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SENATE BILL NUMBER ia.
BY MIR. BROWNLEE.
AN AG

TO Provide method Of filling vacancies "a The City Council Of
Cities and in the Board oi Trustees Of Town and Villages
aud Of Board Of Education Of Cities Of The first class wlcn
the vacancies include ai Of the members.
De n Enacted b. The People Of The State Of CklaAoac
SECTION I. Whenever BY Of the death resgna
ton removal from Office the permanent removal from he
incorporated village or town there shall remain members Of
the board Of trustees thereof and the therein shall be
filed BY appointment until lie regular town election by the
beard Of county commissioners Of the county wherein the
OF village lies upon tie petition Of less than oncffeenth
Of the qualified electors o said town village and the persons
SO appointed shall qualify and thereafter perform Tie duties Of
the Office until their successors elected and qualified
SECTION T. Whenever vacancies Shall occur hcrcnbe
ore designated onc-ffccnh Of e qualified electors Of the
city school district Of city village the may
be- shall l for more than months thereafter apply the
board Of county Of the proper county have
said vacancies 6cd any creditor Of said municipal corporation
aha upon filling petition therefor duly verified upon oath
Glowing the and Of the indebtedness dnc him
and unpaid have tic right have such vacancies filed and np
on The filing OF such petition the board Of county commission
shall notify the inhabitants thereof BY publication ID news
paper published in said city village if there be and
By posting such notice five public places therein II there Be
none which saia notice shall briefly the nature Of the pc
on and that tho same will be heard BY them meeting Of
the beard which be less than days subsequent the
publication Or posting Of such notice II the notice published
ND to he last publication Of t newspaper preceding the date 81
the meeting appointed BY board for The hearing of M petition
Upon ie hearing e board shall FIJI such vacancies Il shall
appear That Inc petitioner creditor and that vacancies exist
SECTION g. The provisions Of this shall apply %
caHeics now existing or which may hereafter exist
SECTION A. A acts and parts Of acts in conflict hsFe
with arc hereby repealed
SECTION s For the preservation oi The public peace and
szsy an emergency Is hereby declared exist and this act
s b II l foes and eset n and after lis passage and a
pEpYpL
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less than their par value and the proceeds from the ae Of said
bonds shall be diverted used BY said County Commissioners
o any purpose other than that named in the proclamation
SECTION The judges and clerks Of said election shall
each receive the Of Two Dollars for their services in holding
said election and the Judges thereof shall receive the Of Two
Dollars n addition the actual and necessary expenses ncued
for taking Che Of said election the County Clerk here
in provided and all the expenses incurred in connection with
said election shall be proper charge against The road and bridge
fund of such county and tho County Commissioners shall their
regular meeting after said election, draw against
said fund to discharge said indebtedness,
SECTION II. AN Acts and parts Of Acts IN conflict here
with hereby repealed
SECTION r. For the preservation Of the public peace
health and safety emergency hereby declared 20 exist by
whereof this Ac shall take effect from and after rs passage
and approval.
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HOGAN COUNTY, MARKETS


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FARM LOANS New arranremen.
Better see me before you get loan.
n A. Baggott.
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An elector desiring vote for the bond issue shall stamp
IN the square Immediately preceding the word Yes and
he desires to vote against the bond issue he shall stamp
u the square immediately preceding the word No
SECTION An persons possessing the qualifications Of
electors prescribed BY thc Constitution Of is State she'll be
qualified to ose At said election and registration shall be
required
SECTION Such bonds when issued under this Act lal
h sold ai public private sale the County Commissioners
maY deem advisable bh aq sqfh hnds lal efr " sqa QI
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East Bound.

