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parents lived on and Hannah Streets. Also on Hannah Street lived the McDonough, Ben-ter, Sanford, Marks, West, and Coughlin families. They were good solid families and reared the children in the old-fashioned way. I well ing on different parts of the sfage, their jaws, arms, legs and necks controlled by a pedal and pulley arrangement centering Ibtneath, a table at which Emmett sat, controlling the movements of his cast with his feet I recall an old farmer leaning against a wall who continually conservation, i planning and public works be paid $450 a month despite the ceiling. The tone of the meeting was, we are told, businesslike and efficient.

The word used by one observer in describing earlier conferences' of the new rules body, "refreshing, seemed to fit. Skeptics who figured things wouldn't change, should keep in mind that under the reorganization, the Assembly allowed only $200,000 for interim work as against. the $600,000 appropriation of two years ago. pry the tire off as best you could if it went flat. The car that Peter B.

Kyne is driving looks like a Franklin with wire wheels. I do not believe the 1915-16 cars had wire wheels. Admittedly, my memory isn't very good, but I'm tolerably sure that it was in the fall of 1918 possibly 1919 when I had these two fellows in short course work at the University Farm at Davis. I am sure that at that time or soon after Peter B. started farming near Perris and his partner was a fellow named Clash.

The farm was known as Cash and Kyne. As I remember it, Cash was a private, or perhaps a lieutenant, in Peter company in World War and was badly gassed in France. Peter B.jtook him into the partnership because the chap's health was not very good and a ranch was a proper place for him. ONCE again rumors! are afloat that Governor Warren will be offered a federal court, appointment by President Truman. This time it is the Portland Oregonian which takes cognizance of the reports in an, editorial the past week in which it notes that other Republican governors have ascended the federal bench and that the rumor regarding Warren comes from Washington On the heels of President Truman's appointment of Governor Youngdahl of Minnesota to the federal bench.

The rumor is getting to be something of a perennial. As we recall, it was in January, 1949, that the story was last given currency, and it was quickly scouted by the Governor. It was, he asserted, obviously another New Year's rumor. Apparently the perennial is going to pop up every time political pots begin to boil. However, the Knave thinks you might be interested in some of the editorial observations of the Oregonian, an independent Republican newspaper.

"President Trumanj is obviously attempting to weaken the opposition by attracting away its leaders in the states," the Oregonian says. "In the Youngdahl case, the intention was to undercut the Stassen-Young-, dahl-Thye liberal wing of the GOP, and to encourage Senator Taft's victory in the early Minnesota primary for the Trumanites still believe Taft would be the Republican presidential nominee to beat." Noting that Governor Warren's record of loyalty to his party is firm, "the publication expressed hope he would not consider such an It goes on to pomt out, however, that the GOP has failed raised a straw to his mouth arid chewed on it, at the same time crossing and re-crossing his legs. Perhaps the most interesting recollection concerned the time when Emnieit decided that his leading lady was a bit on the beefy side in the hip region. One Sunday morning he placed this beautiful creature and she was i beautiful in a most unladylike position across a pair of saw horses 1 and started to trim her down with a cross-cut saw. With one fide completed 1 and in the sahding-down staged Emmett was called inside to the telephone.

My father help- ful old soul who had been watching the opera- tion, decided to help the cause jallpng by turning milady over and sawing off th other side to correspond, His aim was wild. He took off too much. Undaunted, he again switched the figure with a view to taking down the Completed you-know-what to match his own inaccuracy. I do not recall the number of reversals he made hefnre Emmett returned. Father's face bore a silly grin as he laid the aside and mumbled some sort of an apology.

Emmett surveyed that which remained of his star reformer. He showed no anger. He simply stared. And then he said, laconically, 'Embarrassing, no Emmett went into the basement, reached into an old hair mattress and drewi out a handful of stuffing. With a section of canvas cut to size, he fashioned a sort of double hip-pocket, stuffed in the padding until the desired contour sac0SS the Bay to take the products.

