The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-23
ACROSS THE BAY.
George L. Bradley's Will Pre-
scented for Probate.
Ground Broken for an Electric Roadside Of
the. Coleman Block = The Suicide of
Bacon-Cash in the Treasury

The last will of George L. Bradley, the
well-kn0wn capitalist. who recently went to
Oakland to live with his wife. from the
Hotel Pleasanton San Francisco, was filed
for probate in the Alameda County Clerks
| Office yesterday afternoon. He left an es-
tate valued at about 100000. of which
$4,000 is in various securities, among
them shares of the San Jose Light and
Power Company, valued at 500, 600. He had
real estate in Fresno of the value of S115.-
| 600 and real property in the city and county
of San Francisco valued at 100000 The
will, which was written by the testator on
| July II, 1889, gives the entire estate to his
widow, Margaret L. Bradley, and his daugh-
! ter, Mrs. Annie l.. Wallace, wife of K. b.
! Wallace, to whom also is bequeathed all that
portion of the land and improvements in
the Laguna survey remaining in his name.
The devisees have agreed among them
| selves to devide the estate equally among
| themselves.
Last evening Rev. J. j. Staub and Miss
Minnie Wands were married ut the
Plymouth Congregational Church. The
groom has been selected to take charge of a
| church near Portland, Oregon.
Mayor Melvin Chapman has signed the
ordinance fixing the tax levy for 1891 -92 at
| 81 10.
SHIPPED TO YUMA.
The outfit for grading aud ballasting rail-
| roads belonging to Grant Brothers, and that
has been AT work on the California and Ne
vada narrow-gauge near Walnut Creek.
| was shipped to Yuma yesterday. One of
the firm stated that it had twenty-five miles
of railroad to grade there for the Southern
Pacific Company, that had been temporarily
replaced after the waShouts during the
winter.
Ground has been broken on the electric
road to East Oakland. Inc ties are laid on
Eighth street, between Webster and Alice.
and the rails are expected daily. The con-
tract has been let from Broadway to East
Eighteenth street.
The conference regarding the Walkerley
estate resulted in an agreement that the
widow shall receive SAG per month for her
self ana the same allowance as guardian OF
her child.
The trial of the Pratt.divorce case will be
resumed at 10 o'clock this morning. Mrs.
| Pratt was being cross-examined on Friday
when the case went over.
ANOTHER GUESS Is IN ORDER.
The Rev. Thomas McSweeney, rector of
| ST. Francis de Sales parish, speaks posi-
| lively in regard to the latest guess that Mrs.
| Theresa Fair during her lifetime made the
| donation of $4,000. and says the lady was
| not the donor, neither was Mrs. Leland
| Stanford, whose name has a number OF
| times been mentioned in connection there
| with.
| Mrs. F. NJ. Chambers outwitted Assistant
| Jailer Murdoch yesterday and obtained adj
-mittance to see the vagrant William Warner.
| The vag called her "My wife" and she re-
| sponded Husband" and commenced to
| stroke his beard and kiss him, when Muir
| dock f0rcibly elected her.
The Coleman Block, at the corner of
| Twelfth street and Broadway, occupied by
| the Oakland Savings Bank, is reported to
have been purchased by Thomas Prather,
| President of the Union National Bank. The
| nsideratiOn is said to be over 800, 900.
| The deed has not yet been placed on record.
| Mary c. Davis has sued Merton Davis for
divorce on the ground of desertion.
| NOTHING HEARD FROM HIM.
Nothing has yet been heard from John
! Sydney Kinnear. who disappeared one week
ago. One of the police officers thinks he
| saw him on local train on Thursday evening.
1t is also said that Kinnear recently bOr-
rOwed considerable sums OF money from
| friends aud il is believed that he has skipped
| the country and will send for his family
| later on.
Rosale SWEET yesterday sued Donald
| SWEET for divorce. on the ground of ten years
| deserJiOn. She wants $1,000 as a division of
| property anu Il pOIllOu Vi DOudlu SlOU per
| month George Noble has sued Minnie
! Noble for divorce. on the ground of deser-
ton. Minnie has left George and will not
| return.
The immediate friends Of the late ]. II.
| Bacon affect to believe that he was not in
financial straits and had not been dealing in
real estate, but the Recorders books show
| that he had been in it during the brief boom
| period few years ago, and 1t Is believed
that he never entirely recovered the re-
verses of that period.
Sheriff Hussey has taken three incOrrigi-
| bles named Lulu Ehle, Guy Davis and
| Frank Ligntfoot to the Whittier Reform
School MIR. Hussey went by steamer. and
| is not expected to return before the end Of
| the week
| ARRANGEMENT OF HOWELL.
The arragnment of John G. Howell on
| the charge of numbering r. ). Colvin was
continued in Judge Greene's department OF
the Superior Court until to-day on account
| OF his counsel being engaged in the NJ. 3.
! Curtis examination in San Francisco. Mrs.
| Howell accompanied him to the Court
| house from the jail.
a series of lectures for the benefit of the
teachers Of the Oakland public schools has
been arranged by Superintendent Nicely
monds on psychological subjects BY Pro fes-
| s0r Earl Barnes of the Leland Stanford Jr.
| University. 1t is understood that outsid g
teachers will also be invited 10 attend these
| lectures.
The cash in the Alameda County Treas
ury was counted yesterday by DR.. Bart Nor
| gan, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors,
| and County Auditor Whidden. The amount
actually in the treasury is S110,0S9. The
amount disbursed during the month was
S44, S97 and the receipts S5555.
James Wilson, the young man arrested on
a charge Of picking the pocket of Mrs. Slew
en- OF San Francisco on the Seyenth-Street
local train, has been held to answer on the
charge of grand larceny, with bail fixed at