The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-31
BARKEEPER NOW.
Has All Ci1urCh'S Gold
Melted ?
MARRIAGE WAS A FAILURE.
Judge Allen Hunting a News
paper Man.
NON PARTISAN ENTHUSIASM.
The Affianced of Caroline Tennis
VIII Be Far Away From
fier Funeral.

OAKLAND.-The filing of a deed yester-
day i'll the Hall of Records in Oakland
and San Francisco recalls to memory the
marital trials and lribulations of John
Henry Church, who kept the newspapers
filed with his family affairs for long
period year or two since.
The document is a transfer of real estate
from john Henry and Laura Julia Church
10 Samuel NJ. Archer of Salinas. Monterey
County. The descriptions of property IN
clude some valuable holdings in Brooklyn
and Eden townships, and is supposed to
be the last of the handsome fortune once
possessed by the man of many wives.
The property is described in the deed as
follows:
six acres, beginning at a point six inches Sc
from the Sc corner of blacksmith's shop owned
by George " Gibn. OH the SW line of the
county ROAD. Oaka nd 10 San Leandro, Sc 1.51
chains, SW 49, 90 chains. NV 4.S5 chains, NE
1910 chains. Sc 3.77 chains, NE 5.13 chains,
Brooklyn Township.
One acre adjoining the Halfway House
Tract and incloSure on the county road. be-
tween San Antonio ana San Leaudro, bounded
on Ihe w by lands Of h. G. Warren. n by the
county road and fronting $50 feet on the same
and running back the same width so as 10 in
clude one acre, Brooklyn TOWNSHIP.
Four hundred and three ana hfty-fye one
hundredths acres, beginning at stake marked
al No :" which bears Sc 96S chains from
Sc corner main old wire fence around Castro
Valley, NE Is chains. NE 4712 chains, Sc
42O6 chains, SW 1888 chains, W down ravine
10 stake marked H" NE 34.15 chains 10 be-
ginning. Eden Township.
Beginning at intersection OF SW line OF San
Antonio aud san Leandro road With Sc line OF
Henry street, SW 1926, 81 200, NE 140. NV
200, lots 10 Z. block 8. Fitchburg Homestead
lots, Brooklyn Township
1860 acres beginning ar point in \ line
of road to San Leandro III \ w corner OF Wise
III n
NV 32.77 chaius to Sc corner of Gull Tract.
NV 1886 chauS, Sc 1892 chains 10 begin
ming, Eden Township.
Lot on w line of Fruitvale avenue, rs Of
sixteenth (MOnrOe). 24:S by w 125. except
ing the Z feet thereof reserved for additional
sidewalk. portion of lot 3, block B. Church
Tract, Brooklyn Township.
Lot on n Z corner of East Sixteenth and How.
aid streets, n 1886 by 245, Church Tract
Lot on SW line OF East Twenty second street.
1879 81 OF Nineteenth avenue. Sc 63:9 by
SW 14O, lots 6, 2. and portion OF lot 8, block
6S, northern addition 10 Brooklyn, East Oak
land.
All of blocks A, and C, Monte Vista Tract,
except lots 4 TO and "a, block c. said tract
Brooklyn Township; also property in Contra
Costa County; SO.
The consideration for the above valuable
lot of property is only so, and friend of
Church said yesterday that his impression
was that the land was turned over TO
Archer to offset a mortgage the latter
holds on several hundred acres of beauti-
tul land belonging to Church, OF once be-
longing to Church, in the Salinas Valley.
Be that as il may it is certain that
Church has been almost bankrupted
through bis wiveS-Just how many be has
had not one of his friends Will venture to state
and that In letting loose of these SPLENDID
Alameda County holdings he has left the shady
side OF Easy street and is trying TO make liV-
ing for himself and another wife in little sa-
Coon business AT 1o5 Powell street, where the
eign Whitney & Church adOrns the front.
j Church mpnTiOnpn with
Henry in the deed Is said to be the first wife
and The woman who bore INN the children
bearing his name. She Jared we'll in property
matters when the Church matters first came
before the public III her suit for divorce ana a
share of community property. Another wife,
The fifth or sixth, 1t IS not certain which now,
also obtained a huge slice of Church property,
aud between alimoDy and lawyers fees The
once wealthy old man is now behind the
counter IN a small barroom mixing drinks for
thirsty people.
