The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1899. " ADMINISTRATION’S COURSE DECLARED POLICY OF EVASION Kepresentative diana Makes Speech on Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Not since the = s the House wit- xhibition of excitement h scenes of unbounded enthusi- nson, the Indiana mem- er of Towa, locked horns n of expansion. The army under debate, was ) in the broader question national policy and the ifted from the deal level into absolute brilliancy. ured time from the Demo- ttack the position of the 2 It w not the first has ken away blic questions. On past oc- is won a reputation as a invective and the knowledge crowd to the d te galleries. his reputation. To-day ‘With sa- e driven home. His words perfect torrent. He de- proposition to annex the subversive of every tra- 0 the American heart in and the inauguration of a at would end in the downfail ¥ He said the ratifica- e treaty by the Senate would ath knell of all the efforts were trying to prevent from rushing on to suicide n his seat He before it should denounced the Presi- t the ti ety > voice of the peo- rebuke. Members n deep while he ed to stop the 2 NEW YORK, Jan. Ratifi las on dec No ez Leading S g S tion is finally taken. SONORONON O 0! applanse which continually broke out D ratic side. For almost his words poured forth. had finished Dolliver came fi of the administration. t debaters and perhaps st oquent member of the reply set the Republicans m. He described d been fairly driv- fe: e able » who now sought was before peace ed, and his eulo; , patiently meeting all roblems which beset of the year moved ide and the zalleries rang out again and d an eloquent tribute and broke out in re- n he declared that > members at both Imost trea- & it the highest pitch of ex- reached when Johnson got to close quarters nd of the latter’s speech. ed the defender of the nistration t )se the Presi- iltimate purpose regarding the but Dolliver for some time ct At mse. L with declar: not the point at is. F irst thing was to end the ratifying the treaty. The fu- of the Philippines was a aquestion It was in every respect nessee was the first ted the passage of e of his re- that it was too soon for a permanent policy re- ines. Qur present pol delay until we had thor- gated the situation. na then took the ill. As he arose applauded and squared i in anticipation of some , In the presence of v conceive to be a popular de- e began, “is hurrying the army across the seas to inflict upon ple a government against their propose f s, without regard ts effect upon my personal fortunes, 0 5y to make a plea for liberty and an argu- ment against the perpetuation of injus- tice. Ve are on the verge of a crisis,” saild on. ‘“Those who failed to rush for- 1 in support of the schemes of the fm- 1lists are being denounced here and in public press as ‘Spaniards,’ and men 10 fail to do their duty. My answer is that that if the chief executive will is sf]ence and openly state that we lo not propose to enslave the people of the Philippines, my word for it, the pres- ent strained relations fn the islands will cease, those who were but yesterday our will return to their” homes, and 're will be no necessity for this pro- posed increase in the standing army." But this would not be done, the speaker d. What meant this hasty dieavowal of Senator Foraker’s statement that the afdministration had no intention of hold- ing the islands permanently? If the ad- ministration did not mean to hold the Philippines, what meant this clamor of the administration press? Why had the President’s Commissioners demanded the @brolute cession of the islands instead of before the declaration | ed to-day when two Re- | from his | d wit, the keen thrusts of | d if he were a Senator he | RORORORD! 1 Johnson of In- a Sensational Expansion. | | simply demanding thelr evacuation, as was done in_the case of Cuba? Why did not Senator Davis, who was in charge of the treaty in the Senate, agree to allow | the passage of a resolution disavowing | the Government's purpose to hold the | islands permanently? These were patent @ which could not be dodged. They | be faced squarely. Everything ted in one direction—the purpose to annex the Philippine Islands. | Continuing, the speaker drew a parallel between our revolutionary struggle and | the struggle of the Filipinos for indepen- | He argued that to- they had government, republican in form; lent, a Vice President and a Con- | the whole founded upon the free | of the governed. | To attempt to subvert that