The Berkeley Gazette from Berkeley, California • 1

Paine W.U. Telegraph BUSINESS OFFICE BUSINESS BERKELEY OFFICE 805 BERKELEY University Avenue. Berheirs Stanford Avenue. TOWN OFFICIAL PAPER. VOLUME II.

BERKELEY, TUESDAY AUGUST 13, 1895. NUMBER 100 -THE NEWGRANDJURY Empanneled to Investigage the Shortage of the County Tax Collector. They are Ordered to pear in Court Nexf Monday Morning at Ten 0'clock-Other Local News of Interest. To Proceed at Once. District Attorney Snook yesterday asked that a special Grand Jury be immediately summoned to investigate the frauds in the County Tax Collector's office.

There have been so many rumors golng the rounds that the District Attorney thinks it advisable to have the frauds investigated. The matter was called to the attention of Superior Judge Frick yesterday and he remarked: "I think that it is proper that a Grand Jury be summoned at once." The rules of the Superior Court will have to be suspended in order to meet this particular case. Under the rules of the court two Grand Juries a year are summoned to investigate the aftairs of the county, one in March and the other in September. The four Superior Judges have consented to have the rules suspended so that a special Grand Jury can be summoned. "I made a demand for a Grand Jury," said District Attorney Snook.

"These frauds in the Tax Collector's office have assumed such proportions that they should be investigated. The evidence I have in hand will be presented to the Jury at the first meeting. I do not believe the Grand Jury will have much trouble in arriving at the facts in the case. We are getting new evidence every day, and to my mind the mystery of the missing $483 has been entirely cleared up. No official is to be shown any favor in this investigation.

I will present the evidence and the Grand Jury can do the rest." It has been asserted that County Auditor Whidden is fighting for time. Ex- Tax Collector Rosborough has openly made this assertion, and he has been anxious to have the matter pushed to an issue. Mr. Whidden, however, says that he has no reason to make a play for time. He declares that he is ready to meet the issue.

In the meantime the County Auditor is being shadowed day and night by a detective. This fact is generally known, and even Whidden is not advised that he is being watched at every turn. Attorney George E. De Golia, who represents the County Auditor, says that his client will be on hand when wanted. The attorney also declared that he is preparing a surprise for the enemies of the Auditor and will ask permission to bring the matter before the Grand Jury.

The attorney intimates that he will cause Rosborough and his deputy, Leo Park, to make an explanation. Charges and counter charges are to made, and there will be a general overhauling of the old and new accounts in the Tax Collector's office. In the mean time Whidden makes his appearance at his office every day. He declines to discuss the frauds and to his friends says that he is innocent. At 4 o'clock yesterday the four Superior Judges held a meeting and made an order calling for a Grand Jury.

The order directs that the names shall be drawn from the jury box in the regular way today. Just as soon as the list is made up it will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff. He is directed to have the jurors summoned to appear in court next Monday at Ic a. m. Big Class.

The regular fall examinations for freshmen began yesterday at the University under the charge of Professors Bradley, Edwards and Hengstler. About 500 applicants for admission have already been filed but this does not include those from accredited schools. If the increase is as large as is expected it will necessitate the division of the battalion of the University cadets, now numbering six companies, into two battalions of four companies each. These battalions will drill on alternate days, as the equipment at present is not sufficient to arm the entire eight companies at once. Bridges in the Way, A communication was received by the Supervisors yesterday from G.

W. Mendell, United States Engineer, calling attention to the fact that the railroad bridges across the estuary at Webster and Alice streets, Oakland, interfere with navigation. He advocated the substitution of one big bridge at Webster street. On motion of Supervisor Johnson, Clerk Jordan was instructed to ask Mr. Mendell to suggest a plan for a bridge.

Supervisor Pelouze said that the county does not own the bridge at Alice street, and the District Attorney was requested to ascertain in whom the title is vested. Knew What He Didn't Want. Charley went out to an afternoon party the other day, says the Boston "Record." His mother had enjoined on him to be very polite. She went with him and all the mothers of the other boys were interested in the success of their sons. The cake was passed to Charley.

