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TUESDAY EVENING OAKLAND TRIBUNE AUGUST 4, 1903 COUNCIL ORDERS IMPROVEMENTS. GIFT OF ADAMS LICENSE WIT TO CLOSE HE OBJECTS TO STREET. FEE 4 BOIIUU OilllCE TO PRINT I OVER GOES i SCHLESINGER MAKES ARGUMENT BOXING LAW IS NOW READY FOB in FIO.HT ANTICIPATED OVER THE SALOON "AT" BALL. PARK IN GOLDEN GATE. ADVANTAGES TO FLOW 5 FROM CHANGES IN NORTHERN PART OF CITY.

COUNCIL'S ACCEPTANCE. OF- CONSERVATORY AND PARK APPRECIATED. V- Ordinance! Regulating -Boxing Athletic Clubs in This City is Finally Passed. At the of the City Council list night, ail the rnembers were present save Councilman Cuvellier. From S.

Dewing-, to be followed to gra.de and sidewalk, in front of his property on Shattuck avenue. Street Committee. From George Turner. to be permitted to erect a corrugated iron building 88x8 feet as a bootblack stand, to ad-Join the narrow-gauge i depot on teenth street. Filed.

"From Judge George Samuels, to be with suitable place in which to "hold a Justice court. Auditing and' Fi-; nance. PERALTA PARK. From Lake Boulevard and Feralta Heights Improvement Association, to the park; eouth of Twelfth treet dam. as Peralta Park.

Park and Boulevard. SEWERING MANY STREETS. Te Hutchinson asked for permission to construct on the following streets, under private contract, sewers according to the plans and specifications Of the City Engineer: Fortieth, from eastern line of Emeryville to Grove street; Linden, from Fortieth to Temescal Creek; Forty-first, from Linden to Market; Forty-second, from Linden to a point 340 feet east of Market; Forty-third, from Linden to Grove; Forty-fourth, from Linden to Forty-fifth, from Linden to Grove; Forty-sixth, from Linden to Grove street. Councilman Fitzgerald asked if the plans of the sewers could be changed. T.

R. Hutchinson said the plans had been drawn by the City Engineer and that they could not be changed. Mr. Meese asked if the sewers were to be' extended from one end of the district to the other. Mr.

Hutchinson replied that such was the case. President Dornin thought that the work could be done in less time than, that asked by the company, namely, three months. That; was a long time, more especially if it had to be extended as has already? been the case with a number of contracts. He thought three months should suffice. A resolution was finally adopted grant ing the request and.

limiting the time for ee performance of the work to four Councilman Dornin voted in the nega te, as he said, not Because ne was op- bed to the improvements, but because wanted the contractors to realize, in jeasure at Jeast, that expedition was Ipected of them. RESOLUTIONS. 1 Resolutions were disposed of as fol- fws: Transferring money, from one fund to mother for the next fiscal year. Audit ing and Finance Committee. Ordering street work done on Market street, between First and Twenty-second streets.

Street Committee. Authorizing the Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Company to plaee at street light at the corner of Second and Jefferson streets. Instructing the City Clerk to re-advertise for bids to sewer Telegraph avenue from Twentieth to Thirtieth streets. Adopted. Giving twenty days' notice for the sidewalklng.of Fifteenth street.

Fifty-eighth Street and Twenty-fourth avenue. Adopted. Appropriating J200 from the general fund to be placed in the emergency fund. Adopted. i 3 Authorizing the Board ef Public Works to remove eucalyptus trees from Shat-tuck avenue in front of Bushrod Park.

Adopted. Sewering Eighth street from Harrison to Webster street. Adopted. Fixing the pompensation of the janitor of the Board of Health at $15 per month. Adopted.

Adopting plans and specifications for the sewering of Eighth street from Franklin to, Webster street. Authorizing the Superintendent of Streets to extend the concrete culvert in the west arm of Cemetery Creek across Thirty-fourth street fifteen feet at each end at a cost not to exceed $350, from the street fund. Street Committee. Grading, curbing and macadamizing Nineteenth street from Fourth street to Athol avenue. Referred to the City Attorney.

Erecting an electric Jlght at Second and Jefferson streets, and removing the light from Third and Jefferson and Fourth and Jefferson streets. Adopted. Granting George W. Mesic, stoker of Engine Company No. 7, sixty days' leave of absence.

