Show BUSINESS MEN OF BOSE CITY They Signed Chinese Certificates cates And Are low in Trouble WAS THERE DECEPTION Present Indications Point That Way I Slay Be That the Boise People Were Victimized by Some Sharper In the Employ of tIe Six Companies But Just the Same Our Idaho Friends Would Like to Know AVhere They Are ntA Bad State of Affairs to Say tIe Least Special to The Herald Boise Ida April 2 Special Agent Beane has received from Tacoma the certificates of the seven Chinese held there pending investigation to ascertain whether they are entitled to land The certificates are all signed by Boise business men Chinese here say only one of the seven have ever been here The one exception is admitted by men who signed the paper to have been a gardener and a cook and not I a merchant consequently he is not entitled en-titled to return to this country Disclosures Dis-closures made hv the treasurv officials I ofcias show wholesale fraud in the mater of Chinese certificates and the arrest of prominent men is likely to follow I is believed the business men Inmost In-most instances did not realize what they were doing when they attached their signatures to the papers having been victimized by some sharp prac ticitioner in league with the Six Companies Com-panies in San Francisco However all al of them are liable to prosecution In the case of the one Chinese held at Tacoma who is admitted to have been here there are three certificates out for him whereas the law only reqUires re-quires two one to be filed at the port j where he ships for China and the other I Ito I-to be fed uuon his return to this country The men who have signed the certificates are very uneasy They tf t H 4 t t J I U LV LU LU LUC U Utt I were merchants when as a matter of U j factsix never had been here and it is j likely none of them are merchants J i The certificates are attested by the secretary of state I is thought that the agent of San Francisco conspirators conspira-tors here sent one of the certificates In each case to some port for filing and mailed the other to China The officers are much tmzzled over the extra certificates One of them was found in possession of a prominent business man here who offered as an explanation that the Chinese in whose behalf it was issued insisted on him keeping one for the purpose of identification fication if he should have any trouble in getting back to this country The officials think I strange however that they should have gone to the trouble of getting the secretary of state to attest extra for that purpose Developments of the most sensational sensa-tional nature are expected |