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Show Austrian liumtgrauta Detained. Nkw Vuitir, May 17. Superintendent Superintend-ent Weber has determined to ascertain whether It Is m!blu to enforce at Ibis lairt that sartlon of the emigration laws which prohibits thu Importation of Allen contract lalior. Monday lost hu detained eleven Atlitrlau Imml-grants Imml-grants of that kind, who, according tu their own statements, have been brought hero under contract to work fur two companies In Chicago, Their lxuaagu to thtt country had been paid by an agent or contractor, who had agreed with them that they should get a certain fixed rate of dally wages In Chicago. Aa lu llie-o cases there seemed to bo a clear violation of law, Weber gavo orders for the detention of Ihn men. They were not shipped back to Austria nt once. Tbo secretary of tho treasury was notified of Ihelr arrival arri-val and of iho udvUabtllty of keeping them here as witnesses In a suit to be brought agalutt the violators of tbo alien contract labor law. Arlstcod Croueiiberg, an orderly-.looking orderly-.looking Immigrant, landed al tlio Jlargn office today, en route from Del-glum Del-glum to Ashovllle, N. C and when askud If he had any money, produced a roll uf$.V) and 1(H) bills, amounting In all to (10,000, |