The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-06-27
BIG FORGING PLANT
Machinery for Making Bogus
Chinese CertificatesDis-
covered.
RAID ON A BUTTE JOINT
Complete Outfit as Could Be
Found In the Government
Office.


wealthy Cinnamon Of this city have
Just been held to the district court for
trial on charges Of forging certificates
which were being used to bring China
men into this country. The discovery
Of their plant was one Of the most i'm.
porSant that has been made for long
time. The certificates werR 30 cleverly
forged that Cinnamon We're easily
brought into this country on them.
The found q ready sale In China at
from go to $6aO each. according to how
big . supply Of the forged certificates
was on hand and how eager . China
man was to como to America The
certificates sold there are forgeries Of
the certificates issued under the amend
atory act Of Nov. 8. 1898.
Six weeks ago Colonel w. II John.
son. special treasury agent with head
quarters In Spokane, and with Nom
tana, Idaho and Washington included
in his district, received word from Spe-
cial Agent Cullom that these certifi.
Gates were. il w>s believed, being made
In this district. Since then Colonel
Johnssn, assisted By other odaosrs. has
boon following up The matter. Il was
finally decided to search II Butte. and
detective work has been quietly carried
on for tho past few weeks.
Il was finally decided to raid the
house Of Louie Quong Lung, the weN
known interpreter aud looalt represen-
tative OF the Six Companies and gem
eral boss Of the Chinese Of Silver Bow
county. and it was there that the most
important discovery was made.
A Rich Haul Made.
Nothing was found in the house, but
in an old shack outside was discovered
as complete plant for turning out bo-
gus certificates as could be found in the
government printing Office at Washing
ton, together with about 175 Of the
forged certificates. In addition to the
supply Of fraudulent certificates the
outfit includes several rubber stamps
for inserting the Helena" and 'Mon-
tana" and another for afixing the sig-
nature of Ambrose w. Lyman, the in
ternal revenue collectof. The repro
duction 81 Mr.. Lyman,s signature is
said to be perfect one. Some of the
certificates had been stamped with his
signature, and it has been put on SO
carefully as to defy comparison from
any one but an expert. There was also
an exact fac simile Of the collector s
seal, and full set of large figures of
wood type for numbering the certifi-
Gates and another rubber stamp for
stamping the words ''issued under
amendatory act of Nov. 8, 1892 across
each certificate in red ink. Green ink
was used in the words Helena" and
Montana" and Mr.. Lyman's sigma
ture was in black ink. ALI of the ink
ing pads were found, and the outfit
was as complete as could be imagined.
The printing Of the certificates is also
an exact reproduction of the genuine in
every way.
Louie appeared to be greatly sur.
prised when the ind was made, but he
and two Of his business associates, ono
OF whom gave the name Of All Chung,
were immediately taken into custody
and locked mp.
The three Cinnamon were aEraigned
before United States Commissioners
McMurphey and bound over to the
district seark They fuxnishsd cash
bail.