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Show RUEF ASKS LIBERTY. Abe Kuef, having spent loni; enough time in the 'a I i t'orn i;i penitentiary to entitle him to ask for release on parol1, has made application to the pardon board to be jjiven his freedom. In order to forestall any objections by politicians who milit hac fears that the former boss mie;ht take part in the coming cam pa it; u in S;;n Francisco. II uef asks the pardon board to bar him from the big city in case his application is favorably favor-ably considered. liuef richly deserved the sen truer passed upon him, but as the men who furnished the money to corrupt the supervisors su-pervisors were all acquitted, his friends and many other ei(i.ens ns well believe, that he has been punished enough and that a parole should be granted. San Francisco was rot! en to the core when liuef was in the heyday of his power, but his conviction and imprisonment had a salutary effect and tho town .has been purged to a considerable extent. Perhaps it would bo just as well to let him take a new start in lie. |