Adopted. RESOLUTION OF INTENTION. Sewering Sixty-first street from Tele graph avenue to a point 325 feet east of Canning street. Adopted: LIQUOR LICENSE BONDS. The following liquor license bonds were approved: M.

Baptista, 1651 Pacific treet; G. Cordano, 711 Myrtle street. Henry Wilking, 879 Washington street; street; G. Cordano. 711 Myrtle street; Henry Wilking.

879 Washington street; Gus Belllnk, 403 Fourteenth street; H. Kujachich, 844 Market street. CHARGES INVESTIGATED. Councilman Howard, who has been absent en vacation, reopened the matter of the charges certain saloons, but when he was informed that that matter had already been disposed of, he withdrew the charges. GRANTED LIQUOR LICENSES.

The following were granted permission to sell liquor: Jerry Weiss, 920 Franklin Street; Amoral Pereira, 782 East Twelfth street; J. J. Perry, 1456 Seventh street; John Valladao, 1501 Seventh street; Hennlngs 811 Alice street; D. Knabbe, 47S Eleventh street; Con Donovan, 6399 Telegraph avenue; P. N.

Han-rahan, 1072-Broadway: J. P. De Camp, 2187 Telegraph avenue; T. D. Sullivan, THE MAYOR'S SIGNATURE.

The City Council has passed the ordinance which permits boxing contests be held in this city to print, and all thai remains to make It a law is the signa. ture of the Mayor. It Is generaUy un-derstood that the ordinance, as it stands satisfactory to the city's executlvi ana will be signed by him as soon as pr! sen ted. The matter has now reached a stajji where the various clubs in this city an safe In anticipating the revival of th4 boxing game, and a number of them ar now casting about for available taleiv for the opening attractions. The new law is so framed that al objectionable features are eliminated an only permits recognized clubs to iv boxing entertainments.

A provision oi the ordinance. whi)ch specifies that a clul must be duly organized and have established quartews'for at least a year previous to-, obtaining a permit for a contest is intended to bar mushroom organiza tions from springing up and giving contests as a means of speculation. The-; Police Commissioners have fu! authority and application must be mad to that body for a permit for each contest. The commissioners are given tU right to reject any and all applicatipru for permits. The ordinance limits all amateur bouti to four rounds and profession contesti to fifteen rounds.

The expected arrival of Champiot Jeffries to finish his training at the Reliance Club, of which he is an honoraij member, is giving renewed life to lh boxing game. The champion was. expected to arrive about the first of thU month, but changed his mind, for th reason that he Is averse to having a largi crowd of spectators around while works. He will probably come here thi first part of next week and spend a few days here before entering the ring oi August 14. While here he will do llghi iWork at the Reliance Club gymnasium.

Boy Cured of Colic After Physician! Treatment Had Failed. My boy. when 4 years old, was taker with colic and cramps in his stomach. 3 sent for the doctor and he injected morphine, 'bpt the child kept getting worse, I then gave him half a teaspoonful ol Chamberlains Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and in half an hour was sloping and soon recovered. F.

Wilkins. Shell Lake Wis. Mr. Wilkini is bookkeeper for the Shell Lake Lumbei Co. For sale by Osgood Seventl street and Broadway.

Two Carloads Watermelons. Famous Lodi melons. Fine poultry foi table or breeding purposes. We rals them. Robert F.

Guichard. Sixth and Washington streets. Second-Hand Furniture Wanted. Highest price paid for sans Wharton Furniture 421 Eleventh street, south side street, near Broadway. ELECTRIC LICHTS.

Prices of current soon to be reduced. For estimates on wiring ring up Jame 2451. Coast Electric J. E. Morris, manager, 207 Telegraph arenu.

Cool- ard Refreshing drinks made to the Queen's taste a Prank "Piprftlrfl's "Orr.iriftntal southeast corner of Washington and Eighth streets. Ihe finest brands of wines and liquor Cigar department carries the largest and finest stack in Oakland. Oakland Shorthand Institute. 1065 Washington street, Jeanett Conner, principal. Day and evening classes.

