The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-03-03
NEXT FEBRUARY.
The New Water Company
Files a Contract.
Ethel Smiths Guardian-The Matf-
eDy se-HandbalI Tourra-
ment Postponed.

OAKLAND.-The contract between the
Oakland Water Company and Francis
Smith & Co. of San Francisco for the lay
Ing of pipe from Alvarado to Twenty-ttlird
avenue was fled yes erday. The company
is to pay 20 I er cent Of the value of the
work done and certified 10 by the engineer
each month. The balance will be paid on
satisfactory completion Of the work.
Everything must be finished by February
1, 1895.
The contract is accompanied by bond
in S23. 000 20 which Frederick w. G. Moe
bus and Bert G. Geotz are sureties.
Moore's Friends Object.
The friends of T. a. Moore. the method
ical old Scotchman who accumulated a
small fortune in Oakland, willed it to
Bridget Larsen. his nurse. and real es-
tate agent named Albert Schmidt, and then
started for his old home only to step of the
steamer at Mazatlan to die, are up in arms
over the matter of the disposition of bis
money.
Moore was a prominent member of st.
Andrews Society. The members cared
for him faithfully while he was 10 the
hospital He was often treated TO delica-
eies taken TO his bedside by his ST. Andrew
friends, and on one occasion Moore remarked
to d member of the society:
81 am not going TO forget the st. Andrews
Socieiy L have no relatives or friends out
here, only those IN the society, and when make
my will / VIII not forget them. The society
shall have large part OF my estate and shall
see to IT,"
Friends of the deceased are now making eff
forts TO locate MOore's relatives, of whom there
are supposed 10 be several in The old country.
An answer was filed yesterday by executor
Schmidt 10 The complaint of DIR. A. 5. Childs,
who asks for $3.50 for medical services rem
dered Moore. The answer denies all The allie
n Ia m N n me
The Pratt Estate.
f. l.. Campbell guardian Of the estate OF
Annie NJ. Pratt and Orve c. Pratt. minors,
filed an inventory yesterday of The property
belonging 10 his charges. According 10 this
document The grandfather, Orville c. Pratt de-
Vised TO the mother OF these children a b II IN
ferest in The property at Frultvale and $40
acres OF land in Butte County, IN trust for
them. The income To be theirs UNTIL at the age
Of 25. they shall attain absolute possession.
trust was created TO run seven years, after
which one-quart of the residue of the estate
shall 20 to these two minors
On the IS ult. the grandmother Annie NJ.
Pratt, died IN Los Angeles. leaving an estate
valued at 100000. Her Will was fled yesier-
day, and showed that one half OF The residue OF
her estate, left after requests amounting to
S225000 have been deducted, was left to the
Iather OF these two Children, who is now dead.
ICcy &. GoOdspeed, daughter OF Annie NJ.
Pratt, has applied for special letters of admin
1stTatlon.
sensational Charges.
Attorney Hayford of San Francisco pre-
secuted petition yesterday for the removal of
Lu Wheat Smith guardian OF Ethel Gray
Smith. The petition was signed by Ethel Gray
Smith. In IL she cooily charges her mother
with being $500 short in her accounts and with
having sold her (EthePs) piano for $500 aud
mlsappTopriaied The proceeds.
The date of the Unauthorized sale OF the
piano is sci down as about January !, 1893.
The other moneys Incorporated were from
the estate OF Thomas Il. Smith for the peti.
toner's support and were taken without
The Laws Defied.
The friends OF Louis Matheny. whose second
trial for the murder OF Police Officer Cashn VIII
begin two weeks from next Tuesday. are JUDI
Inended by the Grand Jury for prosecution fol
contempt Of court and yet ne goes scot free
for the reason that no one can be found who
will swear TO the facts against him.
A Tournament Postponed.
The Acme-Olympic series in the athletic
inter-ciub bandbal tournament which WIS Il
have been played last night at the Acme court
was postponed inde6nit ly owing to injuries
sustained by Nealon OF the Oiymplcs In prac
tlce game yesterday.
Freak of Fortune.
From Mount Eden comes the news that An
tone Cbeyio. who has been working 10 the Call
fornia Salt Works al SO month and food ant
lodging has fallen heir to S40,O 900 by the dealt
of brother in New York.
In February 998 men were given beds at tn
City PrIson-an average of thirty-hye eacl
night.
Mrs. Luella Cool, the divorced wife OF DENTS
Cool, has given notice hat she will move for
modific ton OF the alimoDy judgment, and tha
DR.. Cool be required to pay her $50 per month
The cost of educating her daughter, Decka Cool
The motion will come up March IL.
Jennie IDskeeD has been granted a divorc
from John Inskeep on the ground of Degec
and desertion. She is awarded the minor cbiIt
Maude. and allowed TO tase her maiden name
Jennie Dores Anna S. X. Goerner is ais
allowed divorce from II. n. e. Goerner on tn
cronnd of cruelty The minor child, Henry
was given the mother.
The Star Fruit and Transportation Compan
has been Incorporated with capital stock c
S2,O0O, 600, for lie purpose OF carrying on
transportation business in cold storage.