The San Francisco call., 1898-01-12
WHAT HAS
 BECOME OF
 E. K. ALSIP? Quite a Furry in Commercial Cir
 cleS. A Strange Disappearance That Causes Some
 UneaSineSS. Nothing Heard From the Real Estate Man Since Last
 Friday. FILES IMPORTANT DEEDS. Transfers All of His Real and Per sOnal Property to His Wife. Also Gives a Mortgage.
Nothing Heard From the Real Estate Man Since Last
 Friday.
FILES IMPORTANT DEEDS.
Transfers All of His Real and Per sOnal Property to His Wife.
 Also Gives Mortgage.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 1.-The mys- terious disappearance of Edwin K. AL sip has caused quite a furry in commer- cial circles. Since Friday last no word has been received from him. To-night's Bee contains the following statement:
 A Bee reporter visited Mrs. E. K Alsip at her home in this city this morning. but Mrs. Alsip could say no more than that she had expected her husband home last Friday night. She did not regard his absence as strange, however. in view of the fact that his business often called him away.
 Two deeds, which transfer all of AL sips real and personal property to his wife, were filed with County Recorder Cohen at 10 o'clock last Friday morn ing by w. Elmer Brown, who is con- nected with Alsips office. After Brown had given both deeds to P. Ruman, the deputy for filing, he gave a mortgage whereby Alsip mortgaged stated DOT tions of his property to Mrs. Caroline Swinnerton to secure $S500 borrowed from her.
 By the terms of the first deed Alsip gives to his wife, Mrs. Mary A. Alsip, the consideration being love and af- lection, all the property situated ly ing and being in the county of Sacra- mento, designated and described as all unsold lots in Oak Park and South Sacramento as described upon the map or plan of said Oak Park and South Sacramento as filed in the County Re corder's office of the county and State aforesaid, all unsold lots and half acres in subdivisions A. B and c, and all half-acre lots, and all lots or acreage property as described upon the map of Oak Park, or upon Oak Park and South Sacramento; also all real or personal property of every kind or na- ture wherever found In Sacramento or Placer counties; also the land upon the Louisiana tract, the Anderson tract in Sacramento County; also my undiYid- ed one-third interest in the Sunset Col onies or Fair Oaks, and Fair Oaks ad- ditiOn to Sacramento County"
 The second deed to his wife, the con- sideration being the same, transfers to her all of Alsip's property described as the west half of lot 6, blocks R and s, Nineteenth and Twentieth streets; also blocks x and Y, Twentieth and Twenty first streets; lots 3, 4, 5, s, ' and s. blocks w and x. Twenty first and Twenty second streets; also undivided interest in lot 6. blocks O and P, Twenty first and Twenty streets, subject to mort gage of S200O, due G. c. Locke, and a mortgage of $9500, due Theodore Ker- gel.
 Both of these deeds are dated Janu- ary 5, 1898. The mortgage which Brown next handed to the Deputy Re- corder for filing states that Edwin K. Alsip has mortgaged the following property to Caroline G. SwinnertOn to secure a promissory note for SS500: All that property in the county of Sacra- mento described as half acre lots from 102 to 113, both inclusive, as per map of Oak Park and South Sacramento on file in the County Recorders office; also 5, A, G, 5. A, H, 5. A, I, ,, A, K, 5. A, L, 2.17, J and M, 5.S9, as per map of Oak Park and South Sacramento on file in the County Recorders office; also lots TO- 12, 13, IA, 15, Is, 2S, 29 and south 6% acres of lots II and 30, as per map of the Anderson tract on file in mentO County; also my portion of the south quarter of section 20 and ] east half of section 29, township s north, range east"
 All three documents-the two deeds to Alsip's wife, giving her all his prop erty, and the mortgage to Mrs. Swim nerton-are of the same date, January 5, 1898, and all three are in Alsip's handwriting and were attested by Al fred EnquiSt, notary public of San Francisco, on the day on which the instruments are dated.
 At the Recorders office it was deem ed somewhat singular that deeds which were of such a sweeping character should be followed by a mortgage for $S500 on certain of the property which it was supposed was included in the deeds to his wife.
 The most peculiar document filed by MT. Alsip was mortgage to Mrs Swinnerton, for whom he has been transacting business for many years. In an interview published in to-nights Bee, Mrs. SWinnerton says:
 MT. Alsip has been attending to my property, collecting rents and making loans for me. Every month in all that time he would present a statement which would show me exactly how my affairs stood. He never made a loan without consulting me, although he had my power of attorney to do so, as he thought best. But I know nothing about this last loan. I do not remem- Der his ever saying to me that he de- sired to borrow money from me on his own account. When my husband died thirteen years ago, he told me should trust MT. Alsip with my busi- ness affairs, and I have done so i'm plicitly. I have the utmost confidence in him, and I believe that he has all ways acted in my interest. As I have said, I did not know of the existence of this SS500 mortgage until I was told about it to-day. I am a woman, and of course, not familiar with these mat ters But I look to Mir. Alsip with con- fidence that he will explain every thing to my satisfaction when he comes back"
 The last seen of MT. Alsip in this city was on Wednesday of last week. when he appeared before Notary AL fred A. Enquist, at the latter's office on Montgomery street, to acknowledge his signature to the documents above mentioned. Inquiry among prominent real estate men yesterday failed to elicit any clew to the whereabouts of the missing man or to suggest a sat isfactory theory as to the cause of his disappearance