Show PH PROBING VOlt FOR San taI Francl Francisco co Chronicle It is now v alleged cd that mall many sums of oC mone money set sel from froim different parts larts of the tle country to Mayol immediately after the dl disaster in Ill this city failed Called to read reach ll their eh- eh in the relief reller fund and that the Federal government In behalf of th the National Red ned Cross so society so- so Cl l has laus from fron rom the tho first beet been interested inter inter- ested in tIm causing a thorough Investigation ion tion of or conditions In this titis city elly One sum Mum In inn of S sent from Iron I Searchlight Nov v is said never lo to have I reached time the relief chief fund although Wells lIs Fargo Fano Co claim chain to lo have hn I Mayor receipt and anti letter of or acl acknowledgment nt This matter has been beet under for some soie time It Is surmised and perhaps actually alleged that many other sums may have In like manner mysteriously disappeared At Al un rio any Ial rate the authorities author author- are arc running a dragnet through h the accounts of the monc money order ordel of of- lice fice A falling out among the of one of nt time low dives which flourished flour flour- l before firo In defiance of law recalls to lo the iho public the tile peculiar ownership o of tlc the dl disgraceful g conc concern rn which was M-as known as time thc Il II appears that Ruef's henchman 1 Corf Cerf was the stockholder of rec record i-ecOrd ld for or 25 per r cent of this stock and anti before the tire fire received the thc regular dividends on It H When however ever in inclosing inclosing closing losing U up tho the concern there is found insurance mone money to be divided the time president Captain T or 1 D. D N. N Wilson lIson refuses to pa pay anything to Cerf on the ground that ho le never neVel paid anything for fOl his stock That flint raises the question question question ques ques- tion as to ho Coil Cerf ever over camo came to get gel the time stock for nothing There Thero is no dial claim that the stock was M-as not valuable Such dirt dirty places suffered to exist because because because be be- cause of a pull with the authorities always al- al ways M-ays pay well wll Anybody sufficiently degraded to take money procured by means can get it if Ir he ho had the pull The rime certainly hau hao it it H. and it now appears that the stock assigned assigned assigned as as- signed to Cerf must have been the time leo pilco of protection But Cerf had no official position which enabled him to lo assure protection D By what hat means then them did he hc get it It will vill be an Interesting Interesting In- In Inquiry Incidentally it is Js to be noted that this tills Cerf one of the stockholders holders Inthis in inthis inthis this palace of oC infamy was M-as a member of the recent grand jury and its secre secre- tary Now Cerfs Cerf's character is no secret He was M-as Mell enough known regardless of or his connection with the Belvidere What hat Superior judge put him om on the grand jury An And wh vh 2 |