Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-05-28
SCHMITZ GIVES UP
REIGN OF FRISCO
MAYOR, ACCUSED AS HRIHE-TAk
Err, TURNS OVER RULE TO
CITIZENS, COMMITTEE.
REMOVAL OF CHIEF
OF POLICE LIKELY

VT FOIlCE LIKELY
Ruef Tells Grand Jury Of s2oo,ooe
Fund Given by Railroad Company
$4,000 Of Sum Went to city't
Chief Executive.
San Francisco. CAL, May 1S.-Charg
ed by ABE" Ruef before the Crane
jury with receiving bride Of $4,000
from the United Railroads company
and facing the penitentiary, Mayor
Schmitz has relinquished the reins Of
San Francisco's government to com,
mittee of seven, representing the five
great commercial organizations of the
city. From to-day on he will be may.
or of the city in name only. The city
is under the control of men whom the
mayor selected to administer its af.
fairs upon the lines demanded by the
public.
The capitulation of the mayor ia
complete. He has transferred in writ
ing his authority, tantamount to a
power of attorney, to the following
citizens:
F. B. Anderson, F. w. Dohrmann,
Percy T. Morgan, F. w. Van Sicklen,
Louis Resented, G. B. Bentley and
Charles w. Slack.
On the committee of seven is a rep
resentative from each of the follow.
Ing commercial bodies:
Merchants Exchange, Chamber of
Commerce, Board OF Trade, Mer.
chants association and Manufacture
ers' and Producers association.
To Gust Police Chief.
Preliminary steps have been taken
by the committee to remove Chief OF
Police Oman and make needed
changes in the commissions through
which the city is governed under the
charter. 1t is said that Mayor Schmitz
was induced to take this step by Gov
ernor Gillett.
Schmitz is on the verge of nervous
and physical collapse as the result of
the long strain and the confession of
Ruef He will be called into court
Monday to face trial on the charge of
eXtortion. He will have little time to
give to city affairs and realizes that
his reign is over He would gladly
retire to private life at once If he
could resign without confessing his
guilt.
May Force Him to Resign.
This is not all the trouble in store
for Mayor Schmitz. Following Ruef's
story to the grand jury, which barred
all details of big bribery and Doodle
plots, and, it is declared, accused
the head officials of public service
corporations, movement was start.
ed to force the mayor to resign and to
install Frederick w. Dohrmann, a
prominent wholesale merchant, in the
| mayors chair.
1t was reported that the grand jury
before adjournment Thursday, voted q
new Indictment against Mayor Schmit2
and also indictments against four high
| officials of the United Railroad com
| pany.
The men who, 1t is alleged, were hit
by Ruef's grand-jury confession. and
who now face prosecution, are the fol
lowing:
Patrick Calhoun, grandson of John
G. Calhoun, the great leader of the
| South, and great-grandnephew of Pat
rick Henry; southerner, multimillion
aire, lawyer and one of the master
financiers of Wall street
TREY L. Ford, chief counsel of the
United Railroads; one Of the mos
widely known and most popular mer
in California, formerly attorney gen
eral of the state.
Thornwell Mullaley, assistant to Pat
rick Calhoun; young man who was
sent to California as Calhoun's resi-
dent representative in the offices o.
the United Railroads; also south
erner, who established himself imme
diately in the smartest society in Sar
Francisco.
i William M. Abbott, assistant gen
eral counsel of the United Railways; {
young lawyer of ability and wide pop
ularity; a protege of TREY l.. Ford
who was Ford's chief assistant in thu
attorney generals office.
1t is also reported that Ruefs testi
mony involves William F. Herrin
chief counsel Of the Southern Pacific
railroad, political manager in Califor
MIA for B. H. Hartman of New York
boss of the Republican party in Cali
fornia, and for many years the mos
powerful parsonage in the politics o
this state.
How Doodle Was Divided.
| Ruef himself, it is understood, toll
the grand jury that he pocketed $61
900 as his fee out of the $4,000
bride fund paid by the United Raj
roads, and $4,000 went to Schmitz.
The rest of the money. $4,000, wa
divided among Is supervisors, 16 Q
them getting $4,000 each, one $1,000
and one $4,000.
The man who Ruef says got tn
$4,000 was Chairman Gallagher Q
the finance committee.
In return for the 100000 so distril
uted the supervisors granted tn
United Railroads change in its chal
ter allowing it to electrify its 25
miles of street railway in this city.
The foregoing information as to tn
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