The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-31
ALL HIGHER UPS
IN MILL[R'S COLONY
Official Title Used as Bait for
Victims in Mendocino Land
Scheme
Arrests of Other Promoters May
Fellow Investigation by
Police
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job, ate one meal at the communal
hotel and walked nine miles to the
nearest depot. The only man who kept
in strict line with his duties was J. c.
Campbell, director of amusements
Campbell, a Scotch-American with a
serious turn OF mind, also ate a meal
at the dream table President Miller
happened to be in the colony at the
time and heard that his director of
amusements was doing his best to
amuse the populace by openly declar-
ing that he would paste the chief of
the clan at the first opportunity.
Campbell hunted all day, but Miller
eliminated himself. Thereafter Camp
bell laid in wait for Miller At his
heels were the peaceful Utopians, ready
for the amusement Campbell won.
he amused his brothers for a week and
Miller finally gave him back his money
and asked him to leave.
With his departure the post fell va
can't but the cOlonists started their own
fun. The hens, under the command of
the superintendent of poultry, wandered
into the domain of the chief OF trans
portation-that is, the stables-and
there laid eggs. To whom did the eggs
belong? Superintendent Charles Welsh
of the transportation bureau claimed
them as his. while D. Kastuk, superin-
tendent of diaries. hotly maintained
they We're his property. The superin-
tendent Of law, Judge Barry of San
Francisco, was not present, so Welsh
took the law into his own hands,
blacked the eyes of his brother ex-
ecutive and ate the eggs.
Catch the Suckers"
scheme was entirely lost when Miller
was heard to declare to Holster, now
superintendent of horticulture, the fol-
lowing words. as follows to wit:
"Pn catch the suckers in the city and
you look after them out here
Inasmuch as this remark should have
been officially passed to the superin-
tendent Of fisheries. the superintendents
Of stock, dairy, poultry, agriculture
buildings. lambing. engineering. cleo
tricity, commerce, transportation, COM
munication, commissary, butchering,
statistics, education, hardware and
teaming shook their heads and began to
pack their goods. One and all declared
they saw through the plan. The per-
suasiye Miller with his bait of super
intendencies landed the fight and turned
them over to Holster TO do them up
brown.
Holster, it seemed, had proved a trail
tor to the common cause. having basely
accepted the position of superintendent
OF horticulture as this was the snap
Job of the outfit-there being no fruit.
and therefore no work. The colonists
declared that on. reaching the colony
they We're subjected to treatment of
kind sufficient to disgust the spirit of
the most kindly. The staple food of
diet was beans. On one happy occasion
the superintendent of lambing-having
nothing to do, there being no lambs nor
sheep-walk down to the store and
bought a package of sugar, and in
weighed the superintendent of electrici-
". who also happened TO be idle be-
cause there was nary an electric spark
Tor miles around, into purchasing six
cheeses.
Who shall conceive the ioy with
which the hungry Utopians greeted the
arrival OF the intrepid brothers. The
spoils were laid away in the store
house. Mrs. Taylor, wife Of the super
intendent of buildings, needed that
sugar. The chief of the commissarv.
Louis Van Hove. refused to part with
1t. Then Mrs. Taylor in ker despera-
ton seized an ak and went for the
door of the storehouse The commfs-
sariat department skedaddled through
the rear window and Mrs. TAYLOR
grabbed her spoils. Te add to the
horror some villain. generally sup
posed to be an intoxicated and >reck-
less Superintendent of BARRIERS. entered
the commissary in the night hours ana
hooked the cheeses.
These details were told the police
last night At meeting yesterday
afternoon the various brothers ca1Iad
each other several names. IT .deveIoned
mat after the directors We're appointed
they would be dropped from the hoa I'd
at special meeting called by Hitler
and that albduring these weary months
whlie tney We're pluning themselves
on being directors, chiefs and sunar-
intendents, they We're naught else h,,t
the plainest of stock holders, shorn of
all glory and $500 in the hole.
Inc DOCKS and papers were a marvel
OF workmanship. They had no begin
ning-and the end Is yet to come. The
postoffice department could find nothinp
substantial on which TO make arrests
and the probabilities are that the fed
eral inspectors will leave Miller in the
hands Of the local police Detective
freel, who. with Detective Bunner
worked on the case, was offered the lob
OF superintendent of accounts by Mil
Ter The corporation employed III Avl-
mer Harding as lecturer. Harding
poses as socialist of prominence. but
was careful to explain yesterday that
he WIS nothing but paid employe and
that his glowing descriptions of the
paradise were purely imaginery. he.
never having seen the place Also. he
did not invest. Misrepresentation the
police declare, We're made wholesale
The corporation does not own a foot ~
land, its chief asset being an option to
purchase the colony site The cattle
belong to the Western livestock COM
pany as do also the buildings and tene-
ments