Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-17
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| the police woke up the treasury men. The two Chinamen were arrested. and a few minutes later a revenue yawl slipped alongside the anchored schoon- CT, and the men in the government I boat read the schooner's name in gilt letters on her slender stem. She was the Frolie. She had sailed up Mar ragansett in broad daylight the day be- | fore and come to anchor on the coal pocket at ten o'clock in the forenoon. All day she lay at anchor, not far from the channel in full view from the harbor and the shore. No one had taken the trouble 10 read her name and she was passed for a visit ing fisherman.
 Twenty-Four Safely Landed.
 Sixteen more Chinamen were found hidden in the hold. The remaining 24 had already made their escape. The state of her hold, where AZ Chinamen had lived for eight days. was a shock even 10 the hardened customs men. A fishing craft of less than 100 tons does not have much room below decks, and at her best the mixed odor of fish and bilge water makes 1t an undesir- able place in which to lounge away an afternoon. The Chinamen slept on the floor, packed solid like spoons in box, with hardly an inch of room to turn in. For four days of her voy- age the schooner had worked her way through fog. in waters that were frequented both by fishermen and steamers. Any moment a vessel might come upon her, and the captain did not wish to have his passengers seen upon his decks. So during those four days the Chinese had stayed shut up in the hold. with only such light aLd air as found their way down the hatchway.
 Except for the fog. which kept her a week at sea. and the smell of the passengers. which drove the crew nearly to mutiny, she had an easy pas lsage after that, and was not interrupt ed till the government men captured her of the Providence coal pocket. The captain and two of his accom- nlices were tried and sent to prison. The captain testified that their profits, If the trip had proved successful, would have been s15,O00 over all expenses. including s25O apiece to the crew. ] Every one of the IS Chinamen swore in court that he had lived for many 1 years in America, that he had qualified to return under the law, but that the papers to prove it had been lost in the "big fire" in San Francisco.
 On the Pacific coast the running" of Chinamen by sea is oftener tried and oftener detected. The slender, swift schooners that ply in the island trade" among the scattered groups of the South Seas are exceiisntly fitted for the work A fs'E years ago one of these craft, suspected of having Chinamen on board, was chased down the coast from Puget sound by rev enue cutter. The cutter was gaining. but night came on before she could get within gunshot.
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 She kept up the search even after the schooner had been lost in the darkness, and presently, at moonrlse, saw the fugitive vessel again stand ing off shore. The cutter overhauled her. The captain was in great rage at being held up on the high seas. When the revenue men insisted that they would search her. he protested still more violently. They went through her from stem to stern and found nOth- ing whatever that should not be on a homeward bound trader
 A week later two dead Chinamen were washed ashore 30 miles up the coast. The federal agents fin Van couver learned that a band of 15 cool les had been seen making their way 10 the waterfront early in the morning the day the schooner sailed. Consider ed as evidence, the two facts mako slender proof, but the sailors along tho coast believe that the Chinamen were thrown over from the schooner and left to drown as negroes were thrown over from slave ships in the old days when every vessel that carried black ivory" was counted as a pirate by the law of nations.
 Both Canada and Mexico admit Chinamen. though the former imposes a tax of $500 a head on all who re- main in the country for more than three months. Of late years, up to the beginning of the present trouble, Mex leo has furnished more popular base of operations for the smugglers. It Twas a month or more ago that gov ernment launch boarded schooner which had sailed with Chinamen from Lower California. No Chinamen were on board, though certain sights and , some not uncertain smells made the , officers believe that they had been there not long before. Again the story , was widely circulated that the China : men had been thrown overheard Again. it was only two weeks ago , that launch with party of Asher
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 a steamship man-saw a scrap of canvas waved violently on a little ,, barren island off from San Diego bay. |, They put in for it, and found ten Chi , nese. Six threw themselves forward