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Show CLOSE WATCH ON ORIENTAL SHIPS San Francisco, Dec. 17. Recent discoveries dis-coveries of extensive smuggling of opium and of Chinese immigrants into this port have brought from the authorities an order that vessels from the Orient are henceforth to be placed under watch as soon as they enter the harbor. The customs officers are to be sent out to meet each arriving vessel at the Golden Gate. Hitherto it ha6 been the practice to allow the boat to come to an anchor an-chor ln the stream before Bending In-! In-! spectors aboard, and. In case of a wssel arriving ut night, to leave her unguarded until daylight It Is be-I be-I llcved that much of the successful I smuggling has beeu carried on by lowering the contraband over the vessel's ves-sel's ride before the arrival of tho watchers from the Immigration bu-j bu-j reau and the customs department. no |