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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
BARNARD REFUSES
TO TALK OF CASH
Flour Company's EmplOye Says
"The Moneys Cone and
Declines to Explain
[ Special Dispatch 10 The Call

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OAKLAND, June 27.-No plausible
explanation has come to the police of
the methods by which Leland H Bar
nard, the young cashier of the Oak
land branch of the Sperry flour com
pany. parted with $4,000 which he stole
from his employers during a period of
two years by falsifying his daily ac-
counts and tampering with the office
adding machine in making out his
monthly ledger .,H~erts so that the con-
tinuous pecuIa A41A night be concealed
from the heads OF the concern in San
Francisco.
Barnard was arrested last night at
his home. 6675 Duncan street, Berkeley
He told meagerly OF his embezzle-
ment late last night when in nervous
excitement This morning he conferred
for an hour with his attorney, John
J. Allen, and then calmly put the police
aside when they pressed him for an
explanation Of his disposal of his stolen
fortune.
THE moneys gone, and what's the
use of talking about ito" the cashier
replied nonchalantly to Captain of De-
tectives Petersen, when that official
showed him the discrepancies in his
explanation.
Mortgages Cover Property
Barnard had said that he bought
property with his gains. To prove his
assertion. he gave the Red Cow inn. a
saloon at Twenty third and Mission
streets, San Francisco; a barber shop
in the same city, and restaurant and
cigar stand at Second street and Broad
way, Oakland, as his possessions Cap
tain Petersen ascertained that Bar
nard was indeed credited with owner
ship of these business places; but a
brief investigation proved also that
every one was mortgaged for it's full
value.
Barnard could have purchased those
properties almost without any outlay
While he may have put $4,000 at the
most into these deals at the outset, he
plunged heavily into debt in the two
years that he was an office thief, and
the police say that they have no rea-
son to believe that a sixth of the
young mans i'll gotten gains went into
these ventures. Moreover. Barnard, it
is learned, owes money in a multitude
of places. Yet he merely smiles meekly
when the police tell him what they
know, and dismisses their queries with
out explanation. His employers and
the sleuths are all anxious to know
what the cashier is concealing.
No Signs of Dual Life
The natural suspicion was that
giddy night life caused the defalcations,
but the police soon found their pursuit
fruitless, for no clandestine household,
no suggestion of reyelries in the ten
derloin, could be found. And Barnards
home at Berkeley was not the object
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Roosevelt for Leader

CHICAGO. June 27.-United States
Senator Jonathan Bourne Jr. OF Ore
gon. who was in Chicago on his way to
speak at Peoria on the Oregon plan or
electing United States senator's, said
today that he hoped Roosevelt would
take sthe leadership in the advocacy
OF general adoption OF popular govern
ment. by which mean direct account
ability of all public servants to party
and general celebrates than to irrsp
sponsible political machines"
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Cuban Congressman
Attempts to Kill
Political Enemy
Especial Gable 10 The Call

lSpeci0l Gable to he Gall
HAVANA. June 27.-Just be-
fore the house of representatives
opened this afternoon Congress
man Manuel Lores of Santiago
province approached Antonio san
Miguel, congressman from Pinar
del Rio province, in the chamber.
Amicably enough Lores said to
san Miguel. who is the owner and
editor of the Luchu, the most
influential newspaper in Cuba:
Hello, San Miguel, / am glad
to see you here" Before san
Miguel. a Spaniard by birth and a
naturalized Cuban. could reply,
Eores whipped a revolver from
his pocket and shot at him. Quick
as Lores was. General Cullozo,
a congressman, was quicker. He
threw himself on Lores and
spoiled his aim. The bullet
missed San Miguel. but sped
very close to the head of Coma
les La Musa, leader of the minor
it, in the house. In turmoil
on excitement Lores was dis .
armed and his friends hurried
him away
The attack on San Miguel is
said TO be the result of a duel
being called off which had been
arranged between San Miguel and
Senior Moleon, one Of %he sup
porters of Lores in the house.
The seconds arranged the quarrel
and the principals did not meet.
an outcome which displeased
Senor Lores.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
LAO ACRES OF GRAIN
DESTROYED BY FIRE

