The San Francisco call., 1898-06-25
Opium Smugglers Ar rested at Honolulu.
THEIR SCHOONER WRECKED
THE VENTURE WAS MADE BY A
 PUGET SOUND RING.
Luigi Tschech Made a Desperate Attempt to Take His Own Life on Union Street
 Yesterday.

News of an important opium seizure came from Honolulu by the Peru. The old opium ring which had Whaley, the notorious smuggler, at it's head, and it's headquarters at Victoria, B. C., has been reorganized and for a time did a land office business in the drug. The profits can be imagined when the fact is known that opium manufactured in British Co., lumbia can be purchased in Victoria for about $7 a pound, and the same article will bring $45 a pound in the Hawaiian Islands, where its importation is prohib- tted.
 The new combine owns three schooners the Henrietta, Lena L and Labrador. The two first named vessels made suc- cessful runs from Victoria, B. C., to the islands, landed their cargoes and got away again, but the Labrador was caught and Captain John Haake and Albert Weinriche, alias Wilson, were in prison when the Peru sailed.
 The Labrador left Victoria, B. O., on April 23 last and her clearance papers called for a cruise in the North Pacific 'in search of sea otter" When caught off the coast of Oahu the captain said he was going to land Weinriche who was sick and that was the reason he ran in. The vessel was searched, but nothing was found on her. Then the Japanese cook gave the whole business away and point ed out where a thousand 5-tael tins of the drug were hidden. This was seized, but in the meantime the Labrador had drift ed ashore and she will probably be total loss.
 The Peru brings the news that the plague, which has been epidemic in Hongkong, Bombay and Calcutta, is abating.
 Delucchi &, Tschech, 479 Union street, made desperate attempt at suicide yeS- terday. With a knife he cut himself over the left eye. slashed his left cheek. cut his left wrist and his left ankle, and then made two big gashes in his throat. He was taken to the Harbor Receiving Hospital, where Drs. Zabala and Green sewed up his wounds. They think there is a chance of saving his life. Officer Langdon found Tschech in small back room of his furniture store bleeding pro- fusely. He is an opium fiend and his wife says he has been crazy for a week past. The big German bark Theodor that ar rived from Sydney, N. $. w., has 1500 | tons of coal aboard for the San Francisco dock alongside the freight slip at Lom- bard street and discharge into freight cars. The latter will then be put aboard the steamer Ukiah and taken to Tiburon. The remainder of the Theodors cargo Is for the San Joaquin Valley road, and 1t will be discharged into lighters and lowed to Stockton.
 Captain H. c. Thomas has succeeded Captain David Wallace on the steamer Queen. Captain Wallace will go out as Glenn Randall. late master Of the tug Fearless, now the United stages Michael in command of the new river tug Ernest E. Hamill.
 Another haul of young striped bass was made at the ferries yesterday. Joe Mogan discovered a thousand pounds of fish under weight being smuggled in, and he at once confiscated it. and sent the consignment out to Camp Merritt The annual strike took nlaCP lack son-street wharf yesterday. During the winter months the deckhands and long shoremen employed on the river steamers have their wages reduced $5 month. Then in the summer. when business is rushing, 1t goes back to the old rate. The owners of the steamers always re- member when the time to cut wages ar rives, but they never know when the rise is due Then the men go on strike and in the course of few days the ship owners give in and things go on as usual for another twelve months. Yesterday 150 men struck for an advance of $5 month for deckhands and 10 cents an hour for longshoremen.
 For the term ending June A the. fol- lowing graduates of McNevin Brothers Navigation School have been granted United States licenses as masters and mates by the inspectors of hulls and boilers: As masters-E. P. Wilson, l.. H. Howes. James Sion, H. M. c. Dahler, w. H. Mackie J. Mattsan, T. P. Doris; as mates-Harry Martilson, Erite Olsen. McKenna, Charles Hemper, Charles Pillberg; pilots-E. Lampson, Prince Will Hams Sound and Copper River; W. Gus tafson, San Francisco harbor: masters Chamber of Commerce., Charles Pillberg, Donald Glow.
 Honolulu was very much worked up over the failure of the Peru to appear on time. She was quarantined at Kobe, Japan, for five days, and the Hawaiians thought she had gone direct to San Fran cisco to serve as transport In conse- auence. all the mails that were intended on the United States gunboat Bennington, which will probably not reach here before Monday next. At one time there was some talk of chartering the steamer and passengers.
 The Peru stopped the second fleet Of transports and took all the mail the boys that it is now in the postoff1ce here being distributed.