The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-16

cality, and which the city administration
is anxious to repudiate if Boggs could only
be induced to disclose which ones fall
under the rule. This information he re-
fuses to give because his friends have the
warrants, and he says the city sold the
warrants and received good money tor
them, and now they have no right TO try
to evade payment. On the other hand, II
a couple of hundred thousand dollars OF
outstanding city warrants could be repudl-
ated-if the famous million-doilar suit
against C. w. Wright could be gained
for the city-there might be some hope
of recovery from the effects OF the
raids upon her treasury. But with Boggs
refusing to give up the information de-
sired, with the decision of the Supreme
Court last week holding that the City Is
bound TO pay the water bonds, ana that
the defense set up by the City, that the
voters were bribed TO vote for the issue OF
the bonds, was no defense, but an admls-
sion that the City issued the bonds with
its eyes open, and with the prospective
failure of the million-dollar suit when 1t
comes to trial this week, there Is little
Nope for anything but Reputation.
With a public debt outstanding of over
$4,000, COO upon which interest is pillng up
at the rate OF about $1,000 every day in the
year and no money to pay 1t, and still
larger private debt, with an assessed valu-
alton of only about 500, 900, 900, and with
more than two-thirds of the taxes OF 1894
unpaid and no one willing to risk bid on
property offered at tax sale, 1T looks as
though it was question not CT years nor
of months, but question OF days when
the people must come to realize that the
City is hopelessly bankrupt.
. Like circus-ground after the circus has
gone Tacoma stands to-day, striking con-
trast to what she was in the days when
money flowed like water, when everybody
had bank, and every city officer had an
interest in private harem.
A hard story is told OF woman who lay
on her death-bed in the establishment over
the Union Savings Bank on Pacific avenue
and Fifteenth street-one who had been a
favorite with the city officers and who
knew State secrets. The word went around
that she would pass from this world to the
next before the morning dawned, and John
Huntington, Charley Uhlman, George w.
BOggs, Bill Freeman and a few other
choice spirits gathered in her room to keep
her company in her last moments on earth.
With them came the other women of the
house, and when daylight came the woman
lay dead on her couch, and long row of
champagne bottles at her door told too
plainly the way the night had been kept.
In the election in 1892 the Democrats
made determined fight to gain control of
the city, and 10 that end had large num-
Der of registration certificates printed and
then procured a counterfeit signature of
the acting City Clerk, George Haskins, in
tending to run in large army of repeat
ers from the wards presided over by bill"
Freeman. Mart Dillon and John Malone,
but their plans and the place where the
counterfeit stamps were being made, near
the corner of and Eleventh streets, were
discovered and, to checkmate them, the
City Clerk sent a man to Seattle TO pur-
chase peculiar kind of ink and gtamp,
that would be distinguishabie by the Re-
publican boards on election day. For this
distinguished service Haskins was re-
warded by being made City Clerk. Taking
q pointer from the Democrats, the gang in
power issued a large number of registra-
ton certificates to its ward heelers, with
small town of but 10000 or $4,000 inhabi-
tants it required some fine work to so ar
range these repeaters that the fraud could
not be discovered, and for this work an
expert was employed-one S. l.. Heck
who proved so competent that he was
passed down the line by the gang to help
out, in his specially, in a sister town
where his services were needed. The fol-
lowing letter will give an idea, by reading
between the lines, OF how his work was
appreciated:
TACOMA, April I, 1892.
Mr.. DdUtrick: This will introduce S. L.
Heck, who helped me on registration for
five days, on authority of P. C. Sullivan. He
wants to go to Spokane, and hope you viii
give it your attention. Respectfully,
C. n. WRIGHT.
Endorsed underneath, on the same page,
in the well-known chlrography of George
Haskins, is the following:
certify that S. L. Heck is the person who
was intr oduced to me as man working in our
interest, and that he was instrumental in
causing men to register. GEORGE HAsKINs.
Dautrick was secretary of the Republi-
can City committee. P. G. Sullivan is
Charley Sullivan, the ex-chairman of
the Republican State Committee, who
then had his headquarters in John
Malone's gam bling-house on Pacific ave-
nue., and turned his fine hand to the
manipulation of snch branches of City
politics as appeared to him most profit
able. He was the legal adviser and run
ming mate Of Sam Milligan, City Attorney,
during the time when the footing of the
City treas ury was at It's height.
Harry Morgan was the Sultan of Ia
coma. No one must cross his path. II
any one dared to oppose him openly, or
was suspected of opposing him secretly, a
plan was at once laid to put him out of
the way. There were three men in the
city besides Ran Radebaugh who were
spotted by Morgan. In looking over his
list of handy men Morgan found there was
no one that he could trust to put these
men out of the way, and he therefore sent
to Sacramento for noted thug and cut
throat named "Bullneck" Smith to do the
job for him. Smith arrived, the men were
pointed out to him and plans laid for their
taking off. One was to be shot in dive Oh
Pacific avenue, another was to be choked
and thrown over the bluff, and in making
way with the third man it was necessary