The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-10

best business men," he added, land
didn't want to see them driven out OF the
county,
He says the statements that Mr.. Roberts,
the milkman supplying the County Hos
pital, was son-in-law or was the husband
OF niece are false. Or, as he expressed 1T:
There is no relationship whatever be-
tween him and me. hardly knew him till
| got him the little piece OF patronage he
mas at the hospital"
Supervisor Benjam explained that he
had gone out into the petitioning district
incognito. He found the dairymen hard
up and found that the cows weren't so very
much OF nuisance, so he decided to agree
TO postpone action indefinitely.
And Pm glad I did as | did," he said.
~ knew times were bad and it was going to
De hard winter. | saw that II the dairy
men were not allowed to run the stock on
the street they would be driven off the
earth. That's why voted for postponing
action"
Supervisor bunker said he understood
That action was postponed for one year.
he had acquiesced in this because it
would give the dairymen time to dispose
OF the feed and grain they had stored in
their barns and of their stock, and yet not
force them to make any sacrifice.
And how about the pig you are said to
have taken?" was asked.
~ never took that pig. No pig was ever
offered me. And what is more, young
Heyer never said 1 told him got pig, as
Mr.. Tessmer Claims" he answered, SEEM
ing to resent more bitterly the charge of
taking the pig than that OF getting part
of $500.
Fred Brandt of 154 Third street says Mr..
Iessmer made mistake in saying that
young Heyer told him about bunker and
the pig
at was old Heyer himself, the ex-
Supervisor" explained Mr.. Brandt. 81
was standing in the doorway of my place
OF business when Mr.. Heyer passed along.
L have known him a long time, and l be-
gan to tell him what the milkmen were
saying ABOUT having raised sack"
" That's nothing he said. Otto Rosen-
tretter, the nephew Of Supervisor bunker,
works for me and he told me the other day
that grateful hog-raiser offered his uncle
ninety-pound pig after the pound limit
petition had been voted down.
Did bunker accept it?' l asked.
"Of course he did, was the answer, and
we both laughed at the peculiar form of
the bribe"
Mr.. Heyer declares that Mr.. Brandt's
particulars OF the pig story are purely
mythical. He states with much energy
that ROsentretter never told him that Mr..
bunker had been given pig, and he also
denies having told Mr.. Brandt that such
was the case.
Another man who claims there was a
mistake in Mr.. Tessmer's letter to the
Grand Jury is J. William Offermann,
grocer, whose store is at Tenth and Fol-
som streets. Mr.. Tessmer spelled the
name Coleman" but Mr.. Offermann and
his neigh bors knew who was meant.
Il have heard the talk about the milk
mems having bought the Health and Po-
lice Committee for some time" he said.
II have no doubt of the truth of the as
sertion, but am not the man who con-
tributed to doing it. | never gave the
milkmen cent to bride Mr.. Bunker and
l never will.
II think they must have got me mixed
up with Herman Bohmann, who has
grocery-store at Polk and Hayes streets.
He keeps open all night and has many
milkmen as customers. He is interested
in politics, too.
II am interested in politics myself, but
I don't work with DOODLE l not only
did not put up any money for the milk
men, but never went to see Mr.. bunker
at the City Hall in their behalf. In fact, l
haven't seen Mr.. bunker to talk to him
since fourteen days after the election"
George w. Haight the attorney for the
Lick Old Ladies' Home, was much inter-
ested in THE CALLS interviews with Mr..
Tessmer and Mr.. Pfenninger. He SUBJ
stantiated many things they said, but he
had not heard of the discoveries in regard
to. doodle"
~ always laid the cotton of the commit
tee to political influence" he said. The
dairymen could not bring forward a single
rational argument that should have had
any weight whatever. But we found that
they were grazing 200 cattle, and had the
brewers help, because they were feeding
these cows on brewery slop. They also
had the assistance of the wholesale butchers
nd ba dooI WI
used the ranges themselves.
"All of the landholders outside of the
dairymen wanted the pound limit ex-
tended. These men controlled 95 per cent
of the land. But the men who controlled
only per cent demanded the right to run
their stock on the other 95 per cent of the
land, although the owners thereof pro-
tested. When the Supervisors granted
this remarkable request had no intima-
ton that money brought about this re-
suit, although rather suspected it."
Shortly before the petition was presented
an inmate of the Old Ladies' Home, who
later died of her injuries, had been hooked
and butted into ditch by steer. Mr..
Haight said that the very man who had
frontery to declare to the Supervisors that
it was not menace to public safety to
have the cattle run at large.
Testimony was adduced,'' said Mr..
Haight, ito show that if the cattle were
driven away from the yards the owners OF
the property were abused. Those who
held cows which tramped through tn cir
vegetable gardens were threatened by
vaqueros. There was every evidence that
the cattle were nuisance and every argu-
ment of the dairymen was broken down.
Even to the last l thought that four OF the
mem bers of the committee were willing to
see justice done. Then they voted and il
is only now that 1 understand fully what
brought about their inexplicable change
of 'front.'
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