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The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
AT THE PARK AND CLIFF.
Chilly Weather Drove the Crowds
 Home at an Early Hour,

Anticipating a pleasant day thousands of people left their homes yesterday and gathered at the Park and Cliff. From noon until o'clock crowds poured into the big pleasure ground and listened to the music and enjoyed the flowers. while others turned their way toward the ocean. At the later hour, however. it turned sud- denly cold, so cold, in fact, that there was no enjoyment in the open air, and the people hastened home. No accidents oc- cured during the day.
 The usual big crowd spent the day at the Chutes. The three missing links" :" Sally, Joe and Congo, were patronized by large numbers, but the many other attrac- tions were not neglected.
 The aquatic sports at Sutro's Baths were witnessed by hundreds of enthusi- asts, who found unlimited enjoyment in the athletic contests in the big and little tanks Following are the results:
 5O-yard dash for novices resulted in tie be- tween R. Dodge and H. Bensen.
 Diving from platform, juvenile. H. Seebach first, E. Bonifled second.
 50-yard tub race for boys. two in a tub, H. Anderson and H Miller first. N. Bensen and E. Kipp second.
 second.
 Fancy spring g-board diving. R. Dodge first. N. Bensen second.
 A. I. Baker second
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
Durie Heithier's Re-
 covery Is Assured.
SHE CONTINUES TO IMPROVE
DEADLY MISSILE WILL NOT BE
 REMOVED JUST YET.
Unless an Unexpected Relapse Oc- CUTS the Would-Be Suicide Will Go Home in Four
 Weeks.

Durie Heithier will undoubtedly recover from the self-inhicted bullet wound which sent her to the hospital and exposed the perfidy of George A. Alexander, her brutal betrayer. Dr. Well of the Receiving Hos pital, who is attending the wounded girl, has every hope for her speedy conValeS- ence.
 Yesterday pr. Well succeeded in locat- ing the bullet It is lvGged in the back, just below the scapula on the left side. The ball is not very deep in the tissues, as it can be easily felt. The doctor says there is no necessity for removing the bullet for some time. as it is not causing any in fiammation. In a week or two, when Durie has regained strength an incsion will be made and the bullet removed. Unless the girl has a severe and unexpected relapse she will undoubtedly be able to go home in three or four weeks. She has a consid- erable amount of reserve strength and has continued to improve since being re- moved to the German Hospital. She still suffers considerably, but the pains from her wound are intermittent and less se- were than they were a day or two ago.
 She IS becoming very peeviSh and irri- table, which the doctors consider a favor able symptom. She has become very domineering and orders her faithful moth CT about as though she was a paid nurse. But the gentle, loving heart of the mother does not revolt at this She knows her child is getting well, and she is happy once more. Durie's every wish is grati- ned, no matter how childish or unreason- able.
 The mother will need financial assist ance before Dure is strong enough to be taken home. The expenses at the hospital are very heavy for the limited means of the poor woman who nearly lost her first porn, and she has no reserve resources te draw
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
". JENNINGSON'S PROFITLESS JOURNEY TO LONDON.

