Graft in San Francisco Faces Earthquake Wake Up Call
San Francisco, long known for graft and vice, awakens after the earthquake and fire. Prosecutor Heney targets Mayor Schmitz and Chief Counsel Abraham Ruef, with indictments for extortion tied to French restaurants including the Poodle Dog. Licenses had long funded vice districts, now under renewed scrutiny as reform stirs in the western gate.
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Schmitz
Abraham Ruel
Heney
Bret Hiarte
San Francisco
Western Gate
Daniel Webster
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Honey
Grand Jury
Abraham Tuef
Poodle Dog
Sodom
Gomorrah
War of Class Against Class in San Francisco Politics
The piece argues the 1900s San Francisco election became a class clash as Schmitz and Ruef allies dominated the board, with Partridge defeated and Langdon replaced by Francia Heney in prosecuting graft. It praises Schmitz’s public image and notes Heney’s reform record and Ruef’s leadership, ending with a defender’s view of Schmitz’s handling of a fire crisis.
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Citizens’ Alliance
Schmitz
Partridge
Ruef
Board of Supervisors
San Francisco
William Fr. Langdon
Langdon
Public Schoola
Boward Butler
Joseph W. Folk
St. Louis
Folk
Boodler
Francia J. Heney
Heney
Arizona
Abe Ruef
Johns. Partridge
Railroad Consolidation and Government Ownership Debate
Union Pacific president Edward Harriman argues against government ownership as impracticable and urges broad private ownership. He says consolidation and working agreements among railways are vital to widen access while warning against political patronage delaying needed facilities and increasing costs.
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Edward H. Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Twentieth Century Limited
New York
Elkhart
Ind
New York Herald
Wall Street
Mr. Blarkman
Mr. Harriman
Chicago
Congress
Rise and fall of Ruef in San Francisco politics
The San Francisco board of supervisors, control by Abe Ruef, and graft allegations highlight a city weary of corruption. Voters backed a reform movement amid the 1905 mayoral race, opposing Schmitz and Ruef as the union labor influence waned. A rival citizen bloc formed amid anti union sentiment, shaping the political shift.
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Abe Ruef
Board of Supervisors
San Francisco
Francisco
New Union Labor Party
Eugene Echmitz
Schmitz Hach
Ruef
Cty
Schmitz
San Franciso
Wek
Young Man Robbed After Dance Hall Betrayal in Flint
Byron J. Turner of Caro Mich went to Flint for work and after socializing with several young men at saloons was invited to a dance hall. He says he was taken to the Pere Marquette yards where he was struck on the head and robbed of $10, the only money he had. He escaped with minor injuries.
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Flint
Mich
Byron J. Turner
Caro
Pere Marquette
Burns seeks rematch with O'Brien after draw in LA
Tommy Burns of Los Angeles posted a $1 certified check as a forfeit to stop Jack O'Brien if O'Brien agrees to a return match. The pair fought twenty rounds to a draw at the Pacific Athletic club last Wednesday night.
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Tommy
Los Angeles
Cal
Tommy Burns
Jack O'Brien
Pacific Athletic Club
O'Brien
Postoffice Robbed at Atkinson by Dynamite Blast
A post office in Atkinson, fifteen miles north of Kewanee, was robbed when the safe was dynamited. About $50 in cash and stamps worth several hundred dollars were taken. The crime was discovered when Postmaster Straley opened the office at his usual hour.
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Tfl
Atkinson
Here
Straley
Pontiac Fire Chief Restores Old Engine From 1876 Exhibit
Fire Chief Red Shaw of Pontiac brings the city's old steam engine from the centennial Philadelphia display back to life. He claims the restored engine outperforms Ann Arbor's new five thousand dollar Nott machine.
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Pontiac, Mich
Red Shaw
Pontiac
Philadelphia
Ann Arbor
Fireman Injured In Montville Train Collision
William Geer of New London, a fireman on a Central Vermont freight train, was injured in a head on collision with a north bound passenger train near Montville station on the Central Vermont railroad.
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Montville
Conn
William Geer
New London
Central Vermont
Central Vermont Railroad
Ptomaine Poisoning on Ship Aboards S S Moltke
Three Italian second class passengers aboard the steamship Moltke from Genoa and Naples fell ill during the voyage with suspected ptomaine poisoning from meals likely served with food carried in their baggage. Medical officers report no other passengers affected.
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Ptomaine
New York
Moltke
Genoa
Naples
Big Wolf Hunt Fails to Net Game near Leesburg
In Leesburg Indiana on December 1 a daylong hunt drew about 700 sportsmen and as many volunteers across sixty miles but yielded no wolves, though five were sighted during the big excursion.
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Leesburg
Ind
Ralph Rose raises shot put World Record at Olympic Club
At the track and field day meet at the Olympic Club in San Francisco Ralph Rose broke the world record by putting the twelve pound shot 455 feet 6⅝ inches. He surpassed G. Gray of the New York Athletic Club at Travis Island who previously held the mark by one and a half inches set in 1902.
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San Francisco
Olympic Club
Ralph Rose
G. —. Gray
New York Athletic Club
Travis Island
Nokomis Man Dies by Drinking Poison
Dee J D New Kirk, a Nokomis business man, is reported to have died by his own actions after drinking poison. He is survived by a widow and a son. No reason has been discovered for the act.
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Nokomis
Dee, J
J. D. Newkirk
Lowden Likely to Join Foreign Affairs Committee
Washington reports Representative Frank O. Lowden is expected to be named by Speaker Cannon to the committee on foreign affairs. The post, once chaired by Lowden’s predecessor in Congress, is among the most important in the House. The Illinois man would be considered fortunate to obtain the assignment.
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Lowden
Washington
Frank 0. Lowden
Cannon
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Congress
House
Juarez social leaders arrested on harboring revolutionists
Mrs. Maria Ponce de Gonzales, a prominent Juarez woman, is charged with harboring revolutionists. Ethel Smith, known as the Thornton R. T. heroine, is held in 4000 bail for manslaughter but was promptly bailed. Three steamers with 4,670 steerage passengers arrived in New York from the Mediterranean.
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Juarez
Mex
New York
Mediterranean
Ethel Smith
Thornton R. T
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