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The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
Graney Returns
Looking Worried
His Oath Is at Great Discount In
the Select Investigation
Circles

Eddie Graney. showing the effects
Of worry over the fight trust exposure.
returned last night from Byron
Springs. His face had a drawn look
and at frequent intervals his eyes
made a vain effort TO look over his
left shoulder. Soon after his arrival
he went 10 his saloon, the Tuxedo. but
Fillmore street did not look the same
10 him.
Questions having nothing TO do
with graft found Eddie willing TO
talk freely. but when inquiries re-
lated TO the Grand Jury investigation
OF nght promoters and their methods
were made he became evasive and
sought TO change the subject He
made a few futile efforts to be en-
tertaining but about midnight he gave
ip his task, told his bartender he was
going home and disappeared.
What is worrying Graney is the
prospective appearance Of Jimmy COf-
froth. his former fight trust associate.
as a Grand Jury witness. He would
like very much to know what Coffroth
Is going to tell IL he IS recalled by
Heney, for the testimony OF the head
bf the trust may put an honest black
smith" IN an embarrassing position.
-Four months ago Graney was a wit
hess before the Grand Jury At that
time he raised the hand that counts
em OUT and swore that neither he nor
the fight trust had ever given any
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
Serving of Warrants
on Ruef Is Delayed
Question as to Custody Is Avoided

"On motion of the District Attorney:
Ordered that all further proceedings
upon the issuance of a bench warrant
in each of the causes entitled People
of the State of California VS.. Abranam
Reuf and numbered $50 to 654 inclusive,
and In each of the causes entitled Peo-
pie of the State of California VS.. Theo-
dore V. Halsey, numbered ofs TO ooI
inclusive, be and the same are nereDy
stayed until further order of the court.
The effect of the District Attorney s
motion and Judge Coffey's order is ap-
parent. The warrants for the arrest
of Ruef on the new indictments Will
not be placed in Dinans hanos Ior
service until the District Attorney Is
ready for such action. Ruef is already
in the custody of Elisor Biggy and on
trial for the extortion cases. Until
those cases are concluded there is no
necessity of burdening the record and
inviting further technicalities by hav-
ing Ruef arrested on sixty-five counts.
The appointment of an elisor was for
the graft cases alone and the same
procedure would have to be followed
If he were served with warrants In the
new cases.
In the meantime, If Dinan were per-
mitted to rearrest the curly boss he
might be able to take him out Of Big
gy's custody and then, according to
the law and precedence In like cases,
the Chief of Police would have to turn
his prisoner over to the officer of the
Superior Court-the Sheriff. Such a
contingency would be to the liking of
Ruef and ONeil. Their friendship
could expand in the crossbarred
shadows made by the windows Of the
County Jail. Even Patrick Calhoun,
en- route. would be glad to hear that
the indicted boss was in place where
he could be interviewed by his
friends"
The vigilance of Heney and his asso-
ciates obviates the possibility of Ruef
changing custodians and it is fair
guess that the boss will not be served
with warrants on the sixty-ive indict-
ments until the pending cases are dis
posed of.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
Gallagher Plays
Part of Cashier
Ruef, Head of Graft Syndicate,
Scorns to Handle Tainted
Money

