Show MERCUR GOLD STOLEN A Bar Valued at 25OOO Disappears in Transit President John Dora of the Consolidated Consoli-dated Mercur received a dispatch yesterday yes-terday from New York which slated that one gold bar was missing from the shipment madti by the company on the 13th of the present riionih From tills he Is led to believe that t the gold bar reported to have been stolen In the lircss dispatches of yesterday morning came from the Mercur Mr Dern could not say what the value of the misBlng bar would be as tho telegram received by him did not state the weight or number 01 the bars remaining lie staled howeer that there was very little difference in the average weight of the bars and that the loss would be In tho neighborhood of 2ii000 The gold WitS shipped by the Pacific Express company and If Jt is not recovered the loa will have to be met by = it and not by the mining company As It has been learned that the theft occurred after thc shipment was outside of the jurisdiction of the Pacific Express company com-pany and In the hands of a company operating with It the loss will not have to be met by the Initial company |