"On one was attained, tacked it down; and the show ccasn' in the middle 1840's, W. H. Davis, a went on!" Mi smerchant's clerk, camped alone in that area, on advice; of Don Vicente Peralta and was nearly TWrnKr'e MpmnnAQ frightened to death by the large bears nosing icuuiei to lviciiUJiiCD around his tent, cleaning out the fragments of The Knave: Recent mention Jin The Knave "the previous day's slaughtering. The bears, of John P. Irish brought vividly to mind the ordinarily dangerous, were evidently well satis-one time it was my good fortune to hear him field with their harvest of beef fragments, so speak.

That was in the spring of 1908 when I Mhey id not try to enter Mr. Davis'. tent and was a member of the teachers': coaching class at Heald's in Oakland. Being' feminine, the '-first thing I noticed was the lack of which was speedily forgotten in the meat his talk chiefly about the blind, il recall he told; us that his mother had been blind and that 1 in her memory he was doing "what he could to improve the lot of those deprived of sight. That was back in the days when school teachers were plentiful, In June, when took the ex-1 aminations in the basement classrooms of Oak-; land High School on Grove Street, there were two rooms filled with aspiring young not a man.

In our class at Heajd's there was bu one man, W. A. Benner, just completing years' of duty at E. Morris Cox I believe. Pre-5 siding over all those all-day 'sessions were" County Superintendent Frick and Board of Education Members Fisher and; McDonald.

Although my mental picture of fisher is clear and very much in his favor, his given name has escaped me, but "Billy" McDonald was long familiar to me, we both being ofHhe Livermore region. One of his first schools, if not the first; was ours "up the the Arroyo del Valle remember selling papers a few times at the old Emeryville Race Track but never got inside to se a Shell Mound Park was the place "to goon a Sunday or holiday and I remember the day Festus McDonough and I sneaked under the fence with a cop after us. We ran the Bay and when we couldn't go Ifarther on the rocks at the water's edge, the officer lost his balance trying to grab us and rfell Into the water. How we did streak for home! (Forgive me for telling this one, Festus.) I used to ride with Mr. Sanford on the old-style sprinkling wagon and got quite a thrill when 'he me to pull the brake for a stop for more-water.

There are many more things to say a bo a the good old days of the 'tract' but enough for now, for there are not many left who tyill remember the above." Clerk and Bear "The Knave: I was a lad in the early 1880's herI lived in the vicinity of 16th and Peralta Streets. This area was, before being settled, one of grasslands bordering the Bay shore and adjacent to the lands that were pretty well wooded by the oaks that gave Oakland its name. This grassy area was the area where Don Vicente Peralta's cattle grazed and where they did their -killing and skinning for the San Francisco American buyers who sent small schooners before morning dawned they departed. Young Mr. Davis told the Spanish Don Vicente of the experience and at first he was highly amused but soon realized the gravity of Mr.

Davis' position arid freely made apology for his failure to remember that there would most certainly be besars there that night foraging for meat scraps, promising Mr. Davis that he would be welcome at his home near Temescal. Mr. Davis said that his black hair soon turned gray because of the fright he endured that night. The Don Vicente said to Mr.

Davis that would have been 'too bad' had the 'osos' (bears) made a meat on such a handsome youth as Mr. Davis." Dr. Cecil Corwin. 'The Dutchman's' Way back in the early '80s, Robert W. Stew-art recalls, "that section of what is now Oakland, between East 28th Street and East 31st Street and 21st Avenue and 23rd Avenue, more or less was known to us old settlers as 'The DutchmanV It was mostly grazing land but some it, was planted in an orchard of apples, man, wiiaicvci uiak may iiitraii, ou mat a nuw it got -its name.

The wind used to blow 'great guns' across those bare rolling hills in those days before it was built up with houses, which seem to break the sweep of the winds. The Dutchman had a well just east of what is now 22nd Avenue, between East 28th and East 29th Streetl, with a large old-fashioned wooden windmill. With every big blow the windmill was scattered all over the countryside and had toibe gathered up and rebuilt. As the Fourth of 18x7 QTM-iT-oirHttri it moc ri diHoH ta hoira platfopm of the old windmill. On the night of thfe Fourth all the neighbors gathered to see the show.

