The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-23
OVER HIS HEART.
A Rare Masonic Rite to
Be Performed.
AN EX-GOVERNOR HONORED.
Director Leach Is Angered at
rIarkham's Action.
AND RESIGNS HIS POSITION.
A Woman Refuses to Dress Herself
and Go Before Lunacy
Commission.
AND RESIGNS HIS POSITION.


the memory of the late Ex-Governor
Ygnacio Herrera Cairo will be laid, and
beneath the stone will be deposited the
heart of the man in whose honor the i'm
posing shaft is to be reared.
The exercises will begin at . o'clock.
Masons Of the subordinate lodges as we'll
as of the higher lodges from every part of
the State are to be in attendance.
A procession will be formed in the up
per hall of the Masonic Temple and line
of march. more OF less broken on account
of the distance to the cemetery, will be
main tanned TO the burial plat.
There will be in line a detachment of
| the Guarda de JuareZ, the Grand Conss-
| tory of California, with its subnrdin to
bodies of Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite Freemasonry acting as a general
| escort for the Masonic fraternites, inciud-
| ing Oakland Lodge of Perfection No. 123 /;
| Yerba BueDa Lodge No 9, San Francisco :;
Gethsemane Chapter, Rose Croix No. 8 :;
| Yerba Bueua Chapter, Rose CrOiX No t.
| San Francisco; De Moiay Council of Ka-
dosh No. l, San Francisco; Godfrey de II.
| Omar Council Of Kadosh No. l. San Fran
cisco. and the Grand COnsistOry of Cali
| fornia.
There will also follow in the procession
large number of subordinates to the
septed by Oakland Lodge No. 18S, T. and
A. NJ, of Oakland and other members IF
the craft. Then will follow four Brethren
Knights Rose Croix bearing the Golfer con-
tanning the casket in which Is placed the
ex-GoVernor's heart. A number of other
officers 10 full regalia will march behind
the Knights.
Upon the site of the proposed monument
a platform has been erected large enough
to accommodate the choir, grand officers,
musicians, Gethsemane Chapter, Rose
CrOix, the Masonic Veteran Association
and The invited guests.
The ceremony proper will be conducted
BY the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of
Free ana Accepted Masons of California.
Most Worshipful Hiram \. Rucker, past
grand master, will act as grand mas er.
At a signal from him. at the proper time,
the grand treasurer of Gethsemane Chap
ter No of Rose Crolx will place the cas-
ket in the cavity cut in the stone.
Grand honOrs Will be given the same as
at the funeral Of brother. This will in
clude a number of beautiful rites, after
which a benediction will be pronounced by
the grand chaplain. closing the exercises.
The procession will form again and march
back 10 the temple.
These ceremonies are ia the faithful
performance OF an oath eXacted from four
Masons by Cairo just prior 20 his death.
He was snOt by an opposition party in
Mexico that had defeated him. Ii was his
earnest request that some chapter of the
Rose CrOix or other Masonic order should
accept the trust and remember him as
martyr to the principles of FreemasOnry.
On the 23d OF January, 1893. a K. Couey,
COnSul-General of Mexico ia San Fran
cisco, asked h. A. sherman OF this city
whether a lodge here would accept the
trust and Sherman said il would. On the
oath of April. 1893, the heart was recei we'd
in this city with imposing ceremonies at
the Masonic Temple. Rosalia l.. de Cone y
of Guadalajara, Mexico. brought the hear |
froEi its first resting-place. The Geth-
semane Chapter took possession of the
heart and has had II since.
L. A. Sherman will deliver the Grafton
st the burial of the casket to-day.
YgnaciO Herrera Cairo was born in
Mexico, in the city of Gaudalajara in 1921.
His father founded the first lodge of Ma
sons in the Mexican Republic soon after
the declaration of separation from Spain.
The father died when YgDaeiO was but
IL years of age. lie then entered ceTi-
cal seminary, and at once distinguished
himself by his general bTilliancy. de
graduated as a doctor of medicine, and be-
gan al once to relieve the poor and dis
tressed. He had imbibed ideas of freedom
of thought and speech In religious matters
and disseminated them widely. He was
never a church man.
LII politics he took a prominent part and
was chosen 10 fill many important public
positions, the greatest being the Governor
ship OF the state of J0lisco. During his
iEcu mbency he discovered a Carmellite
plot against the Government and threw
| the plOtters into prison, From that time,
it is said, he was a doomed man.
Upon the expiration of his Governs hip
| he returned 10 his farm. The party wit
! which he had been identified was over
| thrown by strong opposition, and his sue.
eessors had him taken from his farm under
the command of Manuel PelagO and shot
| to death. Some time later PielagO was
| hanged for his part in the transaction.
Trouble in the Board.
| The appointment Of George p. Morrow
| as a director of the Home for Adult
! Blind has caused trouble in the board, and
Director Leach has resigned. and other
directors threaten to take similar action.
| About two years ago serious charges
were made against the directors of the
home. aud majority of the board said
| they would resign il, after full investi-
cation. the charges were found to be true.
| The Legislature made an Investigation,
and reported the affairs of the home in
good condition and the charges without a
basis.
At about this time the term of one of the
majority members of the board, Jacob
GREENWOOD, expired, and the Legislative
committee recommended his reappOint-
ment. Governor Markham ignored the
reco N endatiou, but did not appoint any
one else, and Mr.. Greenwood continued 10
hold on at the suggestion OF his felo W.
members. who appreciated his services,
until his successor might be named.
The disappointment of Greenwood would
have been virtually approving the report
of the legislative committee. bat Governor
! Markham was quiet in the matter, and q
local Republican paper has accused him oil
lodging the responsibility.
On Thursday last the Governor was
asked by one of the members of the board
to settle the matter. and when asked whaI
| was wanted the Governor was told to re.
| appoint Mr. GREENWOOD.
Instead OF doing this he turned the
matter over to leading Republicans in the
| Alameda delegation at the Sacramento
convention, and the result was the ap-
poin lment Of Dir. Morrow.
And Director Leach, thinking this was
! virtually a condemnation OF the majority
of the Board of Directors, has forwarded
his resigna alton to the Governor.
1t is not known, however, just what the
| other directors will do. They are: John
p. Irish. A. d. Thompson and +. A. Camp
bell.
Refused to Dress Herself
Mrs. Cora McHenry was, on complain
of her husband, John Me Henry, to have
been examined as Insane yesterday after
noon before Judge Ogden and lunacl
| commission, but when the time came To-
the examination the husband appeared
and stated that his wife was home and il