The morning call., 1892-09-17
FROM ACROSS THE BAY.
Browns Argument in the
Water Front Case.
A QUIET OAKLAND WEDDING.
Extending Broadway Into Contra Costa
County-A Student Missing - Items
From Alameda and Berkeley.

Harvey Brown. attorney for the South
ern Pacific. did nearly all the talking yes
terday in the waterfront suit.
He began early. and with the help Of an
occasional sip of water was able 20 Keep it
up most OF the day.
He complimented the defendants attor.
neys by saying that they had exhibited
great ingenuity in assailing the Carpenter
ordinance.
He remarked, with blush, that he was n
little ingenious himself and that in this re-
spect he could equal the defendants att0r-
neys, even If he was not quite as ingenious.
Mr. Browns knowledge Of the difference
in meaning of the two words was very re-
freshing to Mr. Mullaney, who was firmly
of the opinion that Mr.. Brown, in some in
scrutable way, was trying to make pun.
1t is said that Mr.. Mullaney could never re-
member the difference between ingenious"
and ingenious" for any length of time.
After his brilliant beginning Mr. Brown
relapSed into cOmmonplaeeness He irri-
tated the other attorneys by reeiting law
and authorities and called il an interpreta-
tion of the Carpenter ordinance on com-
nonsense principles.
lie said that it will be shown that Car
pentier offered the wharves back to the
town OF Oakland Oh condition that they be
kept in repair and that the town refused
the offer.
He cited authorities TO prove that it has
been the policy of the State 10 sell its tide
lands and OverfiOwed water lands, and, to
support him, referred 10 the sale OF the
beach and water lots in San Francisco
A. A. Moore ended the arguments for the
plaintiff.
He cut and slashed into everything from
the old case of King Charles and the Duke
Of York, upon which Ben Morgan laid such
stress, down to Morgan himself.
Davie. Dameron. Doane and others were
all "scOrched" by him, who addressed the
jury rather than the court The jury. which
has been an absolute nonenity, stopped doZ-
ing and listened a part OF the time.
Sometimes MIR. Moore argued and some
times he simply "seorched." He quoted no
law and ignored lawbouks. 1t was sort
of rest 10 his mind TO get up and make the
kind OF speech he did, and even the Judges
seemed to regard 1t as "A gentle, refreshing
shower upon the dry desert of law over
which they had been plOdding all the week.
Mr. Moore announced that the plainti fl
rested its argument, and the case went over
till next Tuesday.
Lafayette Gump and Daisy l.. Stevens OF
San Francisco were quietly married in Oak
land few days ago. The groom, who is q
years old, two years younger than his bride,
is the son of a Market-Street merchant. A
marriage records yesterday TO learn If the
marriage had really taken place. and went
away disappointed because it had and there
was nothing more for him TO do.
John II. Ulhorn, Is years of age, living
at 963 Third avenue, is missing from home.
He is a student In San Francisco and
started off as usual Thursday morning,
carrying his lunch basket He has not
been seen since by any OF his relatives or
friends.
a bill TO quiet title and for other purposes
has been filed In the Walkerey case by Mary
l.. Dougherty. Jane Capers and others.
absent heirs. against Blanche NJ. Walkeriey,
her son, Martin Walkerley, and others. II
asks that partition be declared 10 set aside
property worth 5000 in East Oakland as
homestead for Mrs. Walkerley, and that
| three disinterested householders be ap-
pointed to make the apportionment.
The Oakland pastors will begin minor
| Christian convention in the Tabernacle on
| September q. 1t viii continue three days
under the leadership Of Captain Il. kelsC
! Garter, an evangelist.
John Chapman, painter, fell thirty feet
! from scaffOld at the Home for the Blind
| yesterday, landing on his feet. Ills ankle
was broken, and the bones protrnded
through the flesh.
Police Officer Quackenbush, who has been
discharged because Of the charges of cruelty
preferred by a colored barber named Wash.
lhElOn, was OItten py uOg tue Othet day
! while trying 10 stop the animal from fight
| ing. The wound is a serious one.
| The grading of the New Broadway exten
| sion to Contra Costa County has commenced
| near Temescal Creek.
Chief JaiIer Marsh is whitewashinC
| "Chna alley" in the Jail and scattering
! chloride of lime about the place freely, il
the hope that the cholera germ viii see th'
''sign on the threshold" and kindly pas:
! him by.
The Chabot Observatory has been hand
! somely reconstructed and is now open II
| High School pupils. AS there are yet SOME
| finishing touches to be added it VIII not bt
| open 10 the public for about ten days.
The Second Ward Republicans met las
night and nominated delegates pledged fol
| Hussey for Sheriff. Most of the ward club;
| which had not already done so met las
| night and nominated delegates TO be voted
! for at tO-day's primaries.