The Highland Park Band favored us with some patriotic numbers and then we all waited breathlessly for the show to begin. Several of the older boys, William Alex and Jim Ireland, Alex and Joe Rosborough (the Ros- borough brothers were always around when some innocent fun like painting a cow or some- thing was being puled off) and Gordon Grant and my brother, Charlie, with one or two others climbed to the platform with a large tub full of; fireworks and the fun began. Some sky rockets were set off, then a fine display of Roman candles from all points on the platform. This was the beginning of the end of the spectacle. They had neglected to cover the tub and the sfiower of sparks ignited the contents and the air Was soon filled with pinwheels, skyrockets, double-headed Dutchmen, chasers, firecrackers and everything.

There was a wild rush down the ladder and we enjoyed the show more than if it had gone off as planned. I was only a kid, 6 years old, at the time, but that THE KNAVE Wickenburg East bound from Prescott in the early morning of last May 3, John W. Winkley drove to one of the old towns of the American period in Arizona. His account: "We stopped at the Wickenburg Monument to read the legend of incidents of its early days, then drove about the little town, now a thriving modern community. In the early 1860s Henry Wickenburg, a prospector, discovered the famous Vulture Mine, which lies about 13 miles west of town and has produced millions of dollars of gold.

I was happy to discover in Oakland, lately, a Mr. Clarence Grant Pierson, who was born in old Wickenburg about 80 years ago and who says that he was the first all-white boy born in Arizona. Mr. Pierson's grandfather on his mother's side, was James Grant, a cousin of Gen. U.

S. Grant. James Grant came to California in 1849 and operated a store in Marys-ville until the town burned down, when he moved to Sacramento. In 1865 he was given a mail franchise in Arizona and moved to Wickenburg; where he established a stage company, running stages to Tucson, Prescott, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and other places. The head station at Wickenburg was in a large yard enclosed in a high adobe wall.

This has long since been removed, Mr. Pierson's father, John H. Pierson, was the doctor for the Vulture Mining Company, which operated a 40-stamp mill in Wickenburg. He was also manager of the stage company. On one occasion an Indian chief wanted to buy Clarence Pierson, and when his father refused every price, he had to build a high lattice fence around his home lest the Indians steal the boy.

The lattice fence was built of 2x4 timbers. Clarence Grafit Pierson's parents took him to San Bernardino when he was 10 years old, and as a young man he went to Truckee, entering the lilmber business. He was for many years manager of the Verdi Lumber Co. In his boyhood he knew such notable people as Henry Wickenburg; Tom Fitch, the silver-tongued orator; the notorious Molly Monroe, who dressed like a man and was quick with a gun; Pete Taylor, manager of the Vulture Mine; Judge Rush of Prescott; Chap- lain Gilmore of the U.S. Army; and J.

Y. T. Smith, who built; the first house in Phoenix after a fire had burned that little place. As it sprang up from its ashes, they called it On one occasion Indians waylaid a gold wagon train carrying gold ore from the Vulture Mine to the mill in Wickenburg. It was said that there were 10 wagons, each drawn by 12 mules.

Several of the Mexican drivers and a number of the mules were killed, but the Vulture Mine Company recovered the wagons and the gold. On another occasion a stage carrying eight passengers was stopped and everyone killed by a band of men dressed like Indians, but various clues to their identity indicated that they were Mexicans. The old-timers wouldn't recognize the staid little town of today." London and Kyne Jack London and Peter B. Kyne were farmers as well as writers, At least, they owned and. operated ranches, jis most Bay area old-timers know.

But that they were classmates at the University of California agricultural short course at the height of their literary careers few recall today. So, when a recent issue of the Sunday Oakland Tribune reproduced early pictures of the two at the wheels of their automobiles, F. Hal Higgins, who sends me this, suddenly recalled that livestock specialist J. I. Thompson of Cal-Poly had mentioned some years ago that at one time in his early teaching of scientific agriculture at Davis, he had the unique and highly interesting job of teaching animal husbandry to both of these famous writers at the height of their fame.

