The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-18
Customs Officers Catch 13 Just
Landed Near Olympia.
OYSTER BAY ROUTE POPULAR.
A Seattle Steamer Discharges Chinese
Cargo ON the Mud Flats.
cooiie Drivers Arrested ~ North Yak
fma-Chariey Reed In JAN Again-
Two Psrsons Drownsd at oswsge. Or.
"A ssIem Msa Killed by Runaway.

TAcoxA, Sept. f7.-tSpecial Am exeit-
ing midnight search By wagons, steamers,
schooners and rowhoats resulted this
morning in the capture of thirteen out of
the twenty-one Cinnamon referred TO in
Thnr.day's Posr-fsrETiiGEscER as having
crossed the line from British Columbia
In addition TO this the vigorous search
brought TO light a SYSTEM of landing China
men in the vicinity Of Oyster bay. near
Kamilche. tha: surpasses the records of
any other one locality on the Sound.
Since the Cinnamon were smuggled into
the state Special Agent C1llom. of the
treasury department, and Collector SaIn-
ders have been alert, and every corner OF
the Sound was ransscked. A special
patrol was put on at the entrance to the
lower Sound. However. the twensy-one
Celestials could not be located. Deputy
Collector Dorsey, of this port, made special
excursions in naphtha launches, and Chi
nese Inspector Meredith. of Seattle. got
tip and went to Olympia. Inspector olo-
phaut was sent to the same port, and all
hunted high and low. Still no con.raband
pigtails were IN sight.
Friday night, or rather Saturday morn
ing at 3 O'Clock, Seattle steamer. sus-
pected, together with Victoria craft, OF
having done the smuggling. appeared off
Oyster bay with the contrabands aboard.
and again last night q batch OF five was
put OF on the beach within three miles
of Olympia.
The Seattle cheese box" got stuck in
the mud and could not land just where
the contract at $40 per head for landing
the Cinnamon stipulated. She did not
have ligh. on her, a fact that aroused the
curiosity of Indian Jim Jackson. who was
up at the time preparing to leave early
next morning with his nephew for the hop
fields. He had never before seen q vessel
come into Oyster bay st night without q
light.
small boat was lowered aud the China
men were put ashore. Then, after few
hours. the smuggler wiggled out of the
mud with the and of the tide and came
right into Olympia harbor. She arrived
at O'Clock. A cord of wood was throNn
aboard and she took water. Twenty min
utes was thus occupied. Then she steamed
away.
This vessel will be seized. Beside one of
the captured Chinamen volunteering the
information that she entered Oyster bay,
three witnesses are ready 10 swear 70 hav-
ing read her name and xemmsnted upon
her being stuck In the mud Saturday
morning.
In the meantime Chinese Inspector
Meredith and Customs Inspector oliphant
were ransacking the Chinese gardens about
Olympia for "green" Cinnamon. They
found enough to convince them that the
slit-eyed fellows have been smuggled in at
q great rate via Oyster bay. Oyster Tom
has wash house at the bay. IL is on
foat. Tom employs numerous alleged
washermen there, although Officer sco-
field, OF Olympia, is positive there is not
work enough there to keep one lazy washer
busy one day in the week.
Beside this wash-house, Tom farms out
his brethren to harvest oysters. BY de-
grees they are promoted to cook and as
sistant cook aud hangers.on at lumber
camps thereabonts. and finally the raw"
coolie graduates on the trail to Gray's
harbor or Portland or 10 placed In the gar
dens about Olympia until he can be
brought to town. Their debut in Olympia
Chinatown is made In pairs ana tripets.
so slick Is the system that even yester-
days capture might have been headed off
had it not been for scramble for spoils
among the boss. Cinnamon. There are
several ambitious bosses at Olympia.
They do not brook interference in their
trade" from Portland or San Francisco.
Hong Yek, the weaithiest Olympia
Chinaman, was over TO China q short
time ago. A couple of weeks ago he vis-
tied Victoria lie has not been connected
with the smugglers by any evidence. Jim
Horr, one of the shrewdest Cinnamon on
the Coast, is credited by Mr.. Oliphant
with representing the Long Tim faction,
in open opposition to the more aristocratic
Hyng Yekltes. Horr has shaved off his
queue, but most of his volunteered infor-
nation is considered a blind thrown out
for the purpose Of drawing the enemy's
IRE.
While IL is insisted that no Sound com
bination OF smugglers brought over the
twenty-one Cinnamon in this instance. il
is q curious fact that less than six hours
after EXCLUSIONS Inspector John Nc
Cleiland and Mr.. Meredith left TO nab the
contrabands, two aboui-town Olympia
Cinnamon applied at the olsm-
pia Gurney. Cab and Transfer
company's office for a conveyance 10 20
TO Oyster bay TO give the contrabands the
sikaaA 10 Hcc, ihSt Hhu hot SO fOrMaFu,
however. Some OF the Seattle Ghinamen
now st Olympia, knowing Meredith and
seeing him going TO Oyster bay aboard
the steamer Doctor, had given the alarm.
On Friday ex-fnspectos McCieland
learned that Cinnamon were being landed
at Oyster bay. twelve having been left
there "Wednesday night. On Saturday,
when he heard about the strange boat
aground, be decided 10 act. He notified
Collector Saunders, who in turn notified
Special Agent CuIlom and Deputy Col
leetor Dorsey. requesting them 10 hasten
to the assistance Of The others. This no,i-
tication arrived here ~ 10 p m. Satur-
day. and inside of Two hours Mr. Cullom,
Mr.. Dorsey and Deputy Inspector OF Gus
toms DE Lacey were rafting over the
prairie in an open tso-seated wagon,
bound for the scene Of the capture. They
were armed 20 the teeth, and made the
trip in less than five hours.
Itwas half-pass 3 sunday morning when
they arrived at Olympia. They pus up
their horses and conferred with Chief OF
Police Snyder and sergt Sco6slo and
awakened inspector oiophant, who stated
that Indian Jackson had reported the APP
pearanee of the smuggier and that she
landed twenty 10 twenty-five Chinsmen.
That wss 3 so o'eleek Sunday morning.
They learned that MeClelIand and Mesl-
dlsh had xone forward. Capt Alien. OF
the steamer Este.ia. was roused and or
dered tn fire ap quick. he and his erew
turned cot and had the steamer on the
xav Ia Stxster bAy before dsylishk seyen