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T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1904. - — Sir Donald Currie’s Rise. Spectal Correspondence. SRS OF THE CAL VE COVENT 1 A STRE 1.ONDON, J g to the latest yeports, is recovering from vere illness, his advanced that this and Tennyson and try will | Donald’s most | panies this sketch recent por of him. H whiskers have long been snow white, imparting to his thoughtful, earnest face a marked as- SIR DONALD CURRIE, ENGLISH CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY AND MAN OF AFFAIRS. T S —— NS pect of benevolence. That it accords well with his character was shown the other day by his munificent donation of $500,000 to the London University. Self-made and proud of it, Sir Donald belongs to that type of man who comes to the top far oftener in the New World than in the Old. He wa born in Beotland, entered a steam shipping of- fice in his native town of Greenock when he was 14, ar~ fzom that humble start on an office stool rose to be head of the firm of Donald Currie & Co., owners of the great Castle line of steamers plying to South Africa; sat for ten vears in Parliament, gained knighthood and won the esteem and friendship of many of England’s most distinguished men. During his life he has witnessed the marvelous growth and development of the steam mercan- tile marine and has played no small part in it. He entered the Cunard ser- vice when he was I8 At that time this company possessed the only steam- ers engaged in the American trade, and there were only three of them. When the present Sir Donald was 37 he left the Cunard Company and started the Castle line. s Asked once to what he attributed his succees, he replied: *To doing thor- oughly whatever I undertook to do. I made that my guiding principle when I obtained my first position and as far #s my powers permitted I have stuck to that ruie ever since.” His interest in South Africa has not been that of a business man only. As & Britisher he has always believed in coloring as much as possible of it red on the maps, and this occasioned some differences of opinion between himselt and Gladstone, of whom he was a warm friend and admirer. But he did succeed in persuading Gladstone to au- thorize the hoisting of the British flag et St Lucla Bay in Zululand just in time to beat the Germans by a few days. He was knighted in 1879 be- cause, owing to his initiative and re- source in placing steamships at the disposal of the Government and gétting dispatches forwarded, the little British force shut up at Elkowe and surround- ed by some 10,000 Zulus under Cete- wayo's brother Dabulmanzi was saved from destruction. Sir Donald bad at one time a great fondness for taking distinguished peo- pie on long cruises in his steamers. In 1890 Gladstone was his companion for a fortnight in a cruiee around Scotiand in the Grantully Castle, after illness had compelled him to take a respite from Parliamentary work. On that voyage Gladstone's favorite book, his host relates, was “David Copperfield.” Three years later both Gladstone and Tennysgn were his guests on a longer cruise, which extended round Scotland to Kirkwall, Norway and Copenhagen. “It was most charming,” says Sir Donald, “to see Gladstone and Tenny- #son_together. When Tennyson would read one of his poems to the great statesman, discussing here and there I 1 | he set his hand to he has earned well- | merited distinction, but if he were only Homer and the Greek poets and on one occasion these two great men had the most interesting discussion on Shakes- peare that I ever heard. Although Tennyson was not - very early riser, immediately after breakfast he used to return to his cabin to study and write, for, as he told me, he considered this was the best part of the day for work. ‘When Tennyson talked it was just like one of his own poems. When he was viewing scenery—a moonlight night, or a sunset, or & little bit of impres- sive landscape—he would sit and look at it silently for a moment, as though drinking it in and filling his soul, only the next-moment to tell it all to those whose privilege it was to sit near him.” Eir Donld’s reminiscences of this sort make one’s mouth water for more of them. By doing thoroughly everything a Boswell, by giving us a record of these rapturous monologues of the poet and the discussions between him and Gladstone, he might earn a fame that would endure long after himself and his ships have been forgotten. It was on this voyage of the Pem- broke Castle that royalty paid its homage to genius, a banquet being giv- en on board at Copenhagen, at which were present the King and Queen of Denmark, the then Emperor and Em- press of Russia, the King and Queen of Greece and lesser royalties swelling | the number to twenty-nine. Gladstone made a speech and Tennyson read two | of his poems, and royalty expressed great satisfaction with both perform- | ances. On this occasion Sir Donald obtained one of his most cherished possessions— one of Tennyson's clay pipes. After the dinner Tennyson had retired to his cabin for a smoke, where Sir Donald | hunted him up and conveyed to him the | request