Thompson had come out from Iowa State College with a group of graduates from that famed agricultural institution to staff several posts in the newly organized -college at Davis, Recalls Thompson of his two students in this short course work: "The pictures in the Oakland Tribune of Jack London and Peter B. Kyne there must be something wrong with the date because it says that Jack London died nearly '25 years ago and then gives the time as November, 1916. I think, however, it should be November, 1926. Two reasons for thinking so I do not believe; that they had sloping windshields that were divided in the cars that were running around in; 1915 and 1916. That is what you will! notice ori Jack London's car.

Also, it has demountable rims. If I remember correctly, the 1915-16; cars made it necessary for you to Literary Farmers "As to the kind of students they were, Peter B. took very copius notes in class and even in laboratory work. I doubt if I ever had a keener student than he was. If I happened to be rambling along using figures as to rate of gain, or something like that, as applied livestock, if I should happen to misquote myself and use a slightly different figure in a different place, he would catch me every time.

Jack London wasn't so interested in taking notes but he liked to argue as to whether or not the way he was doing things might not be just as good as some of the things I was advocating. They dressed about like most Short Course people did, in work clothes, because after perhaps an hour in class We would go out to the barns, where we would do some judging and demonstrate some necessary activities together. I would expect them to take part in these demonstrations. Therefore, they knew that they shouldn't appear in dress-up clothes. I think at the time Jack London had had more experience in handling livestock than Peter B.

He was pretty sure that when he placed a class of Shorthorn cows or Duroc hogs he had them right, regardless of any reasons a young college professor gave. Peter B. was just the opposite. He would probably ask questions about those same classes two or three days afterwards in order to be reasonably sure that he had the right reasons as to why they stood the way they did. I do not remember whether they lived in one of the dormitories.

If not, they probably stayed at some private House in Davis because we started classes at 8 o'clock in the morning and. kept busy until 5 or 5:30 in the afternoon. They didn't have time to commute to anywhere. I think the other students got as much kick out of Jack London as I did, although once in a while, when he would get all wound up, I would need to stop him 'and go ahead with what I had to say. If I didn't, we wouldn't cover the ground that had to be covered in each period.

Peter B. seldom asked many questions in class, but he would get down an enormous pile of notes. They did not bring their ranch managers. I doubt if Peter B. had a manager at the time.

Jack London did. That was the Scotchman who had previously worked for me and afterwards again worked for me at Straloch Farm (now part of the Agricultural College). They were both intensely interested in trying to learn as much as they could about livestock breeding, feeding and management. I think each of them went into the ranching business, not to spend some money but in the hope of making some. Kyne's Turkeys "I'm sure Peter B.

was more enthused about what he later did in the turkey business than -with his livestock activities, although he did do a really good job of putting together an excellent herd of Duroc hogs. He was one of the first individuals in California to demonstrate definitely that turkey poults could be reared in brooders. Up to about that time the general practice, so I am told, was to raise them with hens that is chickens, not turkey hens and Peter B. made an excellent job of getting some of the kinks out of the attempts that had been made to raise them with brooders. I doubt if any college instructor anywhere ever had two more interesting chaps in the same class at the same time than Jack London and Peter B.

Kyne." Saving a 'Lady' "As an avid reader of The Knave," writes R. C. H. Martin, "I find that references to the early days of West Oakland always make good copy. A contributor recently wrote of Mrs.

Mulligan and her son, Hughey Mulligan, the ventriloquist. too, lived for several years in Mrs. Mulligan's upper flat and knewjthis entertainer intimately. His real name was Hugh John Emmett Mulligan. He chose the name of Hugh J.

Emmett with which to pursue his stage career. I have watched these clever entertainers come and go, and it is not childish recollection alone that tells me he was one of the greatest. Instead of holding one or two little figures on his knees and depending on dexterity alone to put his act across, Emmett usually had a galaxy of from six to eight stars either seated or stand- i i -m i- pears, "plums, etc. It had belonged to a Dutch-where that good citizen school trustee, Enoch 5 i. iu xecugmze uie younger, nevyer puuucai ng- ures arising in the states and hence "one can be surprised but not too critical" of Governor Youngdahl and others who have stepped from active politics to the bench.

