The morning call., 1893-03-20
OVER IN OAKLAND.
A Sailor Hangs Himself
With a Cable.
County Clerk Crane Dangerously III.
Railroad Men Believe in Jeffries
of Sacramento.

Michael ZuhenkO, a fireman on the
Russian sealing steamer Katie, now
anchored at the foot of Twelfth avenue,
committed suicide yesterday by hanging.
He left his berth at 80 A. NJ. to 90 on
deck and nothing was seen of him until an
hour later, when the boatswain entered the
lower hold, between the beam decks, and
found ZuhenkO with a three-Ineh rope
around his neck and suspended to beam.
He was in kneelng posture and had
strangled TO death. A physician was sum-
moned Immediately as the body was still
warm, but was soon found that life had
already departed. The dead man had been
Ill and had been acting so strangely within
the past few days that he was believed to
have become insane.
Physicians were in attendance all day
yesterday upon County Clerk James L.
Crane, who Is dangerously Ill of pneumonia
at his home on Seventeenth street He will
reach the crisis to-day. There is but little
chance OF recovery. His doctor stated yes
terday that the only hope is in his strong
vitality.
There has been talk of removing the Six
teenth-street depot to Twelfth street when
the Rutherford electric road IL completed to
W est Oakland. BY this means passengers
could be easily transferred TO a contlnuou,
route TO Thirteenth avenue. An official of
tic LNdu Slhttu lcSAcIudY lIdb no SuCD IT,
mOval will be made. The land on which
the depot stands was conveyed to the South
ern Pacific Company for a nominal sum
upon the condition that the depot should be
maintained there. In the event of its re-
moval the Southern Pacific tracks would
have to be changed.
Where there was only a little horse
car line running to West Oakland a few
months ago, there are now two electric
lines, and the completion Of the Twelfth
| street road will make three.
The wooden awnings recently removed
| from central Broadway, improved the ap-
pearance of the street SO much that an
| effort was made to have them also removed
on streets between Washington and Broad
| way, aud on upper Broadway and San
! Pablo and Telegraph avenues. Property
| owners objected so stTenuOusly that the
| ordinance was killed few evenings ago in
! the Council.
| Funeral services under the auspices OF
Rising Star Lodge No 152, X. of F., took
| place at : p. n. yesterday over the body Of
| Z. A. h lnkner, ut his residence in Golden
Gate. The body was buried at Mountain
! View.
A series Of three meetings OF the Christian
! Endeavor Society will be held at the First
Baptist Church. beginning next Wednesday
and continuing Thursday and Friday even
! ings. The speakers will be Mrs. Carrie
Judd Montgomery, Rev. J. Q. A. Henry,
MIS-. G. de LaguDd and r. h Carter.
Work on the new $4,000 Masonic Home at
Decoto, this county, will begin in April
The site contains several hundred acres.
The old Oakland Theater will be re.
| opened tonight as a cheap place of amuse.
ment under the name Of the Park TheRter
Judge Greene Will return from the East
| within few days. Judge Ogden, who has
been occupying his courtroom. will remove
into the room of the Board of Supery sors
| VIII 'ch will be known as Department l.
George JeffrieS, the Southern Pacific
engineer suspected of the murder of Miss
May Ayers at Brighton Station paid ysi
10 his former home in West Oakland yester
day. He has been released from the Sacra
| mentO Jail under heavy bonds. The rail
| road men refuse to be lieYe That ha Is pniltv