He was sent on to London to secure loans and wrote cOpiously to his master in description of his introcuction to swell clubs, of his invitation to swell dinners and his association with the financial aristocracy of the great capi- tal, but he said not a word of results accomplished. Then he went to Liv- erpool and finally returned to New York to come under the scrutinizing distrust of Dr. R. H. Mcdonald.
 For many months in the latter part of 1892, Dr. Jenningson remained in New York, a hated interIoper in the camp of the conspirators. He very frankly wrote in one of his letters that everybody hated him and he was glad of it. He said they looked upon him as the spy of Dick Mcdonald and he was proud of 1t. He knew that as stool pigeon and sneak he had gone to New York t. spy upon the other conspira- tors, and he very frankly admitted that he was in love with the task. It made no difference to him what others thought of him, he said; he intended to keep his promise to Dick, no matter how far he was misunderstood.
 After residing in New York for some tune Jenn1ngson returned to this city, and then was detailed to pry into other affairs in which Dick Mcdonald was interested. The young banker sent his factotum to Amador County to look into another disastrous investment there. Then he came back to annoy the conspiratO-s in the Californian H. frustrated Magazine, the San Francisco Printing Company and the Panorama Company. All the while Jenningson was lnnating his master with adulation. This clown performance kept up month after month. When Bennington had nothing else to write and he was in duty bound to write to Dick every day. Sundays and holidays included, he roasted everybody that enjoyed the confidence of the McDonalds. On one day it would be Sherman upon whose devoted head Jenningson would pour his abuse.
 Then it would be Dyer or Johns or any other of dozen men interested in the banks.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
ROBERTS MAY BE UNSEATED.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-The Herald will say tomorrow: Although no no- tice of contest has yet been filed mem bers-elect of the next House of Rep resentatives are already discussing whether Brigham H. Roberts, just elected from Utah, shall be permitted to retain his seat. During the cam paign it was charged that he had three wives and had practiced polyg- amy since Utah was admitted to the Union, although the Territory was ere ated a State on the express pledge that polygamy should be prohibited The only ground for the contest is on the question of polygamy. Aside from that Mir. Roberts claim to the seat seems to rest on solid ground.
 In order to ascertain the views of members of the House, who will have to vote on the question, the Herald instructed its correspondents in many States to interview members-elect on this subject. Strong views against polygamy were expressed by many of the members, and some of them openly declared that they would vote to un- seat the Representative from Utah,
 That there are two sides to the ques- ton is shown by the fact that some of the members defend MT. Roberts right to be seated, while leading members of leach party decline to give any opinion without more thoroughly Investigating the case
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
THE CRAFTY FLATTERER FORGOT HIM
 SELF AND TOLD THE TRUTH.

Eastland occasionally seemed to for
 get himself and tell the truth. In one letter he candidly informed Dick that
 Eastern capitalists and financiers did
 not want Western securities for pur- poses of speculation. These men were very we'll informed on the character of the Mcdonald stocks and bonds, and certainly did not want them for pur- poses of investment In 1893 speculators were very wary and had been during all the months that the wreckers of the
 Mcdonald banks had been in New York. Eastland, therefore, was one of the very few men who told Dick Me- Donald the truth, and yet almost within a week after he told the deluded banker that, he had a scheme by which one syndicate would buy all the Pacific Bank securities for one million dollars. The syndicate, as 0 matter of course, was a myth. About two months before the Pacific Bank failed Eastland gave R. H. Mcdonald Jr. an intimation of the manipulation of A. F. Johns and Thomas Fitch Jr. in reference to the John Brown colony. EaStland was not In a position to be well informed, and even the information he did give was unheeded. During his stay in New York Eastland attended to many of the private affairs of R. H. Mcdonald Jr., giving particular attention to the di- vorced wife and child of the young banker. Mcdonald had tried many ways to secure possession of this child, but failed, and Eastland played upon this fact to prolong his useless stay in New York. AS a whole Eastland cut no more serious figure in the affairs of the bank than to secure from 1t a for tune for the Alaska Coal Company and his own personal maintenance and recreation in the Eastern States. He was purely and simply parasite, who received thousands of dollars of the funds of the Pacific Bank in exchange for his crafty and disgusting fiattery to R. H. Mcdonald Jr.
 The Call will exploit tomorrow morning another of the great dishonest transactions in which some of the manipulators of the Pacific Bank in- volved themselves to gain the money in the treasury of the institution. In this recital the alleged bribery and cor ruption of public officials and the dis honesty of the attorneys will form a very considerable part. The Call will show that some of the great conspira- tors of the bank assumed to possess the ability to bribe even the courts of this State and to protect themselves from the consequences of their nefarious action.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21

