The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1898, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1898. ply the vehicle through which D. 8. Dorn helped to fill his purse. SECRET TRAGEDY OF DR R. H. Mc- DONALD'S LIFE. In this expose, which The Call feels. in duty bound to make, thereis nothing sadder to record than the dishonor which falls upon Dr. R. H. McDonald. After the collapse of the Pacific Bank and the People’s Home Savings Bank, Dr. McDonald, who had held an hon- | ored position in this community, ‘was sincerely pitied even by the thousands who had lost their hard-earned money | in the wreck of the banks. It was be- lieved that the old man had been duped by his di tution of which he was president had been led by knaves into" dishonest projects and that he, who had passed 70 years of age, was to bear the im of his sons’ thievery. All of s was one of the gigantic delusions which the conspirators created. The Call feels it a duty to declare that Dr. McDonald was, as dishonest as his sons has now in his possession property belongs to the depositors of the and the People’s Home Savings The old man not only knew of his sons’ robbery, but was party . to it and in certain instances an instiga- tor of it. The Call will prove over his znature, the signatures of ‘his sons and the records of the Pacific Bank that hundreds of thousands of dollars belonging to these banks was stolen by R. H. McDonald Sr. This pa- per will preve that Dr. McDonald was dishonest a year and a half before the own Pacific Bank failed and fled from this city to evade the process of law. It will show that one. of his debts, amounting to $142,000, was swept from existence by the criminal touch of the mmanded by R. H. McDonald Jr: As the remarkable story of deceit, de- on, knavery and crime proceeds The Call will show that Dr. McDonald d_through banks, And proaching the having the Bank and de: d to keep omise to pledge his pri- commanded his son Rich- n thousand dollars more In this atic | will prod ion the cords | ecital there will be an | element of the deepest pathos. The | McDonald had reached an age when he felt that the shadow of death | He counseled his sons early lessons of mor- and of the Chris- | to man. He| for what he | d atitude to him » mourned over what he believed nevitable, closing dishonor to commanded from his sons, n from the dep money the th for end h was d old vate ard to steal out of the w The co; crime. story In the gion irit fairnes ned his children 1 their | into ‘a discussion . deeply | his domestic affairs and of He warned his 1 reminded him that it had cost $100,000 to get rid of one bad wo- Jbeware of another. With of remarkable sincerity he | i sons to throw off ‘the schem- | who were surrounding him and with | t an avenging spirit he declared Sherman had ruined them and it uld break his heart to see ‘the in stitutions with which his name had been so long connected go- down in a shameful wreck. FRANK WAS CONFESSEDLY A PRINCE OF THIEVES. In this strange story of financial and personal tragedy there is no more prominent figure than that of Frank | V. McDonald. The Call will prove to the public of San Francisco that Frank McDonald, by the authority of his own signature, was one of the most princely thieves that ever preved upon - this State. Through the credulity of Frank McDonald the Pacific Bank was in- into the trous Riverside k affair. Through his lack of com mon and the flattering tongue of | M. H. Sherman the Pacific Bank spent | its enormous sum of money in the Los | Angeles electric railway. The Phoenix | project, the Mohawk Canal and Im- | provement affair, the Alaska Coal Com- | pany, the Colton Marble Works and a | dozen other schemes were organized to | ze the money of business men from | the Pacific Bank and the earnings of | working men frem the People’s Home Savings Bank. One of the moct start- | ling exposes that The Call will find its duty to make is Frank McDonald’s gi- gantic plot to steal $600,000 deliberately and almost without technical manipu- eling | lation from the Pacific Bank. The facts will prove that Frank Mec- Donald, surrounded by his parasites and flatterers, led the bank into losing ventures and sank money in an effort to | become a thief. The story will not be uninteresting and better than any other | p how the People’s Home Savings Bank was robbed. It will be shown that Frank McDonald had the money in the vaults of the People’s Home bavings Bank carried. almost as quickly as it came in, to thé vaults of the Pacific Bank. J. E. Farnum will be exposed as a willing agent in these transactions and the fact will be demonstrated over his own signatire. Further than this and not sausfled with filching nearly one million dollars from the People’s Bank Frank McDonald, at the frantic appeal of his brother, Richard McDon- ald Jr., tried to steal more until both saw the banks of the East at thelr throats and their willing tool, W. H. H. Hart, ex-Attorney General, no longer able to help them. And then the doors of their thieves' den were closed. With cruel deliberation Frank McDonald schemed to seize the benefits of 'his father’s property and to do so planned what should be