The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-10
HARKER MAY Be INSANE.
The Young Attorneys Friends
Say He Had No Reason
to Flee.
L. E. Whites Vast Estate Goes Il
His Family Without Probate.
Meetings in Berkeley.

BERKELEY, CAL, July 9.-Charles F.
Harker, a young San Francisco attorney
who has been residing in Berkeley, has dis
appeared and his relatives fear that he has
committed suicide. Harker had been suf-
fering from dependency for some days,
financial troubles and poor health having
combined to depress him.
On Friday morning the young man left
for San Francisco and nothing has been
heard of him since. His home in San
Francisco is at 3214 Washington street and
his Office at Suffer street. An investiga-
ton of Harker's affairs shows that there
was no reason FOR especial dependency on
his part and it is thought that he became
insane.
Since last Friday the most diligent
inquiries have been made by the relatives
of the missing young man, but they have
failed to elicit any information. Harker
resided in Berkeley with his sister and her
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Fernald, at Bush
nell place. His brother. George A. Harker,
is a member of the University class of '9S.
Death of an Old Resident.
BERKELEY. CAL, July GA. Thieger,
who for many years conducted bakery at
West Berkeley, died this morning of heart
disease. leaving widow and five children.
He was member of the Bakers Union
and of the Sons of Herman, and had been
in Berkeley for eighteen years.
News Notes of Interest.
BERKELEY, CAL, July 9.-The entire
estate of the late L. E. White, the "Lum-
Der King" who died at Cazadero last
week, will go to his wire and children and
the transfer will be made without probate
proceedings, the millionaire having decided
it to them in its entirety.
T.. e. kl.< b.
tempt of court of John r. Perkins. who
was shot at Lorin last Christmas by
Albert Menzenmeyer. Perkins was cited
TO appear before Justice Lord in civil suit
and failed TO be on hand.
The Citizen Suffrage Society Of Berkeley
will hold meeting in Stiles Hall next
Monday afternoon.
The parish of st. Marks Episcopal
Church has decided to enlarge its vestry
to seven members after August s. The
new vestrymen will be A. a. Pennoyer
and A. NJ. Sutton. The present vestry
consists of James Palache, S. S. G. Parker,
+. L. Hobson, Professor w. A. Merrill and
George w. Kline.
Professor Granville E. Foster, formerly
of the State Normal School OF Illinois. will
preach in the North Berkeley Congrega-
tional Church next Sunday evening on
1.-THE Immortality of the Soul as Illus
trated by the Book of Ecclesiastes."
Berkeley Lodge, i. y. y. f., installed the
following new officers this evening: W.
b. Chase, n. e.; NJ. 2. Geirrine, V. g.;
Charles Geirrine, secretary; Joseph Chap
pie, treasurer The officers we're installed
by /. A. Boynton. ID. d. G. M. Harbor
Lodse of Oakland was the guest of Berke-
ley Lodge during the evening.
The funeral of Senior Rafael Gallegos,
the Costa Rican Consul who died yester-
day while walking to the railroad station
in Berkeley, will be held tomorrow morn
ing from st. Joseph's Church on Addison
street.
Professor and Mrs. Irving Stringham
have gone to Los Angeles for few weeks.
Three crematories are in operation in