New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-16
TONS OF SMUGGLED OPIUM.
DETECTIVES AFTER THE OFFENDERS.
A CAPTURED OUTLAW MAKES A CONFESSION
EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS OF
THE DR-G SEIZED.

81. Paul, Minn., Dec 10" The Pioneer Press this
morning publishes the following The United States
secret service office officers here the track Of
gigantic opium smuggling conspiracy They have
learned that organized and wel-eqapped band OF
smugglers for years been operating at the nrth
western corner One Of the gang arrested recently
al Denver made full confession. Acting on the
Information given Ly him, the deputy collector at
St. Vincent. Mimi, vent west to point on the Da-
kota line, Wednesday, and intercepted wagon load
oi SEQ pounds of opium in the crude FORM Tho opium
in the wagon concealed under layer of buffalo
hides. The whole outfit was seized and the driver
OF the wagon arrested. The Government detec-
lives left St Paul for the North last night They are
after the man TO whom the opium was consigned. He
Is waiting at some small in the Red River Valley
for the arrival of tho stuff and will probably DO In
the clutches of the law before night. When his ar
accomplished they viii have the leader of tho
gang and, according to report one Oh
tbs most dangerous of border outlaws
TIE authorities here maintain absolute silence
when asked for the details of their important dis
coveres but do not deny the story OF the arrest at
Denver, and the subsequent seizure at St. Vincent
They freely admit the existence of smuggling CON
spiracy, but will 90 further.
There is every TO believe, in the light Of
recent recent develop pments, said a In high
authority yesterday, that quarter Of all Of the opium
which has come into this country in the last five years
has been smugglcd in the unguarded and un-
settled border. Tons of opium sent In on every
ship from China which lands at Victoria, b. CI
What IS easier than for the smuggors to bring It to
point the Canadian Pacific road aIY where
between Calgary and Winnipeg and cart it down into
the Territories he only wonder IS that the Govern
ment officers have not tumDled 70 this before r..
" Bulldog Kelly, the man who was arrested at 81
Vincent four ago, for numbering man near Cal
gary, and whom the Un.tcd states Government refused
gvc up TO Canada, makes no tones o; lhr fars mat
nc had Doch ehSdsru III tl9 snugsilHs VI Ps, oP 90 ~
was in quarrel OScr the division OF tho profits OF
smuggling enterprise that he killed his man. They
had train Of pack mules and brought the opium on
mules from Calgary down through the mountains 10
Butte City, Helena, Bozeman, and other territorial
railroad towns where It was disposed Of by shipment
to eastern points,
Detroit, Mich. Dec ia Journal special from
Port Huron says: For some time 1t has been well
known here and at other points along the border that
a big consignment Of opium on route through
Canada and that effort would be made to smuggle
IL across the border somewhere in this Customs
district. Yesterday afternoon four customs officers
were dispatched up the shore with instructions TO
look after consignment Of the drug which would
be landed probably at Sand Beach near there
The plans of the officers successfully executed
in as securing the drug Is concerned, but no
arrests have yet been made. The opium was landed
from little schooner near Port Hope and hidden on
the Shore the schooner at once putting back to
Canada The officers found the opium last night
but the man who guarding IL escaped. The
opium Is calucd at about 10000 and was brought
here from Vancouyer e. IL Is Deneved ,e,, tsse sho
United States officials after he had been arrested
here was en- "a -cd I'm the present enterprise"
Denver Dec. 10 Specal).-The United States
Marshal has just seized 476 pounds of smugged opium
prepared for smohng Marx aSen,
lacked fS" in hou'shod @ urniiuro hch was CONSIGNED
Ia A. c. Nelson, Dcnyer Tic agent came at once
10 this CITY ard gave Information Marshal Hill,
who dispatched an assistant TO the yards where A. c..
Nelson called for his household furniture and was
arrested. The prisoner taken before the United
states Commissioner and from thence to his boarding
house. where scyenty-siX pounds more of the stun
were found i'm his trunk Judge iIaett of the United
states District. ordered Nelson 10 be taken TO st.
Paul for examination. and Marshal Curcr started for
that place with his prisoner to-day. The opium IS
valued at $lS a pound. and the amount recovered IS
worth 81 400. II IS locked up in the United states