The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-13
PATRICK CALHOUN
NOW ON TRIAL
PRESIDENT OF UNITED RAIL-
ROADS AND, AS HENEY CALLS
HIM, THE "ARCH POTTER OF
THE HIGHER.UP.'
Special to the World.


San Francisco, Jan. 13.-Patrick
Calhoun, president of the United
Railroads and the capitalist whom
Francis J. Heney regards as the arch
plotter of the so-called "higher-ups''
against whom the graft prosecution
has been warning for over two years,
went OH trial today. His case was
called this morning in Judge Lawlor's
court, where nearly four weeks ago
Abe Ruef was convicted of Offering
to one of the boodling supervisors
the bride which Calhoun is accused
of having placed in his hand
Calhoun's trial is one of the things
for which all San Francisco has wait
ed, and the street railroad magnate
declares that he has waited for it
/ himself more impatiently than any
body else Calhoun has fumed at the
delays which the graft prosecution
interposed heretofore whenever he
demanded a speedy trial. He has
accused Heney, Detective Burns, Dis
/ trict Attorney Langdon and Rudolph
Spreckels of needlessly prolonging
the suspense, and he has charged
them with bad faith toward him.
The plans of the district attorneys
Office have not been altered one whit
| by the denunciations heaped on it by
| the indicted capitalist. The program
has been carried out without swerv-
| ing, until now the decks are cleared
and Calhoun has his opportunity to
vindicate himself
Both sides in this fight, which has
just commenced, are out "for blood"
In the language of the ring, knock
OUT is all that will end the struggle. |
Nothing else will satisfy. San Fran |
cisco, realizing the intensity of the
animosities which sway the warning
factions, is watching even the first
formal steps in the case with bated |
breath, for there is no telling what |
day may bring forth and on the
outcome of the battle hangs the fate
of the graft prosecution, which has
split the city into two warning fac
| tions.
Calhoun, rich, shrewd, resourceful
and stubborn, has engaged the clever
est lawyers he could find to defend
him. He has surrounded them and
himself with a small army of private
detectives, intently watching every
move made by Burns and his agents.
He has lined up behind him some of
the most influential papers in the
state, and he has, as his secret but
active aides a number of the city's
wealthiest men. He enters the fight
with formidable allies. There will be
plenty of money and brains working
to keep him from the penitentiary,
and, if Heney knows what he is talk
ing about, there will be darker and
more cruel influences at work. for the
graft prosecutor does not hesitate
to accuse the Calhoun interests of
sharing with Ruef in all the veno-
nous dynamiting, kidnapping jury
bribing plots which have hampered
his work here since it's inception.
Heney expects to win despite such
opposition. Two years warfare in
this city has sharpened his native
shrewdness and has taught him what
to expect from his opponents. He has
of his enemies and he has not failed
to profit by the mistakes which he
and his associates have committed.
| The failures to convict others of the
graft defendants have not discourag-
ed him but have spurred him on to
renewed efforts. He has devoted
many months to perfecting this case.
Heney asserts that the evidence
which will be presented against Pat
rick Calhoun will be stronger than
! that used in any of the three trials
of TREY L. Ford, chief counsel for the
/ United Railroads stronger, too,
/ than that used in convicting Ruef
What San Francisco is anxiously
asking itself today is this: Will it
convict Millionaire Calhoun?