STOCKTON. June 27-Fire, which
started from sparks from an engine this
afternoon, ran through the barley fields
of Union island, in the southwestern
section of San Joaquin county, and
burned 1,740 acres of grain that ran
from 40 bushels to the acre
A change in the wind drove the fire
to the river bank and stopped the de-
struction.
Most of the grain burned was on the
Williams and Bixler lands, which are
rented. The loss is figured at $50, 900.
all covered by insurance.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
GLIDDEN TOURING CARS
ALL REACH OMAHA

OMAHA, Neb., June 27.-Dal Lewis of
the pathfinder for the Glidden tour ar
rived in Omaha at $50 o'clock this
evening and was followed at intervals
until $3.50 by the % contesting cars.
The 242 miles from Kansas City were
made over the worst of dusty roads, but
no accident of Importance marred the
journey. The tourists have covered
2,294 miles thus far and have 357 miles
yet to go. Pathfinder Lewis said to-
night that this years tour had been the
hardest of any yet attempted.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
HALF HOLIDAY GIVEN
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

BALLEJO, June 27.-Orders were re-
ceived at Mare island today authoriz-
ing regular half holidays for employees
Of the government on Saturdays dur
ing August, July and September. Ek-
sminations win be held at Mare island
next month TO establish an eligible list
from which vacancies in the future will
be filed.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
MINE OWNERS ACCUSED
OF DODGING TAXES
Controller Nye Authorizes Suits
to Recover $4,000
I Special Dspatch 10 The Call

SACRAMENTO. June 27.-State Con
troller Nye has authorized Attorney
General Webb to bring suits against
the Rawhide and App gold mining
companies of Tuolumne county to Sc
cure $4,000 delinquent taxes said to
be due to the state. The principal
owner of these mines is Captain A. V.
Nevills of Fresno, one of the most
prominent mine owners in the state
The two mines in question have been
lodging the payment of taxes for sew
eral years, Nye says.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Reports Denied

NEW YORK, June 27.-Reports that
an operation is to be performed on the
throat of Roosevelt were denied today
by Dr. w. F.. ChappeH. who was said
to have made an engagement to attend
the colonel
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
VATICAN DEMANDS
Change IN spain
Note Insists on Withdrawal of
Decree Before Revision
of COncOrdat

MADRID. June 27.-The Vatican's lat
est note to the Spanish government is
regarded as practically an ultimatum.
IT insists on the withdrawal of the
decree of June Il as a condition preee-
dent to the continuation Of the negotia-
tions over the revision OF the con-
cordat.
The republicans ana radicals are or
ganizing throughout Spain counter
manifestations against the Catholic agi-
fafinn
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
DARTSMOUTH MAN TO
JOIN STANFORD FORCE
Prof. A. A. Young Appointed
Member of Faculty
TSpecial Dspoich 10 The Cali

% STANFORD UNIVERSITY, June 27.-
Pref. G. A Clark, the presidents sec
retary. issued today the official an
.nouncement of the new appointments,
as passed in the meeting OF the board
Of trustees last week.
-. Warren NJ Persons, assistant pro-
1essor Of economics in Dartsmouth COL
lege. has been appointed acting assist
am, professor of economies here dur
ing the absence Of Prof A A. Young.
Professor Persons is a graduate of the
University of Wisconsin.
Dr. M. J.. Ruskin of Washington
university, St Louis, has been ap-
pointed instructor Of anatomy in the
department Of medicine for the aca-
0emic year 19l0-I91L Doctor Ruskin
IS a graduate of the University of
Missouri and Of Washington university
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Not to Visit Denver

DENVER, June Ex-Governor Shaf-
roth today received a letter from Thso-
dore Roosevelt saying that the latter
would be unable to visit Denver this
fall
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Shooting Outside Church

