The record-union., 1894-07-28
court in disgrace. This is regarded as 8
direct thrust at the Premier.
CHINESE REGISTRATION LAWS.
Scheme to Evade 1t Unearthed at
Portland. Oregon.


Portland. Oregon.
PORTLAND, July 27.-A scheme to evade
the Chinese registration law was un-
earthed here to-day by Federal officers.
They arrested a man by the name of
James Reid, who, when taken into Gus
tody, confessed to being one of the princi-
pals, and made clean breast of the whole
affair. Reid and e. Miller and a man
who went by the names of Mimic and
James, and claimed to have come from
Baltimore recently, conceived the idea of
manufacturing bogus internal revenue
registry certificates for Cinnamon and
dispOslng OF them TO the boss Chinaman.
To put the scheme into effect they Sc
cured a bona tide certificate, and had
plate cast for counierfeiting the head of
the certificates. They then set up in
type, in size and appearance almost
Identical with that in the original certifi-
Gates, the remaining printed matter, had
seals made like those used by the Col
lector of Internal Revenue, and putting
the forms together, mad it stereotyped,
and from this stereotyped plate the bogus
certificates were run off with the seals
and everything else except the signature
of the Collector and the filling in OF the
blank spaces. These certificates very
much resembled the genuine, and it is
only on comparison that the differences
can be detected. The presswork in run
ming Oft the forms was done in a we'll
known printing office at night by one of
the employees. They were then signed,
Reid says, by e. Miller, the forgery of
Collector Black burns name being very
cleverly executed.
Reld's arrest was followed by that of
Miller, who is a law student. He has
been witness in Chinese habeas corpus
cases very frequently of late, and has
been closely watched by the officers on
this account.
G. b. Fety, a stamp maker, doing bus
mess on Sixth street, between Starke
and Oak, and who made the seals used,
was also arrested and released under
bonds of s., 800. He claims to have been
ignorant of the use to which the seals
were to be put, and the officers are in
clined to believe him innocent.
A. Burr, who. engraved the die from
which the heading for the certificates
was cast, was also arrested and released
under s., 800 bonds.
Reid, after his confession, was released
under $500 bonds. Miller was placed
under like bonds, which he was unable
10 furnish. Mimic, or James, the man
from Baltimore, is in San Francisco,
having gone there on the steamer Sun
day evening, taking the plate for print
lDS ln0 cSTGilCdt6S Will QlLu.
Reid says iG was the intention to do
business on a wholesale scale in San
Francisco, and had the arrests not been
made to-day the principals in the work
would have gone to San Francisco on
to-night's steamer.
a number OF bogus certificates were
found in the store of Chinaman named
Old Joe, on Yamhill street, some of them
partly filled out and others entirely in
blank, except that ali bore the forged sig
nature of Collector Blackman. Here
they also found stencils used to stamp in
words IN certain of the blank places of
the certificates. such as were used in the
office of the Collector of Internal Reve-
nue.. One of these contained the word,
''Laborer''; another, Portland, Oregon"
and The third, ''Issued under Amenda-
tory Act of November 3, 1898" They
also found number Oh certificates for the
return of Chinese merchants, such as
were used by Blum and his gang of
smugglers. Old Joe, while the officers
were searching his store, slipped out,
and when wanted could not be found.