and what should not be done in the event of his father's death. The character of such speculation at that time, six years ago, may be better understood when it is known that the elder McDonald is still alive and Frank McDonald, a confessed thief, was a fu- giive from justice at the time of his death in London four months agn. In his letters, which possess a terri- ble meaning, The Call wiil reveal one of the elements of its proof that Wfl- lam H. H. Hart was dishonestly in collusion with the thieving bankers. DICK’S WiLD AMBITIONS LED TO THE BANK RUIN. In all the criminal idiocy and syste- matic thievery that characterized the wreck of the banks there is no more picturesque figure than that of R. H. McDonald Jr. This man was a pris- oner in the County Jail for over a year after the destruction of the banks. He was tried for several offenses alleged mest sons, that the insti-| | robbed. | thrown into the People’s Bank, the Pa- | dr. ing and the man was acquitted. The Call now has in its possession the ab- solute proof that R. H. McDenald Jr. was not_only an absurd financier and a flatter\], ambitious fool, but a thief. He has recently come before nublic no- tice as a suceessful applicant for-ad- | mission to the bar. ~Wnderstanding too | fully the influence exercised for evil by lawyers in- the affairs of men, and | knowing what part attorneys “layed In | his downfall, he undoubtedly sought to place himself on ‘the right side of the scale and become a lawyer. Early in 1891, while Frank McDonald was planning wild schemes for his financial .undoing. Dick McDonald was plotting to make himself a greater fig- |:ure in finance than his brother and a more powerful influence in public af- fairs than any one else in the: State. Di¢k wag party and sympathizer in all | the schiemes of Frank, but he had am- Hart bled the Pacific Bank until even the McDonalds rebelled and refused to allow him any more money because they said he would never repay it. Over the signature of Hart himself The Call intends to show that long after the two banks had been wrecked and the Bank Commissioners time and again. had begged the Attorney General to perform his duty and save thousands and thous- ands of poor people their hard-earned savings, Hart refused to perform his duty and was even then in consulta- tion with the McDonalds and the other conspirators in an effort to devise some new scheme by which the awful rob- bery of depositors might be made to continue. Even when the demand of the Bank Commissioners upon the Attorney. Gen- eral to perform his duty was made Hart commanded his deputies to take no action, while he assured the Mc- Donalds that he would afford them am- bitions. of his own and sought to re- alize themr -with thé money that hi\dj heen intrusted to the care of his father | and the honor of.his sons.. To fully| understand the criminal part that R. | H. McDonald played in the destruction | of the tsvo banks, the character of the | two institutions and the relation exist- |'ing between them should be clearly un- | derstood. Both bdnks . were . absolutely con- | trolled: by ‘the McDona!d family. Dr. McDonald héld: 55 per cent in the Pa- cific and: 65 -per cent in the People’ The latter institution was organized by | Dr. R. H, McDonald simply. for the pur-| posé of making 1t & feeder for ‘the Pa- | i ple time in which to remedy any dere- liction before he would act. The Call intends to show in this vitally impor- tant correspondence that Hart gave his assistance and advanced his suggestion for the .organization of the gigantic scheme, one part of which was to rob the Pacific Bank of $600,000. In this gigantic conspiracy Hart promised to piace the Blythe estate at the command of the McDonalds. The official acts of 'W. H. H. Hart will constitute one of the most dra- matic features of the entire story. In Vew York, Los Angeles, Sacramento and this city the man who was then |cific Banik: Every possible method of advertisenient was employed- to bring | | 'money” to. the Pecplé’s- Bank and . The | Call will'prove that the McDonaids and | | the conspirators that ‘surrounded them | | adopted “‘two courses by- which \hoy" | could 1l this money. One of these | | courses was ‘to. make the Pacific Bank | | the treasurer of the People's Bank and | ['to deposit as-much money as the offi- | cers dared take from the vauits of the | s institution. "Hundreds of thou- sands of dollars were thus carted away | from-the People’s Bank into the vaults of the Pacific, but enormous as_was the sum it was by no means adequate | to satisfy the rapacity of the mana- gers and their parasites. The managers of the People's Bank | were necessarily tools in the hands | of the McDonalds. So clearly was this | understood that Dr. McDonald in one | of his letters declared that J. E. Far- | num had been employed as a servant | and not as a dictator. Through the | servile obedience of the officers and | managers of the People’s Bank every | worthless security and rotten indorse- | ment that the Pacific Bank and its agents cared to thrust upon the Peo- ple’s Bank in exchange for gold was | accepted by the officers of the savings | institution. rhe Call intends to