The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-23
VAGRANT SLOOP.
The smugeler @Daisyr Caught
In the Harbor.
WANTED At PORT TOWNSEND
She II sths Old ssNora EIissbsths' Re.
gently ssissa 1t Nasaino BY che
British Govsrnmsnt.

Ur1eloh 0Ovornmones
The smuggling sloop Daisy. better
known Is the Nora Elizabeth. was
seized here ct 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon BY the customs officers in compliance
with orders which the latter received from
Collector Bradshaw.
Two months ago Deputy Collector Alex
ander, Of Seattle, received IN order from
Fort Townsend to seize the mora Eliza
BETH the first time she appeared ct Scat
ne. The customs inspectors here have &C.
cordingiy been on the watch, and their OPP
Portunity arrived, when, yesterday after
noon, she moved slowly into the harbor,
and came TO anchor near the foot Of Spring
street. inspector Ben Thompson Was the
first to notice the new arrival, and forth
with he boarded her and arrested Captain
Julius Ducreschner, the only person on
the sloop. Itwas 8 o'clock when the sloop
first hove In sight, and an hour later In
spector Thompson had her tied up ct Bud.
longs boath0use. inspectors Thompson
and Taylor Holden proceeded with the
captain before United Statss Commissioner
Emery. expecting to imprison the
captain until Collector Bradshaw
could b notified of the seiz-
IRE. Judge Emery held that the in
speetors would have to file : complaint.
Collector Alexander said that could not be
done because 1t was not known that the
captain was wanted, as the orders de-
manded only the seizure Of the sloop. Cap
tain Dureschner is therefore at liberty in
this city awaiting the action OF the Port
Townsend customs officers.
The Nora Elizabeth was last evening
placed in charge of Budlong at his boat
house. Owing 70 the late hour after the
trial and the other pressing work of the i'm
spectors, the sloop was not searched
last night, but that will be
done the first thing this morning.
All the firearms-a Winchester rifle and q
double-barreled shotgun we're removed,
however. Its thought the captain was
sailing her himself, a. he was the only
person found aboard.
It Will be remembered the Nora Eliza
BETH. or the Daisy, as she 10 now called,
was seized by the Canadian government
at Nanaimo, B. c., six weeks ago for not
reporting at the custom-house there. It
was just . little before that that the
custom officers here were instructed to
seize her.
The Nora Elizabeth is . comparative
ly new craft. She was built at San Fran
cisco in 1888 for Captains Duereschner and
A. Klatt The former stated that he re-
Gently bought Klatt out in Canadian
waters. The sloop was brought up from
San Francisco on the deck OF q steamer,
the deck and cabin having been put on the
sloop after she arrived.
Captain Duereschner was seen relative to
the seizure. He said he had come straight
from the Fraser river, where he had been
in the fishing business. He said he came
here to either get work or sell the sloop.
Since the seizure at Nanaimo the captain
said he had repaired the sloOp, painted her
anew and changed her name. He did not
seem bit excited or worried but said he
did not know Why his sloop should be
seized. Deputy Collector Alexander says
it may be possible that Kiatt, the former
part owner, has been doing some crooked
work unknown to Captain Duereschner.
The sloop has an American bottom and is
said to have been built up from q ships's
boat. She il painted white on the outside,
the inside of the cockpit being blue. She
is twenty-seven and one-half feet long with
q nine-foot beam. She is sloop rugged, and
the two shrouds on each side, together
with the jib stay are of wire rope shout
threc-eighth inches in diameter. Her
cabin il ten feet four inches long, being
raised one foot seven inches above the
deck. with passage waJ fourteen
inches wide on each side. There
are two hunks In the fore part of the cabin,
one in each side and extending under the
fore deck. A looking glass is nailed to the
starboard side of the cabin wall. Above it
is private mark of . broad arrow with
the apex upward in blue pencil marks.
She has small. stove in the after part
of the cabin on the port side.
There is also another private mark, the
same as the first arrow back of the stove
pipe, near the ceiling. The cockpit is S
feet 8 inches long and 3 feet inches
deep. Three boards of the floor are loose
so as to be taken up when the sioop re-
quires bailing out.
In the aft of the cockpit there are two
cupboard doors of unequal width, one be-
irg made OF two four-inch flooring boards,
while the other has three boards. She has
an iron tiller terminating in knob, two
inches in diameter. Her stern is fat and
ugly looking. The sloop has center
board skiff, on the stern of which is
painted the name "Nora Elizabeth. The
skiff is fifteen feet six inches long, with q
four foot beam.
Deputy Collector Alexander last night
forwarded news of the seizure to Collector
Bradshaw at Port Townsend, and asked
information as to why the sloop was
wanted and whether or not the captain
should be held.