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Show BIG LIABILITIES SMALL ASSETS Los Angles, Sept. 15. C. P. Woodruff, Wood-ruff, said to be a clerk, but 'whose name does not nppear In the city directory, di-rectory, filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday, giving his liabilities as $1,397,175.03 and his assetB as three suits of clothes, six 6hirts, a dozen collars, a dozen neckties, 12 pairs of socks and C buUb of underwear, all of which ho claims are oxempL Among his liabilities is an item of $100,000 due under contract to buy a certain preferred stock In the Swaf-ford Swaf-ford brothers dry goods companj. Kansas City; a note for -SlQ.OpO In faor of Forest Ferguson. Stv Louis: $52,500 is duo the National Bank of Commerce. Kansas City; $-17,000 is duo O. P. Taylor of Kansas City; and $500,000 on 200 notes Indorsed by Woodruff and given to J. J. Swafford of Kansas City, In addition there aro a series of notes and Judgments representing rep-resenting business ventures In Kansas Kan-sas City and SL Louis, and a few notes given Los Angeles people for comparatlely small amounts. It appears from the petition that Woodruff had been engaged In trying to float a number of projects In various var-ious parts of the east. |