The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1893-11-17
Another Block Of Thirteen.


have slept in Olympia last night. saws
the Olympian-Tribune of the 10Th.
Thirteen Celestials came to join those
who had left them in the streets of
Hong Kong years before. Thirteen
Cinnamon have come to our shores to
learn the vices and customs of the
Mclean man. In other words, IS
Hongs, One Lungs, etc, it is claimed,
were smuggled into the capital city
yesterday morning just before daylight.
A mysterious looking craft from
Seattle steamed to the dock at 6: 80
yesterday morning, just as the Multi
nomah cleared. The boat has never
before been III this harbor. Four men
were discovered aboard of her. They
were all we'll dressed, except the engi
neer, and did not appear at all like
steambOatmen Three of the crowd
came ashore and asked if there was a
grldirOn here. They were told there
was, but they said nothing further in
this relation. Finally two of the men
went up town, leaving one on board
the boat and one on the dock. Along
towards eight o'clock the men return
ed and the craft took small amount
of water, for which so cents were paid
The captain was asked his name to
insert in the receipt, but declined the
piece of paper, also to give his name,
and at o'clock the mysterious barque
steamed down the harbOr and around
the point into the open sound The
silent men of the inland sea gave no
indication as to their names, their
homes or their destination. They
came and went, leaving Olympians to
wonder at their mission and conjec-
ture as to the cause of their early
morning visit to the head of the sound.
CHINAMEN SAID TO BE sMUGGLED.
But there is further tale. The
claim is made by some who happened
to be out all night that shortly bofore
8 o'clock a myterious boat slipped into
"a cove down the harbor a short
distance and landed 13 contraband
Cinnamon who walked into the city
with a guide while darkness yet hung
over the earth. The boat slipped out
again and was lost to view in the
mists. There is strong suspicion
that is the same steamer that
little later pulled up at the dock
and took water, afterward steaming
away as silently as she came.
This much is known to dead,
moral certainty, that a number OF
Cinnamon we're on the streets yesterday
who have never been seen in town be-
fore and it adds color to tho belief that
they were brought in at the time
stated.
1t is almost needless to state that
during this little episode down the
harbor, the special customs inspectors
were costly covered in their warm
nests, dreaming of glittering captures
and startling discoveries of contraband
dope which they ever seek and never
find. They had evidently beeo doing
at orthodox job of "shadowing" the
night police, who they seem to think
are in league with the smugglers, and
consequently refuse to follow the
police tips, although by so doing they
might have collared considerable of
the stuff if they had not been so suspi-
cious and jealous of the city's peace
officers
A letter was received by local china
men a short time ago, asking about
the facilities for landing ''friends"
across the line. The letter was taken
to an American to be read. The
chinamens friends have probably came.
That smuggling is being carried on
by the wholesale at this point is daily
becoming more apparent and it is
whispered that the treasury depart
ment contemplates making large ad
ditions to the small force already here.
Detective Sullivan reached the city
yesterday afternoon and his quiet
movements indicated pretty strongly
that something of unusual mportance
was in the wind.
The Puyallup Indians have plated
that portion OF the reservation, desig-
mated as the school farm, embracing
about 600 acres, and styled it the
Columbia addition to Tacoma. The
plat of the new addition conforms
with the Tacoma Land Co.'S first ad-
dition, and is admirably laid out with
broad streets, parks, and a boulevard,
which is to be continued to Puyallup.
A board of trustees will have charge OF
the addition, adopt scale of prices
for the lots and then give each of the
disputants the choice to select from
the plat his share of the land, Or to al
low the trustees to sell the land and
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