The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-29

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suits. About that time, through a pc
culiar experience on the steamship
| WalIa Walla, he became convinced
| that the Goodall-Perkins boats were
/ being used to carry the contraband
| drug to San Francisco. That vessel
| was found to leak mysLeriously on a
{ voyage to Seattle, rendering constant
/ use of the pumps necessary. Investi-
4 cation showed that one of the bunker
ports at the water line had been looS-
ened from Within as though some per-
| son had attempted to remove it, The
| guilty person could not be located, but
| it was declared that the attempt must
| have been made at San Francisco, and
] the only reason possible to assign was
/ a desire to pass something through the
opening to persons outside. The inyeS-
/ LEGATION apparently brought about
! change in procedure and Lotus learn
ed that the railway was being utilized
as carrier. At the same time he To-
| Gated the naphtha launch used to
| bring the opium from Victoria, and
captured her, together with 5S5 pounds
/ of the drug. An expressman who had
| hauled trunks from the boathouSe to
| his stable in South Seattle was then
| taken into custody. 1t was found that
| he had been checking the trunks to
/ Spokane, WASH, to a station in Idaho,
] and to another in Montana. Opium val
/ ued at $3.50 was found in trunks, in
1 his possession, while over $4,000 worth
| of the drug was discovered in his sta
I BILE. From these inland stations con-
| federates supplied with checks are sup
| posed to have reshipped the baggage
| to San Francisco to other confederates
| of whom Wolf is thought to be one
| The checks We're sent by mail, and no
trouble was experienced in obtaining
| the baggage. Finding trunk was en-
| route, Lotus came to etaoshrdluaoo
| route, LOTUS went to San Francisco,
| and through Surveyor Spear obtained
the detail of Inspectors J. d. Stone. G.
B. Richardson and S. H. Hackett to
| shadow Wolf, who was arrested while
| in the act of delivering a trunk to
the house of Mrs. Tapley, a dressmak-
err When arrested he claimed the
trunk was for a patron living at the
| house for whom he had hauled many
similar packages, but neither he nor
| Mrs. Tapley could give the mans
| name. A search of the house brought
| to light three similar trunks They
| were empty, but equipped with a pc
| culiar locking device corresponding
| with the one on the trunk containing
i the opium.
Lotus says the trunks contained on
| ly sixty-five pounds each of the drug.
and owing to their light weight were
| readily passed by when a special
| watch was being kept at railway sta
| lions. He has evidence, so he says,
| which connects train baggageman
| on the Northern Pacific Railway and
three station agents or station baggage
| men of the same road with the scheme.
| Information against Wolf was filed
with the United States District Attor-
! ney.
Marine Cases Settled.
Onip;ops u,ara ropdorod on tho 1eth
instant in the United States Circuit
! Court of Appeals in two admiralty
, suits from the Federal Court of the
! District of Washington, and one from
! the District of Oregon. The lower
court was sustained in awarding the
owners of the British ship Ravens
court damages in $7,2SS. 35 with costs
I, against the American ship Columbia
arising out of a collision IN Puget
/ Sound on January 22d of last year
while both vessels were in tow by the
tug Tyee. The Columbia's line parted
and she drifted down on the Ravens
court; The action in appeal was a
complicated one, as the Columbia's
owners had filed cross complaint
! against the owners CT the Ravenscourt
/ and the tug Tyee, alleging that the
double tow was poor seamanship. This
claim was not allowed, as it was shown
that the master OF the Columbia ac-
cepted the conditions.
The judgment of $4,000 Tor personal
injuries awarded Charles H. Newman,
a ship carpenter, was reduced to $4,000
and costs on account of lack of proof
that his injuries were of a permanent
nature. The suit was brought against
the master and owners of the seamer
Homer on account of collision of
that vessel with the barkentine Blake
ley in Seattle harbor. Newman was
employed on the latter craft.
"A. M. Simpson and James Magee
owners of the tug Columbia were al
lowed only the 81 900 awarded by the
District Court of Oregon for pulling
the Grace Dollar off the beach at Coos
Bay in August, 1898, as it was shown
that the tug encountered no more dam
ger than in taking an ordinary tow,
and hence could not be awarded SAL
wage. The suit in appeal covered the
contention made by the owners of the
Grace Dollar that $1,000 was excessive
and the claim of the tugs owners that
salvage was due them on basis of
$4,000 for the steamers valuation, and
$4,000 for that of the tug.
Exciting Day at Tacoma.
A chapter Of accidents occurred
along the Tacoma waterfront the other
day, and though none of them was
serious, the run of bad luck created
considerable excitement The Nova
Scotia bark Saltwater, with 800, 900 feet
of lumber aboard, sprang a leak and
was beached to save her. The bark
Highland Light was discharging bal
last in the stream when 1t was found
that water was pouring into her hold
as fast as. the ballast came out She
Will be sent to the drydock. The
steamer Walla Walla attempted to |
SWING around too close to the newly !
hlled-in ground on which the Northern |
Pacific will erect several new ware |
houses and docks, and narrowly es-
capped going aground. A few minutes
later she swung in close to the steam i
er Elihu Thompson, lying at the bunk |
ers, and then backed toward the
steamer Edith at the American Fish
Company's docks. The tug Fearless
rescued the steamer. About the same
time Foss' boathouse collapsed from
some unknown cause, and two Indians