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Tu senV rv ui Mtttrp Jss1e sW tt ffis a A ViWrnrnm VOL XCIII SAN FRANCISCO CAL THURSDAY JULY 16 1908 NO 1 lM HITCHCOCK PUNS A WHIRLWIND FIGHT Not a Single State Will Be Neglected in Campaign for Taft STARTS FOR WEST TO DAY To Meet the Leaders of Section Bryan Hopes to Capture i special Dispatch tbe Chronicle WASHINGTON July Frsnk Hitchcock chairman oft the Republican campaign committee Is preparing for a whirlwind campaign and before ait terlnc upon it with all his cohort In line ho la going te hold a council with tha men who will have to bear the brunt of the bat le In the varloua tatea He doc not mean to be caufbt napping nor does he Intend to loae by oerionfldence any otes which vlgl lam would main Hitchcock will leave to morrow tor Colorado fcprlngs where he will meet tile leaders of the Republican party tnd State Committeemen of California Uregon Washington and other states nest of the Missouri He realizes that Rrn will make a arrest effort to match those states from the Repub Mean rolumn and while it la believed enrlly that he will fall Hlteheoelc Is for taking no chances He will counsel faking the campaign a vigorous one Later he will to to Chicago and there he will mee state Committeemen tnd prominent party men from the states lying between the Missouri and the ADeghanlea Not an effort will be pared to win otes In Utah Colorado Kansas and Oklahoma which are held a important to Republican success thla year as Indiana Wisconsin Illinois Kentucky and Michigan 1EW YORK INDORSES BRYAV NEW YORK July IB The King County Democratic Committee adopted a resolution last night Indorsing tha platform adopted and the nominations made by the National Democracy at Denver and pledging a united support to the platform and candidates BRYA1 ILI GO TO CHICAGO FAIRVIEW Lincoln Neb July II jTo day was on of comparative lela urt for William Brjjan an he found opportunity to nupoae or a considerable amount of personal business The conclusion of Bryan to go to Chicago on the 25th of this month to meet the sub committee of tha national committee was based on the fact that It would be mora convenient to all parties concerned Bryan stated however that he would no at that time make any public address but would re isrve hlmaelf until the day of tha official notification of tha nomination He will leave here on tha afternoon of titer Nth and expects to remain In Chicago but tha on day WHITE GIRLS FOR CHINESE DENS Evidence That Young Women Are Stolen and Sold in Chicago Miss Grace Barnett Who Was KUkd by a Fall from a Qif on Kern River i i i A vvvSlf issbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbk sbbbbbbbbbbsasbbbbbbbbbbsbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbva IHHsIsbbbbbbbbbbbbbbHsbbU NjflHPHPsHKiinWHHB if MRS MINER NOW SCORES HER SPOUSE Says He Constantly Embraced Servant pirls in His Berkeley Home Ipeclal Wspatcs to tbe Chroolele CHICAOO July Twenty seven white grla have been kidnaped and sold Into white slavery among the Chi neso residents of Chicago through Clearing house organised for such traf tie according to reports road to the police to Bay Many at these girls i ire daughters of refined famUlee and iu are now voluntary er involuntary Inmate ot Chinese dens Pending efforts to And and rescue tha young rromenr tha police refuse to reveal their name The wholesale marketing of young womanhood waa made public through tha arrest of Sam Oee and Oee Fong Their accuser Isabel Held If years ld amid sobs and tear told a story to Lieutenant Joel Smith which convinced that official hat a clearing bouse for white slave traffic waa In his precinct Mist Held a revelations tendsd to snow mat oi an toe white glrta mist tag at leaat twenty seres had been abducted and sold through the slave clearing house to Chinese Special Dlspatcti te tbe Taronlcle SANTA CRUZ July IS Mrs Henry Nelson Miner to dsy created a sensation In the course of the divorce proceedings her husband Instituted against her sjime months ago In this city In which the alleged waywardness of hla helpmate was dramatically told In the complaint which he filed agatnat her It will be remembered that the name of Professor William Arrns 0 tne University of California waa associated In the complaint with that of Mrs Miner and that the stalwart doctor according to hla allegation objected to the ruatle of his wife