The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-01
DICKS SPIES FOUGHT FOR FAVOR
LIKE WOLVES.


confidence of the McDonalds and used
it to advantage was, as already indi-
Gated D. NJ Tomblin. He also at
tempted to bring the Dyers to terms.
He worried Miss Dyer almost into hys-
terics, but the lady 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
banks. Tomblin, like all the rest, was
a flatterer and q close. and keen oo-
server of his competitors FOR the faVors
of Dick. Tomblin's revelations Will
give many startling facts to the pubic
His caustic comments created in A. r.
Johns a thirst for blood and a very
emphatic determination at one stage OF
the proceeding to plug Mr.. Tomblin full
of holes While Tomblin criticized
Johns and Johns criticized Tomblin
both metaphorically tore the hide off
w. H. Eastland, and all confidentially
conffded 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 Dicks profess
sional spy he had discovered much to
make him fear the Vaccinations of
Johns, Tomblin and Mitchell.
Two men in the history of the affair
seem to have rendered honest reports to
r. FL. Mcdonald Jr. One of these was
Colonel j. Woodland otherwise known
as "Jayhawker," the very mention of
whose name had a tendency to throw
Sherman into a fit. Two men gave their
solemn word that they would send
Woodland to a better world. One of
these men was Johns and the other
Frank Mcdonald. Woodland, however,
prepared 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 NJ. II. 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-
MIA Bank This prophecy was made
nearly two years before the PACING
Bank failed and it was made by Colenel
woodland, the ex-newspaper man, law
yer and Sherman's implacable Mem
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
i'll 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 contrary opin-
ion. although Professor Holder knew
that while his praises were being
sounded and he was looked upon as an
inexperienced dupe of the McDonalds,
his own letters removing this mask were
in the Pacific Bank. Nc one at the time
Of the crash could understand why 1T
was or how that Professor Holder had
given his unsecured note for $4,000.
The professors 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 bankers 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.