Show TRACE IDENTITY OF SLAVE BOY OAKLAND Cal Cal CaU March 6 United United United Unit Unit- ed Press Press Press-A A search that will ex extend extend extend ex- ex tend from the Pacific coast to O Africa in an attempt to learn the identity of ot a negro slave boy captured captured captured cap cap- long ago at t the ag age of 10 years by Arab slave dealers has been undertaken by Public AdminIstrAtor Administrator Admin Admin- Albert E E. Alameda county r The slave boy is dead For the past seventeen years known by his adopted name of Jefferson C. C Davis he served as janitor of an Oakland railroad station When he died recently the w weight Ight of years upon him he left behind him 2000 to his widow and the request that tha some interested person trace his identity He told all that he ha could remember remember remember ber of ot his life Ufe before he died I T was born about 18 1854 4 I think In a village at the foot of some mountains in Zanzibar I remember remember remember ber that I played in the village with other bo boo bo nd girls One day Arab slave dealers raided the place and took toole me with them We Ve were loaded on a slave ship A long time it was captured by a British frigate the Kingston Charles Emerson captain I re remember remember Te- Te member him because he made mad me cabin boy Crossing the Pacific the captain cap p tain tarn died three days out of San Francisco I left the ship there and went to the mining camps A Along Along Along long time afterward I came here The aged negro whose tribal name as nearly as he could remember re remember remember re- re member was Tosha Shower attempted at attempted attempted at- at tempted through British authorities authorities authorities ties in Africa and the Universal Negro Improvement association to learn his identity but was unsuccessful |