skirt as she flitted through the Bohemian eafes With the be cheler bucks et Berkeley At Hh hearing of the ease last eek the demeanor of the erratic doctor waa such thstt hh aMoriiejs Huuct and McPhereon withdrew from the case maintaining that the doctor refused to obey their behests snd Insisted upon formulating his own case Now the alleged wayward wife has filed a lot of allegations whtch closely resemble the doctors In color Through her local attorneys Mrs Miner hae lied a croas complalnt In whtch shs chargea the doctor with cruel and Inhuman treatment relating that she waa denied converse with all persons that her husband referred to her feeble old father as a Jailbird and a murderer and that he also said the defendant a mother should occasionally have a fist between her eyes to bring her to time that ever since their mar rlaga It waa the custom of her husband to kiss and embrace young girls errant girls and nurse maids who might be employed In or visiting his home Ifrs Miner alleges that one night during the spring of 1I8S she went into the kitchen and found her husband wrapped In the arms of a servant girl named Mabel Oilman and when she remonstrated Dr Miner said ahe waa Infernally Jealous Mrs Miner withholds the name of the girls with whom her husband was familiar because ahe believes that In every case but the one mentioned they were Innocent Mrs Miner aska for tha possession of her two children BRITAIN HAS ME FASTEST CRAFT WOMAN FALLS TO DEATH OVER CLIFF Grace Barnett of Berkeley Meets Terrible End in a Kern River Canon LEDGE GIVES BENEATH HER Companion Dragged After Her fjut He Escapes With His Life i sj I LOWEB POSTAGE SATES TO NORWAY BOOK TO RULE CHRISTIAN Norway July It It Is proposed to reduce letter postage between Norway aid tho United State from ore 5 cents to 10 ere 24 cents even if It Involves financial toss It 1 felt that the reduction of the rate would strength the ties which bind Norwegian la America to their home country 1 i bspbecxeis says DEPBESSIOH IS AX EOT NEW TORK July 15 AB Sprockets of Ban Francisco before sailing to day tor Europe to bo con three or four months predicted the election ot Taft and said he thought the depression was a thin the Pef Everythlng wilt probably be dull un til attar election said BpreckelsrThe 1 believe there wilt rnent Tow cannot Torpedo Boat Destroyer Ex pected to Make Thirty nine Knots Special Oboatc to tbe Cbreslcle LONDON July There has Juat left Cammett Lalrde shipyard at Birkenhead for apecVt teat on the Clyde what Is believed to be the fast eat craft in the world It Is the Swift officially described a an ocean going torpedo boat destroyer hut Its real function la to deotrey destroyers To enable her to overhaul these speedy veeeel the Swift equipped with the mart powerful snrhies ever put into smalt vessel They are tur blnea developing rlOOOO horse power The fuef sheuses tsltof whloh ahe carries J0 tons It is predicted In the forthcoming trial she la likely to make thtTty fttne knot il RUNAWAY UTES WH17 00 BACK TO UTAH RAPID CTTT ft July II Five huodred JUte Indiana who revolted and terrorised the country after fleeing from their reservation lit Utah wilt havava to mlle trek back from hare Friday The Indiana will return under escort at ae captain and ten United States cavalrymen Th agreement to return 1 the outcome1 of a eonferene between the chief and President Roose velt The ehlef promised tKePresl Ipeolal Dlepatch te the Cbromcle VISALIA July IS Falling or a precipice In the big Arroyo canyon on Kern river Mlsa Grace Barnett a teacher In the Berkeley High School and a member of the Sierra Club met a violent death about 3 clock Monday afternoon More than fifty members of the club had climbed to tbe summit of Kaweah peak on Sunday On returning Monday a number of the party Including Miss Barnett snd Eld ward Hohreld more venturesome than the otheri attempted Jo shorten the dlstane to the main camp bv climbing down the steep face of a canyon Mies Barnett although protected by a leather strap about her waist which was held by her companion lost her balance when a rotten ledge crumbled under her feet and was dashed down 109 feet to the stream below Hohfeld was dragged over the face of the cliff by Miss BarneCts weight and fell a eonalderable distance breaking his nose and receiving other brulaes Hs hurried to camp to alarm the party Mlse Barnett body much bruised