The San Francisco call., 1906-11-04
Illegal Registration Goes On
IN Burned District.
Push" Voters Swear They Reside in
Houses That Are Not to Be Found.

Wholesale colonizing at the coming
election is looked for by the clean
politicians who are making a fight for
an honest ballot. That Ruef and his
swell the returns from the precincts in
the burned districts is the accepted
theory Of the men who have taken 1t
upon themselves to investigate the
present disgracef7 situation.
Members of the Ruef push have reg
istered their heelers in large numbers
from fictitious addresses south of Mar
ket street, as well as thoroughfares in
other portions of the burned district
If these men attempt to vote unless
they can prove that they are living al
the registration addresses they are
likely to- be called before the Grand
Jury and prosecuted like Steffens and
Wyman
1t was learned yesterday that thirty
men, all of them said to be we'll known
followers of the Ruef push. are regis
tered from an obscure little lodging
house at 1907 Howard street near
Ninth. This house was but recently
built. and does not appear large enough
to accommodate more than half dozen
persons. yet thirty men have sworn
they reside there.
THIRTY MEN FROM ONE HOUSE.
Following is the list OF the names on
the register from the Howard-street
address:
j. F. Nichols, George Benham, Adolph
Besherman, Henry Besherman, John T.
Bertram, John Devol, Louis Clevelous.
Maurice d. Dullberry, Lindsay Carson,
William G. Duncan, Nelson B. ingalls,,
John Fogarty, William Forsyth. Owen
A. Gee, Meyer Hirschbaum. Ulysses
Grant Hough. Thomas j. Kelly. Thomas
S, Murnane, John P. Murnane, William
l.. d. MoFitz, Charles Perkins, Frank
Pickett. Edward E. Rayer, John A.
Fred Wallace, James Wilkinson, John
S. Wilkinson, William Wolff, Charles
Werner and Peter Weise.
Ten more alleged electors are on the
register from $50 Harriet street. This
place is also in the burned district and
same Sena toral district as the Howard
street house. But, unlike the first,
there is no such address as 160. A
few refugees dwell in shacks in the
immediate vicinity, but such an adj
dress as appears on the register after
the names of the ten men is not to
be found on the narrow little street.
The largest shack in the neighbor-
hood where $50 Harriet street is sup
posed to exist is not large enough to
house more than three or four persons.
The number. given on the register is
fAcOubiy Tic dQulcoo VI SOii4C ANu,Ah5
house that existed on the street be-
fore the fire. Following is list of the
names of the men who have registered
from $50 Harriet street:
George w. Burnett, oliver H Carroll,
Edward c. Harrington, Eugene NJ
Levy, John Canich, John j. Ryan. Maui
rice j. Ryan, William Wallat, Lawrence
Whitney and John Wells.
> An investigation is to be taken up
Immediately The facts will be present.
ed to the Registrar OF. Voters and then
in all probability to the Grand Jury,
The men who are conducting the in
vestigation claim that they can secure
afldavits to prove that most of the
men whose names appear on the regis
ter from these two places never lived
there.
FIFTEEN FROM BRICK PILE.
There is no more palpable fraud in
the registration of men by the Ruef
gang than the colonization of the 500
block on Bush street, between Taylor
and Jones. On the register for that
district there are fifteen men enrolled
who give their address as 952 Bush
street.
Z There is nothing where s52 Bush