pre- | sent the proof of this startling fact and | even to show that a deliberate robbery | was committed in the acceptance of checks that the management knew were worthless. ‘When this condition of affairs is un- derstood it can readily be seen how the wreck of the two banks was accom- plished. The letters of the conspira- | tors demonstrate the fact that both! banks were made the victims of the wid schemes of the McDonalds. Every security that the Pacific Bank chose to | present the People’s Bank was forced to take. - In this way the 13,000 deposi- ors of the People’s Bank were doubly | The conspirators shamelessly discussed how they might -reduce the | enormous, indebtedness of the Pacifie | Bank to the People’s Bank by thrust- ing upon the latter what were known | to be valueless bonds and stocks. In| August, 1891, eight months after M. H. Sherman forced an entry into the Pa- cific Bank and J. E. Farnum was| sav cific Bank was insolvent. The criminal work of R. H. McDonald | then - began in earnest. He was wildly extravagant in a score of dif- | ferent ways. ~To flatter his own vanity | and to gather around himself coteries | of sycophant men and women he In- | augurated a varlety of enterprises. The Panorama was established and Dick | McDonald became the bogus hero of a | dozen women and as many men. The | Californian Illustrated Magazine was aunched into the literary world and | Dick swelled on the cheap flattery of | its editors, canvassers and attaches. | The San Francisco Printing Company | was organized and Dick paid more | money for more aduldtion. . Anything | that would tickle his monumental | egotism became an object of his good | will. Thousands upon thousands of dollars were squandered until it be- came inevitable that the banks must go | under. It was then that Dick McDon- | ald began his figsht against State | Prison. He employed all the parasites around him—D. S. Dorn of the lega bureau; M! H. Sherman, of ready wit | and seductive tongue; W. H. Eastland, | the clown of the conspiracy; O. T. | Dyer, the Riverside manipulator; A. L. | Jenkins, cheapest of followers; Dr. W.| A. F. Johns, shrewder perhaps than all. Each of these men was employed to spy upeon the thers, to bear tales of lying confidences and watchfulness, and all of them to cheat the men by whom they were employed. Thousands more dollars were expended by, R. H. Mec- Donald Jr. in sending these men at cross purposes all over this State. to the Eastern States, to London, Liver- pool and Paris to float stocks and bonds that had no value which shrewd and honest financiers cared to appreciate. For over a year these men lived on the | credulity of the McDonalds and then they thrived on their dishonesty. The story of the remarkable correspondence of which R. H.' McDonald Jr. was the fountain head will be pubiished for the first time by The Call and will reveal the criminal conspiracy in which so many men were involved. When the time came R. H. McDonald Jr. did not scruple to be dishonest. At his direc- tion the books of the Pacific Bank were falsified and The Call has the proof. At his command the People’s Bank was robbed and The Call has the man's own dispatches to establish the fact. ‘When the end was approaching Dick McDonald begged one single further chance to save himself from what he believed to be .e inevitable conclusion of his crimes. Even his judgment told | him that the officers of the law would be upon him and in frantic command he ordered his brother, Frank McDon- ald, to give him time enough to steal the money with which to defend himself if arrested. The Call will prove also that with the cunning born of dishon- esty he bought the silence or at least one newspaper of this city. HART CRIMINALLY IN COLLUSION WITH THE CONSPIRATORS. The secret history of the wreck of the Pacific Bank reveals no more startling to have been committed in connection with the ruin of the institutions, but the absolute proof of guilt was lack- fact than the criminal part that W. H. H. Hart, ex-Attorney General, played in the affair. The Call will prove that | expended fruitless | Donalds and was stamped by them as Attorney General of the State was in intimate relationship with the McDon- alds and far more intimately ac- quainted with their dishonest schemes than the Bank Commissioners ever | were. The Call makes these assertions | with the purpose and the power to| prove them. A R, JOHNS, THE CRAFTIEST OF Mc- | DONALD'S SYCOPHANTS. Of all the men that attached them- selves to the McDonalds and then ruled them none was craftier, none cleverer, none more consciencelessly deceiving than A. F. Johns. Johns was the con- fidential agent of the Pacific Bank. He was concerned primarily in the John | Brown colony and the Madera enter- prise, the two disastrous speculations into which the Pacific Bank had been drawn by W. F. Baird and John| Brown. | Baird, it will be remembered, | had charge of the Madera Bank, and | Brown manipulated the colony that bore his name. These men cajoled the McDonalds into a support of their| scheme. Great sums of money were drafts until Dick became almost frantic. In the eéxuberance of rage M. H. Sherman wrote that he would like