The morning call., 1893-02-12
OVER IN OAKLAND.
Dates Set for Campaign
Openings.
A CHIMNEY-SWEEP'S DESIRE.
He Wants to Be a COunciIman-at-
Large-JohD Dietrick's Adven-
ture With an AK.

| The date for opening the campaign Of the
| NOn-Partisans has been set for next Thurs
day evening, at the Tabernacle. A mass
meeting will be held at which the cam
didates. including DR.. George Pardee for
Mayor, will speak. Councilman j. w.
Nelson will also deliver an address. There
will be glee club, which will present sew
eral original songs, composed especially for
the Non-Partisan campaign.
One week from next Thursday night the
Populists will formally open the campaign
by mass-meetlng at the Tabernacle, at
which all the candidates will be present.
After that meetings will be held In every
ward. 1t has been arranged to provide a
glee club which, together with the candi-
dates. will 60 around in covered wagon to
hold street meetings.
The Democratic City Central Committee
will hold meeting at j. w. Laymance's
Office tomorrow evening to arrange for
opening the campaign with mass-meetlng,
and the Republicans will make similar ar
rangements this week.
Major Waters, the giant cOlOred chimney
sweep, who is becoming known as the DR..
O'Donnell Of Oakland. Is out as an indie
pendent candidate for Councilman-at-lsrge.
The major is circulating his own petition
and has obtained the signatures OF many
more than the necessary per cent OF
voters to It, His sole platform Is that if
the political conventions won't recognize
the colored element he will have it recog-
nZed anyhow.
tendent. has submitted his bonds with NJ.
j. Keller and Thomas Prather as surtleS
in the sum OF $1,000.
John Dietrich of Kirkham and Sixteenth
streets remarked to his wife Yesterday that
he could handle an AK better than any man
if1n no nd ham ha. ,rf I'D =
he cleared timber al 40 cents per acre back
in Ohio.
In the full confidence of his ability, Mr.
Dietrich began to split kindling with which
TO kindle the breakfast fire, and with the
third bringing down of the AK he severed
his hand. Mrs. Dietrich remarked that she
guessed her husband had better go TO the
Receiving Hospital, while she calmly pro-
ceeded with the splitting of the kindllng
herself DIR. Dunn amputated the hand.
Charles j. Prescott, paraIytic, residing
at 1920 Twelfth avenue. fell across hot
stove while alone Friday night. and his
clothing caught fire. His predicament was
discovered in time To smother the flames,
but he mad inhaled them and died soon
afterward.
Work was begun yesterday on the road
bed of the proposed electric road on Twelfth
street. west of Broadway. David Ruther-
ford is superintending the work. AS to
who Is really prosecuting it Is mystery.
though 1t Is currently believed that the
Southern Pacific Company has something to
do with II. Another statement is that j. Ii.
Henry OF San Jose and I. NJ. Smith Of Oak
land are behind the proposition. The road
will extend along the line TO Sixteenth street.
designated in the old GrOssmeyer franchise.
A Cor0ner's jury returned verdict IN tn
inquest over the body OF Jacob Sapiro, who
was killed by the San Jose local Friday,
that death was due to his own lack of eau
fIou in driving in front nf train nf
fair warning had been given By the ringing
of the bell.
1t is stated that the Koreshan iced Of
Chicago. who obtained the nucleus OF his
peculiar religious following in Oakland, Is
about 10 return 20 this city, after having
been driven from Chicago. A number of
husbands are awaiting his arrival.
Officer O'Hare found a woman's hat in
the creek at Twelfth street and Twenty
third avenue yesterday containing locks Of
dark brown hair and portions of marriage
certificate torn 20 pieces, bearing the names
of Bella Robinson and d. C. Marsh. and
dated In Boston January 10, minus the
name OF the year. There was cut in the
hat, apparently with an ak or Ratchet. The
police regard 1t as important find. but are
unable to find any facts to form theory
concerning II.
Sydney. the famous stallion belonging to
the estate CT the late Count Guili0 Valensin,
was shipped from the Pleasanton stud farm
to New York yesterday. he will be sold at
public auction.
The dispute Of Firm d. Kinds and Emily
,. Smith and her divorced husband, Du Ray
Smith, about land in Berkeley Township
has been settled by compromise. Smith
and Kinds were partners in the ranch, and
part Of ii has been decided 10 Kinds in
settlement
Wong Wee, one OF the three San Fran
cisco highbinders who assaulted An Gin
and his wife. of OAK land, robbing them of
&c., has been held 10 answer before the
Superior Court In the sum of $4,000.