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The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28

that all of the stolen papers had been
transferred to the offices of the legal
department in the Balboa building, and
that became their objective point.
Word was received at headquarters
that Brown had gone TO Oakland. Goff
then started across the bay.
! In the meantime Joseph II. Hanlon,
claim agent for the United Railroads,
and the confidential man of Calhoun,
was taken into custody as he was leav-
ing the companys offices for his home.
He was taken TO the city prison and
registered on a charge of grand lar
ceny, his bail being fixed in the sum
of $4,000 cash.
SCURRY FOR BAIL MONEY
The legal department of the United
Railroads had been thoroughly
aroused by this time, and there was a
scurrying to secure bail money for the
Calhoun henchmen as they were
brought in. James Sheehan, attorney
for the corporation in its personal dam
age suits, appeared on the scene with
sack, and Porter Ashe was on hand
/ i
to afford comfort to the prisoners with
facetious remarks.
Sheehan furnished bail for Handlon
who was released and left immediately
for conference with Stanley Moore
No sooner had the man with the sack
got Handlon free than Brown, who had
been located on this side of the bav
was brought into headquarters. There
was a delay in booking Brown. as the
warrant had been given to Detective
Goff. who was in Oakland. Brown late
last night was booked and released on
bail
Although the more favored henehmen
of the graft defendants were bailed ont
as soon as they were brought in Van
Wormer, their sleuth, and those WIN
had sold themselves, were allowed to
remain with the common prisoners in
| the prison, apparently forgotten by
| their latest employers.
THREE MEN swEATED
Van wormer Mckinley and Corbiu
were taken from the prison to Cap
tain Anderson's private office. where
they were sweated by Burns durine
the course OF the evening. while Luther
g. Brown, who was sitting in the next
room, was showing his nervousness
very plainly.
| The crowning sensation came about
1890 o'clock last night, when Burns
swore to complaint charging William,
NJ Abbott with receiving stolen rron-
erty. Charles. Oliver of Burns force
accompanied by Detectives Fitzserafd Id
Continued ON Page "a. Coyum
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the district attorney were frustrated.
Then it was that the lawyers gave up.
Piled in a safe in the general coun-
sells office were found the papers Assist
ant District Attorney Robert Harrison,
who led the invading force. was seek
ing. Here were found some 500 reports
of interviews CLEANED outside the court
room of talesmen in the graft cases, and
fully ESQ of these were sifted from the
stack and carried away by Ray Schind-
Ter and w. H. Russell. Burns men who
handled reports made to the detectives
which came into the detective Office and
who recognized in these reinterviews
exact duplicates of reports taken from
Burns Office
EVIDENCE Is SECURED
Here was the evidence upon which
the allegations made by the prosecution
In making yesterdays arrests will be
proven. for SCHNEIDER and Russell recog-
nized these papers as those stolen from
Burns office and given to Calhoun bv
the traitors in the prosecutions camp.
While the excitement was at Its
height fresh force of detectives from
the police station arrived with a war
rant for the arrest OF Luther Brown.
and he was ingloriously led away. La
ter in the evening the arrest of VIII
liam M. Abbott completed the distress
of the demoralized graft forces. When
the news arrived that a warrant was
out for Abbott, the Calhoun ATTORNEYS
wilted. and the outward look of in
jured and outraged dignity they had
succeeded in maintaining most of the
time gave way to an expression of real
alarm. Whose turn will come next?''
they whispered
CALHOUN Is LOCATED
After frantic telephoning Patrick Cal
houn himself was located in Glenn
county. where he has been blissfuiIy
shooting ducks. and the chief endeav-
ored to cheer his subordinates with a
clustering statement-but a statement
is little cheer when Jail is staring one
In the face and a warrant may De on It's
way.
1t was early this morning when the
detectives finally withdrew. leaving the
stampeded attorneys to form a plan OF
defense The splintered desks. with
drawers flung open and papers gone;
the gaping. empty safes so shortly be-
fore filled with the choicest of the
prosecutions evidence. obtained By BrsD-
Continued ON Page "a. celnmn
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STOLEN PAPERS FOUND IN
UNITED RAILROADS SAFE
Police Break Into Calhouns Offices When
Search Warrant Is Resisted