to kill Dyer. Dick said he would like to torture the manager of the Riverside Bank. The elder McDonald said that Dyer was treacherous, unreliable and dishonest. = Frank declared that it was a terrible day when he met the gentle- man from Riverside. Dorn confined his personalities to those remarks that are usually considered unfit for publi- cation, and Tomblin, assigned to the important duty of negotiating with Miss Dyer, announced solemnly to Dick McDonald that the lady reaily had the worst disposition of any woman he had ever met. The Dyers knew their posi- tion. They realized that the McDon- alds were utterly heipless and must support the awful burden of the River- side Bank, as well as the crushing weight of the Pacific, and so this trag- edy of finance continued to the end un- til collapse came to both institutions. DICK’S SPIES FOUGHT FOR FAVOR LIKE WOLVES. Among a dozen men who enjoyed the confidence of the McDonalds and used it to advantage was, as already indi- | cated, D. M. Tomblin. He also at- tempted to bring the Dyers to terms. He worried Miss Dyer almost into hys- terics, but the iady never became hys- terical enough to lose her financial presence of mind and the overdrafts continued with alarming regularity. Tomblin's letters, which The Call will | publish, have a most significant bearing | on the secret history of the McDonald anks. Tomblin, like all the rest, was a flatterer and a close and keen ob- server of his competitors for the favors of Dick. Tomblin’s revelations will give many startling facts to the public. His caustic comments created in A. F. Johns a thirst for blood and a v emphatic determination at one stage of the proceeding to plug Mr. Tomblin full of holes. While Tomblin ecriticized Johns and Johns ecriticized Tomblin | both metaphorically tore the hide off | W. H. Eastland, and all confidentially confided to the young financial Napo- leon of Pine and Sansome streets that Dr. W. Jenningson - -as no earthly good to himself or anybody else. Jenning- son, with a frankness seldom to be found, declared that as Dick’s profes- sional spy he had discovered much to make him fear the machinations of Johns, Tomblin and Mitchell. Two men in the history of the affair | seem to have rendered honest reports to R. H. McDonald Jr. One of these was | FINAL WEEK (OPENS WELL IN ALAMEDA State Ticket Will Be Well Supported. BENEFITS OF DISSENSION LEGISLATIVE TICKET IS PER- FECTLY SAFE. | Some of the County Officers Have a Hard Fight, but Their Prospects Are Very Bright. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 908 Broadway, Oct. 3L The last week of the campaign in Ala- meda County opens most auspiclously for the Republican ticket. There are so many evidences of factionallem among all the | parties or ex-parties that it now looks as though the Republican nominees will reap the full benefit of such dissension. The = Democrats are hopelessly rent asunder. The Fitzgerald wing, which was proved at the convention to be in the mi- nority, will vote the fusion ticket, while the opposition, which {s much larger in ery | number and which Includes many of the most prominént of Democrats, will vote as It pleases, which practically means that they will not make their fingers ache placing red crosses opposite fusion pomi- nees. A comparison of the ordinary vote in years other than Presidential shows t.at a fair Republican majority for this county | next week would be about 2750 votes, and | this number, it is belleved—and possibly | more, will be returned. This is not a Ma- | guire Democratic county, and never was. The Populist party has disappeared. It | is true that a certain section interested in fusion held the convention and were patted on the back by the Democrats and | given two or three of the nominations, to | prevent them putting up a ticket of their | own. Since this little farce was enacted | there has been so much repudiation of the | actions of the fusionists that vut very little of the Populist-fusionists gre in evi- | | Colonel J. Woodard, otherwise known and day after day | the complications grew greater. Final- | gyorman into a fit. Two men gave their | Ga, tuation became apparent, and | golemn word that they would send |18 1y the s one day R. H.'McDonald Jr. sent D. M. | Tomblin to Madera to investigate. | Tomblin was presumed to be a conserv- | ative and accomplished banker. As he | was about to begin his inquiry, Baird | quietly -informed him that the task | would be labor lost, Baird frankly con- | fessing that the bank over which he | had control was hopelessly ruined. In- | stead of drawing out of this disastrous | speculation, the McDonalds plunged deeper in, and A. F. Johns was given his first opportunity to play his star engagement. He was placed in charge of the John | Brown colony and before his steward- | ship ended the John Brown colony rep- | resented to the Pacific Bank a total | loss of $300,000. The correspondence in | which Johns figures contains prob- ably the most degrading of all the ful- | some - flattery and systematic deceit | that was poured into the ears of Dick | McDonald. The letters of this manip- | ulator continue up to the time when he resigned