The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-04-16
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS
A Case of Smuggling Before
the Local u. S. Com
missioner.
A SLICK TRICK NEATLY TURNED
Bot it Gets the Performer in the
Unloving Embrace of Your
Uncle Samuel.


be said there are more things going
on along the border separating the
United States and Canada than are
dreamt of in your philosophy. That
tax known as duties is something that
the individual desiring to pass to or
from is always studying to evade, and
if the fellow who figures on escaping
this contribution would apply the same
ingenuity to some honest object he
would make fortune. A case of this
kind came to the surface this week,
winding up with the artful dodger
getting into the clutches of your Un-
Gle Samuel.
Some time ago w. r. McKinnen,
who owns valuable pedigreed stallion
attempted to smuggle the animal into
the state by proposing to enter as a
settler. The bluff was made at Ferry,
but would not work, as the vigilent
Deputy Collector of Customs, Frank
Sherwood, was on to the game.
This occurred in July. IN the follow
ing November McKinnen sneaked in at
Oroville. BY one of those mystic rious
means only known to the initiated Mr..
Sherwood got lines on Mr.. McKinnen's
performance, and that official at once
got busy. He located Nc at Okanogan
and after getting his plans formulated
went after him. Saturday he reached
Okanogan. He found that McKinnen
was following his trade as a carpenter,
and still had the stallion, although
when interogated claimed that he had
sold the animal. Mr.. Sherwood placed
McKinnen under arrest, but that ver-
sataile individual got ten minutes start
and disappeared from the scene with
the horse in his possession. Mr.. Sher-
wood secured the services of Harry f.
Stark, marshal of Okanogan, and Dep
uty Sheriff l.. f. Crumbecker, and
started hot on the trail of the offender
against the laws as laid down in the
L. S. statutes.
Mr.. McKinnen was wise to the trib-
ulation he had laid up for himself, and
did not waste time pushing distance to
the rear, and outstripped his pursuers.
Owing to his ignorance of the topog-
raphy of the country he got himself
into box, and emerged to fall into the
arms of the representatives of the law.
He knew it would be fatal to his plans
to get over the border into his own
country if he attempted to slip through
Oroville, so some distance south of here
east side of the Okanogan river, I'm
luckily for him he took what is known
as The Cache, a canyon extending into
the hills, the walls so precipite that
there is no outlet, and there he be-
came tangled up. This was last Mon
day. On that day Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Farnsworth and Price Fruit were out
on horseback looking over the range,
and they had occasion to ride into The
Cache, where the lost wanderer was
discovered. The gentleman gives the
lady credit for the find and subsequent
capture, but she firmly refuses the
honor. Anyhow in the goodness OF
their hearts the excursionists aided
Mr.. McKinnen to find himself and get
where the going was better. In the
meantime the officers were keeping
their eyes on Oroyille to see that the
wind did not blow their prey out of
their reach. The officers were put
next as to the whereabout of the fugi-
tive, and the sequel followed swiftly,
for McKinnen was speedily in the
clutches of the enemy.
Wednesday evening Deputy L. S.
Marshal Chas. Pray, who had been
touched by wire, came in from Spo-
kane. The prisoner was arraigned be-
fore L. S. Commissioner Fine the same
evening, and hearing had. The late
ness of the hour prevents our going
minutely into the proceedings, Mr..
McKinnen handled his own case, and
demonstrated that he is pretty clever
duck, and if he has any leaning that
way might make application for adj
mission to the bar and develop into
lawyer of no mean ability. At the
the close of the hearing the Commis-
sioner decided that the case was of such