The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-10
LATEST OAKLAND NEWS.
Every Householder Suffering
for Want of a Garbage
Crematory.
MORE TAMPERED TAX BILLS.
An Attempt by the Mead Heirs to
Break the Trust Clause
of VIII.

The whole of Oakland is suffering from
hardship for which apparently no one IS
to blame. The scavengers have been for
hidden by the Health Officer to dump
garbage within the city limits, there is no
crematory, and for three days the Health
Office has been besieged by hotel men, mer-
chants and heads of families asking what
the officials are going to do about it. The
scavengers have been driven from all
their dumping grounds by protests, and
ultimately the Health Department was
forced to forbid all depositing of garbage
within the city limits. 1t is quite i'm
practicable to cart it outside the city
boundaries. as a scavenger would not be
able to make more than one journey
day.
About year ago John P. Irish arrested
eighteen scayengers for dumping refuse
where the breeze off the bay carried the
odor into the windows of his West Oak
land home. He succeeded in driving the
refuse-gatherers from there, and wherever
they have gone since protests TO the
Health Office have driven them away.
Now they have no place to go to- and every
householder in Oakland is at present do
ing the best possible as his own scavenger.
Schafer of the Board of Health yesterday,
land if the authorities don't do something
soon an epidemic will strike the town.
The Mayor has been informed of the state
of affairs and it is very probable that he
will call special meeting of the Council
for tonight to devise temporary relief. A
number of barges have been offered the
city temporarily for the purpose of towing
the garbage outside the heads, and this will
probably be adopted for short time"
For three years the Health Office has an
nually asked the City Council to appropri-
ate $4,000 for the purpose of erecting
garbage crem atory, and each year the blue
pencil has gone through the request. The
present crisis will force matters as nothing
but crematory is considered feasible for
Oakland.
The Tax Embroglio.
It is now certain that the shortage in the
Tax Collectors Office will be investigated
by Grand Jury within three or four
weeks. This course has been decided
upon. as some more bills that have been
tempered with have been discovered, and
it is generally supposed that a thorough
examination will reveal that the dis
crepancies of $4S3 and 5000 are not all that
exist in the dealings between the Auditors
and Tax Collectors offices.
The scandal has caused some annoyance
to County Treasurer Sanford, but that
The money from the Tax Collectors Office
is carried to the Treasurer in amounts to
suit the Collectors convenience, and for
each amount the Treasurer gives separ-
ate receipt. Mr.. Sanford is not a cent
short, and the county treasury has not
suffered at all, because the present Tax
Collector has already paid the $500 deficit
into the treasury, and is endeavoring to
find out whether Auditor Whidden or
Deputy Park took it from him.
An expert has been appointed by the
District Attorney, and the receipts of the
and during the expired portion OF Bankers
term will be made the subject OF
investigation.
Want Some Ready Cash.
Stephen Mead's heirs commenced suit
yesterday to break the trust created by the
will. Mead died in Connecticut in 1873
and left large trust estate. His execu-
tors were directed to make investments in
California and Oregon and turn the prop
erty over to the children, who were to hold
1t intact and were to receive the income.
In this State the executors selected a large
piece of Oakland property on San Pablo
avenue, near Twenty-eighth street, now
known as the Melton tract. The trustees
are now anxious to have the property
sold. In the complaint it is stated that
the present income from the trust is only
$4,000 a year. The Oakland property is
not productive and could only be made so
by the investment of a larger amount than
the estate could bear at this time. They
want to sell the Oakland property and in
vest the money for Improvements ON other
parts of the estate.
The Bonds in Peril.
The municipal bonds that expire next
month will not be refunded il the Fedora
ton of Trades of Alameda County can help
it. AT their regular weekly meeting the
following resolutions were passed:
WHEREAS, The majority of the present City
Council has now made the third tax levy dur
ing their term of office; and whereas, They
have folded their arms and done nothing
toward paying the old indebtedness, we may
infer that the Councilmen are personally in
terested in the reissue of the bonds, in order
that the paupers in broadcloth may be we'll
supplied; and whereas, We, the producers and
true taxpayers, object to feeding these paupers
in such grand style; therefore, be ii
ResoIred, That 1t is our personal duty to do
all we can 10 defeat the reissue of the bonds.
The Populists have called amass-meeting
for tomorrow night to discuss the assess
Nent reductions and also the refunding
proposition.
The Auditor VIII Be Ready.
The action brought in the interests of
the Assessor against the Board of Super
yisors and the Auditor will not deter
Auditor Whidden from finishing his rolls
and forwarding them to Sacramento next
Monday as the law requires. The state
ment will be made up from the figures as
passed upon by the Supervisors, as Judge
Ellsworth has already decided that Wild
den cannot go behind the records supplied
him by the Supervisors. Before the ten
days elapse in which the Auditor ct al
have time to answer the complaint the
State Board will have taken such action
with regard to Alameda County as it sees
fit. After that the case will he fought out
in the courts.
An Unknown Attempts Suicide.
a man about so years of age was found
in a room in lower Broadway lodging
house yesterday, unconscious from the use
of morphine. There was a small piece of
paper near the bed containing morphine,
but nothing else that would indicate the
identity of the man or his desire to end his
life. The doctors said they expected that
death would ensue. The man is appar-
emily German, is fairly well dressed and
about feet inches tail.
More English Needed.
Professor L. de Pont Lyle of Berkeley
addressed the teachers of the public schools
Yesterday at the Lincoln School. The pro-