The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1898, Page 4

4 THE SA FRANCISCO CALL UNDAY oV MBER 13, 1898 SHERMAN TREMBLED IN FEAR OF AN EXPOSE OF HIS GIGANTIC RAILROAD MANIPULATIONS Startling Revelations History it fhe Secret of the Los Angeles Electric Scheme. Dorn and Johns Were the Local Commissioners Chosen to Muzzle Newspapers of This City and Their Criticism. The Call begins this morning the pub- | lication of the letters of Moses H. Sher man. These letters deal ;y with the affairs of the Las Ange Railroad and with the man that led the McDonalds into the e that subsequently ruined thei In letters published this 1 introduces two of his | D. men herman from ventu bank th prot that newspapers might | give publica of the inside facts of the con: A.C; Dorn, s an | adv r of the McDonalds and a fri of Sherman, was in the directory Los Angeles road, and took not only a t but a vitally mportant 1 affairs of the r 1junction with Johns, tors were driven to completion dard nan, was t associates 1d as ¢ e into which Donalids that in spondence he kept 1 show h do the Do 0 whatever M nalds wished him do, even to influence the action of the Bank Commiss} S, As already 3 H. Sherma Far Bank. shortly after Sher became a director in the Pacifi It should be remembered also in con- nection with Sherman’s correspondence avine that he was a very close friend of “ommisstoner W. Knight, the father-in-law of J. E. Farnum. As ancther lever with which to work the opinions of the Bank Commissioners tc suit his purpose, M. H a son of Bank Comm in one of the banks In Los No apparent effort was made by St ! nsmore man to influence B ~ommission A. Gerberding Another one of the bank conspirators nrofessed, but did nothing more, that he was able to un- dertake that task. In the eccentric correspondence of Sherman one char: ter will very frequently ap E very mention of this m flicted Sherman with something not un- like hysteria. Letter after letter refers to thi nemesis of the Los Angeles mani lator. hawker” was the nom plume of Colonel J. H. Woodard of Los Angeles. This man frequently con- tributed to the Los Angeles Times, and, possessing a thorough understanding of the wretched scheme . Into which Sherman had inveigled the McDonalds. he lost no opportunity to expose and exploit the machinations of Sherman. This prompted the hysterical excite- ment of the latter. Most of Sherman’s letters, written not only in connection with the Electric Railway of Los An- geles but also in reference to other crazy projects of the southerner, who is now a resident of this city, were ad- dressed to Frank V. McDonald. As a bait to flatter Frank McDonald he v made secretary of the Los Angeles road. As the correspondence developed and Sherman’s trick in trapping the Pacific Bank with his sckeme became better known, Frank counseled his brother to preserve all of Sherman’s Jetters, as the latter had altogether too convenient a ‘memory. As a chapter in the great conspiracy Sherman and his correspondence sup- ply a great deal of dramatic material. As time passed the correspondence will show that the man who was most di- rectly responsible for the ruin of the Pacific Bank developed from a flatter- ing suppliant into an exacting dictator. DORN AND JOHNS PREVENT A NEWS- PAPER ATTACK. The first letter, aithough short, is in- teresting. Sherman is as usual busy. et pe an placed | Angeles. | | greatly and he wrote the following in- | tere letter: teresting lef L A, Aug. 15, 182 V.: That man Woodard He {s now threatening a bond or a investigate have spent or with the The Los Angeles road is now more than ct. The vast sums of money have been taken from the Pacific Bank, which at that time was insolvent. D. S. Dorn and A. 8. Johns are known as the *“boy: able, in Sherman’s opinion, to fix at least two of the newspapers in San Francisco, subsequently indicated by Sherman as the Examiner and the | Chronicle. “Jayhawker” is abroad in the land, and, in Sherman’s words, is a nasty fellow. Sherman’s letter, in which he gave so much discredit to Dorn and Johns, is as follows: My Dear F. is still at it to find some one to buy few shares of stock everything and see if a dollar in Sacramento City Council, or with the Supreme Court or lower courts, or anywhere for any purpose where he can hope to get anything on anyone and‘(th try to get us all indicted by the Grand Jury. He wants money and he is bound to have it or try and make us trouble. 1 have wired D. S. to come up from San Diego and see what it is best to do. 1 am bitterly opposed to MARICOPA, Ariz. Territory, Aug. 1, '92. | letting him blackmall us any more, F. V.