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Show Scqacaterios Intllau Iroiertj New York, 22. A Washington special saye: Judge Baker, president of the St. Louis aud San Francisco railroad company, testified before the senate committee on territories, today, to-day, that the company had iusued Si, 700,000 worth ol bonds on thirty-five thirty-five miles of railroad constructed in Indian leirilory. The value of the bonds, he said, depended on the se quest ration of ibe titles of the Indians to land in the territory. Certain propositions, he said, before congress, lo organize a territorial form of government in the territory would have sequestrated the titles of the Indians to this properly. |