The morning call., 1893-05-20
IN AND ABOUT TOWN.

It's FIRST YEARS EXPENDITURES The
Southern Heights and Vlsitacion Railway
Company fled certificate with the Board
of Supervisors yesterday certifying that
the company had spend on work for con-
structiOn during the year the sum OF S37.-
S6S 90 as follows: Paid for railway tracks
on Kentucky street. Fourth and Brannan,
S12, 215 IT; patent steel rails and freight.
$40, $50; for rail joints, S4S04 Is. The di-
rectors of the company are l. G. Stump,
bner Doble, p. n. Lilenthal, w. r.
Hearst. W. S. Chapman, Monroe Green
wood and William Hollis.
THE BOARD OF AUDIT ORGANIZED. =
The Board of audit, consisting of Mayor
Ellert, Tax Collector Block and CITY and
County Attorney Creswell, has organized
and Will proceed to business The object
of the hoard Is to assess the claims of the
Street Extension Commissioners and their
clerks. The first hearing will be given on
May % to the Twenty-fifth street Commits
sion. Subsequently the claims of the Six
teeenth street. the Potrero avenue and the
Market street commissions will be taken
up and considered.
INTERESTING MISUNDERSTANDING the
odd documents in the Postoffce is an old
deed conveying title TO lot on Post street
and Grant avenue, attested by Dave Sean
nell in the sixties. The properly is now
covered by the Marchand Restaurant. 1t
LUen SOlu lot SIU,pUU dUu is BOW eaSllY
worth twenty times that sum. Another
lot on Drumm ana Davis streets, covered
by a second deed. was also sold for a low
figure. and is now of great value. The
documents are supposed TO have heen
dropped on the street few hours before
they were fouad.
THE TREADwELL EsTATE.-The latest
developments in the opnos ton to the
petition of Attorneys Goodfellow and
Lloyd for the appOln tment of a suitable
guardian for the Treadwel m nors con-
sists in the rumor that Calvin Soners has
asked the Superior Court of Santa Clara
County to appoint guardian. claiming
that the minors are residents of that
county. A list of exceptions has been filed
and the matter VIII he taken to the
Supreme Court. Judge Coffey was to have
decided GoOdfellow's application to-day,
but the matter was postponed
CHINESE REGIsTRATIoN.-The Internal
Revenue Collector, office was kept very
busy yesterday. as the twelve clerks hav-
ing in hand the work OF making out cert fl
Gates for Chinese who have registered
were desirous of getting the work COM
peted within the day. The fact that
photographs are no longer required short.
ened the labor considerably, and when the
Office closed the work of registration was
thing of the past. Every Chinese en-
titled TO certificate Will now find one
ready for him.
AN ORANGE CAUSES A STAB.-Walter
Horn, 14year-old boy who lives at 2501b
Clementlua street, started to peel an
orange yesterday, when an unknown and
older boy came up and demanded the fruit.
Horn refused 10 comply with the request,
when the stranger lunged at him with a
penknife and ran off. Horn was stabbed
in the arm. The wound was a small flesh
one and was attended TO at the Receiving
Hospital.
SPECIAL PROSECUTING CoUNsEL.-The
judiciary Committee of the Board of Su-
pervlsors yesterday refused to recommend
the order of joseph Cunningham, which
proposed to prohibit the employment OF
special counsel to assist the prosecuting at
torneys in the Police courts. The commit
tee decided that special counsel in the PO-
lice courts was a matter which lay entirely
within the discretion OF the Judges, and
the Superv sors had no right to interfere.
CosT OF PUBLIC TELEPHONES The
list of public telephones in use at the
municipal offices and institutions as COM
piled by Expert Cyril Williams number 81,
and the cost to the city is about $1,000 r
month or $4,000 year. The Finance
Committee at its meeting next week will
endeavor to reduce this expenditure by
doing away with some of the public
telephones.
CRIMINAL CHINESE BUTCHERS. = Mar
ket Inspectors Newman and Aldrich yes
terday seized decomp0sed hog in front of
Chinese bntcher-shop at 735 Jackson
street. The hog bore every evidence of
having died from sickness and having been
afterward prepared Tor sale.
DAILY CHARGED AGAIN.-Daniel Daly.
who killed j. j. Lawton and seriously
wounded j. Carroll at the Potrero on he
18th inst, had a charge Of assault to murder
placed against his name on the books of
the old City Prison yesterday at the in
stance Of Carroll.