from the service of the Me- a traitor and worse. His actions in connection with the John Brown colony will prove a revelation to the deluded | people who became colonists and were | defrauded of their rights. His corre- spondence, it is not unlikely, may serve | as a lever through which the colonists may recover some of the property wrested from them by conspirators. A. F. Johns professed to look upon R. H. McDonald Jr. as a financial and an intellectual god. The explanation of this peculiar vision of the man rests in the fact that he had an interesting son, | less successful | who is now a more or prizefighter. This son was made su perintendent of the John Brown colony and before his superintendency closed both he and his father were accused of | offenses that do not look well in print. Young Johns, D. 8. Dorn and a young gentleman not unknown to fame as “Spider” Kelly were boon companions, and the record of their companionship | at the John Brown colony, at Madera and Fresno constitutes a minor element of comedy to ‘the maln theme of tragedy that runs through the whole drama of the wreck- ing of the Pacific Bank. The "Spider” was not a conspirator. The only ser- vice he rendered was that of good fel- of the terrible recital will prove | Jenningson, crafty and far-seeing, and | |owehip and an oceasional fistic enter- | tainment with the son of Johns who, with his trade, changed his name and is now “Billy Elmer,” the actor-pugii- ist or pugilist-actor. > DYER HELD THE BANKERS BY THE THROAT TO THE END. In the recital of the ruin of the Pa- cific Bank and its feeder, the People’s Bank, one of the most prominent char- acters that appear is that of O. T. Dyer, manager and the controlling spirit of the Riverside Banking Company. At one time Dyer owed the Pacific Bank and the People’s Bank $400,000. Before the end came this enormous sum was reduced until it was $185,000. This rep- resented O. T. Dyer’s part in the ruin of the Pacific Bank. There was not one man in the employ of the McDon- alds that did not systematically and persistently condemn Dyer and pre- sent him in the shadiest of colors to the McDonalds. Dyer said in justification of himself that he bad been led into wild schemes by Frank McDonald, who thus became responsible for the ruin of the Riverside Bark and the jeopardy of the Pacific Bank. : Dyer pretended, however, that he had negotiable certifi- cates and he was sent East to dispose of them as best he could. In the correspondence that The Call intends to publish there are thousands of references to O. T. Dyer and every one of them {s condemnation. O. T. Dyer, however, was proof against that sort of abuse. He saw that the Mec- Donalds and the banks they controlled were at his mercy, and although agent after agent was sent to Riverside to watch his sister, Miss E. C. Dyer, and epy after spy was hastened to New York to follow his movements, he knew that the ruin of his bank meant dis- aster to the Pacific. - Wher R. H. Me- Donald Jr., left in this city to brave the financial storm and guard himself against the penitentiary, was crying out in abject distress for money, O: T. Dyer. kept increasing his terrible over- as ‘“Jayhawker,” the very mention of | whose name had a tendency to throw | Woodard to a better world. One of| these men was Johns and the other Frank McDonald. Woodard, however, prepared a document that shows be- | yond any question the criminal con- | spiracy through which the Los Angeles | electric railway was created, developed and maintained. But with the blind- ness that inevitably attaches itself to idiocy R. H. McDonald Jr. failed to heed the warning although he was solemnly counseled unless he divorced himself from M. H. Sherman and more | honestly protected the sacred trust that | over thirteen thousand people of this | city confided to his care his bank would end where Ralston closed the Califor- | nia Bank. This prophecy was madei nearly two years before the Pacific | Bank failed ang it was made by Colenel | Woodard, the ex-newspaper man, law- yer and Sherman’'s implacable Nem- esis. The other honest criticism of the | schemes of Sherman and of the Dyers and of Johns was given by George | Mitchell, who received for his pains the ill will of the foolish banker and the undying hatred of his parasites. | There are a few men that will lose | more through the expose of the secret correspondence of the Pacific Bank than Professor C. F. Holder, who was made editor of the Californian Illus- trated Magazine. At the time of the wreck of the banks Professor Holder escaped unscathed. Thousands of men believed him to be upright, conscien- tious and just; and at that time there was nothing to justify a contrary opin- ion, although Professor Holder knew. that while his praises were being sounded and he was looked upon as an nexperienced dupe of the McDonalds, hisown letters removing this mask were in the Pacific Bank. No one at the time of the crash could understand why it was or how that Professor Holder had | given his unsecured note for $135,000. | The professor’s letter will show that the | editor was not as Inexperienced as he | posed. He was engaged in more than editorial duty with Dick