The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1904, Page 2

CAMINO REAL | MEETING NEARS: ic and Commercial Bodies to Gather in Santa Barbara TRIP XNOT EXPENSIVE Railroads Reduce Rates to One and One Third, While Hotels Prepare for Guests Bri By Laura Y s egat v s . ers ¥ € rds of 1 « x 8 Joseph Kr « 1 Mrs L - semt : res < r m t " s i 7 ke Leagu M ¥ £ As ee, State Y W ( ed ( of « A. McN 2 resi- Miss S Fink s« . g x gates appointed by th Francis Ar ering, the ide ing among stude that ran jon San Mission wagons are runn R rebuilding ran t T f the missions now being all these roadways, he r d ranches, to whi ling the road will ghway stretching its sunny length, the pride of nation. So, too, will California, ly’s twin sister, have a highway all her own, and not so many decades away either. Just watch that conven- tion that meets on Tuesday and see| that road begun ADVERTISEMENTS. Get the Spring Habit.| Thousands have got this Habit, the benefits they every spring, provided they use the correct medicine, follow them through the heat and debility of summer. and receive Of all the medicines used in the Spring, Hood’s Sarsaparilla is by | far the best. It exceeds all others in general ‘use, as it does in general excel-| lence and medicinal merit. If it happens that you have not | vet got the Habit, get it at once, and make it a “fixed habit,” -and make Hood’s Sarsaparilla the only medicine you take. Spring Medicine | THE SAN FRANCISCO ALL, WEDNESDAY APRIL 13, 1904 LAND OFFICE EXAMINER VALK SAYS THAT HE WAS BRIBED BY MEN WHO ARE ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY - sel for the defense in the land 1se yesterday ovened the door fraud for more of the Government's evidence | against the alleged conspirators. Con- tinuing their policy of uncovering the prospcution by calling the Federal wit- the stand they brought out testimony of a highly sensational char- wi Valk, formerly the chief r the leu land division of the General Land Office, told that he muptly paid a large sum to ex- te the Hyde-Benson selections of ds. This sum was paid him or advancing the cases out of not for approving cases their face iam E. ner in their order, an: hat wne re ive on imony nd, but bore most severely Benson, whom he charged making the payments in the in- of the two eged partmers in lieu land business. Miss Marion L. Doyle, a former clerk fiice, tol story similar to ed last week by Hyde's Belle A its and ed in when in bunches in the har boy to an accommo dating notas who affixed his jurat or ledgment, as the case might be, without seeing the affiants or grantors. PAPERS HELD BACK. first called by Garret yde’s counsel, was forest superintend- nd one of the ede Grand Jury en had been on the witness wit- 1d little. Yesterday he was recalled by the defense, with the mey told the Cor 8- g the alfegation in t that he had been an eged conspiracy to ob- n « nt Jands by fraudulent | ans. He said he pever had any ac- 3 correspondence with or Schneid three indicted men, but had ywn sponded with Hyde since the ng of Harrison's administration when the witne! su Califor by those letters en away from my of- y Special Agent Wil- He took all Hyde's let- kept copies of my own Hyde has nd the Hyde letters,” Mc turning to the Gover nt them to show that 1o not incriminate Hyde.” You won't get them,” retorted Besides, we have none that Hyde innocent.” wce with my former rul- decline to order the pro- the papers,” the Commis- announced. McEnerney con- his examination of the witness, told that the ly money he had cived from Hyde was some $400 show accorda duction tinuec ever rec paid him for lieu land the witness had located. Hyde had settied the unpaid entry fees and overdue taxes and then ss the balance due at a of §3 75 an acre. Burns, the Government led again by the ‘e- paid the to McEnerney acting under instructions m the Interior De- partment. he had taken perhaps fift or sixteen letters from Allen’s desk. 4Only a few of these wer Hyde, the majority of his er having come into th posse 7 previously are now at Washing- t mtinued, “in the office of ry of the Interior.” ADVISES ALLEN. HYDE ask that the Government be di- We rected b those lefters,” said McEnerney, “as we re to shaw by them that they ntain nothing of an incriminatory mature.” Your the letters,” want put client Hyde knows what is in Heney responded. “If you to what you say you do, him on the stand and let him ar the letters were innocent. It is