Cashmere Museum Manager Frey Harvey sounds more annoyed than shocked when he

Cashmere Museum Manager Frey Harvey sounds more annoyed than shocked when he talks about the burglar who broke into a World War I-era doctor’s display to steal a 100-year-old bottle of morphine on Friday. That’s because it’s the third seemingly pointless break-in the Cashmere, Wash., museum complex has endured in the last three years.”We have a problem with the kids out here,” Harvey tells Seattle Weekly. “They come with the vandalism and the graffiti. I’m not sure why they do what they do.”Whoever stole the century-old morphine will be sorely disappointed if they were looking to get high on it, as the drug’s potency would have degraded to nothing by now. But the door he or she kicked in and the window that was broken will cost the museum about $3,000.Harvey says there have been other break-ins too. Last year, for example, he says someone or some people broke into a barbershop display and threw everything out on the lawn in front. They also stole a fine-toothed comb that was used in the display.The year prior saw a burglary more similar to the morphine heist. Harvey says someone broke into the museum’s saloon display looking for booze. Of course all the bottles on display are empty, but that didn’t stop the burglar(s) from checking them all and then apparently sleeping in the saloon anyway.”We have 21 buildings here, and have it set up like a small village,” says Harvey. “We don’t want to put up steel doors or bars because it would lose the effect of the pioneer village. We’re looking into video monitoring.”Chelan County might also want to look into giving its population of unruly teens more to do than hanging out at the museum, looking for shit to steal. Follow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.