The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 15, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN /FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1898. SHERMAN BOUND HIMSELF T0 LIABILITY TO PAY HIS PHENI Important Documents Found Among the Records of the Pacific and People’s Home Banks. History of the Methods by Which the Los Angeles Manipulator Secured His Cluich on the Institutions. of the nost interesting chapters y of the destruction of the and the People’s Home |r0ad began nowhere | the concern was worthless. As one of | the schemers in the bank declared, the and ended no- Savings Bank is tha vhic! where. Sherman was artfal, however, io: = ;\\‘[‘ ‘ltl “l]}“(h Telyeen tae | in presenting in an altogether false ion of M. H. Sherman to the | jight the character of the road. The ds and which deseribes the | following ‘letter, which is somewhat employed by the crafty ma- |long, will illustrate how Sherman ator of Phoenix and Los Angeles | twisted his insidious way into the Pa- i tting the coin of the banks in ex- |cific Bank: : change for his worthless securities. | PHOENIX, Ar | v McDonald, Long befo or had T the F rojected cific Bank his s Electric Railro nk McDonald to accept Phoenix Electric Rail- ousands and the Pacific nk. herman became a direct- and before he gigantic scheme of ad he Sher- | n ed to delib misrepre- 5 fulsome flattery ar st and are mac r to the m VE t that mar oV nature became pe ally ponsible for ment it The cocu- | produced in fac- o rning »f the defunct banks a h to recover some of t was ed ncial nightmare. that are published thi ere written long before Sher. th k th dissipe tters I ed. t scheme he work- ed st deliberation, and with the & that have been very thoroughly exploited before the public secured hi ds of dollars m the In one of s he obtained from the 3ank and ga valueless hoenix railroad bonds, to which he as- with . however, he | y liable for the | the bonds but of | not only them to maturity. This med, still exists. A ty and a similar con- rence to the People’s Savings Bank. HOW SHERMAN PLANNED HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE GOLD OF THE BANKS. When Sherman laid his plot to get Into the worked slowly, carefully and upon Frank V. McDonald, beginning with small demands and gross misrep- tions in reference to the Phoe- =t Raflroad himself said, was When he foisted upon Frank Bcheme. ¥. McDonald the bonds of the railroad vaults of the Pacific Bank he | craftily | man made himself | In the ear- | | This railroad, as | his pet| They may give | in Sher- | acific Bank and in | > tremendous pow- | Fraacisco, Cal.—Dear Sir: 1 send vou ten of the Valley ompany. This com- 11t street railway being four in HyWns pany now th franchises in ; _The! cable and electric rallways with ouble or single track, and ex- r fifty years. As it has been onth since the consoli- ifferent lines now com- penses, other than to say the present Tate of earnings will produce an in- come sufficient to cover expenses of running the line, pay imterest on. and accumulate a surplus to- roviding for that payment. now operating five miles of road with an equipment of three cars, and have other cars paid for that wili be here soon. Everything connected with the road and the equipment is new and in first class order. The com- any is out of debt and has upward of 1000 in the treasury. This road is one of my pet schmes, to which I am de- voting much time and energy. Our city is growing rapidly, and this prop- erty le In comsequence Increasing In velue every day. I have en route here materfal for three additional miles of track, which will soon be laid. The company now owns twenty-one horses and mules, all good stock, and others will be added as needed. I write you thus fully in accordance with your re- quest when I was In San Francisco and sold you these bonds. With best respects 1 am truly, M. H. SHERMAN. THE McDONALDS ACCEPT THE WORTH- LESS BONDS OF THE PHENIX ROAD. Sherman soon wrote another letter after the foregoing had been penned. In this second epistle he shows again how he imposed on Frank McDonald and the Pacific Bank with the worth- less securities of his wildcat Phoenix property. It was through these prop- erties that Sherman wormed himself into the confidence of the McDonalds and slowly but surely secured his de- stroying clutch upon the banks. The letter in part is as follows: PHOENIX, Ariz., July 9, 188. “F. V. McDonald Esq., cashier, Pa- cific Bank, San Francisco, Cal—Dear Sir: