The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-19
OAKLAND-ALAMEDA.
The Record of a Day on the Other
Side of the Bay.
The following letter was taken out of the
letter-box at the corner of Castro and Fifth

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Oct. IT, 1890.
Dear Reader: Before your eyes have glanced
across this letter will be in my eternal home,
Tor this lie has no happiness for me and am
only too anxious to cross the river OF Jordan, to
meet my loved ones that have gone before. Two
years ago was possessed OF one OF the happiest
homes on record. with loving husband and two
children dear. but in one short year they were
all taken from inc 10 dwell In that beautiful city
beyond, and was left alone. This grief Is more
than can bear. for little by little my money has
fled and to-day l stand without dollar too
proud 10 beg. not able TO work; dear reader, do
you blame me for what have done? SO once
more shall bid this weary world farewell, for
tonight my body rests beneath the waters aud
my spirit hoyers above. remain.
Mrs. EDNA ST. CLAIR,
San Francisco, Cal.
1t was unstamped and addressed :" To the
one that finds this letter. please open and
read its contents" When it was brought
into the Office it was taken 10 Postmaster
Bishop, who opened it, No such name as
signed to the letter is found in the San Fran
cisco directory.
The test case of the club liquor licenses
came up in the Oakland Police Court yester-
day. James Vance of the Athenian Club
was called on charga of selling with out
license in violation OF the ordinance, but as
he was called John" in one place in the
complaint the case went over until to-mor-
row for new complaint.
GROWING OUT OF A DIVORCE.
An affidavit was filed in the case Of
Johanna Herbst vs. August Herbst yester-
day, in which the plaintiff sets forth that on
the granting of a decree of divorce the GUS
tody of August Herbst, their seventeen-year-
old son, was given to the defendant against
her prayer and that he was sent to Oregon to
work He was taken sick while there and
returned to his mother, who sent him to his
father. but he, she alleges, refused to keep
him or to provide Tor him. She asserts that
he is married again and does not want the
son at home. She has had to keep and pro-
vide for the son during his illness, and
asks the court to modify the decree placing
the boy in her care and allowing such sum
of money per month as the court shall deem
just. The plaintiff Is a contractor, she
alleges, and able to support the son, who
should he sent to school.
There is some talk among Alameda County
Democrats of taking the name of James NJ
Brady of the ticket a> a candidate for the
State Board of Equalization and taking eX-
Supervisor Henry Dusteberry of Alameda
County. Brady, who is City Clerk of Oak
land. has been citizen Of the county only
short time
The machinery of the Pacific Jute-mills at
East Oakland. which shut down a few
months ago, is being removed to San Fran
cisco and the building will be torn down.
CRANES BOND FILED.
James E. Crane, the new County Clerk,
filed his bonds as Auditor and Clerk yeSter-
day morning and tOuk charge of the Office.
The bond for Auditor was in the sum of
$4,000, the sureties qualifying in double
the amount, and the County Clerks bond is
for s25 600 and sureties qualifying in $780, 600.
The following are the suretir on the bond
AS Auditor: w. L. Dargle $4,000, a. KoeDig
$1,000 John Iule $500, j. G. Wilson S17,5o0,
Frank A. Leach 5000, Charles Jurgens
IL,
bond as County Clerk are: Hugh Dimond
5000, c. }. Johns $500, Nj. l.. Broadwell
$1,000, S. X. Messenger $500, Louis Schaf-
fer $1,000, l.. Ii. Briggs 5000, A. j. McGoV
ern 5000. John a. Towle 5000, Albert
Kayser $500, Henry Hauschildt $500, Z.
deputy clerks and registration clerks were
all appointed by Mr.. Crane and sworn in
under the new administration.
The remains of an unknown man were
found in the bay off Jennings Point, near
Berkeley, yesterday afternoon. The body
is that of man apparently about 40 years
of age He had no clothes on except an
undershirt. He was large man OF nearly
200 pounds in weight. The remains are at
the Morgue.
Isaac Collins. who was sent to the Stock
ton Asylum on the 2lst of March, 1889, but
was discharged from the Institution on May
9th OF the same year, yesterday afternoon
petitinned the Superior Court to be restored
10 capacity.
STRUCK WITH AN AK.
Gee Bak Hong and Lin GwOng had an
alteration in Chinese board house on
Ninth street over wash bowl and the
former struck the latter over the head with
an ak, cutting deep cash on the right side.
The skull is fractured and Gwong will prob
ably not survive the Injury. His a>ssilant
was not to be found last night and the Cpl
namen ut the house or In the vicinity claim
to know nothing of his whereabouts. The
wounded man is at the Receiving Hospital,
where his wound was attended to, though
he is liable to be on the slab at the Morgue
before morning.
The Board of Supervisors of Alameda
County passed a thirteen-cOlumn election
proclamation yesterday. a taxpayer said
on seeing it in print, "Nerily our law-mak-
ers are in partnership with the printers
when the form of election proclamation was
decided upon. because in most of the East
ern States the election proclamatlons do not
take up more than half or three-quarters OF
a column, even in Presidential years"
Locomotive Engineer +. Ii. Ltttlejohn
has returned to Oakland lie was only off
on little trip TO Chicago. His accounts he
declares are all right with the brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers. 1t is not yet known
whether the Southern Pacific Company will
take him back in its employ.
The st. Francis de Sales Fair closed at
Elite Hall DeitZ' Opera House, last even
ing with very large attendance. II has
been very successful.
Alameda.
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