Show ALLEGED FRAUDULENT USE OF THE MAILS Secretary of Promoting Oil Company Taken in at Chicago 1 CHICAGO Dec 23 WIlliam 25 William Baer Daer Ewing secretary o of a concern known as the Standard Oil Promotion and In Investment Investment Investment In- In vestment company has hos been arrested here b by a Jn Inspector under tinder an In indictment recently returned I against him In San Francisco He Is charged I with sith having used the malls mails for fot purposes pur pur- poses of ot fraud Many Ian persons In various parts of ot California are said to have Invested mone money In the shares of the oil concern concern con con- cern corn under the representations that the company compan had a subscribed capital of oC that It had much mone money on deposit In San Francisco banks bank and that men of oC large means had united In Inthe Inthe inthe the venture to promote the oil Industry of ot the Pacific coast Residents of Sacramento and BroderIck Broder- Broder Ick Jck Cal are arc mentioned In the Indictment indictment indict Indict- ment mont as having hn lost money through representations m made de In circulars al alleged nl- nl to have been sent through the malls mails by Ewing Ewing was taken before United States Commissioner Duel Buell yesterday ester a and the hearing hearing- of his ca cas casa was continued until Friday Frida |