The morning call., 1892-04-26
FROM ACROSS THE BAY.
An Ordinance to Close POOlrO0ms
Passed to Print.
The Contest Begun Over the Slicer Estate.
Mrs. Martin in the Hands Of
Jury Of Her Peers

At the adjourned meeting OF the City
Council last night the bid of Splitter s. Co.
OF Boston, OF S402.00 for the 100000 in
school bonds, WAS again presented. 1t was
referred to the Finance Committee.
Nelson introduced an ordinance to pro-
bibit poolrooms, gambling. ETC.. 1t being the
same ordinance that was defeated . last
year. On motion to suspend the rules
and pass to second reading the votes stood |:
Ayes-Garthorne, Johnson, Nelson, Par
dee, Watkinson, wilkins and President
Heitman =; Brosnahan, Earl, Thorn
burgh-3; absent, Macdonald, 1.
On the motion to pass to print, Brosnahan
alone voted no. The only Councilman who
spoke on the subject was Garthorne, who
did not think it any more harm to allow
poolrooIls than to allow betting on pools at
the trosting parks. He voted all right,
though, when the matter came to that
point
At q meeting of the Board Of Education
the rules with reference to contagious dis
eases was amended so as to conform to the
rules OF the Board OF Health. The schools
were ordered closed Oh Monday, May 2. for
one days vacation.
ESTATES IN PROBATE.
A preliminary skirmish in the contest
over the will of Hugh S. Slicer took place
"a
resulted in very small victory for the con-
testants. The matter before the court was
the appointment of a special administrator
pending the hearing of the contest. This,
after much maneuvering by counsel, was
refused by the court and the hearing was
continued for fortnight.
The estate of Joseph j. Nunes, deceased,
IL very small, hut he willed IL 10 bis son
Fernando. without leaving any to BarthOlo-
new. because he had already provided for
ha lat osEa fnr LATE
testamentary In accordance with the recon-
mendation in the will.
Mrs. Anna Carolinda Silva has petitioned
for letters testamentary ON the estate of
Antonio Fra mex Silva, also known as Frank
Silva aud as Frank Silva JOHN, deceased.
The estate is valued at $500 and is devised
to the petitioner during her natural life, to
go to the children at her death.
The estate of julius Fischer, the restau-
rant man, who died suddenly three months
ago, has been appraised at S25 1877.
The San Francisco Bridge Company has
agreed with the Dumbarton Land aud In
proyemeDt Company TO construct 2S, 600 feet
OF levee along Mind Creek. Mud Slough and
Mowrys Greek, draining 17O0 acres near
Aiorae Station, at cost Of S2l,500. The
levee Is to be two feet above hiQh-water
mark, So feet wide at the bottom and IL feet
at tile top.
oAKLAND's CAUSE CELEBRE.
The trial OF Mrs. Mary l.. Martin on the
charge OF obtaining S1i, 800 OF Miss Sarah
Leonard's money by false pretenses was
begun before Judge Greene and jury yes
terday afternoon. SO much was said about
The case In al the papers that 1t was be-
lieyed II would require several venires to
Gil the jury panel. The first eight CT the
regular panel examined had not read or
heard anything about the case. and the en-
tire jury was secured without exhausting
the panel. The case will go on this morn
ing. ana is liable TO last for two weeks. 1t
took up Is days In the Police Court exami-
nation.
\ reward has been offered for the finding
OF FRANK Ricardo, the young man who had
been sick for several days and who sud
denly disappeared on Saturday morning
after the extinguishing of the fire at his
fathers house. His parents are almost dis
traeted. They fear he may have jumped
in the bay or has been shanghaied on some
vessel.