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The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
MISSING $1,000
SEEMS TO Have
TAKEN Wings
Detectives Unable TO Find Any
Trace of CrOcker Banks
Vanished Money
Authorities Looking for Leger=
dermain Performer, as Gold
Was Repeatedly Checked

No definite trace has been found yet
by the postal authorities and detectives
OF the $1,000 consigned TO the Crocker
national bank. the disappearance of
which was reported exclusively in The
Call yesterday morning.
The money Was in transit from the
First national bank of Los Angeles TO
the Crocker bank in this city. In all,
100000 was being sent as fourth class
mail matter in four big mail sacks The
money was in coin sacks, each contain
ing $1,000 in $50 gold pieces. 1t ar
rived at the San Francisco postof1ce
safely. the sacks were counted and
presumably checked four times and
finally reached the hands of Delivery
Clerk Frank a. Haas of 21S Twenty
eighth street. The coin was called for
by John P. Hearst Of S47 Fell street,
an employe of the bank.
HEARST NOT SUSPECTED
There the mystery of the theft comes
in. The bank officials have implicit
confidence in the honesty Of Hearst. He
receipted at the postof1ce for 100000.
When the coin reached the bank and
was counted il was found that there
was only $4,000 in the mail pouches.
Hearst has been dismissed from the
bank. but. merely on account of what
the bank officials believe TO have been
his csrelessneSs-
Offcials Of the Crocker national bank
were reticent yesterday in discussing
the robbery. They said that they We're
not investigating the crime, but that
il was up TO the postal authorities.
The postal inspectors were equally
silent on the matter but are busy.
The First national bank of Los An
zeIes has the receipt Of the Los An
geles postof1ce department for the full
amount of $780, 900 and the postal office
IN san Francisco has the receipt of the
Crocker national bank for the full
$4,000 II is a case of sufficient re-
ceipts but insufficient coin. Just where
The jugglery, which covered a theft,
took place is not known.
GUARD GOES ALONG
Hearst went 10 the bank with Cas-
sius p Wright OF 732 First avenue. a
former police sergeant who is now a
guard at the Crocker bank. Wright
had no part in the formal transfer of
the coin. He acted as guard. The
money was taken to the Crocker bank
about 10 o'clock on the morning of its
arrival q week ago and was placed in
one Of the cages and was not counted
until about o'clock in the afternoon
Then the shortage was Immediately
discovered
The bank officials called the postal
inspectors in the conference. It was
learned that the money had been count
ed and checked four times at the post
office and each time the sum was re-
ported correct. Haas, the clerk who
delivered the valuable consignment to
Hearst, has not been removed from
duty by the postal authorities
Word was received from the First
national bank of Los Angeles yesterday
that the full amount of coin, $4,000
had been shipped from there and ac-
knowledged by the postofice authori-
ties there. Since the money was so re-
peatedly checked and tailed, the postal
authorities are looking for a legerde-
main performer who would make 81, 900
vanish in thin air while it was being
counted
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
LE BRETON CLAIM
SCALED BY COURT
Judge Seawell Makes S12,l94
Allowance for Services of
Late Receiver
Defunct California Safe Deposit
Company Saved So,5l5 by
the Ruling

The estate of Edward J. LIE Breton
was allowed by Judge Seawell yester-
day S12194 for lie Breton's services as
receiver of the insolvent California safe
deposit and trust company for the pc
riod from January 1, 1909, to March 10,
1910, being at the rate of $4,000 year.
His attorneys, ]. V. de Lavea ga and E.
de Los Magee, were allowed S1S,a91, or
$500 a year each, for the same period.
The sums asked for were $4,000 for
the receiver and $4,000 for the attor-
neys for the IA months and 19 days.
The total compensation was therefore
scaled down s9,515.
In giving his decision Judge Seawell
paid high tribute to the late LIE
Breton, when he said: "It is the opin-
ion of every one interested in the bank
that Mr.. lie Breton performed his duties
with great intelligence, integrity and
fidelity. 1 think 1T is fortunate cir
cumstance that the services of this gen.
tleman were obtained. To my knowl-
edge he himself performed much expert
work in the unraveling of special
claims that another receiver would
have employed expert to do. In
view of the fact that the bank is not a
going concern, l have concluded that
$4,000 a year would be reasonable
compensation for his services
AS to the attorneys remuneration
Judge Seawell said he was satisfied
both De Laveaga and Magee had dis
played great ability, conscientiousness
and fidelity in the services they had
rendered. 1t would have been a proper
thing, he also said, if the receiver had
engaged the lawyers at a salary and
not left it to the court to fix the
amount of compensation.
Julius Raphael, chairman of the de-
positors' association, and I I. Brown
and Samuel Rosenheim, attorneys for
the association. who on prior occasion
asked the court to reduce the amounts
asked for, were in court yesterday.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
INQUEST HELD OVER
ANNIE CORBETT'S BODY
Conductor Who Betrayed Girl
Is Silent