In dealing with the Board of Super
visors when dirty work was to be done
Ruef was discreet. Ruef avoided mix
ing his condolences with those of the
hirelings he had placed in their seats
of infamy, but when this was unavoid-
able he picked Jim Gallagher out from
the rest and made Gallagher his agent
and go-between.
Ruef hated the contamination which
the touch Of the dirty hands of the
Supervisors would give his own spot
less palms and Gallagher was his
choice of a lesser evil. When the funds
were to be passed on to the city fathers
Ruef secured them directly from the
bribe- givers, put aside his own share
and that of his Mayor and turned what
was left over to Gallagher. Gallagher
executed like operation and the small
percentage which remained from the
original sum was given by him per-
sonally into the hands of the other
members of the board.
Gallagher's confession before the
Grand Jury was different from that of
any other member of the board, the
other members being practically all
alike and but a repetition of each other.
Gallagher varied the monotony Of the
sordid tale by describing the passage
of the money from Ruef, through him,
to the others.
This occurred in all the big corpora
tion briberies leading to Wednesdays S
indictments. with the exception of the
case of the Pacific States Telephone and
Telegraph Company's bribe. The money
was turned over directly TO the Super
visors by Halsey.
Gallagher declared in his confession
that Ruef never did business with any
member OF the Board of Supervisors
except himself. He added to this the
details of his meetings with Ruef and
the subsequent events before the others
received what they had been prom
ised. This alone made Gallagher's con-
fession unique.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23

For an instant yesterday condition,
or rather a difference of opinion, pre-
vailed which might have delivered
Abraham Ruef into the hands of his
friend, Sheriff O'Neil. 1t would at
least have opened the way for bat
tie royal among the opposing attorneys
upon a new and delicate technicality
involving the custody of the archbriber.
Had IL run its course the situation
might have even involved the appoint
ment OF sixty-five new elisors, or the
same elisor appointed sixty-five times,
to keep the jocular CRATER under proper
surveillance.
The problem developed in this fash
ion: Presiding Judge Coffey received
from the Grand Jury the sixty-five in
dictments against Ruef and the ten In
dictments against Theodore v. Halsey
OF the Pacific States Telephone Com
pany. The Judge, upon motion, fixed
the bail in each case at $4,000 bonds or
$4,000 cash, and upon suggestion from
the District Attorney named, Chief OF
Police Dinan as the arresting officer.
In the formal way prevailing in such
cases, the District Attorney moved that
bench warrants be issued for the ar
rest of the indicted men,
These court proceedings are usually
indorsed upon the backs of the indict-
ments when they are sent to the County
Clerk to be recorded and for the issu-
ance of the warrants
In this case the documents reached
County Clerk Mulcrevy with the fixing
Of the bonds and the name of the ar
resting officer mentioned, but there was
no Endorsement of the order for the
warrants TO issue. Mulcrevy sent his
deputy, Davis, to the Judge to get the
required Endorsement, but the court
hesitated. His courtroom clerk was OF
the opinion that the District Attorney
wanted the warrants issued. The Judge
decided to seek advice, and sent for
Heney. The matter was set straight
and Davis went back without the in
dorsements Instead he carried an or
der which will keep the County Clerks
records safe as follows:
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
Miss Smith VIII
Tell Whole Story
Burns Declares He Knows All
/. Stenographer Knows
About Graft

