The morning call., 1893-05-25
OVER IN OAKLAND.
A Mysterious Death in d
Lodging=House.
GENERAL kiRKHAM is DEAD.
Conductors Who Were Let Out"
Condition of rIrs. Redfieid-The
Webb Divorce Case.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.-One week ago
last Wednesday well dressed man. with
sandy beard, apparently about A years OF
age, called at the lodging-hOuse on Fifth
and Broadway and asked To be shown a
room. He looked at room and stated
that if he could get a friend of his to go in
with him he would rent it.
The next day CThursday) he came back
and said he guessed he would take the
room and paid for it for week. He was
alone.
He came and went during the week,
attracting no particular attention, but ye>-
terday morning did not appear as usual.
although apparently all right the evening
before, and in passing his room groans
were heard. An entrance was effected.
and the man was found lying on the bed
and evidently in pain.
DIR. Sharp was called in and stated that
the man was dying. He gave him some
medicine and left. The man being still
alive at in the afternoon. DIR. Fisher was
called in. He worked on him Tor some
time, but in vain and he died soon after.
Ha was very well dressed, but no scrap
of paper was found on him to identify
him. He had no money. In his pOrkets
were found a knife and Il raj road switch
kew marked 7. =. AID L..R. r., also
Masonic keystone. His cuffs bnre the 10
lowing laundry mark: "V.-50S-C.," and
on his shirts was the name and trade
mark OF Seattle dealer.
An examination into his death will be
held to-day.
GENERAL KIRKHAM DEAD.-ln the
death OF Ralph w. kirkham yesterday
afternoon at 2:30 O'clock, Oakland loses
oae of her most prominent pioneers and
the country an historical figure.
General kirkham graduated from West
| Point in 1913 He took part in the MeXi-
can war, through which he served with
| gallaEtry. He was leuten ant and regi-
mental adjntant of the Sixth Regiment H.
| fantry, and for bravery on the field OF
action was promoted TO a captaincy.
1t was in 1857 that he 10 ated in Oak
| land, but when the stirring times of 1861
shook the land to its foundation he re-
spouded to MS country's call.
He served with distinction throughout
| the War of the Rebellion, and WAS COM
Inissoned as brigadier-general in the
! Unlt.d States army, with headquarters in
the West.
! 1t was desired at one time tn transfer
him to the Est, but General Mcdowell. on
whose staff he was. positively refused to
| allow General Krkham 10 be sent East.
In 1875 he settled down TO an active bust
ness career, having resigned his commits
sion to take care OF the large property he
| had accumulated, and which has grown 20
great proportions under his careful man
agement.
He aided in Organizing the Union Ma
tinnal and UnOn Savings banks. and was
director in the Mountain View Cemetery.
| He left an estate valued at more than
! $1,000 COO.
He was vestryman of ST. Johns Church
and HAD donated the lot on which the
church was built.
General Kirkham leaves his widow and
three daughters, Mrs. Walter Garic Butler
Mrs. j. ID. Stafford and Miss Kate B. Kirk
| ham.
tive OF MassachuSet S.
He left will dividing his estate among
his family.
INFIRMARY 1NvESTIG ALTON. Joseph
| Hcrrscher vas beture the Board Of Supe =
| viSors yesterday, represented hy Attorneys
Nnsbaumer and Reed. De is the man who
has been furnishing supplies to the County
Infirmary and whom the former cook,
Burin. SAID had n OF furnished as much in
the line of supplies as his bill called for.
The contractor had Dut in bill for April,
hut had failed to itemize Il. This Mr..
H+rrscher afterward did.
Two letters were introduced Yesterday
purportng 10 have beea written to man
named RpYr Olds by BurliD, one Of them 10
tie effect that ifthe present superintendent
was rrmavcd ard DR.. Bour appointed he
(Burln3 wouId geta raise of wages. and the
other in regard to selling county supplies
to outsiders.
To-day the Supervisors will visit the in
firmary, and it is said that some very
crooked work in connection with the
esta blShment will be unearthed. As one
party remarked: 1T seems that every body
has been profting at the county's expense
in this business"
MORE DIVORCE TRoUBLEs.-Thar is
| discnrd IN the Heyer family. Henry HeyeI
and Emily Heyer have been since June .
1888, learning that marriage is failure
and aow appears Emily, who says she Is a
neglected wife. She has not had for II
year past the necessarieS pf life IRON
Henry, whom she describes as an idler, q
pr0tligate and disspated. She says thai
Henry has disregarded his duties as hus.
band and made her life generally misera BILE
He has been guilty, she says, of habilua
intamprrance for year.
The couple have n0 children and have
gathered together no worldly wealth. She
4 asks for expenses of action, alimony and
counsel Lees.
INSURANCE LICENsE.-Undrr the adj
vice OF the City Attorney License In.
spector Mal0on has issued the following
circular TO insurance agents:
Under recent construct IN of the II.
cense ordinance regarding Insurance Ii.
censes, l am advised that each agent
or nrm must pay j. license on the tota
amount of premiums collected by them
and not an amount fbr each company rep
resented. Yon will please file with this
office an affidavit of the amount of bust
ness done by YOU as an insurance agent
and in future insurance licenses will bs
made out in your name"
THE DEATH OF DENNIs.-An autopsy
was held last evening over the remains
of Orin Dennis, who died so suddenly a
Mount Eden last Tuesday evening. i
was at first thought that Dennis had com
mittrd suicide as he had confiden tall,
| threatened to do so on several ditferen
occasions. Coroner Evers conducted The
autopsy and it was found that fa,ty de
generation of the heart was lhe cause o.
death. The deceased was an old settler
and GA years of age. He leaves a daughter
and sou to mourn his lnss.
THE CASE OF TIE WEBBs. TIL,
divorce case of the Nebbs of Haywards )
in which Edward o. Webb brings suit 70,
separation from his wife, and in whjcl
DIR. Dean of Haywards is made co
RESPONDENT, was up for hearing befor,
Judge Ogden Yesterday. The wife has de
trrmiued TO fight the case, and has re
tanned w. X. Davis IN make her fight. A
demurrer was entered on The gro,lpd lba
two charges were joined In one, and W.,
oyerruled, ana tho defendant was eiyei
ten days 10 answer.
Conductors DIsMIsSED-Three con
ductors on the western division were dis
charged on Monday without any caus,