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Show PRESIDENT OF FRANCE. A Stormy Scene in the National Assembly Assem-bly Results in Grevy Heln? . Re-elected. Chicago Already Talking Up Her Biff Exposition in 1892. The Vaeaney in the Sub-Treasury at New York Exciting Consider-- Consider-- able Comment. . " ' ' "j Opium Smugglers Caught Indians in Alaska. Pobtland, . Oregon, December 27. The Oregonian's Port Townsend, W. T., special: The steamer "Idaho" arrived here last night from Alaska. -From information received by Collector Beecher, the vessel was taken charge of by a customs force and a strict search made, resulting in the seizure of-- between be-tween three and four hundred pounds of prepared opium, - valued at about " $5,250. This opium was found in the engineer's department. de-partment. The search is still going on, as it is thought much more opium is on board. It is not yet ascertained who owned the opium, or whether the officers of the ship are to blame in letting the smuggled goods on board. 1 The revenue cutter has returned from the Quilleyute country, where the Indians were reported in insurrection. No trouble had occurred, except some settlers had tried to drive the Indians off the land on which they lived, to which the natives objected. Officers in charge of the troops state that the Indians require more protection than the whites in that neighborhood, as they are badly imposed upon. The reservation should be set apart for the use of the Indians at Quilleyute, and the whites kept from settling within its bounds. |