Opium
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Opium
In the News~
July 26, 1890 [VFP]: “The Examiner tells how a Chinese junk has been smuggling opium at Santa Cruz. Several junks are continually in and out of this port, and if the Government had an inspector here some startling developments might be made. But as the nearest inspector is thirty miles away, Santa Barbara is the safest smuggling point on the coast, and that fact is well known to those in the business.”
