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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
W KEELING ESTATE SUED,
The Widow Claimed to Have
Transferred Property She
Did Not Own.
Heringhi Endorsed a Note and Now
Wants Land Decided Back
as Security.

The estate of William Kreling of Tivoi
fame is placed in the peculiar position of
having transferred property worth $4,000, to
which it is said to have no claim, to per-
son asserted to be equally as unentitled
thereto.
AS the natural result of this singular
condition of affairs the original and pre-
sumably real owner of the property has
instituted proceedings to regain possession
of his own.
The plaintiff in the case is Aaron Herin-
ghi and the defendants are Thomas Nc
Gowan and Ernestine Kreling, executrix
OF the estate of William Kreling. In the
latter part of April, 1898. MCGOWAN had
business with man named John Conley.
Conley gave the former note in the sum
OF $3.50 for attorneys fees. Being friend
OF William Kreling and Heringhi Conley
went to the former and asked him to
indorse the note
Mr.. Kreling agreed to do so, according
to the complaint, if Heringhi would deed
him (Kreling) the property in question as
security for his Endorsement. Heringhi,
believing the note would be Endorsed when
presented, executed the required deed.
Afterward Kreling, for some reason un.
explained. declined to indorse the note.
Heringhi not knowing that Kreling had
refused to indorse the note made no appli-
cation for the return and cancellation OF
the deed.
After Kreling's death in December, 1898,
his widow discovered the deed among his
papers. 1t was then, so the plaintiff
asserts, that McGowan went to Mrs. Krel-
ing and represented that the deed was
given to secure the note and if the latter
was not paid the deed was to be transferred
to him. Mrs. Krelling thereupon trans
ferred the property to McGowan, and now
Heringhi, having learned that Kreling
did not indorse the note for $3.50 and was
never liable or responsible for the pay
ment thereof. wants to get his $4,000 prop
erty back. N. H. McPike and A. Ruef
are bringing the suit.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
A sAORILEGIoUs THIEF.
He Robs the Poor Boxes in the Roman
Catholic Churches.

BE Robs the Poor Boxes in the Roman
Catholic Churches.
A sneakthief is devoting his attention to
the Roman Catholic churches in the City,
and has been mean enough to rob the boxes
for contributions to the poor and needy.
In the latter part of last week he at
tempted to open the poor-box in st. Pc
ter's Church, on Alabama street. He had
evidently been scared away, as in his hurry
be had broken the false key in the lock and
had dropped Jimmy" and other tools
on the floor, where they were found.
About two weeks ago a pewter vessel and
a brass ornament were stolen from St.
Ignatius Church. 1t is supposed the thief
had thought he had got hold of silver
vessel and gold ornament, and when he
found his mistake he threw them into
the brush near the top of Hayes street.
They were found there by man yesterday
morning and taken to police headquarters
The police have been endeavoring to find
the thief, but SO far without success.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
THE CORTE MADEIRA GRANT
District Attorney Foote In
structed to Investigate
Alleged Frauds.
j. S. MCUE THE COMPLAINANT.
All Innocent Purchasers Of the
Lands Will Be Protected by
Uncle Sam.

The old Corte de MADEIRA land grant is to
be investigated by United States District
Attorney Foote. Instructions to that effect
were received from acting Attorney-Gen-
eral Whitney yesterday, and no time was
lost in sending word to ]. S. McCue at his
home in Corte MADEIRA to come to the Dis
trict Attorneys Office and tell all he knows
about the old grant that was issued by
Secretary Teller during President Arthur's
administration.
The patent to this grant covers Point
Tburon, the terminus of the San Francisco
and North Pacific Railway, Belvedere, all
the land running overas far as California
City, and also that running up to and be-
yond Reeds station on the San Francisco
and North Pacific line.
Some time ago suit was brought to set
aside the grant on the ground of fraud,
but later it was discontinued. Morris NJ.
Estee was the special counsel employed,
and he, after careful consideration of the
matter came to the conclusion that nearly
all, if not all of the present owners of the
land were innocent holders and that their
claims had been allowed by the United
States courts. Mr.. Estee is of the opinion
that fraud was used In securing the grant,
but could not see his way to proceed with
the matter.
When McCue was in Washington, about
a year ago, he drew the attention of the
Government to the existing state of affairs.
Nothing was done, and then he wrote to
the Attorney-General, asking that suit
be instituted by the Government to vacate
the patent. 1t is this letter and another
telling him to take whatever steps he may
think proper that were received from
acting Acknowledgement Whitney by the
District Attorney yesterday.
eyes, / want Mr.. McCue to call upon me
as soon as possible, said District Attorney
Foote yesterday. 81 want him to give me
all the information in his possession, and
if there is any case l viii ask for special
counsel and proceed with the matter
There seems to be no doubt but what the
original patent was obtained by fraud, but
it Will be hard TO prove that in the case of
the present holders. | have talked over
the matter with Mr.. Estee and he says
that there is no case unless we can prove
that certain holders are in possession by
fraud.
What we will have to do in the first
place then is to discover who are in pos
session knowing that q fraud had been
perpetrated when they secured the land.
If we can find any such L will at once be-
gin an action for the vacating of the
patent. 1 will probably be able to make
move in day or two when | have had
conference with Mr.. McCue."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
ARRESTED BY A WOMAN.
Mrs. M. A. Arnold Follows and
Captures James Brennan,
an Old Man.
She Charges Him With Being I'M
plicated in the Stealing OF
Her Purse.