Pitman and Gregg systems. Telephone' White 134. Annual meeting of the stockholders Oakland Electrical Company (inc.) will be held at the office of the company, 532 and 534 Thirteenth street, Tuesday, August 11, 1903, at 7:30 p. m. Per ordel J.

W. COX Secretary-Oakland, July 31, 1903. Cook Stoves. We will exchange with you; give yon a new one and guarantee that wili satisfy you. H.

Schellhaas, 408 11th St. Piedmont Baths. First-class Turkish and Ham man Baths. Finest service on the Coast; experienced attendants. Also swimming tank for ladies and gentlemen.

Take Piedmont car ter Twenty-fourth street. Imperial 1 Home Bread gives to the bread eater all the nourishment that the best wheat 4 contains. It's better, sweeter and lighter bread than you get else- where. IMPERIAL, HOME BAKERY T. DORGAN, 541 11TH COR.

CLAY Phone John 181. 968 CASTRO ST. Cor, 10TH. Phone James 606. OAKLAND.

4 4 4 4 4 BOY WANTED GOOD MESSENGER BOY WANTED APPLY AT THE IMMEDIATELY. TRIBUNE OFFIC? l) fiali VHIIIUIIIIH 2 Lfruit uanners II Association it ii Cannery First and Fihbert Streets resumes work-MONDAY MORNING AUGUST 3. at 6:30 o'clock. 500 II I Women and Girls Wanted. A.

C. HODGES, Supt. i 11 A. C. HODGES, Supt.

I AGAINST EARL'S CLAIM. Che Council last night passed to print an ordinance ordering paid to Attorney Guy C. Earl $1500 for his conduct of the case for the city Oakland vs. the Contra Costa Water Company in which, it was alleged Mr. Earl had acted as special counsel for the city of Oakland.

The sum contained in the ordinance was a compromise one, because" the Amount originally asked by Auditor Breed for Mr. EarT. was '12600. The Committee of: the- Whole reported recommencing that the sum of $1500 be substituted for $2500 and that the former sum be allowed. amendment was adopted and the amended was Ordered published.

SCHLESINGER PROTESTS: rrevlously, however, the following pioiest against tne payment of the claim was read and listened to with a great deal of interest "Gentlemen: Referring to the recent action of Committee of the Whole of your honorable body in recommending the allowance of the claim of Guv C. F.arl for the sum of $1500 for legal services rendered to the City Auditor in connection with the suit of the Contra Costa Water Company against Breed, the undersigned -begs to respectfully protest against -the allowance of any sum whatever on the above named claim. REFUSED ASSISTANCE. "The undersigned has been informed and believes it to be a fact that the City Auditor refused to accept the services of the City Attorney in the above mentioned litigation and ignored that official, preferring to personally employ the aoove-named claimant as his attorney; and the undersigned is further infos.med and believes it is susceptible of proof that the said Auditor during the last municipal campaign in various places announced that he had. at his own expense, employed his counsel in that suit and that the people of Oakland should return him to office by reason of that fact among others and mat he.

the said Auditor, had shown his public spirit and his interest in the welfare of the city by encurring that expense out of his own pocket. DUTY OF CITY ATTORNEY. "According to the law of California it is the duty of the City Attorney to defend all such suits and no puMic official has authority to incur expense to the city, through the employment of private talent. In this connection. I would say that I have consulted an attorney of this city, Saa Francisco, and your Honorable Body 15 respectfully referred to the decision of the Supreme Court Commissioners in the case of Denmon against Webster, found on page 1063 in 70 Pacific Reporter and also in 24 California Decisions, page 6T0: also to the decision of the Supreme Coutt in banc upon the rehearing of the case cited, which decision just referred to, construed charter provisions practically identical, with the provisions of the Oakland charter, and seems to be conclusie as to the validlty of the one In question.

Ner is it under-sti-ad that the law of California allows such a body as the City Council to extend money of the municjgytty in the oavment of Illegal claims heretofore in curred by one of the officials of the municipality. DEPLETED TREASURY. "In" view of the present depleted condi tion of city treasury, as well as of the fact; that the claimant above Tefeired to was employed as the personal attorney of the Auditor, and in view of the fact that the City Auditor, has no power to Incur such a debt against the city, it respectfully suomictea mat is the duty of the City Council and of the Mayor to reject the claim of Guy Earl in toto. Respectfully, C. SCHLESINGEK.

