The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1896, Page 13

T HE SAN FRANCISCO = aa—————— e s el el eyt nded st ol st pli i b duath e R st AR e SR S LSO G DR SIS i CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1896. 3 Interesting Items From Important Points in Alameda CALLED A NEW PASTOR, st Free Baptist Church Anx- ious to Retain the Rev. Philip Graif, EMPLOYES TO PAY DISCOUNT. Salary Fund Will Be Empty Next Week and the Banks ‘Will Not Help. Neisco CAry,) 08 Broadway, Jan. 4. | p Graif been unanimous! » the permanent pastorate of the e Baptist Church. This cou enthusiastic been growing > temporary f the members him. This call involves a chang enominational lationship on nd he has not yet given a decidec His decision is anxiou the church. Dr. Graif has ciated with the En h Lutherar ination since he came to the co. tor of the First Lutheran s city till about a year a; edged to be one ana versatile spea t. lowing were ele i know m former Dr. C.-F. 1 'were read. Penney and Dr. N. 1 No Money, No Favors. OAKLAND, Ca Ja 4.—Next week there will not be & 1 the salar of the city and as now held by the L withdraw t in the city’s hired vault, the er will no longer be sble to r ints cashed withont et t lay that the e charged s of city em- s of this City have t warrants calling tion. The city itor and the apparent of some personsto inj xperience of ers 1ds with the ins e the city from and lom 1d amend the cha e depos 1e depo: € nited Sta Then as to t tain We grope o OAKLAND, C: c Works, p oyd, inspected ity Prison to-day. Board of Hea has declared be untit for habitatio. is in such condition that it is ible i unless the le to make the 1 ice other than a ace to health. * is bud, gas has ed all d odor from is very offensive. The place is cold and not a ray of sunshine can te into the semi-underground dun- s not known what the report of the be, but Mayor Davie says that f the prison and the repor 1 t b se are very lana should h a new and substan. 10 conduct & s re on lower Broadway, t evening of The meth- conviction were not roved. The alleged have been keenly s most of the evi subterf . C. yodge apy and this case make he has secured acquit on the same ordinance. Objects to the Account. ND, CAL., Jan. 4—William Holt who has brought suit to have the ted by the will of his father, Wil- ich, annulled, filed more ob. He claims that no valid bution was made to the § at no notice of the decree was ever served upon him. He als fortn that the account of the trust poses of his property rights and i ance would be effect a taki property without notice. [t is e move on the part of the son to break th trust of his father. Protecting the Boulevard. OAKLAND, CarL, —The first step was taken to-day tow rotecting new boulevard around Lake Merritt. N. Hansen, a coal-dealer, was arrested this afternoon for violating the ordinance prohibiting heavily loaded wagons being driven on the boulevard. At the Macdonough. OAKLAND, CAL., Jan. 4.—Rice’s ‘1492, with Bessie Bonehill, Richard Harlam and the Kilanyi living pictures. will be at the Macdonough Theater on Monday night for three nights and a Wednesday mat- inee. Next Saturday the Dramatic Concert Company will give an entertainment. e sixth time charges based trustees, v HISTORY OF A DAY. Alameda County Happenings Told in Brief Chapters. OAKLAND OPFIQCS. BAN FRAN The Neighborhood Extension Lecture Club will meet on Thursday, January 9, at 8 o'clock with Miss Juliette Alexander, 1006 Sixteenth street. The funeral of George D. Lathrop, brother of Samuel Lathrop of this city, took place this morning and was attended by many of the old friends of the deceased. A dividend of .6646 cents on the dollar has been declared in the estate of Andrew Gram, upon presentation of vouchers showing aymeunt of preferred claims the estate will be closed. The case of H. C. Bowmen, for assault on Mrs. J. L. Montgomery, was set for preliminary xamination on Monday, January 13. He has been unable to raise his bail of $2500 and this morning the court reduced it to $1000. Teresa Brown has made an application to the Superior Court to have ber husband, Tuomas D. Brown, restored to capacity, He “During the | ¢ | tute have several never hoard | has beenan inmate of the N; Napa Insane A lum, but is ready to bedlscnsrggd as cured. Craigie Sharp, the superintendent of the poultry show to be started at the Tabernacle on the 161h, will open his office in the building on uext Monday morning to transact any busi- nesswith