—I wrote you a hurried line The company cannot stand it. T tell from Phoenix on Jul Am now every one that this man may crack his way to L— A— That nasty whip and sail. He tries to keep up a on my ‘ hawker” is at it again, and that u write Mitchell is say- is enoggh to make a stream of letters of compiaint from any one he can get to write them to different San Francisco bondholders. with what and doin . The boys wired me from He is the wors most _unscrupulous : that_they had (Mr. Dorn and man I ever knew. Mr. Crank is very John: finally “headed off” an attack kind. He has a long pull here and - had tried to make in helps us in eve way he can. We awker” 5 1 po: are hoping that D. S. will be here to- I s > he tries to keep get- ting nasty stuff before Mitchell and morrow to go over everything. the other Chicago people to try stir think of you every day. Yours, them up too. Yours, M. H. M. JAYHAWKER HAD DESIGNS ON THEi“IP WE GIVE EIM COIN HE WILL SAN FRANCISCO PAPERS. | WANT MORE.” a habit of Sherman not to| On August 19, 1892, “7oodard had be- letters with his name. He |come a nightmare to Sherman and the had one purpose to create aa | following letter was written: | It was his il allag g VR AT e Gz @ ictorst ke CLLF Tl rctls, Flcemry fosgte - o= 2 7, e DORN AND JOHNS CHECKM | M. H. v . TE “JAYHAWKER.” herman bad no more determined or persistent enemy than Colonel J. H. sdard, otherwise known as “Jayhawker.” Woodard was thoroughly in- formed on the affairs of the Los Angeles Electric Railroad, and after he had exploited Sherman's scheme, in great detall, in the Los Angeles papers, he came to this city determined to expose the conspiracy in San Francisco news- papers. Woodard was admittedly an ‘able man, and his purpose in coming to San Francisco created great consternation among Sherman and his co-con- | spirators. The letter that is given in fac simile abowe shows that D. S. Dorn and A. F. Johns prevented Woodard from securing the publication of any of ns articles on the Los Angeles Electric road in at least two of the local morn- Ing papers. My Dear F. V.; That man Woodard meaner than ever. He threatens to go to 8. F. 1 wired R. H. Jr. Mean man. He wants coin and if we give him this he will want more. D. 8. was in city yesterday. Woodard caught him as sgon as he arrived and wanted coln. Mitchell was in C“L yesterday and ‘Woodard saw him. e is very hungry and is seeking to catch on for a dollar. ‘Woodard is now after a friend of mine who has a deal on hand in San Ber- nardino County. He went to him, his im-ression of great haste and another to hide his identity. On the same day that the foregoing letter was written he penned another to R. H. McDonald Jr., in which he expressed the unchari- table hope that somebodv would kil | “Jayhawker.” The letter is as follows: | Aug. 1, 1892. My Dear Friend: Your good letter re- celved and 1 will do as you say about writing F. V. I received Dorn and Johns’ telegrams about “Jayhawker” and the S. F. papers. This is rough. ; usual card, telling him how much he Boms ond sleud Wal e, tome knew of his business. Told him a lit- tle item that my friend thought was private, to prove his knowledge, and then told him how much good he eould do him or how much evil he could do him. Then struck for coin. Well, it is laughable. So long as he attention to others, and he will as soon as he finds there 1S no coln in’us, and bleed them, you : I are satis- fied. He is very hungry. He told me that fishing was short and I told him that if he was in need and if he would have a subscription paper passed that ' we would give him ten dollars. Well, it takes nerve and it takes courage to stand it. We have’'a sure case, s0 our attorneys tell us, so that we can lock him up for blackmail, but life 1s too short and I am too busy to TREMBLING IN THE SHADOW OF OF- FICIAL INVESTIGATION. On August 13, 1892, “Jayhawker” was still a menacing angel of darkness and threatened to investigate the Los An- geles road and its books, to see if any money had been spent at Sacramento {or with the Citv Council of Los An- geles, or with the Supreme Court of California, or with town councils in the southern paft of the State. The threat seemed to disturb M. H. Sherman very will give his . | UNDER THE SHADOW In securing the privileges that were nece: in Los Ang M. H. Sherman ws pleasant und strong light. . knew what had been done, and threatened to e lawye ods. Th is given in fac simile above. to secure a few bonds or some sh Iroad, and with the power glve! orce an investigation of the aff inquiry would develop an uncor [ the connection with courts, Legislatures and town counci this subject is of extreme interest. force Colonel Woodard, the threat called forth from Sherm Sherman declared that \Woodard was scheming s of stock of the to him by 0F OFFICIAL INQUIRY. rv in the operation of the electric roads to resort to methods that do not look .x-newspaper man angd pose Sherman’'s meth- n an hysterical letter,part of which Los Angeles Electric the possession of these prop- of the road. Sherman feared that ble expose of what had been done in attend to it, s he sues us, this is Mr. Dorn we will do_goth- ing. But we are getting ready S0 that if he attacks us we can have him ar- rested. He spent two hours in all, I should think, fn talking to us. Three of us heard it and our attorn say we have him sure. You would have laughed if you could have seen Wood- ard eatch on to Dorn. Woodard has it in for every one who will not come down. ays you have promi him employment.” 