The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1904, Page 6

A N FRANCISCO CALL, JULY 20, 1904 DALTON STATES IS POSITIO Explains Reduetion of the Assessment of the Contri Costa Water Compan) OTHERS SUGGESTED IT Mayor Warren Olney Thinks | It a Good Plan to Allow Franchises to Go Free RS - - L Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 19. County Ass Dalton’s action in reducing the assessment of the fran- e water in the reservoirs of the Contra Costa Water Company from $2,445.000, which was the assess- ment last year, to the nominal value of $1200 this year, resulting in a net reduction of $2,443800, was explained by him to-day. Dalton made public a letter written to him by Mayor Olney, with whom he had conferred in regard to the assessments, supplemented by a | statement made by himself. In his ter the Mayor advances the theory that to mssess water and franchises of the water company and then allow the company to inc the taxes paid on its assessments in its running expenses, for which allowance be made in fixi water rates, is s labor. His letter is as follows: 1 beg to say ich more The hese ars th th consum te they should. yon wk One ¢ was brought peny Circust Court fo the last rates fixed the Council had not ¢ ,000 estimated to be e taxes upon the franchises ation. It is my opinion essed and the taxes ntra Costa Water Com- nd not the corporation, wiil was_that n of §i pany DALTON'S EXPLANATION. With the Mayor's letter Assessor Dalton bhas given out the following typewritten statement of his posi- ton: the assessment against the ter Company’s franchise and n thet the assessment on neir property is now in the that courts for a 1 determination as to whether t are assessable or mot, and fur- thermore. the light thrown on these mat- ters through the suit in the United States Circult Court of the Water Company against the city of Oakland, and conversations 1 have had with the attorneys for the city of Oak- ! as the accompanying opinion f iney, 1 have concluded that it is better fo people of this county that oply & nominal assessment should be placed on the franchise and water in as much as, ac- cording 1o the courts’ present interpretation of the law the water company is permitted to charze for the taxes and collect the amount from the rate payers, as part operating ex- pensex That being the case, if the taxes are so con- cluded as part of operating expenses and the P ts on the franchise and water are continued and the decision of the courts should be in favor of the water company and de- clare these assessments vold then the company would be that uch the gainer and the tax- payers the losers Such being the case. and there being a ques- tion as 10 the validity of the assessments againet the franchire and water, I have deter- mined 1o pursue the course of assessing the franchise and water at a nominal figure until the courts have parsed on the validity of the sssessment. 1 have tried for years to have the matter of the assessment against the wa- ter company’'s franchi: tested through the 2 but bave been unable to do so until ¥ when the ard of Equalization re- fused to aliow the assessment to be reduced @s requested by the water company. Since that time the water company has taken the matter into the courts and we will now have a judicial determination of the matter. Had the Board of Equalization years ago allowed the assessment on the franchise to stand so thet it could have been taken into the courts T would have pursped the same course 1 am now pursuing. It i= a matter I feel should be Getermined by the courts Last year the assessment of the Con- tra Costa Water Company reached an aggzregate of $6,000,000. This year, with the reductions made in the franchises end the water in the reservoirs, the total assessment reaches less than $3,- $00.000. Examination of the assessment books ¢hows that while the Contra Costa Water Company has been given great reductions the Spring Valley Water Company’s assessment has been con- siderably increased. The assessment TELLS A TALE | OF BURIED GOLD Wife of a Switchman Is Informed That Treasurei Rests Beneath Her House 'ORY CAUSES SURPRISE Mrs. A. D. Thompson of West | Oakland Gives Minute Ac- of Stranger’s Visit | count SO 5 | Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 19. 