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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ‘TUESDAY, OVEMBER 1904. «NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA » EMBEZZLER READY TQ/PLAN OAKLAND |WIFE IS WEARY [MOFFITT'S WILL [AWARDS PLANS FACE J USTICE. KELLOGG WRITES POLICE WATER SPPLY| OF LIFE ALONE! IS MADE KNOWN 10 RCHITECTS Two Engineers Appointed Spouse of L. R. MeKillican,; Leaves His Widow $70.000 Board of Education Adopts and Another to Be Named to Investigate Properties Postal Clerk Who Took Small Sum |rEPorT WILL NoT BIND Will Surren der Himself. BERKELEY, Nov. 28.—Oliver M. Kel- logg, the young postoffice clerk who de- fauited and disappeared from Berkeley on October 18 ‘o-day informed the po- lice authorities and Postmaster Schmidt that he had been in this city for nearly #ix weeks in hiding. He announced that he would make good a'" the money he had taken, amounting to several hundred dollars, and would not seek to | avold arrest If a warrant was sworn out against him Kellogg explains that he returned when he learned that his young wife, to whom he has been married about a Year, was seriously ill. A child was born te him two weeks after he disap- | peared from Berkeley, and his wife was | not expected to live, according to re- ports he received from home. The con- | science stricken embezzler, who had | been spending the funds he took from | the postoffice for hotel bills, bought a | ticket to Berkeley and gave his atten- tion to the sick wife he had deserted. She hovered between life and death for | a month, and Kellogg nursed her him- | self. None knew that he had returned[ until to-day, when Kellogg came out: into the light and showed himself. H Kellogg says he will continue to live in’ Berkeley, try to meet all his obliga- tions and convince people that in tak- ing the postoffice money he was merely rash, and not criminally inclined. SENIORS EXPECT MORE ARE Captain Nance Submits Second Report Regarding Students’ Riot on Campus. Berk Office San Francisco Call, ; 48 Center Street, Nov. 28. 1 Cap ). 7. Na to-day filed | his report with President Wheeler on | the cases of thirteen seniors who are alleged to have taken part in the riot he cz thirteen men ar ed to give Nan tion of their ac w weeks ago. These supposed to have fail- factory explana- ons during the riot, as s were kept by Nance for er investigation after he had re- n the | | their me cases of forty-eight sen- n ding that the forty- be placed on probation. information was vouchsafed by Captaic Nance to-day in answer to es from the anxious men whose hangs the balance. Many of ien fear that Editor Hale's sus- for 2 year is likely to be dupli- in their s. Captain Nance refuses to calm their fears. He has paseed the matter up to President Wheeler, who received the report this morning. President Wheeler declines to be in- pen. cated own ¢ terviewed. He took the same action | when the report regarding the forty- eight seriors was sent to him by Nance. In that case the president im- mediatcly sent out notices to the men informing them of their fate. It is supposed that be will take similar ac- tion now, =o the thirteen men are loak- + SEEKS TO ANNUL OIL COMPANY'S MORTGAGE | Stockholder Says Land Was Given as Security for Heavy Notes With- out Authority. | A suit to set aside a mortgage on twenty acres of land in Kern County, belonging to the Mercedes Oil and De- velopment Company, was begun in the Superior Court yesterday by A. R. Tarwater, one of the oil company's stockholders. He represents -that the property is worth about $100,000 and that the notes secured by it amount | to $170,000, but he gquestions the au- thority of those who gaveithe mort- goge. The action is directed against the oil company, the Continental In- vestment Company, to which the mortgage was assigned, E. L. Wemple, T. ¢P. Spiers, Matthew Arnold and Homer Wilson. In 1901 the company gave Wemple a note for $56,679, with the land as security for that and other advances not to exceed $35,000. Six notes cover- in the latter sum were given between September, 1901, and March, 1902. The plaintiff alleges that three of the directérs in the oil company were in- terested in the notes and that their ac- tiens were without authority. He also contends that the directors cannot be induced to bring a suit to stop the foreclosure because they are under the control of Wemple, ————— e ADVERTISEMENTS. NOT FOR BEST FARM In the State. *1 saw so much in the papers about the wonderful cures effected by Pyra- mid Pile Cure 1 determined to give it a trial. I bought from my druggist one B0-cent box and used it as directed, and