The the United Railroads the Balboa
Market
o'clock by police detectives acting under search
bred Burns detectives evidence
will follow yesterdays
The violence made
Rogers Cahoun backed by Stanley Moore William Abbott
luther Brown had refused obey the shut
the Then the
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Detective William ]. Burns and some
HAND OF OUTRAGED LAW
IS LAID UPON TRAITORS
Arrest of Chief Counsel Follows That of Men
Who Sold Themselves to Graft

Sensations followed each other rapidly throughout the police
that Special Agent Burns explode bomb
OF the graft defendants which cumnate William NJ
Abbott chief receiving
stolen When the who had
sold themselves
Viii
directing
Harrison charge of drawing
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E. H. Hartman and Louis Hill
Reach Agreement After
Brief Conference
Treaty of BurIingame Promises
to Be important in Rail
road History
PERSONNEL OF CONFERENCE
HARRlMAN FORCES

HARTMAN FORCES
T.. H. Hartman.
r. r. Calvin. vice president and
general manager OF the South
ern Pacific.
J. =. O-Brien, general manager of
the Oregon railway and naviga-
tion company
HILL FORCES
Louis ". HIH. president OF the
Great Northern. son Of J. J.
HIu.
Francis B. Clarke. president Of
the Spokane, Portland and
Seattle.
u. {. Nuft. general manager Of
the Northern Pacific.
TERMS OF AGREEMENT
To establish relations which will
prevent HHI and Hartman from
taking profitable branch line
business from each Others ter
rit0ry.
viii mark the territory belong
ing 10 each other
To agree 10 abandon the present
project OF building branch lines
into each others territory.
Effort made 10 secure from Hill
guarantee that he will not dis
turb present situation by build
ing into California.
Hartman viii continue building
from Portland TO Tacoma.
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gathering in those charged with loot
ing the offices OF the district attorney
went along systematically. At mid
night eight of those alleged to have
been implicated in the conspiracy had
been taken into custody and detectives
and officers were still searching the
city for others.
MCKINLEY AS GOBETwEEN
At II O'Clock yesterday morning Rex
n. Hamlin, formerly confidential clerk
of Burns: AL Mckinley, former detec-
tive for the prosecution, and William
Corbin. another employe of the dis
trict attorneys office, were placed in
the city prison in separate cells. Ham
lin has already confessed his guilt and
during the course of the afternoon
Mckinley also broke down and ad-
mitted that he had acted as the go
between for the United Railroads in
corrupting Burns detectives-
Although the men were held in
detinue the fact of their arrest soon
became generally known, and Captain
Anderson of the detective force imme-
diately detailed number of his men
TO act in conjunction with the Burns
detectives.
jerry Van Wormer. a United Rail-
roads sleuth, alleged to have been i'm
plicated in the conspiracy, was shad-
owed until late in the afternoon, when
he was taken into custody. The ar
rest of Platt. who was also in Burns
employ. followed quickly. Platt was
taken 10 Burns Office in The Cali build
ing where he was subjected to an ex-
animation, and later transferred to the
civ prison, where he also was placed
in detinue-
HIGHER UP TRAPPED
The developments of the day up until
this time caused many to believe that
all Of the suspects had been arrested
and that there would be mo further
Developments 1t was just about this
time that Detective Charles Goff of the
district attorneys Office, armed with a
search warrant, issued by Police Judge
Deasey. started for the United Rail-
roads. offices in Oak street. accompa-
MED by detectives of the city depart
ment. The first inkling that Burns had
trapped. the higher ups then came to
light with the knowledge that a war
rant had been issued for the arrest OF
Luther G. Brown, the head of the rail
roads detective force. The complaint
charged grand larceny.
At Oak street the detectives learned
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THE 10 years war which has
been waged with extreme bitter
ness by the forces of Hartman
and Hil for control in the northwest
viii probably be ended forever as the
result Of the conference that was held
yesterday at Burlingame, and the
Treaty of Burlingame promises to be
as important an agreement in the
railroad world as any that has ever
been signed BY any of the great trans
portation powers.
There were present at this confer
cnoe:
Z. h Hartman
LOUIS w Hill. president of the
Great Northern
Francis B. Clarke, president Of the
Spokane, Portland and Seattle.
H. c. Mutt, general manager Of the
n OTthern Pacific.
T. T. Calvin, vice president and
general manager OF the Southern Pa
cihc.
J. P. O'Brien. general manager of
the Oregon railway and navigation
company.
Hill Starts Campaign
Years ago, when James J. Hill en-
tered on his aggressive railroad policy
with Tacoma and Seattle as his west
ern terminals for his two roads. the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
The owners Of the Southern Pacific took
alarm.
They had already a road into PORT
land. but they feared that Hill would
not be content with the northwest: thar
he would come stil farther south. first
into oregon. and then descent inta
California would be easy.
open warfare was avoided and an
ironclad agreement. was entered into
boy the northern and southern lines
that neither would invade the others
territory.
Still a Moot Question
II Is a moot question who broke this
q agreement.
The Hill people assert that the
trouble was started by the Oregon
railway and navigation company, a
= arriman corporation. invading their
3e-ritory. while the Oregon railway
snd navigation people say that the Co
lumbia river country was broached by
I8iI. which was ceded to them
The quarrel grew so acute that Hill.
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Papers Are Stolen From
Burns Office to
BaIk Justice
Confession Of PIOttGrs
Employed by Graft
Defendants

