Showing posts with label 1889. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1889. Show all posts

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January 3, 1889: Police Roundup

Last evening between the hours of 7 and and 10 the police effected a round up of the vags and suspicious characters having no visible, means of existence found on the public streets. The round up brought together within the walls of the City Prison twenty-two drunks and vagrants — as worthless a set of vagabonds as ever graced a police dock — all of whom were disposed of to-day by Judge Henshaw according to their respective merrits. Oakland Daily Evening Tribune, Thursday, January 3, 1889

January 3, 1889: SPECIAL POLICE

Conductors and Brakemen to Be Appointed Peace Officers
The Southern Pacific Company has opened the new year by making some changes and some improvements. One of the improvements has been decided upon, and will be carried out next week. It is to secure the appointment of all or as many of the conductors and brakemen on the Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley locals as will serve as deputy sherriffs and special police officers. On the Oakland trains they will be appointed special officers in order to make arrests for violations of city ordinances. Train jumpers will now have to be very careful. This will be done in order to prevent trouble on the trains on Sunday and during picnics in summer. The newly made officers will be instructed to stop train jumping, and when a small boy jumps on the trains he will jump into the arms of an officer. The men will be sworn in next week. Oakland Daily Evening Tribune, Thursday, January 3, 1889