The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-10
MORE ARRESTS
FOR SMUGGLING
NOTED UGGLER AND HIS
PARTNER IN CUSTODY
ssBill'' Stewart and CHIP, Lumlsy
Charged With Smuggling Hides
and Wool shipped From Deer
Harbor-Hides Were Stolen,

Two other arrests for smuggling
were made this week by Deputy Gus
toms Collector Culver, tho men ac-
cused being known as s'Blr' Stewart
and ''Bill" Lumley, who represented
themselves here to be fishermen.
Stewart is an old offender against
the customs laws, having at ene time
owned the swift schooner Halcyon,
which carried large quantities Of
opium to the Hawaiian islands. For
the past year or two. so customs
officials say, Stewart has been en-
gagged in smuggling opium and Chinese
from British Columbia to Sound
ports. He is said to have been very
well off financially at one time. Lum-
ley is comparative stranger in this
section but is known On the British
side. The two men operated in
large sloop. They are accused Of
having smuggled quantity of hides
stolen from the British Columbia
slaughter house at Cadbury bay
about the 10th of May, and also sew
eral sacksof wool which they brought
over about the End of June. The
bides were shipped from Deer Har-
Dor by J.'T. Stroud to Norton & Co.,
Seattle, on the goth of May, Mr..
Stroud having handled them on COM
mission without a thought at the
time that they we're smuggled.
Knowing of the shipment Mr.. Culver
had sharp lookout kept for the
men, who again appeared at Deer
Harbor on the End Of June with sew
eral sacks of wool and a bundle of
pelts, which they wanted Mr.. Stroud
to ship. Upon his refusal to handle
it they left but returned the next
morning and shipped it on the steam
er Lydia Thompson to- Bissinger &
Co., Seattle. Shortly afterward they
were boarded at Deer Harbor by
George Leusenrink, commanding the
revenue launch Guard, who towed
them here and kept them under close
surveillance until Mr. Culver's return
from Seattle Monday, when they
we're placed in custody and taken TO
Seattle on the revenue cutter Ar
cata for preliminary hearing, which
was set by Court Commissioner Keifer
for next Tuesday, the 18th.
The hides were identified in Seattle
last Tuesday by the foreman Of the
British Columbia slaughter house,
Norton & Co. having held them and
very courteously rendered the officers
all possible assistance in the exam
ination. Of the wool, the greater
part is in sacks marked "R. z.
Rithet & Co., Victoria.
The Huntoon Oyster Company, of
Bellingham, has bought eighty tons
of clam shells from John Lawson, OF
Deer Harbor They will be used on
the company's beds on the Samish
flats for the young oysters to cling to
II. D. Miller, Victoria manager
for the. British Columbia Telephone
Company, came over Wednesday to
inspect the international Tele-
phone fCompany's Offices here and
at East Sound. He reports the In
ternational business steadily increas-
ing and says it already exceeds the
company's expectations at the time
the cable project was undertaken.
The cable is also used for telegraph
ing and q considerable revenue IS de-
rived from that source
The IsLANDER went to press before
s:Little Bopeep" was presented at
Odd Fellows hall the evening OF the
End. The hall was crowded, more
reserved seats having been sold than
at any other entertainment ever
given here. The beautiful little pas
toral was rendered almost faultlessly