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PACIFIC COAST DISPATCHES FROM CALIFORNIA A Put and Call Collapsed-Snicide Kinney's Big I:-Woodru3 Case Postponed. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18. The San Francisco branch of Chas. Larue & Co., dealers in puts and calls, has collapsed by the disappearance of the resident partner named Shedal. He leaves a lot of bills unpaid and claims of parties who have taken chances with him. A Frenchman named Nicholas Seleston shot himself with a pistolon Meigs wharf to-day, inflicting a mortal wound. It is not certain whether it was a suicide or an accident. He was just off a spree. In the United State* District Court to. day in the of Judge Hawyer, the big Consol- suit George W. Kinney, against idated Virginia Company overruled defendant's demurrer to amended complaint and gave defendant ten days in which to answer. The case of Woodruff. alias Miller, of the Contract and Finance Company de !aulting fame, has again gone over for the term in the Municipal court. A Darinz Bank Robbery. BAKERSFIELD, Feb. 18. A daring and succesful robbery was perpetrated last night on the Kern Valley Bank. Mr. Lansing, the Cashier of the bank. sleeps in an adjoining room to the counting-room Brower with him and left the evening had been sitting bank between during the 10 and 11 o'clock. Lansing was still busy with the affairs of the bank, the safes being open when Brower took leave the Cashier resumed work. About a quarter of an hour aftera tap was heard at back door. it was Brower posing the Mr. returning Lansing, door sup- and for something, went to the opened it, when he was struck with what is supposed to have been a sand club. He was then chloroformed and thrown on a table where he lay till robbers went found. o'clock in The the morning, where through he was the sales. The whole sum taken amounts to $27,000; $22,000 of this was in the to the bank, including County ing Treasury, about $5,000 $1,000 belong- be. longing to Wells, Fargo & Co. The of the and prompt president measures, bank although has be taken busi- here ness was suspended many will we learn to enable the bank to resume business to-day. A reward of $1,000 has been offered for the apprehension of the robbers, The State Prison Investigation. CARSON, Feb. 17. The Board of State Prison Commismet this morning pursuant to Mr. adjournment. sioners De Longsuggested the meeting of the board at Virginia on Monday next, as he had twentythree witnesses to examine. General Kittrell opposed it. He says they seek to open the old charges of starving the prisoners, which was investiS gated by the Legislative Committee last winter. The board adjourned until Monday next.
