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Show SMUGGLING CHINESE. 1 wll.4 Male eato-st tlftrkh C barf d W Ith admitting t hlM or Mtro.v. Prol.al.ly the most important erresta ever made in connection with the smuggling of t hiurse acroki the Mexican Mexi-can Imrilrr Into the Putted Mate were ma.le Saturday in Ari..na. w hen William Wil-liam A. Iloey. collector of custom at Nifc'ale; 11. F. Jossey, an immigrant iuaector; 1 rank lion, a tliinaman livuvg at Noga.es. and another Chinaman China-man living at liffton. Mrx.ro, just across the border from Xogalee. were taken into custody ty special amenta of the treasury and fcecrrt service operatives. op-eratives. Other arrest are expected I to follow within a day or two. It is atau-d that with two or three exception excep-tion the whole customs and immigration immigra-tion administrations at N'ogale are Involved. ! Some lime ai;o an tiflieial of the treasury department, having Nogales as hia headquarters, w rote to the department de-partment that he had reason to believe that the ofti. ial force at that point was corrupt, and that Chinese in large DUinWrj were beiug aiuucgied across the border for a consideration. A aecret sen ice ojerative n as sen I there at once and plans laid to secure evidence evi-dence against the persons under suspicion. sus-picion. Several Chinamen were furnished with money aud sent on to buy their way through the odicial cordon. Thia was accomplished without difficulty, the price demanded K ing from 810 to l-'tJ. The secret Service men also arranged with one or two employee whose honesty had Wen tested to go Into the collector's office at a certain cer-tain lime and demand a share of the money being received from tne Chinamen China-men and to le admitted into the combination, com-bination, so that they might get their ahare of the proceeds of future deals, line was reluctantly agreed to, and considerable sums of money were handed over in the presence and full bearing of a secret service man, who bad previously secreted himself in a Dearby office. |