The Anaconda Standard

SMUGGLING CHINAMEN
Oregon Lawyers Making a Business of
Issuing Bogus Certificates.

HOW THEY WORKED IT

It Cost a Chinaman $120 to Get Into the United States-

Some Had to Pay More.

Portland, Ore., April 2.-If the investigation into the methods of the Chinese at this port and along Puget Sound, commenced by Special Treasury Agent Noyes, is carried far enough it is said that some conventional revelations will be made.

Customs Inspector Todd of Vancouver, B. C., who arrived last night, says that the steamer Haytien Republic has been carrying a large number of Chinese every trip and but a small proportion were sent back until the last trip, when 87 were deported. It is said that these Chinese all have certificates, which were procured from Portland and Salem, and notaries and lawyers in the two cities are in the business of furnishing them. The Chinamen sent their photographs, which were attached to bogus certificates. They pay $10. The Haytien Republic charges them $50 fare, and then they have to pay the agent $10 to see that they get in all right.

The Tacoma Ledger this morning published a letter purporting to be instructions from the Gin Who company of Hong Kong to prominent persons of Portland, instructing them how to smuggle into the United States and take care of 67 Chinamen who came on the steamer Haytien Republic a week ago. The letter also states that the price to be paid the smuggler was $6 a head, and, in three special cases, $175 and $25 were also paid to Mrs. Virgil Moor of Portland as soon as the Chinamen arrived. Five Chinese are now held at Astoria, awaiting deportation, it having been discovered that the names of five well known business men of that city had been forged to their certificates.