Your kind letter stating that the $5000 had been placed to my credit in | payment for that amount of Valley treet Railroad bonds at par is duly at hand. At the time I sent you the | bonds I explained to you that it was my intention to place the rest of the issue among certain relatives and friends of mine. To-day 1 have a let- ter from one of them stating that he had $20,000 to invest and will put it in any bonds or stock here that I will recommend, providing that I will guar- antee that it will pay him 8 per cent interest net. For some time we have had a_project in view here of starting a bank at Florence, the county seat of Pinal County. This will be the only bank in Pinal tifi Pank: ’. gmgmth?o’ Jalifornia oS > 7 7.k NBre -8 _ Valley Street Railroad Company. Phoenix railroad bonds. Phoenix speculator did so, but this of which is given above, promised gl e cific Bank. This liabflity is a personal one against M. H. SI any effort that may be made to recover the dissipated funds of the racific Bank. A PERSONAL e dellans W Vall, Lt R, s . # & & In one Frank McDonald demanded, however, that Sherman give some sort of a guarantee. tact was kept a profound secret until now. Gt us of the value of his Phoenix projects. and accepted the bonds of Sherman’s Phoenix road, which was known as the transaction Frank McDonald gave M. H. Sherman $40,000 for forty of these X BONDS 6 153, e ,7{ W SHERMAN'S BAIT TO THE PACIFIC BANK. When M. H. Sherman formed his great plot to secure the Pacific Bank as the backer of his worthless schemes he naturally found the McDonalds somewhat suspicio easy and susceptible subject for flattery, Frank McDonald was, however, an The Sherman in his guarantee, a fac simile to be liable for the principal and, interest of the forty bonds he had sold to the Pa- herman, whose contract may be now of very great value in the Territory, and I think a very hand- some business could be worked u there. Of course if we start this ban you will be our San Francisco corre- spondents. You have always been very kind and true to us and we never “change horses.” At one time when in San Francisco you, your brother, or your father,I forget which, told me something of your relations to some of the sayings banks In your city. 1 happen to know that of late Some of the savings banks there in vour city have loaned money at very ow rates on security that I do mot believe is equal to these street rallway bonds. As I wrote you before, this is my pet scheme. I laid out a large por- tion of what is now Phoenix and its additions into city lots. In laying out the streets and alleys dedicating them to public use I rved the exclusive right to myself of laying down, main- taining and operating all street rafl- roads whether propelled by horse, cable or electricity. These exclusive rights I have deeded to the Valley Street - Railway Company, and as I Wrote you before have bought up and consolidated all the franchises. The reason I tell you all this is,it has occurred to me that perhaps you would take this $20,00 bonds at par and let my relatives whom I have mentioned as having $20,000 put it in the Florence Bank stock. It seems to me that such an eight per cent security ought to bring a handsome premium to you when you place it. I mail you a map of the new portion of Phoenix (160 acres) that I own. center of it the capital commission has Jocated the territorial capital. The Valley Street Railroad owns the ex- clusive right of operating jptreet rail- ds here. I am very truly, S M. H. SHERMAN. THE PACIFIC BANK RECEIVES AN IM- PORTANT GUARANTEE FROM SHERMAN. The scheme of Moses H. Sherman in reference to this worthless Valley Street Railroad project worked far bet- ter than the crafty manipulator dared County, one of the richest counties in to hope. Frank McDonald not only ® O] ®© ® © ® ® ® ® ® ® © @ © ® © (O] ®© ©® ® ®© ® ® written. curities, L JOXOXOROROR O OOROO Yoy oY OYoXOToXo Yo YO ROROXORENRERIONOICIORORONO) Moses H. Bherman was not satisfied with folsting made a raid also upon the People’s Home Bavings Ban In consideration of this acceptance Sherman promised not only of Valley Street Ratlroad Company bonds which hi sonally ilable for the payment of any of these bon agreement, part of which s given in fac-simile above, the robbed depositors of the People’s Bank. »eo@@ewumw@ogmmmogqqagog_mqoonogoQ@ooggggqfiwuafim' This agreement, made this 29th day of May, 1890, between M. H. Sherman of the city of Phoenix, county of Maricopa, Territory of Arizona, party