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Today in History: Sept. 24

1891: Dr. J.C. Handy, physician and former chancellor of the University of Arizona, was shot and fatally wounded by attorney Francis J. Heney during a quarrel at the corner of ....

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Streetwise: Parkside and the Graft Trials


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Parkside and the Graft Trials
By Woody LaBounty
(Originally published in the WNP Member Newsletter, Spring 2002)
The well-chronicled postscript to San Francisco s devastation in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire is the revealed municipal graft, and the resulting legal prosecution of the city s administration. Coinciding with the physical rebuilding of a great metropolis came the downfall of the city s boss, Abraham Ruef. Using the Union Labor Party as his vehicle, Ruef orchestrated the election of Eugene Schmitz as mayor in 1901, and not only won Schmitz reelection in 1905, but control of the board of supervisors as well. ....

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