evident, your Honor, as I have said before, that this whole proceeding is an effort on Hyde's part to find out just how much it will be safe for him to deny under oath.” Commissioner Heacock denied the motion, and then in answer to Mec- “auestion, “What was in the Burns said show letters? One of them contained dl‘-xu‘)m‘ from Hyde Allen regarding lands the writer wanted superintendent to recommend for inclu- n within o proposed forest reserve. An- other letter told Allen to send Forest Super- visor Grant 1. Taggart to Hyde. A third i rected Allen how to go about getting his homestead tract exchanged for lieu lands with- out the Government's discovering that he was the selector There were other letters from Hyde, but I do mot recall their contents. Having satisfied McEnerney’'s curi- osity, Burns was let go, and the de- | fe called Miss Marion Doyle, the | young woman who succeeded Mrs. | Belle A. Curtis as stenographer and | confidential clerk in Hyde's office, | where she spent the two years ending in December, 1901. Miss Doyle '\ was evidently a trusted and competent em- ploye. She told her story without be- traying any malice against Hyde and | with apparent candor. In the main her | testimony formed a sequel to the sen- ational ‘evidence given last week by Mrs. Curtis, but it was somewhat less | damaging to Hyde, as the witness yes- | terday was far more conservative than her'predecessor and limited her an- | swers carefully to facts within her | own ken. ANOTHER WOMAN'S EVIDENCE. The substance of Miss Doyle's testi- | | duties, follows: My esvecial duties in the offic { Jook” after the dockets. or books in Which we kept records of all the State school lands in which Hyde was interested and the applica- tions to the Government for lieu lands, and to make up these applicatiéne and forward | them, with the proper affidavits, to the reg ters of the local land offices. While I was “‘base land,” ae the State school land used for lien gections wus | called. The purchasers made their own selec- | tions. But when the selections were made in our office for Hyde and those interested with him I had to make out all the papers. These included the deed of relinquishment to United States, an abstract of title, and gener- ally two powers of attormey. One of these powers authorized the grantee to make the selection and the other empowered him to sell the Jand after the patent issued. Did_you know of any titles based on forged snstruments for lieu lands? No; 1 did not kmow that amy forgery of titles was mitted. The defendant Dimond was empl Hyde as carly as June, 1901, and later in the year he weni to Washington as Hyde's attor- ney in the cases that were. Detore the devartment. He took with him | there Hyde sold much involved both Hyde | | mony, which dealt largely with her'] ' Sensational Testimony Given by Government Official Called by Defendants Hyde and Dimond- ‘ Were lllegally Advanced---More . About Defective Affidavits Charge That Their Claims | 11 | { { | | | | | | | = | % =S FORMER HEAD OF DIVISION IN THE GE AL LAND OFFICE WHO LARES THAT MONEY WAS PAID HIM FOR FA- | VORING THE HYDE-B! LIEU LAND SELECTIONS, AND A STENOGRAPHER WHO CONFIRMS MRS. BELLE ‘ CURTIS’ TORY OF THE AF DAVIT FACTORY i list, or docket, which I prepared for him, de-| Then Heney took him in hand and |out of Benson. The last payment Was late . 1 lands, the lieu lands 7 5 in 1901 or early in 1902, and was for $600. | ’mq ‘\(' nn‘.‘ in answer to the Government attor-|Aj this was for advancing the Hyde and ¢ the history of each [ .. stions Vi | Benson selections. Some of the payments were ington he | N€Y’S questions Valk told the following | made Dimond had come to me with office studying land de- | story: | Benson’s note of introduction, s#ying that | > any <lc.~|"‘ tl)lnmn\l was “‘all right,”” and they were" for 1 hneider | I first met Y_len" n in the fall of 1897, ul}m!