"THE GAME OF THE GRAFTERS."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 23 March 1907, Page 5

"THE GAME OF THE GRAFTERS."

SAN FRANCISCO FRAUDS

Received March 22, 7.56 a.m.

LONDON, March 21

The New York correspondent of The Times reports that members of the Board of Supervisors at San Francisco, in order to save themselves, confessed that each received from the United Railroads £B,OOO.

Schmitz, the Mayor, and Ruef, the "Boss," jointly received £BO,OOO for the privilege of submitting an overhead trolley system. Members of the Board of Supervisors confessed that other extensive bribes were accepted. The game of the "grafters," the correspondent adds, is now up.

Received March 22, 11.22 p.m

NEW YORK, March 22

The Grand Jury at San Francisco returned sixty-five indictments charging Ruef with acting as intermediary and bribing the Board of Supervisors in the overhead trolley deal on behalf of the United Railroads and other acts of corruption. The jury also returned ten indictments against Halsey, formerly general agent of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, for bribery.

THE SUFFRAGE DEMONSTRATION,

ARRESTED WOMEN FINED.

Received March 22, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, March 21

The arrested women were each fined £1 to £2, in the alternative imprisonment for a month or lesser term.