"Will you have some cake, Charley?" "No," was his short and prompt respoase. "No what?" said Charley's mother. "No cake," replied he quickly. In Berkeley, August 12, 1895, James son of the late Orin and Hannah B. Simmons, and brother of G.

Dr. B. and Dr. W. H.

Simmons, a native of San Jose, aged 44 years, 3 months and 7 days. The funeral will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) from his late residence, end of Piedmont way, Berkeley. Interment Mountain View cemetery. Real Estate Transfers Delos and Harriet A. Pratt to Philetus S.

Blackman, lots 15 to 18, block amended map Christiania tract. Frank M. and Rose H. Wilson to Howard C. Thomas, lot 12, block 20, Daley's Scenic Park.

R. P. M. and Hester A. Greeley to Augusta W.

Wegwood, lot 5, block Harmon tract. Removal. Dr. A. D.

Marconnay, has removed his office from the corner of Sixth street and University avenue to the residence of Mr. William Scott, on Sixth street, near Delaware. The house is opposite Mr. J. B.

Casabone's store. Don't borrow the GAZETTE, subscribe for it, it is only 25 cents a month delivered by carriers. West Berkeley Progressive Club. The regular meeting of this club will be held this evening at the club rooms on University avenue. There will be quite a good amount of business on hand to be attended to and if the people of West Berkeley care anything for the progress of that part of the town they will attend the meeting and help push matters along.

Don't depend upon others going and that there will be no necessity to attend. Let everybody turn out and have a talk with Mr. Fitzgerald, who will explain all about the proposed glass works. The Secretary will be in a position to tell the members of the club all about the propositions which large property owners of the West End are willing to make to manufacturers who wish to locate in Berkeley. Some action will probably be proposed to the club in relation to doing something towards getting the Wilmerding School located here.

Further information will be given as to the wants of the bicycle factory, and something will be introduced about assisting home institutions before helping strangers. Of course there are other town matters in which West Berkeley people are much interested in and must see to it that they are attended to through the club. Now is the time for citizens to show that they have some concern about the town's welfare. A man who will not give his help when needed should never utter a complaint on account of the dullness of the times. A New Ferry Route.

The question has been asked when speaking of new inventions and of what Berkeley will do for those whose desire is to benefit the community, what are the trustees going to do with Captain R. P. Thomas' proposition to build a railroad of new design for ferriage between Berkeley and San Francisco? The proposition was submitted sometime ago. A committee was appointed to look into the matter and one of that Committee did examine into the merits of the proposition and made a report favorable to the design. Since that time the matter has been allowed to drop.

Would it not be well for the Board to take some decisive action in the matter? The Deadly Nicotine Habit. Mrs. Elizabeth Davis of Muncie, aged 104 years, died August 1st at the County Infirmary, where she had been twenty-five years. Up to death she was agile and possessed of all her faculties. An inveterate smoker, she consoled herself on her death bed with her pipe, and requested that it be buried with her, which was done.

She came of a wealthy Ohio family, and a son has a lucrative position in Chicago. Board of Equalization. Property owners who may have any grievances to settle in relation to the amounts they may have been assessed, will bear in mind that the Board of Equalization will be in session every evening at the Town Hall. The meetings will be opened at 7:45 and continue until the first Monday in September. It will be better for those interested to get their business before the Board as soon as possible and not wait until the last moment when there may not be sufficient time to give complaints proper consideration.

Mrs. Henry S. Burton, whose name became quite prominent some years ago on account of her suit against the International Company of Mexico for possession of the Ensenada grant, died at Chicago yesterday. Ramos Renas, the popular wood, coal, hay and grain dealers have just completed distributing a schooner load of fine cow hay which was sold at a very low figure. Toward the latter part of this week they expect a schooner load of excellent horse hay which will be sold very cheaply.