by the time I had used the last ‘pyra- mid’ 1 was entirely cured; n four days after I began to use the ‘pyramids’ all inflammation was gone. I was perfect- ly easv all the time, the excessive dis- charge stopped at once and stools be- came easy and gentle. “I was unable to get my own firewood for four months, and half the time when I could walk at all I had to walk half-bent. I used many pile remedies, ‘salves and ointments, all to no effect until I used one 50-cent box of Pyramid Pile Cure and was cured. “I would not be afflicted as I was four | months ago for the best farm in the| State of Arkansas. I can give proof and reference of the wonderful cure to | between the student body and the fac- | denied that the student body | the university.” | into the Superior Court. Representing | 70 HEAR THAT SUSPENDED. ing for envelopes from the university recorder’s office. The Cccident Magazine, a conserva- tive weekly publication edited by sen- iors, prints to-day a leading editorial advocating the placing of students on the faculty students’ affairs committee, so that the present ‘“strained rela- tions” which, the magazine says, exist ulty may be changed for more cordial feelings. It was the students’ affairs committee that recommended the dis- missal from college of Editor Hale. The Occident intimates that the commit- tee’s action is resented by the students and has caused “strained relations.” The editorial in Guestion is, in part, as follows: \ 1f we had a conmmittee chosen from the stu- dent body to represent it, working in co-op- eration with the students’ affairs committee, there could never be any danger that the lat- We do not say that this committee has cted 10 such a way, but it cannot has frequently expressed antagonism toward those judging it This antagonism is unfortunate, for, 8s was said in our first jesue this term, it “‘weakens Evervthing should be done to kill it. “That would strengthen the univer- Et We are convinced that If the undergrad- uates felt that they had a share in judging their own acts, that the judges were subject to their own judgment. then such antagonfsm would be stamped out and the present strained relations succeeded by the bond of amity that can come only through co-operation. There. fore this proposal to have a unity between fac- ulty and students should be considered. It is part and parcel of senfor control. We believe that the one will make the other effective and both will obtain beneficial results which neither could offer alone <+ TWO NEW SUITS AGAINST GET-RIC..-QUICK CONCERNS Contract Holders Go to Superior Court in Effort to Get Their Money Back, Two more get-rich-quick concerns were yesterday made the objects of attack by H. F. Hobson, who has heretofore haled a number of others twenty-one contract holders, he sues for the recovery of $45,000, collected on about 1500 contracts by the Bene- ficial Bond and Security Company. He also asks for the appointment of a receiver for the company's assets, books and records. He alleges that the business is illegal and fraudulent and that a large amount of the funds collected has been misappropriated by the officers of the concern for their personal use. % Similar allegations are made against J. E. Field and M. W. Zuckerman, do- ing buseiness as the Franco-American Mercantile Company, and against the Peerless Industrial Company of Wash- ington, D. C., which has been acting as treasurer for the “mercantile” company. In this case Hobson rep- resents seven contract holders and it is alleged that there are more than 2000 contracts outstanding, upon which the company has received more than $60.000. It is charged that about $30,000 of the sum has been wrongful- ly converted by the officers of the company. —_———— School Teacher Wins, A few minutes before the attempt upon his life yesterday morning Judge Hebbard decided the case of Ada Mar- tin against the Board of Education, ordering a writ of mandate granted as yprayed. Miss Martin was principal of | the Noe Valley Primary School at a | salary of $90 a month. In October, 1597, the board removed her to the post of assistant at the Hearst Gram- mar School at a salary of $83, which was later reduced to $76. In Novem- ber, 1899, the board resolved that Miss Martin had been unjustly removed, but that she was not entitled to back salary. Thereupon she sued for $684 and judgment in her favor is given for that amount. —_——— Say They Were Swindled. H. E. Whitehouse and E. 8. Stras- burg, conducting business as the Gold- en Gate Realty Company at 5 Fourth street, were arrested by Detectives Whitaker and Bell yesterday and booked at the City Prison on two