The coroner held an inquest yester-
day on the body of Miss Annie Corbett,
who died at ST. Josephs, hospital on
July IA as the result of criminal op-
Grafton performed by DR. f. G.. Car
pentier on June 80. G. G. Wood. the
conductor who shot himself after learn
ing that the girl he had betrayed was
dying, had sufficiently recovered from
his wound to be present, but on the ad-
vice of his attorney, 7. I. Fitzpatrick,
he declined to testify on the ground
that he might incriminate himself. The
jury returned an open verdict. Wood
is now in detinue at the city prison, as
the police do not know yet whether to
charge him as an accessory or hold him
as witness against Carpenter.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
AUTO CATCHES FIRE
AND is DESTROYED
Mrs. Austin Keough of San
Francisco Injured
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

IOpecldI DiSpdtch 10 ne IdlII
SOLEDAD, July 22.-An automobile
bearing Mrs. E. A. Christensen, her son
Karl and Mrs. Austin Keough, all of
San Francisco, caught fire from the
gasoline tank near here today and was
completely destroyed.
The car was travelling at about 20
miles an hour when the fire was dis
covered.
The occupants. except Mrs. Keough,
who injured her ribs, escaped without
injury. The loss was $500.
The gasoline tank was torn open
by a broken piece of the engine fly
wheel.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
HOME TELEPHONE
COMP PANIES Unite
Bay Cities Corporation Gets Title
to Properties and
Franchises
Anglo- California Trust Com
pany Assumes Guarantee of
Sz0,000,000 Bonds

The Home telephones companies of
which have been operated under COM
mon mana cement, were announced yes
terday to have merged their interests
into the Bay Cities Home telephone
company. The consolidation necessi-
tated the taking up of the bond issues
of the former two companies and the
issuance of s20,oO0,000 of new securi-
ties Attorney Frick of Thomas,
Gerstle, Frick & Beedy, representing
the corporation, stated last night that
the transfers were merely in the way
of reorganization.
Frick said: The mortgages held by
the Union trust company on the prop
critics of the local Home company and
by the Mercantile trust company on
those of the Alameda company have
been taken up and the Anglo-CaEfornia
trust company has assumed the trustee
ship of the new corporation and will
underwrite a S20,000,000 bond issue re-
firing the others"
The consolidation was marked yes
terday by the filing of series of pa
pers, executing the transfers, with the
county recorder. The reconveyance by
the Union trust company to the Home
Ict6pHOHe company Oh OdH FTdnClSCO OF
the deeds whereby the latter trans
ferred its properties July 1. 1907. and
that by the Mercantile trust company
to the transbay organization OF its
deeds held in trust were first made of
record.
The Home telephone company of San
Francisco gave a deed under date of
July 1. 1910. to the Bay Cities Home
telephone company. transferring its
franchise and it's properties within the
city. including the following six pieces
of real estate: Lot at Harland place
and Grant avenue (the main ofice
building) and lots at Howard and
Fourth streets, in Bush near Fillmore,
Seventeenth street and Albion avenue.
Seventh avenue near Point Lobos and
Seventh avenue near / street.
The Bay Cities corporation then
transferred to the sAnglo-California
trust company title TO all these prop
critics. to the franchises of the plants
across the bay and to real property in
Oakland. Emeryville and Berkeley. the
latter assuming the guarantee of bond
issue of $20,000,000 at per cent in
terest for 90 year term.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
CLUBMAN JAILED FOR
DIVORCE TESTIMONY
Willis Counselman Pays Penalty
for Discarding Wife

