The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-12-22

ne aid, "tn district where smuggling
was aid TO be very common. We
stopped one night at . house on the
roadside and were 90 well treated that
In the morning we stopped near the
door to decide what we could do TO
show our gratitude. While we were
talking the man came out and said !:
Don't be too hard on q poor fellow
We caught on at once and said to
him: We'll, you have been very kind
to us; bring out the stuff and we will
be as easy on you as we can The
man brought out the Struggled goods
and we seized them.
"There was jeweler in this city
caught in something the same way
said Mr.. Grose 81 was informed that
he had bought twelve gold rings,
which he knew TO have been snug
gled. got description of them and,
going into the jewelers. Office, told him
| had come for some goods he had
smuggled, and he had better bring
them into the office or / would have
to go and look for them. He went
out and came back with an armful of
trays of rings. / asked him what that
was and he said that was all he had
smuggled. | looked through them all,
but could not find the rings | was
looking for, so | said TO him: This
Is not the whole Of them. You had
better bring them all in at once or |
will go out and look for them N.Y.
self lie went out again and brought
In another armful of trays, saying he
would take his oath that that was all
he had smuggled. asked him for
the names of all the parties implicated
and he said there was no one but his
brother. | sent for an officer to watch
the rings, and went myself to the mans
brother, in whose store | seized o. 900
worth of jewelry. The seizure in the
first store amounted to about $1,000"
"a clever trick was played little
while ago on q merchant in this city,"
said another gentleman. "IIe arranged
with another man to smuggle in five
barrels OF kerosene and they were
brought into the city in the dead of
night and stored in his cellar. He
psid the money and the smuggler
went away. Next morning the gentle
man found that the barrels were filled
with pure water"
al had quite an exciting experience
one winter night out in the town.
ships" said Mr.. Crosse. al was with
Colonel Rodgers, the collector, and he
told me the road we were driving on
was the worst for smuggling in Can
ada. lie was telling me all kinds of
smuggling stories that made the hair
rise on my head and just then we
heard the tinkle of sleigh bells. Il
will bet you that is a smuggler,' he
said. 'All right said I Il guess we
are the very men he ought to meet
We drew up and presently we saw an
express sleigh coming along, the load
being covered up with buffaloes. We
called on the man to stop, but the
only answer he made was to lay the
whip on his horses, and they tore of
at g gallop. We turned around and
set off at full speed after him, the col
onel firing his revolver In the air to
brighten the smuggler, but i'm vain.
We had q fast horse and were rapidly
overtaking him when he turned into q
lane and drew up behind q barn. The
colonel leaped out ard seized the snug
gler BY the collar, saying: You
scOundrel, why didn't you stop2'
drew off the buffalo robes to find the
Struggled goods, but only found Q lot
of mail-bsgs. The supposed smuggler
WAS q mail 70 rriar -