1 The untouched wealth of an unhappy wife, given by her husband as the price of his release from his marriage obli- | gations, lies buried under the cottage |of an Oakland laborer. Such is the | tale told by a mysterious visitor to the | | cottage, but questioned by its occu- pants. Mrs. A. D. Thompson, of 1358 Eighth | street, | caller this city, received an unusual on last Saturday evening. The of the guest is unknown, but the on that took her to Mrs. Themp- s door is singular in the extreme. name | While Mrs. Thompson was visiting inflxxhhurs Saturday night a strange woman called at her house and in- quired for her. Mrs. Thompson’s lit- | tle girl immediately summoned her | mother and in a few moments both women were in earnest conversation. The stranger informed Mrs. Thompson | that $5000 in coin was buried under her hopse. The money had lain there for years, said the informant, and the lamount a divorced man paid to his wife « NEWS OF THE IS LOST AS RESULT OF WILD TARGET PRACTICE William H. Edwards Falls Victim to Reckless Shooting by Everett Jordan, Whose Rifle Bullet Pene- trates Heart of Unfortunate as He Passes in Next Yard LIFE Young after their separation. The strange treasure-seeker wanted to tear out the | foundation from the house and to delve | deep Into the alleged mystery. Mrs. | Thompson informed her husband, who is a switchman at the West Oakland | railroad yards. Thompson was not | | anxious to tear up the house and the | story has therefore rested. Mrs. | Thompson did not learn the identity of | her visitor, who departed after being | denied permission to search for the | hidden gold. | | | 'AGAINLEADSEBELL| By Zoe Green Radcliffe, OAKLAND, July 19.—Ebell, which has been, | offictally, without a head for some months, | re made whole at a meeting of d yesterday afternoon, when Mrs. J was re-elected president. It will be d that Mrs. Hume was elected 10 ver Gray and resigned, ng a few times, on account ( deceased e presidential honos modesty has refused should be asked 16 belleving that | reconsider her | Hume 1s an unusually clever woman e of the best talkers that have been Ebell's platform, and if her execu- ortunate indeed that calls her neeting yesterday the resignation of T. Gilpin as treasurer was accepted h great regret. M Gilpin was ' recently e a second term as treasurer, | 1d attention to her im- was accepted. Her successor ¥ be mamed by the board some time the beginning of the club’s next season. The youngsters are having their innings now, | before all the grown folks get back to mo- | the “parties.” | Saturday little Andrew Stone, the t b | cele! s merry and band of littie folks as one would | 10 mee. A wonderful Jack Horner pie, filied with gifts, and an equally wonderful | great bag furnished part of the pleasure of the memorable afternoon. Master Andrew's | guests were: Misses Mora donald, Theresa | Wililams_~ Ellita Adame, Ellzabeth _Adams, | Masters Donald Macdonald, Clarence William, | emeyer, Bruce Howard and Wil- . Another expectant band is waiting impa- tiently for to-morrow, when Mrs. R. A. Bray will entertain for her little niece, Lucile Cook. The ballroom at Alta Vista, the Henry Butters' home, will be opened for the occasion and every one concerned is anticipating a glorious time. am Stone. Miss Bessie Coghill has returned from a long sojourn at the Stanley ranch and was yester- dey the hostess at a pretty little affair compli- | mentary to Miss Loretta Hanley. Fach guest was required to repeat the best story in her repertoire, and the two cleverst story tellers— in this= case Edna Prather and 1 ham—received prizes. The party Miss Loretta Hanley, Miss Anita Thompson, Misses Ruth and Rose Kales, Miss E Miss Hazel Plerce, Miss Verda Clapl , Miss Fay Chapman, Miss Vita Vincent, Miss Vir- ginia Harmon, Miss Irene Bangs, Miss Kittic Kutz, Miss Helen Thomas and ~Miss Edna Prather. e » Miss Margeret Olcese, brown as a berry and prettier than ever, is back In town after a very oleasant outing with friends at Camp Meeker: Mrs, W. W. Kergan and ber daughter, Mrs. George Humphrey, have returned from Santa Cruz. ooy Miss Fgances MacFadden of 3 Madera is the guest of her =unt, Mrs. Kinsey, Mrs. John Charles Adams entertained to-day Mrs. L. 8. Taylor of Sacramento and her daughter, Mrs. Lee Lipon, at luncheon. S ALAMEDA, July 19.—Del Snow of Newark was the guest recently of Henry Reed Tay- lor. Dresident of the Cooper Ornithological Jul b. Judge and Mrs. A. B. Hunt will return to- morrow from a vacation spent near Oroville. Mr. and Mrs. James Hambly and the fol- lowing form a merry outing party t Camp Vacation: Miss Fannie Charles Kuchman, , 4 Jack Tyner, Miss Marle Walsh, Miss' Maud Lan and Miss Helen Hambly. Dr. F. A. St. Sure, surgeon of the steamship Alameda, is the guest of his brother, Judge A. F. St. Sure. —_— ]on its riparian water rights and water in and along Alameda Creek in Wash- ington Township has been assessed at $1,500,000 and the rights on Calaveras Creek, Arroyo de la Laguna, Arroyo del Valle, Arroyc Honda and Sén An- tofiio Creek in Pleasanton Township have been assessed at $1,500,000, making a total of $3,000,000 as against $2,400,000 last year. The courts have decided that the Spring Valley Water Company cannot | be assessed for a franchise in Alameda, as it does no distributing on this side of the bay. Its water sheds are assess- ed by the acre and remain the same, | but $600,000 has been added to the value of its water rights. ———— Japanese laborers to the number of 500 are to be imported to v.rk in the Mexican copper mines in an attempt to solve the labor problem. The men jare to be paid $1 50 a day and are !under contract for three years l | get | Willie H. Edwards, the 13-year-old son | of Larkin B. | 1448 Sixth street, !of Fred L. Jordan, a carpenter, | parents | several | the orchard. oo OAKLAND, July 19.