CHICAGO, July 22.-Willis Counsel
man, broker and clubman, whose di-
vorce from his insane wife, Lulu Coun-
selman, was set aside by the courts
after Counselman married Miss Clara
French, was sentenced to three months
in Jail by Judge -Chetlain in the supe-
rior court here today. Judge Chetlain
held Counselman in contempt of court
because of the brokers' testimony in
the divorce hearing.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
CHICAGO PACKERS BUY
CREAMERY AT FERNDALE
Butter Factory to Be Worked to
Full Capacity
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

EUREKA, July 22.-Swift & co. Of
Chicago have purchased the Pioneer
eamery at Ferndale. The deal was
closed today The creamery has a
daily capacity of 1900 pounds OF butter
and will be worked to full capacity
hereafter. Well founded report has it
that the Chicago firm will endeavor to
control thescreamery industry OF Hum
boldt county. Libby, Mcneil & Libby
of Chicago have for the last two years
owned and operated the largest milk
condensery in this county.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
MEMBER OF MAYBRAY
GANG CAUGHT AT LAST
"Steerer" in $4,000 Robbery
Case Found in Kansas

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, July 22-
Word was received here today of the
arrest at Florence, Kan, of Barney
Martin an alleged member of the May
bray gang, for whom the authorities
have been searching for months. Mar
tin is said to have acted as steerer in
the case in which Samuel Suter of
Cass Lake, Mimi, complained of hav-
ing been robbed of $4,000. He is under
federal indictment in Council Bluffs
and Omaha.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
POSTAL SWINDLER Is
ARRAIGNED IN SOUTH
Wanted Here for Defrauding
MARYLAND Man

LOS ANGELES, July 22.-J. S. Wiley,
who was arrested last night in North
Pasadena by J. F. Durlin, United States
marshal, at the request of the federal
authorities in San Francisco, where he
is wanted on a charge of using the
mails to defraud, was arraigned to-
day.
Wiley is accused of writing from
San Francisco, under the name of DR..
R. L. Wilby, to Paul Holsinger of
Ridgely, Md. informing the latter that
his son. D. L. Holsinger was i'll and
under the writer's care and needed
money in order to make the journey
home.
Wiley is. alleged to have obtained
SIS at one time and $50 at another by
means of the letters.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23
PACKING
INQUIRY CONTINUES

CHICAGO, July 22-The federal
grand jury, which is conducting the
investigation into the affairs of the
National packing company. heard the
testimony of eight witnesses here to-
day and adjourned until Tuesday,
when the examination of witnesses will
be continued. Witnesses who appeared
today were from the east and south.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23

PUEBLO GROWS FAsT-Wssbington Julv % !
Census returns issued today show the popula-
ton Of Pueblo. Colo. 10 be A 395 as COM
pared with 2s.la IN 1900. an increase of 81. I
per cent Pueblo county. Colo. has a populs-
tion Of 55.22S, as compared with "a, AS in
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23

wisely directed, VIII cause her to
give to her little ones only the most
wholesome and beneficial remedies
and only when actually needed, and
the well-informed mother uses only
the pleasant and gentle laxative rem
edy-Syrup Of Figs and Elixir Of
Senna-when a laxative is required,
as it is wholly free from all obiec-
tionable substances. To get Its ben
efcial effects always buy the genu-
inc, manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-23

HOLIDAY FOR HANGING -Belleville, ILL.,. July
22.-The hanging of Robert Martin, a negro,
who murdered another negro. furnished holt
day spectacle for 1900 men who held the
tickets of admission TO the jailyard today.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