those who desire to make display: Word has just been received here of the death of Andrew Meyers, an old resident of this city, at Leipzig, Germany, on Thursday last. Mr. Mevers had been traveling in Europe some time with his wile for the benefit of his health. Stewart McKenzie, a cerpenter living in Alameda who has beon employed on the new buildings at the racetrack, had a fall at 11 o'clock to-day, and was so : ously hurt that itis feared he will die. He is 34 years of sge. A man gi D giving the name of J. Leech was ar- rested in East Oakland by Ofiicer Jucobus last Evening on the charge of witempting 10 obain money urder false pretenses. He had a brass pin which, it is was trying to sell as gold. Mrs, Harrict C. I tree, ex 1AT) surance | branch of the ermy on New Yeat' of her numerou: There were day to the tion fro A imed, tree, wife of J. B. Lank- aud ‘Home In- d the Alameda . She joined much to the surprise transfers of wine to- Wine-makers' Corpora- 1ty ErOWers aggrega- argest consisted of om the Palmdale )00 gallons from o large orni cda i Co wine he other was 1y rivalry o between the Reds an ¢ the Y. M. C. A e .is st its height. The ion is 10 secure more names ) the M. C. A. than the ide must give the winners Monday is the day of and in the evening tne banquet 1 e given. oseph Frates, the Portuguese who threw a itehfork at Michael Amaral some mon ago, » for sentence to-day before Judge Frick, e court said as the defendant had a large , which will suffer by his imprisonment. 15 it had been shown that Frates had beer verated beyond endurance, he would only d’him to for three months. % _— OHLINDS NEW ST The Outgrowth of the Success of the Industrial Exposi- tion. Directors Are Now Considering the Selection of a Site for the Building. ! The first exposition has borne good fruit. articles of the Qakland Exposition Insti- | tute will be filed with the Secretary of | Stat We see no reason why Oakland should { not have an institate superior to ti | chanies’ Tr President Ke d The bui tiquated. sites under discussio | but until the icles are filed and the in- stitute formally started they do not feel like acting. Of course we must have a building of our own, but it will need to be i | 1ily planned so as to make it a st . ce We are contident | 1ual exhibit, and possibly a | v minor ones in a special direction, will | | be commendable and s ventures. The | stock will be taken up by any public. minded citiz and, of course, the di-| t will ake a financial intere: The purposes of the institute as out- ed in articles of incorporation are: business of in, us of arts and | i time | mes as the board of directors ma: tute, mainiain and conduct | ibraries; to lease, buy, erpet and construct and buildings {n' which to mainiain es end hold und conduct expositions of i industries; to ecquire, lease, pur- base, take, hold and possess real and personal property, for the use, support, maintenanc and conduct of such libraries and expositic and to lease, sell, grant, convey and dispo: real and personal property in the carry and conduct of said bus ; and to'do and v and all other lawful things what- h may be deemed necessary, ex | pedient or convenient to the conduct and car- | ryiug on of any of the matters hereinabove | mentioned. | "The place where the principal bu | seid corporetion is to be transacted is ness of the city d. n for which said corporation is to ex- vears, from and after the date of its sration. he number of directars of said corporation shall be cleven, Thet the capital stock of said corporati 00,000, and the number of shares which it is divided is 1000 of the par value of $100 each. | The names of the first board of directors 3 . W. Nelson, George Roeth, M.J Keller, C. 8. Booth, E. G. Bushneli, The dore Gier, Fred Becker, I. W. Craigie Sharp, J. T. Bell, H. O. bridge. The institute corporation will be | fuily organized next week.. | 1t isarranged that the profits of the re- | eent_exposition -shall be turned over to | the directors of the institute to form the nucleus of a building fund. AN OLD WARRIOR GONE. Inspector - General Saravia Guatemala Expires in - This City. are: of | The Hero of Many Revolutions and | Who Narrowly Missed Death Many Times. General Ramon Saravia, inspector-gen- eral of the armies of Guatemala, who, about two and a half months ago arrived at the Occidental, is dead. He passed away at a Spanish boarding- house, 1306 Polk street, and the remains | are now at Godeau & Lipman’s