The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-25
ACROSS THE BAY.
Seventh-Day Adyentists and Their
Health Retreat.
Brakeman Auseon's Marriage-Tony Cakes and
His Hotel-Eenry Drivers Suicide.
An Attorney Fined.

An ado urned meeting of the Health and
Temperance Association was held at the
Seventh day Adventists' camp-meeting
grounds yesterday, at which Dr. Burke,
Superintendent of the Health Retreat at ST.
Helena, stated that ut least 100 persons had
been turned away during the past summer
for want of room. The Committee on Reso-
lutions presented report that additional
buildings must be Immediately" provided
for the retreat, and the resolutions were
adopted after general discussion. At least
$4,000 is needed for the new buildings.
A subscription was taken up. and S1S19 was
Immediately subscribed. The sum OF
GOO was loaned the association at low
interest, and it is expected to raise the re-
naming 5000 by subscriptions. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the year:
DIR. w. p. Burke, President; Elder g. I'll.
Derrick, Vice-President; Mrs. Victory A.
Derrick, Secretary. A resume of the re-
ports made to the adjourned meeting of the
State Tract and Missionary Society show:
Subsc riptions received for periodicals, S29;
visits made by the members of the society,
y, 056; number of Bible-readings held,
1903; number of missionary letters written,
1853; number of periodicals distributed,
25S, 337 amount of cash received and paid
out respectively, S13,532 90. Total assets
S9l66 %; total liabilities, $4469 IS; assets
over liabilities, S4696 AZ.
F. H. Schultz was sent to the County Jail
yesterday by J. II. Taylor, Justice of the
Peace at Liyermore, for trial by the Supe-
rIor Court on charge of burglary, with
bail fixed at $1,000. Schultz is an old man
and is charged with entering the house OF
II w Thomas with tha nIlrDOSe oil com mill
ting larceny.
INDEBTEDNESS INCREASED.
The Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Com
pany las decided to increase its bonded IN
debtedness from S35o,C00 to 0OVOO, Tor
the purpose of extending its plant 1t Is
said that one Of the new projects III c0ntem-
pati0n is the extension OF the company
lines for ncandescent lighting through the
principal residence streets. The lncandes-
| cent hit is now largely used in this city for
iiAAtDg business places, but 1t has not yet
| been introduced in dwellings. Within the
| last year lines of poles have been extended
| to many distant parts of town to accommo-
| date the arc-light wires, and wires 10 carry
| the current for lncandescent lighting can be
strung to these same poles
CAPTAIN Marsh, the master of the Pit
| cairn, the new missionary vessel of the
| Seventh-day Adventists, yesterday took out
| naturalization papers on account of the law
| which provides that American vessels must
| have American llld>leESs Mt snip Will Dc
| dedicated at $50 O'Clock this afternoon at
the foot of Washington street
| Mis-. Hans jacobson left home on Tues
| day evening, so her husband informed the
| police yesterday. He thinks she is suffering
| from temporary alteration OF mind.
AND THEY WERE MARRIED.
John Auseon. the brakeman, who was
shot some time ago on tram near lulare,
| while putting a tramp off the train, was
| married under rather peculiar circumstances
| on Tuesday afternoon. lie was acting as
brakeman on the broad-gauge local, and
| when the train reached Twenty-thrd-avenu
| Station he was met by Mrs. Edwards and
| her granddaughter, Miss Susie Bell Reed,
| and persuaded to accompany them to the
Office of the County Clerk, where license
was obtained. and then to the Office OF JUS
tice of the Peace +. b. Ogden, where the
two young people were married Susie be-
ing only 10 years old, the grandmother as
her guardian, had signed her consent. The
bridegroom kept shady yesterday and couid
not be found. 1t is said, however, that he
is satisfied with the marriage. IL Is also
said that Susie has $4,000 in her own
right hight and there is SIC, 900 more that She will
iall heir to. Mrs. Edwards was for some
time opposed to Susie keeping the young
mans company.