In response to a question, the City Clerk- said that the City Attorney had rendered a decision that the Council could fix the Eum to be paid attorney Earl. The ordinance went to print by the vote of all the Councilmen present, the absentee being Cuvellier. CARDINAL'S END IS APPROACNING, ROME, August 4. There was great an xiety around the Vatican throughout the night, bothin and out of the conclave, owing to the fear that Cardinal Herrero Espinosa might die at any moment. I Feeling the end approaching, the Cardinal confided his last wishes to Mon- sianor 1 Boniface Marin, Vicar General of his archdiocese, Valencia, Spain.

At daybreak, Cardinal Herrero's condi tion took a turn for the better. Never theless, the doctors still consider his life to be in danger. FILES A CONTEST TO FATHER'S WILL Sophie Nicholas was granted special letters of administration yesterday on the estate of her father, Henry H. Meyer. According to the terms of the will the daughter inherits about three-fourths- of the estate, which consists of valuable property in Her brother, Henry A.

Meyer has filed a contest to the will on the ground of undue influence. His share of the property was placed in his sister's trust, he to receive but the interest. LITTLE MONEY IS SECURED BY LETTER The funds for entertaining the Grand Army Veterans and their families are coming in very Notwithstanding that there has been over 3ix hundred personal letters asking for money sent out, and constant appeals made through the press, there has been less than one hundred dollars received up to date The chairman of the finance comraittte, Theo. Gier, yesterday appointed W. B.

Hardy, J. L. Champlin and C. F. Carl to make a personal canvass.

Owing to the need of -immediate action they will begin their work today. SMALL BOY INJURED. James Dunnj aged fourteen years, who is employed at the California Sash and Door Factory as a millhand, caught his right arm in one of the machines -yesterday, Injuring it severely. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital and treated by Dr. Emerson, who' found it necessary to take four stitches in the wound The lad resides at 944 Fifty-eighth street.

Thirty-three Top Mattresses Direct from factory: I neat and clean. 1 See them ati H. Schellhaas Eleventh I street, Corner; Store. is At the meeting of the City Council, last night, appreciation of the gift to. the elty of Oakland by the heirs of the Adams' estate of the beautiful Adams' park and conservatory was shown by the following self-explanatory resolutions: "At a meting of the California State Horticultural Alllnance, held July 2d, the following resolution was "Whereas.

The Adams estate heirs have presented to the eity large plot of land beautified with flowers and tree of rare variety; and "Whereas, Included In this gift is avery valuable conservatory, stocked with rare exotics; and "Whereas, The California State Horti-metlng assembled, do thereby greet this act of generosity and expression of Interest in the furtherance of horticulture; and "Whereas, Such parks are of inestimable value in imbuing tha hearts of the young with a love for flowers and nature; therefore, be it "Resolved. That the California State Horticultural Alliance, Oakland branch, does hereby express its gratitude to the donors of this munificent gift to the city of Oakland; and furthermore "Resolved, That this organization expresses its pleasure in the acceptance of said park by the City council of Oakland, and its faith the 'integrity of the City Council and each member thereof, when, in the acceptance of the said park, they agree to keep it up and make It a beauty spot; "Resolved, That the secretary of thjs Alliance trarismit a copy of these resolutions to the City Clerk of the city Of Oakland and also to Messrs. Edson F. Adams, John C. Adams and Mrs.

Thomas Pratheft' Signed: D. Pryal Signed: W. D. PRYAL," Pres. SHEPHERD, -See." 4, ASSESSMENT ROLLS WILL READY EARLY NEXT WEEK.

BE The City Council met last night as City Board of Equilljation. A resolution was adopted ordering the publication of a notice, to the effect that, the board would, meet from time to time, but not later than midnight August 19, Another resolution was adonted to the effect that the Board of Eauilizatlon at those meetings would raise or lower assessments an city property for the pur. pose of equalizing the same on sworn application and proof on the part of the taxpayer. The clerk said the assessor's rolls had not yet been received but were looked for next Monday night. ine board adjourned to that date, SANITARY BONDS.