undertak- ng rooms, Sutter street. The cause of ieneral Saravia’s death was kidney dis- case. His age was 52 years. eneral Saravia in his day was one of ‘€ most noted military men of Guatemala. He fought in many wars, was wounded many times and narrowly missed death on | a number of occasions. In tbe different revolutions in Guatemala, which was his native lanu, General Saravia could always be counted on to be on one side or the other. He was a born fighter and was never so weil satisfiea as when there was a war on hand. President Barrios liked the old cam- paigner s0 well that soon after he wss elected he chose Saravia as inspector-gen- eral of his armies. He was an unusually competent man for the place, so it is stated, and his death is generally deplored. He had many friends here among the Spanish people. For alittle while after his arrival at the Occidental he seemed to improve, but he lapsed ere long, and awhile after his 1 moval to Polk street he went down hill rapidly. His diet for several weeks con- sisted almost entirely of milk. The date of the funeral of the battle- scarred veteran has not yet been fixed. e e o In the year 1596 there were only four kinds of “hyacinth, the single and the double blue, the purple and the violet. At the present time there are many thou- sands of varieties. l { Muhlner, argued that a new tri: | process MUKLNER NOT SENTENCED Judge Frick Objects to the Ver- dict and Grants a New Trial. SAYS IT WAS A MURDER. But the Jury Say It Was Manslaughter and the Prisoner Is Admitted to Bail. OARLAND OFFICE Fraxcrsco CALL,] 908 Broadway, Jan. 4. § Louis Muhlner was granted something to-day by Judge Frick, but whether it was | anew trial or what may ultimately be de- clared an acquittal by the Supreme Court remains to be seen. Louis Muhlner was to have been sen- tenced this morning for the manslaughter of Jennie Lewis, but instead he was ad- mitted to bau in the sum of $15,000. Judge Frick stated that he was dissatisfied with the verdict of the jury. Their verdict should either have been murder or ac- quittal. The evidence did mnot justify & verdict of manslaughter. During the argu- ments Judge Frick said there was not one word of testimony to justify the conciu- sion that the killing was done without malice. When Judge Frick announced his de- cision, District Attorney Church took an exception and gave notice that an appeal would be at once taken to the Supreme Court. He says that if the ruling is sus- tained, Muhiner can only be tried a second time for the charge of mansianghter. Should the Supreme Court maintain the opinion that the evidence would not jus- tify a verdict of manslaughter, Muhiner cannog be tried again for murderon the plea of twice in_ jeopardy, and it may be found that he is in the peculiar position of a convicted man against whom no charge can be made to nold. dge Frick concluded that it was an | error on the part of the jury to find a ver- | dict of the le; r degree of homicide where the evidence warranted a conviction of the reater. On this point he based his de- ision granting s new trial. Attorney Nagle, who appeared for should be granted entirely on the proposition that the evidence was not sufficient to warrant a conviction. He claimed that a verdict of acquittal should have been rendered, but Judge Frick cast that view aside and reached the desired end by a very different of reasoning. The court stated that the Supreme Court had never squarely ronounced an opinion on the question of error by a jury in bringing in a verdict unsatisfactory to the court, and ke desired to have it settled in the higher tribunal. He said he had examined all the authorities in California on the question and had been unable to | find a singie 1nstance where the Supreme Court had decided the matter. Should Muhlner be tried for manslaughter and the jury take the same view as the court | he chance for an acquittal would be very ong. e of the jurors who tried the case said ay that the evidence v o the twelve men a ared to be to Judge Frick. “Fora long time after we left the court- room,” said the juror, “we were evenly divided between acquittal and murder. Up 10 the baliot befure the last there were some votes for acquittal, and in order to arrive at 'a verdict we compromised on manslaughter.” the box as it As Mubloer cannot, under the circum- | tances, be tried for anything higher than manslaughter, and as that is a bailable | offense, Judge Frick fixed the bond at $15,000. As Mublner’s folks have a good standing in Oakland it is expected that he will soon be at liberty. FOR SCHOOL AND WHARF, Berkeley's Special Elections on Those Issues to Be Held February 15. The Growing Needs of the University Town—No License for John Casey. BERKELEY, Carn., Jan. 4.