charges of grand larceny. The com- plaining witnesses are Daniel Mack of Jackson, Amador County, and Her- man Spilner of San Jose. Each was ng for an investment and called realty 3 ‘where induced to pay $300 for a haif in a b at : esg;; City Will Not Be Forced to Submit Bond Scheme Even if Committee Approves Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, Nov. 28. The Bay Cities Water Company an- nounced to-night to the City Council that it had chosen A. M. Hunt, a civil engineer of San Francisco, to repre- sent the company on the board of en- gineers that will examine the prop- erties of the corporation with rela- tion to its proposal to install a munici- val water supply for Oakland. City Engineer F. C. Turner has been named for the city. These engineers will con- fer at once to name a third member of the board and it is expected the trio will _ begin its investigations very soon. Attorney R. M. Fitzgerald, rep- resenting the Bay Cities Water Com- pany, submitted to the Council an amendment to the original proposi- tion, which, he explained, succinctly covers the matter of the engineers’ re- port. The revised tender, a communica- tion signed by C. N. Beal, the com- pany’s general manager, provides that a favorable report by the engineers does not necessarily bind the city to submit a bonding scheme to the voters. But if the report shall be favorable and the city does not call a bond elec- tion the city must pay all of the ex- penses of the commission. If the report be unfavorable the Bay Cities Company shall pay the expenses. If the report be favorable and an election shall be called the expenses shall be divided equally between the city and the com- pany. On motion of Councilman John L. Howard this amendment was unani- mously accepted by the Council. Engineer Hunt, the company’s rep- resentative, was graduated in 1879 from the United States Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis. After service in the navy he came to San Francisco twelve years ago. He laid out the Midwinter Fair grounds, reconstructed the Los Angeles street railway sys- tem, was constructing engineer of the Independent Electric Light Company’s plant in San Francisco and has had charge of the construction of a num- ber of power plants in the Sierra Ne- vada Mountains. General Manager Beal informed the Council that Engi- | neer Hunt is not and never has been in the employ of the Bay Cities Com- pany. —_———— CHARGES MERCHANT WITH CONDUCTING “FENCE"” Pilferer of Hardware Accuses Man to Whom He Sold Plunder With Knowledge of Thefts. OAKLAND, Nov. 28.—Henry Spar- ber, a hardware dealer at 847 Broad- way, was arrested to-day on a.charge of receiving stolen goods. B D Schumacher, residing at 66 Elgin Park, San Francisco, accuses Sparber. Schumacher was arrested for steal- ing hardware from the Dunham-Car- rigan-Hayden Company, by whom he had been employed. To the police the young man said he had been induced to become a thief by Sparber's offer to take all the plunder brought to him. Sparber’'s place was searched and a quantity of goods claimed by the com- pany was found by the police. Spar- ber was released on $2000 bonds. e Borne to Final Rest, OAKLAND, Nov. 28.—The funeral of Theodore F. Jerome, who died Sat- urady at his home, 1226 Broadway, where he had lived for more than six- teen years, was held to-day at 10 o'clock, the remains being incinerated at the Oakland Crematory. Mr. Jerome was a native of New York State and came to California in 1849. He was 90 years of age. He was the father of the late E. B. Jerome, for many years in the San Francisco Cus- tom-house. NILES, Nov. 28.—The funeral of Joseph Tyson, a pioneer fruit-grower of Niles, who died at his home Satur- day evening, was held to-day from the family home. The remains were interred at Irvington. Deceased was 45 years of age and leaves a wife, three children, a mother and several brothers and sisters. The funeral was held under the auspices of Niles Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which Mr. Ty- son was a charter member. ———— Gives Woman Freedom. OAKLAND, Nov. 28.—Police Judge Mortimer Smith- to-day suspended judgment in the case of Mrs. K. Ja- cebson, who was arrested on com- plaint of Mrs. B. Ampeard on a charge of disturbing the peace. The women laid claim to the same man as hus- bend. His Honor intimated that Mrs. Jacobson's conduet had indicated that | she was a bit irrational and that no good purpose c¢ould be served by send- ing her to jail. Mrs. Jacobson had de- clared she was the contract wife of | Ampeard, who is an engineer. The other woman stoutly defends her title : to lawful wedlock with the man i question. —————— Council Accepts Gift Deed. OAKLAND, Nov. 28.