—Another victim has fallen as the result of reckless tar- practice within the city limits. iwards, who resides at West Berkeley, was shot and instantly killed this morning at the home of his uncle, Thomas Bridge, in Fruitvale. 5 The shooting, which was accidental, was done by Everett Jordan, the son who next to the resides on Cherry avenue, Bridge home. The Jordan boy, who is 14 years old, had thoughtlessly fixed up a bell tar- get on the fence at the back of his home, which separates the yard of his home from the Bridge prop- Regardless of the safety of oth- the youth was shooting at the with a small rifle. After firing ots, he stopped for a few moments and then started to shoot again. At the first shot he heard a scream and the sound of a fall from Dropping his rifle, Jor- dan climbed over the fence and found voung Edwards lying on the ground, unconscious. At first Jordan did not realize what had happened, but a moment later a blood stain appeared on the front of erty. ers, mark | the victim’s shirt and then the shooter realized that his bullet had found a human mark. Jordan was badly fright- ened. He ran into his house, scream- ing for help. As soon as Mrs. Jordan learned what had happened she noti- fled the injured lad’s uncle, who at once took the boy to the office of Dr. J. H. Callen, but by the time he ar- rived there the victim of the shooting was dead. : An examination of the body showed that the bullet had entered the heart, causing almost instzot death. As soon as Dr. Callen had pronounced life ex- tinct the Coroner was notified and the body was removed to the morgue in Oakland. Everett Jordan was taken to the District Attorney’s office this after- noon, where he made the following statement: 1 have a 22-caliber rifle at home and this morning 1 made a target with a bell and fixed it up in the back yard. I fired a few shots and then stopped for a while. Then I began to shoot again. Just as I fired 1 heard some one scream in the orchard. I climbed over the fence and found this boy lying on the ground. Then I ran to get some one to help, I never saw the boy before, but they told me that he was stopping at Bridge's, There is a creek running through the orchard, and. [ think the boy must have come up out of the #ul for 1 did not see any one in the or- chard just before I fired the last shot. After hearing the boy’s story the au- thorities allowed him to return home, as they are satisfied that the shooting was accidental. Larkin B. Edwards, the father of the dead lad, is employed at the California Vigorit Powder Works. Willie was the oldest of a family of three children. ‘When Mrs. Edwards was notified of her son’s tragic death she became hys- terical and is now under the care of a doctor. —_————— Prince’s Picture Sent to London. OAKLAND, July. 19.—Chief Jailer Harry Clark of the Alameda County Jail has written to the Chief of Police at Scotland Yard, London, inclosing a photograph of Julius Steinberg, who claims to be Prince Ramina Ara- mancha Singh, a brother of Prince Vietor Dhuleep Singh, who now resides in England. Clark expects that the answer will finally clear up the mys- tery surrounding Steinberg’s identity. ———— Teachers Resign. OAKLAND, July 19—Anna M. Kress and Sarah Van Larue have re- signed as teachers in the School De- partment. Miss Florence M. White, Miss Anna E. Ainsbury and Miss Mabel Hollis, teachers, have each been * | | | | 5 | t 1'- - - * | BERKELEY BOY WHO WAS | KILLED BY A BULLET FROM A | TARGET RIFLE. * - * CLOSES YEAR WITHOUT DEBT City Council Makes Record for Conducting Business of Municipal Taxpayers B, Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 19. Auditor A. H. Breed has submitted a statement to the City Council show- ing that the fiscal year ended June 30 was closed with the satisfactory bal- ance of $5000 to the city's credit, after all outstanding warrants were settled. No indebtedness remains that cannot be met by the funds on hand. In or- der to close the books and to effect a settlement of the year’s business the Auditor has gained the consent of the Council to a transfer of funds. In his statement Auditor Breed wrote as fol- lows: “It will be pleasing to you to learn that after you have passed this resolu- tion making the transfers all warrants outstanding against the city of Oak- land will be payable at the Treasurer's office. There will still remain in the city treasury fully $5000 over and above several items which we know will be allowed during the next thirty days against the funds of the last fis- cal year.” —_——— SUE TO COMPEL UNION TO REINSTATE THEM Seymour Arada and John Mitchell Would Be Good Shinglers Again. OAKLAND, July 19.