The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-06-11
CUSTOMS FRAUDS
Some Startling Developments
Coming.
ANOTHER CASE N THE HISTORY Or SMUGGLING,
An Interesting Story Concerning the
Appraisers Office Comes
to Light.


to Light.
That the full extent of the customs
frauds perpetrated 10y well known and
heretofore reputable men here is not yet
known and that further startling de-
velopments will appear, is made evident
10y the hints and actions of the govern
ment agents sent here to uuravol the
dark combinations made by wealthy
merchants and the Custom House EN-.
ployees.
"When the Grand Jury has completed
its Investigations said prominent
government official yesterday, "and
when the reports made to the treasury
department in Washington by Solicitor
Hepburn, Superintendent OF Special
Agents Tipgle and Assistant Secretary
Grouse are made public there will ap.
pear the story of q system of customs
frauds which involves more people of re.
spectahility and wealth than perhaps any
smuggling scheme ever unearthed by
the government before. There will then
be more names mentioned in connection
with these frauds than are identified
with them now"
In the course of his persistent investi.
cations about the Custom House an
EreRiag Post reporter yesterday learned
some things OF interest concerning an
old and trusted employee in the apprais.
ers office from which Appraiser Levy
was so recently dismissed. This man is
I. Q. LOWS, who through all the changes
OF several successive administrations has
remained chief clerk OF the appraisers
department.. The searching investiga-
tion of the affairs of this department
made by Solicitor Hepburn, left not the
slightest reflection on the competence
and trustworthiness OF Mr.. Lewis. MIR.
Lewis, it was learned, is man whose
name is known throughout America and
in many foreign lands, although his
comparatively obscure official position
has given him but little local fame. The
story of how his fame was acquired is an
interesting one. 1t is based entirely on
the story OF how his life was saved sew
eral years ago. He told it in 1887 ms
follows:
"Some six months or more ago, | was
taken with an attack of something re-
sembling my old complaint. Ny doctor
pronounced it to be Nephritis. It,yielded
readily to the usual treatment for such
cases, and again resumed the use OF
Warmers Safe Cure, which | had not
touched for several years. thought ut
the time it was something remarkable
that this attack passed off without the
passage OF stones, as formerly, although
| carefully watched for them. there
fore, came TO the conclusion that my
Doctors diagnosis was correct, and that
the attack was nothing more nor less
than a simple Inflammation of the kid
neys caused by a cold settling there.
Some two months later noticed a slight
pain in urinating. This increased until
it eliminated in inflammation of the
prostate gland, and stranguary of the
neck of the bladder, causing a COM
plete stoppage OF the flow of the
urine. Two physicians essayed to
relieve the bladder by catherzation
without avail. A third was more sue
cessful by distending the urethra, and
introducing a very large catheter. The
desired result was obtained, and when
the instrument was withdrawn, it
brought away stone weighing 53 grs.,
which proved upon a chemical analysis
to be an oxalic of lime. This was fol-
lowed in the course OF few days by the
passage of more than forty stones, vary
ing in size from an ordinary pins head
to that of pea. Some OF these stones
were smooth, others, including the
largest were rough and jagged. They
could hardly have passed the urethra in
that condition. | continued the use OF
Warmers Safe Cure, and a few days af-
terwards passed at intervals quantity
OF black sand. All unpleasant symptoms
have now disappeared, and | am quite
we'll"
This account Of how he conquered an
ailment which has proved fatal to so
many, was published wherever the Eng
lish language is spoken, in connection
with many similar testimonials.
Speaking Of the matter Yesterday Mr..
Lewis said: "Whcn had found that
Warmers Safe Cure had done me more
good than the doctors could do, rec
commended it to friends and acquaint-
ances afflicted with kidney troubles
whenever l had an opportunity. There
were so many that | remember but few
Of the names, but in every case in which
I heard of the results the treatment re-
suited successfully. There were so many
of the clerks and laborers about the de-
partment who had kidney disease in
some stage that | bought several cases
OF the cure and supplied them at cost"
"What surprised me most was the
mass of inquiries which | received from
all over the world. They even came
from the West Indies, Mexico and Japan.
/ replied to fifteen or twenty Of them
saying that my testimonial was reliable
in every particular and then l quit
troubling myself with them. I remem-
Der that I received letter from one
gentleman who was merchant in Yoko-
hama saying that he had used Warmers
Safe Cure through having read my tes-
timonial and that it had cured him of a
similar trouble. AS far as | am con-
cerned l have never had recurrence of
my afiiction since l was cured as related
nearly six years ago."-San Francisco
Evening Post.