The Council met last nleht as th Ad. eiine and Golden Gate Sanitarv District Boards but adjourned -without transact ing business. COUNCIL ACCEPTS TRANSIT BID. The opening of bids for a railway fran chise on Talcott avenue, from Twenty-third to Twenty-fifth avenue, Pleasant Valley and Piedmont avenues, and a pri vate right of way, was made a special order at the meeting of the Council last night. The Oakland Transit Consolidated bid for the privilege $500 and inclosed j.

cer tified check for that sum. This prop osition included free riding ti mail car riers while in actual discharge of their duty. "I announce," said President Dornin, that it is now in order for any one per son present to advance the bid of the Oakland Transit. Is anybody willing to do so? If not, the proposition will be referred to the Street Railway Committee." The offer was referred to the Street Railway Commltee, but later In the evening a resolution was introduced, accept- the bid and, as there were no other bid ders, the resolution was adopted. DOES NOT LIKE ROCK ON DAM.

The following communication was re ferred to the Street Committee "Gentlemen: I respectfully caH your attention to the fact that it Is the rotten est of worthless, rotten rock that has been used as a top dressing on the new roadway across the Twelfth street dam. "It has already disintegrated Into fine dust, inches deep, filling the air In all directions except Just after the water cart sprinkles it. Just as soon as the winter rains set to, shall have a mud-pool slumgullion these six inches deep. Whose- fault is this? nice taa rock so used as a top-dressing. It is a rotten shame that It should be so.

"HARRY N. MORSE." LOOKING FOR HIS PARENTS. NEW YORK, August 4. In an endeavor to find his father, mother, brother and two sisters, whora Jie has not seen or tyfljrd of for twenty yaars, the Rev. Thofnas Ringland of Ferris.

111., has notified the police that he will pay a. "liberal reward for information which would aid him in his search. The Rev. Mr. Ringland when but 10 years old, in 1881, was placed in a New York asylum by his parents, who were poor.

Through the agency of the asylum he was apprenticed- to an Illinois farmer. He remained there several years and finally decided to become a minister. He entered a Meth odist Church in Ferris, of which he is now pastor. After a long search, Jt has been discovered that his father returned to his old home in Ireland in 1881. taking his two little girls with him.

It could not be learned what bad become of the mother. 1- ii. 1 Andorra is a republic on the borders ef France and Spain. It has an area Of 175 square miles ana population of 6000 NOTICE CIVEHJf EQUALIZATION. iThe Council, last passed to print, the ordinance providing for the closing up of Forty-second street between Telegraph avenue and Grove street.

PROJECT ENDORSED. I Before doing so, however, the clerk re- an endorsement of the project had been sent in by the Fortieth Street and Central Avenue Improve-, ment A6ociations as follows: "Oakland, August 3. 1903. To the honorable, the City Council of the City of Oakland: Gentlemen: -We, the undersigned, residents and freeholders of the City of Oakland, have been duly appointed a committee from the Fortieth Street and Central Oakland Improvement Associations "to consider ways and means for the opening of all necessary cross1 and intersecting streets, tributary to the Realty Syndicate and Santa Fe Railroad Company's new ferry system. ENDORSE APPLICATION.

'As a result of our investigation, -we most heartily endorse the application made by Richard J. Montgomery, et al for the passage of the ordinance closing Forty-second street between Telegraph avenue and Grove street. We have carefully examined the map of Central Oakland Tract, a copy of which has been filed with the said applications and offered as a substitute and extension of streets in the locality bounded by West street, Broadway, Thirty-eighth and Forty-fifth streets and note the various offers of dedication for public street pur poses made by Richard J. Montgomery, Anthony McMillan, and the Realty Syndicate, et al, and we believe said offers should merit your hearty approval. WIDEN FORTY-THIRD STREET.

"The approval and filing of said map of Central Oakland Tract will widen Forty-third street, between Telegraph avenue and Grove street to a uniform width of sixty feet instead of fifty-six and sixty feet as heretofore. Forty-second street will be straightened between Telegraph avenue and Grove street so as to harmonize with the extension of the west side of Grove street and east side of Telegraph avenue, and provides for the gruitous extension of Forty-second street for several blocks between Telegraph avenue and Broadway, leaving little in the way of the eventual construction of a cross -highway from San Pablo avenue to Piedmont, thence tba connection with the proposed East Oakland, boulevard system. ANOTHER MAIN THOROUGHFARE. "Said map also provides for the opening of Forty-first street for a distance of six blocks between Telegraph avenue and Broadway, thus making a continuous highway from -Piedmont avenue to San Pablo avenue with the exception of a short space between West and Market streets. The exten sion of Cherry street soutnerly from Forty-fifth street, by the filing of said map.