— Suits were brought to-day by Seymour Arada and John Mitchell against Shinglers’ Union No. 1 to. compel it to reinstate them to membership. With Thomas Arada they were expelled from the unicn sev- eral months ago. Thomas Arada brought suit to compel the union to re- instate him and won and the others are following his lead. In the trial of the case the Judge found that he had jurisdiction on ac- count of the fact that there was $200 in the treasury of the union in which Arada was interested. He also found that there was no clause in the by-laws of the union providing for the expul- sion of a member for working with a non-union man. —_—— Take Girls From Parents. OAKLAND, July 19.—On account of the habits of Albert and Lillian Mec- Pheters their three children have been taken away from them and distributed among strangers. Though the parents are young they have the drink habit and the children were neglected. This morning G. A. Fisher and wife of 3136 Grove street adopted the six-year-old girl, Alice; G. N. Koeppel of San Fran- cisco has Viclet, aged twenty months, and will adopt her in the courts there, while Maud McPheters, the grand- granted six months’ leave of absence | mother, will keep Grace L., the eldest by the Board of Education. <hild, perself, MTSTERY VEILS HILL'S DEMISE Unfortunate Doctor’s Case Is Still in the Dark and Little Inquiry Is Made INQUEST TO BE HELD ———— Officials Are Inclined to Pass the Case as One of Suicide From Despondency —_— Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 19. The death of Dr. Charles F. Hill, whose body was discovered in the Piedmont hills last Saturday aftée: noon, still remains.a mystery. officials, despite much unexplained cir- cumstance, are inclined to pronounce the case one of suicide, and from ap- pearances but lfttle further investiga- tion will be made. The inquest will be held on Friday night and all pertinent witnesses have been subpoenaed. Few of them will be able to throw any light on the manner of death. The bulk of the testimony, will be concerning the life of the de- ceased until the time he disappeared {rom the residence of his landiady, on Sixteenth street, and the incidents at- tending the finding of the body. Jus- tice of the Peace Quinn will conduct the inquest in the absence of Coroner Mehrmann. Where Hill spent his time from Wed- nesday morning until the time of his death has not been ascertained and the last man who saw him alive has not yet been discovered. _—e—e————— PREACHERS TO TAKE g SUMMER SCHOOL WORK Pacific Theological Seminary Secures Services of Prominent Divines to Give Lectures. BERKELEY, July 19.—The Pacific Theological Seminary will have a summer school of its own this year and for the faculty the officers of the college have secured some of the most prominent educators and pulpit think- ers in America. Among the members of the faculty will be the Rev. Charles R. Brown of Oakland; Professor Ed- gar McFayden of Knox College, To- ronto; Dean Sanders of Yale Univer- sity, Professor Elmer E. Brown of the University of California and the Rev. R. R. Meredith of Pasadena. The session will begin on Monday next, for which day and subsequent days the following course of lectures has been arranged: The Rev. Dr. Brown, “The Oppression of the People,” “The In- dustrial Deliverance,” “The Training in Freedom,” “The New Social Or- der”; Professor McFayden, *“Where Shall I Find God?” “Is God Just?” “Does God Care?” “What Is the Duty of Man?” “What Is the Meaning of Suffering?” ““What Shall We Do With the Bible?” Dean Sanders, “Improved Methods With the Bible School,” “The Teaching Function of the Church,” “The Bible School and the Church Professor Brown, “‘Educational Aims, “Psychological Aspects of Instruc- tion,” “The Institutional Theory of Education”; Dr. Meredith, “The Church and the Children,” harac- teristics of the Bible,” “The Great Teacher the Preacher’s Model.” B CHINESE COMMISSIONER STUDIES THE SCHOOLS Oriental Government Sends Ah Ging Tow to America to Look Into the Educational System. BERKELEY, July 19.