The morning call., 1893-01-25
OVER IN OAKLAND.
Southern Pacific Officers
Watch Commuters.
A HAPPY SUPERINTENDENT.
Three Wagon-Loads of Lawbo0ks and
PaperS-Futard0 Was Not
Poisoned.
A HAPPY SUPERINTENDENT.

The Southern Pacific Company has been
the loser by great many thousand dollars
per year by the handling OK Communication
tickets by spectators. This. which is an
objectionable evil in the eyes of the COM
pany, has grown to unusual proportions Of
late, and to stop it the company has ap-
pointed two detectives to catch the offend
ers. II is estimated by officials of the road
that 200 or more persons pass through the
gates daily going to San Francisco on COM
mutation tickets never purchased by them.
Tie spectators buy them by the dozen.
paying So each. Every ticket is good for a
round trip every day during the month. and
they are rented to passengers for Is cents
per day. People who make only occasional
trips across the bay find them great con-
venience, as they save 10 cents per trip.
The Spectator, who takes care to have
large clientage. always realizes largely. and
nearly doubles his money on eaeh ticket
purchased.
They are usually signed by a fctitio US
name and, though used by different per-
son nearly every day, the gatekeeper, IN the
rush and hurry OF admitting passengers,
never detects the fraud.
Another method of cheating the company
was detected some months ago, after weeks
of hard work by Deputy Sheriff Kellogg.
Two of the gatekeepers had been In the
habit Of receiving single passage tickets and
depositing them 10 their pockets without
punching them. They were sold at dis
count to uptown dealers, who in turn sold
them cheaply to passengers, and thus kept
many a dollar from accommodating In Mr..
Huntington's Golfers. The gatekeepers lost
their positions, but were not prosecuted.
Superintendent Sanders of the Home for
Adult Blind very unconcernedly went
buggy-riding with his wife yesterday morn
ing, seeming confident that the investigation
of the home by a legislative committee
would turn out all right for him. For the
past three days he had been spreading
lunches and talking suayely to the COM
mltiee, while they were calling IN inmates
to testify in regard to the food which Mr..
Sanders daily sets before them and 10 his
treatment in general
He expressed himself as confident yester-
day that the committee could make no
damaging charges against him. de has
been superintendent for eight years and was
elected because it was believed that blind
man could best manage the blind. No
breath Of murmur vas ever made against
him until recently. when Fred Campbell, =
director. became involved in quarrel with
other directors because of politics, which
eventually led to Mr.. Sanders and some OF
the inmates becoming involved.
Eighteen complaints, aggregating Sl49o ..
have been filed agaiDStiA. j. Snyder. Jane
Sather and others owning property on
Washington street. between Seventh aud
Fourteenth, for assessments due for paw
ing the street with bltumen.
Three draws drove TO the courthouse yes
terday and carted away the documents and
law books used by the sincere hut mis-
guided Mr. Brown in the waterfront suit
The attorney himself formed the rear OF the
mournfu procession in carriage, uD will
ing 10 lose sight Of his precious documents.
IA ans Of q A
front company was telegTaphed to IL. w.
Carpenter in New York. The old man,
ripe in his sins, has been there for years,
not daring TO set foot in Oakland Tor lear OF
violence
The executive members of the Republican
City Central Committee met last night and
completed arrangements for holding the
nominating convention next Saturday. On
the following Saturday the Democrats Will
nominate.
new charter in the history of the Jews
is to be chronicled from Oakland. Miss Ray
Frank, a beautiful brunette, vigorous in IN
tellect. is TO study to enter The Jewish pull
pit 1t will be the first lime since the days
OF JosephUs that a woman las stood in
the synagogue 10 teach the people. She has
been a teacher in tie Hebrew school tor
sCme years past
George Kyle has been appointed police
officer in place of Officer Felley. resigned.
Mr.. Felley will go to Mexico TO take charge
OF the large estate recently left him By his
father. OF the thirteen applicants for
places on the force six failed 10 pass the eX-
animation.
George Stanley, member Of the Acme
Club and organizer Of the Acme quartet,
has mysteriouSly disappeared. He told a
friend two weeks ago that he had a contract
to fresco the walls of ship cabin and his
friends think that he has been taken 10 sea.
Marian l.. Whitney has been granted a
divorce from Daniel A. Whitney on the
grounds of desertion ana failure to provide.
decree Of divorce was given Julia Lugg
Yesterday from w. NJ. Lugg for failure to
provide.
The Peoples party held meeting In the
tabernacle last night TO ratify lis n0mlna-
tioUs. Rev. Frank Dixon and others ad-
dressed those present
An AUTOPSY on the body Of Josa Futardo.
who died suddenly near the Mission of San
Jose last Monday. revealed the fact that
death resulted from natural causes. He
had besn al work In field distributing
cyanide Of potassium for the purpose OF
destroying gOphors, and it was thought he
had been poisoned.
At little past O'Clock last night 2 large
warehouse belonging TO J. A. Shuey al
Danville was totally destroyed BY fire; the
cause unknown. The general belief Is that
1t was an incendiary, as the odor of coal oil
was detected.