suggests the possibility of another main thoroughfare between Oakland Estuary and the Town of Berkeley by changing the name of Miles, Cherry. Gold and Academy or Dwinelle streets to Webster -street, between Iiawthorne-street and College avenue and the ex-, tending of said street between Edwards and Sherman streets and street to said Miles avenue. We believe that the public enterprise by the offer of dedication of several acres of valuable land for street purposes, by the filing of said map of Central Oakland Tract should receive your hearty commendation. By so doing it will encourage offers to co-operate in the extension of the several streets, thus partially opened to public use, thereby providing convenient access to the school residence and business localities of the city, and we are confident that it will tend to render less Irksome the task imposed upon your honorable body, and all others, who may in the future endeavor to beautify and develop the City's parks, homes and magnificent naroor. tte- spectfully submitted, "FORTIETH STREET AND CENTRAL OAKLAND IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION." DIMMIGK'S PLEA DENIED BY COURT.

The Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus yesterday and ordered the prisoner remanded in the case of Walter N. Dimmick, ex-cashier of the Mint. A writ returnahjyester-dav was itsued on July 29. and Dim- mick's counsel failed to show cause why he should now be, at liberty. The point on which the Supreme Court's decision hinged involved the al lotment of credits to prisoner, as provided in the Penal Code.

Attorney George D. Collins, who appeared for Dimmick, claithed that the prisoner's sen- exnired June 16. Dimmick was sen tenced by the United States District Court to serve a term of two years, beginning October 16, 1901. He has been incarcerated in San Quentin only since ADril 13 of this year, and It was claimed i by his counsel that his sentence really began octooer ie, lartu, ana aiso was entitled to four months for good behavior under the credit system that ob tains The Court held that the prisoner could gain' credits only for the actual time served after he had been deliverd to San Quentin and if the sentence does expire October' 16, 1903, as claimed, he will then be -entitled to credits only for the period of his incarceration, from April 13 1 to October 16 of this year. Attorney ColPs asked If the Court was passing on the ouestion as to whether the sentence expires October 16, 1903.

and the Court re-oiled in the negative, explaining that It was a question foreign to tne petition. EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE ORGANIZED. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. The Afro- American Equal Rights League of the Ktat of New York has been organized at a meeting in Saratoga- Officers were elected and the President was empowered to appoint one person from each Congressional District to form an executive board.

Associations are ex pected to be formed in other States. FUNERAL OF JAMES CHAFFEE. The funeral of James H. Chaffee, who died last Friday at the East Bay. Sana toriurn, was held from local undertaking narlora yesterday.

The services were conducted by Rev. E. E. Baker, and were under the direction of Professor Walter Masree of the University of California, a life-long friend of the deceased. James Chaffee was an octogenarian, and was known as one of the heroes of Bret Harte's famous frontier story, nefcsee's Pardner." 'Ten At the request of President Dornin, whenCj.be list of applicants for saloon li-censeSj! whose recommendations were recommended, was read by the Clerk of the Council last night the name of John- Ev Donahue, who wants to run a at the baseball park in Golden Gate, was omitted.

The other applications were then granted. said Mr. Wallace, "that there has been a protest against granting the license. I was absent." chair stated that he understood that protest had been considered by the License Committee. councilman Howard asked for the reading of the protest.

The request was granted. The protest was based upon the alleged facts that the applicant had not, as staterin bis appli eatjon, been a resident of the city for one year; that the application was not filed In Donohue's Interest, but In that of one F- Barrellls; that these were not the only persons In interest but that the saloon was to be run by Mrs. Christen -sen, daughter of Donohue, who was now running the place in a disorderly manner. The clerk said that there was a petition recommending the granting of the license. Mr.

Meese asked for the reading of the recommendation. The document was read. It showed that the applicant was a reliable man. and that he would run the saloon in a flrst-elass manner. Mr.

