The herald., 1898-09-24
ABOUT THE STATE

\. II. Gould, the prisoner who escaped
from San Quentin on Saturday last by
scaling the walls, was captured yesterday
Is miles from town. at a small town called
Tocoloma.
TIE question of the sanity of Frank II.
Checsman of Oakland, accused of murder,
will be submitted to a. jury next Tuesday
according to an order issued today by
Superior Judge Ellsworth.
The task of removing the mines from
the San Diego harbor was completed yes
terday by Capt. Meyler, United States en-
gneer corps, who went out in a tug with
a force of men and recovered each of the
destroyers and took them to Ballast point
Rushing at the University of California
is a thin! of the past. The freshmen have
passed resolutions acknowledging their
fault in participating in rushes without
the consent of the faculty and expressing
a desire to reach an understanding in the
matter.
Mrs Nettie r. Craven, who gained so
much notoriety as a contestant of the es-
tate of the late Senator Fair returned
to San Francisco yesterday from St Paul,
and the Bulletin says that she has come
to ask for new trial of her contest for
some of Fairs millions.
The Democratic county central commit
tee met at San Jose yesterday and Endorsed
f. W. Conant, the Good Government
leagues nominee, for treasurer, and John
T. Wallace, the Good Government leagues
nominee, for Justice of the peace. This
completes the Democratic ticket
j. D. Hoffman was yesterday elected cap
tain of the University of California track
team. He is member of the junior class
and is q years of age. He holds the Pacific
pole vault record of II feet, which is AZ
inches behind the American amateur rec
ord, and he is good all round athlete
The savings banks of interior cities and
towns have submitted to the bank commits
sioners at San Francisco statements of
their condition on August S1st. Their re-
sources amount to $50, 43s, 9l7, very salts
factory showing. The reports of twenty
three private banks show resources of So
753,3 1888.
Judge Smith in tho superior court at
Santa Cruz yesterday overruled the OBJ
lection of the defense, permitting a tram
script of Charles Harris testimony In the
Plyler case to be read. Harris testimony,
well as that of II. Bradley who died
soon after Plyer's first trial, was read to
the jury. No new evidence was adduced
The board of directors of the San Fran
cisco Manufacturers and Producers as
ISOLATION met yesterday and passed resolu-
tons favoring the retention of the Philip
pine Islands as part Of the United States.
A copy of the resolutions will be forward
ed to the president, senators and congress-
men.
Brooding over railroad wreck In which
he was involved has wrecked the mind of
c. W. Tappan of Oakland, formerly a
Southern Pacific engineer. and he has been
sent to the Napa asylum. He labors under
the delusion that he has just passed
through a terrible train wreck and that he
has been held responsible for the loss of
many lives. He has family and property
valued at about $4,000.
Secretary of State Brown yesterday de-
cided In the matter Of the contest of Carl
7. Spelling against James H. Barry. that
Barry was the regular Democratic nom.
NEE for congress from the Fourth district
and that Spelling has no claim to q nIacn
on the ballet. The Citizens Republican
party has filed protest with the score
tary of state against the filing of the GER
tfcate of julius Kahn, the regular Re-
publican nominee for congress from tbe
Fourth district.