The Directors of the Consolidated Pied
mont Cable Company deny the statement
that the Fourteenth-street line to the Six
teenth-street depot will not be constructed
until next spring They say that the road
will be commenced as soon as the engineers
have finished the survey OF the line and all
is ready for the contractors to begin.
Judge Greene has granted Mamie A. Kane
a divorce from }. NJ. J. Kane on the ground
Of wlful neglect and awarded her the Gus
tudy oil the minor child.
TONY CAKES HOTEL.
Anthony G. Cakes. known as "Tony,"
of Haywards, yesterday petitioned for per
mission to mortgage the hotel property at
| HayWards for $4,000 and to dispose OF the
same for $4,000. He shows that his wife,
Pauline Victoria Cakes, during her eompe-
teney filed a homestead declaration on the
property. which is alleged to be community,
but that she is now incompetent, hopelessly
insane, and confined in the Stockton Asy-
lum; that the homestead has not been aban-
doned, that there are now two mortgages
on the premises aggregating $1,000, and that
the petitioner has incurred other indebted
ness of $1,000 In paying the 500 annual Inc
| terest on these mortgages, an annual lnSilr-
ance premium of 500 and $500 annual cost
of maintaining his wife at the asylum He
states that the annual income and profit OF
the hotel is insufficient to meet these
| expenses.
on charge of battery on his nephew, Percy
Ballou, occupied all day yesterday in the
Oakland Police Court before Judge Ogden
and was not concluded at 10 o'clock last
night. The cease was prosecuted by the Sec
rotary of the Humane Society, X. w. Theo-
bald. The defendant contends that he had
thought 10 chastise the boy
Professor 6. III. Howison viii deliver the
second in the series of the Starr King Fra
ternity lectures at Hamilton Hall tomorrow
evening Professor e Conte delivered the
first OF the series two weeks ago.
Miss Lillian Rollins Sylvia Gerrisb) left
Oakland for New York last evening.
SUICIDE BIZ SHOOTING.
Henry Driver. a native of New York,
aged Go, men Der of the California Pion-
GERS ana veteran OF the Mexican War,
committed suicide yesterday by shooting
himself. His litsle grandson, Freddie Har-
mon fodnd the body in an clubhouse
in the reT OF his mothers residence,
1868 Campbell street, on his return
from SCHOOL at $50 o'clock in the
Afternoon. He had bid his grandfather
good-ny on starting TO school in the morn
ing. de gave the alarm, but the body was
cold. The deceased had an attack of la
grippe last winter from which he never re-
| covered, and had another attack last week.
An inquest Will be held at 10 O'clock to-
dag.
Michael Mullaney, the attorney, was fined
SIS by Judge Greene yesterday. He had
been haggling and, having cited legal au-
thority, Judge Greene asked that he show it
to him and SAID lie could find the book in
the Judges chambers. Mulaney said he
wouldn't 20 into Judge Greene's chambers,
implying something disrespectful TO the
court. Judge Greene thereupon fined him
SIS. The fine WAS RENTED later on Null
laney's apoiogizins to the Court, having been
advised by the attorneys present that lie was
clearly in the wrong SIX years ago Judge
Greene fined him 500 Tor the same ofiense.
Rev. Rogers Ii. Peters of Louisville, KY,
has written to the vestry of st. Andrews
Protestant Episcopal Church accepting the
call TO the T-ctor,hip, recently made vacant
by the appointment of Rev. John A. Emery
as Diocesan Missionary. The new rector is
expected next month.
{. A. Bailey has mortgaged his property
on San Pablo avenue, West Berk eley, to w.
+. 5. Frye for $4,000.
The City Council extended the time of
fixing the tax levy for the ensuing year thirty
days from October 1st.
| Alamed,.
A carpenter employed upon a new build.
ing on the Haight Tract West End, fell
from scaffolding to the ground, distance
of thirty feet yeeferdaV hut repaiVpd M