The San Francisco call., 1904-07-20
HEAVY FINES
ARE SUED FOR
PalO Alto. Contractor May
Have to Pay Uncle Sam
Three Thousand Dollars
ALIEN LAWS VIOLATED
Mountain View Farmer
AbscOndS After Having
Started a BucOlic School

BY direction Of United States District
Attorney Marshall B. Woodwork, As
sistant United States Attorney Charles
NJ. Fickert filed five complaints yes
terday in the United States District
Court against George w. Mosher and
H. c. Barber for violating the act of
Congress approved March 3, 1903. en-
titled An act to regulate the immi-
grafton Of aliens into the United
States"
Mosher is a contractor and builder
doing business at Palo Alto. There are
three complaints against him to recover
an aggregate penalty of $4,000 and costs
as provided for by the act. There are
two complaints against Barber to re-
cover an aggregate penalty Of $1,000 and
costs.
1t is alleged that Mosher on April
3, 1904, went to Windsor, Nova Scotia,
Canada, and entered into an express
parole contract with Edgar c. Burgess,
Everett Burgess and Warren E. Harvie
TO employ them as carpenters at PalO
Alto at wages Of 81 a day, and that
under this contract they went to Palo
Alto and worked as carpenters.
The complaint against Barber
charges him with having made writ
ten contract with John Inwood and
George Neaves Parez in London.
England, on November 1, 1903, where
by they were eventually to be en-
ployed on Barber's farm at Mountain
View as farm hands at wages of $50
per month each The contracts are
identical, with the exception of the
names. They contain the following
conditions:
Inwood and Parez paid Barber one
hundreds pounds sterling each on No
vember 2, 1903, and each contracted to
pay fifty pounds sterling additional not
later than May 2 1904 In return Bar
Der agreed to furnish them board,
lodging and washing at his home at
Mountain View, California, for
period of not less than one year nor
more than eighteen months-the exact
time to be decided by Barber" He
also agreed to furnish them with in
structiOn during the period mentioned
in the different branches of farming,
etc, engaged in by the party of the
first part" He also guarantees "at
the expiration of one year or eighteen
IUoMlnS employ NIutill dl a SdidIy OL HON
less than $50 per month with board
and lodging" The contract recites:
II is further agreed upon and promised by
the party OF the second part that he viii
PIT his heEos TO such work shall Be
quired of him by the party OF the first part,
and in all matters pertaining TO the work Ic-
QCired of him do the party of the FIRST
part his representatives directs and orders.
Also IN the matters Of and in such mat ers
-, punctuality at meals and the hour of re-
firing al night the party Of the second par.
premises and agrees TO conform to the rules
OF the party OF the first parts establishment.
After Barber had received his money
from his credulous agricultural stu
dents, of whom ii is said he had six or
eight, he absconded, and his where
abouts are not known to the Federal
officials. He had advertised in GER
tain newspapers in London that he was
conducting an agricultural college at
Mountain View where farming and
fruit growing would be taught practic-
ally, and he received many remunera-
tive replies. Shortly after Barber's
sudden disappearance the United
States Immigrant Bureau at this city
instituted an investigation and the
matter was reported to United States
District Attorney Woodwork.