Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-28 | Page 1 | Illegal Notes in Circulation

iNcinu I Unsigned Currency Lost in Transit Falls Into Hanck of Dishonest Officials. SIGNATURES FORGED H Spurious Bills Sold in Bales at Ten to Twenty Cents on the Dollar. Douglas, Ariz.. Jan. 28. Chaotic IH business conditions in Cananea and other towns in Souora. Mexico, were reported today to have followed dls- H covery that a large part ot $250,000 of unsigned constitutionalist cur- IH rency, lost in transit from the print- IH ers in Now York recently, had been placed in circulation. jH The discovery was made after the arrest nf W T) RnnMi mnncnr nf r, IH store and two clerks who were charged witfi having refused to ac- cept the new bank notes. They JA proved that the signatures were forg- fH Many merchants are said to have found that they held quantities of dubious paper and reports were clr- H culated that the unexecuted notes had fallen into the hands of un-scrupulous un-scrupulous officials who had forged signatures and sold them in bales H at ten to twenty cents on the dol- IH 1