The letters of pr William Jenningson form one of the darkest chapters in the history of the Pacific Ban, and the Peoples Home Savings Bank. Jen- ningson was the paid spy, sneak and sycophant of R. H. McDonald Jr. For years the young banker had this man metaphorically on all fours, to kick when he pleas d, to abuse when the inclination came to him and to use for any contemptible purpose that Dick found necessary to the success of his plots and plans Jenningson was feared and despised by the other con spirators who had surrounded the Me
 DOnalds He was ready to resort to any meanness and was barred from any of the secret conferences when ever the other schemers could do so During the existence of the banks he traVeled all over this State, pretending to look into the affairs of the disas- trous schemes in which the young Me Donalds had been made the victims.
 Jenningson went to San Diego to stick his official nose with more than official arrogance into the accounts of the San Diego Cable Railroad and the San Diego Bank, two concerns which cost the McDonalds a great deal of money. Jennin~son's own written rec ords of these visits would be interest ing only to those that are amused or shocked at an exhibition of nauseat- ing tlattery. They form no legitimate or material element in the history of the events that ruined the Pacific Bank and dragged down the Peoples Bank. Jennin~ did nothing to as sist the McDonalds and very much to injure them in his officious misconduct of the affairs intrusted to him. He was professionally a parasite and attached himself to the McDonaIds in order that he might earn an easy living. He went to Riverside and wrote Dick McDon- aid reans of nonsense telling what he intended to do in reference to the af- fairs and desperate condition Of the Riverside Banking Company.
 The only material outcome of his visit to Riverside was to throw Miss E. C. Dyer, the cashier, into mysteries whenever his gaunt form darkened the threshold of her bank. Whenever JenningsOn felt that he had not yet descended to a depth of sycophancy great enough to retain the favor of his master he sank to lower depth This always had the desired effect and brought Jenningson his expected re- ward.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
THE WILD PERAMBULATIONS OF A
 PARASITE.

While in Riverside, in the early mart of 1893, Jenningson referred casualty
 in one of his letters, to a visit of Col lis P. Huntington and William H. Mills
 Jenningson saw in this visit a. promise that Huntington intended to buy inc Riverside motor road. A few days later Jenningson was off to Sacramento
 supposedly to take part in the scheme to divide Fresno County and create Madera County. The McDonalds had placed formidable lobby at the Capi- tol to secure this division, and Jenning- son went there as usual to sr-- on the agents of his employer. He did this with his customary servility. In March. 1893, he was down at the John Brown
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21

York to act as Dicks spy, and in a very large measure to supersede Dr. Jen- ningson in that capacity. It was East lands privilege to call Dick Mcdonald every name that the tongue of fiattery could command. In the words of the cunning sycophant Dick was the great Napoleon of the American financial world. He was the man chosen by birth education and ability to govern the great affairs of finance in this coun- try He was everything that was in spring and magnificent in the rising generation. There was no praise too extravagant for Eastland to ignore. When Eastland went to New York the situation of the Pacific Bank was ex- tremely desperate. Dick had been in frantic seach for money for months, and he could obtain absolutely no as- sistance from New York. Agent after agent had been sent on but without re- suit, and finally Eastland was scurrfed across the continent to take charge of the situation.
 He describes his arrival in New York as the coming of a general to command and organize the routed and defeated forces of his superior. He N field and had organized the army of workers for immediate action. lie pro- ceeded at once to adjust the situation, to assign each worker an allotted and congenial task, and to direct himself the energies of each. Day after day he wrote Dick pages of bombastic non sense Now he would sign himself w H. Eastland, commanding, and again he was In the field a lieutenant gener- al, eager to solve the position of the en- emy, and all the while he wrote to Dick telling him that the strong arm of the young Napoleon of finance was holding him up and urging him on to victory. Occasionally he would inform this young Napoleon that he had sold another block of the stock of the Alaska Coal Company, which the Pa cif1c Bank promised to guarantee.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
EASTLAND WAS THE CRAFTY CLOWN
 OF THE CONSPIRACY.

w. Ii. Eastland was the clown of the conspiracy that destroyed the Pacific Bank. He was as base as Dr. W. Jen- ningson in his sycophancy, but far more ridiculous in displaying 1t. His nattery almost passes belief He yied with Jenningson In disgusting adula- | ton and surpassed him in craft, While Jenmngson sought simply a livelihood In exchange for his servility Eastland schemed to win fortune from the Nc Donalds. He was the president of q bogus corporation known as the Alaska Coal Company. In all their history the McDonaids never entered into a more dishonest transaction than that which this Alaska Coal Company represented The mines of the company were sun posed to be located at Coal Rav Cooks Inlet. The stock of the company WAS 1oated in enormous quantities with an alluring rate of interest, and was euar- anteed by the Pacific Bank throueb the stupidity of Frank Mcdonald
 As a matter of fact the Alaska Cool Company had a reality only on panAr The corporation did not own a coal mine or anything like one. It WAS a fraud in every aspect, and EastIand
 
