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Show CLEVER COUNTERFEITERS 1 PASS BOGUS COINS Word was received here last night that two men, believed tr be members of a clever pang of counterfoil er bail hwn arrested in Stilt Lako city for "shoving the queer." Most of tho bogus coins thiiR far found are fifty-cent fifty-cent pieces. According to the report from the capital city, one of tho men has been positively Identified by a storekeeper as having attempted to pr.sa a bogus coin at his place of business busi-ness during the past week. Thai the gang has been operating In Ogden before going to Salt Lake la the opinion of the local police. A largo number of coins of the same denomination denomin-ation as those discovered in Salt Lake have been passed here during the past two weeks at various stores, some of which have been collected by the police and are bHng held as el-dene, el-dene, should arrests he made. Some of the bogus coin Is said to have found Its way Into the coffers of the street railway company which had probably been passed on unsuspecting conductors. conduc-tors. The spurious coins found in Ogden are fairly good imitations of the valid coins, and the deception cannot be detected without a close scrutiny. |