Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-08-16
Operations Now Going on in
the Philippines.
WILKES ANNUAL REPORT
The Work of the Secret Bureau Last
year = Description of Plates,
Paper and Silver Captured. and
of Dangerous Spurious noney
Yet in CirCulafiOn-The Cost of
the Bureau.

the Bureau.
| Washington, Aug 15.-Chief Wilkie
of the secret service, commenting to-
day upon his annual report, just made
public, says that provision will soon
have to be made for agents of the
service in the Philippines. Hawaii,
Porto Rico and Cuba. Much coun.er-
feiting is being done in the Philippines
The money cCunterfeited, however, is
not American. Spanish and Chinese
coins are freely counterfeited. This
will have to be broken up soon. Gen
eral Otis agents are doing what they
can to break up the counterfeiters, but
..hey cannot hope to have the success
of trained detectives.
The total arrests made by the bureau
during the fiscal year were 679. OF
this number 21S were convicted, 2O3
are awaiting action in the courts, two
are fugitives, 166 were acquitted or
ignored by the grand juEy.
The amount cis money counterfeited
and captured was $76,467. together
with a quantity of revenue stamps, bo-
gus mining bonds, etc.
The expenses of the bureau during
the year were $92, 100. In addition
11,11O56 were spent from the ma
tional defense" fund during the war
with Spain owing to extra employees
This work was continued until just
after the signing of the protocol. En-
plOyes Cf the bncGau did work for
other depa4 tments and were paid by
them.
Commenting upon the years work,
Chief Wilkie says:
''Of The fifteen new counterfeit notes
which made their appearance during
the year there were but two which
could be considered dangerous, and OF
these less than half a dozen have been
circulated, the makers haN ing been
discouraged by the prompt discovery
tons oE the notes. OF the remaining
thi1.een, five Photographic counter
feits were the work of one man, whose
speedy arrest and conviction put an
end to their circulation. Two of the
remaining eight were lfthographic
notes. produced by an Italian and cir
culated by a gang of his country ymen,
chiefly in the east. The maker and
more chan a score of dealers and pass
erS were arrested and convicted. The
other six were Of such inferior work
manship as to insure immediate de-
lection, and therefore had limited cir
culation.
'"The use of the advertising 'sticker'
on coins referred to in last years re-
port, has besn practically suppressed,
and the active campaign against ad-
vertising matter in the form of imi-
tations of United States Obligations has
resulted in the practical abandonment
of this feature of so-oalled novelty ad-
ve1.1ising This is indicated in the
table plates captured. OF
the 514 plates confiscated du:ing the
previous fiscal year, 457 were for these
notes. This year, out of a
total of 271 captured plates, there were
but 123 for adveIsising purposes. The
remainder of this years plates, las, in
cluded some Of the finest steel and cop
per work ever TUNED out by the
fraternity.
"It is a source OF much qualification
to be able to repors that the makers
and handlers of the counterfeit one
hundred dollar Monroe hsad' silver
certificate, which made its appearance
Turing the previous fiscal year, have
been arrested, have expressed a de.er
to plead guilty, and will be
sentenced before the close OF the cal
9ndar year. In the coul Sc of this in
the division discovered a
internal revenue stamp
which had been extensively used for
wo years without detection. The
plates Ecr these stamps, for the Mon
'oe' head one hundred dollar silver
for Lincoln head one
hundred dollar legal tender note, for
fifty dollar Everett head silver GER
ificate, for a twenty dollar Manning
read silver certificate, and for a ten
Iollar Sherman head treasury note,
we're captured, together with some
ine tons of paper bearing the dis
inctive water mark of the internal
evenue bureau, and a large number
f the spurious stamps, silk fiber and
machinery for the manufacture of i'm
pation United States distinctive pa
er. While this investigation was
caring its close a deliberate attempt
ras made to bribe Operative W. j.