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Drugs At Washoe Lake!

The San Francisco Call, January 14, 1896
Carson Opium Smugglers
Officers Find Fifty Pounds of the Drug and a Counterfeit Mixture in a Cache
Carson, Nev. Jan. 13. United State District Attorney Jones to-day found fifty taels of opium buried in one of the stalls at the racetrack. Lee Brooks, who hid the drug there, recently left town [...]