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Show PLANS T9 BREAK UP CONTRABAND TRADE CHINAMEN MAY FIND IT H,TRDER TO ENTER UNITED STATES. Immigration Inspector Offers Substantial Substan-tial Rewards for Capture of Chinamen China-men and Their Guides. j Santa Anita, Cal., Jan. 29. Tho Chinaman who travels tho under-' under-' ground route from Mexico to Los An-I An-I geles may And it harder to maKe connections con-nections from now on. I Knowing that Chinese are being I brought Into this state from Moxlco, H. H. Weddle, Inspector in charge of the immigration service for southern California, hn6 decided to offer rewards re-wards that may help to break up tho contraband trade. Weddle has Just completed a trip through Orange county, which Is on the alleged route of the underground, and has offered for every Chinaman caught $5; for every guide of contraband contra-band parties $60; for every master of I a vessel landing Chinese, $100. The inspector believes there is an organized gang that escorts bands of i Chinese from Mexico to Los Angeles at a fixed price per head. It has long been thought here that Chinese were ! landed on the coast In the northern I part of San Diego county, from which point Mexican guides escort tho Chinese Chi-nese to some point between Floro and Santa Ana where automobiles from Los Angelea pick them up. |