The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
He MUST BUY HIS GRAVE.
The Humble Wish of DR.. Renken
Cannot Be Carried
Out.
BANKS STAR IS NOW SAFE
EX-Chief of Police Schaffer Will
Not Waste Time Pressing
Charges.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL, ),


one else" Now it appears that this wish
of his cannot be carried out.
Mrs Renken, the widow, says that some
years ago she and her husband talked the
matter over and they agreed that when
the first of them should die the living one
should give the other burial in the pot
ters field and then arrange to be treated
in the same manner when death should
cloim the remaining one. At later date
crematories were established and thew
both agreed in their desire to be cremated
and to have their ashes inferred in the
potter's field. DR.. Renken's body was
cremated at Cypress Lawn, and the ashes
are there now awaiting the directions of
the widow. She has been informed that
ground space cannot be obtained in the
potter'S field either in Cypress Lawn or
Mo untain View cemeteries, because the
rules forbid the giving of graves TO any
who leave none Y enough to buy lot.
In the petition the estate is said to be
wo rth $3.50. With the exception of few
small lesacies the property is left to the
" lie, Catherine.
Charges of Bribery.
1t now seems likely that the charges
against Police Officer Banks will meet the
same fate at the hands of the Police Com
missioners as was accorded those against
eX-Chief of Police Schaffar by the Grand
Jury. At meeting of the Commissioners
this morning Banks attorney took excep-
ton 10 the charges, on the ground that
they were signed by Schaffer as Chief OF
Police. Although another man has been
been in Office three months Schaffer still
claims to be the head OF the department.
Srlsa han, - ia
as an ordinary citizen, but President Will
son ruled that the charges signed by
Schatfer personally should be dismissed
on the ground of informality
The charge of bribery against Banks was
then taken up, and Attorney Nusbaumer
took 1t to pieces in legal manner. and
when he concluded his argument informed
the board that the document filed with
them contained no charges at all. He said
he believed that the charges were the re-
suit of q conspiracy, and that it was GER
tainIy peculiar that Chief Schaffer should
have known of this corrupt act of Banks
for four years before being anxious TO see
that justice was done. Commissioner
Peirsol said he was willing to grant Mr..
Schaffer the privilege of filing new charges
a the present ones would manifestly not
be pertinent,
Schaffer said he had spent considerable
time in hunting up the witnesses, as he
Banks was, but he said he did not propose
to spend any more time in the matter, If
the board wanted an amended complaint it
would have to get some one else to file it.
Mayor Davie said 1t was the proper thing
for Schaffer to get his charges in proper
form as the board could do nothing until
that was done.
Then l withdraw and refuse to have
anything more to do with it." said ~Schaf-
Ter. But finally he was granted a week in
which to file new charges if he saw fit.
Political Stiffs.''
Last week the Merchants Exchange of
Oakland gave 4 banquet and Mayor Davie
made a speech. He said several things
about the Council; among other things the
Mayor referred to the present administra-
ton IN the following terms: They are
too lavish with your money. They ask for
$4,000 to repair Eighth-street bridge, and 1
am informed the work can be done for
$500. They were going to spend $4,000 to
fix the Twelfth-street dam. We looked
into and have just finished the work at a
cost OF $31. You must not let them go on
at this rate. If you do they will feather
their own nests and you can whistle"
Councilman Mott, who is chairman of
the Finance Committee, has waited for
several days for the Mayor to deny the
published report of his speech. HE has
not done so,' said Mr.. Mott, land there
fore | assume he really did make use of
the language attributed to him. [ am
willing at all times to give proper and due
attention to the proper suggestions OF the
man whom the people of this city have
seen fit to elect as their chief executive
officer. Yet l shall not be one to sit tamely
by and permit any one, even the Mayor of
the city, to accuse unchallenged the mem
bers of this Council of being derelict in
their duties or of feathering their own
no hot I han
be ready to defend myself whenever and
wherever | may be attacked.
1.-The Mayor says that we are afraid TO
knock out some of those political stiffs
who are now attending to our park and do
not know a caulifower from sunhower.
Ii his Honor means to intimate that this
Council is desirouS in anyway of doing
aught but its whole duty, 1 desire to say
that not only is his Honor going ont of his
way to cast slurs upon a body of men who
are at least his peers in intelligence and
integrity but he is insulting those who are
not given to using the questiona BILE meth
DDS OF making political capital in which
the Mayor delights"
Mrs. Todd's Claim.
A very lengthy commun ication from
Mrs. i. G. Todd has been filed with the
Board of Education. The lady states that
there is now due her from the city of Oak
land, for services which she has been
illegally debarred from performing, $5088.
She says: ''My claim will be a perpetual
one and will be presented at regular inter-
walls throughout the future if not paid by
your body, increasing at the rate of $1017 so
per annum until the Board of Education
or special act Of the Legislature or other
means can be found to pay it, If at my
death my claim should still be unpaid it is
my intention to bequeath it to my chill
dren with special instructions to keep it
rolling until Oakland S opinion can settle
itself upon some basis of equity and
Justice, when have no doubt it will be
recognized and honored. / simply refer
you TO my book, Pnxit, for further
ana for proofs of the teach
right to vote on educational
matters.
THE eyes Of the whole world are turned
toward California as the one State that has
furnished the crime of q century, and this
crime is the direct and undisputed result
of the wrongs of California's educational
system which / have pointed out to you.
When teachers are denied q voice in be-
half of the purity of their profession, and
when that right is given TO negroes,
drunks, foreigners, pardoned convicts, etc.,
n feeling of disrespect is engendered among
a large proportion of the boys OF the pub
lie schools for the girls of the public