n FORE tremendous in their
chain of events that have
centered about the graft prosecu-
tions in many months were the
startling incidents and disclos-
ures of yesterday, which have
already caused the arrest OF eight
lieutenants OF Patrick Calhoun
and Abe Ruef, which have led to
four confessions of a monstrous
plot to defeat justice and which
have sunk the cause of the allied
graft defendants to the lowest
depths of foulness.
THE PLOT LAID BARE
The full extent OF the disclos-
ures have not been made public,
but already their sweep has laid
bare the details of plot by which
the district attorneys office was
Systematically robbed for months
of reports and secret papers relat-
ing to the prosecution, which
were turned over to the sleuths
and attorneys hired by the presi-
dent of the United Railroads or
through his agents.
TWO MEN CONFESS PLOT
Two of the men under arrest
were employees of the district at
torney's office, working under the
direction of Special Agent Viii
liam J. Burns. Both these men
have confessed that they were
bribed by Patrick Calhoun's
agents to sell their honor and be-
come traitors. Both have ex-
planned in detail how for months
they robbed Burns office of any
thing and everything relating to
the graft cases and turned all this
matter over to the go betweens,
who carried it to Calhoun's attor-
neys-
But these two men were only
the tools. Behind them, and in
volved in all the crimes of which
they were guilty, stood William
NJ. Abbott. head of the law de-
partment of the United Rail
roads; Luther Brown, Calhoun's
chief jury fxer, briber and man
OF all dirty work; ] Fl. Handlon,
claims agent for the United Rail
roads; Abe Ruef. the convicted
boss; Frank J. Murphy, RueFs
attorney, and others.
Papers Found in Desk
William M. Abbott, Luther
Brown and ]. II. Handlon wers
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streamed into the five offices, making
a close examination of everything in
them
Rogers and his associates protested
at every step, but they were given
slight consideration by the detectives.
who went about their duty as though
the offices were empty.
THUGS ASSEMBLED BY ROGERS
Massed in the Offices and armed with
revolvers, slung shots and clubs, were
some 40 of Calhouns carmen, whom
Rogers had summoned when he dis
covered what coup the district at
out. The strike breakers did not
make the slightest effort to resist the
officers Of the law, however, and with
good cause, for reinfereemeHts arrived
from the police station and stalwart
turbulent employees of the indicted
railroad magnate.
Calhoun's attorneys, augmented by
DIR. Coffey, head surgeon of the United
Railroads, and his secretary, made a
majority of the chief officials of the
road, who began streaming into the
place from all points of the compass as
soon as they received the news of the
chiefs undoing. They finally retreated
to an inner Office and sullenly allowed
the search to proceed They were
beaten, and their actions showed that
they realized it.
PROTESTS ARE CONTINUED
Rogers and young Moore continued
to protest ,wheneved possible, however,
and Abbott presided over the wreck in
silent dignity. Toward the end of the
evening their efforts chiefly were con-
fined to endeavoring to cast represen-
tatives Of The Call out OF the offices.
though reporters from the other two
morning papers were allowed to come
and go unmolested.
A tense excitement reigned while the
search proceeded. and an open rupture
between the police force and Calhoun's
hired thugs seemed imminent. When
the three outer offices, opening OF the
two main rooms. were opened and
crowds OF hard looking railroad en-
ployes discovered within, it seemed
that conflict could not be averted.
but the men remained stolidly silent.
and the hopes of the graft forces that
riot might save the papers in their
Offices from falling into the hands OF
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SUBURBAN,

