Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-05-31
RETURNS TRUE Bills
AGAINST COAST MEN
FRISCO GRAND JURY HITS MAY
OR, RUFF, TRACTION CHIEF
AND OTHERS.
INDICTMENTS PART OF
PLOT, SAYS CALHOUN

INDICTMENTS PART OF
PLOT, SAYS CALHOUN
President of United Railways Issues
Statement Declaring Rudolph
SpreckeIs is in Combination to
Seize the City.
San Francisco, May 27-Eighty.
nine indictments were returned by the
grand jury against Mayor Schmitz,
Abe" Ruef, President Patrick Cal
noun of the United Railways, Thorn
well Mullaney, assistant to Calhoun;
President Louis Glass of the Pacific.
States Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany, Theodore v. Halsey, TREY L.
Ford and w. M. Abbott. Mayor
Schmltz is included in the Blanket in
dictment, under IA counts, and there
are two indictments against him indi-
vidually which charge him with &C
cepting $4,000 from the United Rail
roads and another bride from the gas
company to permit gas rates to be
liked at IS cents instead of rs cents.
me indicted men appeared Saturday
10 give bail before Judge Coffey.
Calhoun Accuser of Spreckels.
Patrick Calhoun has issued a lengthy
statement, addressed to the American
people, in which he says the returning
OF indictments against himself and as
sociates is another step in the pro-
gramme to gain political control Of
this city by Rudolph Spreckels and
others for selfish purposes through
combination with the Labor Union
party. Mr.. Calhoun says: THE evil
dence is now complete that self-con-
fessed criminals have been retained
In the board of supervisors to do the
bidding of Spreckels and his fellows.
In the language of one of the prose
cutors they are merely good dogs
Their evidence has been purchased
and their services secured through
immunity contracts.
Sees Base Motive and Malice.
Il charge that the motives of Mr..
Spreckels and his associates are base
and malicious, that his plans are self.
ish and injurious to the welfare of the
community, that they seek through the
assassination of character to injure
the United Railroads and further their
own financial plans, and that inspired
strikes, violence, boycotts and these
indictments each are part of Spreck-
els plan to confiscate the property of
the United Railroads, to replace our
street railroads by lines owned by
Spreckels and to that end to control
the politics of San Francisco.
i would be surprised that any body
OF American citizens could be induced
to find these indictments if / did not
know the methods which have been
pursued by Spreckels' corps of hired
detectives and his>constant access to
members of the grand jury who have
been misled by his professions of yir-
| tue.
Claims Bills Are False.
To my friends throughout the coun.
try, give the assurance that the in
dictments are not founded upon facts.
that there is no evidence that could
justify them and that my associates
and will be fully indicated
Thornwell Mutually said: II am alb
solutely innocent of any of the charges
made against me. This will be shown
clearly as soon as the opportunity Of.
fers, which hope will be afforded me
Immediately ask the fullest and
most thorough investigation. The
charges against me are as malicious
an outrage as could possibly be perpe-
trated against any man.
| "The souls Of the men responsible
1 for item are more burdened than
mine. In spite of the attacks upon
me, my character remains unchanged
and when it shall appear, as it surely
will, that there is no evidence what
ever against me, my reputation will
not be impaired in the slightest de-
gree by the great wrong that has been
done me. | ask that my friends and
| the public believe me-"