Smuggling contraband is a long tradition along borders, including the border area around St. Vincent...
Bold Opium SmugglersGood thing, then, that Deputy Collector Nelson E. Nelson was on the job!
St. Paul, Minn, Dec. 20, 1888 - A gang of daring smugglers has been engaged for some time in bringing opium into this state across the Northwestern border. The deputy collector at St. Vincent, Minn., acting on information from one of the gang who is under arrest, captured a wagon containing eight hundred pounds of the drug in the crude form just on the Dakota line. Detectives are in pursuit of the man to whom the opium was consigned. Opium smuggling on the extensive scale is being carried on, and such are the precautions against detections that it is almost impossible to stop it.
Confiscated Opium...
From: The Ithaca Democrat (December 1888)
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