—Berkeley’s special election for voting on the school and wharf bonding propositions will be held on February 15. This date was fixed Jast night by the Town Trustees who passed an ordinange calling the elections and fixing the precincts and appointing election officers. The ordinance as passed, sets forth the facts that the town bas a population of over 10,000; that it is rapidiy growing, and thata wharfat West Berkeley and a new high school and grammar schools in various sections of the town seem 10 be public necessities. The board will nold an adjourned meeting next Thursday evening, at which the ordinance will be finally passed upon. The precincts as fixed for the special elections are the same as in regular elec- tions, each ward Bexcepting Three, con- stituting one precinct, and Ward Three being divided into 3 A and 3 B. The poll- ing places will be as follows:* Precinct 1, store in Honer block, Shat- tnck avenue, between Vine and Cedar streets, Precinct 2, on east side of Telegraph avenue, south of Dwigint way. Precinct 3 A, engine house on Addison street. Precinet 3 B, J. J. Mason’s office. Precinct 4, Peralta engine house, Shat- tuck avenue, near Russell street. Precinct 5, engine house, south side of Alcatraz avenue, opposite Ellis street, Precinct 6, Posen engine house, Sixth street and Bancroft way. Precinct 7, Beacon engine house, east side of Fifth street, near University avenue. Though the two elections are to be held on the same day they will be separate and distinet, so that it may be possible to defeat or carry one or both independently. The same officers and polling places will serve for both. Sanitary Movements. BERKELEY, CaL., Jan. 4,—The forma- tion of the new Adeline sanitary district on the southern side of Berkeley has just been completed. The streets to be sewered are Menlo avenue, Adeline, McKee, Stan- ley, Paradise, Grove, Dover, McCall, Brown, Shattuck avenue and Mariposa, Nono and Merced avenues. The work, when completed, will cost upward of $13,000, Connections will be made with the Golden Gate sanitary district, the ex- penses of making which are included in the $13,000 estimate. The success of the movement to make these new sanitary im- rovements is mainly due to the Adeline mprovement Club, which was formed last October. Health Ofiicer’s Report. BERKELEY, CaL., Jan. 4.—Dr., Hubert N. Rowell, Health Officer of Berkcley, submitted to the Town Board last evening a lengthy report reviewing the work of the Health Office during the year of 1895 and giving statistics of births and deaths, In not nearly 5o | the report it was stated that the enforce- ment of the new sanitary ordinances passed last August by the Trustees had resulted in muck irprovement in the sani- tary condition of many parts of Berkeley. It was necessary for him to visit a large number of residences with the view to en- forcing the newly madelaws. The inspec- tion of the residences1s about completed with the exception of those in the Sixth and Seventh wards. In these districts it was difficult to proceed rapidly by reason of the lack of water in the West Ena. Al- though West Berkeley is the oldest section of the town in point of settlement, there are many streets in which water mains have never been laid. Subscriptions Come Slowly. BERKELEY, Cav., Jan. 4—The sub- scriptions to the §1000 fund which will be used for the purpose of providing elec- tric lighting fixtures for the university grounds accerding to Regent Reinstein's plans, are coming in very slowly. The first $500 toward the fund wassubscribed two weeks ago yesterday by F. M. Wilson, and since that date only §$130 has been raised in addition. The reason why the i fund has not increased more rapidly is ap- | parentiy due to the fact thatno authorized citor, until yesterday, has had the sub- cription list in charge. J. L. Sco:chler has been asked by Regent Reinstein and Trus- | tee Richards to make a personal canvass of the town. Thus far butfour of the uni- | yersity professors have subscribed. The name of President Kellogg heads the list of faculty subscribers with $20. Regent Reinstein is much surprised that the movement has not received a more cordial general reception. No License for Casey. BERKELEY, CaL., Jan.4.