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Show GETS JAIL TERM IN SMUGGLING CASE SAX FRANCISCO. Dec. M. Robert T. FerfEussun, who:; confession aided tli'j government in the Aiiiei Island linnit-gral linnit-gral ion smuggling ea .-.rs. was sent "i ed today to a year in jail In the Urul-d States district, court, .'il1hiugh there wan put. mto the record a let'er Onm the government gov-ernment in v-stigs t or, c nst mcd as promising prom-ising immunity. A score of persons w r-. indicted in Ibese case?, whieh concerned the Hlcg'il immigration of Chinese. Two other deOn'la nt :: were sent eneerl. Harry A. Akers was given a year in jail, and Agathon G. 1 1 ' I kenieye,- was f:ivci two years in the perul tnt iary. The alleged promise nt immunity for Fergus son. now a con rt thiri i menl , wa :i a let i er from John B. I ensniore. f erbjra I dir"''! or general of empki vrn"n t f"i" t lie d.-part men t of labor, to I-'ergusson's fa -1 her. In pentenri np Fevgusson, Ju'lie Maurice T. Tiooling said "he did not quit until caught ." |