Significant among yesterdays devel-
opments in the graft investigation was
the frank avowal by Special Agent
William Burns that Nellie Smith, ste
nographer for Marcus Gerstle, one of
the attorneys of the Home Telephone
Company, was ready TO tell all she
knew about the letter written to Ruef
by a representative Of that corpora
ton, making overtures relating to the
franchise secured by bribery.
It was Supervisor Gallagher, ii
develops, who furnished Burns and
Heney with the information about the
Home Telephone Company, through
which they will be enabled to force
Nellie Smith to confess.
We know everything that she
knows" was the explanation of Burns,
when asked about the coming confess
sion of the stenographer, and she
knows that we know it,
Thomas Frick, the Home Telephone
Company's attorney. who is credited
by the graft prosecutors with being re-
sponsible for the infexible reticence of
Nellie Smith when she appeared before
the Grand Jury early in the week, was
not inclined TO discuss the matter when
seen yesterday.
Miss Smith happens TO be employed
in our Office" he said, but ] am not
her counsel I viii say, however, that
some of the reports in circulation do
her Injustice. She has never been in
hiding, and the District Attorneys Of
fee has had no difficulty in serving
subpenas on her here"
Frick said he had no objection to
having the stenographer interviewed.
but returned from a brief conference
with her with the information that she
did not wish to make any statement
about her future intentions when in
thefpresence of the Grand Jury.
Frick professed to have no knowl-
edge OF one Of the agents OF the Home
Telephone Company who was employed
TO slip bribes to the Supervisors and
for the insane. The meteoric career of
this man in San Francisco forms a not
incurious commentary on the Home
Telephone Companys mistakes in Sc
curing its franchise. The man came
out OF the East and was not in San
Francisco very long before his mission
was smoking-room gossip among the
quidnuncs about the hotels. He made
HIS headquarters at the Palace and ap-
peared TO have more money than was
good for either the flesh or the spirit
of being of his bfbulous type. over
the glasses which he was continually
ordering refilled, he grew startlfngly
confidential and told tales of the gold
he had TO trade for a much-desired
franchise. If he had barked his mis-
sion from the street corners he could
not have advertised it more effectually.
The pace proved too strong for him in
time, however, and he broke down
completely and had to be shipped home
for treatment After that the Home
Telephone Company employed more
discreet ENJOYS, but the secret was al
most public property that it was in the
market for a franchise and was not
oversensitive about the methods it en-
ployed TO secure II.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
SHOUT Of JOY GOES UP
ALONG THE SACRAMENTO
Continued from Page 1, Column 1

are being routed by way or ogden ana
thence to San Francisco
This necessitates trip of 1851 miles,
or sS9 miles more than the distance to
the California metropolis by the Will
annette Valley line. If passengers did
not purchase tickets before the Call
fornia washouts, and are not being
held here for trains, they are COM
PEELED to purchase San Francisco trans
portation at the regular rates via Og-
den. The first-class rate to San Fran
cisco is $40, but by way OF Ogden
charge of $3.50 is made.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23

corporations, not only here in San
Francisco, but in every city of the
country, a lesson which they will not
soon forget"
This statement was made by District
Attorney Langdon yesterday afternoon.
1t is evident that the prosecution is
turning its undivided attention to the
convictions of the "big fellows" The
little ones may escape by paying the
price of immunity complete con-
fession and one that will materially
aid in the conviction OF the men whose
wealth and position enabled them to
corrupt the weaklings in official posi-
tions
The lesson which is to be taught cor
porations and their presidents and di-
rectors will be wholesome and suff1-
cient. They will not forget II. That
is the conviction of the men who know
what the evidence is against the OFF,
cials of the United Railroads, the two
telephone companies and the gas and
water corporations.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
A CONSTANT ANNOYANCE

nor habit-forming drugs. They relieve
congestion and Inflammation OF the
kidneys or bladder. heal and cure the
kidney tissues, drive of dangerous
uric poisons. dissolve and remove
gravel, and rid the body of all watery
waste.
Thousands of cures prove the merit
of Doan's Kidney Pills.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
THE CALIFORNIA PROMOTION COMMITTED
(organIzed 1OO2)

PROMOTION: The act OF promoting; adVanes-
ment; ENC0URAGEMENT.-Cen Dictionary.
The California Promotion COMMITTEES has for
its object the PROMOTING Of California a. =
whole.
1t has nothing to sell.
Its energies are devoted to fostering all thfngn
that have the ADVANCEMENT OF California a.
their object.
II gives reliable information on every subje~e
connected with the industries OF California
II gives ENCOURAGEMENT 70 the eseahllnh-
ment OF new Industries and invites desirable In
migration.
II Is not employment agency, although it
gives Information regarding labor conditions.
Il presents the opportunities and needs IN An
deldB OF business and professional activity.
The Committee Is supported By popular suh-
scription and makes no charge for any servfcs
rendered.
Affiliated with the Committee are one hundres
and sixty commercial organizations Of the qtaka
with membership OF over thirty thousand
Meetings are held semiannually IN diferent
parts Of California, where matters OF state To-
ferest are discussed.
Headquarters Of the Committee are maintained
IN San Francisco In California Building Unios
Square.
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
WIRELESS STATIONS IN NORTH