—The City Council to-night accepted a gift deed from the Realty Syndicate to a block of twenty lots bounded by Valdez, Glascock, Derby and Lancaster streets, near the tidal canal and lower Fruitvale avenue, as a site for a city hospital. The Council authorized the Board of Public Works to call for plans for a hospital building to cost not more than $5000. ——————— GIVE MANDOLIN MUSICALE.—The pupils of SBamuel Adelstein gave an elaborate }in musicale last night at Native Sons' i1, n.ugu--h ‘.h-»‘ua cores attested Its -wrecl'.:mudm o ance. Mo ST T ettt reel Satlon { with vagrancy. Prison Guard, Asks Di- and His Four vorce, Charging Desertion| the Interest on $40,000 HE IS AT SAN QUE) Sisters| Report as to Competition for New School Buildings TIN |SON GETS LARGE SHARE|ACCEPTS EIGHT DESIGNS BRANCH OFFICES THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1016 Broadway. Telephone Main 1083. BERKELEY. 2148 Center Street. Telephone North 77. ALAMEDA. 1435 Park Street. Telephone Alameda 559. - . | Woman Freed From Man Receives Remainder of the Experts Submit Favorable! rean esrare Travsacrions. Who -Sprayed Her With Whitewash and Spent Cash Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, Nov. 28. Suit for dlvorc_e was begun to-day by Mabel J. MeKillican, wife oM Leslie R. McKillican, former deputy County Clerk and more recently a guard at San Quentin prison, on the ground of de- sertion. She was formerly Mabel J. $hoo, and her father is reputed to be wealthy. The pair were supposed to be living happily together, but since McKillican has been absent at San Quentin the statutory period of a year has elapsed and has given the wife her grounds for complaint. The papers were filed by Attorney Hart H. North at 1 o'clock, and at 2 o'clock the hearing was taken up by Judge Ellsworth, but was aft- erward continued until Wednesday. Suit for divorce was begun to-day by George M. Woodside against Nellie L. Woodside on the ground of desertion. They were married in Phoenix, Ariz., in 1895. A final decree of divorce was granted Minnie E. Ecker to-day from George L. Ecker, a drummer, on the ground of cruelty. She alleges he sprayed her with whitewash. She also savs he squandered $26,000 of her money. —_——— PRESSMEN GREET THEIR INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT Oakland Gas Workers to Give Their First Annual Ball on December OAKLAND, Nov. 28.—Martin P. Higgins, president of the International Pressmen’s Union, addressed the mem- bers of the local union at a “high jinks" held Saturday night at Gier's Hall. The international president was welcomed by President Louis Schuler of the local organization. At the close of the speaking refreshments were served. The jinks was in charge of H. U. Brany, secretary of the local union; Charles Knist, Louis Schuler, Theodore Zingle and David Wiley. The members of the Oakland Gas Workers' Union will give their first annual ball on Wednesday evening, | December 7. Elaborate prepara\lonsl are being made for the affair and a large attendance is expected. The ball wili be in charge of the following committees: Committee of arrangements—John Forrest (chajrman), M. N. Hennings, J. McNeil J. McCrudden, Walter Elakely, George Webster and Harry C. Merithew. Reception committee—J. Forrest, Daniel P. McCarthy, John Kearney, William Britton, Thomas Le Fort, Louls Hoffman Jr. and H O.. Merithew, Floor manager—John McCrudden Assistant floor manager—J. McNeil Floor committee—M, N. Hennings, W Blakely, George Webster, Matthew McKeirnan and John O'Byrn —_————— TYPOGRAPHICAL LEADER TALKS ON LABOR PROBLEM F. B. Foster of Printers’ Union Delivers Interesting Address to University Students. OAKLAND, Nov. 28. —F. K. Foster, a delegate to the American Federation of Labor from the Interna- tional Typographical Union, addressed the convention of the College of Com- merce at the University of California to-day, taking as his subject the “La- bor Problem of the Present Day Foster was presented by Professor A. C. Miller of the College of Commerce, and said: We. protest against the idea that we desire to become isolated from society, for we are working for the betterment of the laboring man, Tor the uplifting of the workingman. 1t any one wishes to fight us we will fight to de- fend our rights, but if justly dealt with we will be just. Among other things we are working for bet- ter sanitary conditions in factories and mines and for shorter hours of labor, because we want the workingman 10 enjoy some of the bencfits of modern ‘cuiture. Sometimes we are driven to strike to secure that to which we aspire. We do not defend this course, but we do affirm, with President Hadley of Yale, that strikes and boycots do good by reminding capi- tal that there is something eise besides money o be considered in these labor questions. —_————— Lecture by Julius Kahn. OAKLAND, Nov. 28.