Mrs. M. A. Arnold, who had her purse
containing $40 stolen from her pocket
while entering the Grand Southern Hotel
on Seventh and Mission streets last Tues
day morning, has proved to be a woman of
nerve and determination.
Two young men and an old man were
suspected of being concerned in the theft.
The old man ran down Seventh to Minna
with crowd after him till he was cap
tured by Special Officer Mclaughlin. He
was taken before Mrs. Arnold and she
identified him, but the crowd ieere d so
badly at Mclaughlin that he allowed the
old man to go.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Arnold was
walking along Market street, between
Third and Fourth, when she saw the old
man. She determined to have him ar
rested, and followed close behind him. He
turned down Fifth street and went into
saloon. She patiently waited till he came
out and followed him along Market to
Sixth, down Sixth and back again to Mar
ket, and along Market to City Hall avenue.
While on his trail she told about dozen
different men that the old man had stolen
her purse and asked them to arrest him,
but they paid no attention to her. She
became desperate and at City Hall avenue
she went up to the old man and politely
asked him if he remembered her losing
her purse. He reluctantly admitted that
he did.
'Well, now" said Mrs. Arnold, "there is
man in Chief Crowley's office that I
think stole my purse, and you would
oblige me greatly by going there with me
to see if YOU can identity him.
The old man demurred, but she talked
to him SO pleasantly that he finally con-
scented. AS they were walking along the
corridor to the Chiefs office they met De-
tectives Dillon and Crockett, and Mrs.
Arnold told the detectives to place the old
man under arrest. The detectives have
been working on the case, and they
promptly took the old man to the City
Prison and booked him on the charge of
grand larceny. He gave the name of
James Brennan and his occupation Ia
borer. He denied having had anything to
do with the stealing of the purse, but
blamed the two young men. One of them,
Harry J. Lockwood, was arrested last
Thursday, and Mrs. Arnold expressed her
determination to arrest the other young
man whenever she sees him.
Lockwood dec lares that he is innocent.
He states that he saw one of the thieves
throw the purse into yard and he went
after it and returned it to Mrs. Arnold.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
LABOR BUREAUS WORK.
Special Railroad Rates for
Men Sent Into the
Country.
Sacramento Is Driving Out the
Hobos and Ordering San Fran
cisco Laborers.