 was willing to do anything for tbe money of the McDonalds. He entered the service of Dick Mcdonald as an abject syco-hant read" and eager to do anything his master commanded No task was too base for him to re- fuse, and while he wormed his way into the confidence of Dick he foisted his utterly worthless stock on the Pa ciffc Bank It was not until November 1892, that Eastland left the control of the Alaska Coal Company to his brother, and devoted his own energies exclusively to the personal service of Dick Mcdonald.
 EASTLAND CREATED HIMSELF A LIEU
 TENANT GENERAL AND BEGINS
 THE WAR.
 In this service Eastland went to New
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
JENNINGSON PROBES INTO THE AZ FAIRS OF THE JOHN BROWN COLONY.

In May, 1893, a month and a half be- fore the bank collapsed, Jenningson was al the John Brown colony to re- port the condition of affairs there. He declared that A. F. Johns was not act ing fairly with the McDonalds. and that young Johns had threatened to come to San Francisco and punch the head off Dick. The elder Johns, so Jen- ningson declared, was attempting to
 divert from the Pacific Bank a very great deal of valuable property.
 This information was not new, and as Jenningson did not possess a speak ing acquaintance with the English language the story may be better told in the letters of one of the other con spirators. When Dick Mcdonald had no very pressing need of the services of Dr. Jenningson, the spy was sent to look after the personal affairs of Dicks associates. Jenningson understood his duty thorou~hly and slandered most shamefully every one that Dick did not like. It would be idle to reproduce this islander, as it has no possible bearing on the great events that culminated in the ruin of the Pacific Bank. Jenning- son succeeded in keeping his hold upon Dick Mcdonald long after both banks failed. He was ready to do anything his master dictated, and when Dick, finding himself thrown out of the Pa cific Bank, landed in the Peoples ~nk, he discovered that Dr. William Jenningson was still on his back. The part that this man played in the secret history of the two institutions forms a chapter but an essential one to illustrate the character of the men that R. F. Mcdonald and his two sODS drew around +l,aro
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21

his letter on December 19, 1892. The epistle, in part, is as follows:
 The matter is in reference to a set clement of O. T. Dyer and his banking institution. The matter as submitted to me is this: Dyer is to give mort gages upon real estate that will be accepted by the Peoples Home Savings Bank, upon which they will advance to the Pacific Bank S20O, 900. This amount is to go to the credit of Dyer's bank in part payment of it's indebtedness to the Pacific Bank, and Dyer and his bank are to turn over to the Pacific Bank such other solvent and acceptable se- curities in an amount sufficient to se- cure and protect and satisfy the Paci- f1c Banks management in the remain ing indebtedness of the Riverside Banking Company and o. T. Dyer, col lectively and Individually Of course. in all these matters 1 submit to your splendid financial abilities and your high conception of commercial transac- tions.''
 This scheme was one of many dis cussed by the conspirators to rob the Peoples Bank. Eastland, as already indicated, was used by Dick Mcdonald for any purpose. Shortly after the election of President Cleveland in No vember, 1892 Dick Mcdonald commits stoned Eastland to wait on the Presi- dent of the United States and invite him to a banquet in San Francisco Eastland accepted the commission in all seriousness. In accepting 1t he wrote: T have talked with your good father, and I can see now that you will be one of the great young financiers of the times." A few days later Eastland informed Dick that he had sold 2000 shares of the Alaska Coal Company, which the great young financier" in dOrSed and guaranteed.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
Strange Chapters il the Unpublished History Of the Ruined
 Institutions.
". I. EaSdald Held the Bankers Dy BOnDadC Flat tGrT-Dr. William JGllilgSOl'S STcODhalCT
 Meant a Living.

