The San Francisco call., 1898-12-24
DETECTIVES
 ARE SEEKING
 FOR PARKER His Wife Wires From
 Chicago. NO CHEW TO THE LAWYER MORE EVIDENCE THAT HE IS A MAN OF WEALTH. Believed That He Is Sick in Some Part of the State and Unable to Send Word to His
 Friends.
V0 CHEW TO THE LAWYER
MORE EVIDENCE THAT HE IS A
 MAN OF WEALTH.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

sos Broadway, Dec. g.
 The mystery surrounding Ine disa ppear- ance of John R. Parker was not lifted to- day, but rather deepened. In answer to the dispatch sent from Chicago last night by Chief Fletcher, several dispatches were received to-day. One was sent to the proprietor of the Galindo Hotel by Mrs Parker, who is now in Chicago, asking for details of her husbands whereabouts, if any are obtainable.
 This morning detective in the employ of the Hibernia Bank of San Francisco came to Oakland to search for clews of the missing man. The bank has been asked by prominent attorney of Chi cago, who knows Parker well, to try to locate him. Their detective could obtain no more news than was printed In this mornings papers, for Parker dropped completely out of sight and no one is able to even guess where he went.
 The ordinary theories or foul play have been advanced but 1t is regarded as far more reasonable that Parker is lying sick in some place unknown to his friends. When he left the Galindo he was known to be sick and 1t is probable that he be- came seriously i'll and that he will soon be found on account of the rublicity given to his disappearance.
 When Attorney Parker came to Oakland month ago he called on several attor neys in the building where he rented of hces, and made himself acquainted. One or these attorneys is Darwin C. de Golia. MT. Parker called in my office a few days after his arrival said MT. de Golia this afternoon, and we discussed various matters for a couple of hours. He told me of his Chicago connections and of his purposes in coming to California, and he evidently intended to look around and if everything was satisfactory to bring his family out here. 1 am convinced he is a man of some means, and he impressed me with the fact that he is a man of excel lent judgment and stability. I am certain that he is not keeping away from Oakland of his own desire
 Nothing more has been heard of the man who called at the Galindo Hotel two days after Parker's disappearance and in- formed the proprietor that Parker was sick and would not be back for a few days. He has not called again and there is no trace of him to be found. Parker mail still accumulateS at his office in the Blake & Motfitt block. but as no one has any authority to touch it it throws no light on his disappearance.
 It has been learned that a man named Parker was buried here November 23 but although well along in years he was not the missing attorney.
 A guest at the Galindo Hotel was found tonight who had a conversation with Parker the night before he left. estate and was to return in a couple of days. Mrs. Allen, proprietor of the hotel, | recalls conversation in which Parker told her he was going to Stockton, and i she says if he be sick he is in a Catholic hospital, as he said he was once so well treated in one of those institutions that he would go to no other.