The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-06
HAD NO OPIUM
Suspicious" Schooner Captured.
But No Goods.
LABRADOR FROM VANCOUVER
She Met With Disaster on Maui.
Tug Sent to Scene-Vigi!s of
the Customs Officers,

The schooner Labrador, % tons, all
the way from Vancouver, is now on
the sand at Makena, Maui, with a hole
under her bow. The Labrador is the
schooner the Custom House officials
have received information about and
for which they have been looking for
the past three weeks. People have
noticed the unusual activity of Gus
tom House officers and the tugboat
in the vicinity of Maui, KahooIawe and
MolOkini, and it was in the wind that
something wrong was scented.
News was received on the Claudine,
of the schooner. 1t was expected that
the Labrador would bring a cargo of
opium and that she would land it in
hut surrounded by stone wall at
place near Makena. There was how
ever a possibility of a change in
plans Ernest Renken, Captain Ka-
nuha of the Custom House here AM
a numebr of natives, enough to for a
a boats crew, were stationed on the
Island of MoIokini, while w E. Beck
with and James Bicknell of the Gus
tom House were given charge of the
Maui part of the work. These men
were of course in direct communica-
ton with the police whose services
were available at any moment.
A week ago Sunday, Renken and his
crew returned to Molokai as they
could leave their work unattended to
no longer. Kanuha then returned to
Maui to join the remainder of the
officers.
A nightly patrol was kept up out
side of Makent but night after night
went by without the appearance of
anything suspicious. A week ago last
Tuesday the tug paid visit to Make
ma and was around in the vicinity for
quite a while. Nothing appeared and
she returned to Honolulu. The Off
GERS kept up their weary vigil from
night to night, eating and drinking
what they could get at Makena, which
was by no means sufficient.
On Thursday night their patience
was rewarded. The patrol left Ma
kena at about 1920 o'clock and start
ed out in the direction of KahOOlawe.
At about Il o'clock schooner was
sighted in the direction of the island
just mentioned. The patrol boat gave
chase at once but. before catching
what they were after, they saw a small
boat coming toward them. 1t was
soon found that the captain Of the
schooner and young man of about y
wears: were the occupants. The
former stated that they had approach
ed shore in the interests of a passen-
ger who was very sick. The two men
were placed under arrest, and taken
aboard the schooner. The men in the
shore boat were Deputy Sheriff King,
Captain Kanuha and four police Off
GERS. All climbed aboard the schooner
and the captain was ordered to take
his craft toward shore so as to cast
anchor. This he refused absolutely
to do, so Deputy Sheriff King took
the matter in hand himself and, with
the assistance of his men, soon had
the little schooner headed toward Ma
kena. The captain, seeing that the
! officers meant business, turned to and
assisted in the work of taking the
schooner to a landing. This was ef-
! fected in the early morning. The
! schooner was found to be painted
white and rugged just as the island
! coasters.
At daylight the people of the ship
were all taken ashore and the vessel
was thoroughly searched. The papers
showed that the schooner was from
Vancouver and that she was bound on
a sealing cruise with sealing outfit
aboard. No such outfit could be dis
I covered. There was found aboard
quite a quantity Of coal, a lot of pro-
visions a shotgun and three revolvers,