of the assembled royalties that he would be so kind and obliging as to | read to them some of his poems. The poet was loth to lay aside his pipe, even for that, but by Scotch persistens cy Sir Donald got him to give it up, | and Tennyson, instead of tossing it out of the cabin window, as he was accus- tomed to do with his clays after a smoke, gave it to Sir Donald as a keepsake. “When I told Gladstone this,” relates Sir Donald, “he said, ‘Keep it; it will be precious some day.” ‘When Gladstone returned to England after this voyage he got a wigging | from his royal mistress, Queen Victo- ria, a great stickler for etiquette and all the prerogatives of her exalted po- | sition as everybody knows, bécause he | had dared to put foot on a foreign | | shore without having first obtained her permission, which, as Prime Minister, he ought to have done. And, as Mr. Morley records in his biography of the statesman, he had to make a -most humble apology to the Queen £6r hav- ing ignored her authority. | Sir Donald has a town residence at 4 Hyde Park place, and among his art | treasures there are more Turners than can be found in any other private col- | lection. His country residence is!' Garth Castle, near Aberfedy, Scotiand, and there he keeps his Tennyson pipe. | The Fire Walkers. Those who witnessed the coronation procession will doubtless recollect a small group of copper-colored soldiers with bare legs and outstanding hair, innocent of covering. These strange people—Fijians—and their ancient cer- emony of Vilavilairevo, or fire walking, were the subjects of a paper read by W. L. Allerdyce, C. M. G., at a meet- | ing of the Royal Colonial Institute re- cently. Admiral Sir N. Bowden-Smith presided. The ceremony of fire walking, Mr. | Allerdyce explained, is performed by a certain tribe at the island of Bega, and originated in a legend that, in reward for having spared the life of a man he had dug out of the ground, one Tur Qualita was invested with the power | of being able to walk over red-hot stones without being burned. An ecrth oven is made and filled with layers of wood and stone. In this a fire is kin- | dled about twelve hours before the fire | walking takes place, and when the hot | stones have been exposed by brushing away the charcoal the natives, under | the direction of a master of ceremo- nies, walk over them barefooted. The temperature at the edge of the oven is about 120 degrees Fahrenheit, while on one occasion, when a ther- mometer was suspended over the stones, it registered 282 degrees, and the solder was melted. Yet, stated Mr. Allerdyce, after the ceremony the na- tives showed no signs of the terrific or- deal through which they had gone. By means of a number of views the lec- turer gave a realistic idea of the cere- mony as performed nowadays. Vice Admiral Lewis Beaumont de- scribed a fire-walking ceremony as wit- nessed by himself. Although those who took part in it showed no signs of dis- comfort, he remarked that apparently they did not like it very much. Replying to questions, Mr. Allerdyce said the only explanation he could give of the apparent immunity from harm following on the process was that the soles of the feet of the natives were hardened to an unusuval degree through constant walking on a sandy soil cov- ering coral, which became exceedingly hot under the sun. There was also the element of absolute belief by the na-' tives In the legend that they were proof againts fire.—London Standard. Elephant Sausage. In those lands where horses are the food of men, all manner of flesh goes the way of the sausage machine. Re- cently there had to be slaughtered at Ghent an elephant #ell known in Bel- gium by the name of Jack, the last in- habitant of the zoological garden, and his flesh, which is stated to have welghed skin, 1000 pounds and viscera, 600 JOHN | the immediate future in this statement, which is a suffi- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Publication Office... D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor » « + o « « « » + » Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager ..Third and Market Streets, 8. F. THURSDRY ' [ .visi 0000 nnonsnniinweithosslnpinss sssssssapsssss toisssadassovsshsivenarssasp i JONE 23, 1004 REPUBLICAN PURPOSE. HE Republican National Convention was properly T introduced to the work it has in hand by the speech of the temporary chairman, ex-Secretary Root. The Republican party was founded by a small band of men who dealt with an issue that had grown upon the country from the day that John Quincy Adams made his speech in the House in defense of the right of petition. The extensiort of slavery grew to be an absorbing issue. It outgrew all questions of tariff and finance. When the Whig party died and was succeeded in some parts of the country by the Know Nothing party it was seen by kindred spirits that had been apart in the Whig and Democratic parties that a useful national organiza- tion could not be founded upon the principle of reli- gious rancor, and that there was one issue, lhat‘of hu- man freedom, of free men and of free soil, that must ever be uppermost in a republic. So these