of the first part, and the People's Home Sav- ings Bank, a corporation duly incorporated, organized and exist- ing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California, and having its principal place of business in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, party of the second part. Now, then, the said party of the first part hereby guaran- tees the payment of all the bonds of the Valley Street Railroad Company which have been purchased or which may hereafter be pur- chased by the said party of the second part, and also all of the interest that may grow due thereon, as evidence by the coupons annexed to said bonds, and whenever any interest so due upon any of said bonds is not paid, or whenever any of the principal due on any of the said bonds is not paid, then the party of the first part will become obligaied to the party of the second par in the amount so due, and the same shall be a personal debt of the party of the first part to the said party of the second part, the intention being that the party of the first part shall guarantee the payment of the principal and interest of all bonds of the Valley Street Railroad Company purchased by the party of the sec- ond part. Said bonds are all of the denomination of $1000 and dated March 1st, 1890. 2 In .witness whereof, the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above THE GUARANTEE WHICH GAVE BOGUS PROTECTION his worthless Phoenix Rallroad bonds upon the Pacific Bank. He g k and Induced that institution to accept his valueless se- to guarantee the principal and interest ad aiready been bought by the People's Bank, but to be per- ds that might be bought by the bank at any time. This was made in 18%, and is now of extreme importance to @@@@@@’9@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ foyorclorcxoIcloIoXoxoYooYoXoXoXoXoXOXCYOXOROROROROROROROROROROROROROROXO) o (oY OJoNOROJOXOROROROJOROXOXC)] (O] ® LNO) [0} {OXOROXOXCS bit at the bait, but swallowed its hook and all. While Sherman had planned to foist $20,000 of his worthless securi- ties upon the young banker, Frank Mc- Donald took $40,000 worth. He was not altogether a fool, however, and he secured from M. H. Sherman a guar- antee that may be of the greatest im- portance to the robbed depositors of the Pacific Bank and the People’s Bank. Investigation may prove that M. H. Sherman may be compelled to refund $40,000 that he secured from the banks through his wiles. When Frank Mc- Donald took $40,000 of the first mort- gage bonds of the Valley Street Rail- road of Phoenix, Arizona, he demand- ed from M. H. Sherman and recelved a guarantee that Sherman promised to fulfill until the maturity of the bond. Sherman promised to guarantee both the principal and the interest of those bonds and in this way protect the Pa- cific Bank. This guarantee is stull in existence and is in the possession of The Call. It was made upon a letter- head of the Pacific Bank and is in full as follows; : July 16, 1889. ¥ 8, 3 In consideration of the Paeific Bank taking $40,000 of the first mortgage bonds of the Valley Street Rallroad of Phoenix, Ariz., 1 hereby guarantee un- tllr‘ nim‘i‘r"yd lDf su((z t‘wmd’i g)ot‘!il.}he ncipal and interest of said bon z ” . H. SHERMAN. Witness: F. V. McDONALD. PROTECTION PROMISED IN EXCHANGE FOR DANGEROUS SPECULATION. Sherman not only foisted his Valley Street Ralilroad bonds on the Pacific Bank, but he succeeded w.so in palm- ing off a large quantity upon the Peo- ple’'s Home Savings Bank. The Mc- Donalds were as careful in this in- stance, however, as they had been in the case of the Pacific Bank. They exacted from Sherman a promise which is a legal agreement that he would per- sonally guarantee the principal and in- terest of the Valley Street Rallroad bonds to the People’s Home Savings Bank. This guarantee may be of vital importance to the creditors of the de- funct institution and may be the means of recovering some of the money that was sent out of the bank into Sher- man’s Phoenix speculation. rhe docu- ment is in the possession of The Call The importance of the paper warrants its publication in full as follows: This agreement, made this 20th day of May, 189, between M. H. Sherman of the city of Phoenix, county of Mari- copa, Territory of Arizona, part of the first part, and the People’s Home Savings Bank, a corporation duly in- corporngd and existing under and by virtue the laws of California and having its -principal place of buSiness in the city and county of San