Salt Lake Herald | 1891-10-24 | Page 1 | Opium Smuggler Reiss Case

B Opium Hnitignler ReissJ Case WASHINGTON Oct 231n arecent letter to the treasury department in regard to the case of Bernard Reiss arrested in San Francisco on tho charge of opium smuggling smug-gling Acting Secretary Sp < mldins informed in-formed tho collector there i seems evident evi-dent there is nothing to prevent the prosecution prose-cution jf the suits both against the goods and against the criminal Spalaiug has instructed the collector of customs at nan Francisco in case ho is not satisfied there is no dutiable article in the baggage of Chinese persons passing through tLis country in transit from Hong Kong to Havana or elsewhere that the ba age be placed in a sealed car Treasury Agent McLean recommends for a site for a public building at Stockton California the property at the corner of Sutter and Channel streets offered for 10000 if large enough and his second choice is the property at the corner of California Cal-ifornia and Market streets offered for figure 21000 i it can bo obtained at a lower