New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-04
TOPICS IN LEADING CITIES
SAN FRANCISOO.
OPIUM sMUGGLfNG-sTAfE UNIVERSITY
THE CENT-PERsONAL.

IBY rBLRoRArH TO TRIBUNE
BAN Francisco, July 3.-Wbat Is claimed to be
q big opium ring was exposed this week by tho
arrest of four persons charged with smuggling the
drug into this port. One of the prisoners was Mrs,
Slcer. an inspector In the Custom House. ana
another woman was the steward ON the racine
Mail steamer Gaelic. Their accompces were EN-
ployes on the Mail dock. Mrs. Steers house was
shade we'd by detectives and man arrested VINO
came ont with q satchel containing several nun
bred dollars worth of opium. The steward also
had over $500 worth in her room. Thursday TWO
men in boat were captured with $4,000 worth OF
opium. The authorities hope to extort confession
from tic $50 petty smugglers which will give them
clew to tho heads of the opium ring which mas
defed the vigilance Of the Customs officers LOT
years and which has smugged IN not less than n
ton of opium every mouth.
Seven Thousand dollars were collected for the Irish
election fund at great mass-meeting in this city
Thursday night
Commencement Mt tn, State University at
Berkely was rendered memorable by tho formai
installation OF President Holden. In the SIX
months which he has spent Mt the University he
has succeeded in allaying old fcuds in strengthen
ing the faculty. and stimulating interest among
the aumn so that the prospects for the new college
year are brighter than for many seasons. The
graduating class Numbered sixteen OF whom hve
were women Tho University medal for general
proficiency during the four years course was
awarded TO Frank Fischer, OF San Francisco. The
Harvard Club offers prlze to any member OF the
class Of 1887 who will pursue postgraduate
studies at Harvard. The Regents have decided 10
establish Founders Day of the Mills Professor
ship of Philosophy, the holiday to be celebrated
annually by public lecture on some leading topic
In philosophy by person eminent in that depart
ment This action was taken in recognition OF the
gift of 500. 900 by Mr. D. o. Mills for the endow-
ment of a Professorship Of Intellectual and Moral
Philosophy and Civil Polity
"Harry" HUFF. young hoodlum who stabbed
lodging house keeper. in January last was con
victed Of murder in the second degree this week.
and was sent to the Folsom Prison Tor lie. Inc
Judge in sentencing HIM denounced the practice
of juries who to save time bring in verdlcts mad
eolate to the crime, ana then add to their offence
By recommending the prisoner to the mercy OF inc
court HUFF is young man VINO mas JUST gaiIeu
his majority and belongs to q good FAMILY. Ho
consorted with loose women and oplnm-sm0kcrs.
and 1t was in quarrel over women mat he com
mtted the murder. He will add one more 10 the
large number OF young men in the two state
prisons. Fully fifty per cent OF the convIcts are
under twenty-five years OF age.
The custom of having baImads IN saloons is
gaining ground here. 1t has not invaded fashion,
able drink ing places but the experiment has proved
st. Another custom which promises before long TO
become general Is the use of the cent IN making
exact change 1t is only ten years since the 5-cent
nickel WAS Introduced here and ii took SIX months
to accustom the public to the innovation. store
keepers object to small coin, "a the proht on any
thing less than cents falls TO them, but one ~ the
largest goods houses has begun the practice OF
giving exact change in cents ana Others must soon
follow. 1t will be good thing Tor poor people as
fruit and kncknacks may then be bought III
smaller quantities.
n,
MEG ashan to spread the Chinese boycott and
organize clubs throughout the state. has resigned
because his salary was not paid regularly. me
real reason for freezing him out was that he SAID III
his speeches that liquor saloons In al country
towns enemies of white workingmen
than the Chinese and that the clubs should boy
colt gin-mills first and coolies afteIward This
dsgnsted the boycott leaders. so they refused to
pay his salary, and to try 10 intuse HE INTO the
established secret association and made McGIashan
chief organizer. He and few political bnminers
like him will carry OH the boycott farce as long
as oney can he made out of It,
A sister-in-law of General Vallejo appealed for
aid this week to the Alameda supervisors. She Is
seveuty-ive years old aud very nfrn. She be-
lon e1 of the oldest native Californian tami
lies and her father once owned Is vast spanish grant
near Mission San jose. Litigation and bad busnes,
management swept away all his VI Dperty. General
Vallejo himself is understood u be very poor. haN
ng only about zen acres of land IN sonora left OF
prmcipality which once extended seventeen miles
from sonora to Underwater He dispensed prncely
hospitality in early DAYS, but the hundreds whom
he helped have forgotten him.
Fresno raisin- growers complain of the diff
cultles from not having Fresno the terminal |
point for shipment of raisns east. All their |
raisins required to be sbipped to Stock |
ton whence they are reshipped, passing through |
Fresno the way to the East over the Southern
Pacific. In this way $40 per carload is lost 10 The
growers. This county is growing rapidly as also its
neghbor Tulare which is being settled on the
colony plan lands being offered at 1880 for twenty
acres One of the phenomenal features in tine de-
velopment of the southern counties is the product
ivencss of the Colorado Desert when water can be
secured. This week the ilrst grapes OF the season
W. ere received from lndo. san Diego County. which
is in the heart of the Colorado Desert Artesian
wells have been sunk and by irrigation il il found
that grapes and many other kinds OF fruit can be
prOduccd from "a month to six weeks earlier than
elsewhere in the State. These early grapes are
Muscatels from three year-old vines.
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