The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-31

the estate OF William Patten, who died in
this city in May last, leaving property con-
sisting of money, $500; a mortgage of 5000
executed by 0. c. Kirk, and five shares of
the. capital stock of the Equity Building
and Loan Association, valued at $1,000
The only heir to the estate is Mary j.
Crozler, daughter, aged IS years, who re-
sides at Brooklyn, n. Y.
Rev. DIR. e. Il. Ollie, pastor of the First
Methodist Church, has been summoned, by
telegraph, to Pacific Grove, where his wife
is lying very i'll. The lecture, announced
to be, given by him tomorrow evening at
his church, Is indefinitely postponed.
1t IS announced that the Alameda County
Republican Convention will not be held
until Inc last week in September
Alameda.
The contract to macadamize Mulberry
street has been awarded to the Alameda
matchmaking Company.
There Is movement ON foot, in which
A. b. c. Dohrmann is the principal figure.
TO organize company of the National
Guard in this city,
Seabury Mastick was cutting tree a
few days ago, when the AK glanced off and
struck him in the knee, inflicting q wound
which VIII confine him to his home for sew
eral weeks.
The pr0perty-0wners on the north side of
Santa Clara avenue, between Prospect and
Webster streets, have been notified by the
Street Superintendent to lay artificial stone
sidewalks in front of fheir premises
Justice Byler, who is a blacksmith by
trade, is putting in his spare time making a
DuckDOaru, and Is striving to make 1t the
nneSt that ever went over the macadamiZed
streets of Alameda. He has blooded colt
anu VIII soon be open to challenges.
Resolutions of intention have been
adopted to lay sewer in Walnut street,
trn 70 ntN.f Foot
south, and III Mcpherson street, from Kings
avenue 200 feet north; also to improve sew
eral street crossings on Santa Clara avenue.
The first OF series of socals planned by
the young ladies of the Alameda Flower
Mission will take place pext Monday even
Alameda avenue. The proceeds will go in
to the treasury of the mission to be ex-
pended for charitable pur Oses.
Seventy wagOD-loads of rock are placed
daily on an average on Pacihc avenue, SUI
ficienJ 10 pave two hundred feet. AT this
rate the avenue will be macadamized within
three months. The rock seems to be OF a
good quality, and thus far no complaint has
been made by the property-holders.
Mrs. ellis, the wife OF Contractor r. Gill
lis, who left Alameda about ten days ago
without informing his creditors and leav-
ing numerous unfinished buildings has gone
to her relatives in Kansas. She appeared
TO be without money, and stated that she
did not know the whereabouts of her hus-
band.
The sewer in Santa Clara avenue, be-
tween Chestnut and Willow streets, was
laid over ten years ago and the pipe is made
of cement. This proved to be poor mate
rial, for the pipe became broken in several
places, necessitating its being taken up and
new pipe of vitrifed iron-stone is being
substituted. Tie pipe in Park street, from
Central avenue northerly, is made of cement
and is so rotten that it cannot be flushed by
the usual methods. 1t will be necessary to
relay this sewer before the winter sets in.