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Show oo COUNTERFEITERS LANDED II JAIL Salt Lake, Aug. 17. After three weeks of "watchful waiting, T. J. Callaghan, secret service operative in Salt Lake, yesterday afternoon arrested arrest-ed two alleged counterfeiters, who later were locked in tho county Jail. The most elaborate, "layout" for making mak-ing counterfeit coin ever found In Salt Lake was carted to the office of Mr. Callaghan in the federal building. The two men are believed to bo Italians. They gave their names as Bismark Aloslo and Dante Baganoc. Each Is about 30 years of age. The equipment for making the spurious spuri-ous coin was found at a house in an alley about 200 yards south of the east end of the Denver & Rio Grande depot. Threo counterfeit dollars were found under the carpet in one of the rooms. In a stove in the kitchen were three very skillfully made plaster plas-ter molds. Each bore the Impress of a one-dollar piece of tho date of 1898 For melting the metal with which to cast the coins, an assayer's furnace was used. It was purchased at a mine supply house In this city A gasoline torch furnished tho heat' the flame being blown into the base of the furnace under a fire-clay crucible The torch was attaqhed to a five-gall Ion gasoline tank by a pipe about six feet in length. The tank was concealed con-cealed under a bed in one of the rooms, while the furnace was located in a closet, Mr. Callaghan is of the opinion that the two men arrested had worked aB waiters in the city and used their employment em-ployment as a blind for stealing sH-?r,Wre' sH-?r,Wre' a,conside-rablo quantity of which wob found in the house. Some of it had been broken up for meltine One table knife had been ffl in the furnace until the silver plating had been melted from it. On a silver soup 9poon was found the mark of a |