Government, | he charged, would be an ‘‘unspeakable ;" that should bring the blush of | & to the cheek of every freeborn | not waged war for | a change of masters. They had rejected | with scorn the high-sounding manifestos | of the President of the United States. They. preferred to be free and they now | stood with arms in their hands, undaunt- | | ed, standing against the United States for | independence and liberty, as they had stood against Spain. A people with such stamina were| worthy of their freedom. Could it be “criminal aggression’ to annex Cuba and not ‘“criminal aggression” to annex the Philippines? It was true. the natives were alien in race, language and habits of thought. and, therefore, the whole scheme was to hold them as Spain_had | held her colonies in times past, as Eng- | land holds hers now, ruled over by mili- | tary satraps. They might not be as ca- | pable as we for self-government, said | Johnson, with biting sarcasm. hey | might not be able to corrupt legislators in order to hold dishonored seats in the Senate, as we were. They might not be able to decide contested - election cases | according to the party considerations in- | stead of their merits, as we were. They | might not be able to practice fraud in | elections. They might be lacking in all | these essentlal attributes of republican- ism, but they were capable of constitut- ing & government according to their own ideas. All governments were progressive P44 4444414444444t 4444t ettt bttt ttecoce z ’ he con- tinued, drawing elf up to his full ! height, “that I have broadened since I 5.—The Herald’s Washington correspondent sends the follow- cation of the peace treaty on or before February 6. Probable adoption of a reso- ring that the peace treaty does not bind the United States to permanent control of the Philippines. Appropriation of $20,000,000 to carry out the provisions of the treaty. Passage of some compromise measure for providing enough men to garrison the colonies. <tra session of Congress. This is now the outlook as the result of the action of the Senate to-day in agreeing to take a vote on the peace treaty and pending amendments at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on February 6, if not earlier. It was the most important action of the present session. Uncer- i and doubt have been dissipated, and the Senate can set about the transaction of busi- enators who have made a careful canvass of the situation have no doubt as to the ratification of the treaty but he has no doubt considerable more than sixty Senators will vote for the treaty when ac- Senator Davis says he has not | entered public life. | not an end, with me, and when I belleve | | my party 15 wreng nothing can make me | abate my independent convictions.” | (Great Democratic_applause.) | Proceeding, he denounced the Presi- | dent’s course as a ‘‘poll of evasion,” | and charged that his supporters were | conjuring up specters to drive in the op- position. It was declared that our fail- | ure to take the Philippines would pre- | cipitate a general European war; that all | the nations of Europe would scramble for | | what we left if we withdrew. He gaid he | had seen no_such disposition except on | the part of Germany, and she was actu ated by the example of our greed. If we | set the example and withdrew, recogniz- ing the independence of the Filipinos, oth. ers would do llkewise. But if other coun- tries did pounce down upon the islands, let them do it. We would not expressedly or impliedly be responsible. If t did hey would be but pursuing their tradi- | tions. Let us see that we do no Wrong. The evil was theirs. If there was, he | said, to be a European war, let us, in God’s name, keep out of it. The cry went up, “Ratify the treaty and stop the war.” The President arrogated to him- sn\-lf the right to speak for 70,000,000 peo- Dle. “I thank God,” shouted Johnson, ‘‘for the spirit of independence in the Senate of the United States, irrespective of | party. Bryan never made a greater | blunder than when he said the treaty should be ratified and our policy deter- mined afterward. Andrew Carnegie was nearer right, but he said the treaty should be fought in the dark, not in the open. 1 say we should fight it from start | to finish. = We should meet this whole | question at the threshold and strangie it | to death. Public sentiment should be | aroused. It is being aroused, as evl denced by the great public meetings in | New York and Philadelphia, and take my | word for it, it will not be many months before