and cut was found In the water late the aame evening After reaching the mnuth of the canyon the body was wrapped in csn vas anrpacked out to Mineral King by Foley Noyer accompanied by Miss Edna Cadwaller of Berkeley Miss Zoe Zaermaan of Tulare and Qlen I Allen ot Berkeley The party was a day and a half In reaching Vlaalla by broken stages The body was brought here to day en route to Berkeley vMlss Barnett waa a brave girl and one ot the jolllest and beet liked mem bers ot the party She was II years lOld i iTJ The newa of the death ot Miss Grace Barnett has prostrated her mother Mrs Baraatt of till Ridge read Berkeley Through the receipt of a telegram from Olen Allen ion of Dr Lyman Allen who was with the party word of th tragedy was received In Berkeley The sad story has eome as a shock to the scores of friends of Miss Barnett She has made her home In Berkeley for many years being a graduate of the University ot California with the class or 1103 and a graduate ef the Berkeley schools Her sister Alma Barnett was also a California graduate Joseph Barnett a brother la In business In San Fran Cisco Miss Barnett was prominent In Berke ley both while at the University of California and since tHat time Aa Instructor In free fiand drawl og In the Berkeley High School and one of the most popular members of the faculty of the school she had a wide Influence She was a leader In social circles and a well known member of tha Hillside Club and other similar organisations While In the University she waa active In atudent affairs and during her senior year received the honor of being elected president of the Associated Women Students of the University She was also at one time president of the Prytanesft honor society and subsequent to her graduation took an active part In the work of the womana honor Society In establishing dormitories at tbe University Her social life at college waa centered te a large extent la the Chi Omega sorority ot which she waa member FLAMES CONSUME GREAT TANKS OFJIL One Life Lost in Disastrous Blaze in Santa Maria Fields TOWN OF ORCUTT IN PERIL Burning Fluid Spreads Everywhere Causing Immense Loss DYNAMITE THREAT FOR ABAXKER0F7ISAIIA ha marked Improve dent that the Indiana would henceforth kcepu backv ibe goodV Blukmailert Jcelare They Will Blow Up Hit Eome Unlets They Get Coin VISALIA Jaly 11 Hyde of this city a retired banker has received a letter threatening that dynamite would be used to destroy his home unless he placed several thousand aouars in local lumber yard In a place specified before a fixed time had expired Hyde wilt give out no Information on the subject but he haa employed a number of guarda who patrol the vicinity of his home night and day i POIirtCS CAUSED THE TROUBLESOF FOP ANSOff CHICAGO July Top Adrian Anson the famous old bait player lain tha bankruptcy court due to suits by twoSof hl creditors anaddl tlonsl suit filed several days ago on enait ox Mrs unariea xeii ox tin clnnatt for more than flOeO rental on hie Mlllard rooms Aaaon also c6n ductr a semi prof atelonal baseball team and1 large park on the South Side It la aald hla financial troubles are due to lila ventures Into politics lie waa formerly City Clerk and hla effort to be re elected and bis campaign contributions are said to have crippled him badly Va i i i LIVED BBTOMD CEOTURYV NBWARiC Aitt Xi July Mrs Satlte Kell Doremu ef a noted New 1 Jersey family died her to day aged Ml special Dlepatrh te the CSironlrU SANTA BARBARA July It One man la dead and property valued at about JUOOOO haa been destroyed as the result of a Are In the Santa Maria ell flelde at Oroutt the principal pumping and shipping station of the Union Otl Company and the Standard Oil Company to day The Are la still rag lng but It is believed thla evening that the town can be saved from the flames Four huge tanks holding 35 000 barrels ot oil each have been conaumed In the explosion of one tank two workmen who were fighting the fire in an effort to keep It from the pumping station were overwhelmed with boiling burning otl Frank Curtis was Instantly killed and his body conaumed by the flames RUSHES BACK rTO PL A MEM The other 1m Stevens waa reacued by co workers but erased with pain and hlliyded by the oil he broke from hla rescuers and rushed madly back Into the burning oil He was again rescued His chances of recovery re very alight Both were employed by the