Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — OPIUM THROWN INTO SEWER [ARTICLE]

OPIUM THROWN INTO SEWER

$23,000 Worth of the Drug Is Confiscated at San Francisco. At San Francisco customs officials boiled $23,000 worth of contraband opium seized in recent searches of oriental liners, and poured the d,rug into the sewer. There were 765 tins of the stuff. Ten days ago opium valued at $lO,000 was destroyed in a similar manner. '