the tide of public sentiment which | | the President vainly imagines is now carrying him to a second term will recede | and leave him hlfh and dry. The voice | of the people will rebuke the spirit of | commerce which has supplanted the spirit of liberty. If the treaty is ratified with- out being coupled with a resolution de- | claring for the ultimate independence of the islands it will be the deathknell of all | our efforts to stop the torrent.” | | He would vote for a bill to reorganize | the army, but before God he would never | vote for a standing army of 100,000, whose | ultimate object was to establish a colo- | nial system. “If I were in the Senate,” | he said, “I would rot in my seat first; I| would scorn the demands of a State Leg- islature and the clamor of the press. I would let them malign my character and misinterpret my motives, but 1 _would ;e‘;&r"!wme from what I believed to be ohnson next referred to the part Great | Britain had taken in Inducing the United States to enter into controversies of the | far East and of the manner in which | British assistance was being given to the l"lnlgultou- policy of Willlam McKin- ey.” “‘Let there be a new treaty,” he pleaded vehemently; “let it not give $20,000,000 for a cession of the Philippines to the United | States, but let it provide unequivocally that Spain withdraw from the Phiiip- pines and give the Philippines the inesti- | mable blessings of llbertr, This world licy meant the em ng of a course fke that of England, which embrolied it in_war uninterruptediy £ years.” | | | i | | or 100 The Indiana member now turned to the cost of ex; on, He detailed the cost of the war and the estimates of $145,000,- 000 for the military establishment and $47,000,000 for the naval establishment for the next fiscal year. It showed, he said, 0000¢000000000066040 SHERMAN OPPOSES PHILIPPINE INVASION NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—The Evening World to-day prints an interview with' John Sherman, in which the latter forcibly ex- presses himself against expan- sion. The ex-Secretary of State is quoted as saying, in part: “I am decidedly opposed to the invasion of the Philippines. The idea of our country forcing its way into these islands and fore- ing its government upon the 7,000,000 or 9,000,000 population is monstrous. It is subversive of the basic principle of our Gov- ernment that the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed, and it is violation of the traditions of our country.” “Then, if you were in the Sen- ate, you would not vote to Trat- ify the treaty of Paris as it stands?" “If I ,were in the Senate L would not vote to ratify as it stands. I would vote to with- draw from the islands as soon as possible. The papers say that 4000 soldiers have just been sent to Manila. Why were they sent? Are we going to war against a struggling republic¥ They have been fighting for many vears against Spain and have practi- cally driven Spain out. Are we to take the place of Spain in ty- rannizing over these struggling people?” D e R RS SR FH4 4444444444444 4444444444444 444244400000 that our war budget exceeded that of the great military powers of the world. was within three millions of the cost of Great Britain's vast establishment, by which she ruled her colonial empire; it was more than the war budget of Ger- many; more than that of France or of any ot Ahd this was to realize “the wild dream of expansion.” Johnson ime Democratic members of Committee yielding their time to him. The Monroe doct , he declared, would vanish with the annexation of the Phil. ippin If we reached out into another = was twice extended, the - Military L ORON CRORIBOROROROROROROR G RORARURORGRGLONONY | TREATY OF PEACE IS SOON TO BE RATIFIED 3 attempted to poll the Senate, i ROORONORIRNGRTRORORNORTRORORNORORONIRORORURURGRTROROROR My party is a means, | hemisphere we could not with propriety | geon general, resist aggression in this. Johnson said that the cup of our national humiliation | Wa‘x1 filled to overflowing, and in closing said: “We have witnessed the splendid achievements of our soldiers and sailors and have inspired in_ the Old World a feeling of respect. This country. the | beacon light of liberty, this’ locked and intrenched continent, 'this proud and erect nation, which never in its histo was obliged to ask a favor of any D‘h!