The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-04
HISTORY OF A DAY.
Alameda County Happenings Told in
Brief Chapters.


Brief Chapters.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
9OS Broad ay, Dec. 3. !
The Grand Jury was in session for few min
utes this morning. No business was trans
acted.
The condition OF E. B. Pomeroy, editor and
proprietor of the Times, continues very seri-
Gus, and his friends fear the worst.
The law ana motion calendar in Department
l was to-day con tinued one week, TO allow the
case OF Machado VS.. the County of Alameda to
be tried.
Henry Mckay, charged with having broken
the head of Thomas Trainer with rock. is to
be tried January |. His bail has been reduced
from $4,000 to $500.
County Clerk Jordan reports collections
under the new fee bill for the month of No
yember $3.50 90 The collections more than
meet the running expenses of the office.
The City Treasurer is now ready to pay all
warrants, both registered and unregistered,
against the city, except those against the street
fund, which bear the treasurer's numbers
above 795.
Thursday evening Rev. E. R. Ollie, D. D., of
San Francisco, formerly pastor OF the First NJ.
(. Church of Oakland, will give a patriotic
lecture at the Eighth avenue NJ. Z. Church,
East Oakland.
]. T. Starlock, a iagman for the southern Pa
cific, was arrested to-day, charged with being
a companion OF Barchi Perata OF the Sporting
Life gang in the assault upon a Chinaman a
few nights ago.
The Reliance football team has lost it's star
captain and guard, George Mcmillan. who has
joined the Butte (Mont) football team and in
cidentally obtained a position as deputy
county assessor at that place at a salary of 1925
a month.
Josie Harper, keeper of the notorious place
near the foot of Broadway, was sentenced to
pay fine of 500, with the alternative of fifty
days in jail, by Judge Wood in the Police Court
to-day. Her attorney announced that he
would appeal the case.
Last Sunday the members of the Eighth
street fire engine house drilled at the Prescott
schoolhouse All the boys were on hand and
their work was closely watched by Commits
sioners Wilson and Peirsol, who were much
pleased at the showing.
George C. Carmine, second lieutenant of the
United States revenue cutter Rush, took out a
license to-day to wed Miss Minnie Gertrude
Campbell OF this city. She is the daughter OF
ex-Assemblyman J. c. Campbell OF Colusa
County and is well known in local society
circles.
The Alameda Sign Company has filed mo-
ton in the Superior Court to have the suit
brought by George Althauser against it dis
missed for want of prosecution. The suit was
that the company had unlawfully diverted the
waters of Alameda Creek from his property,
and he sought damages.
In the suit of Machado VS.. the County of
Alameda for $1,000 damages by reason of d.
version OF water which flooded the plaintiffs
orchard, twenty-three special issues were sub
mitted TO the jury to-day. The case has been
on trial sixteen and half days. The Jurors
fees amount to 1896, reporters fees 1855 and
mileage 500 80 or $500 costs.
The money which was to come from the
schoolteachers to be used toward the enter
tainment OF the teachers at the State Associa-
ton conclave in January is not being paid in
rapidly as was expected. The dramatic
company which was to be engaged to enact a
Shakespearean play has not yet been selected
and will not be until the finances show an i'm