Francis- co, State of California, party of the second part, Witnesseth, That the sald Pafly of the first part for and in consideration of 3100 to him in hand pald by the party of. the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby duly acknowledged, and in consideration of the fact that the sald party of the second part had urchased certain bonds of the Valley treet Railroad @ompany. Now then the said, party of the first part hereby uarantees the payment of all the onds of the Valley Street Rallroad Company which have been purchased ~or which may hereafter be purchased by the s: party of the second part, and also of the interest that may grow due thereon, as evidence by the coupons exed to said bonds, and . whenever any interest so due upon any of the bonds is not paid, or when- ever al the principal due on any of the u‘llz nds is not paid, then the party of the first part will become obli- the party of the second part n the amount so due and the same shall be-a personal debt of the party of the’ first to the said rty of the second part, the intention Peing that the party of the first part shall guarantee the payment of the rincipal and interest of all bonds of he Valley Street Railroad Company purchased by the f.fl' Said ds are of the second 1 of the denom- fimfl of § and dated March lst, In witness whereof the sald party of the first part had hereunto/set his hand and seal the day and year first bove written. £ (Signed) M. H. SHERMAN. A FICTITIOUS REALITY GIVEN T0 A PHANTOM RAILROAD. Sherman never lost an opportunity to support his own untruthful assertions with the corroborative testimony of his friends and his confederates. The crafty schemer was not content with presenting his bogus Valley Ralilroad project himself. In order to play more completely upon the financial fancy ‘of Frank McDonald Sherman induced W. J. Murphy, one bf his close personal friends and president of the Arizona Improvement Company, to write a let- ter to young McDonald booming the Valley road. This letter is timely in this place. Murphy’s epistle is as fol- lows: OENIX, P Ariz., Jul ¥V AL Cantiet . Basio Bank, San Francisco, L.—My Dear Bk S eiation to the Valley Street Ra.flrolf bonds issued by that com- \ pany can cheerfully state that Zhe Arizona Improvement Com- y _has to this its iways In gated %o valuable property and I have great faith in its future. Mr. Sherman, the president of the company and the owner of a majority of the stock, is, ass'uu know, a personal friend of mine and a gentleman of wonderful energy and a very successful business man. While I am not in a position to know from personal observation anything of the earnings or expenses of the road, yet 1 am informed by Mr. Sherman that the profits of the Valley Street Ralilroad are at a rate sufficient to pay the cperating expenses, interest on bonds, and that the business is grow- ing in volume from week to week. This city, as you are aware, is in dts infan- cy, and we are quite sanguine that it is destined to be the San Francisco of Arizona. If so the value of street rail- roads in this cfty can hardly be over- estimated. From what I know of the enterprise and of the strong growth of our city and valley I feel confident in recommending these bonds as a safe and profitable investment for investors. Yours truly, W. J. MURPHY. SHERMAN'S GUILTY SECRETS MADE HIM TREMBLE AT THREATENED BLACKMAIL. As already indicated Sherman ingra- tiated himself into the con.dence of the McDonalds through the most abject and most nauseating sycophancy. There was no flattery too coarse nor too cringing nor too base that he did not employ while he was trying to blind Dick McDonald’'s eyes and open his money bags. Sherman was one of the first who was shrewd enough to see that Dick McDonald’s predominating weakness was egotism. The coarser the flattery, the balder the compliment the better Dick liked it. It was one of the young banker’s demands that every one of his agents and sycophants should write him a letter every day. Most of them did so and Sherman cer- tainly did not overlook so important a point in his campaign to get into the vaults of the Pacific Bank over the gilly head of Dick McDonald. Sherman very frequently neglected to date his letters, The only, way in which the time of their composition can be approxi- mately ‘estimated is to see whether Sherman metaphorically is crawling at Dick’s feet or showing his teeth to the young banker. If he was in the crawl- ing attitude the letter was written when