99-IW Senator John P. Jones arrived at San Francisco yesterday. MURDERED A Rejected Suitor Kills his Sweetheart. Leaves her Lying in the Garden and He Leisurely Walks away from the Scene. Alameda Supervisors To Go Before the State Board of Equalization.

Murdered by a Jealous Lover. Miss Jennie Lewis, a domestic employed in the family of the Rev. Geo. Mooar of 450 Edwards street, Oakland, was shot in the head by a man supposed to be Louis F. Muhler, a jilted lover, shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday.

The young women will probably die. After firing the shot the man walked away and made his escape. Chief of Police Lloyd and his detectives were not long in reaching the conclusion that the man was Muhlner. Miss Lewis is a girl of twenty years. She was engaged to marry a young man named Charles H.

Miller. Muhlner has been in love with the girl for years and has been a persistent suitor. This morning a young man called at the Mooar home and paid the girl a visit. Mrs. Mooar is an invalid and under the care of a nurse.

Her daughter, Miss Agnes Monar, noticed the young man, but she did not pay much attention to his presence. Late in the, afternoon the young fellow, now believed to have been Muhlner, called again. He rang the front doorbell and Miss Lewis responded. She received her caller in a friendly way and they spent half an hour together seated on the front porch. From all that can be learned Miss Lewis retired to her room for a short time and secured all the letters written to her by Muhlner and returned them to him.

The letters left in her room were found scattered about the table, indicating that she had made a search among her keepsakes. After returning the letters Miss Lewis started to go around the side of the house leading to the rear door. She was followed by the man. The couple were under a fig tree when two shots were fired. The first shot missed the young woman but the second had a deadly effect.

The bail entered over and in front of the left ear and ranged downward, and was imbedded in the brain. No one saw the shooting. The nurse in the house was attracted by the noise, and raising the looked out and saw the man walking calmly away from the scene. A second glance revealed the prostrate form ot the young woman. The nurse was so terrified by the sight that she would not leave her room for a long time.

Finally she mustered up courage enough to go across the street and arouse the neighbors. The police were summoned and Miss Lewis was removed to the Receiving Hospital in the patrol wagon. Dr. Murray Johnson made an examination of the wound, and found that the bullet had entered the brain. He pronounced it a hopeless case, and said that it was only a matter of a few hours before the girl would die.

A. C. Lewis, the father of the young girl, arrived in Oakland last night. "This young man who shot my daughter is well known in our family," said Mr. Lewis.

"Mulhner is his correct name. He was sent to Point Reyes Station from San Francisco, where he has a mother and sisters living. He told us that he used to work in the Mills Building, and he seemed to know a great many people in San Francisco. This was simply the act of a jealous lover." To Go To Sacramento. At the meeting of the Supervisors today it was agreed that the members will accompany Assessor Dalton to Sacramento to appear before the State Board of Equalization on Thursday.

They will go by the river boat on Wednesday night, so as to be on hand bright and early in the morning. Eugene Hough, Secretary of the American Federal Labor Union, sent to the Board the resolutions adopted by the Union, denouncing the cut in the assessment made by the Supervisors, as against the interests of the common people. An effort is being made to have a delegation of Alameda county taxpayers to go to Sacramento with the Supervisors and Assessor Dalton to protest against any increase by the State Board. County Auditor Whidden has forwarded to the State Board of Equalization his statement of the assessed valuation of property in the county. No effort was made to prevent this action of the Auditor.

University Notes. Miss Bertha Gran of Sacramento will enter the Freshman class. Mr. Edward T. Rainey of the class of '98 has returned from his home at Santa Barbara and will re-enter the college this term.

The Freshman class was measured at the Gymnasium this morning and quite a number of athletes were found among them. They will be of some account when educated in that line of business. The rector has got just about as much business as he wants to attend to. At night he feels too tired too eat. His heavy work will soon be over and then things will go along as usual.