(x country on earth. now depends upon the | intervention of England to keep other powers off its back. We have become a miserable mendicant, dependent upon the mother country. We are compelled to abandon the cardinal principal of protec- | ‘open door’ | tion and submit policy—" At this gnint the gavel fell, and John- son said he would nbt trespass further upon the time of the other side, though he was urged to go on. “I thank the other side,” he said, ‘“for the opportunity to be heard, which I could not obtain from this side.” There was a whirlwind of aj when Johnson took his seat, an Democrats crowded up the.aisle to con- gratulate him. When Dolliver of Towa rose to reply there was an outburst of applause from the Republican side. Almost every seat on the floor by this time was occupied and the galleries were packed to doors. He began by saying that he had had no intention of making an elaborate speech on this bill and he resented John- son’s statement that he had been ma- neuvering for an opportunity to repl He had never heard the epithet “Spa jard"” applied to the gentleman from I diana or any other member on the floor, to tne and if the gentleman deserved the title | he must get it from some other tongue | than his. “I am not here to speak for the.ad- ministration,” he continued. “I belong to the humble ranks of my party, and have ot been in the White House since the war with Spain began. But I might re- sent the statement that our President, so accessible, is ‘Intrenched’ in the White House. He is intrenched in the White House in the higher and better sense, and as surely as the gentleman from Indiana is intrenched in private life (laughter), brought there, as I believe, by his attacks and criticisms of the Republican party.” He would not make an extended reply, he said, but he did desire to say some- thing of the large responsibilities which had come to us as a resuit of the war. He had hoped that Congress would “ap- proach this question in the larger, broader spirit in which the war had been entered upon. The war had brought all sections and partles together in a common cause. Now that it was over and the treaty signed and ready for ratification it would scem that the same spirit should be pre- served. But, on the contrary, the Con- gressional Record and the magazines were filled with views more numerous and varied than the islands we had captured from the enemy. It had been so in the war of 1812, A faction had sought to em- barrass the Government. In the Mexican ‘War our armies never got beyond the reach of those who criticized the conduct of the war, and during the Civil War a restless and insistent minority in both houses never ceased its hostility. In the Spanish war, for the first time {n our his- tory, what was done was done In the spirit of a common people, in the spirit of lofty and national life. In his humble i'ndxment. the groatest ‘day in our istory was when every member of Con- Sreu, ‘without regard to party, voted con- fidence in the President and authorized her nation on the face of the globe. | OROVORORORORORORON O RORANONORORORON O R ONORGLOL) the | CYCLONES CLAIM South cember, devastating villages, deaths. @ terrific. Torrents of rain fell. B 6 0 60 ST DO LI OIS RO XS LS T his crews save one boy. wrecked at Wedan. destroyed. ed and yam patches leveled. been killed. island, where she was released. VICTORIA, B, C., Jan. 25.—News is brought by the steamer Aorangi @® of terrible cyclones which swept the south seas about the middle of De- wrecking shipping and causing many At Samaral, in New Guinea, on December 11, the gale was Cocoa palms went down by hundreds and were carried to sea. Twelve vessels were wrecked. The cutters May- flower and Nabua were total wrecks at Basilaki. and Baidan were lost off Goodenough Island, and Mr. Kennedy, manager of the New Guinea Development Company, was drowned, together with The mission steamer Albert McLaren went ashore and the lugger Lysander and the cutter Fleetwing were totally The cutter Portla was smashed near Port Glas- gow. The schooner Ellen Gowan and the cutter Ivy were lost in the Kossman group and Captain Godet and crew were drowned. In the Solomons the hurricane did most damage, whole villages being Hundreds upon hundreds of cocoa plantations were uproot- Over 500 natives are reported o have Captain Pentecost of the yacht St. Aubin, who brought the news of the disaster to Sydney, says he saved a woman who was to have been killed as a sorceress, she being accused of having caused the hurricane; He bought her, the purchase price being a pig, and took her to another MANY VICTIMS Scores of Lives Lost in a Terrific Storm That Swept the Seas. \ The ketches Bebem WGOReeRE s X GBSO