—The Board of Town Trustees have refused to grant the application of John Casey for a license to sell liquor. The license com- mittee had no recommendation to make in their report, but stated that their objec- tion to Casey’s proposed saloon was its location, one-half of his building being vithin the mile limit and the other half without. Had the license been granted it would have been possible for customers to purchase their liquor at the bar outside the limit and then step across the line to drain their cups. Want Better Services. BERKELEY, Car, Jan. 4—The mail ice between East and West Berkeley ause of some dissatisfaction among zens of these respective sections. the cit Letters mailed at the main o’clock in the afternoon for West Berkeley are sent to San Francisco for assortment, and from there back to their destination. | This delay in the delivery of the afternoon office at 1 mail of this g:xnicul:\r part of town is due to the fact that there is only one carriers’ | delivery per day between the east and | west end: SUTFOR HEMY DAMAGES A Patent Medicine Man Wants a Large Sum for Injuries. What the Alameda Clergymen Will i Preach About To-Day—Acci- dent to a Boy. ALAMEDA, Car., Jan. 4—D. J. Mec- Quarrie, a compounder and dispenser of patent medicines, has sued the Alameda | Electric Railway Company for $25,250 | damages for personal injuries. On Octo- ber 28 he was driving on Park street, in the vicinity of Railroad avenue, when his | horse, taking fright, became unmanage- able and left the roadway, dashing across the open space formerly occupied by the old depot. The buggy collided with one of the iron poles that sustain the electric trolley wire, which, after the old station building was removed, stood rather con- spicususly in the open. MecQuarrie was thrown out and claims to have been badly injured. The complainant seems to make a point through asserting that the municipal trustees had ordered the pole to be re- moved before the accident occurred. | Themes of Preachers. ALAMEDA, CarL.,Jan. 4—Rev. G. R. Dodson of the First Unitarian Church will preach te-day onthe subject “How a Lib- eral Faces the World.”” Henry Victor Morgan of the Christian Church will preach in the morning on “Proving God,” and in_the evening on “A Religious View of the Nineteenth Century.” ev. W. T. | Jordan of the First Baptist Church will | ‘preach in the morning on the subject ‘It | Is Finished,” and in the evening on “A | New Year’s Gift.” Rev. F. S. Brush of the | First Presbyterian Chury take as a subject in the morning Higher,’ and in the evening * the Highest that Is in You.” Rev. F. D. Bovard of the Park-street Methodist Chureh will preach in the morn- ing on “The Friends of Christ,” and in the evening on ‘“New Year's Resolutions,” with a prelude entitled “Alameda Man- Traps.” Rev. W. W. Scud will take for his text in the morning “Fidel to the | Word of God,” and for the evening “Kept | by Divine Power.” But One Diseased Cow. | ALAMEDA, Oir., Jan. 4—Veterinary | Inspector Carpenter reported to the Board of Health on Friday night that he had re- cently inspected all the dairies supplying milk to Alameda. Two of these he had i ordered to correct their sanitary condi- | tion. He had found one case of ‘tubercu- losis outside the city limits and had the animal killed. He inspected all butcher and produce shopsand found but fifteen head of game unfit for food. He visited all the restaurants and found them in good condition. Mrs. McCormick to Remain, ALAMEDA, CAL.,, Jan. 4. — The an- nouncement by a weekly journal of San Francisco that Mrs. H. McCormick is about to retire from the choir of the First Unitarian Church, of which she has been the mainstay for several years, is denied by officers of the church, who have had no such thought, and cannot conceive how i such an announcement could be maae. Mrs. McCormick is in high favor not only with the congregation, butwith the music- loving people generally. Accidentally Shot. ALAMEDA, CaL., Jan. 4—A young son of School Director Lanktree was firing a 22-caliber pistol yesterday morning near his home at Facific avenne and Wood street, when he let the weabon fall and it was thus accidentally discharged, the bul- let entering the fleshy part of his left arm. The wound is not dangerous. e English Reporte: English reporters are apt to rely too much on shorthand-writing. They are not as sprightly as American reporters. But the great use to which English report- ers Sut