The morning call., 1893-04-14
OVER IN OAKLAND.
Hurrying Up so as to Save
a Franchise.
REV. DIXON ON CORPORATIONS
Duncan Cameron's Widow Thought to
Be Insane-An Inspector at Berke-
Improvements in Alameda.

The projectors of the Grossmeyer electric
road On Twelfth street had three separate
gangs Of forty men each at work yesterday
in the effort 10 complete the road by next
Tuesday. within the terms of the franchise.
Cars must be run by then. but there are so
Tar no cars, and no indication OF an electric
storage-hoGse for running them. As cars
must be run by Tuesday, this part of the
question is a puzzling one.
William S. " agner. the young law student
who became insane from oYerstudy, has
sent TO The County Clerk win, in which he
bequeaths away more than a million dol
lars worth Of imaginary property. He pro-
vides for some gigantic trusts, and names
Or. Mclean, DR.. Wythe, Henry Hauschildt
and Henrietle Stark, as sureties. As it is
document legally filed. it will have to be
acted upon by the court.
"a Corporation Creed" was the subject
of Rev Frank Dixon's lecture at Hamilton
Hall last night. There was a large attend
auee. Thirty thousand men own half the
money in the United States" said Mr..
Dixon. The opportunity for education
and enlightenment is better, but the wor king
mans condition is worse than ii was in the
fourteenth century of England. Corporate
power rules you, and your enemies are
arming themselves more strongly every day.
The record Of municipal corruption in this
city and elsewhere testifes to it. II you, as
individuals, don't pay your taxes
the Sheriff is after you, and yet we
can scarcely eIsuade the Southern Pacific
to pay up what it owes the State. Wesend
men every year TO the Legislature who say
t. that corporation, Please, for the Lords
sake, pay your taxes but you haven't heard
The jingle of It's money in the treasury.
! on have in the Senate chamber a man
whose hand has ciutChed the throat Of Cali
foTuil I'D rTUglfpU tho Ii fa Of If a nd baf
ther man-everybody knows he was sent
.4ere by CORPORATE power, and Instead of
having active, progressive men-we have got
stuffed money-bags to legislate for u.s.
They've got tender feelings ior the people,
haven't they. When it comes to legislation
tAey remember Yanderbilps maxim, The
public be -
We've got to fight. Man must be liber
Rted from corporate control. You had n
little scrimmage in The South once ana freed
some colored slaves. but the next great con-
fct will be on behalf Of millions upon mil
lions OF white slaves. who own the coats
they wear"
On the platform with the speaker were
seated a. a. DennisoD, John L. DaYie, O.
a. Shaw, A. j. Gregg. 0. Nj. Sanford and
a. BretZ.
The widow of Duncan Cameron, who
tried TO shoot N. J. Laymance, because of
fancied wrong in real estate transaction,
has never been brought to trial because Of
ment at hospital and her friends propose
TO have her examined by the commissioners
on lunacy.
The Oakland, San Leandro and Hay
wards, electric road and the Berkeley elec-
tic road will cease Issuing transfers 10 one
another after the 15th inst. The Piedmont
Railway Company has begun the Issuance
uf transfers TO the former road, which, in
turn, transfers to the Piedmont line. 1t is
the result Of war started by the new Tele-
graph-aYenue line.
Martin Lamb, the longshoreman who
was stabbed in fight with William Lam
caster and Andrew Chandler, two negro
nOD-union men, refused to swear TO a Com
paint against them, and they were dis
charged IN the Police Court yesterday.
The Oakland. San Leandro and Hay-
wards Electric Railway Company has been
sued for $1,000 damages by jackson silva.
who was Injured in a collision last Sep.
tember.
Count the ballots" said de facto Con-
gresham Hilborn, when asked how he in
tended to reply to the contest brought by
w. b. EDglish for his seat il Congress.
Hilborn's side of the case will begin
tomorrow in the Superior Court, and
Deputy County Clerk StuTtevant has been
isubpenaed to appear in court with the
sealed envelopes containing the votes of
the Altamont precinct The real fight will
pend on their oLening.
The second installment Of county taxes
Will become delinquent on the 24th inst,
after which 20 per cent will be added TO the
first installment and per cent to The second
iUsfaltmpu remaining UnDaid.