T s ek Il | him to use the public treasury for the national defense. |WHEN SENATE WILL VOTE ON THE TREATY OF PEACE | WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Only a brief | time was occupled by the Senate to-day in open session. A few bills on the calen- dar were passed, but no other business of importance was transacted. Chandler of New Hampshire introduced a bill temporarily creating the office of | admiral of the navy. It was referred to the Naval Affairs Committee. The Senate consumed about forty-five minutes in executive session in arriving at a decision to vote on the peace treaty. | As soon as the doors were closed and the | public excluded Senator Davis, chairman io! the Foreign Relations Committee, took | the floor and announced that he was au- | thorized by the committee to accept the g;flposltlon made in_executive session by r. Gorman yesterday to vote on the treaty within ten days. He therefore asked for unanimous consent that the vote should be taken at 3 o’clock on Mon- day, February 6, saying that exactly ten legislative days would intervene tween this time and that. He intimated that if there were any objections to this date he would like to hear them, but none were heard, and the hour and the day | were unanimously agreed to. The remain- der of the forty-five minutes were spent in the exchange of questjons and answers which are usually heard in efforts to fix a time for a vote and in making sure that all understood the fact. There was also an agreement that the Senate should go into executive session each day between this time and February 6 for the discus- sion of the treaty. Authority was also given for making the announcement of the agreement public. The opposing Senators made no objec- tion to this date, neither suggesting an earlier or later date. INTERESTS THE PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST | Senator Perkins Presents Representa- tive-Elect Kahn to President McKinley. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Senator Per- kins to-day presentéd Hon. Jullus Kahn to President McKinley, with whom they had a pleasant interview. At the Presi- dent’s invitaton Mr. Kahn attended a re- ception at the White House to-night in | honor of the armv and navy. The House Committee on Census to-day, on motion of Representative De Vries, in- serted in the bill a clause providing for a mining census. This amendment has been pushed by De Vries since the bill was roposed by the House committee, and he s confident the Senate will retain it. A postoffice was to-day established at Mercury, Sonoma County, and Clara Austin “appointed postmistress. Lieutenant Colonel Woodhall is relieved from. further duty as surgeon of the De- | partment of Colorado, and will proceed to Manila and report in person to the commanding general of the Deparment of the Pacific for duty as chief surgeon of that department, to relieve Lieutenant | Colonel Henry'Llspr\con, deputy sur- Pensions have been granted as follows: California riginal—Martin -~ Elwood, | Santa Rosa, $6. Restoration and reissue— | Egbert R. Hurlbut, dead, Grangeville, | $10. Original _widow's, etc.—Minors of | Amos Swan, filreersxsvlle. $12; Mahala Hurl- but, Grangeville, $8. Oregon: lzlncreas‘,bdolm Patrick, Grants | Pass, 88 to $10. | * Washington: Original—John W. Gray- | son, Dayton, 8. Original widow's, etc. Sophia Johnson, South Seattle, $12. SOUTH SEA NATIVES CAPTURE A YACHT Its Crew of Two Men Escapes Into the Bush on Santa Cruz Island. VICTORIA, B. C., Jan, 25.-The steamer Ysabel, which reached Sydney shortly be- | fore the Aorangi sailed, brouggt a report { from Mr. Forrest, the resident trader at Santa Cruz, that information had reached him through native channels that another cutter, 4 Sydney vacht, had been cap- tured ‘by the natives, but that her crew of two white men had escaped into the bush. This was the island where the cut- ter Curlew was cut out early in the year and her crew murdered. 3 The Ysabel proceeded to Utupua to | make inquiries. They landed fully armed | at the villages on Basilik Harbor and found that the one burned by H. M. S. Mohawk in revenge for the murder of the cutter Curlew's crew had been rebuilt. They rescued the Curlew’s boy, the sole survivor of that unfortunate vessel, who had been held by the natives since that disaster. be- | SPANIARDS IN - THE SERVICE OF AGUINALDO Disbanded Regiment Joins Filipinos. IT IS SO STATED AT MADRID | EIGHT THOUSAND DONS DIED FROM SICKNESS IN CUBA. | Premier Sagasta Decides to Convoke the Cortes in February, Whether the Peace Treaty Is Rati- fied or Not. