The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-08-15
AONTIAG
STRENUOUS job
uNnonANrfc frntsYt ATrnHpINa
CAPTURED ooNrnAnAND
or THE COAST.


seized IN different raids on Chinatown
storsa ur IN searches through Pacific
Ocean listers is now wing stacked up in
The vaults of the custom house a. San.
some and Washington stro9ta. awaiting
destruction, says the san Francisco Bul.
letin Of AuRutt p Il is only small
part Of the vast hoard Of the drug
which has been recovered by the fed.
gral officers in their stubborn fight to
break up smuggling into this port.
Special Deputy Surveyor G. II. Blinn
estimates that, since the first OF the
year, fully s250,000 worth Of opium has
been seized and, in this amount, is re-
corded some OF the heaviest single
seizures ever made by the government
inspectors.
There it lies behind iron doprs--ihe
poppy juice that gives the Chinaman
strange dreams--a worthless drug, as
far as any man can help, for Uncle Sam
has only one way of disposing of it.
He awaits for few months and then
he destroys it, The tins Of prepared
otium are dumped into watts of boiling
water until the drug is hopelessly
ruined, dissolved beyond any chance OF
ocnYerv. aud then il is all poured
down the Sansome street sewer-uer.
adv enture, to make "hop-heads" out of
a lot of Doctor Blue s unfriendly rats
unromantic Finish.
That s the way the opium which I'm
Gle Sam confseates goes to its end. 1t
ism t a very romantic. finish. The pipe
doesnt bubble, the lamp fame doesn t
sputter, the stupehed smoker doesn t
gasp in ecstasy, feeding ON the fumes
from any of this opinm. Only the sew
er rats get the benefit of it.
A few years ago. before February 9,
1909, when the act went into effect,
making it absolutely Illegal to import
into this country any opium prepared
for smokin. the federal authorities
were accustomed to auction off all the
drug that fell into their hands through
failures to pay duty. Ard those auc-
tions kept many a den IN Chinatown
happy.
Drug Is Valuable Today.
Colonel Blinn believes that $40 tin
is. a fair average quotation for the stuff,
although he has been informed that as
high as 500 tin has been gladly paid
for the dream-producing drug.
Anyway, there is lot of perfectly
good opium which win be melted and
poured down the sewers this month
and not Chinaman has a chance ia
bid to save it. There isn't enough
money in Chinatown to persuade Uncle
Sam to change his mind. The stuff is
as good as gone now.
One reason why that opium hasn't q
chance is because there is a quiet
steadygoing man by the name of L. B
Anderson carrying the keys of the
vault where the opium is stored. Ander
son is clerk in charge of the appraiser q
store and seizure room. And the Chi
nese don't seem TO be. able to do bust
ness with him. 1t is naturally npt {
matter of record, but it is q fact that
with oriental suavity agents from the
! Chinatown opium dens have Approach
eds him. only to find him ineorrnptible
He's going to. DESTROY $4,000 worth OF
opium in one day, and not man ear
stop him.
Picturesque Exhibit.
Roughly speaking, there is at presenf
stored in the custom house 1000 tins o;
| the drug, with all the exhibits in tn,
case needed to convict the men &C
cused of smuggling the stuff into port
There are the tins themselves, witt
their queer Chinese characters; there
are the bundles of clothes in which the1
were hidden by misguided smugglers
there are, too. the tall tins which wer,
used by the ring which hid the drug il
the water tanks of the America Mari
last May. 1t makes a picturesque col
lection-and a valuable one. 1t shows
! too. that the federal officials have no
been sleeping In fact, the record o
seizures proves that.
In the list which follows the note
worthy seizures are; The reeOrd-brea
ing shipment of 1898 tins which tn
Korea brought over in January; tn
large capture of s21 tins from tn
America Maru, and the sos tins take
from the Siberia early last month
Here is the official record:
] Remarkable Record.
January IL, Tenyo Maru, 10 tins.
January II, Korea, 795 tins.
| January "a, foot of Second street
from the Korea, 300 tins.
January 25, Korea, tins.
January %, Pleiades, from Mckee
As tins.
January 80, Nippon Maru, rs tins.
January 81, Pleiades, 80 tins.
February d, Pleiades, 10 tins.
February 4, Siberia, 81 tins.
February %, Manehuria, 26 tins.
March 2, Ryga, from Mexico, 10 tin
March 8, Asia, 6 tins and 16 shells.
J March 10. Mongolia, 1873 tins.
! April 0, San Jose, from Mexico, :
tins.
; April 25, Stanley Dollar, from PA
anna, tin.
June !. America Maru, IL tins.
! June 20. Nippon Maru, 1s1 tins.
July 7. Siberia, 568 tins.
July is, China, 20 tins.
July 81, China. tins
July 81. Manchuria, 20 tins.
More Opium Found.
Three hundred tins of opium we
e discovered at noon today under Pier n
n 4 on the citys' waterfront adjoinil
the dock where the steamer Manehur
is lying. The seizure was made by /
speetors Head, Sackett and Enlow, al
e represents a capture of $4,000 wor