Show COONTEEFEIT COIN Is There an Underground Mint In This Vicinity The city is again flooded withcotmttr felt silver dollars of different grades weights and colors Some that cane under a HERALD reporters gaze jMer day w ere of good color ring vui eel milled others were of such poor specimens speci-mens of the counterfeiters artists almost provoke a smile at the idea ol anyone eyer Attempting to pa3S them for the genuine coin One of tfcausci drunk and disorderlies of the Poke Court was arrested on Thursday erea ing and among tho other article taken from him previous to his incarcerifyn were five verr badlv exeen ted imitations of the buzzard dollar Inoourtyesta dayheclaimed these weregiv rhimb1a man whose name he did not know tl though he had been acquainted with him for a longtime He said he kept them only for curiosities and had nude no effort to pass them He reiterstd on being questioned bv the reporter that he didnt know the nan froa AdanlIlt least BO farashunaneii concerned In addition to these a merchant yesterday yes-terday exhibited a finely executed imia tion of the dollar of our daddiwVlucl he had unsuspectingly taken Irons customer but which had been returned to him from the bank with the somewhat some-what startling information that it W counterfeit There is not one persooia a hundre however among the areas dealers but whatwould have passed 111 coin for the genuine article Its 31eF alice was genuine the ring only suglwj defective and the rough work on the edges only gave any intimation ern after close examination that tnemea1 was spurious If an underground mint is notuio eratbn somewhere in this vicinity w tain itis that large quantities oflP ous coin is being imported into M Lake through other sources SK I chants clerks and others who bare occasion oc-casion to handle silver especially < oIM pieces should keep a close watch lor bogus coin |