McAdam moved that the matter lay over for two weeks. "I am opposed to this motion," said Councilman Elliott, "unless there is good reason for it. If it is simply to lay the matter over until te tain Councilmen can be here to vote in favor of the license, I am oppesed to it. No reason has been given and- I must therefore vote against delay." Mr. Elliott did not say to what Councilman he referred, but the reference was understood to be Cuvellier, Who is absent on leave.

Mr. Dornin said the delay was for only two weeks. will give a reason." said Mr. Mc- Adam, "for my motion. I want time to look into the matter.

This is in my ward and I want to know all about it." over." said Councilman Howard. The motion to continue for two weeks was carried by the following vote in the affirmative: Aitkin, Fitzgerald. Howard; McAdam. Meesei Wallace and Dornin- Councilmen Elliott, and Pendleton voted In the negative. FLEM MING WAS NOT OUSTED.

Finding that uhder the city charter they had; no right to hold a regular meeting," there no session of theJ Bard -o-f Police andFire Commissioners yesterday afternoon and consequently Iuis.Flemjrdng was not ousted frorn-his positiorj, a Superintendent of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph Department as was anticipated. The reason "for the Commissioners not meeting ws that when the meeting was adjourned last Friday to met yesterday there was but one Commissioner present and-the charter provides that it requires the presence of more than en member to cause an adjournment to a date other than the regular meettngtime." So' action in Flemrming's case will not be taken until Friday. GAS COMPANY ISSUES STOCK. NEW YORK, Aug. 4.

Circulars have beenr mailed to the stockholders of the Consolidated Gas Company of this city, announcing an issue of of treasury stock which is offered for subscription at $150. The objek of the stock issue is to meet the of a plant now being erected on Long Island which will supply all of Manhattan and do away with the present scattered plants in this city. The present capital of the Consolidated Company is $80,000,000. COURT REFUSES DEMURRER. NEW YORK, Aug.

4. Recorder Goff has declined to entertain a demurrer Interposed by Robert Martin and Harry Velthusen, who, as officers of the Delaware Surety Company were Mndicted for perjury In connection with the Montana Copper mine litigation. The indictments were found two years ago. Trial was fixed for August 18th. DELEGATES ELECTED.

Council No. 5,. U. P. E.

of Center- ville, at the last rheeting elected the following representatives to the grand lodge, which meets at Hanford in October: M. F. Silva, F. Peixbuto, P. Silva, C.

August, A. Rodgers, J. George, M. Lopes and J. Lueio.

NO HUMBUG HERE Oakland's Endorsement is What Counts With the Oakland Public Yeu ean't fool the public all the time. They will find you out at last. Every time a man Is fooled Another skeptic is made. Many the remedy that makes the skeptic Because it falls to keep Its promises. Dean's Kidney Pills bring renewed reward.

They cure the skeptic Plenty of proof of this at home. Oakland proof for Oakland people. Here's a case of It Walter J. Pluramer of 1328 Versailles avenue, Alameda, jeweler In the em ploy of Geo. R.

Moss says: "If the contraction of a cold which settled across the small of my back was not jthe primary cause of the aching in that part of my anatomy knew positively lhat when I caught a cold aggravation the trouble was very apparent. I iave persistently and consistently tried medicines when these attacks were at jthelr height, but met with very- Indifferent success. From reading an advertisement- about Doan's Kidney Pills in a newspaper I was induced to to to a drug store for a box. Relief followed the -treatment in a few days, and since I stopped, using the Pills there has not been a sign of a recurrence." For, sale by all price, B0 bents; Poster- Mllburn Buffalo, N. sol 'agnt tor the United States.

Remember the name ian ana talfjo anbatittfta. 1 4999 "Telegraph avenue; John Dooley, 1747 Seven tfistreet A. Brownell, 426 Eleventh street; John Mil' 501 San Pablo avenue; Charles Kohl. 411 Twelfth street; Frank Greene, Seventh and Franklin streets; Mitchell Ciciel, 218 San Pablo avenue. ORDINANCES.

Ordinances were disposed of as follows: Establishing grades on Piedmont avenue. Ordinance and Judiciary Committee. Establishing the width of sidewalks on East Twenty-first street, between Thir teenth and Seventeenth streets. Finally passed. Changing grades on East Twelfth street.

between Nineteenth and Twenty-second avenues, and on Twentv-first avenue from East Twelfth streetui a point 140 feet northerly. Ordinance and Judiciary Committee. Establishing graces on Twelfth, Fourteenth. Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets between Adeline and Kirkham streets. Finally passed.