most of the chicks will resemble the
hens. Sometimes a fine, vigorous male
does not seem to count at all in trans
mitting comb TO his chicks. But more
often there will be no rule when ex-
tremes are mated together-combs
will come, some larger and some
smaller than any of the parents. Side
sprigs repeat themselves with unfail-
ing obstinacy. Comb texture can be
depended upon to repeat. Double
points are especially prevalent in some
strains-are a family characteristic
but the majority of the offspring will
not inherit them though both parents
have this defect, and that fact tends
to retain them in the breed. Saw-teeth
at the front or back or jogs at the
back tend 10 repeat but on selecting
parents free from them they will not
disappear in many generations. Thick
or thin combs repeat. The tendency
to thumb-marks repeats rather than
the marks themselves; thus the hen
with a thumb-mark will throw chicks
with the mark on the other side or
farther forward or back. Highness or
lowness of comb at the back cannot
be depended upon to repeat and out
lines of combs never repeat. l doubt
If these are two Minorca combs in the
world so nearly alike as your two
hands Your gloves would fit very bad
ly if you exchange them, but if we
could find a pair of Minorcas whose
combs are so beautifully compliment
tary as the two hands, we would be
step in advance. Herein possibly lies
the trouble, the males comb does not
fit the females in shape and they can
not repeat If we could breed for
nothing but symmetry of comb, we
might work out the rule but we can
not so as said at the outset. If there
is a science in breeding combs, 1t is
too deep for me.
In conclusion I would say that I am
very much given to the idea of single
matings of ali breeds-I think even
Barred Rocks can be bred so-that l
believe in giving great prominence to
size because it is required, not be-
cause I think it ought to be, and to
respecting the simple law that in the
long run, like produces like.
GEORGE ALBERS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
DETAILS THAT COUNT

Whatever business one may choose
to follow for life, there will be found
more or less detail connected with 1t,
and with some kinds of business much
of the success to be had in 1t depends
on the closeness with which the least
detail Is carried out.
NY experience has been thus far that
the chicken business is one of many
details, and thev need close following
too. Perhaps this is one of the causes
why so many fail to stay in the busi-
ness long: the detail is too much for
them; they are like some hens we see
about this time of the year-they have
laid goodly number of eggs and now
think they would like to rear fam
lily; trying them on with the eggs, we
find that they stay on a few days and
then quit. What for? Well, that kind
of work don't suit their nature; in other
words, they would rather do something
else lust then, and all is lost. The eggs
put under them are neither eggs nor
chickens for market purposes.
Unless a person is willing to give at
tention to little things and not only
do them once, but many times as the
occasion may require. I would not ad-
wise them to take uu poultry culture as
a means of support, for If they do 1t
will be but to fail.
Possibly some one may like to know
a little of the detail from the starting
point
First-Have on hand cash enough to
make a good start, or enough so that
you will not have to let the fowls grow
hungry the first year.
Second-Provide good coops so that
the fowls can get under cover out of the
sun and storms, and at night, so there
will not be too many together, and also
out of currents of air.
Third-Provide a separate coop for
each little brood of chicks, give them
all the room you can.
Fourth-Keep all buildings for fowls
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
IN THE POULTRY YARD

Before the incubator is put away for
the summer be sure that it is given
a thorough cleaning, that the old
wicks are removed and that the oil is
emptied out of the lamps. The ma
chimes should be stored in dry place.
If out -of-d door brooders are used,
they should be placed where they Will
be sheltered from the hot sun.
1t is also necessary that shade be
provided in the runs occupied by grow
ing chicks, if the latter are confined.
An abundance of water must be sup
piled. but it should be kept out of the
direct rays of the sun. Lukewarm wa
ter is not palatable even to chickens.
1t is imperative that green food be
supplied to growing chicks. If 1t Is
possible to give them the run of the
lawn for an hour or two late In the
afternoon, they will get their own
green rations; but, otherwise, they
should be fed lawn clippings, or what
ever else is most available.
If lawn clippings are not to be had,
it may be possible to grow few plants
of Swiss chard. If the tops are cut at
short intervals, new leaves will quickly
form.
1t is a good plan to save the surplus
lawn clippings and dry them for use
during the winter 1t is only necessary
to spread them out in the sun, stirring
them up occasionally with the feet
until they are dried.
Chickens on range will get all the
bugs and worms which they need, but,
if confined, some meat should be fed,
preferably in the form of beef scraps,
which may be given after the chicks
are six weeks old.
Sour milk is excellent for growing
chicks. and can be fed without fear of
causing digestive troubles If clean
dishes are used.
Remember that cleanliness is very
important, particularly during the
warm weather. All the food and water
dishes should be thoroughly cleaned,
using hot water, at frequent Intervals.
In many situations it is wise to
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

