The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-13
OPIUM is HERE
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Labrador C0ltTal3Id Stored in
Custom House.
500 TINS FOUND BURIED
Japanese Cook Pointed Out the
Cache-On KahooIawe-A Stern
Watch Rewarded.

The Government tug EIeu is back from
Maui and there are 500 tins of opium
cargo Of the schooner Labrador in the
special vault at the Custom House
Collector General 'McStocker and the
police authorities are highly elated
over their success and the failure Of
the latest contraband expedition from
Victoria.
Under date of Victoria, B. c., April
80, Collector General McStocker was
advised that the schooner Labrador
had cleared for a sealing cruise and
that she had aboard opium that was
to be landed in Hawaiian waters. Fur
Their, there was man in Honolulu
supposed to be agent for the cargo
and the consignees and that he had
best be watched. The man received
such attention here that it was learn
ed that drug was to be landed on Mo-
lokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe.
The customs authorities here sent
three parties after the Labrador. One
under Inspector Beckwith went to the
lee side of Maui to prospect. Capt.
Ernest Renken was provided with a
whaIeboat and sailed around the Mo
Iokai and Lanai channel. Port Sur
veyor Stratemeyer went with the tug
to Maui, Capt. HiIbus commanding the
Eleu.
In a couple of days Surveyor
Stratemeyer decided that fixed bright
light on Maui, near Maizena,, marked
an opium landing place. The Labra-
dor was first sighted by officers on the
9th of May, though she had been
seen, it is now known, by the crew Of
the Island schooner Ka Moi, on the
25th. When seen on the 25th the La
brador put out away from land. Sur
veyor Stratemeyer communicated con
corning the Labrador with the other
two parties and the very sharpest
lookout was kept. 1t was said that
once the schooner was seen between
Molokai and Kahoolawe.
On the 3rd of June the schooner was
captured near Maizena,. Native police
we're going out to her in boat when
they met a boat from the schooner In
tie schooner's boat were the captain
and several others. 1t was just at
this point that there was failure to
carry out to the letter plans Of Col
Iector-GeneraI McStocker. He had or
dered that the Labrador people be al
Iowd to come ashore with goods to
the end that they should be captured
red handed. The hooner's boat and
the schooner &SSIf were taken pos
session Of and all hands placed under
arrest. The Labrador had but one
chain and anchor. 1t has been learn
ed that the other were lost or carried
away in landing the opium. After be
ing captured the Labrador dragged her
and is now ashore with a
small hole in one bow.
The japanese cook of the Labrador
was locked in a cell by himself and
Sheriff Baldwin sent for the official
Japanese interpreter Of the Island.
Overture on the basis of states evil
dence were made to the cook. The
man described the landing place and
promised to point it out. Surveyor
and Sheriff Baldwin took
the cook aboard the tug and went to
Lanai. The Japanese could not show
ha
was back in Lahaina, for coal. Here
Chester Doyle from Lanai in canoe,
Joined the customs force. He had been
sent for early, but had hard time
getting to the beach from seventeen
miles in the interior and again a
trip in an open canoe across
the channel Mr.. Doyle further investi-
gated the mental storehOuse of the
Japanese. The prisoner added con-
detail to the story told Sher-
if BaIdwin's Japanese Interpreter.
Another start with the tug was
made on the morning of the ninth and
as they steamed near KahooIawe that
day the japanese pointed out the land
ing place, which Doyle Immediately
christened Labrador Bay. A landing
was made. The cache was shown and
the 500 tins of opium taken from the
ground
The Japanese cook says that when
the boat of the officers from All Mis-
landing at Maizena, approached the
schooner boat. the cantain OF the