The morning call., 1891-01-29
ACROSS THE BAY.
High Price Paid for a Lot in
Oakland City.
The Annual Count of Deadheads- Thomas Var
ney's Estate Delinquent Taxes
Figured Up-An Attachment.

pnal auQ Uni 1Or the 100X100 lot at the
southeast corner of Fourteenth and WASH
ington streets will be made to-day. Mr..
Sanborn, who has had charge of the rain
record at Hutchinson's nursery for several
years, and who has recently become part
ner with him, states that the firm has not
yet decided as to where it will remove its
nursery from the lot, but it does not have to
give possession until May LIST. 1t is said
that the purchasers viii, during the summer,
put up two large buildings on the lot.
The articles ofincorporation Of the Meow
ern-Cahill Company We're filed yesterday to
transact all kinds of business ''in which
natural persons may lawfully engage"
The capital is $4,000 in 1000 shares of 500
each. The Directors are Andrew j. Mccoy
ern, James Cahill, John Williams, William
j. Cahill and Thomas +. McGrath, all of
Oakland.
Nine men were stationed to count the dead
head passengers on trains of the Seventh
street local. They were put on for three
days, beginning with Sunday morning, and
were withdrawn on Tuesday night This is
done about once year.
THOMAS vARNEY's ESTATE SUED.
Mrs. Grace King, now the wife of W. B.
King. recently divorced from Frances NJ.
SiIon, llS duOpeCu udububCt VI buS l1lo
Thomas Varney, has sued the executors TO
recover $4,000, i'll addition to the $685. 0O
allowed her in the will. She cites the con-
tract between her mother. Amndel Moore,
u single woman, and Thomas Varuey, in
November. 1866. seven months after she was
born. and claims that Its terms were vio-
lated by deceased in his will. She thinks
that $4,000 out of the estate of 500, 600 is
no more than she IS entitled to.
The tax payments Of County Tax Collec-
tor Barber have been figured up and show
that tie delinquent State and county taxes
amount to $25, 29S 10 on property assessed at
s., 315.S53 The total assessment was $780,
269, 176 and the total tax SS29.731 q. The
property on which taxes have not been paid
will be sold for delinquent taxes about Feb
ruary 18th.
Werdna Reuklauf was arrested yesterday
for stealing horse and team of Ii. l..
Brown of Lafayette, Contra Costa County,
for whom lie had been at work. He also
had seven dozen chickens belonging 10 Mrs.
Brown, some of which he sold. He viii be
taken to Contra Costa County for trial.
The decree of partial distribution in the
estate OF DR.. Samuel Merritt was recorded
yesterday.
MORE FEES WANTED.
As 3. b. Newman, tho husband of Betsy
Is. Nalkerley Newman. has notified Freder-
lex L. Whitney, the attorney for twelve
minor and absent heirs of the late William
WalkerleY, that he has power of attorney
to represent nine OF them, Mr.. Whitney
yesterday filed petition to the court for an
additional allowance of $1,000 for counsel
fees, making in all $4,000, he having al
ready been allowed ana paid $1,000. New
man has ever since Whituey's appointment
by the court endeaYored to GUST him from
the position. He will strenuously oppose
the allowance of the $4,000
About four years ago Lizzie Clifford sued
John Altman for $4,000 damages, alleging
seduction, but her suit was thrown out of
court because she declined to have her
deposition taken. An appeal was taken to
the Supreme Court and she was granted a
new trial few weeks ago. Yesterday a
stipulation, signed by the parties concerned,
was filed in court dismiSsing the action.
Mrs. Lila Kelly, the deaf mute arrested
for carrying away silk dress from the house
OF Mrs. Hayden on Ninth street, forfeited
$50 bail i'll The Police Court yesterday. She
had S6S5 in her hustle and gave her residence
as Vallejo.
The primary teachers Of the public schools
will hold meeting in the Lafayette School
this afternoon at 2:50 o'clock.
AN ATTACHMENT LEVIED.
Yesterday afternoon an attachment was
levied on the furnishing store OF Camp 81
Co., on Broadway, by Louis Meyersten,
who represents the San Francisco Board of
Trade in the matter, and his attachment
amounts to $500. The store has been closed,
Neighbors of the Camps on Broadway say
that the firm has been insoivent for long
time and that there is not $50 worth OF goods
in the store, the shelves being for the most
part, filed with dummy boxes.
The case of John Hackett against the
Southern Pacific Company attracted a great
crowd to Judge EllSworth'S courtroom yes
terday, and an interest was excited in
the proceedings all day by the tits between
counsel. The case for the plaintiff was
closed yesterday afternoon about o'clock,
and the defense will take up its side of the
case this morning.
Olney Franklin RundeIl died on the 18th
day of June, 1890. at Champerico. Central
America. He left an Photographic will be-
queathng his estate, valued at $500. to his
widow, Edith Rundell. She has filed the
will for probate and applied for letters of
administration.
F. D. Black has paid the 500 found 10 be
the amount due TO James Is. Marvin in the
Piedmont Springs Hotel case, and Judge
Ellsworth yesterday denied the motion for
the appointment OF a receiver
An allowance Of $3.50 per month was made
yesterday TO Mela Schmidt. the widow OF
the la,e William Schmidt.
Alameda.
The production of The Little Duke" by
the Alameda operate Society was fnan
cial success and another season of opera is
now in store tor the Alameda people.
The cost of grading aud curbing Fifth
street, from Central to Pacific avenue, was
S1002 03. This street has also been macadam-
ized but the aSsessment-roll has not been
issued.
a Chinese laundryman, who was arrested
for washing and ironing clothes between the
hours of 10 o'clock in night and o'clock in
the morning, in violation of a city ordinance,
forfeited $40 bail yesterday.
re bav bnap fnr
of several persons who took oysters from
some private beds near the shores Of Bay
Farm Island. Those who took the biyalves
from the abandoned beds of the Morgan
Oyster Company will not be molested.
John Meyer, son of Louis Meyer of this
city, sailed on the steamer Australia for the
Sandwich Islands, where he goes into the
employ of j. d. Spreckels IL Co. He was
presented with an elegant gold locket on the
eve of his departure by several Of his
friends.
The City Attorney reports that the Trus-
tees have jurisdiction over Railroad avenue.
and the pruperty-owners are clamoring for
its improvement A petition to grade, curb
and macadamize this avenue was presented
to the Trustees over year ago, but for
some reason they seemed unwilling to order
the Improvement and are still holding back,
to the disgust OF the property owners.
The Southern Pacific Company refuses to
change the names of the stations in Alameda
so that they will correspond To the names of
the cross streets on which they are located.
w. g. Curtis, the Superintendent of Con-
struction, to whom the matter was referred,
writes: 80 many of our old friends and
patrons in Alameda are so welded 10 the old
street names and are so strong in their be-
lief that, in a little while, you will all want
to change back to the original system, that
it really does not seem right and fair for us
to make a change Mt the present time. l
hope the friends OF the change will not press
our company too hard, but rather seek to
bring harmony among your own prominent
people and property-owners, so when it
comes we can make the change without los
ing friends or making enemies"
Berkeley.
Dr. j. II. C. Bonte, Secretary OF the Board
of Regents of the University, is very Ill at
his home on Dwight way. He was delirious
on Tuesday, and physicians consider his