The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-13

145; Schaffer, Ind, 80; Wright, Ind, 81; Nc
SSIJlvney, Ind, 80; Evans Ind, So; Joslyn, 1nd
rs; sanderson, Pro-, 8.
Seventh Ward--Dow, NJ. L., R., s75; Bark
Pro-. %.
First Ward Board OF Education)- Stark,
saulpaugh, P. P, 1917.
Second Ward-Pearce, R., 4s7; olmstead, NJ.
L., AS; Chestnut, D., P. P, 37S.
Third Ward-Reed, NJ L., D., R., 500; Bar
nard, P. p, 31l.
Fourth Macmillan, R., D, 721; Ever
EFT, n; l., P. p, 43s; Stark, Pro, 46.
273; Lane, P. p 49, Williams III ms P, 16 '' "
Sixth < Iva Wvnard-Fordf P, p $40; BachTach N n.
P. P, R., 619; Crowhurst, Pro, so.
Besides the contest for the seat as Coun-
Gilman at large, which Mr.. Hoffman will
make, there is also another contest likely.
Ed Gllllgan was candidate for Council in
the Sixth Ward and received "a votes
while the successful man, Watkins,
received 279 votes. It is stated
by Gilligans friends that five bal
lots voted for him, but with the cross
stamped in the center of the name, were
cast aside. These five votes would put
Gllligan even with Watkinson, and he pro-
poses to enter protest against the votes
being thrown out.
With the advent of the new Mayor, f.
K. Porter will renew his efforts to be APP
pointed Mayors clerk.
The Widow Moss Triumphs.
The quarrel of the daughters of the late
Franklin Moss with his handsome widow
took sensational turn yesterday when
Judge Ogden made some remarks from the
bench in which he questioned the trans
actions Moss had with the real estate firm
OF Laymance d Co.
Moss was a wealthy old Fruitvale
| rancher when his first wife died several
! years ago. At that time he had two
| daughters Mrs. Lulu S. Taylor and Mrs.
| Jessie e. Anseon. Their husbands keep
| hardwarestore at Twenty third avenue,
East Oakland. In time, Moss took to
| himself another wife, a pretty young
woman named Mary Josephine Briggs,
and with her he seemed to live happily up
| to the time of his death few months ago.
| Several months before his death the two
| sons-ln-law petitioned the court to appoint
guardian Tor Moss, who they said was
| incompetent and was wasting his money.
| Judge Greene did appoint such guardian,
| and those who sided with Moss said that
this fact worried him into his grave.
| w hen he died he left no will, and it was
| thought that the estate would be distrib-
uted according to law without trouble.
The wife applied for letters of administra-
ton, but the daughters opposed the grant
! ing OF them and asked that the Public
Administrator be given letters. If was
| IN this petition OF the daughters
that the sensation was sprung. They ac-
cused the widow of connivanCe with Lay
| nance d Co. to get the property from her
husband. 1t is stated that the firm sold
Moss place at Sixth and Market streets
Tor more than it was worth, and that the
widow got this property from the old man.
George Metcalf, the guardian of the old
man, testified that the value of the estate
was 100000, with $65 rental coming in.
One OF the SOnS-in-law, Taylor, said on the
stand that Mrs. Moss once said to him: Il
told the Judge he had better see to him, as
LaymanCe was robbing him.
Mrs. Moss took the stand and said that
the Laymances, III her opinion, held great
influence over her husband. She said there
was mortgage on the place at Sixth and
Market streets, and she was willing then
and there to deed it to the estate. She
SAID she had not connlved with Laymance
to get that property nor any property.
Judge Ogden said in summing up that
he would not disturb the widow; that she
| was entitled to letters on the estate. But"
added the court, "the Market-street trans
| action was unquestionably unfair and I'M
righteous, and Laymance got in coin twice
as much as the place was worth, aside from
| the mortgages he held"
Laymance traded the property, which
was mortgaged, for twenty lots in Fruit
| vale, and besides held a mortgage on it of
$500. Walter Laymance, with whom this
transaction was held, is confined to his
| house by Sickness but his brother, NJ. ].
Laymance, said: 'These transactions
with Mr.. Moss covered a number of years
in which we acted as agents for him in
selling lots. We made satisfactory set
tiement with him in May and he was de-
clared incompetent in July. He received
every dollar that was coming to him. 1t
was fair adjustment according to the
records of all accounts. Any statement to
the effect that we ever robbed that old
man is an infamous lie. The property in
question was worth every cent Moss paid
for it. | am surprised at the remarks of
Judge Ogden from the bench, and l am
sure that when full investigation is made
we will be fully exonerated."
Confer With the Directors.
Judging from the interview had with At
torney w. r. Davis of the Oakland ter
minal committee the report that the direc-
| tors of the new road would not accept the
subscription of the Oakland people under
the conditions named in the agreement ap-
| pears to be without the SHADOW of a
| foundation.