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Show one of the counterfeit checks was received from Montana. The total amount of 1 In cheeks isued is $l?7". The sharper, it Seems, goes to country stores, buys a small bill of goods, and presents a check with the forged signature of the mill company upon it. Many un- , suspecting country merchants have been thus duped by him. The !'!- j low is described as a spare built,: dark complexioncd, consumptive man. inclined to he round j shouldered, of medium height and , well-dressed. I A SLICK FORCER. He Steals a Check Book and Passes $275 of Worthless Paper on Unsus- pecting Merchants. The little settlement of lloney-vi lloney-vi 1 1f, ten miles north of Brighain, is having a deal with a sharp forger. Our correspondent writes us: ' Karlv last winter a man got ofi' the train here about lnidnitrht. He 1 i called at the mill for a bed and was i directed to the residenee of L. t ' lluiir-aker. when- he was acconi- j inodaled. Next morning he be-all ca rivaling ihe t"Un in tie- capae-ily capae-ily of a lottery a nt. Mr. Hun-' Hun-' saker's I'.i mi I v w ere ea lb d a way and i when (bey returned their glte-t bad lied, takiiiL' wilh him a g.-ld watch and a ch.-ek l,..,k of the ; lloneyville F,.ur Mill Co. The day afl'T le- skipped, he 1, L.an i-Mlll.- forif" d cheeks a LM i 1 1 - t the mill company at I .ea 1 . 1 The-,, were prol'-t.-d ;ilt, J,,. lay low tor a peri. id. But now the bad paper I is coming in ag:iin. La-t Tuesday |