—Congress- man-elect Juliug Kahn will lecture on “Life in Washington” at the syna- gogue of the. First Hebrew Congrega- tion of Oakland to-morrow evening. The lecture will be given under the auspices of Oakland Lodge No. 252, 1. 0. B. B. Many grand officers will attend. Sol Kahn, president of the local lodge, will preside at the meet- ing. e OAKLAND NEWS. LOSES JOB, THEN KILLS HIMSELF.—w. A. Shera committed suicide last night by tak- ing carbolic acid at his home, 1318 Buchanan street. Despondency occasfoned by the loss of Eis job as a strect car conductor was the cause | of the act. : HAS SON ARRESTED.—Eugene Bennett | was arrested last night on a warrant sworn ' 1o by his mother on September 5 charging him | His_sister had been traili him and when she found him last night she notified a policeman. EXAMINING BOARD APPOINTED.—The | Civil S:rvice Commission met last night and | Estate, Which It Is Be- lieved Runs to $250,000 Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 101€ Broadway, Nov. 28. Special letters of administration were granted to Mrs. Augusta L. Moffitt | made the following awards in the com- upon the estats of the late Frank J. Moffitt, her husband, to-day, and the will was made known. Two years ago, when the will was made, the property was valued at $170,000, but since then it has been increased until it is believed to be worth nearly $250,- 000. erty yhad not been paid, and that as this was the last day she did not wish them tc go delinquent. Other matters concerning the estate also made it ad- visable that some one with power to act take the management of it. The will was made on July 17, 1902, in which the following bequests were made: To his sisters, Mary, Maggle, Emma and Nellie, he leaves the inter- est on $40,000, to be so invested that they will get the imcome monthly; to his son, Jefferson G. Mofifitt, a lad 17 years of age, he leaves $40,000, he to get ihe interest when he is 25 and the principal when he is 30; to his widow, he leaves 370,000 as she may select from his estate. He says that at that time his estate was worth $170,000, and he leaves the residue to his wife in trust for their son, and the boy is also to get the prin- cipal of the $40,000 at the death of his aunts. Attorneys Allen and Walsh are handling the estate, and a request in the will directs Mrs. Moffitt to consult with Williarta J. Dingee, Charles D. Pierce and Thomas H. Williams for advice, as they were personal friends of deceased. FIRST MAYOR OF THIS CITY DIES ABROAD News has been received of the death in Switzerland of Henry Frederick Teschemacher, whose name is closely linked with the early history of San Francisco. In the old days he held the office first as president of the Board of Supervisors, and when the consolida- tion act went into effect in 1862 was elected the first Mayor of San Fran- cisco. Henry F. Teschemacher came to Cal- ifornia on one of his father’'s vessels in July, 1842, when 20 years of age. He was naturally enthusiastic and soon forced his way to the front. His abilities were recognized by all, and after serving faithfully as president of the Board of Supervisors he was chosen Mayor in 1862, being known as the “war Mayor,"” as he held office during the Civil War. Mr. Teschemacher was the oldest member of the Pacific-Union,Club and was a charter member of the old Union Club, formed in 1836. He was also a member of Oriental Lodge No. 144, F. and A. M., and of the California His- torical Sdciety. For many years Mr. Teschemacher and his wife resided in Europe. Mrs. Teschemacher died in Switzerland about a year ago. One son, Hubert, who was with his father at the time of his death, survives them. e e i 2 EXCITEMENT PROVES FATAL. Aged Princeton Professor Dies After Witnessing Football Game. PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 28.—Rev. Dr. William Paxton of Princeton Uni- versity and Seminary died at his home te-day after a two weeks' illness. Dr. Paxton was in his eighty-first year and his death was the result of a paralytic stroke caused by overexcitement. ‘With his family he attended the Yale- Princeton football game on November 12 and manifested great interest in the contest, but was taken sick soon after his return home. He gradually improved until Friday and hopes for his recovery were expressed, but a re- lapse weakened him and resulted in his death to-day. Dr. Paxton was the oldest living trustee of Princeton. Until 1896 he was professor of ecclesiastical, homi- letical and pastoral theclogyat Prince- ton Seminary and also was president of the faculty of that institution when he resigned. He was moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Madison, Wis., in 1880 and had since been prominent in affairs of his church. SCHUMANN-H K A WIDOW. Husband of the Opera Singer Dies in Germany. Nov. 28.