EiFe japanese attack countrynsn and land i
Jail twice. Page 4
Mrs. Margaret A. Barton charges 90 years
abuse IN divorce case Page ;
Pipe organ viii be installed in Greek theate
for Bach festival. April %. Page =
Professor Thorndike's lecture course at univel
sty summer school is announced Page 8
Alameda woman is robbed OF gems /
Paris. Page .
Raey French novels still in demand al un
versity library. but Professor Chambers viii pls
cate women students. Page 2
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Continued on Pare 2z
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INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TO-DAY
TELEPHONE kEARNY Sc
SUNDAY. MARCH 2s. 1909
WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TO-DAY

YESTERDAY Cloudy: trace of rain; west
wind; maximum temperature 81. minimum 46
FORECAST FOR TODAY-Unsettled weather;
possibly light showers; south wind; changing to
west. Page AZ
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GRAFTERS CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS


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PLAYING WITH FIRE.

Things are moving strained relations with Japan once more
ITS
than does to In the
which calls strong measures WIN
put on the
II N veryen encouraging the trouble makers
nation and in most respects ls put
all matters affecting treaty of aliens 1t prepoerous 10 leave
by RuefSehmz school boards and
like that
head punched might get your pocket
Every which aliens alien interests as ITS Objective should
be ratified
aliens committed within the limits OF
United otherwise
Francisco
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vey the idea of pity TO the members
of his class. He illustrated it.
Now, supposing,'' he said, ga man
working on the river bank suddenly
fell in. He could not swim, and would
be in danger of drowning. Picture the
scene, boys and girls The man S sud
den fall, the cry for help. His wife,
knowing his peril and hearing his
screams, PUSHES Immediately to the
bank. Why does she rush to the
bank2''
After pause a small voice piped
forth:
HPlease, sir, to draw his insurance
money. ILLUSTRATED Bits.
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w. O. SMITH ON THE
LOCAL OPTION PLAN
Continued from Page One.)

be a very disturbing element at each
election campaign. 1t has been sug-
gested that the local option law should
provide that, Notwithstanding its pro
visions, the present law should remain
in force, which implies that, notwith-
standing the vote of the majority, the
License Commissioners should still ex-
ercise their discretion to grant or re-
fuse. If the board grants license
after a majority of the voters of the
precinct have voted against licensing,
or if they refuse to grant license
after majority have voted in favor,
the result will be so unsatisfactory and
so inconsistent with the principles of
popular government there viii be great
danger of the present control being
LOST
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by Charles Frazier of this consisted of ppreeve articles
the life and works of IN the leading
January
and the neglected
will result IN more good many