The morning call., 1890-08-30
ACROSS THE BAY.
Foreign Capitalists in Search for
Investments.
A Police Officer Arrests a Respectable Lady
for vagrancy and Locks Her Up.
Runaway Boys.

land f0llCe COurG on TWO charges OF passing
forged checks. Bail was fixed at $1,000 on
each charge.
The appropriation for the extension of the
sewers in Washington and Clay streets to the
estuary is estimated by the Superintendent OF
Streets to be too small. Only $3.50 was ap-
propriated for the purpose.
There was an increased attendance at the
City Hall Park concert last evening on ac-
count of there having been none on the pre-
vious Friday evening" the band being In camp
at Santa Cruz.
Professor w. w. Lovejoy, DID,, of Phila-
delphia. arrived in Oakland Thursday. He
will fill the chair of Sacred Literature in the
Pacific Theological Seminary, Congregational
The articles of incorporation OF the Swedish
Mission Church in Oakland were filed yester-
day with the County Clerk. The Directors
are p A. Soderstrand, N. Gilberg A. Dan
elson, A. G. Larson and E. Tillman.
The Republican primaries will be held on
September 18th. from to 7:30 o'clock in
the afternoon. The convention will meet
on September 10th. A mass-meeting is an
nounced for the evening of September Goth,
at which Colonel Markham and others will
speak.
SURVEYORS AT WORK.
1t is reported that there is a party of sur
veyors at work surveying lines in the
Moraga grant. 1t Is supposed to be in the
| interest of the California Railroad Com
pany, recently incorporated to build a line
| to Stockton.
The Finance Committee Of the City Coun-
| ell spent yesterday afternoon in discussing
| and cutting do WI the estimates OF the City
| Auditor for running the municipal govern
ment the ensuing year. The committee did
| not finish its work.
| The freight steamer Transit is laid up
| for repairs. While being loaded with box
| cars Wednesday night at the Peralta
| Wharf one of the cars jumped the track
| and smashed into the center of the boat,
damaging the machinery. The steamer
| Thoroughfare Is running in her place.
Harriet n. Petit, widow of the late Ho-
ratio Nelson Petit, died at an early hour
| yesterday morning at her residence, $50
| Tenth street, at the advanced age Of 80
| years and 6 months. Her husband was a
prominent man in Oakland, and Mrs. Petit
| was known and beloved by many. A
| granddaughter, Miss Lyons. was with her
| during her last illness. Mrs. Pettit's only
| child, Mrs. Lyons of Skagit, has been sum-
moned.
An Eastern agency for British capital has
written to an Oakland attorney request to
receive offers for breweres, factories. gas
| companies, water companies, street railroad
| companies and other concerns making
| money. The syndicate known as the San
Francisco Breweries has already gobbled
| all the breweries of Oakland and vicinity.
IMPROVED POSTAL FACILITIES
Postmaster Bishop has added several con-
| ven;ences for the public since taking hold
| of the Oakland Office. The latest is large
| galvanized iron boxes, painted red, at
| prominent downtown corners for the de-
| post of packages and newspapers too large
| for the regular boxes.
Secretary Theobald of the Humane So
| oiety has placed the adopted daughter of
| Mrs. Greeley of West Oakland in the Old
| Ladies Home at Temescal. The child, 1t is
alleged, was cruelty treated and abused,
being compelled to work hard when sick;
| Mrs. Greeley was arrested and will be tried
| before Justice Welcker to-day for cruelty
| treating the child.
The suit of William II. Bradley against
! the Price Hay-press Company has been
transferred from San Mateo County to Ala
media County. The suit is for $500. The
company was disincorporated some time
ago by order Of the Superior Court of Ala
| media County, but upon a showing that
suit against it was pending the order OF
disincorporation was set aside.
1t is rumored that r. Il. S. FORK will be
candidate before the Republican County
Convention for County Clerk. He was
formerly deputy County Clerk in Indian
apolis. Ind, and served under Firm d.
Kinds for two terms as Chief Deputy in
the Alameda County Recorders office. He
has recently been connected with the
Wabash Railroad. He is an old soldier,
and member of the G. A. Il. and Veteran
Guard Of California.
Walter Earl was on trial yesterday before
jury in Judge Gibson's court on charge
of assault with deadly weapon on James
Spencer nearly year ago. Spencer was
passing Earps store on wagon and stopped
to witness a quarrel between Earl ana an
other person, when the defendant threw a
flat-iron and struck Spencer in the face.
Earl was arrested, but when visiting his
house with an officer he escaped out Of the
back door and was lost trace of for nearly
six months. The officer from whom he
escaped finally found him In Sal Francisco
and rearreSted him.
A LAAfENTABLE ERROR.
At 5 80 o'clock yesterday morning Mary
Ellis, the wife of a brakeman, living at the
Weldon House, being in delicate health
and unable 10 sleep. went to a restaurant
next door and got cup of coffee. AS she
came cut on her way to her rooms, she was
accosted by Police Officer Curtis who asked
what she was doing there. Believing 1t was
none Of his business she told him so. He
said he would make it his business and
took her to the City Prison, where he locked
her up ON charge of yagrancy, without
making an investigation. He will probably
have chance to answer before the Police
Commissioners for his arbitrary arrest
When the case was called in the Police
Court there was, as matter of course, no
complaint and the lady was allowed to 20.
She almost tainted, and would have fallen
to the floor had not friendly hands caught
her, when told that she was at liberty to 20.
George W. Strive of East Oakland was
arrested yesterday on warrant from San
Francisco charging him with felony. He
transferred his interest in property in
Fruitvale to Henry Walters of San Fran
cisco. 1t TRANSFERRED that the property
which Strive transferred was mortgaged,
and he was arrested for obtaining money
under false pretenses. Strive claims that
he knew that the property was mortgaged,
and he supposed that the mortgage was
mentioned in the abstract of title furnished
Walters. The mortgage was not mentioned
in the abstract, and Walters charges Strive
with having it purposely left out. The
mortgage is for $1,000, and Walters says that
Strive did not mention 1t to him. The
searchers of record who made the abstract
stated that the mortgage was accidentally
omitted. Strive states that he did not ex-
anime the abstract, but supposed it was all
right.
There has been some comment with ref
erence to the fact that the new precinct
registers of Oakland will only contain the
precinct and ward residence of the voter,
aud will not give his street and number 1t |
is said that Section 1896 of the Political |
Code, with regard to registration, only re-
quires the precinct and ward, and that prac- |
tice has heretofore prevailed in making up |
the Great Register. On the other hand, it |
is said that Sacramento and Los Angeles |
are governed by the same section OF the |
code, but they give the definite location of |
the voters residence by street ana number, |
and that 1t is a means Of preventing much |
fraudulent voting Those who, during the |
past two or three years, have been agitating |
the precinct registration state that was one |
of the things that they had in view in hay |
ing the precinct registers. 1t is conceded |
that the law has been complied with IN its |
letter, but it is believed il would be much |
better to put in the local residence of each |
voter by street and number.
UNGRoUNDED CHARGES.
A meeting of the Ordinance and Judiciary |
Committee of the City Council was held last |
evening to investigate charges against j. S. |
White one of the Commissioners for opening |
Filbert street, as collecting fees as Commis- |
sioner and for services of his private clerk. |
Mr. White filed statement in which he |
charged +. l.. Britton, attorney of the commits
sion, with misinfOrming the commission and
with making large fees out of the street-open-
ing testimony of the Commissioners and
Others which was taken by the committee. Mr..