\':xnvlng the cases Dimond had asked me to | 8o much for the diréct exSfiination | the iiice of Cavtatu it A THmisk i the | advisice | 1 s | ti building. ashington. My _chief, | BTl 0 | by counsel for the defense. Und Woodfora D. Harlan, told me that Benson | BENSON'S BATHROOM. B xam AL v the wi | Wanted to see m We then had many selec- | , P " b er xamination by Heney the o 7 Pri A o the otfice. n the names of | The Inst time T saw Bencon in Washington s added the following: {F. A Hyde and C. W. Clarke. Thomes in- | Jiy, I December & S e by aed Ore nd Califor school nds we " 3 o . > | begun, and when Captain Thomas told me tha iohe and Beneon, | Tocm. Benson asked me to advance the Hyde | b3 to see me I at on was kept by W. K. the office, The schooi | stood on our office books m‘ A. Hyde, F. A. Hyde & Co., 1, Flora M. Sherman, H. C. Mor- Morris, Crawford W. Clarke, L. L. | o y. Elizabeth Dimond and others as | owners, &l of whom except the last twol numed were relatives or business connections of Hyde's. PAPERS SIGNED IN BLANK. Where powers of attorney were necessa for the exchange of these base lands it M the custom of the office to have the Pt sigred in blank. We filled these out Seliéh needed and sent them by the office boy BEros3y the street to a notary public, who added the' acknowledgment. The grantors were not in our office at the time, but I canmot fay whether they appeared before the notary. These powers had to be witnessed. I myseif witnesse some of them at Hyde's direction, without having seen the grantors sign. As o e non-mineral affiduvite which had to mpany the selections, these, too, ‘Were kept in the office in bulk, after being sigi in blank by Surveyor J.' C. Bunner or Surxeyor A. F. Barlon. When I needed an affidavit 1 filied out one of these signed blanks with & description of the lands and sent the boy with it over to the notary, who affixed his jurat, declaring that it had been sworn to before him. Deeds of conveyance of the selected lands were also kept in the office, signed in blank by the persons whose names had been used in taking out the selections. This sending of the office boy with papers to a notary occurred daily. The signers seldom accom- panied the boy. Question by the commissioner—Did the of- fice boy generally bring back the papers with him? Yes. He might get back in a few minutes or be away longer, according to the number of errands he had 'to do. Some of the deeds of relinquishment were sent over to Oakland to be signed. When they were brought back I sent them across the street for the notary's acknowledgment. Just told the office boy, ““Take these across to the notary.” Miss Doyle corroborated Mrs. Curtis’ | were to get 10 cents an acre for all the land testimony as to the “Dear Sir letters” that were sent by Hyde to officials at Washington, but admitted that the defendant made no attempt to conceal the contents of these letters from his office staff, although their destination was known only to himself, he ad- dressing all such communications. Aft- er Grant I Taggart, the forest super- vigor, had been recalled to say that he never received any money from Hyde ol Dimond, Heney asked: “Did you ever receive any money from Benson?” McEnerney’s objection sthat this was not proper cross-examination was sus- tained by the Commissioner, who said pointedly to Heney, ."We'll let you prove that at the proper time.” VALK SAYS HE WAS BRIBED. Then came the sensation of the day— Chief Examiner Willlam E. Valk's story of his dealings with John A. Benson and his declaration that Ben- son paid him divers sums aggregat- ing $2000 to advance the Hyde-Benson lieu land selections out of their proper order. The door for this sensational testimony was opened by the question of McEnerney, who had called the Gov- ernment official to the stand: ' “Did you have a conversation with John A. Benson regarding the exchange of worthless titles, procured by forg- ery, for lands outside the forest re- serves?” ; “No,” the witness replied. and Ciarke in which he said’ he wais interested. He agreed to pay me for doing 80. 1 consented to do what he wanted. It was understood that Harlan and I toget selections thus advanced and approved. He | was to pay me through Harlan. He agreed to furnish me with a list of the cases he wanted exvedited and he did so. The ame by mail. 1 destroyed it later. It o ined the same names Miss Doyle testi- | to. advanced some of the cases for approval, when $200 was due to ilarlan and myselt e had paid me only $20 I balked. Benson at the Shoreham Hotel in Wazh- | ip parior B. This was in 189S, wanted to do the work directly and | was not giving me a fair deal | n ithe money question. He agreed then to Pay me directly, at the rate of 10 cents an acre for land approved. - This promise was . Benson sending me paper .bills in en- opes addressed on @ typewriter and con- taining no writing. These were sent. as we | L to my home at Laurel, Md. Gen- erally the remittance was $50 or $100 at & | time. All told 1 got between $1600 