Within the past ten days the States
Free Labor Bureau has furnished employ
ment to $50 people. Yesterday was the
busiest day that the employees of the
bureau have experienced since this depart
ment has been opened. A special car with
fifty grape-pickers was sent to the raisin
vineyards in Fresno County. The car was
in charge of J. J. Tobin Jr., son of ex-
Labor Commissioner Tobin. On Septem-
Der and two more carloads of fifty men
each will be sent to the same district.
Sato, the Japanese contractor of Pleas
anton, is out of employment. The bureau
has sent about 200 hop-pickers to the yards
of the Pleasanton alameda County, Hop
Company, where Sato was once the chief
of the laborers. The white hop-pIckers will
be provided with board and lodging in
tents for 80 cents day by the Corpora
tive Commonwealth.
D. P. burst of Wheatland has ordered
forty hop-pickers to harvest his crop. In
speaking of the class of people who are
applying for work in the hopyards, Labor
Commissioner Fitzgerald said:
It is better lot of people than ever went to
the hopyards before so lar as can learn. Whole
families are asking for Il chance to secure this
kind of work Besides being able to earn good
wages at easy work 1t gives them a chance to
have an outing in the country that they could
not otherwise afford, for they will take tents
and camp out. In the hop districts the weather
is always fine, and hop-picking is a sort of pic
mic. There are number Of schoolteachers
who are out of work asking for places in the
hopyards Many clerks also desire to get this
kind OF work.
Within the past few days many orders
for skilled laborers have been received
from people in Oregon, which shows that
the bureau is becoming known outside of
the State.
curious feature has been brought to
light through the Labor Bureau. Orders
are being received from people in Sacra-
mento for help, which is scarce at the
capital At the same time the people of
Sacramento are sending to San Francisco
for workmen they are trying to make ar
rangements with the railroad company to
ship out of that city a large number of the
unemployed. This would seem strange
but for the explanation that the unem-
ployed of Sacramento are nearly all
''hobos" and tramps, who will not work if
they can help it. They clamor loudly for
work, but pray that they will not secure
any.
1t is this class that the Sacramento
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
VICTIM OF The BIG FIRE,
E. F. Steir, a Harness-Maker,
Commits Suicide in a
Lodging-HouSe.
The Brannan-Street CONFEDERATION
Had Swept Away the Accumu-
lations of Years.

The mutfled sound of pistol shot in
clearinghouse at 1923 Market street, about
$50 o'clock last evening, was the means
of disclosing the suicide of E. F. Steir,
prominent harness and saddle-maker of
514 Fourth street.
According to the story of the proprietor
of the lodging-house Steir came there at
about o'clock yesterday morning and
procured the room for the day. Nothing
more was thought of the ledger until last
evening when the shot was heard, and
upon investigation he was found sitting
on chair, both hands grasping the rungs
in a spasmodic manner. Blood was flow
ing profusely from wound in the right
side of the head. A pistol, a fve-chamber
weapon, which showed by its brightness
that it had been recently purchased, was
lying by his side with one chamber empty.
1t had been unnecessary to use more; the
first shot had done its deadly work.
Steir came to this City about twenty
years ago and started a harness-shop at
$50 Fourth street, and ultimately took A.
Weitner in as partner. They did bust
ness under the name of Steir & Weitner,
but they had trouble and the partnership
was dissolved
by close attention 10 business Stelr man.
aged to amass property to the value of
about $4,000, but the big fire which re-
Gently swept his district robbed him of all
he had taken SO many years to accumulate.
His property was insured in the Magde-
burg Insurance Company for about $780,
but his friends state that the organi-
cation alleged that he had saved
a considerable amount of stock
and refused to pay the policy.
He Immediately instigated suit for the
recovery of the money due, but it is still
pending. He had the papers and deposi-
tons of a number of witnesses on his per-
son when he killed himself, showing that
as yet he had not settled the matter. A
| few weeks ago he again had trouble with
Weitner, his ex-partner, which eliminated
in an exchange of blows and resulted in
his being arrested for assault and battery.
He was released on bail and was to be
tried yesterday on that charge, but as he
did not put in an appearance the case was
postponed until to-day at 10 A. NJ.
This state of affairs, coupled with the
| fact that a suit for the recovery of $1239
had been instigated against him by S. H.
| Frank 81 Co., wholesale leather-dealers, for
goods received and money advanced on
his stock, is thought to have unsettled his
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
A SWELL CHINESE WEDDING.
Many Americans Are Invited and Par
ticipate in the Festivities.

Many Americans Are Invited and Par
ticipate in the Festivities.
A big Chinese wedding feast took place
last evening at the Sum Wo restaurant ON
Dupont street, between Sacramento aud
Clay. There were fifty American invited
guests and ninety-fve Chinese. The BRIDE
groom was Chung Wing, in the employ of
Louis Morgenstein & Son of this City.
Chung purchased his bride about ten days
ago and then invited his friends to his
wedding, which took place yesterday
morning. Immediately after announcing
his engagement Chung received the pres
ents sent to his intended bride according
to Chinese custom. Every one who sent
present received an invitation to the we'd
ding, and Judging from the number of
guests Mrs. Wing must have received 145
presents.
The dinner was an elaborate one, being
served in American style. The features of
the evening were champagne, cigars and
ecrackers-principally the latter. The
wedding ceremony consisted in the brides
chassezing through an assemblage of 200
male Chinese, with fan hiding her face,
and benediction of the couple by priest.
All the guests came in carriages and after
the dinner the party adjourned to a
Chinese theater, where the remainder OF
the evening was passed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
REV, GEORGE WATT IS THE CORRESPONDENT,

