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Every boy will be interested in thej
Jack Kneiff story on Sunday. Jack tells
just how to fit up and equip the work
shop, which will delight any boy. See
The Sunday Call
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VOLUME CL— NO. 119.
Overland Wrecked Near Colton and Twenty-Five Killed
Ruef Had Million Boodle Money in Banks Schmitz Kept "Swag" in Chest
OPEN SWITCH
IS MAW OF
DEATH
Overland Wrecked
Near Colton;
25 Killed
Most of Dead Were
Italians Coming Here
Nearly Twd Score
Passengers Are
Injured
(Florence Roberts and
Company in Smashup
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THB CAL.L
SAN BERNARDINO,
March 28.— An open switch
at the east end of the Colton
bridge across the Santa Ana
River resulted in the wreck
ing of the Southern Pacific
overland train No. 9, from
New Orleans, a mile and a
half east of Colton this after
noon. At least twenty-five
passengers were killed and
more than thirty-five in
jured. Most of the dead
were Italians, who had re
cently left Italy for San
Francisco, also most of the
«. LIST OP THE VICTIMS
Th» dearti IV. A. Sfcle, l.o» Anjc«le*t
mall clerk on 50. 9, mangled; G«onr«
n. ShmrPf MnnHr, lad.) rixhtren Ital-
Innc. limn nnkaonn.
Bni«m»lr Injured! H. W«heri», Rock*
lln v Cal., hofh Ire* broken, h«fl!jr | B .
jnrrdt >• tt. "VV«l«er», arm ton from
norket, one ere rose.
Injured silently: Mi*s Cora Starkey,
Bowie, Texas, foot sprained; Julius
Kretch, Coraopolis, Pa., badly cut on
head; Mr. «nd Mrs. I. D. Shumwan,
daughter N*HJe, Callaway. Neb- bruised
Mtgrhtly; Alice Shumwan. ohln cut, ear ;
almost torn off; T. J. DcmEton, limbs
crushed; Mr. and Mrs. "Wheeler, El
Paso, Texas, : bruised, wriEt • broken; '
Justice WJerren. CWcag-o, ,cut and
bruised; Milton Hill, New York, cut and
bruised; Patrick Griffin, I/ynn, Mass.,
cut on limbs; H. F. Walter, Mattoon.
Ills.;, -cut and bruised; Mr. and Mrs.
Coatlnnrd ob rust 4, Column 3
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INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALL'S
NEWS TODAY
TELEPHONE TEMPORARY 89
FRIDAY, MARCH 2s, IS 07
weather eo?TDrnoxs
YESTERDAY— dear; wester!? wind*: nuxl
aos temperature. 68; mJalarom terrper&tare, 44.
FORECAST FOR TODAY— r«tr; fresh wert
"wlmU. Pare 11
EDITORIAL .
Tbe tuning of tbe mtgnttm. IVge 8
Ethica of mnnlrlp*l metß&es*. F*re fi
Diplomacy and intern*tton*l <l»bt collect
on. Pa^e 8
BoocJen bctr all ironnfl. Pare •
GRAFT SCAXDAL j
Treasure casket In which Mar or Sehialtz kept
boodle noDcr found la bis farmer residence !n
rnimore street, bow the prison of Abe Eaef. P.I
Testimony will b* eiT«n tbe Grand Jury toditj
t±Rt Abe Baef kept on depoctt In city banks
troodreds of tbooeands cf dollars, bis total graft
xnesey exe*e£lcg {1.000,000. Pace 1
Txmis Glass of tee Pacific States Telephone
Company err&lfned on sine indictments for
bribery end bis bearing continued tintH
April 4. Par e 1
Grand Jury obtains complete «r)denre against
officials of the Home and PadSe States tel«-- .
pfcnrie companies and Indictments will be re
turned tomorrow. Pace. 3 ;
"Money first. prfTllefes after,** was the rul<? '\u25a0
«f the Enef'Schmitz-Gallagrher cant of boodlo
recclTcrs. . Tare 3 j
fiaymond J. Burns confident A. E. Detviler in
bl£ins In or near Toledo. -- i ~. P«Jfe S
cm*
Sidney J. Salisbury, well-kseirn yoens man
about town and sea of lat* society leader, at
tempts suicide at Hunnug batbs, and will prob
ably die. Paa-e S
Alaska Commercial Company will erect ttrelTe
litory offlre 6tnjctura at coet of SJWW.OOO. Pa^e 6
l>r. nifrman. rolnlntr man of' Nerada, tells of
j certain d<relopm«-nt of that State. Paj» 15
Sujjprrisor Paris defie* laws of dty In ron
niu; deatatrzp "theater" aod any . citizen . can
file complaint apainst him. • \u0084 . \u0084 Pac« 16
General Mac Arthur is unexpectedly Imn»
forrrd t» tie Department of tbe Leker. Pagß 16
New mass by Dr. Stewart will be rendered at
SU Dominic"* 'on' Easter rnornlnp. . ?t{« {
Through Mayor's aid licenses are saved f» ten- \u25a0
df-rloln saloons th* t ael] liquor to women. Vtt* 18 I
Attorney - Mow* c out ercdn that reflroad" teleg- "
1 rapbers are paid tetter than Western" TTnlon
eraplnyes. Pare 6
laundry owners declare that they, will cloee
tlieir estabUshments on 'April 1 of union persists
in .demands. \u25a0. '.-'\u25a0_• Pagre 16' .