—In imitation of the Japanese the Chinese have sent a commissioner of education to this country to study the system in vogue in the schools and universities. The commissioner is Ah Ging Tow and he pald a visit to the University of Cal- ifornia to-day to see how education is carried on there.. Accompanied by his suite and guided by Professor Jerome B. Landfield, Ah Tow visited all the buildings and departments and asked many questions as to their conduct. Through his interpreter Ah Tow ex- plained that his Government had commissioned him to come to Ameri- ca and gather data so that the Em- peror may be rightfully guided in the establishment of a vast school sys- tem which is contemplated for China. Millions of dollars will be spent in time not only on universities, but a secondary school system. The Gov- ernment is meeting with some difficul- ty now in supplying the present schools with instructors, as there are not enough educated natives to go around. \ —_—— Will Go to Stockton. OAKLAND, July 19.—A. R. Emery, charged by his wife with insanity and having made a murderous assault upon his daughter, has abandoned his re- quest for a jury trial and will go to the State Hospital at Stockton without more delay. He was adjudged insane by the Lunacy Commissioners and com- mitted by Judge Ogden, but his attor- neys made a demand for a jury trial for their client, which has been aban- doned. —_——— Shipping Man Under Knife. OAKLAND, July 18.—William A. Mitchell, brother of Supervisor John Mitchell of this city and prominent in coast shipping business in San Francisco, was operated upon to-day at Fabiola Hospital for appendicitis. Dr. A. L. Cunningham and Dr. N. H. Chamberlain conducted the operation. The patient is in a serious condition. —_——— Alameda’s Lighting Expenses. i ALAMEDA, July 19.—According to the report of A. D. Goldsworthy, ac- countant of the municipal light de- partment, the expenses of that adjunct of the city government last month was $2403 20 and the earnings $943 40, mak- ing the cost to the municipality for public illumination $1459 80. SANTA CRUZ, July 19.—The Twin Lakes Assembly opened at the Auditoriom of the State la atiendance s oo s The | ARMED WONAN KEEPS MEN OFF Mrs. C. Preston Sits in Her Door at Town of Fruitvale With Pistol in Her Lap OFFICER WAITS OUTSIDE —_— She Tells Him That the First | One to Come Inside Will Be the Recipient of a Bullet B P AE Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 19. With a pistol in her lap, Mrs. C. Preston, who Keeps a small grocery and notion stere in Fruitvale, sat at her rear door and kept a constable, three bondsmen and a bill collector at | bay fqr twenty-four hours. They had an attachment on her place, but she is in possession and so far their efforts to dislodge her have been of no avail. She threatened to | put a bullet thrqugh the first man that stepped inside her door and none of the besiegers so far have given any indieation that they want the honor. This afternoon she left her step- daughter Lena, with the pistol, in charge of the premises while she went to the District Attorney’s office and in- terviewed Deputy T. W. Harris in re- gard to her rights and also to whether she could not get a warrant for the arrest of W. E. Dean, the col- lector, for forgery, she making the statement that he forged the name of Justice of the Peace W. R. Geary to an execution of judgment served upon her by Constable Thomas Carroll. Carroll, while being the constable, holds the world’s record for throwing the hammer. He was outwitted by the woman who sat and eyed him with her pistol close at hand. While he was engaged in putting the Sheriff's pad- lock on the outside of her front door, Mrs. reston went from her living rm»milsn the rear and locked the door on the inslde, so that while she was barred from going out the constable was also barred from entering. Then she took her station at her rear door. Shle barricaded herself and savs she will hold the fort until she settles the trouble in her own way. Mrs. Preston says that all of her trouble has been caused by Dean. While he was collecting bills for her he took bills against her and got all of her creditors to give him their bills and presented them all at one time Her landlord, a painter by the name of Simmonds, she says, is also piqued because she refused to marry him and has doubled the rent on her and given that bill also to Dean to collect. With bills coming from every direction the woman made up her mind that there was but one thing to do and that was- to close up until the storm had passed. Mrs. Preston says she can meet all of her obligations, but she will also take her time about doing so. —_———— AGRICULTURIST MEETS SUDDEN WOMAN DEATH Mrs. Mary B. Coulston, Assistant In- structor at University of Califor- nia, Dies After Short lliness. BERKELEY, July 19.