The noise and bustle about North Hall is somewhat confusing to tne uninitiated. They do not seem to know exactly what to do and this makes matters harder to unravel. However, there must be just so much waiting and just such a quantity of perspiration gone to waste for the young people of both sexes to get into the University classes. The two and three -year old ones rather look down upon the fresh arrival with a commiseration sigh which does not add very much to the first year arrival. Mrs.

Woodman, of Chico, will deliver a lecture at the M. E. Church, corner of Allston way and Fulton street, this evening, taking for her subject "Citizens' Comparisons of this address have been made with those of Mrs. Anna Shaw and it was favorable. While the W.

C. T. U. give a hearty invitation to all to be present, gentlemen are specially invited. Anybody that thinks Sam Fisher at the West End is not a genius will get fooled some day.

It is sufficient for this article to say that in addition to the business he has already established he has opened up and has ready for sale the kind of hands, that students of the University think is the fad. This is a hint for the students to go to his realty and see the various styles of head gear. More old styles than can be counted by the blind man. More than half a dozen earthquake shocks were feli in the city of Mexico yesterday. GAZETTELETS.

He used to be the meekest man In all the human race, But since he bought a bicycle He travels on his face. -Life. Gustave Peters was arrested at West Berkeley yesterday charged with disturbing the peace. The Board of Supervisors have voted an appropriation of $300 to be used in making an Alameda County display at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition. Charles Raymond, the tool borrower, got a sentence of two years in the State Prison at Folsom.

It was not his first offense. James Paine, the organ builder, has gone to San Mateo on business which will keep him away for a week. A decision has been given in a San Francisco Superior Court that the taxes on Dupont-street are legal. About one million dollars has been paid in under protest. The trial of Summers for battery will come up before Justice Lord tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.

Deputy Marshal Rawson was hunting up a jury for the case today. The most destructive fire that has taken place at Philadelphia for the last twenty years occurred in that city yesterday. The electric wires were very troublesome before the current was shut off. New iron posts have been erected to mark the boundary lines between Alameda and Contra Costa counties. They are surmounted with an iron bear and have an inscription on one side "Alameda county" and "Contra Costa county" on the other.

C. J. Newell has applied to the Board of Supervisors for a license to keep a saloon on the corner of Dalton street and San Pablo avenue. His bonds were approved and the matter was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A suit is about to be commenced at San Francisco for the San Miguel Rancho.

An irregularity in making a deed by Jose de Jesus Noe to W. J. Horner is the basis of the suit. It has all the appearances of a blackmail business. Died.

The Supervisors yesterday passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor tor any one to throw on any road in the county tacks, broken glass or anything "tending to damage personal property." This ordinance was passed at the request of bicyclists. A young ladies' bicycle club has been organized in Berkeley and will be known: as the Athenian Cycling Club. Crimson and black are the colors selected for the costume. Miss Edda Rider is captain; Miss Edith Huddart, president; Miss Pearl Judson, secretary; Miss Jennie Mason, treasurer. George Cullen, a boy thirteen years old, in jumping from the outgoing Napa train yesterday afternoon at Sixteenth street station, was whirled under the wheels and crushed to death.

The victim in company with some comrades had been in the habit of boarding trains for a ride and jumping off after traveling a few blocks. He lived with his parents at 1665 Sixteenth street. Judge McKinstry has been moniously dumped from the Hastings Law College by the trustees of that institution. It was an even up arrangement. He had no respect for the trustees and they were also wanting in this qualification for the Judge.

Maybe that the Judge's age interferes with what used to be considered good judgment in Solano county forty years ago. H. M. Levy, president of the Hale Norcross mine, is being called to account for several actions which are alleged to be against the law. The recent decision of the Supreme Court has given his name a black eye that will take flity years to heal.

Now Solomon Hoeflich sues Levy to recover from him the property of his dead brother. Various kinds of jewelry are specified in the complaint..