Convention Votes Just how many votes California will have at the 1952 Republican national convention is the subject of speculation in some quarters these vacation days, but the answer Won't be known at least until the January meeting of the GOP National Committee in San Francisco. With the addition of seven Congressional seats, California stands to have a minimum of 64 con vention votes, plus whatever bonus votes are allowed. In 1943. California with bonuses, 53 votes at the ReDublican convention and 54 at the Democratic, and was topped only by Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York. What with shifts in congressional strength, the same apportionment and bonus system would find California second only to New York next year.

Understandably, some of the states which lost seats might not like that too much and might desire a different vote distribution. One of the Knave's operatives suggests that in order to protect its potential convention; strength the California GOP might take a leaf the Democratic book. Several months ago the Bourbon high command got together in Denver, we are toldj and adopted a resolution fixing the 1952 delegation procedure. Under its terms, all states which gained congressional seats in the 1950 census will automatically increase their convention votes in line with a 1932 convention precedent andi all states which! went Democratic in 1948 will be entitled to a four-vote bonus. But and this is the crux of the compromise took the steam out of those states which lost congressional seats the Democrats specifically provided that no state would have less delegates than at the 11948 convention.

Under that plan, California Democrats will have 68 votes and will be topped only by Pennsylvania and New York. Incidentally, we are told that credit for working out what for a time might have become a touchy problem goes to Mrs. Ellie Heller, dynamic Democratic na- A 1 '11 i 1 Clamp Down There were some who, when the bi-partisan coalition in the Assembly staged the revolt which led to reorganization of lower house rules committee near the close of the Legislature, insisted that it was all just window dressing. The promised curtailment cf interim activities and expenditures just wouldn't materialize, they claimed. Any such ideas were quickly dispelled when the new ules committee met in Sacramento the past wjeek.

In short order the executive group slapped ceilings on secretarial and consultant salaries, travel and" multiple" employment. Top pay ipx secretaries will be $300 and $360 a month under the new regime, as compared to $600 a month plus per diem iving expenses under the Old setup. Expert consultants, at least one of whom drew $150 a day last year, will draw a maximum of $400 a month unless the rules committee itself approves a higher amount. The practice of secretaries or consultants working for two or more committees is out, and brakes were put on mileage allowances. Denied flatly was the request of Assemblyman Randal Dickey, of Alameda, chairman of the old rules committee, that the secretary of his interim committee on Hall, thought well of "Profess.br McDonald." That was before my time but I vas there when Garlic was county superintendent, followed by Crawford, and then Ffick, who had a term before Garlic.

Those were horse and buggy days Sometimes, on their annual; or semi-annual visits, they drove their own horses but later' usually hired a team and driver from Gene Day's Livery Stable. And that reminds me that the first livery stable of which took cog nizance was owned by the handsome ill-fated Arthur Feidler, one-time treasurer of Alameda County. But that is still another story. could go on and on. ISABELLA MtGEEHON; Watts Tract Memoirs What others have said concerning Watts Tract causes Herbert H.

Specht to ask for a chance to "put in his two-bits' worth." And he knows for he was there. "I was born on Han nah Street near in 1891 anJ, hough I moved to San Francisco in 1900, do i remember the happy years of going to kindergarten and the Clawson School. I first remember attending a kindergarten for a short time, corner A and Hannah Streets, and then to the one at the end of Hollis Street where 'MisPlda' was principal. On the corner of and Hollis was small store operated by Mrs. Klegal and I welj remember the day on the way home from school some of us kids found a' small glass in the show window broken and we all had out grabs at free candy.

Across thef street was oe Herbert's Saloon, Wixson's Grocery, Pitt's Butcher Shop and a French5 laundry. 1 Going west toward the Street Southern Pacific Station was Captain Cruz Grocery, Smith's celebration still stands out vividly in my mem-Grocery and Fonte's Shoe Repair Shop. On the ory. don't suppose there are a dozen of those southwest corner of and Hannah Streets was who saw the fun still alive, and maybe some Pat Cavanaugh's Saloon (he ave me my first of then remember the details better than I do. nickel if I would go home and Have my mother But that's what I remember and maybe some of make me a nair of Dants.

for: wearinc the older folk can? add some more -details. si dress). Our present Superior QuiruVs.