—Paul BERLIN, Sehu- Schumann-Heink, the opera singer, died to-day at his home in Saxony. BOSTON, Nov. 28.—Madame Schu- In asking for the special letters | Mrs. Moffitt stated to Judge Hall this morning that the taxes on the prop-: | i 1 t ng | mann, husband of Madame Ernestine | Opinions Upon the Draw- ings That Were Selected —— Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1016 Broadway, Nov. 25 ’ The Board of "Education to-night | i petition of architects on plans for new school buildings in this city: utton & | . Lincoln School, $145,000; S ‘Weeks, San Francisco. Franklin School, $145,000; Stone & | Smith, San Francisco. Prescott School, $145,000; Bliss & Fa- ville, San Francisco. New building at Thirty-ninth and Market streets, $72,000; Soderberg & Dickey, Oakland. Grove-street School, $23,000; F. D. Voorhies, Oakland and San Francisco. New building at Shattuck avenue and Sixtieth street, $72,000; Sutton & Weeks. Grant School, addition, $81,000; Stone & Smith. Lafayette School, addition, $38,000; F. D. Voorhies. These were the recommendations of the committee on schoolhouses and sites, composed of Directors Isaacs, Hathaway and Randolph. The board unanimously adopted them. In reporting on. the awards the com- mittee made note of the employment of H. S. Schwatka as an expert, who passed favorably upon the estimates and the methods of construction which were submitted by the competing arch- itects. There was also a special com- mittee on sanitation that made a criti- cal examination of the plans and re- ported that those chosen were well ar- ranged. This committee consisted of J. W. McClymonds, Superintendent of Schools; Dr. Dressler of the University of - €alifornia, J. P. Garlick, principal of the Lincoln School; J. F. Chandler, principal of the Franklin School; I. D. Martin, principal of the Grant School; Charles E. Keyes, principal of the La- fayette School: C. F. Gulick, principal of the Prescott School: C. E. Pugh, principal of the Washington School, and Miss M. M. Campbell, principal of | the Grove-street School. | The committee on schoolhouses and sites. reported thaf, the construction is to be fireproof so far as is possible within the estimates. In awarding the plans the board reserved the right to make minor changes. The fifst schoo! ‘erected will be the new Franklin School in East Oakland. | The structure in use is a makeshift, re- buiit from a partly burned building. The board will call for bids as soon as legal requirements can be met. It is hoped that the new buildings will all be comnleted within two years. e e——— TRAVELING MAN TAKES POISON ON THE OCEAN Gambling Leads Him to Embezzle From His Employer and He Becomes Discouraged. 1. Hall Smith, traveling salesman for a sewing machine company, took his life on Sunday evening by swallowing strychnine in his berth on board the steamer Pomona while the vessel was bound from Eureka to San Francisco. According to letters found on his per- son and written before he left Arcata, he had been a defaulter in the sum of $150 or $175 to his employer, W. J. Dur- ham, and had lost the money by gam- bling. He leaves a wife in Arkansas City, Kans., and two sisters in Vin- cennes, Ind. In a letter to his wife he says: It is kard to give up life so far away from home, but 1 have considered the matter well and decided It is the only thing to do under the circumstances. I expect to die on old ocean as | have my poison ready mow but wanted to finish all I could do here first In the letter to his sisters occurs the following paragraph, showing that he was a spiritualist: I have s:en mother and father and George since I came to this determmation and I will soon join them. B Sues Daughter for Support. A mother, 75 years old, seriously ill and dependent upon the charity of friends for subsistence, complains in the courts that she has appealed in vain to her daughter for comfort and support. The suit was filed yesterday by Lavinia Bruning against Dora Brun- ing Bohlken. The plaintiff says that she is about to become a public charge, while her daughter has a station in life and property in her own name sufficient to warrant her in keeping | her old mother from want. She asks the court to compel Mrs. Bohlken to pay her $25 a week. Walter C. Stev- ens and Alexander & Church are her attorneys. | 3 % 5 California._ In 1864, in company with the late Andrew J. Moulder and other capitalists and mine owners, he incor- porated the first mining stock board in San Francisco. SR Death of McDonald Elliott., SANTA ROSA, Nov. 28.