The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-07-04
SEIZE DOPE IN
A SUNDAY RAID
ARRESTS MADE EMPTY OPIUM
TINS POUND IN CEMBTERY
AMONG BONES

(From Mondays Advertiser.)
A supposed enterDrislng Nom Der
Of the inside apism worio, VINO delights
to make money In contravontion OF tho
laws Of Uncle Sam now reposos behind
the bars, dating their Incarceration
from yesterday. He Is TAX Kow, and his
I Nemesis stalked abroad in the double
| guise OF r. w. Breckons and f. R.
Stackahle, both gentlemen being per.
fectly willing TO furnish themselves to
that role in any drama wherein the sub.
iect is dope-partieularly unstamped
dope.
TAX Kow undertook TO deliver TO
fellow countrymon ten tins of. the con.
traband at $45 tin and the transac.
ton was TO have taken place Saturday
night, but Uncle Sam was very hard up
at that particular moment and was un.
able to supply the money until the
next morning, resulting in the postpone.
ment of tho deal until seven O'Clock
yesterday morning. TAX Kow in the
meanwhile did not become aware of the
identity of his customers principal and
opened negotiations at time when the
custom house officers were interested
spectators
BY the time he had said enough to
satisfy the waiting officers they an
Rounced themselves without further for.
mality and searched the house, which
is on Kukui near River. The ten tins
that were to have changed hands were
duly found in a room on the second,
story, and appropriated by the guardian
of the tariff.
In Trouble Before.
TAX Kow, who is an ex-dope joint
keeper, and who is, in fact, supposed
to be not so "ex'' as he gives him.
self out to be, has been arrested six
times by the city police for selling
opium, but the fines imposed on him
have never been so big as to cause his
retirement from business
He is said to have admitted to Brock.
ons that he owned the stuff and also
to have admitted, after a long exam
nation, from whom he bought It. There
are warrants out for other Cinnamon
supposed to be implicated with TAX
KOw.
After the little raid on the Kukui
street tenement, the officers repaired to
the Pauoa Valley Chinese cemetery
where they had heard that they might
be likely to duplicate their performance.
Once there they searched the "bone.
house." sacriligious name, invented
at the moment as a subtitute for its
unknown Chinese equivalent. Every
well.regulated Chinese cemetery has
it's bone house, where the bone Of
Celestials exhumed from other grave.
yards and awaiting reburial or else
transportation to China, wait the final
obsequies,
Dope Tins Among Bones. "a
Sure enough the opium. tins were
there to the number of six or seven
as well as several smoking outfits, the
latter being in the house o. the keeper
and the former mixed up with the re-.
mains of the departed ones. Unfori
tunately for glory's fluent pen, they
were all empty.
A new method of operation will now
be introduced by the federal authori-
ties. They have been frequently cir
cumvented by the bright contraband-
lists who filed the empty stamped tins
with struggled dope from non-stamped
tins and in this way many smoker
has puffed cheerfully at the opium
anathema safe from the scrutiny of the
treasury high priests.
But the law happens to require that
WhSh SJdhpSu opium bAuSJ VI ClBdE
boxes, or anything of the sort, become
empty, the stamp shall be scraped en-
tirely from them and as forty or forty
five empty stamped opium tins were
found in TAX Kow s possession he will
be the first TO be prosecuted on this
charge.
A number of smoking sets were found
in TAX Kow's room and one of them,
a silver mounted affair, will join the
collection of curios in the possession
of the United States district attorney.
Another Capture.
Still third raid was made yester-
day, proving little more successful
than the cemetery affair, for Korean
by the name of Chun Yuen was picked
up by the federal officers just as he was
about to sell six tins of contraband to
an unknown person who ran away be-
, fore his less fortunate companion in
, crime had a chance to. Chun carried
= the opium under his arm and can not
J very well disprove the evidence on
that charge.
/ He was followed by the officers from
the laundry of Fla Ming, Waikiki of
the naval station, up to the place where
he had apparently agreed to meet his
prospective customer.