The morning call., 1894-08-24
EUGENE'S ESTATE.
A Murphy Will Probated
in Oakland.
SEWERS OF SAN LEANDRO.
Private Contractors Make a Re-
muneratiVe Deal.
WHICH ANNOYED THE PEOPLE.
Divorce Courts Across the Bay Afford
Food for Gossip Notes From
Berkeley and Alameda.

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work OF laying lateral sewers TO connect
with it. Then came floCking in the pri
Vate sewer contractor, and with an array
of figures and smooth words he convinced
the San LeaDdrans that they could have
the work put in much more reasonable by
private contract than by having the work
advertised and openly bid on, that the cost
of advertising alone would be more than
the cost of the work. The private con-
tractors got the work. and according to
reports the citizens had to pay $4,000 for
| 500 worth Of advertising.
| At the last meeting OF the Board of
! Town Trustees taxpayer made the state
ment that propeTty-Owuers in districts
| where lateral sewers were being run were
| being swindled out OF $4,000. as they were
| paying that sum in addition 10 what the
work should cost, and this taXrayer de-
manded that the trustees put stop to the
work as at present being done.
These figures will show why San Lee
andre people are protesting vigorously.
10 Berkeley the average cost of $50 liueal
feet OF 6-lnch sewer was 30 cents under
the law, while in San Leandro he cost by
private contract was 60 cents; the cost Of
1913 feet of S-iDch sewer in Berkeley was
but61 cents, while in San Leandro the cost
would be 70 cents, though the depth of the
Berkeley sewers is double those in San
LeaDdrO.
Ii is estimated that there are 1900 feet
OF lateral sewerage TO be put down in San
Leandro, and the oyerchaTge of 90 cents
per foot would bring the price paid to the
private contractor up to $1,000 more than if
the Work was done under the law.
Who Is Most to Blame?
When a. w. Neame of Alameda caused
his 14.year-Old son Charles to be confined
in the County Jail last Thursday and made
an application for his commitment to a
reform school he poked into a hornets
nest. The father says he cannot control
his son. whose faults he charges are swim
ming. train-JuDpiDg, an incurable preiu-
dice against school and the reading of
story books. Mr.. Neame works in a mill,
and Mrs. Neame, who belongs 10 the Sal
walton Army. makes bread, which is taken
out and sold by her children.
1t is charged that the parents have been
most brutal to him, inasmuch as they are
credited with having tied his feet and
hands ana beaten him with a strap.
AT the County Jail the boy said yester-
day that be worked in planing-mill until
he broke his arm. lie has gone to both
day and night schools and has mastered
humans first book in shorthand writing.
The stoIy-bOoks the father objected TO
were those OF Optic, Henley and Dickens.
The case is being investigated by Mrs
5. Z. Sanford of the Humane Society.
Inc curse OF Dr. MOOD.
The curse of the late DR.. j. w. Hood of
Livermore has been recalled by a failure
of life and annuity association in which
he was insured for $1,000.
Mrs. Hood, who died some time before
ner husband, was at one time tried for
cruelty 10 d child who lived in the family
The charge was pushed against her, but
she was acquitted and the death followed
not very long afterward.
DR.. Hood always maintained that her
death had been caused by worry, result
iUg from her arrest and trial, and the vim
dictiveness of her prosecutors, and when
his will was read after his death. il was
found that in il be bitterly denounced and
cursed all those who had taken part in the
proceedings against his wife.
He beQueated half of his life insurance
to +. j. Hassler. but the legal techuicalities
connected with the prObating of a will had
not been entirely complied with when the
insurance concern failed. Hoods legacy
was rendered as valueess as the paper of
the insurance policy.
Lopez Married Life.
Very serious indeed are the charges put
forth by Manuel NJ. Lopez OF Haywards
against his vile and brother In his answer
TO the complaint of his wife, Anna J.
Lopez, who Is asking a divorce from
Lopez
In his answer Lopez makes denial of all
the serious charges specifically mentioned
by his wife. lie denies lat he drinks TO
excess or that ever ill-treated Mrs. Lopez.
He says that he did not, on August 10.
1892, or at any other time, push her down
violently, or that on February is. 1894, that
he threw vegetables into her face and
abused her, or that at any time he called
his wife or her mother vile names He
denied that he ever threatened his wife 10
leave her aud go to Livermore, there to
dwell with Mexican women.
Lopez says that he is not worth $1,000. as
his wife states, but that his property is
not valued at more than $500, ana all this
he needs to keep his business going.
In closing his answer Lopez makes
some exceedingly sensational charges
against his wife. He says they have been
married eighteen years and have seven
children. and that up to two months ago
they lived happily together, and since
that time he believes his wife has been iu-
innate with this brother, Antonio TOsta,
who. Lopez alleges, Is the rightful father
of these children.
Eugene Murphy's VIII Probated.
The Union Trust Company of San
Francisco has been granted letters of adj
ministration upon the estate of the late
Eugene h. l.. Murphy, whose will was ad-
mitted to probate upon the testimony of
Victor Metealf by Judge Henshaw yes
teTday,
The estimated value of the estate, ex-
q
tate of his mother, Anna l.. Murphy, is
$3.50, 000 and il yields annually a net in
come of $1,000. The interest of the de-
ceased in the mothers estate Is subject to
the decision of the Supreme Court. to
which tribunal it was taken by the Muir
ply girls after the decision of Judge Hen
shaw. Their appeal will be heard on the
29sh inst.
Somewhat Intricate.
c. W. Thompson of Alameda began a
peculiar suit against Martin Pennock yes
terday. Two years ago the former pur.
chased from the latter certain property in
Alameda. for which he was to pay $3.50 in
lnstallments. Last month, when Thomp-
son had paid S235. the house was burned
to the ground, and according to the plain
TIT Pennoek, who held an Insurance policy
for 500, pocketed the insurance. ThOmp-
son demanded the money, but Pennock
refused, and now the former maintains
that either the money he has paid on the
| property be returned OF else that Pennock
rebuild the house or pay $500, the equiva-
| lent
Daughters Want Their Legacy.
The two daughters of the late E. w.
Playter, ex-MayOr of Oakland, yesterday
applied for the distribution of their
fathers estate. The estate consists of ten
shares of stock in the Oakland Bank of
Savings,twenty shares in the Pacific Surety