Customs officials along this coast are particularly active just now in their attempts to stop smuggling aboard incoming liners from China and Japan. Yee Kee, who had sown 24 silk shirts and other silk under the cover of the mattress of his bed in an Empress boat, was fined. $150 and lost the goods, which were valued at $200. Fung Fang-yuk got into the hands of the Police after he had concealed, as he thought, 91 tins of opium in cavities cut.in the inner walls of his specially constructed wooden was 2 the drug was The China Mail str. Nanking, just arrived at San Francisco, was found to have 9,60) oz of opium, valued at $90,000, hidden in the fireroom boilers" Arrests are pending.
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