SEATTLE, March 22.-Six wireless
telegraph stations are to be estab-
lished in Alaska, according to advices
received in Seattle today by Lieutenant
Colonel Glassford of the United States
cable Office. The stations are to be
located at Nome, Fort Gibbons. Circle
City, Fairbanks, Valdez and Sitka.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23

has come over him within the last
week.
Yesterday was by far the worst day
spent by Ruef since being taken to the
st. Francis His room was dark and
he was in bed before 10 o'clock last
night.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
HEAVY STORM AT VALLEJO

VALLEJO, March ga strong
southwest gale struck Vallejo at 6
D. m 1t is still raging, accompanied
by heavy rain.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23

coats will do for short time for those
who must be out of doors, but every
body who owns a diving suit is advised
to take it out of the mothbag and put
1t on.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
Labor Council Den0unces Grafters

FIERCE the northern section OF the State
yesterday Heavy falls of rain and snow were
reached alarming
THE bridge Tracy Stockton repaired
yesterday, and overland trains sent over
that route from Oakland
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23

EMERYvILLE FAVORED Washington,
March 2o-The postofnce at Emeryville will be-
come an international money order office April l.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23

soIari's Grill, 9II Ellis, Above Van Ness
Try IL for good cooking and quick service Par
ties and banQuets. Private dining rooms.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
BEAUTYSKIN
DIRECTORY Of san FRANCISCO FIRM

MARYLAND CASUALTY co. OF Balti-
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agts., Mutual Saw. Blk bldg.Temp-33S
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The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23
Corporation to Be
Given Lesson

Continued from Page 3, Column :
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-23

PROMOTIONS: The act OF promoting; advance.
ment; ENCOURAGEMENT.-Ce Dictionary.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
Congress Again
In Session

Washington, Dec. 8. - A brilliant
scene characterized the meeting of the
Sixtieth congress Monday. In the sem
ate and the house of representatives
there were notable gatherings in the
galleries of representatives of the Off
DIAL society of the capital.
The striking scenes of the day were
in the house of representatives. where
the formal selection of Joseph G. Can
non to be speaker of that body and the
designation by the democrats of John
Sharp Williams as their leader were
occasions for ovations for those gentle
men. The speaker received as warm a
reception from the minority as he did
from his own party. The appearance
of William }. Bryan on the floor OF
the house also was the occasion for en-
thusiastic cheering by democrats.
When the adoption of the rules fol-
the government of the house during the
Sixtieth congress came up, the rules OF
the last congress were opposed by Johr
Sharp Williams and he was joined il
the opposition by democrats and by {
single republican, Mr.. Cooper of Wis
consin. The old rules were adopted.
Communities we're appointed by boil
houses to inform the president tina
congress had rlet and was ready to re
ceive anv message he might wish t.
send.
New senators and representative
were sworn in, and both houses ad
journed out of respect to the memoir
of members who have died during til
recess of congress.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
Murdered and
Bodies Burned

Salem, Ore, Dec. g. News of the
murder of four presons on ranch,
near Macleay, has reached here. The
bodies of Mrs. Casteel, her daughter,
aged about "a; her son, aged about 10,
and the foreman of the ranch, man
named Montgomery, aged about 30,
were discovered in the burned ruins of
their abode on what is known as the
Hurst ranch.
Just how they were killed may never
be known, owing to the charred condi-
ton of the bodies, but from the fact
that shotgun and bloodstained hatch
ct were found near the place it is sur
missed that those weapons were used in
the slaughter. There is some suspicion
as to the identity of the murderersand
the motive for the crime, but from the
best evidence at hand it wound seem
that the killing was done by tramps
bent on robbery, who afterward fired
the. house TO give the impression that
the victims had been accidently burned
to death. The family had about $4,000
but whether it was in the house or moi
is not known.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
The
General Demand