1 know why have Mr. Mitchell see him, you don’t want to write him letters. t is very shrewd in y what I fear is he will pump Mitchell. I know Mitchell will try not let hin but Woodard is awful sharp. M. H. SHERMAN WAS FEARFUL OF ANY IN- QUIRY BY THE McDONALDS. Sherman lost no opfiortunity in black- guarding every representative of = the McDonalds who was sent to Los An- geles to investigate the affairs of the Electric road. Some of the most in- teresting of these letters illustrate this blackguardism. Woaen any agent of the McDonalds arrived in Los Angeles, Colonel Woodard would immediately place himself in communication with the arrival. Sherman thus found him- self doubly handicapped. He not only had to guide the affairs of the road himself, but he had to misrepresent Woodard sufficiently to destroy the ef- fect of the latter's knowledge. One of these letters, characteristic of Sher- man’s position toward investigators, is as follows: L. A., Saturday a. m., Sept. 24, 1892. My Dear Frien Your kind tele- gram about Miss D. duly received and instructions fmmediately carried out. Wrote and wired her both. Don't worry about anything here or about any of the dirty lles Woodard is trying td get in newspapers He ete. says he is going to give Mr. Tomblin a filll too, and etc. He says.he has given Mr. Mitchell a lot of stuff to give you. It is hard to work all the time and to have this dirty fellow Sherman's letter on around all the time, but It can’t be helped. WIill write more soon. M. H. | SHERMAN'S ATTEMPT TO JUGGLE WITH RAILROAD COUPONS. In a letter written on -eptember 26, 1892, Sherman takes considerable pride in characterizing himself as a liar. In an endeavor to make himself valuable to R. H. McDonald Jr., Sherman shows his readiness to cheat in a business transaction whenever cheating will be of any value to his employers. The letter is unique in this revelation of this mam's character and valuable in its discussion of Los Angeles Electric road bonds. Notwithstanding the fact that Sherman very frequently found no time either to eat or sleep, so deeply was he engaged in the affairs of the road, he nevertheless accepted Dick McDonald's command to look after the Riverside affair. Excerpts from the let- ter are as follows: L. A., Sept. 26, 1892. My Dear Friend: You know how anx- fous F. V. and all of us are to get all of the old bonds exchanged so as to make our new issue of bonds actual first mortgage bonds. This cannot be done until all the old bonds are bought in and exchanged and marked can- celed. We have now gotten in all of the original issue of Electric bonds ex- cept about fifty, All of these fifty bonds haye four coupons cut off from them, and those coupons are in a box in your safe, ere F. V. put them. Thus far I have“told every one I did not know where these coupons were. These coupons are the property of the Electric Railway Company, and we do not propose to give the hoiders of these fifty bonds the benefit of them at all. You know how very particular the old man McKee Is, and he has refused to exchange any of these bonds unless the coupons are pinned on them. You see how it is. McKee is insisting on the strict letter of the law, and will exchange no bonds unless the coupons are pinned on to them, and it is no harm to pin them on in case the rail- road company does not lose anything by so doing. Please talk this matter over with Mr. Dorn andiMr. Johns. 1 shall be on hand at all times to do ADVERTISEMENTS. B N N N NS SUSSSS U E R e CANCE AND TUMOR HOSPITAL. 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THE CLEVER MANIPULATOR REFUSES A PHANTOM HONOR. On September 29, 1892, M. H. Sherman placed himself upon a pedestal of self- esteem and asked his friends and his dupes to look upon him as a modern martyr to duty. He very modestly in- formed his dear friend Frank that he had refused a seat in the United States Senate. As a matter of fact Mr. Sher- man had not been offered a seat in the United States Senate, but he told Frank McDonald that he had and that accomplished the purpose of Mr. Sher- man, who wished to impress upon the McDonalds how vety busy he was and how self-devoted and self-sacrificing he was in their interests. This mythi- cal seat in the United States Senate which floated in thin air before the busy vision of Mr. Sherman was to come from Arizona when Arizona be- came a State. Mr. Sherman’s letter is as follows: L. A., Sept. 29, 1892. My Dear F. V.: There is_much to write. Mr. Tomblin is here. Mr. Johns3 has been here and gone nwar. Miss D. was here. The street railway mat- ters are moving on. There are many things to be thankful for and much to annoy, It takes fre!u courage and much perseverance. I went over every- thing fully with Mr. Dorn _and your brother and Mr. Johns in San