shorthand, and the wholesome dread they have of using any but a man’s actual words in reporting his speeches, tend to give English™ reporting the reputation for accuracy which it now generally enjoys. Accuracy and {fair- ness are the first requisites with an English reporter doing political work. Consequently, when English people read a report of a speech in Parliament, an address of a member to his constituents, or a discussion in the City Council, they kunow and feel that they are reading what the speaker actually said, and not what the reporter thinks he said, or imagines he should have said. They get the speech standing quite apart from any opinions about or comments upon it, and with this before them they are aple to form their own judgments of the questions under dis- cussion and of the attitude of the speaker toward it. Speeches so reported have an undoubted educational value, and a good and far-reaching effect on municipal and national political life.—Atlantic Monthly, _County. WINT [SLAIS CREEK OPENED TO THE SEA Congress Has Been Peti- tioned by Property- Holders. SEVERAL OBSTRUCTIONS. Peter Seculovich Claims That It Is Still a Navigable ‘Stream. HOW THE RAILROAD GOT HOLD. A Stream Two Hundred Feet Wide Was Entirely Cut Off From the Commercial World. While the Southern Pacific Company has been rounding up ail the good things in California, it has not failed to place every possible obstruction in the way of those who are contented with a more modest existence. A great many people have been smitten by the methods of this combination, hail- ing from Kentucky, and a very consid- erable number of them suffer in silence, but others do not propose to be cut off entirely, nor will they submit' to such treatment without revoiting. There is one organization, known as the Islais Creek Property-owners’ Association, of which considerable has appeared in this paper of late, that is moving on the rail- road batteries with the intention of storm- ing the works and getting something like justice. Peter T. Seculovich is president of the association, and acting in that capacity, discusses the shutting off of Islais Creek from the sea, in ail its ins and outs. “We claim,” said the piesident, “that we have certain rights as property-holders that should be protected by the United States, inasmuch as the courts of Califor- nia have decided against us. We have placed the history of the Islais Creek mat- ter before our Senators and Representa- tives ip Washington and expect something will be done soon that will re-establish our right and title to be 1n direct communica- tion with the sea, a right that was removed when the Southern Pacific Company built a stationary bridge across Itlais Creek via Kentucky street. “We are all own of land fronting on and adjacent to Islais Creek, an arm of the sea into which tide ebbs and flows, having eight feet of water at ordinary high tide. ‘When in early days we purchased our land we were enjoying iree commerce and navi- gation. These conditions were kept up until 1 hen the State Legislature ex- ceeded its trust and let the Po- trero and Bay View Railroad Company, a feeler of the octopus, obstruct the creek by placing across Kentucky street a sta- tionary wooden bridge and afterward by an earthen embankment from one side of the mainiand at Potrero Nuevo over and across a tidal bay on the lize of Kentuc! street eighty feet wide. This embank- ment, which ran clear across the creek to the mainland, had an aperture in it for the water to pass in and out asthe ebb and flow requires. This embankment has stopped all commerce and navigation and rendered it valueless to us property-own- ers, thus causing us great lo: Before this obstruction was placed there Sacra- mento River steamers used to come up and dock far above the bridge, and we were permitted to ¢o business direct from our own property. To-day, however, these steamers are barred from entering the creek above the Kentucky-street bridee. #There is another bridge above the Ken- tucky-street obstruction, and yet one more at Fifteenth avenue, which was con- structed against our protest. This latter one consists of a solid embankment with a flowgate in it, but it is now out of place. This creek before these three obstructions were placed there was a navigable stream and an arm of the sea, 200 feet wide at its mouth and seventy feet at its upper end. It is three miles long and ships of a capa- city of about forty tons were able to pass easily up