McDonald and became the young banker's go between on many a mission that had nothing to do with the Californian Magazine. In the secret correspondence The Call will prove to the public that Professor | Holder played a dubious double part. |THE PART PLAYED BY WOXEN IN LEADING DICK TO RUIN. Not the least interesting part of the secret correspondence is on perfumed and dainty paper and in the charac- teristic handwriting of women. These ladies, with a fearlessness that few men command, carried their reputations on the points of their pens. There is more than one epistle in this correspondence from women high in the esteem of the community, women enjoying the con- fidence of thousands as educators of little children in the public schools of San Francisco. But there are plots and schemes and counter plots and counter schemes in the School Depart- ment of this city and the lettérs of at least one of these women will show how directors are made and unmade In the offices of thieving bankers and com- placent attorneys. These interesting epistles will show how It sometimes happens that school directors are the creatures of school teachers, and not always the contrary, as is generally supposed. The corre- spondence in this phase, it would seem, would be incomplete if the rather coarse love affairs of R. H. McDonald Jr. were not exploited, and more than one woman who sent her perfumed notes to the Pacific Bank thinks now perhaps that there was some Ink that might better never, have been spilled. And this terrible correspondence re- flecting all, perhaps, of the worst mo- tives and most dubious actlons that carry men forward in their lust for money The Call has in its possession and will publish with a purpose that some of the stolen thousands belong- ing to the pecple of this city may be recovered and the men who conspired to rob the poor people who intrusted to their honor may be punished as they deserve for their erimes. o Cure a Cold in One Day Take Bromo Quinine Tal %m’:fl the mo bas L. cataal dence. The middle-of-the road men will almost to a man vote the Republican State ticket. Many of them have openly announced their intention of voting for e, and the sanctum of Editor Bretz ull of communications from all parts the State showing that this sentiment is very general, The Silver Reépublicans have headquar- ters in the Blake & Motfitt building. There | s a sign on the door, but no one is in| harge, and the name has no significance | whatever in politics in this county. It certainly cannot control fifty votes. It is frue that at the fusion conyention they were accorded the privilege of making one | { omination, and, to the surprise of their | aileged political confederates, they sim- ply indorsed the ]gnl)uls.r and safe candi- date, Henry P. Dalton, who is a pro- | nounced Republican. The Independent movement, being com- osed almost exclusively of Republicans, 1l vote the State ticket nearly straight, vote be cast in this | hlld be no dldmcunljty fibo‘“ {ving Mr. Gage his expected majority. gThegRepublxcan county ticket will oyne- cessity reap a large share of the benefits that will acerue to the State ticket from the dissensions already mentioned. The Democratic vote being divided and the Independent ticket being la.riely com- posed of candidates who will draw from the same elements of the voters as the | fusion ticket makes the chances for the | Republican ticket much greater. A. K. Grim and A. T. Macdonough will split the opposition against Charles Spea!‘ or Re- corder. Louis Schaffer and T. C. Landre- gan will greatly lmgmve the chances of Oscar Rogers for Sheriff. Judge Allen | will have no difficulty in being elected District Attorney. T.C. Stoddard has not gained any strength since his nomination, a | difficulty in P | wi i ind it the usual county there shoul being re-elected County ric Everybody kmows who the next | | Rscessor will be. Cal Ewing is looked upon as a sure winner for Auditor, and there is nothing that can prevent honest e alcott from being re-elected Su- | pervisor. John R. Glascock is making 2 lively campaign against Supervisor | Ehurch, but the Republicans in the lat- 's district are confident that their man | will win. The balance of the Republican | ticket- may be considered as safe. The legislative candidates in this Re- ublcan -county will not have much to ear. In ‘all the Assembly districts, ex- cept ‘the Forty-ninth, the Republican | nominee will win. In the Forty-ninth W, | 7. Schmidt, 8 Berkeley contractor and a olitician of original ideas, is making an | {ndependent Republican campaign against the = regular mnominee, A. A. McKeen. | Schmidt will get a bunch of votes, but they | Will be drawn as much from one party as another, and as this district is always | close, McKeen, while he may win, less of a sure thing than any other As- sembly nominee. g Hon. Frank W. Leavitt will certainly occupy ex-Senator Denison’s seat in the next Legislature. He has made a winning campaign from the- start, and with him [it 18 only a question of ‘the size of his majority. City Attorney E, K. Taylor of Alameda, also Republican candidate for | Senator, has_really no opposition. His opponent, Colonel J. Tobin