The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-15
TIDINGS FROM
ACROSS THE BAY.
An Eccentric Old Man Put Out of
House by Law.
Sites for Crematory and Hospitsl-A Big
Purchase Of Old Iron-Bocdlsrs in Hay
wards-Protest by the Baptists

John Ahrens. an eccentric old man. has
been put out Of the Calvin House on Valley
street by process of law. He would not
leave the house. claiming that Mrs. Reyes,
the former owner. Cow dead, state that he
might remain as long as he wanted TO in the
service of the Lord. He is an expressman,
given to reading the Bible and has recently
quit working. BE is reported to be wealthy,
but mserly.
Merritt Welton, the member Of the Y. NJ.
@. A. who snatched The purse from Mrs
Everett the other day, was examined in the
Police Court and held 10 answer 10 the sum
of $1,000 He offered no defense.
Thomas Wilson and William Ryan, ar
rested on Sunday for the burglary of the
house Of L. G. Snyder on Thirty-fourth
street, we're held Yesterday by Police Judge
Ogden in $1,000 bail to answer the charge.
TWO SITES WANTED.
At the meeting of the Board of Health
resolutions were adopted requesting that
the Council purchase a site for garbage
crsmatory, and also one for smallpox hos
ptal. 1t was further requested that the
Council attend promptly to the drainage
evils Of the city.
Editor Porter of Oakland Echoes has
hoisted the name of Governor-elect William
Mckinley of Ohio as the successor of Benja-
min Harrison as President in 1898
Two million pounds OF old iron in the
West Oakland yards have been sold to
San Francisco firm for y cents per pound
1t was reported yesterday that the house
OF j. A. F0lger had been entered by burg
lars.
WHO ARE THE BooDLERs2
1t is stated that the twenty-five persons
subpenaed before the Grand Jury for Tues
day will testify with reference to the causes
leading to the levying Of a town tax in Hay
wards OF 90 cents on the 500, which Is 3
cents more than the State and county taxes.
1t is claimed that bad politics are to blame
for II, and an effort will be made to find out
who the boodlers are.
The Y. w. c. A. will hold doll fete on
December 4th at the First Presbyterian
Church for the purpose of raising the $1,000
necessary for tho building fund Of the new
home.
The Coroner's jury yesterday rendered q
verdict that Bernhard Hendricksen, who
died on the Redwood Canyon road on Fri
day, came to his death from acute alcohol
ism.
FOR THE CELEBRATION.
Mayor Chapman has designated a large
committee to meet with citizens Of Alameda
on Tuesday evening to prepare programme
for the celebration of the opening of the
tidal canal bridge. The meeting Is called
by the Mayor for the City Council chambers
in the City Hall.
The funeral Of the late Captain Henry G.
Dexter of the whaling steamer Orca took
place at San Lesndro yesterday. Captain
Dexter died in tho Arctic and his remains
were brought down in whale oil. They
were In a perfect state of preservation.
George Burlington, convicted and SEN
teuced to three months for stealing a con-
ductor's valise containing tickets at the
ferry, is not George Darlington, book
keeper in the San Francisco Custom-h ouse.
LAND FOR SEWERS.
Deeds were recorded yesterday from tho
Crocker estate, the Oakland Waterfront
Company and the Central Pacific Railroad
Company for land to construct sewers in
Third street, and in Peraita and Chestnut
streets to the estuary. to the city Of Oak
land. Tho Lake Merritt deed from the
Waterfront Company has not yet been re-
corded.
The members Of the First Baptist Church
have publicly, by resolution, entered their
protest against the arrests Of the Salvation
Army by the police as "a species of shame
| fnl persecution. downright religious intol-
| etance which Rbridges the inalienabls
rights Of American citizens"
] The work Of grading for the cottage Tor