The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
BERKELEY.

The Board of Town Trustees held its
meeting on Friday evening.
President 2. r. Boone OF the Board of
Education was granted permission to pur-
chase a lot at the corner of Rose and
Milvia streets, for S1100, upon which the
Rose-street schoolhouse should be moved.
The report OF the License Committee
recommended that all free licenses now
held be revoked on or before January 1,
1896, and that solicitors licenses be raised
from s. to $13 quarter.
The West Berkeley Gazette filed bonds
for the faithful execution of the town
printing contract, with j. B. Mcintyre
and |. Zellerbach of San Francisco as
sbreties.
Bills to the amount of $3.50 81 were
ordered paid
The liquor license question was brought
up, and it was decided that the original
rdinance requiring fee of $50 from all
saloon men be enforced at.once.
a resolution was adopted declaring all
orders purporting to grant liquor licenses
to j. B. Cassabone, Frank Gimbel, Charles
Peterson, Eli Guiterre, III. DagaS, c. e..
Wulferding. H. Peters, D. II. BRUINS, John
Weiman, Nammany & Sim and H. Oster-
man null and void.
Yesterday morning, acting under the in
structions Of the board, the Marshal noti-
fed certain saloon men that he would re-
fuse them licenses as applied for under the
500 law, and would arrest all who refused
to make application at once under the
original 5000 ordinance.
1t was ordered that the Town Marshal
notify the holders of the void licenses !;
also to inform other persons to whom
licenses were ordered issued that they are
now selling liquor without licenses.
The men thus notified utterly refused to
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of the injustice and illegality OF the new
ordinance.
The men who refused to obey the man.
date of the Marshal are: Messrs. linda.
Landregan, O'Brien, Hirschtield, Higgins
and Duggan.
If they do not comply with the orders of
the board before tomorrow morning, they
Marshal take his course, and are prepared
to fight the matter in the courts.
The question OF licenses has been pend
ing for several months past, and both the
town and the saloon men have been put to
considerable expense without reaching any
amicable settlement. and it would now
seem that there would be lively time in
the courts before conclusion as to the
legality of asking another 500 from men
who had already held licenses for which
they paid at the rate OF 500 year
Wedding OF Deaf Mutes.
A rather unusual wedding will take
place to-day at the residence OF Mr.. and
Mrs. e. 7. Harms, on Fairview street,
Harry Raymond and Miss Dorothy West
pbal, both deaf and dumb mutes, being the
contracting parties.
The couple have been deaf and dumb
since their birth and it will be necessary to
perform the wedding ceremony by means
of sign-language. Only few of the most
intimate friends have been invited.
The Fourth of July.
The citizens of Berkeley, in accordance
with request from Oakland that all citi-
zens OF Alameda County participate in
celebrating the Nations birthday in that
city, have decided to accept the invitation.
Crescent Club Run.
About twenty members of the Crescent
Bicycle Club will take run to Oak Grove
this morning under the leadership of Cap
tain Putzker.