spirits/joined in the formation of the Republican party. Some of them were written down fanatics, and they were. The remnants of prejudice against the party that still exist relate to its crusade against the institution of slavery. Its great achievements, its statesmanlike deal- ing with other than its primordial issue, its gathering to itself so many of the master minds of the country, were all unforeseen that day that it met to make its first nomi- nation to the Presidency. Since then its history is studded with achievements in every line of statecraft, in finance, economics, the finding of paths for the indus- trial, scientific and ethical progress of the people, and in the safeguarding of human rights. The party meets again, forty-eight years after its first | convention, to remind the country of its history, of its acts, of its promises and of its future purpose. The speech of the temporary chairman is something more than the epening address of a great convention. It is another added to the many evidences of the abundant statesmanship which the party has attracted to its lead- ership. The great men of its first score of years have | passed away, and those of its third decade are aged and their ranks are thinned by mortality. Blaine and Conk- ling, Logan and Grant, Sherman and Evarts, McKinley and Hanna are gone. But it raises the pride of Ameri- cans that the trust which fared well in their hands is not to fail for lack of trustees capable of its administration. The speech of Elihu Root places him in the front rank as a worthy successor to those whose lives were the sub- ject of his threnody, and a fit companion of the living whose purpose in party leadership he presented to the couptry. We invite all men to read it, and especially we invite to it the attention of those Democrats to whom the welfare of the country is dearer than a mere party victory. The Republican party may some time lapse, as may happen to any human organization. But its na- tural force is now unabated. It has fixity of purpose, coherence of policy, and is adolescent in the sense of possessing unimpaired strength for achievement. No Democrat need fear to read this speech lest it affront him. It is not an indictment of his party, nor does it mention anything done or threatened by it to hold it up to contempt. It is free from that kind of partisanship. Jiewing with alarm” is usually demagogic and this is not the speech of a demagogue, but of a statesman who uses the noble rhetoric of understatement in telling what a great party has done for a great country and of the further deeds of which it is capable to maintain -that greatness. In his peroration he condensed the immediate past and cient platform: “The first administration of McKinley fought and won the war with Spain, put down the in- surrection in the Philippines, annexed Hawaii, rescued the legations in Peking, brought Porto Rico into our commercial system, enacted a protective tariff and es- tablished our national currency on the firm foundations of the gold standard by the financial legislation of the Fifty-sixth Congress. “The present administration has reduced taxation, re- duced the public debt, reduced the annual interest charge, made effective progress in the regulation of | trusts, fostereq business, promoted agriculture, built up the navy, reorganized the army, resurrected the militia system, inaugurated a new policy for the preservation and reclamation of public lands, given civil government to the Philippines, establisl)ed the republic of Cuba, bound it to us by ties of gratitude, of commercial inter- est and of common defense, swung open the closed gateway of the isthmus, strengthened the Monroe doc- trine, ended the Alaskan boundary dispute, protected the integrity of China, opened wider its doors of trade, ad- vanced the principle of arbitration and promoted peace among the nafions. “We challenge judgment upon this record of effective performance in legislation, in execution and in adminis- tration. “The work is not fully done; policies are not com- pletely wrought out; domestic questions still press con- tinually for solution; other trusts must be regulated; the tariff may presently receive revision, and if so, should receive it at the hands of the friends and not the enemies of the protective system; the new Philippine Govern- ment has only begun to develop its plans for the benefit of that long-neglected country; our flag floats on the isthmus, but the canal is yet to be built; peace does not vet reign on earth and considerate firmness backed by, strength are still needful in diplomacy. “The American people have now to say whether poli- cies shall be reversed or committed to unfriendly guar- dians; whether performance, which now proves itself for the benefit and honor of our country, shall be trans- ferred to unknown and perchance to feeble hands.” i The Democratic Convention will have its temporary chairman and its opening statement. In advance we call attention to the difference which must appear between the two. The Democratic statement must ighore the recent history of the party. It cannot dwell upon the history of Mr. Cleveland’s