he wanted money. If he was showing his teeth the letter was penned after he had obtained money and wanted to get rid of Dick. The follow- ing letter, in which “Jayhawker” again appears as a bitter enemy of Sherman, may be placed in the flattery period of the correspondence: Monday, a. m. My Dear Friend: I am just writing Christy to please deposit a lot of coin with your New York corresg'ondent. It will make me so happy if this goes and he deposits this money with you. You have g:een so true and kind—for- give my annoying you from day to day With so many letters—only I wantes vou to know all. This nasty stuff of “Jayhawkers'' amounts to nulhlnfi as all know him. Since Colonel Otis fired him out of Times office he is powerless. All the San Francisco papers Know. this so they will publish either. Colon- nel Otis and others have figured it out that this man has blackmailed people out of (through his connection with the Times) over $6000. His stock in trade is lost now that the Times has fired him. You see he could use the Associated Press and had power then. Still I _suppose he will try and keep it up (his persecution) until he finds that he cannot get coin out of us and then he will try some one else, eh? whom he finds more gullible. He tried to scare me by trying to make me think that you and Mr. Johns had told things. Said he had a_ list of all I owed you and etc. What he wants is to try and get us quarreling among ourselves, eh? He has caught on to Mr. Mitchell and is trying to Fump him. I do hope Mr. Mitchell will be- ware of him and not talk with him. It is almost impossible to talk with him and not have him guess some- thing of one's business. The way I do is' to_not afirm and not deny any- thing. Let him do the talking. You are so much wiser and know so_much better what is what than I Still I want to tell you all.I learn in these matters and all my hopes and fears, and it is my duty to let you know. Isn’t it? All that comes up if it is good or bad, eh? Any time you want me to stop boring you with these long_let- ters just tell me and I will q‘ult. Hop- ing you will be so careful of your health and not work too Pud and please don’t worry over this fellow's nasty lles. Sincerely, . P. 8.—Mr. Johns writes me that “Jay- hawker” tried to make him and you think I had leaked things. I write!Mr. Johns that that is just what ‘“Jay- hawker” told me of himself and of ou. Funny stuff. I never leak. very day I try to be more careful. ANOTHER FORTUNE TO BE SUNK IN THE PHENIX WATER WORKS. The following letter wiil illustrate Sherman’s method of getting more money out of Dick. The schemer of Los Angeles wanted $75,000 more for the Phoenix Water Company, which proved subsequently to be such a_ disastrous Monday, a. m. duy Dear Friend: I went out m‘x Mr. Fabyan. He seemed to i tion for to buy undertaking to the Pacific Bank: ester- to meet the train from Phoenix ell of kit w 2 Tha works 4 tor Perkins upheld the negative side and closed the debate. On being introduced to the audience Mr. Shortridge stated that his main reasons for advocating the retention of the is- lands was because of their commercial value, and secondly, because he believed sure, Now, if Mr. yan and his friends put this stock In their name, and he takes the presidency and puts his man in charge there (he thinks the thing to do is to use 250 of the new per cent bonds to pay oft the pres- ent issues and $10,f or excess and $75,000 to add to and improve the plant, and leave the rest in the treasury for it was the dut; of this country to civil- ize them, He began by showing how the future improvements, i. e. the rest of | United States had grown to greatness the 500 bonasy. "His famiiy is so rich |from a small beginning and cited the fact and powerful and stands so high. that our most valuable ssessions to- Don’t you think if he pays you this |day were those that we had purchased, such as Louisiana from France, Califor- nlla. from Mexico and Alaska from Rus- sia. Along this line he said that some day we would see that Hawali, recently an- nexed, would prove one of the Govern- ment’s most valuable possessions. Mr. Shortridge stated that there were four oints of view from which the United tates would be benefited by keeping the Philippines. They were, first, San ¥ran- cisco; secondly, this 'coast; third, the other States, and_ fourthly, the Govern- ment at large. He cited the fact that no nation can be ereat without wealth, and that greatness was wonly to be ac- quired by material