—News was received here to-day of the' death in Chicage of McDonald Elliott, a promi- named C. B. Rode, Senator Frank Markey and : mann-Heink received a cable message | néent man of this city and a son of W_ 3. Tobin as an'sxamining boacd for the ap- pointment police patrol wagop ambu- lance drivers. ~Forty places are to be filled. MOHAWK CLUB'S NEW OFFICERS.—Ala- meda, Nov. 28.—Officers have been chosen by the Mohawk Athletic Club as follows: Presi- dent, C. Leslie Killam; vice president, Edward Heritage; secretary, Edward Giles; treasurer, Adolph Lemke; sergeant-at-arms, Adolph Rea. ! WHIST FOR ORPHANS.—Ala- meda, Nov. 28.—Rebekah Lodge No. 107 of this city has a wi tournament to be December fty prizes will be awarded. The pro- ceeds will be donated to the Orphans’, Home | at Gilroy, which is conducted by the Odd.Fel- MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Oakland, Nov. 28. The following marriage licenses were jssu by the County Clerk J I:‘ml Laura E. Carl, am jto-day announcing the death of her [Mrs. J. B. Elliott. The deceased was Lusband at their home near Dresden. |2 member of the well-known McDén- Death was due to paralysis. Schu-|ald family of Santa Rosa and San mann was well known circles both in Germany and the United States. Madame Schumann- Heink was to have begun an engage- ment here to-night. It is announced that she will not appear until to-mor- row night. PR e DEATH OF A PIONEER. STOCKTON, Nov. 28.—William H. Clary, aged 83 years, one of the best known mining men in California, died at his residence last night. The) de- ceased. who came to California in 1£50, built the first mining ditch in in musical | Francisco. —— Viscount Ridley Passes Away. LONDON, Nov. 28. — Matthew White Ridley, Viscount Ridley, fors merly Secretary of State for the Home Department, died suddenly to-aay of heart fallure while asleep at Blagdon, his seat in Northumberland. He was born in 1842, L — s i Death Calls Educator, CLEVELAND, Noy. 28.—Rev. Dr. 3, D. Rankin, formerly president of Howard University, Washingt died hivke tooaay RN oo s s Alameda County. MONDAY, NOVEMEER 28 Rod W. and Maitle Church to the Real Es- tate Security Company, lot on S line of Twen- ty-fourth street, 150 E of Linden, E 25 by 8 107:6, portion of lots 19 and 20, block H, map of survey of 3 ete., Oalk- land: $10. Ernest C. and Maud L. Baker to Charles and Christine Monson, lot on NW line of Shafter avenue, 106 SW of Avon streef, SW 50 by NW 131:6, lot 31, block B, map of blocks A, B and C. Vernon Pack, Oakland; $10. Luther A Teague (wife (Butler avenu rthern Extension, (or L. A) Teague to Mary & lot on S Iine of Sixteeath strest . 100 B of Idaho, and extending along said S ine of Stxteemth street 33 feet, S 130, W 33, N 130, portion of lot 3, biock & amended land; gift Rudoiph to Manuel F. Dutra, lot on N line of Sixty- second street, 110 E of Tenth, B 30, N 133:43, W 50, § 133:75, lot 18, block D, Klinknerville $10 to Ella M. Goff (wife), lot be- sioning at point on N line of plat 365, 268:6 from W line of said plat, B 100 by 14, map plat Ella C. and Carrie B. Moon, E lot George lot on N {nue, §0 NE of East Tenth street, NE 25 by NW 113, block 22, Clinton, East Oakland; $10. John Henry (or John and Luella Lange to A. P. Amand, lot on ling of East Twen- ty-sixth street, 117:6 SE of Nineteenth ave nue, SE 30 by SW 140, block §4 Newman Ad- dition to Brooklyn, East Oakland; $10. James K. Smith to Mary A. Smith (wife). lot beginning at point in center of Russell street, 292:6 E of Ralston and 40 8 Srfim N N line of Russell, N 175, B 130, SB 176.2, W 117.20 to beginning, excepting portion of said land dedicated for use as public streeta, Berkeley; gift. Ellen M. Quin to Amos J. Brothers, lot « N line of Ashby avenue, 60 E of Lorin street, B2 30 by N N portion of lot 2, block D, Adeline Tract, quitclaim deed, Berkeley: $5. Charles R. or CI s Rudolph Kirchner ta C. August Weihe, 14, Elmburst Park, Brooklyn Township: $1 San Francisco Savings Union to H. H. Goet- jen, lot on S line of San Antonio avenus, 304 W of Lafayette stiewt W 40 by S 150, block > map Bart'sit Tr Alameda; Earle, all tnter- . 