last administration, for every great purpose he cherished was ively thwarted by his party. As for the future L can be said is the utterance of a threat to undo Republican party has done. Watch and no MILES, FOR PRESIDENT. T seems probable that the Prohibition party will nom- I inate General Miles for the Presidency. The Gen- eral has been credited with a willing mind as to a Presidential nomination and has had favor in some sec- tions of the Democratic party. He is aged, rich and of active mind, and will find a continuation of that stimulus of excitement to which soldiers are accustomed by lead- ing a forlorn hope in the Presidential race. : The Prohibition party will probably be wiser in nomi- amating him than he in accepting. The first pul-'pou of a new or small party is to attract attention to itself by the notoriety of its standard bearer. The original Re- publican party was wise in its day by nominating Jeffer- son, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the philosopher of the Revolution. The present Repub- lican party, albeit a little short of timber in 1836, yet did very well by nominating Fremont, who had become inti- mately known to the whole country as “the Pathfinder.” Benton’s speeches on the Western country, his pio- neering of a Pacific railway along the path that Fremont had blazed, his impassioned exclamation in his speech on the courthouse steps in St. Louis pointing to the West, “It is the East—it is India.” all had aided in fir- ing the popular imagination about Fremont, the young army officer, one of the first Senators from California and the husband of Jessie Benton. True, his father-in- law refused to support him for the Presidency. When asked if he would do so Senator Benton supplied the His Fight for Life. He was a thin, emaciated looking gent with a three-day-jag look in his eyes. He had an awful toothache and wandered Into a Montgomery-avenue booze parlor and asked for the mo- mentary use of a glass. The good na- tured dispenser of jags gave him a pitiful look and slid one across the slippery bar to him. Taking a small bottle from his Jjeans with a skull and cross bones on the label he deliberately poured a quantity of the drug into the glass and tossed it off. An old woman, part owner of the shop, looked up, and seeing the bottle labeled “poison,” ran shrieking from the room, calling slang and epigram of the campaign by replying “Not in the day time, sir, not i the day time.” General Miles will make as good a dry campaign as anybody and will bring the Prohibition party into more notice than it could gain through any other personality in the country. The General is still what is known as “a good looker.” His record as a soldier deserves respect, and even if his acceptance of a nomination is a bit of old man’s vanity the country will treat him with respect and he will be a picturesque figure in the cam- | paign. —_——— janaemic subject’s face, |Ing bottle and rinsed his mouth with wildly that the man was committing suicide. The bartender sat noncha- lantly with one hand on a nonde- script article resembling a cash reg- ister, calmly puffing a “rope” of du- bious pedigree and watching the liquid change from the phial to the offering the while no word of protest. The alleged self-destroyer took jolt after jolt from the dangerous appear- much deliberation. “Toothache’s A Japanese statesman, high in authority and close in | the confidence of the Mikado, made the astounding | statement recently that Japan would not look unkindly ' upon overtures for mediation in her war with Russia. This admission from such a source fairly bristles with potentialities of distress for the island kingdom. The Czar stands to-day humiliated before the world. A few more defeats can add no more sackcloth and ashes and many thousands of lives must be given to death before the great conflict is either intcrruptad or ended. T commercial and promotion bodies of the State of | California was unique in being the first gathering of the kind in one harmonious whole of representatives from every section of the State come together in a com- mon cause. It needs no argument to establish the fact that the meeting will be productive of great good. That such action has not been taken long before this is proba- bly because of the mistaken idea that our widely diversi- fied interests could have little in common, situated as they are more or less remote from each other in different parts of an immense territory. | The fealty which should exist between the different | parts of a State should be of the same kind as the pa- triotism which binds that State to the Union. With us, whenever that fealty and mutuality of interest has not been recognized by any part of the State so zealous in its local partisanship as to"forget there are others there has been felt the sting of criticism, which has tended to widen the breach rather than to close it. The Sacramento meeting illustrates the fact that all | California has come to realize the interest of one is best promoted by f'unhering the interests of all and that in- stead of pulling in opposite directions more can be ac- complished