The San Francisco call., 1897-11-11
HIS Home HAD
BEEN FORFEITED
Peculiar Result of a Divorce
Suit and Property
Transfer.
The Innocent Party Suffered and
Believes Forgery Has Been
Committed.
Unless Soules Is Reimbursed He Will
Garry the Case Into the
Courts.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
908 broadway, Nov. 10.

peculiar result Of q divorce case de-
veloped this morning. Nearly year and
a half ago the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. John
NJ. Soules on Wood street was sold to the
State for delinquent taxes, but the owners
did not know it until to-day.
Soules is a baker, and his wife has
always attended to paying the taxes. The
receipts were put away carefully and moth
ing unusual occurred till yesterday, when
on paving her taxes her bill was stamped
in red ink with the statement that the
property had been sold in July of last year
for delinquent taxes of 1895. Mrs. Soules
Immediately went home and returned this
morning with all the tax receipts since
1892, and then wanted an explanation.
In 1894 neieh bors of the Soules named
Rivers had some trouble, and Mrs. Rivers
sued for divorce. One day Rivers told
Soules that be had placed the Rivers home
IN the name of Soues pending the settle
ment of the suit, and the matter was ait
erward forgotten by Mr.. and Mrs. Soules.
The records show that the transfer was
made. they also show that the property
OF Rivers was deed ed back by Soules to
brother OF Laurence Rivers in July, 1894.
! Souies denies positively that he ever
decided the property back, and believes
his name was forged 10 the document.
I'VE have been very particular IN the
payment of taxes" said Soules to-day
''and l was surprised to hear that my
home had been sold TOR delinquency. L
never knew there was a deed 10 convey
the property to Rivers brother, and [
believe both of our names have been
forged. | shall write to Rivers, and If he
i'm burses me for my expenses IN getting
| back my home | shall let the matter drop.
Ii he does not l shall charge him with
forgery and attach the property Tor the
taxes 1 have paid on it.
fob do hryM Mrs Snn LOG
who procured each year only one tax bill,
! and this was the bill Tor the property
decided from Rivers TO Soues. She has
| been paying Oh this for two years, not
noticing the technical description Of the
property and tn mixing that she was paw
ing on her own home. To-day she made
the discovery as stated, that she had been
paying on Rivers property while their
own place had been sold over year.
In Defense of the High School.
OAKLAND, Nov. 10. - The Aegis
the High School publication, in this
weeks mum oer has an article on he
charges made against the conduct OF the
boys at a recent visit to the Oakland Thea
ter, in which it says:
| Some time since there appeared in the COL
umnS OF the MiddIetown Independent, a
| weekly paper published in Middletown Lake
! County, an article censuring the conduct OF
some OF the boys Of the Oakland High school
who attended the Oakland Theater on Satur-
dey, october 9, after the conclusion OF
the field day. Portions OF this article have
been copied in the newspapers OF san Fran
cisco and this city, and, tearing that some OF
the friends of the Oakland High School should
attach too much importance to the charges
| contained thcreIn. we desire 10 refute the
| accusations against our fellow students, and
| to deny most emphatically that the conduct OF
the High Schooi boys during their visit to the
theater was any way offensive either 10 the
other spectators, 10 the actors, or 10 the man
agement
Coming Egis Elect'o
| OAKLAND, Nov. 10.-The semi-annual
| election OF officers for the II gh School
Esis occurs Tuesday next week, and
! tnere is considera bic good-natured rivalry
| between the fraternity and mountaineering
forces. The candidates for the various
offices are follows:
Editor, Winfield Dorm, G. E. X; first asso-
ciate, Parker Holt non-frat, and Wheeler
! non-irat; second associates Stanley Walton
| THEA Chi, and Nightingale. non-trat. third
! associates. Miss Evans, Alpha Sigma, and Miss
Champeaux, nou-frat; fourth associates, Miss
JuCq Aeuin Moore, lambda Theta Phi Miss
Robbins, nOn-lrat.
President, c iiton Crowen non-frat., ana
Howard Atwhter, non-frat; vlce-presideDt,
Ed Hussey. G. L. X, and Charles Harris noE-
frat; secretary, Ernest Foster, Phi Sigma, and
| Chester GorriI, non-frat; treasurer, Harry
Tuttle, Phi Sigma, and Frank Webber non
frat. business manager, Ed Spencer, G. E. k,
and Flbush, non irat.
Frost Is Insolvent.
OAKLAND, Nov. 10. w. II. Frost,
whose sensational suit for divorce from
his wife, Carrie Frost, in which Grove
Tinkham was named as correspondent
aad $50, 600 damages was claimed for
alternating her affections, was tried last
summer, is before the court again, but as
a petitioner in insolvency. He won his
diyorce suit and withdrew his damage
claim. Frost and his father-in-law are
employees OF the Southern Pacific Com
pany in San francisco. The liabilities
are $52S2 80 and assets nothing, as his
homestead and household furniture are
exempt from execution.
Yarde Butler Trunk Missing
OAKLAND, Nov. TO- - Lady Leliah
Kirkhum Yarde-Buller has moved from
1854 Eighteenth street, San Fran cisco. 10
reside in Oakland. and in making the
transfer lost a trunk of gowns and her
| sealskin coat. Ali efforts to locate the
missing goods have proved futile, as she
failed TO take the expressman's address,
None of tho local express companies of
this city have transferred property from
the address given. 1t Is supposed the
trunk was delivered to the wrong address
Grove-street Wharf.
OAKLAND Nov. 10.-The City Attor-
ney is looking up the law as to whether
the city has the right to spend money on
State property with a view of determining
whether build ng shall be constructed
on the Grove-street wharf, which, by the
| recent Supreme Court decision, has been
declared State property. The City En-
glneer is preparing plan showing how
| much OF the wharf is on the water front
| Company property.
| Dow Memorial Service.
| OAKLAND, Nov. 10.-There is to be
public memorial service in honor of the
| memory Of the late General Neal Dow at
the First Methodist Church in this CITY
tomorrow Thursday evening. Rev R.
+. Coyle, d. D., will preside. and a num-
| ber of five minute addresses will be made.
Oakland News Notes.
/ OAKLAND, Nov. 10.-Police Judge Allen
! has continued the Case OF w. L. Lee, charged
! with the failure TO provide for his wife and
| children, for month, to allow him to do
| some thing Tor them.
Harry Morse on his return from New York
found Newton avenue had been torn up for a
sewer and not properly replaced. He asked
| for inves ugation and prosecution OF the
| offender.
| Willie Byers, the young runaway, is causing
his guardian untold trouble. he has been