Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/110

1905

The "Big Four" graft prosecutors (left to right) Frances J. Heney, William J. Burns, Fremont Older and Rudolph Spreckels.

Original Bank of Pinole building

• Graft trials begin in San Francisco against mayor Eugene Schmitz, members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and attorney and political boss Abe Ruef, who were receiving bribes, and business owners who were paying the bribes. (prosecutors pictured)
• Concord and Richmond are incorporated in Contra Costa County
• The Bank of Pinole (pictured) is founded in Richmond
• The Hill Opera House opens in Petaluma
• The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley is founded when the university purchases Hubert Howe Bancroft's 50,000 volumes on the history of California and the North American West