The Pescawha

BEAN, District Judge.

This is a libel filed by the United States against the steamer Peseawha and her cargo for a violation of the tariff and prohibition laws.

The facts are practically undisputed. The Peseawha is a Canadian owned and registered gasoline schooner of about a hundred gross tonnage. On November 8, 1924, she cleared from the port of Vancouver, B. G., with a cargo of liquor destined ostensibly for a Canadian port, bnt in fact she came south and hovered off the Oregon and Washington coasts with the intention of delivering her cargo to boats from the shore. On the 28th of the month…