The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-19
STANDING OFFER
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SANTA ANA. Dec. 1s.-one hun
ored dollars standing reward for trip
lets has been offered by the board of
supervisors OF Orange county, this
offer to stand
The board recently paid this sum
70 MIS- Otto II. Summers. wife of the
owner OF the San Joaquin ranch. and
Following this action it was decided
10 make the fund a permanent one.
SEER GUILTY OF ROBBERY
SAN JOSE. Dec. 1s.-Mrs. Stella OIL
sen, fortune teller, was yesterday
convicted OF larceny In taking a $500
fee from Mrs. c. E. Mitchell, wife of
rancher. who gave her the money
for investment
ROAD BONDS DEFEATED
SANTA CLARA. Dee. 19-Santa
Clara yesterday defeated a PROPOSE
tion for $4,000 worth OF highway
bonds to construct two miles of road
with the state highway
WoMANsPIoNEER DIES
SANTA CLARA. Dec. 1s.-Mrs. A.
Billings, pioneer. who had lived here
since 1883. is dead.
CHARGED AS CHICKEN THIEF
HOLLISTER. Dec. 1s.-J F. Ma1ona.
delegate to the progressive conven-
ton in San Francisco December IS.
was arrested yesterday. charged with
stealing chickens.
ELKS TO AID NEEDY
SAN JOSE. Dee. 1s.-San Jose Elks
have raised $4,000 for a Christmas
fund for the needy, and tonight will
hold an amateur show to augment the
fund. The prettiest girls in the city
Will aid in the entertainment.
LARGE CLASS GRADUATED
SAN JOSE, Dec I9.-Fifty women
and three men were graduated by the
San Jose state normal school. the
largest midyear class in its history
=. o. RoBBER WANTS LIBERTY
SANTA ROSA, Dec. 19.-Because he
was confined In the city jail while the
new county Jail was being built Jo-
seph Malone. convicted of having
robbed the Guerneville postoffice and
sentenced to 10 years Imprisonment,
IS making az attempt to secure a writ
of habeas corpus today. his counsel
contending such action was in viola
ton Of the order OF the court remand
ing hi INTO the custody of the sheriff
and that his detention is unlawful as
g consequence.
OIL DIVIDEND PASSED
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1s.-Directors
OF the Union OIL company have passed
the January dividend. although it is
announced that IN July payments will
be resumed on the per cent basis.
BOND ISSUE DEFEATED
GRASS VALLEY, Dec. 19.-By a
vote of 500 for and 43O against a
proposition to issue $4,000 in bonds
for high school building has been
defeated.
DIR. SNOW GOING EAST
SACRAMENTO, Dec 1g.-Dr. W. F.
Snow, former secretary of the state
board OF health, has secured posi-
tfOn with the American Seciety of
Hygiene of New York at twice the
salary paid him by the state, and win
leave for the east soon.
SAYS PARTNER Is FRAUD
STOCKTON, Dec. 19.-J Josephine
Ford. owner OF the Five Mile house.
has hled a complaint against her part
ner, L NJ. Ford. alleging he has mis-
appropriated funds.
CAN REVIVE CHARTERS
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 1s-According
to an opinion by the attorney general,
corporations that have failed TO pay a
license tax and have forfeited their
charters may revive them on payment
Of delinquent taxes and penalties.
This applies to state and foreign cor
porations alike.
SISTERS IN DOUBLE WEDDING
Los ANGELES, Dec. 1s-Miss Mar
Jorie and Miss Gladys McLachlan, two
daughters of former Congressman Me-
Lachlan, will be married this evening,
the first becoming Mrs. Harvey NJ.
Bissen the second Mrs. Gardner
Towne BisselI is a son of the late
millionaire carpet sweeper manufac-
turer of Grand Rapids. the second a
Stanford graduate.
MAY QUIT BEET GROWING
LOS ANGELES. Dec 1s.-The South
ern California Beet Growers associa-
tion has decided on demanding the
same price for beets In the future as
its members have received in the past,
tarin or no tariff, and If this demand
is not accepted $4,000 acres now de-
voted to growing beets will be planted
TO other crops.
LIVING COST CAUSES SUICIDE
Los ANGELES. Dec. 1s.-Despond-
ent because she was unable TO keep
the household expenses within her
husbands salary of 5000 month, Mrs.
Sarah May Curry, mother OF three
children, shot and killed herself
sMUDGE POTS ALL READY
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19-Fearine
frost in the orange groves last night,
ranchers had their smudge pots all
ready. but fortunate rise in temper
ature about midnight abolished the
necessity for their use.
R0cKEFELLER GETS an BADv
OROVILLE. Dec. 19.-When Rocke-
feller school district was organized in