The morning call., 1892-12-17
OVER IN OAKLAND.
The municipal League at
Work Again.
The Tompkins- School Pond Pumped
Dry by the Street-Sprinkiing
Wagons.

The Municipal League has decided to
keep open headquarters at 1o031s broadway.
George NJ. Flint has been appointed assist
ant secretary to Carey Howard and will be
on duty each day from 80 to IL A. NJ ana
from 10 p. NJ. Mr.. Flint takes the place
of j. w. Dutton, who is now in Philadel-
phia.
number of German and Danish citizens
are interested in forming a joint German
and Danish political club, with the object
OF assisting to elect honest men to the vari-
Gus municipal offices next spring.
The Haywards electric road has formed
determination to beat all competitors in the
accommodation of patrons. Electric heat
ers are to be put In all the cars and a num-
Der of other unique features are to be intro
duced. One Of these is car SO feet long,
with seating capacity OF $50, TO be run at
speed Of tweniy-six miles per hour and
to be fitted with air-brakes.
The Smead Company of Denver has been
awarded the contract for heating and ven-
tilatfng the following school buildings:
SIKH Ward Grammar School, $685.; Sew
enth Ward Grammar School. s3152; Grant
School, Sle2S: High School, SlO,637.
The Grand Jury Is investigating the cir
cumstances of the $50 bet between A. Me-
gshan and K. A Pierce. which was eIab-
Megahan had been super seeded by Pierce as
principal of the Mission San Jose School,
and quarrel sprang up, In which Pierce
Offered TO prove by the records that
Megahan had not been honest in his
conduct of the school. The wager OF $50
was TO be placed in the library fund of the
school by the winner. Megahan won. but
another little dispute followed, in which the
0isgusted trustees returned the wager, re-
fusing to have more TO do with it. Me-
Ua hon lao l.is md 70 ha Gra md T.,rr
and Trustees Nolan and SteinmetZ have
been subpenaed to show cause why they
did not retain the $50 for the school fund.
Megahan is now principal of the Oakland
evening school and Pierce is in Iowa.
Chief Schaffer has received word that
Martin Foy, the desperate criminal confined
here for short time. broke Jail at Saratoga.
n. T., beating the jailer into insensibility
at the door. de was recaptured by posse
of citizens few hours afterward. Foy is
under sentence of death for numbering his
mistress aud was caught at the Bay District
track by Chief Schaffer and Detective
Allard.
There will be thirty-seven graduates this
year from the Oakland High School,
There is no Tompkins-schooi pond now.
Ii has been pumped dry within the past
two days by the street-sprinking wagons.
There has been much complaint about the
pond, which consists of the seepings that
gather every winter upon the big vacant
size the Tompkins School. The Council
will probably take measures to perma-
nently abolish 1t.
Detective Tibbals. smooth-faced young
man with pcmpadour hair has been an
occupant of the Hall of Records for three
days past He is in the empny of Harry
Morse and has been sent over to look out
for any tampering that may possibly be at
tempted with the late election returns.
The police have been notified of the dis
q .E nts. Hail
White House Of Seventh aud Washington
streets. He went away Wednesday even
ing and has not returned, though il Is be-
lieved that he Is In San Francisco.
George Wells. nine-year-old boy Of West
Oakland. was taken to the Receiving Hos
pftai last night with a fractured skull. He
was struck by passing team as he stepped
from Fourteenth-street electric car.
The body OF Augustine Falcome was
found In the bay, near the Sixteenfh-street
station. yesterday afternoon. He was one
OF the Italian fishermen drowned In the
storm of the West Berkeley shore.