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Show llj OPIUM IS SEIZED. I I llli San Francisco, Jan. 21. An ex- Kt press shipment of forty-six pounds of In amoking opium oi the inferior grade, raj known as "yenehee," valued at 3,- tgl 000, was seized by goernmeut agents Ml yesterday Just prior to tho sailing of the liner Mongolia. Tho opium was l cocigned to Honolulu. Jt is b.olioved .11 bv tho agents that the drug came Iu U o cr tho Mexican border, since pracf ti tlfally all tho opium used in Cbinar l tn n is received from that source jffl- c ships from the Orient arc-riel-llv y rehed at Honolulu the smugg'cr? WM Hently assumed the insoertors Wm v Id not look for opium coming from hut the mainland. - |