Arizona republican., 1904-03-18
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 LODGING THE REVENUE MEN.
Smuggling as It Is Dcne Along Puget tE Fs Sound.ss

happen to the best of us, but to employ such commonplace methods that even \ | farmer would suspect them if he saw them. Tried to run them across in a boat where revenue officers are as thicl; as flies. @
 ''Pshaw! We played a finer game out west I was in the business three years on Puget Sound, and I was never caught once. though I had some close suueaks. H
 "One of the closest calls I ever had was on my first trip. Of course was quite green then. That was five years ago.
 T had just come down from the Alaskan gold fields. dead broke-s1 broke that was willing to take up any honest scheme that would bring in dol lars. You customers may laugh at that coming from an ex-smuggler but west coast adventurers have a code of mor- als entirely their own.
 | "I was in Victoria then and I met au Irishman. named Quinland, with whorn | I had been shipmate some years before on sailing ship. He sized up my con- dition in a minute. then took me in tow.
 Tt didn't take us ten minutes to un- derstand each other thoroughly. He gav. IGe s1u on the spot. and I ;uws to meet him next day outside of town. q kept my appointment. It was al the small way house several miles out on the Esquimalt road. I had been practically on the beach for a week so I had no idea that I was any too stylishly dressed.
 But when I met Quinlin in the bar room he gave me the glassy stare, and | 1t wasn't till I had followed him out | to the woodshed that he would con descend to recognize me. Then he was choking mad.
 What's the matter?" asked him in- nocently,
 "He sworc.
 "'What ye think? he growled. don't want to be seen talkin' to a dude Go an take room for the night, and don't let on you know me. I'll sneak up later with some proper togs. Get that billed shirt and stiff collar offs quick as ye can,
 "i did as he bade me ard in an hcui later he speaked up to my room with a fisherman's rig-gum boots. overalls | flannel shirt and slouch hat.
 Early in the afternoon we left the house and struck out across country for the beach. A sloop was cruising up and down not far off shore. but our appearance caused her to stand in- shore.
 "She got in close enough for us to wade out to her and get aboard, then she stood down the Sound. A white man and two Siwash Indians had been sailing her. They were Quinlands confederates. Rafferty, a big American born Irishman, and Jim and Tom. the Siwashes.
 "The sloop was a big craft and could have carried forty men aboard if nec- essary. She was fitted up as a deep sea trawler, and carried all the requis- ite appliances for the business.
 Ut was past evening when we stood ! inshore again and landed at a small jetty below a cluster of huts upon an embankment. We all went up. There were a few white men in the village but most of the inhabitants were Siwashes
 "Ten minutes walk brought us to Quinland's hearquarters. a big. wooden farmhouse. All of us had supper to- gether, served by Siwash squaws, and while we were eating I heard a hum of talk in some adjoining room.
 After supper we all followed Quin- land through a back door and then found myself in a large. barnlike room crowded by what I thought were In- dians. They had long, black hair hang ing loose around their necks, and were dressed in overalls and blankets.
 "But what attracted my attention was what was being done to one of them ! T. 1ar- -l.af.f c chair and a Chinaman was sticking a gauzelike plaster on the side of his eye Then he painted the mans face with grease paint.
 The man got up and he would have been taken for an Indian by anybody Another man took his place in the chair.
 Tt didn't take me second in spite oi his long hair to see that he was d Chinaman. Rut five minutes later when he got up again, his yellow skin was brown, his eyebrows strengthened out, and I would have sworn he was "a Siwash.
 An hour later we started down fol the landing;. we three whites, the two Siwashes and twenty of those Indian | ized Chinamen. The celestial who had Superlntended the make-upS came down as far as the landing.
 He was the agent for the highbindel tong in Frisco who imported the China men. For each coolie that stepped aboard the sloop he planked down al American gold eagle, in all $400.
 "Quinland divided at once-a hun dred to each of us white men and fifty lapiece to the Siwashes. Pay in ad- vance was the custom.
 "Well, we cast off and set sail, ant stood down Sound for the fishing bank! with three dug-ou Indian canoes tow ing behind us. The Chinamen were jammed down in the cabin, their bag gage piled up in the peak and covered with fish nets.
 Tt was about midnight when we saw the red and green lights of small steamer bearing right down on us iron the American shore. There was ; flash of brilliant light and we sat blink ing like owls-they had the searchligh on us. t | "'Boat ahoy!' came the hail.
 "Quinland answered. 'Hallar
 What aye doing out here?
 "'Fishing
 'aThe reven,.e steamer came close III