Dr. J. M. TTarfl, faithful henchman of Abe
Ilnef, retires from Board of Health. PfcCe 16
SUBURBAN
Plnns for home 'or lncnrtble* t» b« ere<rted by
Kind's Daughters In Oakland accented. Pace 10
Murderer ' Soderberj faint* at m>.r of \ his
mntb»r, whom he slew in Oakland last Saturday
u;rhi. Pa«e 10
and child attacked and severely bitten
by boose cat tbst hsd cone mad. Page 10
Oakland churches will all otaer-re Good Fri
day. * \u25a0 Pays 10
Action of Berkeley sorority in expelling Mies
Isi:i.«l Meßeynolds is not appro Ted by many
persons. Pa«e 10
District A'trorney Brown" of Alanseda County
declares be will tnresttsate fr«ft ehsrees against
Oakland CouncUmen, Pace S
COAST
Sootbern P»»-i3r treln Is, wrecked
t>e«r Coltoa and twenty-lire persons killed and
many injured. .Face 1
DO3IESTTC
' Senator Foraker turns cold shoalder to appeal
that he desist In bis hostility to Tsft. Pa*« 6
Former stenographer la Btocer Hermann's
office testifies that Commissioner was T*«ry
anxious to know whether note books had bevn
destroyed. Pay* 10
Commission examining Thaw on • question of
ronacy holds ecmion behind closed doors. Page 6
FOREIGN
Troops In Boomanla tee artillery *satn«t riot
ers and many pertons are killed. Pace 6
SPORTS
Emeryville bonkmakrrs lose thousand* of dol
lar* through the victory of the old campaigner.
Veterano. ' Pace" 7
Marty Mtarphy, tl>« cJerer bmelder. will play
with the Seals thlx yeer. ' Fac*"7
Blvml mskes of automobiles start la a race
from Los Afiffelm to this city. P**~* 6
Efforts to separate Battling Netooo and Man
ager Billy 'Nolan prore futile. Pace 7
LABOR |- v
TTaltera*. T7nlon to have polls open two weeks
to take vote on constitutional
amendment. , Pace 9
MARI.Yn
Harbor Contmkeloners will do longer allow
Padie Mall Company to' delay wort of extend
ing seawall. , . *•*• 11
MMTRVO
Uncertainty eonecmlns tbe labor situation at
Coldfidd and lack of . wires - cause decline la
mining ctocks of Uereda. Pag* U
SOCIAL 7
InrltatlaDC far wexJdnc of Mte AciU Helena
Harvey to Oacar Cooper ai« seat oat. Pace 8
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Developments of Thursday in vine Investigation of Sari Frantisco's Graft Scandal
J> District Attorney Brown of Alameda County announces' that evi
dence warrants searching inquiry \into\ telephone fight m Oakland.
2. Bankers will tell Grand Jury how Ruefcplaced his fortune in boodle
/'.\u25a0 on deposit in their institutions.
3. Secret chest in which Schmitz l^ept his boodle found in house he for
merly occupied in Fillmore street. '- y
THE UPPER PHOTOGRAPH ISTHE. ABOVE ILLUSTRATION SHOWS BOODLER. RUBF AND EUSOR / BIGGY" 1 IN RCEfS \u25a0 KEW
PRISON. THE NOVEL UUEP IS READING IS ENTITLED "ALMOST A ROGUE." THE - LOWER PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS . THE
' SCHMITZ ;TREASURE BOX DISCOVERED BY DETECTIVE BURNS, SUNK IN THE'FLOOR Or SCHMITZ'S BEDROOM. '
Mayor's Strong Box Is Found in
Ruef 's Present Prison
"Chinese Bank": for 1 Boodle
Like the mysterious castle of ? the robber baron of old
is the former home of fMayor Schm it z, now, by the irony,
of fate,, the prison of his ; friend and" confederate, yAbe
R;uef. Not only has the big House 'known as; 2849
Pil'iriore street a' den beneath it; but r upstairs, hidden
away; under the, floor of the - sleeping-room that was occu
pied by the master, who now lives'ih sc mansion, is a plush
lined treasure casket. ; /
One ;Of the ;"dopTs of tlie den beads' into^ a big basement;
which Has i a; door opening on an alley. Through \u25a0 tHese
doors *big ; rogues and tlieir :Httlejagehts;liaye.passed\Tv*ith-'
ou :t = attracting attention. No one T ; saw,, them -enter the
Schmitz home, and ; when they; liad -made^e^ bargains and
left the^. price on the' table? of^tfe^<ien;;the|greeds^fm^ter
clutche&his brib^
into the secret; receptacle. This
oir the little; door, [ smoothed Jba< ;k^he^ari^t^lpuslied;back
COATINUED ON, P\GK 4 »,COl.V>ixfl
4* Abrdm K. Detwiler, ,l the indicted millionaire, of Toledo, Ohio, de*
r dared a fugitive from justice by Judge "Lawlor.
