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PRETTY WHITE OIRIELOPES WITH CHINKOregon City Mias of 17 Believed to Be in Portland Opium Den.Somewhere In one of the opium-soaked dens of the Chinese quarter • »f Portland, where the white smoke curls sluggishly to the low celling and stealthy sounds of felt-shod feet shuttle across dirty floors, lies hid dm pretty 17-year-old Winnogne Gardiner, daughter of L. K. Gardiner of Oregon City. That Is whatthe agonized father fears, and In-waits in mingled hope and dread fo'* a police report telling him that she has heen rescued from her almond-» ved seducer.Last Saturday Winnogne packed her satchel and left her home bystealth, and since that nothing as l.cen heard of her. Hut the father knows only too well what has here me of her. and he asks the police tr find Toy Que. known as Sarr. Young, a 20-year- old youth of Chino, who is supposed to rV’e induced the girl to with him.What promises this Chinaman eafl hr.vo made a beautiful young American git I sufficiently to Induce her to leave her home and go with him to live amid the chattering, opium-lt;|lt; ped gamblers «»f his race, and as-scciate. if they will let her. wi'b the slant-eyed women of the Chinese quarter, one can only conjecture I hit a i 17 years a girl is romantic, j reel not always wise, and the Idea of an alliance with a Chinese lover, even If he was only a cook, may have appealed to her as having in it something fine aud beautiful. It ir* to say that she is now sorry, but I «t -on late° That is what the grief-stricken father and the police are asking themselves. The |Kjlice ar* searching for the girl, but she has not yet been found.
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Lewiston Evening Teller
Lewiston, Idaho, US
Tue, Oct 20, 1908
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