Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-05-02

Yes interrupted Cheney. smiling,
900 miles. more or less. But, Cronin,
We're going to get those birds sooner
or later. I'd rather run down a gang
like that than eat. They're clever. but,
as | told you. they've made one mis-
DOOM"
'Ey George, old man. the chief'll he
glad your" on this"
Don't say anything to the chief
abou it. I'm going lc FRISCO tonight.
Later ! may wire you 10 come. I'll
keep in touch with YOU, and in the
meantime you find the person or per
q who are floating this money up
f.efe. Don't arrest them: just. keep
them under surveillance We want the
kin2pin OF this crowd. then the gang
will fade away"
AN right. Cheney. I'll do as you
say. but keep me posted"
VII sure do THAI. Cronin." The two
men parted. and after clearing up the
odds and ends of current work Cheney
made rcady to leave for Frisco. The
Ov. rland carried him west that night,
and three days later he LANDED in the
american Paris" He had been there
before on numerous occasions. had a
number of good friends. and spent the
first evening just looking around.
Frisco always had Il large floating
population of the light-fingered gentry,
and Cheney went to the hall of jus
tic'. looked over the gallery. joshed
with the city force without revealing
lis mission. and, after a trip through
Chinatown. went to h Palac and had
Il good nights sleep.
He was cordially received at the mint
the next morning. Fitzgerald. the SUI
~perintendent. had not as yet been in
formed regarding the Mexican ones"
OF curse he surinised Cheney was out
there OF business.
"~FitZgerald." said Cheney, after the
usua! Salutations had been exchanged,
II want to see n list of your die cut
ters."
Not much of a list. colonel. Let's
see. there's only four of ~them-Gang-
ley. Stearns. Ritchie and Evans
cuts the die for silyer- dol
lars"
"Ritchie."
is he all right"
Yes. as straight as a die. Been here
about two years. Make $500 per year,
married. lives over in Berkeley. and is
Il good. useful citizen
The other three; 10 about them"
All good men and old-timers. The
Youngest of them. Ritchie, has been
here seven years. and Gangley and
Stearns both have been here over ten
years"
Cheney handed Fitzgerald one Of the
Mexican ones. "What do you think of
that coin. i.itz?" Fitzgerald examined
it closely and said:
Looks good to me. Cheney"
cheney then told him how it was
discovered M what he suspected.
Fitzgerald took down a record book
and studied it carefully for a moment,
and then said:
Il am positive none of my die cut
tcrs did that work. About three years
avo there was Il die cutter worked in
this mint by the name of Kuhn-Emil
Kuhn. He WAS Il high class workman.
but rather uncertain in his habits. If
| remember rightly. he drank more or
less. and iva years back he was dis
charged"
Did he Gu; dies for silver ones"
on. yes. Kuhn MAS AN artist. He
could cut n die for any coin. He also
l'aifted quite WELL
"know what became of him after
he LETT here"
No. | don't. | heard he went back
10 his old home liz Mannheim. Germany.
1t was SAID he came from Il yer. good
family"
After Il little further conversation
Cheney left. promising to let Fitzgerald
ki:oW iii cas- anything came un. AS
soon as t'h1iey got down town he
cable! u his correspondent in Berlin.
'ielnnanA asking for definite intorina-
iioa % !I!ni! Kuhn, of Mannheim. che
ntN's organization WIS so perfect he
mad correspondents IN all the "I.uronsan
rapit;i!f. In his mind he vas con-
tid-at Kahn ha 4 hand in floating the
LcXican ores. To make sure. he deter
nineA 20 vi him down. # he was ON
earth. He wrote Cronim in CHICAGO
what hal beea lone an. what his s,Is-
picionS Were. Then he waited. Man
hcnn WIS some distance from Berlin.
and il WAS three days later when he re-
ceivei Il cable saying.
Emil Kuhn wei knpWn in Man
hoim. caa;e back there two ye,rs ago.
and WIS married 10 daughter of the
bursher. Health broke shortly after
wards and returned TO United States.
Letters received from hiu showed that
he was living in Los ANaeles and paint
ing pictures for n living. His wife still
in Manhcim. Kuhn expects TO return
t" Germany '"Nt spring. Health has
been restored"
Pretty definite Information that.
muttered Cheney. He mirel C.onin TO
mest him II the ii~allonheck hotel. Los
Angeles. as soon rs possible. and the
"o~l train on the Southern pacifc
t..at night carried Cheney Oh his way
south. The population Of Los Angeles
AT this dmn VAS a heterogeneous crowd
OF consuinptiyes aud tuurists. T,,ere
always was a large number of artists.
good. bad ana Indifferent. located in
this city of Los Angeles. and the day
fclloWin. his arrival cheney BEGAN to
Investigate them. Not an Emil Kuhn
could he find. There was "A German
artist named Buehlow. but he WAS mar
ried. and as Kuhn bad a wife in r.u-
rope. Cheney hardly thought Buehlow
and Kuhn could H., one.
Two days late. cronin came in from
Chicago. ana cheney toll him all that