Appointing' a gardener for Adams Park at a salary of $90 per month. Fl nally passed. BOXING CONTESTS. Regulating professional and amateur sparring Finally passed. Changing grades on avenue from Summit to Finally passed.

Changing tha grade on East Twelfth street, between Third and Twenty-fifth avenue. Finally passed. PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS Petitions and were disposed of as. follows: From Twenty-third avenue District Improvement Club to lay "a- crosswalk on the east side of Twenty-third avenue, fatreet Committee. From Rev.

Jacob Schneider and others remonstrating against the granting of a saloon license to Joseph M. Sllva at 236 San Pablo avenue. License Committee. From the poundmaster, showing receipts during July of $99.35. Filed.

GARDINER'S VACATION. From R. A. Jackson and others against changing the name of East Oak "street Strset Committee. From Herschel Miller for deed to the northern 60 feet of block 648.

northern extension. Ordinance and Judiciary, From gardeners Jame Galligan of Madison park; P. McBrien of Harrison; R. Nunnemacher of Lincoln; N. L.

Daly of Jefferson; and W. Fleming of Lafayette, for vacation of ten days. Board of Public Works. CROSSING CLOSEDSJTREETS. From the Oakland and Eait Side Railroad Company for a franchise to cross over Holden.

Halleck. Hubbard and other streets closed some time ago by the Council for the entrance to the city of the Santa Fe. Street Railroad Committee. SALOONS IN OAICLAND. From Chief of Police Hodgkins showing that there are now 235 licensed saloons in Oakland.

CHANGING STREET NAMES. From the Lake, Boulevard and Peralta Heights Improvement Club to change the names of streets follows: Chicago avenue and Howard street and avenue to Jordan avenue; Peralta avenue to Hayes avenue, Peralta being a duplicate of Peralta street in West Oakland: East Oak street to Bestor ave1 nue; Clinton avenue to Excelsior avenue Mound street to street; Mathews avenue to Fourth avenue; Bay street to Bedford avenue; Prospect avenue to Robinsqn avenue; Lake street to Standish avenue. Street Committee. Deputy City Attorney O'Brien was asked as to whom the property in the street to be closed would go to and replied, that it would revert to the abut ting property owners. Mr.

Fitzgerald wanted to know what assurance the Council had that the streets would be dedicated. He thought there should be something about it included in the ordinance. Messrs Howard and Elliott said that was a good suggestion. City Engineer sent In a communication favoring the project on the ground that it would give one more cross town road which was not now interrupted wjiere it is needed. Mr.

McAdam saw no necessity of making haste in the matter. He thought it could be deferred until further condition could be given to the subject. Mr Meese, Mr. Elliott and others spoke on the subjeet. The ordinance Is now being published.

Adjourned until Monday next at 9 a HAS RETURNED FROM CHICAGO. James Breek, of the Hook Brothers furniture house, has returned from a three irseks' trip to Chicago and other Eastern where he has been on busi ness tJ, and during his absence h. has purchased for his reliable concern one of the largest and most varied lln- of up io-aaie lurnuure, carpets, etc.r ever shown in Oakland and which will be ex hibited and be on sale in a few weeks. mt. isreck is an expert in his line, his judgment in selecting goods is widespread ana the patrons or this firm and intend ing purchasers will find it to their Inter est to" inspect the fine stock this firm will put on display about the 20th in the meantime they are offering the great est bargains in furniture, ever extended to an Oakland public.

One that should be taken advantage ef with out delay. PROBATE NOTES. Petition was filed today by E. M. Gib son for the probate of the estate of John Brannan." deceased, and an order made by Judge Ellsworth appointing him executor of the last will and testament of the deceased.

Theophtle Mareou.x -has filed his report as guardian of the. person and estate of wiinam Hugh O'Reilly. The estate he snowa amounts to $526 78 In cash. Henry C. Hacks.

George Wales and J. ts. jankiree have been anoointed at pralsers of the estate of Clinton H. Lub- DOCK. 13th and Broadway OAKLAND NEW PIANOS FOR SHEfUMl, CLAY CO.

Steinway Dealers.