The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-19
THE VOLGA SEIZED.
Charged With Landing China
men at Oyster Bay.
CAPT. sARRinoToR ARRESTED.
Oaesrs ciafa - Have . strsng Case
Against tAs Beat. Three Mss HeaA-
ing Her name whiIs stack.

A . sequence Of the seisure Of the
thirteen ccntraband Chinese near Olympia
on sunday By Chinese Inspector Mere
aisn. the little steamer yclga MAS seazsd
ners yesterday afternoon. and Capt. Ed
waro NJ harrington, Of the steamer
ufeyhound. vas arrested charged with
aiding and abefting the illegal landing Of
enInese in this country.
Capt L N. harrington has not been on
oafy a. captain Of the steamer Greyhound
ior several We eks, having laid of, but it
was understood that hs vas 10 return to
tnas position. On the eth Of this month
ne chartered the yolgs OF Capt J. A. Hat
neid. who 10 agent for the owner, III. A.
Lawton. Of Atchison, Kan. The voiga il
small tug and had bee n laid up for year
and bali. being out Of commission. APP
piisasion was made a. the eustomhouss 20
have the boat licensed. and while the
license was being obtained from
Fort Townsend . temporary permit
Was issued for the boat to run not more
than hfty miles from Seattle, IA. G. Bar
rington, brother OF E. NJ. harrington, be-
Ing named ~ captain. The volga left
seattle last Tuesday afternoon, and 10 was
given oat that she went to Edmonds 10 go
on the beach and have her bottom cleaned.
From that time until Sunday she was not
seen in this city. On Sunday. about noon,
she came into the harbor and tied up at
tho Huron Lumber Company 3 dock. where
she was seixed yesterday afternoon by the
customs officers Of this city.
What the boat was doing In the i've
days she was absent from this city the
custom officers claim to have found out
The fact that the boat left here without
having obtained q regular license excited
suspicion and she has beenwatehed as close
sy as possible with the means at hand. In-
spsctor Meredith and Deputy and In
pector Burns have bean constantly busy
on the case. IL Is claimed that when the
Voiga left here ostensihly TO go to Edmonds
she was manned by f. NJ. and III. @.
harrington and Claud Troup, the latter
acting ~ engineer ss a matter OF accom-
mediation. The officers further claim that
the VoiRa did not so TO Edmonds at all that
night. but was near there and went by
when H. g. Darlington came here and
took the oath As master and that during
the time she was away abe procured
load Of Cinnamon. who were taken TO
Oyster bay and landed.
Yesterday morning the whereabouts of
the boat was unknown to the customs
officers and abe was located in rather
curious way. For several days the license
has been uncaiied for ut the customs
house here. About o'clock yesterday
afternoon man walked into the customs
house, and, handing . big envelope to
Judge Mcdonald, said: "Changs of mas
a. ~ nA~ f. L. 49, -
pers and remarked: I've will not make
the change. Mr.. Lord, 60 down and seize
that boat aud remain until relieved" The
man who brought the papers, J. P. Ryan,
remarked: well. there's job gone 70
hi: what's the matter. any way" The
boat was seized by Inspector Lord and
will be libsled in the usual way.
Special Agent Cuilom. Of Tacoma, saw
the volga when she started on the expe-
dition which has placed her in the hands
Of the government officers. 1t was un-
fortunate for tho volga that she
stuck in the mud. for while In that
plight the officers say three peo-
pie read her name. Early yesterday
morning Special Agent cullom tslegraphed
to deputy collectors ell over the Sound to
seize the voiga at the earliest opportu-
nifty. When seized the only man on board
was the engineer, w. b. Baldwin. who
said he had been aboard only six hours.
and that the captain had gone up town.
e. NJ. harrington was seen before his ar
rest aud said that the boat was under
charter 10 himself and that his brother, H.
8. Darlington, while the recorded captain.
had not besn on board yet. When asked
who had been acting as captain Mr.. Troup
replied that Ryan had.
Latsr In the day 4. M. harrington was
arrested by Inspectors Meredith and Burns
and taken before United States Commits
sioner Emery. where he gave bonds In the
sum of $500. Frank NJ. Goodhus signing
the bond.
When asked If he was engineer of the
volga Mr.. Troup said he had run the boat
10 Edmonds to accommodate the Barring
ton boys, and that be knew of no SNUG.
Cling operations on the boat.
A dispatch from Tacoma last night says:
THE thirteen Cinnamon were srraigned
today before Court Commissioner Clifford,
and held for trial Wednesday in default OF
s., 900 bail each. They are an unusually
dirty appearing lot. T. ". Allen, of 0lym-
pia, appeared to represent them, which
further evidences that the contrahands are
not wholly without friends at Olympia,
as vas stated In the Posr-IsrxILf6EscER
today. Two more of the Nolga's cargo
were arrested today near oyster bay and
locked up in the county jail here. They
are greencr eyen than the other thirteen"
TACOMA. Sept. IL. - Especial ~ The
county Jail is crowded with United States
prisoners. Chief Marshal Bridges now
has fifteen Cinnamon there. fourteen be-
Ing charged with being illegally In the
country and one with aiding in smuggling
In Cinnamon. With the seven brought in
tonight by Deputy Sam Vincent there are
twenty-five In the Jail. Tailor Duval has