street, near California. This he did by ar
rangement with the proprietor of the
place. Then he took his wife into the
adjoining room and questioned her about
Watt. She insisted, though. that her ac-
quaintance with Watt had not been con-
tinued after the time for which she had
already been forgiven by her husband.
All OF the actions of Mclean were not
peaceful, according to the testimony, for
the witness stated that on one occasion he
obtained piece of gasplpe in the cellar
and would have killed his wife If he could
have got back into the house.
Mrs. Mclean chose to be diplomatic on
that occasion, and she locked her husband
out until his wrath had subsidized and the
gaspipe had been returned to its place
under the house.
The husband was asked, on cross-exam-
lnatlon, about conversations with various
people. 1t was alleged that be had told of
some unknown man who had been secreted
in closet OF the house during lunch time
one day, but Mclean declared positively
that he had never made any such assertion.
Additional evidence against Mrs. Nc
Lean will be offered to-day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
FILLMORE's ENEMY.
The Charge Against Andrew j. Collins
to Be Heard on Friday.

The Charge Against Andrew j. Collins
to Be Heard on Friday.
Andrew J. Collins, who was arrested on
Saturday for threatening to kill General
Superintendent Fillmore of the Southern
Pacific, appeared in Judge Joachimsen's
court yesterday The hearing in the case
was fixed for Friday next.
E. Black Ryan of the law department OF
the Southern Pacific received letter yes-
terday from West Oakland in which the
writer informs him that he has notified the
Police Department of this City that An
drew Joseph Collins. who is under arrest
for having made threats against the life of
General Superintendent Fillmore, was at
one time a resident of Woodland, Yolo
County. and that his conduct there earned
for him very unenviable reputation. In
the letter the writer makes some very
serious charges against the moral charac-
ter of Collins, and asserts that while living
in that town he made threats to kill people
there.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27

mind, and it is believed that it was in a fit
of dependency that he was tempted to
take his life.
Mrs. Rosencrantz, with whom Steir has
been boarding on Fourth street for the
past eleven years, is at loss to under
stand his sudden action, and but once did
he drop the least hint of his intended
action and that was last Saturday. He
owed Mrs. Rosencrantz considerable
money, and asked her for piece of paper
as he wished to draw up note for them
both to sign.
He frequently imagined that his enc
mics were trying to kill him. and he would
get up in the night and wake the house.
hold and ask them to look under the bed
and in the back yard as he thought a man
was lurking there.
He has no relatives in this City, but it is
understood that he has two brothers some
where in Germany.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27

them in their hall on Brennan place it
has been visited by many of the veterans
whose pride it was in the days gone by,
when at the alarm of fire they few to their
places on the drag and strove with might
and main to win the "Fox Tail"
The historic relic was built for the old
Empire engine No. 1, the name of which
was subsequently changed to Broderick
No. after the death of Senator Broderick.
Probably the most notable fire in which
the old reel did service was the great
Brannan-street fire which occurred on the
night of November %, 1876, and which de-
stroyed the old German Hospital and a
great amount of valuable property.
The Broderick No. was one of the star
comprehensive volunteers. Its house was
on Sacramento street west of Kearny, and
many were the times that this piece OF
equipment, now such a curiosity, led the
procession when the possession OF the
Fox Tair' was the reward for the COM
pany which should reach the fire first.
The late Dave ScannelI was the foreman
of the company then, and Tim Bainbridge,
now in charge of the criminal records in
the office of the Chief of Police, was a
member of the company.
The engine for which the old cart carried
the lose is now at the Almshouse. where
it is kept for fire protection.
1t was found in the Southern Pacific
warehouses on Brannan street by George
T. Bowen and Assistant Chief Dougherty.
They Immediately communicated with II.
o. Rogers, superintendent of the ware
house, and were referred TO E. P. Vining,
who presented the old cart to the Exempt
Firemen.
In early days, when the old volunteer
fire brigades were mustered out, the Chief
distributed number of these carts to citl-
zens for their own protection.
The one now in the possession of the
Exempts fell into the hands of Michael
Sicily, one of the old pioneers, and he lost
track of it over twenty-eight years ago, and