The record-union., 1897-02-05
CAPITAL DISTRICT DIVIDED,
Each Division Will Have Its Own School
Management.
The Matter Settled at the Meeting of
the Supervisors Yes
terday.

The dissension among the residents
of Capital School District, which has
heretofore embraced Oak Park and a
considerable territory whereabouts, may
be considered at an end, as the Super
visors yesterday voted to divide the
district
One of the districts thus created will
be known as the Goldberg District (not
''Goldbug," as the wittily inclined clerk
of the board pronounced it in reading
the petition).
There was a large gathering of the
residents of Oak Park and vicinity at
the Supervisors room while the petit
ton for division was under considera-
ton, and several of them We're loaded
with. arguments for and against the
proposition
The bone of contention was the line
of division. Naturally the petitioners
for the new district wanted all the ter
ritory they could get, but County
School Superintendent Howard had
come in as a sort of arbitrator with a
modified proposition, and also having
in view the effect of division on both
districts, according to the population
and number of census children in each.
Both sides agreed that there was neces-
sity for dividing the district, which had,
by the growth of Oak Park, become too
populous for one.
County School superintendent How
ard explained the situation to be sim
ply question as to the boundaries to
be established. There was no difference
of opinion as to the necessity for a di-
vision of the district. He requested that
the petition for a division be read,
which was done.
The petition was filed by residents
of the district outside of Oak Park,
and designated what the boundaries of
the district should be-
Accompanying the petition was a
written recommendation of County Su
rerintendent Howard regarding the
line of division of Capital District diff
fering from that described in the petit
ton.
There was also read a protest by
many citizens of Oak Park against the
division line recommended by Superin-
tendent Howard.
The first speaker in support of the
original petition was ex-Supervisor
Greer, VINO took issue with Superin
tendent Howard's recommendation as
to the line of division. After speaking
of the necessity for a division of the
district Mr.. Greer said the people out
side of Oak Park had asked that the di-
vision be on certain lines, but County
Superintendent Howard had advised
another line of division. Mr.. Howard
should be a competent judge Of where
the division line should run, and he
did not feel like opposing his recon-
nendation, at least until the matter
had been more fully considered.
Mr. Curl was the next to address the
board and he presented map of the
district showing where the proposed
line of division should run. He repre-
scented the Oak Park or protesting ele-
nent, and said the petitioners pro-
posed to allow Oak Park only about
one-eighth Of the territory of the pres
ent district. The Howard plan allowed
Oak Park more territory, including the
Louisiana tract. and some other ter
ritory embraced in the petition for the
establishment of the new or Goldberg
District
BY means of his map Mr.. Curl ar
He called on a Mr.. Maginnis, who lives
on the Louisiana tract. who opposed
having that tract included in the new
district. There is no trouble about his
children reaching Oak Park. There is
a swale there, but a ditch would drain
it readily.
Mr. Curl said the Oak Park people
didn't want the others 20 leave them.
but if they must go, the Oak Parkers
We're willing to leave the matter of di-
vision to the good judgment and fair
ness of the Board Of Supervisors.
Superintendent Howard said the prin-
cipal contention was over the Palmer &
Gerber tracts. both of which were in
cluded in the Goldberg petition. He
advised keeping these in Capital Dis
trict. This would give the latter about
100 and the new district $50 pupils
James Hill, a resident of the Louis
lana tract. said the people Of that tract
all, except one. preferred to stay
in the Oak Park District. He objected
to having the division line cut through
that tract.
j. a. LOwery, another Louisiana tract
resident, said he did not object to being
taxed for a new schooIhouse He did
not want to be in the Oak Park Dis
trict, and did not think the ranchers
should be dragged in to help support
the Oak Park people. If the latter can't
support their school. they shouldn't go
on having children.
F. Hogaboom. a supporter Of the petit
ton for new district said the Oak
Parkers wanted the people Of the rest
of the district to put in their money
and build them a fine schoolhouse. and
then go in and become a part of Sac
ramento. City. or else incorporate by
themselves. This would leave the coun-
try people all out, with no scho0lhouse
and no money to build one.
Mrs. Waldron. who lives on the Louis
lana tract, said she preferred to be in
the new district She had had consid-
erabie trouble in getting her children