SAN SEBASTIAN. Spain, June 27.-
A religious riot occurred before the
quarters Of the Basque club today and
shots We're exchanged. MunicipaT
guards charged the disturbers, killing
one man and wounding seven others.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Man Killed in Riot

BILBAO, Spain, June republicans
who We're making an anti-Catholic
demonstration entered the Carlist club
rooms today and rioting followed. The
police interviewed, but before the fight
was stopped one man had been killed
and manR other,s ini1lrea
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
La Toilette, After Conference,
Says Former President Is
in Fighting Trim"
SYCAMORE HILL TO BE
STORMED BY INSURGENTS
Radical Senator Declares That
Colonel Is the Greatest
Living American
REPORT OF OPERATION
ON THROAT is FALSE

~ YSTER BAY, N. Y, June H.
I Robert M. La Toilette, United
States senator from Wisconsin
and the father of republican insurg-
ency, spent two hours this afternoon
talking politics with Theodore Roose-
velt. He left Oyster Bay wearing a
broad smile.
Senator Burke of Nebraska, another
insurgent, is coming to Sycamore Hill
after Roosevelt returns from Boston.
He, too, will talk politics.
Representative Madison of Kansas,
irreconcilable insurgent and, as
member of the BaIlinger- -Pinchot con-
gressional investigating committee, an
ardent defender of Clifford Pinchot,
will be at Sycamore Hill. probably late
this week. His theme viii be politics.
Within the last few days Roosevelt
has talked politics with Clifford Pinchot
and his ally, James r. Garfield.
With La Toilette was C. E. Roe, a
new York lawyer, who was formerly
his law partner. The senator declined
to talk before he saw Roosevelt, but
when he returned he was smiling his
most expansive. persuasive smile. .It's
all right. boys" he cried iovially. ssthe
colonel says may talk with you.
Politics Discussed
Did we talk politics?" he replied to
the first question ''We did We talked
of the legislation of the present ses-
sion of congress from the attitude OF
those members of the republican party
whom the newspapers are pleased to
call insurgents"
Can you go into detailsg'
mo. I prefer that they come from
Sycamore Hill. am very much pleased
with the result of my visit with Colonel
Roosevelt, very much pleased, indeed
The senator paused for a moment and
said impressiveIy:
Il want to tell you that Colonel
Roosevelt is the greatest living Ameri-
can, and he added slowly and signif-
icantly. "he is in lighting trin.''
Later the colonel received the inter
viewers, who told him what La Toilette
said about him. The colonel smiled.
Il think there is nothing that I can
add to what the senator has said" he
commented
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
POrtOIa Company to Send Its
Two TrawIers Out TO Sea
Next Week
Surplus Catch Viii Be Donated
to Various Charitable In
stitutiOns of the City
Representatives of Food Conn
bines TO Appear in Court
Today

He tugs BIanco and Annie, re
- built as stea mtrawlers for the
new Portola fishing company,
VIII begin active competition with the
.lsh trust next week. Joseph Catania,
manager of the company, says he will
then proceed to knock ont the argu-
ment advanced in their defense by the
Western and Paladim companies,
which hope 10 escape successful prose-
cution under the amendment TO the
Cartwright act relating to justhable
combinations
The Westerns attorney, William N.
Madden, has said that the company's
books show that It Is necessary to
divide catches with Paladini and to lay
of boats on alternate days in order TO
make a reasonable profit During the
p. past week the Western and all of the
: firms in the trust have charged the re
tsilers So q box for the eslarge tender
!. }1oin" soles. s1.75 for the small and s3.50
a box for sand dabs
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Auto Trip for Women

The women in the party will be the
guests this morning of Mrs. A. II voor-
HES, who will take them for an auto
mobile ride around the city.
Secretary Dickinson will make fly
ing trip through the Presidio,
The entire party will embark on the
Siberia at noon. The secretary was met
by Major General Barry, Colonel John
Lundeen, Captain Robert C. Davis,
Colonel Won Schneider, Captain Frank
A. Ferguson, Captain Chappelear and
General Clarence Edwards
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Prices to Be Cut

