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               Charity Patient Proves Wealthy
                           __________
                   Aged Santa Clara Woman is
                     Found to Be Worth Many
                     Thousands of Dollars.
                             ______
                                
                                       SANTA CLARA, Feb. 22,--For the last 
seven years an object of charity and occupying a one-room shack which members 
of the Catholic Belief society had built for her in their odd moments, Mrs. 
Katherine Kuebler of Pierce street, who has just been removed to the county 
hospital is found to be worth thousands of dollars in cash and securities.
         Weary with the weight of her 63 years and ill from lack of 
nourishment and proper shelter, Mrs. Kuebler is under the care of the 
county's physicians.  Since she was removed from the little Pierce street 
shack the place has yielded a gallon can of currency and stock  in various 
oil and mining companies estimated to exceed a face value of $10,000.
Concealed in Newspapers.
                                       Marshal G. F. Fallon, assisted by 
Sydney Minns, deputy sheriff, and Mrs. Codman, have spent the last two days 
unwrapping newspapers for it seemed to be a mania with Mrs. Kuebler to 
conceal her wealth in this fashion.  Amounts that ranged from one cent to
as much as $150 were found carefully wrapped in newspapers.  Others were 
found to contain nothing, evidently being intended as a blind should robber 
enter.  In with other cases investigation would reveal nothing more than a 
peach pit or a corkscrew or other objects of this kind.  Paper that appeared 
to have been chewed up and then rolled into wads likewise concealed sums of 
money in various amounts. Among the many stock certificates discovered were 
those of oil and mining concerns in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, 
etc., and of a face value ranging from $10 up to as much as $2200 in one 
company.  Of this some dated back 20 years, while others were of recent 
issue, of few months ago. Other valuables found included a $10,000 life 
insurance policy in which Mrs. Kuebler is named as the beneficiary by her 
son, John. M. Kuebler of Chicago.  Letters were also found, expressing the 
greatest affection for his mother and concern for her well being indicating 
his entire ignorance of the conditions, under which the old lady has been
living.  Kuebler was notified of his mother's plight by telegraph yesterday, 
however, and is expected to reply today.
                      Resident for 13 years. There is thought to be another 
son, but his whereabouts are unknown at present, Mrs. Kuebler's husband was 
formerly a druggist in Chicago, coming to Santa Clara about 13 years ago.  
About three years later he died.  The only daughter passed away about 12 
years ago.
         Although Mrs. Kuebler (_?_) the greatest (?_) in such highly 
speculative venture as mining and oil enterprises, she never trusted anyone 
to enter her door, even when food  was brought.  So great was her fear of 
burglars that at times she would rouse her neighbors during the night with 
cries of "Robbers,"  when some bird chance to alight upon her roof.
         All the valuables found thus far have been turned over to a locale 
bank to be held subject to directions from Mrs. Kuebler or her son.