Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-25
AMERICAN OFFICIALS
PLOT 70 ADMIT Chinese.
sNueGLEn HUMAN Gooos FROM
MEXICO ACROSS THE LINE
AZ NoaAIES.
HOW THEY WE'RE TRAPPED.
CTLESrtAIs PAID FuoN $50 TO
5000 4 HE.,D Eap PeivILEGE
COMING ~.


The Treasury Department efheials have
unearthed a gigantic Smuggling com
bine at Nogales. Arts. Thd town is on
the border limo between the United
States and Mexico. and the rinsleaeers
II tho plot. \ Chtnaman named Frank
How, made hts home Just acrpss the
line In tho Mexicsn town OF Nogales,
The collector OF the port. William II.
Hoey, together with sis Chinese in
speutor, Il. v Jossy, the Ghinaman
mentioned and snother Celestial st
clifton, Arls,, arr under arrest
The smugglers dealt in human goods,
splritlng Cinnamon across the border
from Mexico. Tho officials hero say
that Hoey received from $50 to 500
for each GhlnanaR smuggied across.
Practically ali the customs and tmmi-
grafton officers employed by the gov
eminent ut the place ara implicated.
Secretary Gage says that Hoey divided
up with his subordinstes.
The officials here hrst learned OF the
smuggling abost two months ago and
trap WAS laid sor the perpetrators.
Grown careless and everconfdent, the
smuyglers were caught red-handed.
Hoey, tho collector. ia from Nuneia.
Ind, tho town that saye Medley To the
world. Hoev succeeded "a collector al
Nogales. a man who was removed by
tho President for violation of the civil
service laws.
When he was given his appointment
Hoey was In Washington and called on
Secretary Cage to confer with him
about the work at hia new most. Soc
fetary Gage told him that all the gov
ernment> wanted Mt Nogales WAS an
honest man. Mr.. Hoey agreed with the
Secretary that thai WAS the crying neeo
on tho border line, man who would
viRilantly bar out undesirable ifnmi-
grants and goods that had not paid
Uncle Sam his dues
Collector Hoey. ut Nosales. wae born
In Pennsylvania. His recommendation
when he applied for tho place was
signed by Perry 3. Heath and Con
gresham George Cromer, OF the Nun
Gle, Ind. district. Jossy was native
OF Georgia, but was appointed from inc
State of Washington.
The Chinese legation hps received
uneaulyocal notice from the treasury
| department that hereafter the priv
lege OF travelling from Ban Francisco,
their first landing port, TO Mexico
whIch-has been extended TO thousands
of Chinese immigrants during the past
five years. will be withdrawn from ev-
ery Chinese about whom the govern
ment enteYtains tho slightest suspicion
OF fraudulent intent. Assistant Secre-
tary Taylor is satisfled that ma
Iority Of the Chinese Who have been
permitted 10 land at San Francisco
for trans-shlpment to Mexico have ul-
timately made thHr way across the
northern frontier OF Mexico into the
United States.
A few weeks ago tho collector OF
customs at San Francisco ordered a
party of sixty Chinese. who were book
cd for Mexico, detained until more
complete examination OF their ereden-
tials could be made. Inspectors found
that the immigrants were carrying
letters OF introduction to Chinese res
fderAs Of Boston, New York. Chicago
and other large cities. He promptly
ordered that the entire parttJbe cent
back to China.
The Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany, which has found the business OF
carrying Chinese from San Francisco
to Mexican points profitable, entered
foreible objection TO the ruling of the
collector, but Assistant Secretary Tays
lor informed the representative OF the
company IN plain language that the
business OF smuggling. Chinese from
Mexico into tho United States had to
stop
Then, Mr.. Wa. the Chinese minister.
took up the matter. After first com
municating with tho State Department
he sent one OF his secretaries to tho
treasury department. The Chinese Off
c!ai entered a strong protest against
the department interfering with his
countrymen travelling from San Fran
cisco TO Mexico. Assistant Secretary
Taylor firmly but politely informed
him that the kind OF traffic that has
been carried on for several years had
TO stop and that the government would
put an end to the business of tranship-
ping Chinese through United States
territory for any purpose II tho meth
obs that had been discovered at San
Francisco we're continued.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2A-Wiliiam
NJ. Hoey. arrested at NogaIes, was ap-
pointed from Muncie. Ind. whore he
was foreman In steel mill. and vol
known as a labor leader.