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Show AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF CORRUPTION UNEARTHED Grand Jury Returns Seventy-Flve Indictments In-dictments Against' San Francisco Officials, and Abe Ruef, Political Politi-cal Boss. San Francisco. Tho long-looked-for Indictments In tho municipal graft ennes woro roturned Wednesday. Shortly heforo 0 o'clock tho grand Jury filed with Presiding Judgo Coffey of tho superior court soventy-flvo Indictments, In-dictments, charging bribery, which woro found on cvldenco presented to tho grand Jury nftor six months' probing prob-ing Into the municipal affairs of this city by Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Honey nnd Secret Service Agent William J. Hums, and which reveal nn umnzing story of nlleged graft nnd corruption that surpasses tho boodle cases of St. Louis, ranks with tho Minneapolis expose and Is only eclipsed In the amount of money passed, but not in Its ramifications and organization, by the famous Tweed ring of New York. Of tho Indictments returned, sixty-flvo sixty-flvo nro agnlnst Abraham Ruef, for years the political boss of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, charging him with bribing the board of supervisors to grant franchises fran-chises to the United railroads, the Homo Telephone company, tho San Francisco OnH and Electric company nnd tho so-called prlzo lighting "trust." Ten nro ngalnst T. V. Hal-soy Hal-soy former general agent of the Pacific Pa-cific Stntes Telephone nnd Telegraph company, who Is charged with having hav-ing bribed tho supervisors not to grant a frnnchlso to the rival company. com-pany. Several more Indictments, the ox-act ox-act number nnd against what person. Ilcnoy nnd Hums refuse t8 divulge until tho accused parties have boon arrested, wero found by tho grand Jury but not filed, Honey and Hums not even trusting tho secret file. |