The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-12-11

China 20 San Franess..a rSs,s,,.,,.,r n =.
About 4So half-pcord tins az optnm ware
captured by customs house authorities on
December They were found concealed
IN tins Of soda crackers. In a shsnyn~nt
Of lss eases per the Mount IsslAanon. ~
the Portland Cracker Company 60 ths
Washington Feed Company. Morris q
arrest.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. la--The soca.
Federal officials ara rassrh stirred uu over
the story brought from the Hawaiian
Islands this morning by the steamer
China that a large seizure or cpsum vas
made on November - at Honolulu. A
number or profninent business men OF the
island and os the Northwest are said 10
be under suspicion, ard the Washington
Fuel Company, of Tacoma. - also In
volyed. Four hundred axaa eighty tins
were captured. Other ''nnds' are report
ed 70 have been made In goods shipped
from Seattle. and A. /. Norris a hn~fnsaz
agent ot the Portland Cracker Company.
IS under arrest at Honolulu
The opium was carefully packed ard the
work was evidently done Al ths cracker
factory. The shipment OF cracker caaas
was billed FER Morris. J. r. waferhonsa.
NJ. ". MoChesney 4 son and thre. CHI
nese firms. The shipment VAS furwarsaa.i
to Honolulu on the steamer Maans La
hanon. on the regular Portland Hawaiian
line.
The seizure Is the largest since the cap
ture 81 the schooner Henriettx- Tho freight
from the Mount lNananon was discharged
az Honolulu on tho pacicr Mall wharf
nc o'clock in the naornsng. The se~ss n
sailed that afternoon for Yokohama.
leaving la cases Of crackers on the wharf.
shipped by the Portland Cracker Com
pany and by the Washington Feed Com
pany 10 A. l.. Morris, Resides she~~ fhexa
were 100 cases OF salmon. winch were also
inspected as soon ri the opium WAS dis
covered. The first case Of crackers OPEN
ed WAS found 10 contain hfteen tins Of
opium. The salmon ana eracka~ cares
were Immediately removed % the custom
house where eight out ef forty cases
were found TO contain 80 tins Of the drug.
As soon as the opium was found = war;
rant was issued for the arrest ct samuel
Lowden. OF the WashiaKton Feed Gem
pany. then at Honoiuln. II was he who
swore 20 the entry Lowden was reseased
on furnishing 81 600 bail. l. II. Thurston.
ex-minister going his security. Thurs
ton said he did not believe Lowden xstfity.
but that he was being made eatspaw
OF by designing persons. The nssstora
house officials think. however. that Low
den knows something asposse the deal, an1
that as he has received cases from San
Francisco. the opium raus< have hSen
coming from this city also
AT Honolulu. II ss said. peopee baiiess
that three prominent islanders Are impis.
Gated sn the smuggling scheme Arrests
were expected 20 be made ut any moment
up 60 the time OF the departure of tho
China. All OF the cases which were found
TO contain opium we're marked 'soeas
In black letters. ard had the words
Washington Feed COMPANY marked GA
them with the name OF a prominent i'd
and firm beneath.
PORTLAND. Dec. ie.--fn regard to tho
news from Honolulu. which ststed that =
large quantity OF opium. shipped from ths
Portland Cracker Company, had hesa
seized there. n. wistenherg. manager %
the company. tonight said;
I'VE know absolutely nothing about ths
opium seized az Honolulu IL 4 f.d.cnlesis
10 suppose that We are engaged m fns3
fgifcit cratic. Some one probabty bo9s1s
the crackers here. and shippef the dft.K
in them IN order TO throw on sasffsfoa
we shipped quantity OF crackers -
Honolulu about a month szo. ana Low
have fifteen tons more ready for shipmsaS
10 the Islands"