for the individual if all work together in a common cause. In doing that in an intelligent way all sections are protected, more intending settlers are reached and directed to the locality best adapted to the wants of each, there is no longer a duplication of effort, a better and more neighborly feeling is generated, and the results are more commensurate with the thought, | time and money expended. There were representative men at 'the conference from about 140 organizations in this State. The questions discussed were of a character to enable those present to better understand the objects to be attained. The ap- pointment of a publicity committee, composed of one representative from each of the nine natural divisions of the State, to plan an advertising campaign and report such plan when completed to every development organ- ization in California, will tend to bring matters into tangible shape. The conference at the State Capitol was California’s Hague Tribunal, to adjust differences not appealable to any particular court, to bring about perpetual peace and to promote and develop the interests of all clients | appealing to it. It was a sane move and one that it is to be hoped will be even more successful in results than the most sanguine have expected. THE SACR?MENTO CONFERENCE. HE recent conference held at Sacramento by the The sporting blood of a Southern cattleman, famous in his neighborhood for deeds of daring and of gallantry, became fired on the “Pike” at the St. Louis Exposition the other day and he started to “shoot up” the whole fair. His endeavor cannot be viewed in any light except one of pronounced censure and reproof. It was a willful and altogetherreprehensiblewaste of material andenergy which should be devoted to the needs of the gentle- man’s Southern home. These little pleasantries have been found deeply beneficial in Texas. PRSI CE I A local teamster was arrested the other day for run- ning down and injuring a cyclist on a public thorough- fare. When will the marvels of our gay Western life cease? Let the injured wheelman take unto himself all the glories of vicarious suffering for a tribe which has terrorized pedestrians and horsemen alike, Catastrophe to a bicyclist is distinctly in the nature of retribution. —_— A young man arrested at Livermore for robbery claims that he is a son of an Indian Rajah whose way in life has been in dark and dangerous places. Whether the young man offers his explanation in extenuation or justification of the act of which he is accused is not clear. In most robberies in which the Rajahs play star parts they have been the victims, not the marauders, i Reports from St. Louis are very grateful in the in- formation that not énly California but Californians are greatly in evidence at the exposition. Many hundreds of the representative citizens of the State have already visited the fair, not only to their own advantage, but to ours, showing the world not simply what we have done, but who have done it. [ - A young man, unhappily possessed of clever fingers and an easy conscience, swallowed a fictitious check that he was trying to pass the other day upon a tradesman. Noy the offender is awaiting trial with the uncomforta- bl:lnlinfion that there'are some words a fellow can't | eat and escape the consequences of their utterance. | deftly hurled in a submissive heap on | the floor. !Hko structure just off “Lovers’ Lane” some bad, eh,” he grunted, without eliciting even a sympathetic reply from the mixologist. He was just topping off the last dregs of the bottle when a maddened crowd led by Policeman Bakulich surged in through the door. “Grab him, hold him, he's taken poison,” | R _CARBOLIC _ROUTE MUTTERED THE OFFI- LL CALL THE WAGON." “ANOTHE! CAS -+ they cried in one voice. Bakulich seized the evidence and saw “carbolic acid” in bold type printed on the bot- tle’s label. “Another carbolic route case,” he muttered. “I'll call the wagon.” Despite his protestations that he was merely endeavoring to cure a toothache the seedy gentleman was rapidly seized by four husky men and Several others threw water in his face, drenching his hair and clothes and gagging him. He fought. He fought for his life. They fought for his life also. A knee was pressed into the space between his stomach and floating ribs and a muscular in- dividual vigorously worked the “drowning pump action” on him. “Throw it up or you'll die,” the under dog heard through the babel of excit- ed voices. ““Ajin’t got nothin’ to throw up,” he sputtered. The wagon came. “T haven't swal- lowed any acid,” the victim protested, but his appeals for release were vain. Policeman Baculich gave the driver and the officer a hurry-up rush and the vehicle parted company with the seedy man's benefactors, en route to the hospital. “You look all right,” said the officer in the wagon. *“'Course I'm all right. Those fools think they know it all,” replied the oppressed one. “Guess we'll go to the Hall of Justice,” grunted the bluecoat. At the Central station the man with disheveled hair and tollet explained that he had heard that dilute car- bolic acid was good for an aching tooth. “But I'll never