The Smuggler Who Ran a School for Contraband

One of the most notorious and daring smugglers in the Northwest has been captured near Sumas by Customs Inspector Warner. Sam Lee, the prisoner, has for years conducted a systematic business of smuggling Chinese into the United States. He has a farm just across the border in British Columbia, where Chinese assemble and await a favorable opportunity to enter the United States. In addition, the customs officers learned that he was conducting a school of instruction, where 'green' coolies were given lessons in American geography and taught to answer questions that would probably be propounded by officers should they be captured after crossing the line. The location of Sam Lee's farm is in a dense part of the forest. There are probably thirty trails leading through dark and tangled parts of the woods, over which contraband coolies were taken on dark nights to a point near the international line. There, if they were caught, the lessons taught by Sam Lee would come into play relative to their knowledge of the United States. Time and again he has made these smuggling trips and was lucky to escape, but Inspector Warner finally intercepted him while making his way back after 'steering' a gang into American territory.