and §2000 | 1ana Later | § W. I charge. son. So I went up to his room in the hotel, the inve: | while Burne waited downstairs, Benson asked how the investigation of the grafters was going on. I told him I had been before the committee; that his name had not been mentioned often, but that Hyde was’ named more frequently, and that the nment seemed especially anxious to catch Benson was much pleased. Don't you want to go to my bathroom?” Bepson asked me when I had finished. I said “'Yes,” and went. On the washstand I und §100—four $20 and two $10 bills. But I just stuck the cash in my pocket then and did not know the amoupt until I got down- stairs and accompanied Burns to a nearby restaurant, where we counted and marked the money. “Just what were vou to do for this money?” asked McEnerney in re- direct examination. “I was to take up the Benson-Hyde cases out of thelr order and if they GRAND LODGE OPENS SESSION Twenty - Seventh Annual Gathering of the Work- men at the Raisin City i REPORTS FROM OFFICERS f Subordinate Lodges Are Urged to Form Drill] Teams and Uniform Ranks | s S Special Dispatch tc The Call FRESNO, April 12.—The twenty-sev- enth annual Grand Lodge session of the Ancient Order United Workmen | was called to order this morning at 10| o’clock. About 450 representatives were | present, 100 of them being new mem- | bers and to be initiated into the grand master’s degree. Supreme Foreman Narvis was pre- sented by a committee. He made a few | remarks on the welcome he had re-| ceived. Later in the day he addressed | Grand Lodge on the legislation of | the Supreme Lodge last vear in adopt- | ing the new rate plan, and showed the | benefit to be derived from a safe, equit- | able and sufficient system. The morning sessgon was taken up | with reports of the various officers. In| the afternoon the committee on good of the order made its report. This gave | favorable mention to the Degree of| Honor and the work of the officers. The | members anproved the removal of the| grand recorder’s office to new quarters | as necessary and more convenient for | the transaction of the increased work | being done by that office. Grand Mas- ter Dr. F. M. Browning was congratu- lated upon his election as president of the California Auxilia: of the Na- tional Fraternal Congre: The forma- tion of drill teams and uniform ranks was urged upon all the subordinate lodges. The finance committee reported that {hey found all the books of the grand | recorder and grand receiver in good | shape. The following officers were elected: President, W. H. Jordan; vice presi-| dent, Ed Danforth: secretary, W. H.| Barnes; treasurer, Samuel Booth. | To-night the members of Yosemilei‘ Lodge of Fresno and Martha Lodge,| the visiting Workmen, after which a| banquet was served. Toasts were re- sponded to by Governor Pardee, Mayor | Stephens and many of the prominent| members of the A. 0. U. W. el g e i ot SAYS THAT THANSFER OF LAND WAS LAWFUL Attorney for the Defense in the Ore- gon Fraud Cases Makes His i Argument. PORTLAND, Ore., April 12.—Dur- ing his argument for the defense in the case of Charles G. Cunningham and others for conspiracy to defraud the Government of lands Judge Balle- ray made the declaration that “there is no such crime as defrauding the United States of public lands. There is not a statute in existence that deals with any such action. The indictment returned against those men is not an unlawful act, for it was lawful.” Judge Balleray declared that the in- dictment was not lawful in that it did not charge specifically the kind of “proofs” the accused were guilty of swearing to and which were alleged to be fraudulent. ‘ et - * were found proper to approve them. Fifty cases or more were approved out of their proper order within the first six months. Benson never asked me to pass defective cases. He did ask for advance information as to the re- ports from the superintendents recom- mending the withdrawal of lands for forest reserves. I told him that this was outside my department and that it would excite suspicion if I should try to get him the facts he wanted. But he kept writing and I at last tried to gé&t him the information, though I was very busy. I may have sent him some reports and a map or something of the sort—advance information re- garding proposed reserves.” This ended the hearing for the day. It will continue this morning at 10:30. Degree of Honor, gave a grand ball to| [ REMEDIES. DR. SHOOP’'S HUMAN BAROMETERS A Rheumatic Mystery Here are some marvels of medicine! A dose of Aconite will climax at three o'clock in the morning. 