SAN FRANCISCO GRAFT.
' ROOSEVELT'S BIG STICK. BY TELEGRAM! —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COP YEIQIIT (Rec..Juno 25,10.25 p.m.) New York, June '25. 'President Roosevelt has written to Mr. J. -D. Spreckels : ' "Do "not flinch, but keep up the light against the Grafters of San: Francisco, no matter, what the biggest business men, the mob, or the highest social classes may say." Tho letter lias caused an immense sensation, thought several San .'Francisco newspapers ignoro it. .;'• - | San Francisco, was believed to have reformed itself when it imprisoned Mayor Schmitz and "Boss" Kuef; but these'gentlemen have sinco regained tlioir liberty on a technical law point. In March it was. reported' that "graft" in connection with the re-building of the : city was worse than ever.'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 234, 26 June 1908, Page 7
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118SAN FRANCISCO GRAFT. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 234, 26 June 1908, Page 7
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