I colony and wrote Dick that he would
 do his best to stop the plundering that l was unquestionably going on at the | colony.
 | Occasionally he would stab Sherman
 again and caution Dick to beware of 1 the Los Angeles schemer. One of his letters, written in Los Angeles on March 51, 1893, is characteristic. He de- cIares he has discovered a great com | bination on the part of Sherman and
 Johns to rob the bar k. T have been
 working to get the inside of what I
 think is a combination" he wrote. Tt
 has been hard work, but believe I am
 more than a match for them all. Dorns
 will be speaking in my favor; well, pre-
 tend to take it all in. Also Sherman,
 who will do the same thing, I think;
 well, also take that in. It is a very brilliant crowd and they believe I am on to them-so l am. It Is the best course for the present to pretend to be- lieve all they say. The trees, olives, cost Johps $400 and no more Pay nothing of that nature till arrive. The S250O you may have to put up to hold motor interest. That is all right, but send around to Houghtcn's office and pay only when you have to do so, when you have to protect your interests. Give nothing away to Sherman, for he will likely inform certain party, of whom l have something to say when l see you. Be friendly with Dyer; it is good policy. Make something of him should he arrive before I do; also good policy. But give up nothing without the coin.''
 Once in a very great while Jenning- son would write a letter of material in terest
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
EASTLAND'S FLATTERY WAS TRANS
 FORMED INTO GOLD.

Once in a while Dick would become nervous and restless, and would de- mand of Eastland that he reduce his enormous overdraft upon the books of the Pacific Bank. But Eastland was willy; he wanted to increase, not de- crease, his overdraft, and lis f1attery won him his wish. After Eastland had been in New York for a little while he was in full collusion with Sherman, Dyer, Johns and the other conspir- tors. He would intersperse his fiattery of Dick and his praise of himself with absurd encomiums upon his confeder- ates. He maintained this ridiculous but crafty position for many months. In the latter part of November 1892. when the situation of Dick Mcdonald in this city was becoming daily more desperate, Eastland assured his master that already he could hear the shouts of victory and see the heralds of splendid triumph. He was lying bom- bastically.
 Dicks forces in New York, he de- clared. understood the wisdom of eter- nal vigilance, and were giving blow for blow in the battle for financial ex istence. This military absurdity Is one of the few amusing side lights in the tragedy that ended in ruin. When Eastland had nothing else to write and his military vocabulary had exhausted itself he told Dick that he would read and re-read the Young Napoleon's ef fusions to gain new strength and new fortitude for another conflict. These letters were usually followed by an- other demand for money.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
AGE LIMIT INCREASED. Naval Apprentices Must Be Fifteen
 Years of Age.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 20.-Acting on the recommendation of Captain Dickens, Sec retary Long has increased the age re- quirement in the case of apprentices ad
 mitted to the naval service from 14 to 15 years. Captain Dickens found from the reports of the commanding officers of ves- sells and from the superintendents of the training stations that the average boy of 14 years was not sufficiently developed physically to receive the training of an apprentice properly. Most of the boys were under 100 pounds weight and not strong enough to pull an car in heavy weather and to go out on the yard arm.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
A SCHEME TO ROB THE PEOPLES BANK OF TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
 DOLLARS.

Occasionally Eastland would inter rupt his flow of fiattery to tell himself how able and honest he was. Under standing thoroughly the appalling dis honesty of the McDonalds and their confederates, Eastland in one of his letters suggested a scheme by which the Peoples Home Savings Bank could be robbed further to the extent of $200,- 900 to save the Pacific Bank from the crushing burden of O. T. Dyer and his Riverside institution. Eastland wrote
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
Larceny in the Prison.

Thomas Jordan, a colored peddler, was in the drunk" cell at the City Prison yesterday morning when John Terrell be- came one of his companions. Terrell was arrested on Sixth street and was so fight ing drunk that he had to be clubbed into submission by the arresting officer. About Il o'clock Terrell complained that ring had been stolen from his finger and sus- picion pointed to Jordan: He was taken out Of the cell and searched and the ring on the charge of grand larceny.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
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Selections for To-Day

First Race-Judge wofrord. Boardman. Faver. sham.
 Second Race-Mary Black. vaiencienne, Espionage
 Third Race-Red Glenn, Dr. Bernays. Cap tive.
 Fourth Race-Don Fulano, Redington McFar- lane
 Fifth Race-Ailyar, Anchored, Casdale
 Sixth Race-Pat Morrissey, Ed Gartland II, Chihuahua