use it again,” he added, “unless I do it without a; labeled bottle or go back to thel woods.” is & queer-looking bronze bell of nl.u.l design. It usually attracts the nm-l 1 Dangerous. Flemish has enriched its vocabulary by a new word for automobile. It comes from ‘“snel,” rapid; ‘“paarde- loos,” horseless; ‘“zoondeerspoorweg,™ without rails; “petroolrijtuig,” driven by petroleum. How would you like to be hit by a “snelpaardelooszoondeer- spoorwegpitroolrijtuig ? Japaw's First Gift to Us, One of reminders of the early friend- ship of Japan for America now adorns the grounds of the naval academy at Annapolis, Md. Suspended in a pagoda- tion of visitors, but few ever learn that was hief of the United States squad- the Asiatic seas and Minister, ®lenipotentiary, charged with the duty —_— of opening Intercourse between Japan and the United States. After his death, in 1858, Mrs. Perry presented it to the naval academy in fulfillment of his wish. The bell is covered with an inscrip- tion in Japanese, which was recently translated by a young Japanese who was at one time a student at the naval academy. The incsription reads as fol- lows: “In the eighth year of Riraku and Konoke Tara of the reign of the King of Lewchew, Kei-shi-yo-hi-ho-o offered a prayer of benevolence for thé people and afterward ordered a large bell to be founded. He did this as an act of thanksgiving and presented it to the temple of Daisen Anji, in the kingdom, in order that the King might reign prosperously and live long, and that the people of the three worlds, heaven, earth and hades, might be saved from infernal doctrines, and therefore it was that he instructed Sho-ko-ku An-sai to frame this inscription: “This beautiful bell has been founded and hung in the tower of the temple. It will awaken dreams of superstition. If one will bear in mind to act rightly and truly, and the lords and ministers will do justice in a bedy, the barbarians will never come to invade. The sound of the beil will convey the virtue Tuski, and will echo like the song of Tsniray, and the benevolénce of the Lord will continue forever like these echoes. The 20th day, 10th month, Tth year, . Kaital. Shui Eishi, Cheif Priest of the Temple, Emonoske Tujirvara Kumimite, Founder of the Bell. —New York Tribune. His Boston View. “On the Fourth,” little Emerson Coply remarked, “T trust you will all bear in mind The request that I make. It is small, I am sure; A trifle, in fact, you will find. I merely would ask that you purchase no punk, No caps, or producers of noise, ‘With any intention of lowering me To the level of commenplace boys. “On the Fourth of July,” he continued, “to me There is nothing so palpably tame As crackers, torpedoes and kindred af- fairs, When fired in liberty’s name. The W;)l‘:oing they make is incompetent quite ‘To keep pace with my patriot zeal, And I frankly confess that they never give vent To the joy that I inwardly feel. “So allow me,” said he, “on the Fourth of July, To peruse, undisturbed, In my den, That document famous which years ago came From the studious Jefferson's pen. Do this, and at eve I will gladly appear The fireworks costly to see, For the rockets’ red glare and the bombs in the air Will remind me of Francis Scott Key." —New York Sun. Comparative Speed. A writer in the current Harper's Weekly, discussing recent high-speed railroad tests in Europe, has some in- forming things to say of the compara- tive speeds of the world's fastest trains. The Philadelphia and Reading Atlantic City and Camden express bears off the palm for high speed on an actual schedule run, making its fifty-five and a half mile journey at a speed of 67.96 miles per hour. Next to this is the Paris to Calals express of the Northern Railway of France, which for 185.14 miles maintains a speed of 59.72 miles per hour. So that America leads here, as In other flelds of ma- terial achievement. Answers to Queries. RAILS—S., City. The average weight of railroad rails for main lines is thirty pounds per foot. THE CIVIL WAR—M. and Veterans, Veterans’ Home, Cal. In a statistieal exhibit of deaths In the Union aymy during the Civil War, compiled under the direction of Adjutant General Drum by Joseph W. Kirkley, the causes of death are given as follows Killed in action, 4142 officers, 62,915 men; died of wounds received in a tion, 2223 officers and 40,789 men, mak- ing a total of 67,058 killed in action and 43,013 from wounds, or a grand total of 110,071, In addition there is given in this re- port the following as to losses: Died of disease, 2795 officers, 221,791 men; accidental deaths, except drown- ing, 142 officers and 3%2 me drowned, 106 officers and 4338 men; murdered, 47 officers and 483 men; kill- ed after capture, 14 officers and 9 men; committed suicide, 26 officers and 365 men; executed by United States mili- tary authority, 267 men; executed by the enemy, 4 officers and 60 men; died from sunstroke, 5 officers and 308 men: from unknown causes, 62 officers and 1972 men; causes not stated, 28 officers and 12,093 men; total, 9584 officers and 349,944 men; grand aggregate, 359,525. 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