Show SMUGGLING OPIUM INTO THIS COUNTRY sail francisco jan 29 the ens toms officials of this port for some time suspected the existence of an organized ring of opium smugglers operating on steamers running between victoria B C and san fran cicco startling confirmation of this suspicion was obtained yesterday when the custom house bearc hers found five tad tins of the contra bands stowed away on top of the donkey boiler of the steamer city of puebla a few hours after that vessel reached the broad way street wharf opium can be bought in victoria for about 8 a pound duty paid it sells here for about 14 a pound in the tins found yesterday were about pounds of the drug the duty on the opium seized would amount to about and the capture Is one of the largest made at this port in years |