The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-09
NOTES FROM over The BAY.
The Requests Made by the
Late DR.. Agard.
Opening New Highway-The Oakland Chan
psl to Be Dredged Near the Bridge.
Smallpox Quaran ined

The will of the late DR.. A. 81. Agard was
filed yesterday for probate. His daughter,
Martha A. Du Val, her husband. w. III. Du
Val, and d. NJ. Kent are named as execu-
tors. To them he leaves his medical library
to be disposed of, STIMULATING that if it is not
sold for reasonable price it be given
to some poor but worthy student of the
medical profession. preferably a member
of his family if such there be. A half In
terest in bis premises on Alice street is
decided to his daughter, Mrs. ID. J. Epier,
while the furniture apd horse and buggy
are to go TO Mrs. Du Val. He makes other
requests as follows: Mrs. EpIer, $4,000;
Kate Agard, widow of his brother in
Iowa, $1,000; her sons. $1,000 each; F. S.
Palmer, his brother-in-law in Nebraska,
$500; Ellen ii. Moore and Mrs. NJ. A.
Ford, for kindness shown, $500 each. The
residue, if any. is to be divided equally
between the Oakland General Hospital and
Y. NJ. c. A. Ten dollars is bequeathed to
the wife of his son Lawrence, the will ex-
planning that the son has already received
his share.
w. A. Knowles, TO whom belongs the
credit of starting the movement TO open
new highway from Broadway to Contra
Costa County, stated last evening that the
right of way has been freely secured and
rendered to the county. Nearly $4,000 has
been raised by private subscription to push
the enterprise. 1t will require about $1,000
more. and the Board of Supervisors has
been asked to contribute $4,000 of this, the
money TO be paid after the work is COM
pleted. All the members look fayorably
upon the proposition. The road is over the
route of the old Kennedy tunnel road. be-
gun ten years ago and abandoned. 1t is
intended to have 1t completed within sixty
DAYS.
The canal dredger will soon be put to
work west OF the Webster-street bridge,
where the channel is to be dredged so as to
be 200 feet wide and 20 feet deep at low
tide. Work on the San Leandro end of the
canal is nearly finished. The dredging on
the east end is completed to within fifty
feet Of the High-street bridge and much
marsh land has been filed In.
The Monahan family. consisting of nine
mem bers, Is quarantined at 814 Center
street for smallpox The disease in mild
form broke out on daughter and was re-
ported to Health Officer Dunn yesterday.
She caught ii while visiting in the East and
is the only member of the family yet
afflicted.
Stephen M. Purington, one of the execu-
tors of the Merritt estate. is too i'll to have
a citation served TO appear in court on the
9th inst. In relation to James Merritts con-
test.
The Municipal League has fled a protest
with the City Council against the appropri-
alton of 100000 for the boulevard. They
hold that it would create q burdensome tax,
that necessities are needed before the lux
ury of boulevard is suffered, and that the
people have already expressed themselves
against it at an election.
A copy Of the will of the late f. d. ART OF
Mount Eden was filed yesterday for probate
Accompanying it are charges that the origi-
nal will was destroyed while Arr was lying
unconscious shortly before his death. The
manner of this. according to the charges,
was that 4. b. Tappan, an attorney, told
Mrs. Hener that the will was ininical to
her interests and that she gave it to Mrs.
Christina Spreckles, who burned it The
object OF the attorney. says the petitioners,
was to defraud the deyisees. The will. ac-
cording to the copy, left property worth
$4,000, almost equally divided between
Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Hener, daughters.
There is boy about 10 years old at the
receiving hospital, with fractured jaw and
injuries about the head that will probably
cause his death. He was knocked down by
a train at Ninth and Madison streets last
night while jumping on and off the steps.
He cannot speak to tell his name, but, from
papers found in his pocket it is believed to
be Gray.
Three reckless women in buggy ran over
James Walsh OF North Oakland at Four
teenth street and Broadway last night and
broke his arm. He was taken to the receiv-
ing hospital, and>refused to hold the women
to account.
The Board of Education authorized the