possession. The keep- ing of these islands he thought would in- crease our revenues. Aside from a com- mercial point of view this nation had taken a stand and could not afford to turn back now. He declared that we owned something to humanity and that it was our duty to advance the cause c¢f liberty. Mr. Shortridge stated that if these islands were at the disposal of any other nation, as they are now at ours, mere ‘was no nation that would not keep em. Senator Perkins began his argument b saying that the question of kE:Din th’é Phlllyiplne! was a judicial one, and one that had to be carefully considered, as it 'was possible for this Government to do a great wrong In annexing the Islands. e then dived for a time Into statistics, showing that the islands were 7000 miles from this coast, fourteen hundred in number and that only nine of them are inhabitable, the remainder being barren $94,000 in cash you can do as I indicat- ed'in my letter of last Thursday and sign that option? He thinks he can have you your $94,000 in ninety days’ time. "It seems a rare chance to get a owerful man in charge and responsi- le to %ay all. If this goes O. K. he thinks he will take hold of the Phoe- nix street railroad. It would make me s0 happy to get you all the money. Please wire or write me. Train time. On run. M. H. The Call will continue to-morrow morning the publication of the interest- ing letters of M. H. Sherman. It will show that Mr. Sherman pictured him- self as a lobbyist at Sacramento and a corrupter of State officials, one of whom, he jubilantly remarked, was ex- Attorney General W. H. H. Hart. In the gigantic scheme to maintain the tottering banks on their unsafe founda- tion M. H. Sherman resorted to any measure, honest or dishonest, that was necessary for success. There is some- thing more than a passing diversion in his reference to the Southern Pacific Company and to certain newspapers in this city. IMAGINARY WRONGS DROVE TO DEATH HN KIN PUT and voleanfc. The main and strongest 30 988 S A BULLET | {lioon brought out by - the Senator IN HIS HEART. against the keeping of = the Philippines was that it was impossible for the Anglo- Saxon race to live there. Nature, he said, had declared against it. The humidity of the atmosphere is such that for six hours in each day the white man can not go out of doors, while the effect is that of taking a Russlan bath. . The speaker showed the low and de- raded state of the natives, and said that f we annexed the Philippines these peo- ple would become natives on an equal with our best citizens here. He spoke of the ravages of vellow fever and cholera, the typhoons and earthquakes and the many other disadvantages that have to be encountered. Senator Perkins said that it was not a question of our bravery that deterred the nation, but that it was a question of right. We did| not go into this war for territorial acquisition, but in behalf of liberty, and that having done what we set out to do, it was our duiy as soon as the people had established their government to withdraw our flag. If we took the islands we would have to_subdue the natives. These and many more difficult questions will be continually rising and calling for careful consideration. As for the reve- nue, he said it would cost more to col- lect than it amounted to, and that there would also be the additional expense of :Ee navy that would have to kept ere. ————————— HENRY MART.N CANED. Beautiful Presentation io the Popular Sheriff-Elect by His Friends. At a banquet held in the apartments of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Deasy last night Henry Martin, the popular and ponderous In Letters He Accuses Wealthy Men of Defrauding Him of Con- siderable Money. John B. Gaskin, formerly in the employ of the Metropolitan Match Compan: committed suicide at the corner of San some and Clay street about fifteen min- utes past 10 o’clock last evening by shoot- ing himself through the heart. Despon- dency over his penniless condition and the loss of money of which he belleved he had been robbed by his former employers, Henry W. Newbauer and C. F. Leige, evi- dently caused a derangement of the man’s mind and his self-destruction was the re- sult. In the pockets of Gaskin's clothing were found a number of letters bearing dates, ranging from October 6 to yesterday, ad- dressed to Newbauer, Leige, M. C. Has- sett, an attorney in the Phelan building, and Thomas O'Connor of Alameda. In the letters to Newbauer and Leige he pleaded with them