The Chiefs Report.
In his report on the charge OF drunkenness of
certain hremen AT the burning of ST. Mary's
College Chief Lawton of the Fire Department
had considerable TO say TO the Board of Fire
commissioners last night lie said ''the fire.
men brayely threw themselves into the burn
ing building. and l desire TO especially COM
mend their bravery and fOrtitude under the
condition of affairs. Many of them were hurt,
as the reports Of the various fremeD VIII show,
one or Two being quite seriously Injured. But
at no time did any man 10 the department leave
his post until he was ordered TO DO so. desnii e
had been several hours under the terrible
strain on the third and fourth stories of the
building
Before the fire was under control I learned
incidentally that tile cellar of the building had
been broken into and that wine, among other
things, was being taken therefrOm. / saw per-
sons carrying materials from The cellar moi
members of the department. and among the
materials taken out were bottles, and they
were carried away. do not know where II
would have been difficult for any of the fire
men, other than trnckmen, TO have been given
liquor by any one Will Oh duty without its
being observed by the officers as we'll aslhe
general public"
The Chief then refers to the reports made to
him Oh the subject by the foremen of the de-
partment.
First Assistant Doody reports: 81 desire TO
state that the only fireman saw under the in
tuence of liquor that night was Thomas Keat.
log. foreman OF hose company 3. | placed the
foreman OF engine 2 IN charge OF his COM
pany."
OF this the Chief saws: "Nr. Keatine was
not on duty at the time OF the fire and had in
place a competent substitute and was under
leave OF absence from the department al The
time OF the lire by reason of Sickness"
Second Assistant hurdOck reports: lone
foreman and three eXtramen were under the
lD1ueDce OF liquor at the aforementioned fire.
The Chief says: accompanying Murdoch :
report you VIII find the names of the men that
we're Intoxicated; Jim Shean, extraman, truck
3; William Hurl. extraman, truck 1; Thomas
Dolan, truck /; John Dolan, extraman truck 2,
"From the report Of First Assistant Doody
John Doian was not reported intoxicated and
placed
Doan as foreman IN charge OF hose 3, where he
says he found Mr.. Heating under the influence
of liquor. You will notice the evident conflicf
between the TWO reports"
Foreman of truck 3.reports to he Chief as
follows: Il noticed only one OF my m-n under
the influence OF liquor, aud at 30 time was he
rendered unit for duty but ia fact remained
through The night and rendered good service
] refer 10 EXtraman L. j. Shean Mr. Sbean
was not feeling well when lie respond d 10 the
= alarm. In a short time after arriving on inc
ground he, as well as all my men, was soaking
wet. Some one of the numerous spectators
gave him some liquor. / do not think thar he
had more than two or three drinks but hi.
stomach was OUT OF order, and lie had breaihed
in some smoke and the liquor took more elJecl
than it otherwise would, and for short Time
EXtraman Shean was 4 little groggy."
The Chief calls attention 10 the conflict q
reports ana concludes by stating that he j:
10 warrant taking action against any OF TN
1oremen. he asks that time and place b.
fixed for making a fuller inquiry.
An Angry Judge.
Police Judge j. j. Allen was about town yes
terday, looking for the imam who wrote tina
article" with blood In his judicial optic. TIT
Judge had been written W as going bail for
former empIoye of the Oakland Pound. Matt
land Westland by name, who had bern accused
of breaking a mirror, valued 1T 500. In
saloon, and who was locked up on charge 0
malicious mischief
Westland laid one DAY 10 jail, so the Judg
saws when one of his friends, a man named
Frank Dalton, went to Allen and wanted TO pu
up bonds for the release OF his friend But thu
gkara