-griCeS 10 be (ut
Catania said yesterday that he ex-
. poets to make a reasonable profit with
sand dabs and large soles at 81 and the
smaller at about s1.S0 for 20 pound
box he bases this price on an esti-
. mate of expenses and the probable
catch There viii be a captain, engi-
:neer and three fishers to each of the
tugs, which are equipped as oil burn
ers-
A berth has been secured by the in
dependents trom the harbor commission
at the buIkhead between the Vallejo
street and Broadway wharves.
- Instead of sending unsold fish to the
glue works the new company VIII in
I. vite. charitable societies and asyIums to
q help themselves.
The food trusts viii he in court this
morning. the vegetable men 10 plead
and the hsh men to fight their indict-
rnents
- The demurrers fled with Judge Con-
ley last week by the trust. aimed at the
2 Cartwright act, viii be of state inter
est The only decision SO far rendered
by The upper courts, that of Justice
Hart in the Sacramento meat trust
case. affects only the original act and
not its amendments Madden attacks
the clause added to the law by which
labor unions are declared not to be
combinations in restraint OF trade with
Ga the meaning of the law. This, he
1sSserts is an UNEQUAL applieation of
+ justice and brings the entire act into
conflict with the fourteenth amendment
80 the federal constitution. If neces-
sary. he says. he viii carry the point
before the United States supreme court.
Brennan Confident
Assistant District Attorney James
rBrennan said yesterday that he did not
expect 10 have much difficulty in prov
ing the legality Of the antitrust law.
The main argument of the defense. 5"
raid Brennan, relates to exempting la
: Dor unions. But if our courts take the
view of the supreme court of Texas
they wiz hold that labor is not com
uaodity IN the sense natural products
sare. This disposes of the constitu-
fionaI point
The amendment TO the law allowing
producers to combine when necessary
10 secure reasonable profits does not
affect the pleadings. 1t may afford a
possible defense later, but can not be
brought into the argument at this
fime."
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Father Losing His Sight

The San Francisco Office of the Sperry
company has taken charge of the case,
put experts the books and employed
detectives on the outside. Their next
move Will be made in few days after
conference with the embezzler's
father, the Eureka capitalist. who will
be here tomorrow or the next day IT
is thought that the family will make
good the loss to save the son from
prison.
.Barnard's father, who has been ap-
prised of his sons disgrace and arrest,
is in a precarious plight. The aged
capitalist is losing his sight, and this
last affiiction in his declining days may
extinguish forever the light from his
ewes
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Promise to Make Good

So far Barnard has had lonely hours
in the Jail. His brother, Loyal Bar
nard. was, save his attorney, the only
outside visitor. Loyal told Superin-
tendent of Police Wilson that he would
pledge the family to make good Le-
lands thefts. Then Loyal went into
the jail to talk with Leland, and the
accused young man showed his first
emotion since he was taken from his
wife's side last night by the police He
broke down.
Loyal and Leland worked together
for Stoeker & Holland, the abstracters,
for short time after the big fire. At
that time, as just before his exposure
the cashier had a reputation for steady
demeanor, and he was recommended by
the abstracters as a reliable employe
Even then Loyal Barnard and a cousin
named Shubert, also a searcher. were
called on often by their married rela-
tives to help his family out of finan-
cial difficulties.
Leland Barnard will be held in iail
until the Sperry company decides upon
action Experts have examined his ac-
counts only for this year, but have yeri-
fed thefts amounting TO $4,000. Bar
nard has said that he stole twice that
amount last year.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
War SECRETARY
To TREAT ALL
SHIPS ALIKE
Promises Equal Treatment for
Competitors With Pacific
Mail Company
Conference VIII Be Held With
Local Men Who Planned
Independent Line