5. Louis Glass of Pacific States Telephone Company arraigned ant
caseallowedtogqovertoAprilA.
O. v Grand Jury, finishes with the Los A ngeles witnesses and will soon
pass to trolley franchise investigation.
Louis Glass Is
Arraigned for
Handling Bribes
Ninet - Indictmeiits
Read -and Case
Goritiriued'
P~ The: fact that the first: of : ' the Jmilf
lionaires was to be arraigned attracted
a 'crowd h to'/ Judge Lawlor's :: court
room yesterday morning. : But .r. r they
were * scarcely \u0084 'fo' for \u25a0' tHeir
pains. When .a. millionaire /stands to
hear the- clerk read hisi arraignment
he looks." very .much as' any of
"smaller'- fry— stands on the same . iium
b'er of'feet, evades the glance 'j'of; the
'prosecutors .with the: same number- of
eyes, \u25a0 and , fumbles ; at his i pockets^ with
'two: hands'— no rnore;nor, less._
'\u25a0\u25a0:_ Louis : Glassy behaved : in no r different
manner : from I a thousand \ others : who
have'stoodTthere : before him. \v Unless
it; be that . he jescaped > the camera-men
after his- ordeal by, "quietly slipping
out; from-a ;rear t door t which a kind-
Continued oor; Pacen r; Pace 'A, . Column ; 4
I^2^gv'etf^3i^w<^families of gulls take*
turns through the year in convoying the
ferry-boats across the bay. An expert
tells interesting things about them in
The Sunday Gall
Burns Traces Every
Gent of Abe Ruef 's
Great Boodle Wealth
Bankers Ready to Show Books to Grand
Jury Revealing Repository of
Boss'lll-Gotten Gains
Sensational testimony will be given before the Granc
Jr-y tomorrow, which will establish the fact that Abi
Ruef kept on deposit in the banks of San Francisco hun>
dreds of thousands of dollars. Every cent of the monej
which Ruef secured through his boodling operations has
been traced. The full details will be placed before th<
jury. Bankers with whom Ruef carried large account!
will give testimony and produce their books if necessary.
iWilliam C. Murdock Jr., receiving tellsr of the Westeri
National Bank, and Assistant Cashier Fabst of the United
States National Bank will be tW'Chief witnesses. Witt
both of these institutions Ruef carried big balances.
;. '; Rudolph jSpreckels .-of the First National Bank will
also be on hand to testify if called. ~ Ruef Had a large smx
on deposit r witli the First Xationa I .Bank before the iri
•vestigation was begun. Just how much of Ruef.'s.-monej
remains with the institution of .which Spreckels is 'tin"
head is known only to Ruef, the bank's officials and tUV
prosecution.
Subpenas were served yesterday on Murdoek L«nd
Pabst, and they will be on hand tomorrow whon the Grauo
Jury meets to tell what they know of Riief's finances.
Although Ruef kept money in most of the big banks
of rho city, he did most of his business , with the Western
National and the United States National. In fact, he ii
interested in the latter. '
>It is stated that up to a few months, ago Ruef had on
deposit in the San Francisco banks nearly $1,000,000. This
sunVhas since been reduced by- his investments in real
estate, but the amount still lying in the banks to Ruef*3
eicdit is sufficient to make him a very rich man.
;•\u25a0: . In placing his money with so many banks Ruef be*
lieved he could avert suspicion. The treasure chest sys
tem employed by Schmitz did not appeal to Ruef. H«
preferred check- writing to digging into the secret recesses
of his home when he desired ready money.
Almost from the very day he began to work on tht
case Special William J. Burns has been endeavor^
ing to locate Ruef 's money. He has finally succeeded in
locating every / cent of it. A large portion has gone into
property, but a fortune still remains in the vaults of : 'th<
local banks. Ruef % total wealth exceeds the $1,000,000
mark by a comfortable margin. An exact computation
will be possible after the evidence has been presented U
tlie Grand Jury;
That Ruef could accumulate such a fortune during
the six years of the Schmitz regime will be apparent when
it is recalled Wat it : came to; him in such lumps as $182,00(1
froih the United Railroads and $75,000 from thfe Hpm'i
Telephone Gompan} r . Aside from this a steady streaS
poured in 'from ;the gambling T houses, the saloons and thi
disorderly resorts. From some of these resorts Ruef re«
ceived $250 a week, from others $100 a week. -From,thl
"municipal chouse" at" 620 "Jackson street the monej
poured' into Ruef 's strong box like a cataract.
? ;' An feature of the disclosures will centej
about the dates "on which Ruef made large deposits. Aitei
each big deal it' was his habit to split up -his boodle and
deposit ineach of the banks \vith which he die
ilnisiness. dates will tell the story. _ J
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