The morning call., 1894-04-13
the course OF four years, which it might
take to settle the affairs of the bank. the
legal fees might aggregate 500,


take to settle the affairs of the bank. the
legal fees might aggregate $4,000.
The attorney at present for the Peoples
Home Savings Bank, who has several
times rushed into print as an advocate of
economy in connection with the affairs of
that institution, though he has failed to
ltemize what that institution paid him,
was not pleased with this assurance and
declared to Mr.. Baggett that the bank
should be worth 100000 to the attorneys
If IL was worth cent.
Things went along without much trouble
for time. Stone as assistant to Baggett
was not all that an assistant might have
been. for he attempted, Baggett declares,
to become chief, and went about it in a
strange way. He received, it is said, a
partial promise that if the decision by
Judge Hebbard should be favorable TO the
Bank Commissioners he should be ap-
pointed attorney by those Commissioners
Armed with this partial promise and the
backing of Sherman he dema nded OF Bag
gett that an agreement should be drawn
up; that Dunno 81 McPike should come in
as attorneys. and that he (Stone) should
have the supervision and directing of
should be under the dictum Of Stone.
This proposition Mr.. Baggett regarded
as the display of over-assurance, but there
was another which might he termed by a
harsher name The attorneys were sup
posed to represent the Bank Commits
sioners. Dick Mcdonald was fighting this
commission. Sherman, the enemy of
Dick, secured Stone the place as Baggett's S
assistant for the commission, and then, so
Bagge,t says, Stone proposed in addition
| the other proposition that he should also
represent Dicks interest. so that nothing
detrimental to Dick should get out, for
which he was to receive $1,000.
Stones proposition did not meet with
Baggetrs favor, and Stone, with a mag
nificent wave of his hand, told Baggett
that he might go his way. Somehow there
was a hitch in the arrangements with the
Bank Commissioners. The assistant did
not become chief Following Judge Heb
bard's decision, the Bank Commissioners
retained Mr.. Baggett. and Stone it was
who went his way. That was when he
fell in with Dick. and it was not long
afterward that he wrole the directors of
the Peoples Home Savings Bank in re-
gard to a proposition of his former friend.
NJ. 81. Sherman. that to grant it would be
quasi.crlminal.
Now. If Stone should fall out completely
with Dick, after having served so many
masters in these bank entanglements, the
question is asked: Whom else could he find
| to serve?
| 1t is certain that X. II. Mcdonald Jr.
wants peace His father seems to have
confidence in Captain Jim," but the cap
tain ignores Dick. He extends no olive
branch and does not grasp the half-ex-
tended one which Dick has held out. In
fac', Captain j. NJ. Mcdonald says he will
endeavor to manage the affairs Of the
| bank TO the best of his ability and that he
does rot need Dicks assistance. His terse
comment on the son of his brother is this
"He is my nephew, IL Is true. but l can't
help that
The validity of the election of the pres!
ent directors Of the Pacific Bank will be
tested in Judge Hebbard's court to-day.