The morning call., 1893-06-18

of the firemen or any apparatus used in
the extinguishment of fire, he would nave
right, and 1t would be his duty as goou
citizen, to do all in his power TO stay tne
progress OF the fire and to eXtlnguish IL IL
possible, but the moment the Fire Depart
ment arrived it would, through Its officers,
assume complete charge, and if the captain
OF the tug was ordered to withdraw he
would have to do SO. II that were not so
there would not be any need for an execu-
tive for the department. As before stated,
the Chief Engineer, or any oil those IN
charge during his absence. assumes 1ull
charge al fire and can order any party
assisting TO extinguish the fire to take up.
ALAMEDA COUNTY OFFICIALs-G. o.,
City. Ordinarily person must have been
resident of Oakland long enough to be
voter to entitle him to admission into the
County Hospital, but in cases Of
emergency as person is admitted at
any time. (0 DR.. NJ. L. johnson
is the resident physician of the County
Hospital. At present ha is absent in the
East and DR.. J. P. II. Dunn is acting in
MS place. (3) The Board Of Health of
Oakland is composed of Drs. E. II. Wool
sey. I. Fl. Pinkerton. N. K. Foster. a. ID.
Pratt and J. C. S. Akerly. ~ The Super
yisors of Oakland are Bailey. Morgan.
Plunkett, Palouze and Martin the C0un-
Marshall, j. r. Capell, r. X. Smell, A.
Barstow. NJ. d. Heitman. w. E. Barnard.
Walter G. Manuel, II. p. Dalton and Will
liam Wilkinson.
TowBoATs-F. NJ, City. The office of
the Inspector of Steam Vessels on the bay
of San Francisco gives the following as
the list of the ten most powerful tugboats
on this bay and their order of power
% Fearless. (2) Relief or Monarch-there is
so little difference in the power of these
two vessels that each Is entitled to rank
second, (9 Sea King. az Active. (5l Rescue.
(6) Wizard, % VtgIlant, () Sea Queen, 90
Reliance and QO) Sea Witch.
THE ODD FELLOWS BANK-R. W..
City. The Odd Fellows Bank of this city
suspended payment on the 5th of Febru-
ary, 1879. Abram Block was the pres-
dent of the bank at the time. Mr.. Block
was Supervisor from the Eighth Ward
from April 20. 1874, until the latter part OF
October, 1875, having been appointed by
Mayor Otis TO fill the vacancy caused by
the death of A. l.. Wangenheim.
BOUNTY ON ANIMALS - C. NJ, City,
There is a State law which gives the Su-
pervisors of each county the power to pay
a bounty for the killing of certain destruc-
tive animals. The amount to be paid is
left to the judgment OF the Supervisors
passing an ordinance to that effect. For
Information as to the amount you will
have to write to the County Clerk Of each
county.
SALAD AT A HOME DINNER-A. S.,
City. The time to serve salad at home
dinner is a matter OF taste. The French
people. who are supposed to be versed in
such matters, serve the salad in time to be
eaten with the roast. Other nationaltes,
according to fancy, serve some kind of
salad Immediately after soup, as an appe-
tizer for the good things to follow.
MARKING BALLOTS H. B., City.
Every inspector. judge or clerk of an cleo
tion who previous to putting the ballot OF
an elector in the ballot box makes or
places any mark or device on any folded
ballot with view to ascertain the name
of any person for whom the elector has
voted is liable to by fine OF not less
than $50 and not more than $500.
LEWIS B. HARRIs-G. w. w., Sacra-
mento, Cal. The late Lewis B. Harris
was the nominee of the Wing party for
the office of Mayor of Sacramento in 1885,
and his opponent was B. B. Redding, the
candidate nomin ated by the Democratic
party. Redding was elected by q large
majority.
NATIONALITY OF VoTERs-O. w., City.
Of the voters who registered for the cleo
tion held last Novem ber, 81, 46S were ma
tives of the United States. OF this num-
ber Is. $40 were natives OF California. The
number of citizens of Irish birth who
registered was 1896
A FUTURE EvENT-G., City. "To-mor-
row is Monday" though frequently used
in everyday conversation, is not correct,
for the reason that els" refers to the pres
ent. Tomorrow is of the future. conse-
Quentiy the proper phrase would be. ITO
morrow will be Monday" Il
MICRoBE, SHASTA-E. W. L., City.
The latest authority, the Century Die
tionary, says that microbe should be pro-
nounced "mi-krob," sounding the 40" as
in move, spoon, room. ~ Shasta is
an Indian name, and means "stone house
or cave"
To SPANIsHTowN-A Camper. City,
One of the best roads to Spanishtown
from this city lie the county road to San
Mateo, then turning off at that point and
going along the stage road.
POINTS IN BILLIARDs-C. S., City. No
record was kept of the time in which
Schaefer made each 1000 points in his
match with Cleary in this city.
MAIL TO AUsTRALIA-J. R., City. Yes
sells leaving this port with Honolulu as the
terminal destination do not carry the mail
intended for Australia,