and down said creek. “The. Kentucky-street bridge was first to mark its course. Why the local author- ities did not get out an injunction I do not know. They simply permitied the work to goon. It was the duty of the United States District Attorney to take some steps, but he paid no attention to the mat- ter. Isiais Creek was declared a navigable arm of the sea by an act of Congress as early as 1850, ana_part of section 3 of the act admitting California into the Union conditionally reads: ‘And be iv further en- acted, that all the navigable waters within the said State shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of said State, as to the citizens of the United States, without tax, impost or duty therefor.” In the Statutes of California, 1868, page 336, it reads in section 2, after section 1 declares the stream oven: ‘It shall not be lawful for any person or per- sons to build any dam or bridge across said creek or cbanuel, or any wharf that will interfere with navigation of the same.’ / “That was and is to-day the law re- garding obstructions, yet in section 3 of the same act it exempts the company to build a draw in a bridge, but the company, without authority built a stationary bridge and afterward an embankment and then a wagon road, 3 “One very clever way of getting around the law was to incorporate in the act these words: ‘Said railroad company shall be required to construct a draw 1n said bridge whenever parties interested shall pay the expenses of constructing said draw and provide for maintaining the same.” This was an unjust act that could not be ful- tilled by any other parties but the com- any. Thirty-five years after the stream gad been declared navigable and seventeen vears after the State of California bad declared it navigable the California Leg- 1slature exceeded its trust and dropped it from the Political Code as & navigable stream. We carried the matter into the courts and on the 30th of January, 1882, in the Superior Court, Depaitment 3, a de- cree was rendered in our favor as against the Bay View Railroad Company, that the bridge was a nuisance and the Cefendants were ordered to remove without delay the bridge, or that part of it which obstructed Islais Creek, and to immediately abate the nuisance, but the case was appealed to the State Supreme Court and reversed on the ground t%u the company had the right to keep the nuisance asa bridge until Con- gress otherwise enacts. “That is the way the Supreme Court dis- osed of the question, and we are now try- ing to get Congress to correct the error. I once wrote to Robert Lincoln, who was Becretary of War, but he put the matter in the hands of Colonel Mendell and we got nothing from that source. On one oc- casion the Harbor Commissioners passed a resolution ordering the railroad to re- move the bridge or place a draw in, witn the result that the man who wrote the order was suddenly dismissed a short time afterward. “In 1890 the Harbor Commissioners offered to construct a drawbridge if the City would pay for its maintenance after it was completed. This offer was rejected, and nothing ever came of it. ““We have petitioned Congress to declare Islais Creek open for commerce and navi- ation from its mouth in the bay of San %‘rmciaco to its upper end as recorded on gift map 4, December 31,1861; in map | Strouse; the Mission_and Holly Park Im- started in the night and piles were driven | book 2 tn the Recorder’s office, and by the map of the State Board of Harbor Com- missioners. “It will require, to complete these re- movals of obstructions. something like $10,000, which we have asked Congress to appropriate. The petition is signed by my- self as president of the Islais Creek Prop- erty-owners’ Association; Henry Wacken- reuder, execator of Vistas W. Wacken- reuder’s estate; the Fairmount Mission Improvement Club’s president and secre- tary, J. F. Broad, and also Anton Kreig, J. A. Roy, Joseph Eberle, John Kingston, Main & Winchester, Louis Sloss; the Mission-street_and Precita Valley Prop- erty-owners’ Improvement Club, Peter Seculovich president; 8. G. Cheever, sec- retary; GustavSutro, Adolph Sutro, Emily F. Pope; Talbot Investment Company, by ‘W. H. Talbot, president; Henry Seymour, A. Warren. Behrend Joost and Mark provement Club, by U. G. Wienholz presi- dent, Martin Bahrt secretary; the Fair- mount Improvement Club, by Jotn L. McLaunghlin, president; Potrero Land and Water Trust Company, by E. R. Thoma- son, president. “If the officials