The morning call., 1891-03-07
ACROSS THE BAY.
An Eighteen Year.Oid Case Called
for Trial Again.
Local Option List of Candidates-Associated
Charities Report-Rally by the Repub-
Reconsideration in Alameda.

| G. l.. Curtiss and others came up before
| Judge Greene yesterday. 1t WAS begun in
| 1878 before Judge Sam Bell Mckee in the
! Third District Court end has quite a his
tory. Early in the '70's wealthy widow
named Elizabeth c. Curtiss married man
| named Hutchinson, much her junior in
! years. lot at Lincoln and Campbell
| streets was bought with her money for $4,000
| in 1878, but the young man, instead of hav-
| ing the deed made to her took it in his own
name, and so had it recorded She home-
| steaded it, and he borrowed $1,000 on the
| property from the San Francisco Savings
! Union and went on spree, finally diving
| from the effects of the debauch. A week or
| so before his death he decided the property
to his father, and the day before he died be
| willed it to his mother The heirs of Mrs.
Hutchinson. her children by her former hus-
| band, CurtisS, have ever since been endeav-
| Oring to recover possession of the property,
and the matter has been twice in the Su-
preme Court-the last time in a suit in which
| George o. Hutchinson claimed that by the
death of Mrs. L. C. Hutchinson her home
stead lapsed and the title passed under the
will. Judge Greene sustained demurrer
to this claim that the homestead passed to
her heirs. On this it went to the Supreme
court ana JuuSe Oleene was sustained In
| department, but in bank overruled. The
property is now worth about 5000. 1t is
| in noeeaesion of Crrtiss and Mrs uptcbir-
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90" 10 ugIms " ieeo'oi po''eeSioh uiiuef
tiie VIII. Inc triai was NOT eohciuaed yes
terday, but went over for argument.
LOCAL OPTION LIST.
The Local Option Alliance has prepared
liSG OF names 10 pe foteu LOT ab the munlclpal
electloh on Monuay' Inc Indications are
that only those on tne llSt VINO are on the Re
| pupIcan llcket Will pe elected as that entlre
ucket, WIN IiIe eAcepIioh VI perhaps one OF
two wards, VIII De elected. Inc alliance
| claims to nave oooO signatures TO pledge
70 Vote only IoI tnuse -" no VIII pleuSe Them
| serves 10 can ah eiectiou ioI tiie SUBMISSION
! OF local optIon. Ihe personalities are that
II IL mas tne SIGNATURES as GAINED 10 per cent
| signed without reauihe,, Saving, OF course,
| they We're III IaFof Oh LOCAL 9puon 10 please
| tne ladies presenting III ana nave forgotten
az ABOUT IT, me republican, cahuidate LOT
| Mayor IS total aostalner ana aside from
lhe IuHluiliou ucheI tlie AepuOllcdn llcEet
contains the names Oh ABOUT the only ones
| VINO would favor SuDhlsSl0nr notWith-
standing the trek by when Tue securing
| IaFofaole pldilh InI SUBMISSION was moor
| poraied INTO the Democratic platform. The
! llst LOT the Councli contains hVe Americans
| (who STAND no snow LOT electlOnl, hVe Demo
| erals and one RepuDllcaa one OF the
| wards, ana possibly TWO, gwen TO the Amer
! lean candidates, the Democrats are certain
| to carry. IL they succeed IN eeetine the
! other five Democrats they Will give the City
| Council to that party by good working ma
! J0rlty, and so their WORK seems to be more
| In the Interest OF the admittedly saloon par
| ~ than in the interest OF closing The saloons.
| Like their brethren OF the fTohl0ltl0n per-
S9asloh ihey seem 10 oe trying 10 help the
! DeHocTatIc party III o"A4"hu more ihan
| themselves.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES.
Some time ago the General Secretary and
| Superintendent OF the Oakland Associated
| Charities, an old and well-knOwn citizen. re-
signed because he expected he would be
| fired ii he did not. The board, for some
| reason, appointed young man, stranger
| to the city, Instead of choosing some one well
| known to the citizens as resident and ac-
! quainted with the city, its business men
and charItably inclined people. The young
| man was going to make an upheaval and
! slgnilied his intention of having the eeemo-
| synary institutions OF Alameda County
| classified. He has made a report for the
| past month, in which he states that the main
| drawback is lack Of money: offers sugges-
tons to citizens to contribute monthly and
| interest themselves to find work for the IN
employed and asks the officials private So
cieties, individuals aud churches which
! abound to heartily cooperate and submit to
his direction in the disposition OF the indi-
| genus appiyins LOT reilel, eoHciuilns tnaI
feI,Si,!7,ed anT rata nn6irolad and that
MN tbis !, dona {bs S,nnrnis sion ~ hege;ny
,d ,,Iari iii ,,e h in
| the ciTy and caving tbat II is r. he much va
Sre,Ied that the % good neonle of oakland
| Ga,a NOT nc vet ganarsIIv learned tba ,yav
| nnt
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ana sou asainSo 81 Tue .oouthefi acIIc - JIM
Jaines Twin, 'uG i iusp" NJ. auI iatne,' ~
| me acriutnt AZ heostei-slteeG DIluse NAY
ou io9o, was coiilihelceq peloie Juuse Els
worth yesterday. EA-'9Ise oulilVSu rep
reSenGs Tue pIdihtlHS. AHe ent'Ie uay was
occupied IN examining taleSmen. IL Is Salu
MIS-. irwin refused 70 COMPROMISE thS case.
her huSoanu WAS the agent OF Tue singer
anuiactuiihs COMPANY d. Tue 'lhie Vi HIS
| oeaIh ,,
mayor GlascecR mas approved tne ordi-
| nance amending the lranc y OF L; r res
| ION. NJ. II. Grosmeyer, =. b. hanuol, u FOL
| IllZ anu otheIs lIoLi Dioauway 10 tae pay
| on l"elith street W hlloW tue use OIL eiec-
lrIelty as motor.
illlam l. I'nSntu yesterday sued the
feIaila fark HoIel company 10 recover
S11i3 alleged TO De Que Tor work ON the
ouiuiIs. q ma,
Nillialll u. . Eody was neld 70 answer
| LOT Tue elhueZLlenlent OF C9hStahtlne Gr0S-
! SO wagon yesterday, win DOnuS at SZU0O.
RALLY BY THE REPUBLICANS.
The Oakland Republicans held a rally at
| the Oakland Theater last evening. I'll. A.
| Powell presided, and remarks were made
by Nj. C, Chapman, candidate for Mayor.
| eX-Mayor William r. Davis, W. III. Chick
ering and Auditor Snow The theater was
well filed, and the audience was very en-
| thusiastic. The party seems to be thor
| ougly united and determined to redeem the
city from Democratic rule
A verdict of accidental death was rem
| dnra6 last pVnninU i'm thu nf
| Kreye, who was run over by the local train
on Seventh street. at Campbell. The evil
dence showed that be attempted to jump on
and fell under the third car the remainder
of the train running over him.
Bishop Nichas will be IN Alameda to-
morrow, and conduct the dedicalory ser
vices of the new Christ Episcopal Churchs
| The usual morning services will be held at
| catjon will take place The Rjsbon will