The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-18
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
A Drowned Man Found at the
End of Long Wharf.
City Property Assessment-Sou Berkeley's
Roads-Dr. STATIONS Affdavit-Intimi-
dation of Policeman.

at the extreme end of the Oakland Long
Wharf. He is of light complexion, with
light hair and beard. and had on dark cloth
ing, and in the pockets a carpenter pencil
and two-foot rule. From appearances the
body had not been long in the water. The
only thing by which he may be identified
was plain gold ring, with the initials IN.
Il. to A. K, May Is. 1872 a pair of COM
mon noseglasses, pearl-haudled pocket
knife and % cents were found in his peck
cts.
The Oakland and Berkeley Rapid Transit
Company has decided to the Consolidated
Street Railway Company all its real and
personal property. The latter gave trust
deed to the California Safe Deposit and
Trust Company to secure bonds in the sum
of 100000.
The estate of George Hart has been ap-
praised at S757j.
oAKLAND'S ASSESSMENT.
The total assessment of Oakland prop
erty for city purposes has been footed up
at $40, 1881. OF this $50, $40 is real
estate in the old boundaries and 81 ,041 $50
in the annexed district The personal prop
erty is S1,150,000 and the railroad assess
ment is S2iS6l1 The increase over the
previous roll is nearly 100000. The Au-
dltor'S fOotings of the estimates for the
various branches of the city government is
ssh, 299. This will have to be cut down to
about S697,000, so as TO be metswith a tax
levy of 81 on the 500, being cut down of
S144000
The presiding elder of this district. Rev.
DR.. II. Bentley, will investigate charges
presented by some one against the Rev. f.
U. Liliegren, the pastor of the Swedish
TOT yss Il
bly, grew ont of the trouble aud divorce case
with his wife,
James Thompson of Berkeley was fined
$50 yesterday afternoon by Judge Hen
shaw for assauting Mrs. Margaret Mac
donald with cane. Thompson paid the
fine.
COUNTY SUPERVISORS.
At the meeting OF the Alameda County
Board of Supervisors, an affidavit was pre-
sented from DR.. r. L. Stratton, the physi-
clan at the County Jail, answering the
letter OF the prisoner, George Hill. The
physician admits that he agreed to furnish
medicine Tor certain disease and offered to
accept 81, the sum the prisoner himself said
lie would give. He denies that he at any
time made any charge for medicine. He
only agreed to take whatthe prisoner offered
to pay. Ee did furnish the medicine, but
Hill has not, as yet, paid him anything, nor
did he intend to attempt to collect it. He
states that he has always attended TO his
duties in the County Jail, having made
nearly 500 visits to patients since his ap-
pointment and treated over 100 indigents
during the time.
The suit of H. Franklin, as assignee OF T.
Baumgarten u Co., versus John caches, has
been transferred to the Superior Court of
Alameda County from San Francisco. The
goods OF the defendant rs merchant tailor
were attached on July Sth by virtue of the
suit and have since been in the possession
Of Sheriff HQssey. The wife Of caches
claims the goods.
SOUTH BERKELEY ROADS.
Some time ago Supervisor Pelousa went
over the roads recently annexed to Berkeley
with view to having them improved. a
communication was received by the Board
OF Supervisors yesterday from the South
berkeley Improvement Association call
ing attention to their bad condition and
asking that the Supervisor Of the district
be empowered to have the IOadways
covered with rock. The Supervisor, Pelouse,
called the attention of the board to the
fact that these roads were now within
the incorporation and streets of the town of
Berkeley, hence it is now the duty of the
municipality and not the county to keep
them In repair. Now Supervisor Peouse
has been added, with District Attorney
Reed and others. to the list OF those whom
the South Berkeleytes will not delight to
hcnor.
The Franchise Committee OF the Alameda
County Supervisors asked for further time
to report on the electric road franchise to
Niles, Mission San Jose. etc.
Thomas Maloney, who was arrested on
Sunday and taken to the City Prison on
suspicion of insanity, but when examined
by the Health Officer was found 10 have
pneumonia and was sent home, died yester-
day morning. lie had la grippe, which
turned into pneumonia.
At the meeting of the Alameda County
Supervisors 1t was reported that the Web
ster-street bridge Is in dangerous c0ndi-
tion and the Southern Pacific Company will
be notified to repair it without delay.
INTIMIDATING A POLICEMAN.
John Martin, bar-keeper for Andrew
McGeary, who is a gardener under the
Board of Public Works, has been arrested
for not closing the saloon at y o'clock mid
night. When the officer went down to ar
rest Martin at the saloon McGeary promised
to break " him and have the brass buttons
taken of him. The Chief of Police has
notified the Police mmissioners. who are
also tie Commissioners Of Public Works, of
McGenryS threats in intimidating an officer
and IL will be surprising if McGeary is
not himself broken" rs a city gardener
The old safe of the WhtDey-StandardE x-
press Company on Ninth street withstood
attempts OF bungling burglars to knock it to
pieces with an ak and saw it open with
common saw. They left the AK and saw be-
hind them when they went away
The petition of A. S. Hawes to be ap-
pointed the guardian Of the wife of his
friend. A. j. Chambers, who is now iii
Peru, was continued Yesterday for hearing
until November 81. Mrs. Chambers was in
court and declares that she is not insane.
KUEsTER AND HIS KITTY"
warrant has been issued for the arrest
OF f. j. kuester, barber. for selling liquor
without license. In a case against an en-
ploye for stealing 81 80 in the Police Court,
huester in his own testimony admitted that
he conducted gambling-room in the Fear of
his shop on Tenth street, and that the pro-
ceeds from the 'Ktty" paid for the drinks.
kuester was arrested last evening, and
gave bail for his appearance this morning
The petition Of Frank Meade for a writ
of habeas corpus was granted by Judge
Ellsworth yesterday afternoon. The de-
PENDANT was fined $50 by Justice Brophy
of Murray Township for disturbing the
peace, and claims the Justice of the Peace
exceeded his authority and had no iuriS-
dlction to sentence him to Imprisonment.
The writ is returnable this morning at 10
O'Clock.
An Italian "tins to mend =" named Po-
checa was struck by the engine of the 3
o'clock afternoon local a. Brooklyn Station
and thrown some distance, but not badly
hurt. Some scalp wounds were attended at
the Receiving Hospital His tool box and
TIN were in dilapidated condition.
Charles PaschOld, a Berkeley tailor, has
been held to answer before the Superior
Court to serious charges sustained by the
testimony of his daughter, aged II, and
niece, aged Is.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
AT the meeting Of the City Council last
evening long investigation Of the charge
against the Time Card Saloon" on
Seventh street was held, and at 9:45
O'Clock, after listening to the res-
timony of the officers against the
place and the defense in opposition, a mo-
ton was made to refer the matter to the
Chief of Police, and carried by a vote of to
!: Dr. Pardee. MIR. Johnson and President
Nelson voted against the reference
A resolution was adopted to open Chest
nut street in four places to the width of
sixty feet, between the northery line of
Fifth and southerly line of West Twelfth
streets. The Oakland Consolidated Street
Railway Company filed petition for fran
chises cha 4. li1,.aa 49,.