Fran- ciseo, and we are working on several lhlng!. but we will not annoy you until we find out if we can succeed in th 6r not. No use to build hopes until we know, eh. up fal I am of- fered the United States Senatorship, if Arizona becomes a State under this new law, but have refused as it is r.o use to talk. My duty is first to the property interests I have here in Arl- zona and to my family and friends who have helped me. Good-| % SHERMAN CONCEIVES MYTHICAL PUR- CHASES OF ELECTRIC BONDS, A few days later Sherman and Mc- | Kee were in Chicago trying to effect an electric bond deal. For months after that Sherman traveled back and forth, from city to city, trying to persuade the McDonalds that he could float the bonds of the electric railroad. Mythical purchasers bobbed up on every hand. Sherman bobbed back and forth, bust- ling 'but doing nothing that was worth the effort. Now he had purchasers in Chicago, then in St. Louis and New York and in Boston. False hopes were raised in the minds of the McDonalds that this bustling manipulator, who | had trapped them into a losing venture, | would help them out and dispose of | some of the bonds. To maintain his de- ception Sherman wrote many letters in which he stated that this and that deal was on the point of completion, but nothing was done. The bonds of the electric railway could not be megoti- ated. Everybody in the finaneial world of America, with the exception of the McDonalds, knew that these bonds were not worth 25 cents on the dollar. A typical letter showing Sherman's de- ception is as follows: CHICAGO, Oct. My Dear R. H. Jr. Not a from you since I left. Please write here. "Wrote a long letter to F. V. to-day telling him of what Mr. McKee and self were trying to do and asked him to please show it to Mr. Johns as I was 8o busy seeing o many peo- ple and with so many things on hand | that it would save me writing two let- | ters, and 1 know vou wanted Mr. J. kept posted on things here. It is slow, but we still think we are going to get 25, 1892 d Louis again soon. Please forgive my goor letter. Until all are seen and ave agreed we do not know exactly what we can do, 50 it i3 no wse 0 this fight pulled down and get all | standing in_and get all out on top. | Mr. McKee'is very, very kind and is | helping_well. Woodard is here from | L. Funny. I dread him. Well, I | will have more to n as I know what, for sure an do. It takes much time and patience. I go to St. | write fully. public tion of the letters of Mr. Sher- | ol | the receipt of the message | handsomely | and The Call will continue to-morrow the | s man and will carry the history of the Los Angeles Electric Railroad to the point where Sherman found it neces- sary to influence dishonestly the Bank Commission, in order that the commis- sion might be more than favorably dis- posed to the Pacific Bank and its haz- ardous speculation. SIGNAL CORPS SENDS MESSAGES BY NIGHT CALL BUILDING AND TWIN PEAKS IN COMMUNICATION. Wig-Wag Men of the Second Brigade Did Some Very Successful Work Yesterday. The three instruments used in military signaliug are the hellograph, flags and torches. Of these the heliograph fs avail- able only when the sun is shtning, fiags require daylight and torches need the darkness of night. Last night some very successful signaling was done from the balcony at the foot of the dome of The the prominent Call building. Forty of the city and county of have becn carefully examined by the Si nal Corps, and of these The Call building is one of the most notable. At a few minutes after 8 p. m. Brigadier General R. H. Warfield, Captain Hewe commanding the Signal Corps of the Se ond Brigade of the National Guard, Ser- geant Henton and four men of the corps, with a Call reporter, ascended the Claus Spreckels building. During the afternoon a squad of mounted men of the corps been it to Colma. 2 Te repor 1 station at 7: according to General were sent to them from Tw The party on The Call building, having ighted a foot torch, endeavored by wav- ing another torch to attract the attention of the party at Twin Peaks. For some minutes this could not be done, as the Twin Peaks party were engaged in_ sig- little Ity naling to Colma.” But after some waving and waiting the Twin Pea acknowledged the signal building by burning a red was done at § from The Call light. ‘This being thus assured, the following age was transmitted: 1 congratulate you upon your signal success as.the Signal Corps of the Sec- ond Brigade, National Guard of Califor- a. R. H. WARFIELD, “Brigadler General Second Brigade.” This message, consisting of t words, oc d twenty minutes in i on. 2 from Twin Pea receipt of the message and G s for Garfield, the receiving membe: corps. The party on The, Call building ansmitted the following message: then “Th A A S, the two A's signifying and the S nding for Scott, one of the party on in Peal This message of eighl words oc three minutes in transmission. 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