While emphatically maintaining that
the government was ready to give to
all bona fide competing steamship com
paniSs the same treatment, according
equal privileges to every one, Secre-
tary of War j. M. Dickinson. who ar
rived in San Francisco last night on
his way to the orient. refused to ex-
plain the monopoly of the Pacific Mail
steamship company on the Pacific coast
saying that he had no intention of en-
tering into a controversy on that sub
ject. He and his. party registered at
the Palace hotel.
The correspondence between myself
and the firm of Bates & Chesebrough.
which intended to put in a line of
steamships to compete with the Pacific
Mail he said, lis in Washington and
open to those who are Interested in
the matter. Without this correspond
ence l do not care to discuss the mat
ter nor to enter into a controversy at
this time
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Little Hope of Change

Further than the generic statement
he refused to discuss the case and in
the face of his attitude what little
hope there existed that his visit here
might result in the birthiof a compet-
1tor to the Pacific Mail was eliminated
In speaking of the army the secre-
tary commented on the shortage of
officers. saying that he had noticed that
in many instances companies were be-
ing commanded by sergeants He out
lined the economic policies of the war
department for the last year, saying
that within that time there had been
a decrease of $1o,0o0,00o in military
expenditures.
The secretary was accompanied by
Mrs. Dickinson; his son, J. M. Dickinson
Jr.; William l.. Cranberry of Nash
Vile, Tenn, the other members of his
party, Captain and Mrs. Lars Anderson
and General and Mrs. Clarence Edwards
and Miss Edwards, having arrived the
day before
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Promise Of Equality

Il have a letter from Bates & Chese-
borough, asking me to meet them and
talk over the situation before [ leave
and | woll do so gladly. But [ repeat
now my former deelara ation-that the
government is ready to treat all COM
peting lines equally. 1T will give each
the same price of coal the same free
wharfage and an equal basis of space.
This policy of absolute equality, in
augurated by President Taft when he
was secretary of war, is still in force.
The situation is simple for those who
want to understand it"
Little is expected to result from the
meeting of the secretary and Bates and
Cheseborough as, at the best, the
former Will have but brief time to
give them this morning and his state
ments last night made II evident that
he was of the same mihd as when the
negotiations between the shipping firm
and himself were brought to a sudden
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Adding Machine Fixed

The cashier made out daily reports
to Parker, who fulfilled his duty if he
found the cash for the day and the
cashiers report balanced. For more
than two years the officials have not
audited the Oakland books. and it will
take several days for the experts who
were put to work this morning to COM
plete their labors. 1t is thought. how
ever, that the peculations of the last
two years will show a loss of at least
$4,000.
Much. of the stealing in that time
was concealed, according to Manager
Parker. by Barnards manipulation of
the adding machine. With unusual
mechanical skill he made the contriv-
ance his accomplice. Putting down ac-
curate entries, he could tamper with the
mechanism so that the total would be
$1,000 less than the accurate amount.
The $1,000 represented virtually the
amount of Barnard's extractions from
tho oh,
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28

of his lavish spending. Sometimes his
reia tSFes told him that he seemed TO
be living more IuxuriousIy than his sal
ary would warrant, but the cashier
would reply that his outside business
brought him returns. When the en-
bezzler went on automobile rides his
companions were his wife and boy,
their only child. His home life seemed
commendable and the police seeking
evidence of dual living have found
nothing.
Chester A. Parker. manager of the
Sperry company's Oakland office had
little opportunity to prevent defalca-
tions. Barnard was hired by the San
Francisco headquarters; he was paid
500 a month, and though he handled
all the collections of this county, he
was. not required to give a bond
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
WIE WEATHER

YESTERDAY-Clear NEST mind: maximum
I-Z2tempeTdture "a. minimum, temperature so.
FORECAST FOR ,TODAY-Faa: some-
what DGmer; light north mind changing to
brisk west mind.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28

SPORTS
MARIN

Secretary of brewers union denies that Los
Angeles members are abandoning Stxk Page S
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
No Signs of Dual Life

The natural Suspicion was that a
giddy night life caused the defalcations.
fruitless, for no clandestine household,
no suggestion of revelries in the ten
derloin, could be found. And Barnards 8
home at Berkeley was not the object
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