of Alameda, thought $o little of the nomination when first offered him that he declined it. It was left open for some time, no Democrat | apparently being willing to be slaugh- | tered, and finally Colonel Tobin was in- duced to go on the ticket. AN ARCADIAN POTPOURRIL A Novel and Successful Entertain- ment at th> English Luth- eran Church. Numerous fresh young voices, some ex- cellent make-ups, and no little histrionic abllity, combined, last evening, to make | the first presentation of “An Arcadian Potpourri” at the First English Lutheran Church a most pronounced success. The committee of management was composed of Rev. Dr. E. Nelander, Ph. D., chairman, Mrs. N. M. Lund, Mrs. D. Lohsen, Miss Helen Wettig, H. T. Hes- | selmeyer, George O. Mattson, P. R. Lund {and C. M. Volkman, treasurer. Excel- | lent music was furnished by Miss Steele | Brinn, planist, and J. C. Fyfe, organist. | The stage management reflected great credit upon Clarence C. Peterson. The | potpourri will be repeated every evening | this week. e r——————— Bert Schlesinger’s Last Day. Assistant United States Attorney Bert Schlesinger took farewell of his office yes- terday afternoon at the close of office hours, his resignation, handed in some time ago, having taken effect. Mr. Schles- | inger’s term would expire next March, but he preferred to resume his private prac- tice before that time. Mr. Schiesinger has proved himself to be an honorable and consclentious officlal, not afraid of hard work and never absent from his post. He has had charge of some very impor- tant criminal cases, and has rguvh ed marked ability in handling Lhem-—nolu%ly the Howell and Rogers counterfeit money cases and the Dick Willlams Chinese Bureau boodle cases. ———e————— Cannot Open the Bids. Judge Belcher has made an order in the case of Samuel C. Irving against the Board of Harbor Commissioners, prohibit- ing the latter from opening any bids re- ceived for treating plles to be used in the repalr of Green-street wharf. Irving was :Ileo ven judgment for his costs of ac- on- 3 California Club. ‘The California Club will hold a meeting to-day at Y. M. C. A, building. The pro- STREER ireresting Course of Subjects for discussion, oovufln} i wide nn:eu bl nd Frank Jordan should not have much | ¢ has { MAGUIRE TALKS 10 VOTERS IN NINE HALLS Tries to Save Craig in the Fifth. THE JUDGE A WARLIKE EAGLE “BLOOD ON HIS TALONS AND FIRE IN HIS EYE.” He Thinks There Are No Honest Men but Democrats, and a Dire Curse ‘Will Follow Repuolican Victory. That there is a condition of cold extrem- ities In the Democratic-Popocratic Cen- tral Committee is evidenced by the fact that Judge Maguire, the Little Giant of the tireless jaw, was required by those { managers to deliver nine speeches last | night in the southwestern part of the! city which is embraced in the Fifth Con- | gressional District. | The tour was to some extent organized | to boost the candidacy of Willlam Craig against Eugene F. Loud for Congress. It was furthermore a monotonous series of occasions in which the people were treat- | ed to the music of the beating of anti- railroad tomtoms, and informed that the only salvation for California lay in the election of Maguire and a straight Demo- cratic ticket. If this were not done the wreck and ruin of this commonwealth was assured. To those who heard Mr. Maguire in his several speeches he was quite amusing. He Invariably called the attention of his hearers to the fact that they elected him to the Assembly twenty-three years ago, he had been in some office ever since and deserved now to be promoted to the high | office to which he had been nominated. At each hall Mr. Maguire expressed re- gret that he could “not discuss the issues of the campaign” and then proceeded to tell his hearers that there is nothing in this campaign except the Southern Pa- cific and James G. Maguire; that every Republican who is taking an ‘active inter- est in the success of his party is a hired tool of the railroad. Somehow the gen- tleman did not win much applause on this score, nor when he referred to what he | had done to the great and bad corpora- | tion while in Congress. Ever{ gathering | was solemnly promised that if elected he would endeavor to conduct his office in the same manner as he had done pre- viously and officially. ‘Without any known cause or provoca- tion Mr. Craig referred to the ‘“Little | Giant'" as “the Democratic eagle, with | blood on his talons and fire in his’ eye.” | ‘Whose particular gore Mr. Maguire was exhibiting on his talons was not stated by Mr. Craig, but he told nine different audiences about the proposition. During Mr. Maguire's long and hard night's work he found occasion to men- tion the fact that James H. Barry was running for Congress in the Fourth Dis- trict, and suggested that the Democrats | vote for him. Julius Kahn, Mr. Barry's | opponent, was not mentioned. Mr. Ma- | guire assured the public that the election of the Republicans means an administra- tion *‘of the people, for the monopoly and by the monopoly.” The only way, there- fore, to avoid disaster was to elect Ma- guire, Hinton and Dunn. The single tax 3ueatlon was coldly ignored, but *the udge