The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-28
FIGHTING FACTIONS FORMED.
The Deadly Trolley Kills Two
Fine Horses.
A NARRoW-GAUGE MOLE SOON.
Assessor-EIect Dalton Has Selected
A. c. Richards to Be His
Chief Deputy.

OAKLAND.-There is a political fight on
in colored circles that threatens to divide
the colored people in Oakland into two
factions; and it is not to stop
with the colored people who vote, it seems,
tor it permeates into every household. and
is common talk about every fresde and
home circle of colored people.
1t is the fight between Thomas Pierson,
the colored Republican Demosthenes. and
Horace Wilds, the son of the janitor of the
City Hall, for the position of janitor of
the Sacramento Capitol building. which
place is in the gift of Secretary of State
elect Brown.
Both sides have presented strong peti
tons for the place. while the colored mans
taken up the fight against Mr.. PiersOn.
To offset this the Oakland Guide. con-
Quoted by G. E. Watkins, has taken up the
cudgel for Plerson. and raps j. b. Wilson,
the editor of the Elevator, over the
knuckles.
John A. Wilds, who is making the fight
for Horace Wilds. says he did not taxi. a
against the appointment of Pierson. but
he adds: about two weeks ago petit
ton was sent up to Mr.. Brown at Sacra-
mento asking for his appointment 1t was
signed by Mayor Pardee, V. d. Moody,
City Attorney John on, w. K. Davis, E.
c. Sessions, r. w. Snow and other prom
inent citizens of the county. We did not
jump in at the last moment, as it might
appear. and try TO defeat Mr.. Person"
n. W. Spauding jr. has been appointed
a deputy clerk by County Clerk Crane. it
is understood, to learn the routine IN De-
parlment 3, where he will serve under
Clerk Jordan after January 1.
Too ta6
as having been Ousted from the presidency
of the Third Ward Republican Club. He
is so mad over the report that he can hardly
contain himself and comes back hard In a
local paper at Colonel Dan Mullins, VINO IS Sald
to be CHIEFLY instrumental in having him
turned out
Death in the Trolley.
Lester NJ. Hayden. driver for the Oakland
Creamery, knows now just what the power OF
electricity is. He has not been investigating
at al, but he passed tnrouh an experience YES
terday morning that caused him considerable
surprise, 10 say The least, and the same expert
ence cost the milk company by which he Is en-
ployed valuable team OF horses.
Ii was A. NJ, a dark and rainy morning,
and Driver Hayden was swinging along at a
good gait on Madison street. He had reached
Eleventh street, where the Alameda Electric
road uns, when just as he started across The
street bOIh horses fell as il shot. One Of them
lay perfectly still, and the other struggled a
brief moment, when be, too, expired.
The outfit came to d very sudden halt and In
the nalf-light The driver saw his team on the
ground and both horses lying as though ad
So sudden was il that he could not make out
what was the trouble. Then III looking little
more closely he discovered wire running
down between tile two animals and TO the
round from somewhere above. On examina-
ton be found that the wire was across and
lying on the electric road trolley wire. In mo-
ment he understood IL all. His team had been
struck by lightning and the proprietor Of the
milk depot, John A. Bliss, was out round
$500.
IL appears that during the storm OF the night
before an old unused telephone wire which al
one time did duty between WOolsey's Hospital
and Chabot House had fallen across the trolley
wire and to the ground and The damp morning
being prOpiliOus had become thoroughly
charged with the deadly fluid and quie y lay in
wait for victim The great wonder is that the
driver also had not been caught by the wire,
touch OF which would have killed him.
At this point the electric company has NJ