Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXVIII, Number 302, 29 July 1901 — SMUGGLING GANG IS DISCOVERED Nest of Chinese Slave Dealers Across Mexican Lino I tilled Slates Authorities Powerlen to Interfere With Operation* of i elentlaln a* Look a* They Kentnltt Outside of the American IJoumlary [ARTICLE]

SMUGGLING GANG IS DISCOVERED Nest of Chinese Slave Dealers Across Mexican Lino I tilled Slates Authorities Powerlen to Interfere With Operation* of i elentlaln a* Look a* They Kentnltt Outside of the American IJoumlary

(Special Correspondence.) NOGALES, Ariz., July 26.—A nest of Chinese slave dealers has been discovered at Nogales. Sonora, by Chinese lnI spector Edwin Baker, Treasury Agf*nt I T. J. Roush and oilier United Stato-j uu- i thorities, but they haye no power to interfere with the operations of the gang in Mexico. Sing Lee stands guard and commander over the Nogales campus, it is said. His army constantly has recruits who are drilled nnd disguised in Chinese raiment for their race through the line riders. The line rider* rapture many and start them back on llieir long voyage to < 'hina. but a heavy percentage Sing Lee'* wards prove too elusive. They are taken in wagons over sinuous mountain trails and through the wilds of Arizona ; seldom peneterated by white men, eventually reaching either Tucson, Ariz., or | Clifton, Ariz., which are resting points, j and then they are furnished with tickets . for L«»s Angeles ot 3an Fram o.* "Chock gees," or certificates issued in j 18S4 to the Chinese then in this country, j are counterfeited on the wholesale plan.' and furnished to smuggled Chinese at pri« es ranging from > t > 5200. According to Roush, better known as "Chock Gee Tom," the smuggling gang at Nogales has a regular schedule of prices for secretly getting Oriental immigrants inty this country. A charge iof $50 isi mpo>e.l upon ea< h Celestial who has already provided himself with a "chock gee," and $200 is the charge whf-n a bogus cort iti' .i t'• l» pmvid. d.