The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20
HISTORY OF 4 DAY.
Alameda County Happenings Told in
Brief CHARTERS.

AlameQa county happenings 1OlQ IN
Brief Chapters.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
908 Broadway, August 10. !
Miss Jennie Lewis, who was shot last week,
was buried to-day.
Judge FFick this afternoon denied the mo-
ton of Attorney Knight TO admit Patrick Col
Inns to bail.
Public Administrator Knight has brought
suit against w. G. Tripp to recover $24, 600 on
the estate of the late Z. L. Cook.
Mrs. Philip Boogar was this afternoon
allowed by Judge Prick an increase OF allow
ance from SIS to 1925 month.
bloomer girl frightened Supervisor john
ston's horse on Twelfth street Saturday and he
dashed off, dragging the wagon after him.
Alfred Lloyd of the Oakland High School
was struck by Twelfth-street car at noon to-
day while riding his bicycle and badly bruised
Ex-Police officer Thomas Boyer was found
guilty by Judge Wood this morning of disturb
Ing the peace of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Cashin.
three lectures at the First Methodist Church,
corner of Fourteenth and Clay streets, on "The
Tabernacle of Moses"
F. 81. Cummings of East Oakland was seri-
ously injured by a runaway team on Broadway
this afternoon. His injuries were attended to
at the Receiving Hospital
Martha Langhorne of Alameda has applied
for letters upon the estate of George Lang
horne, her husband, who died IN Mexico and
left an estate worth $4,000.
Attorney Sam Bell Mckee is going to make a
fight before the Board of Supervisors TO have
the franchise revoked recently granted to E. p.
Fandercook for an electric road from FruitYale
TO Liyermore.
Street Superintendent Miller has inspected
the garbRge-dumping grounds in the vicinity
of lower k1rkham street, and has ordered
whatever refuse can be destroyed by fire gath
cred together for that purpose.
A case of utter cruelty was reported to the
Humane Society to-day. Rats caught in a
saturated with coal oil, which was then set on
fire and the rats were burned to death.
Judge Ogden to-day overruled the demurrer
to the amended complaint in the suit OF Mrs
Carrie Lockyer against Captain John Hayes,
the well-known militiaman, for SO 900 dam
ages for breach OF promise OF marriage.
Street Superintendent Miller will put twenty
men at work tomorrow redressing San Pablo
avenue. The work cannot be done without a
steam roller, and he will ask the Council at
their meeting tonight to authorize him to en-
gage one.
returned from Folsom, where they went with
Jake Openheimer, William Berry Holland and
Jack Holland, sentenced for robbery. The
prisoners were delivered all right and are at
work by this time in the quarry.
There will be a double assessment on the
SeYenth-street local line this year. City AS
SCISSOR Snow has placed 1t on his rolls as prop
erty taxable by the city, and the State Board
of Equalization has assessed it as part OF the
general system of the Southern Pacific.
Carlos Whistler disappeared from his home
at S27 Campbell street, West Oakland, last
Tuesday afternoon. When he left his home he
told his mother he was going to Alameda in
search OF employment. He departed with q
bicycle, SIS and some jewelry belonging to his
sister Maude, who has sworn 10 warrant for
his arrest.