4 Aloes will operate at five o'c! and Sulphur at cleven o'clock. No matter what time, m the preceding day. you have taken these ‘medicines, they will climax at the fixed hours here stated and reveal cerrain symptoms al- ways. B How do you account for this? How account for a Rieumatic son's ability to predict a coming storm 24 hours ahead, by the peculiar ache in his bones? Rheumatism the blood. lock A. M. per- impty Uric Acid in n - Acid have its time limit, like other chemicals. but reflect- ing backward like a barometer? r‘ Uric Acid is due to a lack of Alkall material in the blood. This Acid absorbs the debris, or waste matter, of the sys- tem. It ecarri this waste matter into the blood, when there are not enough Alka- line elements (like salt or soda) to neutralize the Uric Acid, and to free the debris before it reaches the kidneys. As the blood circulates through the system, it then deposits small particles of this waste matter in the joints and muscles. These particles are like granulated sugar, or sand, and they g o oo vy the joints and muscles at every move- ment. This grinding causes intense pain and inflammation, frequently. If the disease be not checked, the inflammation will cause the Uric particles to be coated th a fleshy cushion, which in time 8Tows to the joints as well. Then “bony joints” and crookéd limbs ensue. The only way to cure Rheumatism is the to convert the Acid condition of blood into an Alkaline. Then to dis- solve, and carry away. the deposits in joints and muscles. Then, to get the digestive organs into a normal condition, so they will secrete, without further help, less Acid and more Alkalin Upon this condition depends cure, and the permanence of cure. But—it is useless to kill Rheu- matism if we also kiil the stomach in doing so. “ew drugs powerful enough to dis- solve Uric Acid deposits are safe to take into the stomach. This is why sogalled “quick cures” are dangerous. Rheumatism is slowly aequired, and €0, a cure cannot be expected in a few weeks' treatment, and never by external applicatio; The first essential in a Rheumatic cure is safety—the second. effectivencss—the third, permanence. Ina m experience of thirty I have known but one remedy which combined these three qualities. It took t ars of my life to discover in Ger- subtracted inis I added, 7d combined. until I now have a ption ¥n which I daily stake for- nd repute. ases 1 found that “Dr. : umatic Cure”_succeeded in out of each 10 ca Then 1 decided to suppiy it on a month’'s y risk, to Rheumatic sufferers erywhere. If it fails. the treatment and six bot- of Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Cure cost »u not a farthing, and I bear the whole cost myself without question. If it succeedk. the cost to you is but $5.50. s is no mere sample proposi- tion. but a practical guarantee of suc- cess or no pay. Write me to-day—befora you forget it—for my free Treatise on Rheumatism. Address Dr. Shoop. box 2630, Racine, Wis. Simple cases often yleld to one bottle of Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Cure. (Druggists’ $1.) But all druggists _do not supply it on a month's trial. You must write to me for that. e ————— CRIMINAL TELLS STORY OF HIS EFFORTS TO ROB Burglar Who Entered Santa Clara County Houses Makes an Inter- esting Confession. SAN JOSE, April 12.—John W. ‘Woods, a burglar, was arrested to-day at Mountain View with an elaborate safe-cracking outfit on his person. In the Sheriff's office here he admitted that he had served five terms in the State prison, his last release having been last August, and he showed the Sherift how his tools were used, say< ing that some of them were his own inventions. —_—————— Will Study the Loco Weed. DENVER, April 12.—Practical in« vestigations to determine the exact composition of the loco weed, which is the cause of much worry and expense to cattlemen throughout the West, and to detect the cause of its poisonous ef- fects upon animals will be undertaken early in May by Dr. H. H. True of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Dea partment of Agriculture, who is now in Denver. ADVERTISEMENTS. It's the Young Fellows Who Wear College Styles Because-- They have a superb effect and impart that athletic air so desirable in young men’s clothes. 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