'FRISCO SCANDALS.
THE, CHARGES AGAINST RUEF.
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. NEW YORK,, March 22. The Grand Jury at San Francisco returned $5 indictments charging Ruef with acting as intermediary in' bribery in connection with the overhead trolley deal on behalf of the United Railroads, nnd other acts of corruption; also ten indictments against Halse, formerly the Pacific States telephone and telegraph company's general agent, for bribery.
( > ' ' ' (Ruef'is a lawyer and a friend of Schmitz, Mayor of San Francisco, who lias also been indicted. . Jt is, sai,d that, among other things, the pair received £80,000 for the privilege of submitting an overhead trolley system for cable lines.) , •
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13431, 23 March 1907, Page 5
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110'FRISCO SCANDALS. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13431, 23 March 1907, Page 5
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