The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-25
HISTORY OF A DAY.
Alameda County Happenings Told in
Brief Chauters

Brief Chapters.
The Salvation Army will open the Peoples
Theater tonight.
The Board of Equalization completed the
hearing OF testimony last night.
Congressman Mcguire will address the
seventh Ward politicians tonight at East
Oakland.
Little is being talked of at the Acme Club
save their ten-mile bicycle race to come off
next Sunday.
j. F. Turner, the real estate man who was ar
rested in San Francisco Tuesday night, has a
record in Alameda County.
The Alameda County sportsmen's Club has
ananooneo I'VE pigeon shooting and will here
after confine itself to "bluerocks.'
The Public Administrator has applied for
letters upon the estate of Catherine Mann, con-
sisting of ranch near Haywards, valued at
$40, 900.
On Sunday, August 4, the Crescent Athletic
Cup VIII hold mile bicycle race at the Oak
land Trotting Park TO determine the champion
ship of the club.
An Indian squaw eloped from the Mission
tuesday night with another Indian. The hus-
band has been advised by the District Attor-
ney to apply for a divorce.
The University boathouse is now completed,
ana though 1T is not as elegant as the one that
was burned, the boys will make it do until a
better one can be constructed.
Supervisor Johnston essayed to mount q
wheel few nights ago. He fell off the wheel
ana has since been wearing a bandage on his
wrist he will try again shortly.
The Crescent Athletic Club is now fully in
stalled In its coy quarters, and athletics are
booming. Especially so is the cycling annex,
which is full Of life and enterprise.
Henry Marley the evangelist, will hold q
series of revival meetings in Alameda. The
meetings viii be held in the Linderman Opera
house and will commence next Sunday.
L. e
is gaining strong hold in Oakland. Every
day the courts of the Lakeside Club are full
and frequently some exciting matches are
played.
The Board of Works met yesterday afternoon
as commissioners for the extension of Castro,
Linden and Seventeenth streets to the water
front. Nothing was done beyond formally or
ganizing.
The Committee on Classification of the Board
OF Education will hold meeting this evening
in order to prepare report on the assignment
of teachers for the ensuing term, which begins
next Monday.
Mary Mccullough, whose husband, E. Nc
CuIlough, is suing for divorce on the ground
of desertion, has been living at Seattle. 1t is
not likely that she will come to Oakland to
contest the suit.
The will of Mary Lebrecht who died on July
in San Francisco. was filed for probate in the
County Clerks Office yesterday morning. The
devisees are her husband, Walter Lebrecht,
and three minor children.
Already the Reliance boys have begun to
talk football. When the season is fairly COM
menced the Glee Club that has been idle so
long will be organized to help to defray the ex-
penses of keeping team in the field.
The most interesting event for the imme-
date future in yachting circles is the second
club race of the California Yacht Club to take
place next Sunday. In reality this is the clubs
annual regatta. The Hammersmith trophy
will be the prize.
protest has been filed with the City Clerk
against the sidewalking of East Twelfth street,
between Thirteenth and Sixteenth avenues, on
the ground that it would be useless TO make
Improvements until after the Commerce street
matter is settled.
Supervisors Bailey and Church, who have
been interviewed by representatives of the
Good Reads Association, do not subscribe to
the idea that the red rock found in the Coyote
Hills, near Newark, will make the model
streets and country roads
During the week statements have appeared
in some of the papers to the effect that an
effort was being made to unite the Acme and
Reliance Athletic clubs, but as yet no steps
have been taken in that direction, and there
does not seem to be any prospect OF their
union in the immediate future.