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. MADRID, Jan. %.—Unofficial dis- patches from the Sulu Islands, of the Philippine group, declare that all is well there and that the Spanish occupation continues. Dispatches recelved by newspapers here assert that the insurrection of the Filipinos is spreading considerably. A native regiment which was disbanded by the Spanish, it is alleged, enlisted as a body in the service of Aguinaldo. According to the figures published here, 8000 Spanish soldiers perished chiefly through sickness during the last campaign in Cuba. Premier Sagasta announced to-day that the Government had decided to convoke the Cortes during the second half of February whether the United States ratifies the treaty of peace or not. LONDON, Jan. 25.—Hamilton Brown, editor of the British Realm, received a letter to-day from Rear Admiral Dewey, dated Manila, December 18, in response to a request for an expression | of opinion on Great Britain's imperial policy. The Admiral says: | “After many vears of wandering I have come to the conclusion that the mightiest factor in the civilization of lzhed“_-’orld is the imperial policy of Eng- and. CAPITULATIONS MAY SOON BE ABOLISHED Mixed Tribunal at Cairo Causes a Sensation. LONDON, Jan. 26.—The Morning Leader publishes the following dispatch from Calro: ‘A sensation has been caused by the announcement of an American Judge of the mixed tribunal that he cannot postpone cases after February 28. The announcement leads to the bellef that {Jngland intends to abolish the capitula- ion.” . The capitulations are the articles by which the Sublime Porte has granted to foreigners residing in Turkey and the de- pendencies of Turkey, of which Egypt is nominally one, extra territorial rights and immunities, such as trial by consular courts, or in Egypt, by the ‘mixed tri- bunals, in cases where Turkish subjects are not concerned. Barbers Want Legislation. LOS ANGELES, Jan. %.—Over three hundred barbers of this city have signed a petition which has been sent to Assem- | blyman L. H. Valentine, asking him to assist in enacting a law requiring barbers to undergo an examination before being germitted to follow their calling in this tate. A local organization of barbers was effected. TORTURED Leader says: who are dying. new-born children. hours. foJolofolofololololololololofolo) [CXOXOROROXOROXOROXORCROXOROOROXO] > Many dying patients have been tortured by poisonous germs and many men have been inoculated with contagious diseases. One doc- tor who had received an unlimited number of healthy children from a foundling hospital for experimental purposes excused himself on the ground that théy were cheaper than animals. IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE Patients in Vienna Free Hospitals Inoculated With Dis- ease Germs.» LONDON, Jan. 26.—The Vienna correspondent of the Morning It has been discovered that the physicians in the free ‘hospitals at Vienna systematically experiment upon their patients, especially new born children, women who are enciente and persons In one ®ase a doctor injected the bacilli of an infec- tlous lisease from a decomposing corpse into three women and three In another case a youth who was on the high road to recovery was inoculated, and he died within twenty-four {OICJOROROXOROJOXORCLCJOROXOROJOJ O [ofofolololorofofolololooloXololo) Announcement by a Judge of the| PATTI BECOMES BARON’S BRIDE ONDON, Jan. 25.—Adelina Patti, the singer, was married to-day at Brecon, Wales, to Baron Cederstrom, director of the Health Gymnag- tic Institute here. Mme. Patti took a train from Craig-y-nos. her residence, to Brecon, which was prettily decorated for the occasion. The band of the South Wales Borderers met the party at the sfo- tion and with the fire brigade and police, headed by the town banner and the mace-bearers, escorted the wedding party in five landaus to the Roman Cath- olic Church, which had been specially decorated. Sir George Faudel Phil- ips, former Lord Mayor of London, gave Patti away. The service was very short. “Baron and Baroness Cederstrom emerged from the church at 11 o'clock and entered a carriage; the procession was reformed, and the bride and bridegroom proceeded to the railroad station and started for London. The wedding breakfast was served on board the train. received an ovation. They which was composed of the special corridor cars built for the Prince of ‘Wales. Mme. Patti was married in a traveling dress of dove-colored satin. em- broidered with steel, with a bodice of pale gray and a bonnet trimmed with mauve orchids. Her traveling cape, which matched her dress, was orna- mented with a design of true lovers’ knots. 