In early 1895, Bonifacio called for a meeting of the society and deposed Basa in an election that installed Bonifacio as president, Jacinto as fiscal, Santiago as secretary, Molina as secretary, Pío Valenzuela and Pantaleon Torres as physicians and Aguedo del Rosario and Doreteo Trinidad as councilors. Since the press was in the old orthography and not in the new "Germanized" alphabet, as called by the Spaniards, there were no Tagalog letters such as "k", "w", "h" and "y". a secret patriotic anti-Spanish organization in the Philippines from 1892 to 1897. [73] By the end of May 1896, Valenzuela had visited and interviewed Rizal in Dapitan. Filipino: Sagisag ng Katipunan. 6 Clavel Street, San Nicolas, Manila. and several works that exposed Spanish abuses and promoted patriotism. 8. of the A. of B., with all my courage, to keep secret whatever I witness and hear, to follow orders blindly, and to support all my brethren against every danger and exigency. The Filipino scholar Maximo Kalaw reports that Basa yielded the presidency to Bonifacio in 1894 because of a dispute over the usefulness of the initiation rites and Bonifacio's handling of the society's buts. Recruitment Methods. The front of the mask had white borders that formed a triangle with three Ks arranged as if occupying the angles of a triangle within a triangle, and with the letters "Z. Ll. The word "katipunan" (literally means association) came from the root word "tipon", an indigenous Tagalog word, meaning: "society" or "gather together". // -->