The morning call., 1890-07-01
OAKLAND = ALAMEDA.
The Scant Record of a Quiet
Days DOings.
saloon-Keepers Demand Protection-Prespsc-
tive School Teachers-A Crowded High
school-More Bonds Wanted.

AT the meeting OIL the bOaEQ Oh OupeFVlS-
crs OF Alameda County yesterday Park ave-
nue., from San Pablo, where the cable-car
now stops, to Emeryville, was ordered re-
corded as public highway. 1t is outside
of the Oakland city limits. 1t has been
open for years and horse-car has been
running upon it. The main entrances to
the Oakland TrotVng Park and the Emery
Vile Base ball Grounds are on this avenue.
Grove street, from Thirty-sixth to Forty
seventh, also outside of the city limits, was
declared public highway. The Oakland
and Berkeley Rapid Transit Company are
interested in the opening of the latter
street, as its line will be upon it.
A communication was read from L. NJ.
Hinckley, at Niles. stating that as the board
had passed an ordinance requiring saloon
keepers throughout the county to put up
bond in the sum of $1,000 to keep orderly
places, they should be afforded some police
protection. The petition continues: "As
it is the saloon-keepers cannot comply with
the law as well as they would like to do.
Parties coming from the city or other places
cannot be controlled, there being no police
officer here" The matter was referred to
the judiciary Committee.
The Committee on Admission to the
Chabot Shelterng Home has decided to
limit the privileges to residents of Oakland.
This is to prevent importations from other
parts of the State.
TIE ACHERS THAT PASSED.
The full list of the teachers who passed
at the recent county examination has been
made out, and, it is said, shows the largest
percentage passed of any class examined.
There were thirty-nine in the class at the
start, out of which twenty-seven were sue
cesSful in receiving certificates as follows:
Grammar school course-Cora NJ. Boone OF
Livermore ana Mary j. Reid of Alameda.
Grammar grade-Laura de Laguna, Evelna l..
Dickinson, Alice f. keefer, Susie Nj. kingsbury,
Roberta COnoway and Lou A. Beauvais of Oak.
land, Clara A. BlOGgelt OF Temescal. Nina Long
of Alameda and Mary Z. Cahlll OF Castro Valley.
Pllmary-Hattie +. Howell. Mary Y. Board
man, Allen Burdiek. EVE Thompson. Louise j.
AmermaD, Marian b. Cullen aud Trina L.. Ely OF
Oakland, Peter }. Crosby of Centeryille, Olive
Barnum and Martha Crooks OF Alameda, Ellen
Wilson f. R. WoolSey aud Eta S. Higgins OF
Berkeley, Jennie Robb of San Francisco, Jennie
Barrows Of Lorin and Eleanor G. Harrington Of
Haywaids.
1t is said that the new High School build
ing will be insufficient to accommodate all
the pupils. Principal MCChesney is quoted
as saying that the thirteen rooms VIII c0m-
fortably accommodate only go pupils,
while $40 applied for admission at the be-
ginning of the last term.
The Society of Pioneers of Alameda,
Contra Costa and adjoining counties will
picnic with Temescal Grange Of Oakland at
Oak Grove on Friday.
A PETITION IN INSOLVENCY.
Charles A. and Henry Z. Fawcett, doing
business in Wallpapers, paints, oils and
varnishes ON Broadway, between Ninth
and Tenth streets, as Eawcett Brothers,
filed petition in insolvency yesterday. The
liabilities are due in San Francisco, Oak
land and the East, and amount to S4I95.
The assets consist Of stock, fixtures, horse
and wagon, ETC., aud debts due the firm,
all aggregating about $4,000 rs. II. L.
Fawcett homesteaded last week lot on
Sycamore street, valued at $1,000
Zach Montgomery, the well-known attOr-
ney and formerly Assistant Attorney-Gen-
erai for the Interior Department under
Cleveland's administration, Is visiting Oak
land after an absence of five years. He will
reside in San Diego.
1t is said that the wife of Rev. II. P.
Mendes, the rabbi of the venerable Nine
teenth-street synagogue OF New ork City,
has relatives IN Oakland, and they deny
the published story that he is 10 years old,
and state that he is only 10.
A ire at 4;l5 o'clock yesterday afternoon
destroyed small house on Eighth street,
near Webster. The loss WAS about $1,000.
NO RIGHT TO ACCEPT.
City Attorney johnson inellnes to the
view taken by the Board of Public Works
that its members have no right TO accept
opening of streets, though he has not fully
examined into it. He will make closer
examination and file an opinion in few
days.
At meeting of the Board of Education
last evening resolution was passed ask
ing the City Council to provide for the
issue of bonds In the sum OF SlQ0,0O0 for the
erection Of building on Lafayette Square,
provided final action be taken on or before
July 18th.
Tho Cnroner's iury in the casa nf the
de ath of w. NJ. Lawrence, the colored man
shot in a saloon on last Friday night, rem
dered a verdict last evening that he came
to his death by pistol shots at the hands OF
one Stall, who was then arrested by Officer
n. Williams.
Frank Simpson, the contractor, was ae-
quilted in tn e Police. Court yesterday on
lis second trial for battery on Architect
w. a. Kirk.
NOT KNOWN IN OAKLAND.
No one in Oakland seems to know the
James Clark referred to in yesterdays dis
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