The morning call., 1893-02-13
OVER IN OAKLAND.
Colored Refugees Crowding
Into California.
NON-PARTISANS IN ALAMEDA.
Arrest of Confidence High
handed Water Companies - Hay
wards Travel Competition.

George Bloom of the Union Hotel on
Thirteenth avenue, East Oakland, was seri-
ously hurt Saturday while attempting to
board an electric car in the vicinity of Thir-
teenth and Franklin streets. He says he
could not see in the fog, and as he grasped
the railing to step, on another car passed
and struck him. He was thrown heavily to
the ground and received deep cash in the
forehead which had to be stitched. 1t was
only the prompt action of the motormau
that prevented his being killed.
Captain Wilson returned from Los An
geles last night with r. l.. Ross, alias G..
Melquoind. confidence operator and
forger, who made record recently in Oak
land. He rented an empty real estate Of
ice on Sixteenth street, put in desk and
then advertised for accountants. An aver
age oil twenty people per day began to call
upon him, and from each one be demanded
deposit OF money under promise of the
positions. After the end of four days he
closed his Office and left. He was arrested
In Los Angeles shortly afterward.
The Board of Supervisors recently
directed the Alameda Water Company Of
berkeley. the Piedmont Springs Water and
Power Company and the Contra Costa
Water Company to file annual statements
OF their business. All the companies have
Ignored the order and steps have been
taken to compel the corporations TO report.
The Sheriff, by direction of the board, has
served citation commanding the c0mpaIi-
les to appear before the Supervisors at 10
A. NJ. to-day and show cause why they have
not complied with tile order.
There was an exodus of sixty colored fam
lilies from Tennessee to California recently,
ma NJ rff a naI,
is TO be another exodus of 80 families
under the leadership of Rev. Mr.. Olden,
pastor OF the Metropolitan Church of Chat
tanoOga. The families comprise his con-
gregatlon. Mr.. Olden spoke at the Ebener-
Ter Baptist Church last evening, giving an
account Of the prosecutions of the negro in
the Southern States.
lie represents the Afro American Bureau
OF Information OF the West, and says that
arrangements are making for the immigra-
ton OF many colored citizens 20 California.
He will settle his own flock about Oakland
and in San Joaquin Couaty. The growth
Of the colored population in Oakland with
in the past few years Is noticeable There
Is a c0l0red colony in West Oakland COM
pTising laborers, some OF whom have APP
piled for work in the Street Department
mechanics and tradesmen, number of the
latter having opened little shops about
Market street and elsewhere in West Oak
land.
While Mr.. Olden was preaching at the
Ebenezer church last evening, the Rev. X.
A. McGuinn also spoke at California Hall
on my Brothers Keeper, or American
Barbarism Practlced Upon the Colored
People"
The book containing the records Of the
formation OF Alameda County was discoy-
cred in a forgotten pigeon-bole OF the
County Recorders office, the other day, by
one Of the deputies. 1t had been lost for a
10, inn hoH Ixr II. al
for vainly.
The minutes show what many of tie
older inhabitants still remember that
Joseph ). Watkins. James b. Larue and
j. > Marston were in AlyaTad0 In April,
1858. as commissioners appointed under an
act to create the county Of Alameda, de-
filming its boundaries and establishing a
seat Of justice. They called an election for
the same month. the polling-pac being
located at private houses throughout the
county, for the most part, and some of the
judges of the election being the candidates
themselves.
Addison NJ. Crane was chosen the first
County Judge. William II. Combs District
Attorney. Andrew II. Brode Sheriff,
William II. Chamberlain Coroner. and A.
NJ. Church County Clerk.
The eighty fourth birthday of Abraham
Lincoln was observed at the Unitarian
Church last evening by the Colonel f. d.
Baker Camp, Sons of Veterans OF Califor-
MIA. Addresses were delivered By Major
Edwin Sherman, one OF the guard which
lowered LineOn's body Into the grave at
Springfield, and BY Rev. &. w. Wsndte.
number or anthems and patriotic hymns
were sung.
The Southern Pacific Company Is feeling
keenly the competition IN passenger busI-
ness between Oakland aud Haywards
started by the electric road. The company
reduced the rates some time ago but the
Uat bac fuli off, tic
nevertheless. To offsetit in fare the company
has decided, IL is said, to put on hourly
trains and TO make a further reduction in
the price Of Communication tickets
Richard Noble OF TwenIy-ihrd avenue
was one OF the passengers on the steamer
Piedmont when she ran into the tug Fear
less at the Folsom-stieet Wharf, San Fran
cisco. in the heavy fog OF Saturday after
noon. Mr.. Noble, amos other passengers.
jumped from the steamer - the tug during
the panic. He spraned his ankle very
badly.
The Board of Supervisors will to-day act
on request from the Alameda County
Worlds Fair Commissioners to set aside
5000 for special county wine exhibit at
Chicago.
In case of the appointment by the Gov
ernor of Police Court Judge Ogden TO the
position of Superior Court Judge Of Ala
media County, which appointment seems
probable, Judge Allen, the present Asso-
cate Justice. and Assistant Superintend-
ent SANDS of the School Department will
be candidates for elevation TO the Police
Court bench. The latter Appointment is IN
the power Of the Mayor.
Sixteen public schools throughout the
county will reopen to-day to a cOmmodate
500 pupils. The schools have been closed
longer than usual owing to the bad weather.
DIR. Pinkert0n, one OF the oldest physi-
clans of Oakland. who was stricken with
paralysis several weeks ago, is recovering,
and was able TO leave the house for the first
time yesterday.