OF the Well-Informed of the World has
always been for a simple, pleasant
and efficient liquid laxative remedy of
known value; laxative which physi-
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because its component parts are
known to them to be wholesome and
truly beneficial in effect, acceptable
to the system and gentle, yet prompt,
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In supplying that demand with it's
excellent combination of Syrup Of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA, the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along
ethical lines and relies on the merits
of the laxative for its remarkable
success.
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is
given the preference by the Well
Informed. To get its beneficial effects
always buy the genuine-manufac
tured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, and for sale by all leading
druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In wreck on the Baltimore e. Ohio
road at Shenandoah Junction Monday
three passengers were killed and a doz-
en- others injured.
Refusing to stand for reduction of
% cents in their daily wages, 1900 lab
orers engaged in laying conduits for
the Home Telephone company in San
Francisco are on a strike.
Jesse Drumheller, pioneer Of Walls
Walla valley, died Monday evening
from pneumonia. Mr.. Drumheller wal
born in Tennessee, 1885, was 70 years
old, and came to Cowlitz county
Wash, with an OK team when only l.
years of age.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
Hin comment on New York.

New York, in the opinion OF James
j. Hill, head of the Great Northern
Railway company, has reached the
climax of her supremacy. In an inter
view Saturday the railroad builder of
the northwest expressed this view, his
reason being that this city can not
hope to maintain it's commercial con-
troll when it's chief claim is, as he
stated it, that it is the dearest place
in which to do business.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

One train man was killed and four
otherwere seriously injured In a double
collision in the Missoula yards of the
Northern Pacific last Monday. The
dead man is Brakeman Fl. w. Chase
The injured: Engineer w. f. Hackett,
both legs broken; Engineer Charles
McCool, broken leg, lacerated arm and
broken hand; Engineer Frank Baher,
injured back and leg and badly burned;
Fireman Oliver o. Shank, conclusion
of the brain and badly scalded.
The Thaw trial has been set fol Jan
uary 6, 1903.
H.J. Groves, managing editor of the
Kansas City Post, who was wounded
November 90 by General Richard
Horne in the editorial rooms of that
paper, is dead.
The Rev. E. Chivers, secretary OF
the Baptist Home Mission society, and
formerly secretary of the Baptist
Young Peoples union, died in Ridge
wood, N. j., last Monday, aged So
years
The grand jury of Oakland refused tc
return an indictment against Harry
leinschmidt, accused of numbering his
friend, Frank Bellows, ON the grounds
of insufficient evidence. Young Klein
schmidt is going to school there but
lives in Helena.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
New Sea Wall at San Francisco

The board of harbor commissioners
have completed plans for the harbor
improvements under the first $4,000
900 bond issue authorized by the state
legislature. The improvements as
projected will consist of two sections
of sea wall and seven large concrete
piers. They will give to San Francisco
1000 feet of harbor frontage, with an
equipment unexcelled at any port in
the whole world. The work is to be
done in the vicinity of the Mail docks
and will be carried forward with as
great speed as possible.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
Will Pay Now.

A large saving bank in New York
has notified depositors that it would
allow Withdrawals to be made at once
by depositors who gave notice a month
ago that they would demand their
cash at the expiration of 60 days.
The importation of gold since the
currency stringency began reached
$S9, 9O0OO0 today, when the subtreas
ury received $1,500,000 in United
States gold coin from Mexico.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
BEST EVER WRITTEN
A PRESCRIPTION WHICH ANYONE
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Simple ingredients We'll
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The Scranton, Pa, Times was frs
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leading newspapers of New Yorl
Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg an
other cities have made many al
nouncements of it to their readers.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-12-06
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
I.rTr1g CnrrAJTN |

IN
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each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be-
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~ A. W. GLEASON,
srAn Notary Public
~
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