found it expedient to tell how cordlally bhe despised the poll tax and how thoroughly he would abrogate the same if he wore only Governar. also told how he admired the public schools and what a bad man Mr, Gage was for saying that the abolition of the poll tax was a blow at the public school system.. The Judge begged the people to get out and defeat Congressman Loud and ‘re- | deem the district.”” He said that Loud’s | first election was an accident and both | his subsequent successes mistakes due to | the acts of Democrats. The future of the | district depended upon the election of | Taig. Mr. Maguire had poorky attended meet- | ings in the sections nearest the center of; the city, but In the other districts the at. tendance was good and his reception cor- | dial. He began his evening campaign at | Sixth and Market streets and spoke in nearly every hall between that point and the Almshouse. There was a howl from the boys who | arranged -the Manhattan Hall meeting. They. were wholly ignored and were com- pelled to content. themselVes with beer | and cheese Instead of Maguire and| Craig. ° The hot time closed. at Eintracht Hall, Twelfth and Folsom streets, at midnight. | | i HAWAID'S CHINESE. | They Will Not Be Allowed to Come to the United States as Laborers. Joshua K. Brown, one of the Chinese in- spectors detailed from Washington for duty on this coast, has received orders to | proceed to Hawail and take charge of | Chinese immigration there. The exclu- | sion laws of the United States are now in | force in the islands, and the Chinese resi- | dents_of Hawalil are not entitled to visit | the United States. They must come in, | if at all, under the same restrictions as | are imposed upon Chinese from China. | take the place designed for Mr. Brown. —— x The Becker-Cre ~an Case. The evidence for the prosecution in the Becker-Creegan case is slowly being placed before the jury. The morning ses- slon was taken up in hearing testimony of | witnesses who knew of Becker's presence | in Oekland at the time of the commis- sfon of the crime. McClosky, an alleged confederate, was on the stand in {he afternocn, But his testimony incriminated Deane to a greater extent than it did the defendants. When the witness left the stand the case went over until this morn- ing. | | 1 | —_——n—————— | Husband Against Wife. Lawrence McMahon has sued his wite, Anna McMahon, to recover possession of property on Tennessee and Solano streets. The plaintiff alleges that while he was ill and mentally unbalanced the defendant caused him to convey. the property to her. She now refuses, notwithstanding the fact that plaintiff has recovered, to reconvey the property, and holds it for her own use, to the exciusion of the plaintiff. Hence the suit. ——————————— Large S. P. Eugines Arrive. The Southern Pacific contemplate using seven Schnectady locomotives on the run between Bakersfleld and the Oakland mole, two of which are already in service. They are powerful ‘“eight-wheelers,” the largest on the coast, and capable of mak- ing ninety miles an hour. Unusual speed is required of them to compete with the trains on the Valley road. —_———————— No Longer Bioodthirsty. Otto Jung, the young man whao carrfed a revolver and a bottle of poison to kill | Marguerite Roemer because she refuseu to marry him, promised Judge Conlan yesterday that he would never seek to molest her again and would keep the eace. Miss emer_was satisfied with gll promise, and the Judge dismissed the case. BOLD AND SUCCESSFUL : ROBBERY AT SPOKANE Masked Men Loot the Safe in the Union Depot Company’s Freight Office. SPOKANE, Oct. 31.—One of the bold- est and most successful' robberies in the history of this city took place at { { A. Upham, the Collinsvill Another inspector will be sent hither to ! ehae l masked men held up the occupants of the Union Depot Company's freight of- fice on Washington street. The rob- bers obtained between $500 and $700 from the safe and the cashler’s money drawer and made their escape. Four men were in the freight office working when two masked men entered by a rear door. They lined the four occupants of the office up in ohe corner with their hands in the air. While one of the robbers covered the four with his revolver the other proceeded to the money drawer, which he had already compelled Cashier H. M. Reed to open, and poured its contents into his coat pocket.” He made a similar disposition of the money in the safe, which had stood open when the robbers entered. After securing the money the two robbers backed to the door and disappeared in the darkness. SUSTAINS THE WILL. Decision in the Contest Brought by E. A. Upham’s Brothers. SUISUN, Oct. 3L—A dectsion has been rendered in the Superior Court of Solano County sustaining the will of the late B. e merchant and land-owner, He died in September, 1.7, and left an estate appraised at $200,000. After the distribution of certain bequests named in the will, one of which was $40,- 000 to the children of J. M. and L. M. Up- . the residue of the estate was wilied P e Good Templars' Home, Vallejo. i By decedent's broth- Buit was brought Py Sham, contesting , J. 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