—Mrs. Mary | B. Coulston,who was recently appoint- |ed an assistant in agriculture at the University of California, died Sunday morning at the East Bay Sanitarium after being sick but one day from an intestinal affection. She came to Berkeley from her home in San Diego lafter her appointment two weeks ago and attended the summer school lec- tures. She had also prepared for her course of lectures at farmers' insti- tutes, which were to begin with the | fall semester, but illness seized her while she was in the midst of her work. Mrs. Coulston was graduated from the agricultural college of Cornell | University and had always been inter- ested in agricultural pursuits. She served for a period as edtor of Gar- den and forest and also as secretary to Steven Parsons, the New York lan ape ar She leaves a daugh- ter, who is now on her way to Europe with a New York theatrical troupe. ——————— Says Wife Keeps Late Hours. OAKLAND, July 19.—Suit for divorce was begun to-day by Edward E. Thornton against Amanda C. Thorn- ton on the ground of cruelty. He says she kept late hours and sometimes stayed away several days and nights at a time without letting him know where she was. They have a girl nine years of age of which he asks the cus- tody. ——————— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, July 19.—The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: Will A. Brown, 28, and Mary Brown, 25, both of San COUNTY OF ALAMEDA i1 aaanon 3 T BRANCH OFFICES OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY ‘ OAKLAND. | 1016 Broadway. | Telephone Main 1083. | BERKELEY. | 2148 Center Street. | Telephone North 7. ! ALAMEDA. 1435 Park Street. Telephone Alameda 5359. | ’ f e e———ep | REAL ESTATE TRAN CTIONS. Alameda County. SDAY, JULY 19 Bank (corporation) to Samuel H. and Marzaret Bonifieid, iot on S £ 5 of West, W 3 10 Kellersberger's map, R. McNeill, lots 1 Oakland; | B ern, ‘undivided ha Pallo avenue, Twenty-seventh (¢ avenue, E 88 (Nachtrieb) to Mar- line of Lwentieth W 23 by N 100, pertion of lot 11, biock N, Curtis & | Williams Tract, Oakland: $10. |~ Thomasine H. and James P. Rich to Wil liam R. Yourg, lot on N line of Thirtieth s t, 5 W of Grove, W 30 by N 140, lot y Homestead, Roberts (single) to beginning at a.point on line d V 455.67 from SW iine of of subdivision No. 1 of property, SW 50 by SE 133, . map R. and D. Peralta, Onk- L. W. and Maggie M. Burnham to Mat Bo- 50.86 N . N 38 3 and 4, lot on E line Aus- ) to George W T ot vised map to Union Savings , block 6, and East Oak- ts 1 to 5, San Antoni verstein, Harrison, k 15, Kei- p. € Painter O'Rourke (single), lot tieth street and Tele | W 100, Oak E J. & Atkins to John Carl son, lot ¢ D) of Grove, W blocic 0 of Henry's subdivision of >ckhurst t, Oakland: $10. Frank Edwards to ot on W Veston id line of Twelfth street N 50, W 50, N to S lne of said avenue, W B51.47 to beginning, lot § and por- tion lots 2 and 3, block 25, map property of L. M. Beaudry and G. Peladeau, etc., Oak- land: $10. A. Ph (widow) to Jennfe MeCall of ). Iot_on S line of Lydia tis, W 24 by S_100, pors artis and Williams Tract, r Brown to Florence E. Griffin (wife v.), lot 8, map Drexler Tract, Oakland; abeth and Henry Aine to W. J. Schmidt, block 80, tract B. Berkeley L. a T 1 ; also lots 27 to 3 biock 60 . ‘Berkeley. deed given to rect deed from same grantors dated July 38 1902; $10, | 19 | SRR, e | Prohibitionists Will Ratify. | OAKLAND, July 19—The Prohible | tionists will hold a ratification meet= | ing on Saturday evening at Hamilton | Hall. Delegates who attended the Na= | tional Prohibition Convention at Ine dianapolis will address the meeting. MR i ' RAILROAD MEN ARE HELD ON MANSLAUGHTER CHARGEH Station Agent and Flagman Accused by Coroner’s Jury Must Stand Trial. NEW YORK, July 19.—A charge of manslaughter was preferred against William T. Richar the station agent at Midvale, N. J., and Ernest Keller, flagman on the excursion train which was wrecked on the Erle Rall- road near Midvale on July 10. Riche ards and Keller were held responsible for the accident, which cost sixteen | lives, by the Coroner's jury, which re- ported yesterday. ——e—— TONOPAH TO HAVE, K NEW RAILROAD CORPORATION Company Is Formed in New Jersey to Do General Construction Business. TRENTON, N. J.,, July 19.—The Tonopah and Tidewater Rafllroad Company was day with an incorporated here to- authorized capital of Francisco; John Campbell, 30, San|$1,000,000 to do a general construce Francisco, and Elizabeth Noble, 24, | tion business. Among the incorpora- Oakland. tors is G. M. Smith of Oakland, Cal. 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