100 S subject 0. W. F. Kroll et al. *o J. B. est in lot on W line of it of Rafiroad avenue. S to all liens, Alameda; $40. Jennle Wafer (widow) to Dina Bunal (wife of Julius), lot on SW corner of Linden and Fourteenth streets, S 38 by W 107, block 572, Boardman's map, Oakland; $10. T4 S. H. Willlams to Louise Wilkinson Joseph B.). 105 N of Fourteenth, N 3 by B land; $10. The Realty Syndicate (a corporation) to J. W. Albright. NE 5 feet of lot 3, block B, Thermal Hili, formerly Howe Tract, Oakland; $10. Savings and Loan Society to George Ster- ling, lot 26 and SW § feet of lot 25, block K, same, Oakland; $350. George and Carrie R. Sterling to Carl Doell, same, Oakland: $10. M. J. Keller & Co. (a_corporation) to S. J. Hill, lot on N line of Forty-sixth street. 150 E of Linden, E 100 by N 250, block 2114, Alden Tract, Oakland; $1200. Mrs. Ellen Keller to M. J. Keller & Co. (a corporation), same, Oakland, quitelatm deed; $10. $. J. and Susanna Hill to J. F. Poarch. lot on N line of Forty-sixth street, 250 B of Linden, N 100 by W 40, portion lots 7 and 8, block , Alden Tract at Temescal Oakland: $10. Plymouth-avenue Church of Oakland (a cor poration) o Board of Missiona, of M. F. Chureh South (a corporasien), lots.S3L 1o Pacific Theological Seminary Tract, Oakland;: $6000. Lucretia White (widow) to Hans C. Rasmus— sen, lot 2, subdivision 17, map subdivision 17, Glen Echo Tract, Gakland: $10. Charlottie E. Hansen (wife of John Chris- tian) to Henry A. Coock. lot on W line of Wil- low street, 104 N of Lincomn, N 31 by W 85. portion lots 14 and 15, block B, Oakland Point Homestead Tract rvalmam'l‘-i $10. h to Lufta Booth 416 acres, begin- Hope avenue (mow Lucius A. and Julia D. Sherman (wife of P. ning at stake on W i of ‘Hazel lane or avenue) at ints ary line between lots 9 and SW 61814, SE 93 NE 91 = 338.50, to begiuning. being lot 12, plat ¥, Pled- mont Park, Oakland Heights, Oakland Town- ship; $10 Oagood Putnam (widower) to Jokeph J. Ma- son, lot on SE corner of Ward street and Me- Gee avenue, 135 by E 120, lot 5, block 4 State University Homestead No. 3, Berkeley: 10. N eter and Amanda Schsensen to Wiliam Hunter_ lot on S line of Sherman street, > distant 84.02 of enty-fifth avenue, W 34.50, S 76.93, E 2011, N 95.49, portion lots 3 and 4, Dow and Thomas Tract, Brooklyn Township; $10. Daniel P. and Rose Frances Durst (by M. H. Durst, their attorney) to T. J. Huttmann, lots 242 to 244. Fruitvale Addition Tract, Brook- iyn Township; $10. Sarah S. and Arthur F. Barber (executors estate of Arthur S. Barber) to J. B. Chymo- weth, lot on S Iine of Santa_ Clara ayem 140:2 E of Broadway, E 50. § 163:6, W NE 165:6, portion Hays and Caperton Tract, Alameda; $1400. Patrick O'Farrell (or Patrick O. Farrell) and Elizabeth O. Farrell (or O'Farrell) O'Farrell _(single) lot on W line street, 175 S of university avenue, S 32 by W 135, portion of lots 9 and 8. block 97, Sisterna Tract, Berkeley: $10 Frank N. and Anna C. Greeley to George H._ Derrick. lot on § line of Stuart strest, 401:7 W of Regent (Manoa). E 180, S 135, W 176, N 1349 lots 1, 2, 3 and portion of lots 4 and 5. block T. Leonard Tract Berkeley: $10. Perry T. and Xora A. Tompkins to P. A. Wagner, lot on SE corner of Arch street and 1ot S 50 by B 110, Block . Berke! 110 E Glen avenue. EN Hopkins Terrace, of Glen avenue, E 40_portion of lot 19, block €. map of Hop- kins Terrace No. 2, etc., Berkeley: $10, George W. Allen to Carrie B Allen (wife), beginning at a point In center iine of Pano ramic_way. distant 130 SE from stake 34 n said Panoramic way thence S 160 SE 100. NE 160, NW 100 to beginning. porton of lot 16 map of University Terrace, Berkeley: gift Same . begioning at point dfsrant €6:8 XW from S beundary, | o also distant 160 SW from ramic way, etc.. thence SE 6. 100, E_150 to beginning, portion map, Berkeley: mift S, 8 B ED. — Alameda, Nov. 2 ‘What is thousht to have been am incendiary tempt to Jestroy the residence at 1194 Broal way, owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Buckley, was made last night. The flames were discover! and extinguished befors they had gained hea way. An inspection of the premises by De tective George Brown resulted in the finding a bottle that had contamed coal ofl. It b evidently been N starting the blaze. residence Is unoccupled and is insured r t The damage s nominal, [ WANT TO BE POLICEMEN —Oakiand, Nov 28.—Applicants for positions on the pol | were given examinations to-day at the School bullding. under direction of & B. F: cett, seeretary of the Board of Police and © Commissioners. Among the list was Hens Kastens, & member of President Roosev Rough Riders, and R. C. Powers, who w the battleship Oregon during the fight. Four applicants were negroes. l | l ADVERTISEMENTS. L Positively cured b7 these Little Pills They also relieve D5