to “‘make amends for the wrong they did him back in 188 and pay him the $1200 which they owed him.” ©O'Connor he claimed had defrauded him of $100, and Hassett he asked to re- store the estate which was due him. Mr. Newbauer, who was formerly the president of the Metropolitan Match Com- Pany and at present owns stock in the corporation, was seen last night and de- nies that Gaskin has any claim on the company. “Gaskin worked for us on a | Sheriff-elect, was the guest of honor and on ¢ vears ago,” sald MT. | the feature of the affair was the presen- N banes, “and wher he lefe bur emiploy | ihe foatuire of the affalr was the presen claimed that we were indebted to him. The case was taken to court and a deci- sfon was given in our favor. Since that time we have received a number of letters from him demanding the money and these we have ignored. Mr. Leige, I believe, has had letters from the man recently, but I have received none. Gaskin was a bad character and has figured .in the courts several times on criminal charges, and has I belleve served a jail sentence. At different times he had trouble with his wife and once fired a pistol at her.” An incoherent letter to fhe Coroner was in a memorandum book in the man's pock- et. The first portion of it was dated last Wednesday, but additions were made to it nearly every hour from that day up to 10 o’clock last night. He recounted the wrongs he believed had been done him, and decared the deed which he was about to commit would fully revenge him for the evil done him by his enemies. In this letter he stated that ?flpers substantiating his claims would be found in his trunk at 1169 Mission street, and he begged the Coroner to see that he gof justice after death, even if it had been denled him dur- 1ng his life. ccording to this diary Gaskin left his room at 10 o’clock last night penniless and with no possessions but two revol- vers. Fifteen minutes after this last entry Police Officers Connors and Silver heard a shot and found his dead body lying on theddewall. SHALL WE KEEP THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ? ebony cane by Mrs. Charles F. Capp on behalf of the Native Sons and Daughters’ booth of the Jate Holy Cross Church fair It was won by the redoubtable Henry in a contest for the most popular candidats for Sheriff by 138 votes over his next high- est opponent, and was but a precursor of his later brilliant victory at the polls. Mr. Martin responded feelingly to the tribute and his health was drunk in many bump- ers of sparkling wine. Those present to do him honor were Mrs. Frank Dunne, Mrs. Charles_Capp. Mrs. Lizzie Batturs, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Deasy, Graftan Phililps, D. C. Martin, J. Wren, George Montgomery and A. John- son. K St. Andrew’s Society. St. Andrew’s: Socfety has elected the following named to serve for the ensu- ing term: James 8. Webster president, James Rolph Jr. and James C. Moffat vice presidents, T. C. Lawson treasurer, A. R. Patterson recording secretary, Jas. A. Dalzlel assistant recording secretary, R. D. Colquhon financial secretary, Jas. D. Robertson assistant financial secretary, Joseph Gray lbrarian; Samuel Irving. Andrew McNair, Joseph Cumming, Wil- liam Balnaves and John W. Dickie, board of relief;W. F. McNutt, M. D.. physician; Rev. Robert Mackenzie chaplain. The members of the society will celebrate St. Andrew’s day, on the 30th inst., by a ban- quet in the Palace Hotel. —_————— Death of Florence Siperly. ST MR Florence E. Siperly died in this city at 1:30 yesterday afternoon of heart failure. AN INTERESTING DEBATE AT The. deceaded:iwas & aistér of the ‘late THE Y. M. C. A. HALL. | Mrs. C. F. Curry and had a host of | friends in social and musical circles. She was a daughter of Mrs. S. A. Hutchin- son and was born in Butte County twenty- eight years ago. —_—— Another Unripe Soldier. Esther Dowd applied to Judge de Haven yesterday for a writ of habeas corpus for her son. Thomas H., 17 years old, who enlisted in the California oty Artillery, under Captain H. 1. Choynski without the consent of his parents. The writ was made returnable to-morrow at 11 o'clock. —————— Death of John Critcher. John Critcher, discharging inspector of the Custom House, died last Sunday after a six months’ sickness. The deceased en- tered the Federal service in 188. Senator Perkins Syoke in the Nega- tive and Attorney Shortridge for ‘the Afirmative. The debate at the Y. M. C. A. 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