here
on New Years Day for Portland, IL ap-
pears that Hanson got left; at any rate,
be remained around town. waiting her
return, and. having no money, one OF
the Customs In psctors teok pity on
him and paid his board ; bat Hansen,
though % kindly treated. would not
give away anything concerning the
opium still missing, and be continued
silent until the Idaho returned. Upos
going on board 70 join his vessel be
found that the vacancy was filled. and
another man bad taken his place. At
ter shs ship had gene, that had been
for ysars his home, and left him on
strange beach, he felt lonesome, and
again met his friend Of Uncle Sans
service. Thinking that perhaps be
might get Q ] % on the force be became
more commuoicative, and il vas not
long before be REM mbsred number
of barrels that had been landed ct the
fishery in kss.an Bay. Collector
BsecheT Immediately teleRraphed ~ the
Treasury Department for permission TO
leave his district Aad prooeed OF the
revenue cutter TO Alsska and capture
the opium. The cutter arrived on Sun
day, the 10th inst. The Collector and
Hansen got on board, and she sueamed
away for Victoria The Idaho va
there, and when Captain Carroll vas
told that she vas Oh for Alaaka he made
the remark that she would run ashore
before she ever got there, bat the Cap
tain bad NO idea that the services Of
PiIet Hicks had been secured. WLo ne
ms ned on the deck of the cut'ef un II
sh, entered KasaAn Bay last 1bufaday.
Inc Woleots hauled alonRside of Union
wharf this merning, and landed the II
bs, rels Of Opium. Collector BeecheT
and the ofnoess Of the cutter were con
graduated by their many friends on
their successful trip. The whole
amount OF Opium captured on the
Idaho and at K4saan Bay 10 3628k
pounds, valued at over t50, Co.,"