2 The procession to the church and the station passed under several tri- umphal arches bearing inscriptions in honor of the bride. The streets were thronged with people, and the church was crowded with invited guests. The wedding party reached London late this afternoon. bridegroom will start to-morrow for spend the honeymoon. The bride and the south of France, where they will PACIFIC BANK SUES SHERMAN Outcome of The Call’s Expose. DEMANDS AN ACCOUNTING LOS ANGELES STREET RAILWAY STOCK INVOLVED. It Is Claimed the Scheming Manipu- lator Converted Thousands of- Shares to His Own TUse. i te Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.—The out- come of the recent agitation regarding the wrecking of the Pacific Bank of San Francisco will be a lawsuit be- tween the bank as plaintiff and Moses H. Sherman of this city as defendant. A complaint has been filed in the Su- perior Court of this county in which the bank asks for an accounting of 25,- 500 shares of stock in the Los Angeles Consolidated Railway. The complaint alleges that in 1889 the bank and Sherman were equal own- ers of the stock in question, which was of a par value of $2,560,000, and consti- tuted 51 per cent of the capital stock of the corporation. That plaintiff and defendant might retain control of the company’s affairs, it was agreed to place the stock in the hands of B. O. Carr, Sherman’s brother-in-law, to be voted by him in the interest of the owners for a period of ten years. The complaint continues that, in No- vember, 1892, Sherman represented to the bank that the road was in finencial distress, notwithstanding that $300,000 had been spent prior to that time for improvements. Sherman, it is claimed, represented that $150,000 could be bor- rowed from a person whom he did not name, That person was to hold the 25,500 shares of stock as Security for the loan, This was agreed to, s The bank now alleges that this trans- actlon was not undertaken by BSher- man in good Yaithy but in order to gain personal control of the stock, which was in 1894 exchanged by Sherman for other stock and bonds worth $500,000. The bank now claims half of this sum on the ground that Sherman holds it as trustee. Representatives of the bank ;‘egard this sum as the proceéds of the alf interest of the original block of ;tuck. Judgment for $275,000 is asked or. GEORGE M. BECKETT DIES AT STANFORD Varsity Baseball Oaptain Sucoumbs to the Effects of an Operation, BTANFORD UNIVERSBITY, Jan, 25.— George M, Beckett, '00, Varsity baseball captain, died this morning at 3 o'clock in his room at Encina Hall from heart failure resulting from complications fol- lowing_appendicitis. His death came as | a sad blow to his student friends, for it was thought the young man had passed the danger point and was on the way to recovery, The remains were sent to Red- wood City, where they will be embalmed and then 'taken to his home in Arroyo Grande, San Luls Obispo County, fo- morrow. The funeral will probably take place on Friday. Mr. Beckett was born in_ Watsonville and was 23 years of age. Since entering college he has been prominent in ath- letics. He succeeded in making the Varsity_nine as pitcher in his freshman year. Last year he again occupied the box, and at ‘the end of the season was elected captain. His heart was in his team, and his work as captain to be productive of excellent resi A deep feeling of sadness prevails throughout the college. Captain Beckett was well known and deservedly popular with his fellow-students. Meetings have been held by the executive committee of the student body, the junior class and Encina Club for the purpose of passing resolutions and making arrangements for floral pieces. e Prominent Dairyman May Die. NICASIO, Jan. 2%.—David W. Taylor, a prominent dairyman of this place, who is a member of the Republican County Cen- tral Committe of Marin County and a man well known in Masonic and Red Men circles, lies at the point of death at the German Hospital in San Francisco as the result of an operation for tumor of the stomach. The primary operation was per- formed last Friday, and an attempt will be made to drain the tumor to-morrow | but the surgeons hold out little hope of | Taylor’s recovery. romised ts. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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