The morning call., 1893-03-10
OVER IN OAKLAND.
On the Eve of the Local
Election.
End of a Hot Campaign - The Nom
Partisan Fight Undoubtedly
Won.

WORKOUT speakers and candidates are
looking forward with great joy to to-m0r-
row, which will be the last active day of the
camp ign.
they have been working harder than ever
this week, and there has been an average Of
nearly a dozen meetings per night Wagons,
banners, bOnfres and all sorts OF advertis-
ing devices have been resorted to, and as a
general thing all the meetings have been
well attended. Campaigns have usually
been so quiet in Oakland that the present
one, with all It's ostentation. has made the
voter stop to wonder where he is at"
u-Partisaus are confident all along the
line. Their cause appears to be won. 1t is
because Of the united effort to defeat them
that the present campaign has taken on so
lively an aspect.
Tie citizens movement, so unanimous
and powerful, was not altogether expected
few months ago, and those who had man.
aged with so much impunity the old or
der Of things were taken at a disadvantage,
from which they have not had time to re-
cover,
The last blow of the campaign in the in
teTests of the new movement VIII be struck
tomorrow night. A massmeeting will be
Held at the old Oakland tEeater, at which
DR.. Pardee, J. West Martin and others
prominent in the CT liens cause will make
addresses. II. A. Powell will preside.
Last night a mass-meeting was held at
Washington Hall in East Oakland. The
hall was crowded and speeches were made
by George K. Williams, r. B. Smell, W. E.
Barnard, Frank SOule, j. l.. Lyon, DR..
Pardee and others.
The Republicans also held a mass-meet-
ing at Germania Hall, at which T. L.
Barker was The chief speaker, his remarks
being substantially the same as those made
at he meeting in the Macdnnough Theater.
The Democrats will hold their last meet
I
F0Ote and r. VI. Fitzgerald will speak
Captain John Hackett, who has the con-
tract for dredging Lake Merritt, was puz-
lied for a long time as to how to get the
necessary machinery into the water. lie
has several dredgers, but there was n Inlet
through which he could take any Of them.
He tried hauling one 10 the place, but it
proved impracticabIe, and then put men to
work building new one in the lake. 1t
has just been completed and put to work.
1t will be useless after the dredging is fin
i-hed, as it cannot be taken out, although 1t
est $500
Ex-Sheriff W. II. Hussey is living
seriously illIof congestion Of the brain at
his residence, 667 ThiTty-ffth street.
Sheriff McKillican receiver Of the estate
Of John W. Girvin. insOlyent. has filed
comp amt in Intervention 10 keep Girvin's
wife, Viola, from getting judgment il an
attachment sent against the Oakland Rub
Der Company of which the husband and
was IN debt TO the larger firm of San Fran
CISCO Of which GrYin was also a memb Der,
and Giryin assigned its claims to his wife,
who brought suit The Sheriff charges
fraud.
The Second Presbyterian Church of
West Oakland is too small for the congrega-
ton which has been rapidly increasing
since Rev. II. II. Rice took charge a few
years ago. 1t has been decided to enlarge
the building at once.
Sheriff John Mckay of Auburn, New
York, has sent word to Chief SchafTer that
Martin EOy, who was captured by the chief
and Detective Holland in San Francisco.
will he executed by electricity next Friday.
F0y was detained IN the Oakland Jail till
Sheriff Kay and deputy came after him.
He shot woman to death on the streets of
Auburn and escaped to California.
W. N. Rank has m0rtgaged the franchise
aud real estate Of the California Railroad
Company 10 Theodore MeetZ of the Oak
land, Alameda and Piedmont Railway
Company for $4,000 for six months at per
cent interest.
A candidate who has been forgotten In
the political huTiy-burly opened his cam
paign guns on the street corners last night.
This Is Frank Cartier. who is running in
dependenily for Councilman at Large He
is making his fight on his waterfront
record During the excitement of last
spring he camDe1 on the Puget Sound
Lumber ComDany's lease, but was driven
of the next day and was fined 500 in the
Police Court. He insists that he is the true
hero who caused the water front to be re-
stored to Oakland. He also has following.
company has been organized for the de-
velopment of gas and petroleum wells at
Pleasanton. The 100000 capital stock is
all paid as follows: William Napier $40
300, Joshua Chadb0urne S24.75O, Harris
Arrendt S24.750. +. l.. Benedict aud z.
Chadbourne $500 each.
Three conductors on the western division
If the Southern Pacific road have been dis
charged from San Francisco headquarters
at Fourth and Townsend Streets They
were given no reason. The victims were
A. II. Cox, Joseph Mofitt and f. A Ach-
aEman.
Last evening burglars went through the