we'll covered with whitewash, put on
thick.
Fifth-Guard against vermin of all
kinds, from Cinnamon down to little
red mites, for they don't help the busi-
ness on the profitside, and vermin are
thick on this coast.
Sixth-Look well to the feed box, for
out of it will come the profit or loss
in the business. Feed good clean food,
and just enough to keep your fowls IN
good health and flesh. Don't feed too
often or too much, feed in clean box
or trough. Keep clean, fresh water be-
fore your fowls at all times. Spade up
runways and clean out droppings from
roosts often; in fact, cleanliness Is the
Golden Rule of the poultry yard.
Seventh-Dont try to do too much,
and thus fail to do anything; do lit
tie, and do it well. Don't keep fowls
shut up in one coop until a. M, or let
little chicks out to run in the wet grass
in early morning; better wait until 1t is
dry.-Fanciers' Monthly.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

screen the windows and all other open
ings to the chicken coops and poultry
houses in order to keep out rats, cats,
foxes and other destructive animals.
If the fowls are confined to the yard,
the ground should be spaded or broken
up with a hand plow every week.
The ideal plan is to have a double
run, so that some quick-growing crop
may be grown in one while the other
is in use.
It is well to dispose of the male
BIRDS after the breeding season has
closed, as the hens will Law better
Suburban Life.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
A BIT OF CONSERVATION

An Englishman hired an Irish cabby
to get him to the train. The Irishman's
horse was going very slowly and the
Englishman stuck his head out of the
cab window and said:
whip him up. Give him the gad.
Hit him in a vital spot"
"An' sure" said the cabby, 1--WE hit
him in every vital spot but the ears
and I'm saving them for the hill"
Fifty-seven unmarried persons commit sui
eide to forty-three married.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
| Pay My Way

There are more just like nae who
ought to be working for YOU. Why are
you not in the poultry business on
practical basis, on commercial basis,
on q PAYING BASIS? The IngIewOOd
Poultry Colony is the place where the
biggest poultry business In tho southwest
Is being built up NOW. In the Ingle-
wood Poultry Colony poultry and eggs
bring higher prices than they do any
where else, and you can buy supplies
cheaper than you can from any dealer
Buy q farm In the InglewOOd Poultry
Colony where the terms are most rea-
sonable, where you will always be
treated right, where poultry raising Is
business, and where you CAN SELL
everything you produce at the highest
market prices. Stop and think what
this means and get full information from
InglewOOd Land Company
Room 349, zoo South Spring
Main 6913i Home AS229.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
HAYES r. B.
Rhode Island Specialist
700 Reds 20 Breeding Pens

Our reds win their share of the prizes on
this coast and come from eastern stock that
have been line bred for fifteen years and
win in New York and Boston. Visitors at
our yards say they are the best nock Of reds
they have ever Yards in Arroyo OPP
posite ostrich farm. Take South Pasadena
car to Avenue 66. one block north to San
Pasqual avenue. then two blocks north on
same BOX 85, GARVANZA STATION, Los
ANGELES, CAL. Phone East 1891.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-02
BETTER FEELING EXISTS.

CBy Badger Bros Private Wire.)
New York, Oct. There is very lit
tie to note in the way of a change in
the Wall street situation at the close
of tile week. The end of the month has
passed over without money disturb
ance. which is exceedingly satisfactory
To the banking community, and with
the return of $40. 600. 600 of disburse-
ments to regular channels again,
money conditions should remain as
heretofore With the understanding
tlfat railroads will be given the square
Geol by the government in the matter
Of raising freight and passenger rates,
= materially better feeling now exists
in the steel and iron outlook, as rail
ways will be ia the market soon with
very heavy orders for all classes OF
material, and this means a distinct
change for the better in the entire in
dustrial world The political situation
which is now drawing to q focus, has
been watched keenly by not only bank
ing people but the entire business COM
munity over the coGntry.-E. F. Hut
ton & Co.