The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07
HUNTING THEM DOWN.
Special Customs Inspector After
the Smugglers.
HOW CHINESE ARE BROUGHT IN.
4 Regular Businsss In Rorged CertiA-
estss &C Pertla.d-Report sent
20 Wsshingtca City.

An investigation into the Chinese SNUG
Cling business at Portland and on Puget
sound has been going on quietly for the
past two weeks by c. A. Noyes, special in
spector of San Francisco. Mr.. Noyes is
one Of the best known United States OFF,
GERS on this Coast, and has been the means
of running down many . gang of SNUG
glers and many box of dope" He has
been in Seattle several times within the
past two weeks, but always on the fly. and
before he could be located he was of again.
Yesterday, however. he was seen by q
PosT-INTELLIGENcERre reporter and requested
to tell What he was willing to divulgs con-
corning his work here.
Mr.. Noyes said he had been at work on
the celebrated smuggling case Of the
schooner Louis Olsen, Capt. Deering,
which has attracted so much attention in
San Francisco for the past few months,
and had hardly got through with that af-
fair when, on March q, he received orders
from the treasury department to investi-
gate the smuggling of Chinese and opium
at Portland and on Puget sound. With
his instructions came the complaints
which had been made TO the department,
and these complaints came from various
sources. He left San Francisco on March
q. and has been IN this territory ever
since, in Portland good deal Of the time,
and has made two trips to British Column
bia. He said the department had consid-
cred the case of 30 much importance that
he had been instructed to report daily by
telegraph to Washington City. This he
reply. Mr.. Moves said:
A. 49, H. To-
portation of Chinese aud opium At Portland
and on Puget sound ! was sent here to investi-
gate aud have found what came after. My
report has been made to the department., and of
course the contents of that report can not be
gwen to the press. Whether the government
will make it pubic will be ascertained in . few
days. Why, We have seized at San Francisco,
within the past five months, 1850 cans of opium,
all OF which came from Portland or the Sound.
We have got . good deal Of stun that came
through Portland Yes, was at Portland when
the Hsytian Republic came in the last time with
Cinnamon, and the boat was made to under
stand that il could not force the government
officers to take the Cinnamon of until they were
examined. The boat has got to wait There
were elghty-seven Cinnamon on the Haytian
Republic, all having merchants certificates
Out OF this lot sixty were ordered taken back to
British Columbia, eighteen were landed and
nine we're found to have forged certificates We
got order from Washington City to arrest all
those who had forged certificates, aud they are
under arrest by this time. I don't see why .
man Is not as gui ty for Offering a forged certif-
cate Of this kind he 10 for uttering any. other
kind of q forged paper. The names of . num-
Der OF prominent men were forged on those Ger.
tificates. The other certificates were fraudulent
These are made in different ways, but this il q
common method: A prominent Chinese mer.
chant OF Portland will call . hackdriver or some
one else who knows him, and say:
This Chinaman is my partner and wants to
60 over; come and sign his papers"
The hack man consents. Then they take the
paper. put on It the picture of some coolie who
has sent it over. take it before q notary with
somebody to represent the hickman and get the
paper acknowledged
The management Of the Haytian Republic IL
not what II ought to be. and their handling of
Chinese 10 not In legitimate way BY the way,
Capt. Deering. of the Louis Olsen, Just sentenced
for smuggling. was formerly mate of the Hay,ian
Republic, and one of the other Officers OF the
Olsen resides in Portland. The Haytian Repub-
lie is being held in Portland until a complete
examination OF the Chinese Is made. have no
friends ia this part of the country to favor and
no enemies to get even with, and aim to let the
blame fall where it belongs.