of Caliiornia who draw magnificent salaries from the State can- not take care of the taxpayers and prop- erty-owners we will see whether or not the United States will. I do not propose to disarm myself entirely by exposing our lines of campaign, but there is a great deal more to come of this matter and we will fight it out until something in the shape of justice is delivered the property-owners, who were here before the Southern Pacific of Kentucky decided to remove us from the sea.” ONE. SAUSALITO SPogK, The Apparition Which Dis- turbed the Rest of a Prominent Citizen. How W. H. Harrison Discovered the Danger of Meddling With Old Cemetery Pickets. W. H. Harrison of Sausalito, the coal merchant and journalist, took a drive over the hills north of town on New Year’s day. Passing the old cemetery Mr. Har- rison remembered that he bad lost a picket from his front fence iine, and that one of those aged pickets at the cemetery would about fit, and with a coat of paint would look just as good asnew. He is a gentleman of prompt action, so to trans- fer the picket to his buggy was the work of & moment. And then he drove home sat- isfied that the first day of the new year had not passed without profit. Mr. Harrison is a light sleeper, and at 12 o'clock was awakened by the striking of the midnight hour from the clock on his mantelpiece. He reached forth to draw the coverlet over his shoulders and com- pose himself again to slumber when the consciousness of a strange presence in the room startled him. He opened his eyes and was considerably alarmed to see the cemetery picket standing erect at the post of his bed. “Why, I'm a Coos Bay lu mperifiti not the cemetery picket,” exclaimed Mr. | Harrison, rubbing his eyes. “You bet your sweet life it is,” rejoined the picket, which to Mr. Harrison’s horror had assumed human proportions, and was grinning at him in a most ghastly fashion. “Say, you're not alive,”’” gasped the Coal King, sitting up in his bed and shivering with terror. “Just as much as you are at the present moment, Bitly,” grimly replied the picket. “But you're 01&’ lumber, now, you know argued Mr. Harrison, persua- picket grew profane and swore so terribly that the expert in anthracite put his fingers in his ears. “Who are you, anyhow, and what are you doing here in the dead of night?"” bluffingly démanded Mr. Harrison. “May Satan roast you in your own sift- ings,” shricked the picket. “Who bronght me here, any how, and behind the slowest old horse, too, thatever woreshoes? Who am I,eh? Why, I was the boatswain of the Russian brig Petrovski, but now I am simlvly a picket, see?”’ ‘I knew there were some Russian sailors buried on that hillside, but, I assure you, I had no intention of disturbing you,” said Mr. Harrison, soothingly. **Ohb, never mind the disturbing,” re- torted the picket; “‘that hillside is a pretty windy place, and I will be much more comfortable in your front yard.” “I’ll be hanged if you will,” muttered Mr. Harrison. “I was always fond of society,’” pursued the picket, musingly. “I like flowers and chickens. It wasthe dream of my life to own a chicken-ranch when I was at sea. And say, don’t drive me in too hard, Billy, so I can't get up every night and have.a social chat with you. I can spin you lots of good yarns, I can.” The cold perspiration started on Mr. Harrison’s lofty forehead at the idea of a seance every night with a ‘ghosuy boat- swain embodied in a redwood picket. But he concluded best to coneiliate his unwel- come visitor. “Weil, we'll see about it,” he said, pleas- antly. *Nothing would please me better, Lassure you. Butdon’t you think you'd better turn in now. I've got to be at busi- ness early in the morning, you know.” The picket scowled viciously at the sug- gestion. “Iam just beginning to enjoy myself, Billy,” it said, severely. ‘Keep a civil tongue in your head, or by the main brace pennant I'll hop into that bed and lam the dickens out of you.” Here to Mr. Harrison’s inexpressible re- lief a tap came to the door and a voice out- side said: “Why, William, who are you talking to?"” Before he could reply the picket, with a parting glance of the most threateningim- port, launched itself out of window. Mr. Harrison sprang from his couch and steadied his nerves. That morning, ere the wintry sun had gilded the lofty hills, he drove rapidly up the road, and the picket and a heavy maul lay side by side i the bottom of his buggy. 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