Show T S PO GENERAL RAIDS AlU tIE liE SAYS HAVE DAVE ROBBED PUBLIC ill 80 S S NEW YORK YOnKo Nov o 22 In 2 In so 50 huS hu- hu S that Post Postmaster General Hitchcock Hitchcock Hitch Hitch- S cock took charge chargo In person his S tors descended on two conC concerns lato late lateS yesterday which the they charge charo with swindling swin- swin S tho pu public out out of more than 5 by uso use of the mails S 'S Sheldon H. H Burr president Eugene II H. Burn Birr se secretary and treasurer and Frank 5 of or Burr Bros 5 It robe vice president r u l yere re arrested in the first raid and held in Ir OOOO ball bail each The Tho A 4 charges h hats r- r rs s that tho the firm sold between 40 1 r and of ot mining and oil f worth t little or L Charles li rles L. L L. L Vaughan Va i a director of the theo S Continental Wireless Ireless Telegraph 1 and o 1 s Telephone company incorporated In fn A Art Art- rl- rl the second raid and zon zona was t taken in held in ball bait Inspectors say his company ha has sold Hold stock amounting to at atS S 1 least last which has brought no 5 return to investors I Vaughns Vaughn's Activities S Vaughan is treasurer Her of or the hc Columbia'S Columbia Finance company which acts as fiscal S 'S gent agent for tho the Continental Wireless TeleS Tele- Tele S i gp graph t ph and Telephone company and ha haf had hadS f S of tho the Continental office in this V pity city IlY S SS Both raids toda today arc are further ther evidence S that the tho government in its warfare I against alleged interstate swindlers means means' business and no longer will be content with issuing fraud flaud orders deny deny- eny- eny 5 it Ins them the tho uso use of the malls mails but will wil press Dress for convictions on Criminal 5 S S began some someS some'S The fhe he present t campaign S 'S 5 ago go and has resulted in tho the ar- ar 5 rest iest of Louis Louta A. A Cella Celia of or St St. Louis and arid his Is associates charged with operating a af aj j f string of the officers of theS the United Wireless company of the tho El EI Pro- Pro S grosso Banana company of th the United 4 I Exchange of oC Chicago of or the Steel Miller Cotton n ni firm of nf Corinth p Mass and nd of r t than sixty other firms in all aU parts S. S 1 the df dr r the country countr i Postmaster-General Postmaster Hitchcock estimates estimates esti esti- mates that the public has been fleeced I out qt q at least by rich get I 3 concerns in the last ast five years ears but butS S lv hI says their he heyday has lias gone Mr Hitchcock said that other arrests in in- corporations that have so sought ht in in- 5 r fr throughout 1 hout the country are exi ex- ex i peeled shortly OJ t I S S. S of Companies r L After fler the raid the postoffice department depart depart- i fr ment mant gave a out a a memorandum concern concern- S ln Ing the Burr Brothers Brother whose company S several years cars ago and in 1 vas incorporated with a capital of t r but later increased to 5 states that among L l Th rho memorandum d the Burr Brothers are rl th tho tha stock of th the Oil on cornS coma com com- comI I S a a. concern with 00 capital I It t Tho v memorandum further U states I S the follow follow- They have han al also o or organized f Jug hig In oil Oh l companies c Carolina Consolidated Consoli S d dated capitalized at Coalinga Alladin din capitalized at Kern Rem S 5 at New York capitalized at Crude Oil capitalized at S S Peoples People's Associated Oil on company compan I capitalized at All Air 11 the stock in these companies has portion of 01 the two been sold lold except H H. t I S.- S. first named mcd and the greater portion of I t the money mone ci evidently has gone one Into theS the S hands d of Burr Brothers incorporated While all aU the companies are still gUn in existence none save s the Ole first four named is doing any ny y work at the present time I S The rhe Burr Brothers have also S. S teed promoted and sold the stock in theS the S following mining companies Rawhide Tarantula capitalised at SI 1 Montezuma Mining company capital Golden Mining Milling 1 Refining company capital OO All Fraudulent f Practically the he entire stock of oC these companies has been sold to to the public and at the present time all all all' have gone out of existence The Burr Brothers have havo also organized organ organ- IT promoted pud nd sold the stock of the tho following companies Ellesmere farm of Mich Michigan California Eucalyptus ber company capital and the New Am company with witha a capital of which was as later laLer merged with te Burr Brothers Inc They Thoy have hae also sold old largo large lan e amounts of stock Il In the tho Red Top op Mining 1 LeasIng Leas Leas- In Ing company capital 1 Lon Long Beoh Mexico Arizona Mining com corn company pany capital Gold Nevada field ld Mining l Milling 1 Smelting company compan com corn pan pany capital United States State Standard Lead Zinc company capital Florence Consolidated Mining I Leasing company compan capital Round Mountain C Central Mining l company compan com corn pan pany capital Cobalt o Mining 1 company capital Brit Brit- I ish American Copper Coppel Mines Smelting I company compan capital Arizona Copper Copp Cop Cop- Copi i p per r Gold Mines lines company capital 1500 Searchlight ht Gold Mining lInin company compan capital Holcomb Automatic Automatic Au Au- Engine company capital Cottonwood Copper company capital All these companies are out of cx existence Is t C fl CC They hy have sold old stock in the Happy Jack Ja-cli Copper Mining 1 Development company compau capital Yul Yukon on Basin Gold Dredging Dredging- company capital 1000 Toledo Wabash Si St Louis Railroad Rail flail road company capital Chi New cago York Electric Air Line railroad rail rail- railroad road capital in connection with the operative Co-operative Construction com com- p |