Union Company The Are started at midnight last night presumably from crossed electric wires whtch Ignited a shack near one of the tanks Soon tbe oil was boiling ever and explosion followed explosion The tank parted at the seams throwing scalding ell many yarda about For Ave hours the fire fighters kept tha flames confined to the first tank but soon the burning otl began flowing over and around the other tanks until four were on fire The rtver of burning ell spread to tha pumping plant which lyjM aaaaasjn hi inn a tsisstaajajoeajeoT EXPLOSIONS UVDBR GROUt A tank car on the Pacifln Coast Railroad caught Are and the flames spread along the track the ground being saturated with until tlea and bridges were all burned and the rails were warped and broken by the Intense heat Tbe boiling otl soon entered the pipe lines and underground explosions followed Many thousand barrela ot ell In the pipes were destroyed Embankments to prevent the further spread ot the otl are now being thrown up The Are will seriously interfere with shtpmenta of oil from the Santa Maria field as It Is estimated that It will take three months to repair the damage to the pipe lines Ind pumping stations SEVEN KILLED IN COAL MINE VESSELS COLLIDE IN A HEAVY PLOOD TIDE jisaea isfcaassaeassaalxsJsnn1 Mn PHOTO SHOWING THE DAMASK DOXS TO THB TKOMAt WHBlf THIS DRUMMtlRS BOW CRASHED I1TO HER AHD SKETCH SHOWING HOW COLLISION OCCURRED Drifting Barks Crash Together and Both of Them Are Damaged 1 1 i Gas Explosion in Pennsylvania Also Injures Ten Others ITH her anchor hove abort preparatory to changing her position the British bark British Teoman Captain Peter Hllllon waa caught by the flood tide and hurled broadside on to the bowsprit ot the British bark Drummuir Captain Fsrgu slon yesterday morning In Mission bay eft Mission rock Both vessels were badly damaged by the collision and Ave tugboats were necessary to separate them from the wreckage The British Teomsn wss She most badly damaged of the two here was a huge hole ten flet long and six feet wide torn In her star board euarter tho rll snd Ironwork were carried away with tbe mtlrtrt rigging the steel davits sustaining the starboard lifeboats were twisted and the boats themselves hurled to the deck and the bridge amidships crumpled Into a mass of Iron and wood The Drummuir a fore rigging and martingale were carried away and the fluke of her own port ananor Jammed Into her bow The bowsprit was snapped off The damage to the British Teoman which la owned tniJnverearglll New Zealand by SWaterstpn will amount to ssTtraljjthousand dollars and that of the DrUmmulr which Js ewned by the Barneson HIbberd Company ot thla city will come to several hundred dollars Tha British Teoman arrived from Newcastle May 2th with a cargo of 1000 tone of coal and was about to be towed from her anchorage at Mission bay to China basin wharf to discharge Awaiting the arrival of a VS Captain Hllllon ordered the two anchors hove short By some error the anchors were hove too shot and the veaael waa Immediately caught in the elutehee ot the flood tide When It was seen that the Teoman waa drifting Captain Hllllon ordered cable paid out but the anchor chalna fowled and the vessel waa now at the overey ef the tM QKkly while the eeew stop belnl th down upon the Drummuir anchored a few hundred yards away The crews of both vessels were powerless to do anything A moment and the expected crash came The Drummuir bowsprit struck the British Teoman on the starboard quarter rending a great gash In her aide The bow sprit of the Drummuir then snapped off and dropped Into the sea Grinding closer together the two vessels hung while the broken rigging and timbers Slled up the gap News of the disaster was Immedi ately sent to the towboat officers and the tugs Relief Sea Lark Sea Queen Restless and Bearlesa responded Af ter much towing the two vessels were pulled apart They will be laid up some time for repairs 53JWIK rt Dinnnv uvctcdv a Wi OF RANCH NEAR SAN JOSE t3 If Farmer Naked and Stabbed as ti i i ml many i lines ruunu uymy Al in His Home BABE BATHED IN BLOOD A Absence of Weapon Seems to lnrliita UTnunrle Uam i A Not Self inflicted Special Dtapatca te tbe ChNralcle 5 I i ft 4 Howard Bufllngton and Coroner Kell have been busy this afternoon and to night attempting to discover what happened between the hours ot It ana i oclock at the beautiful ranch home ef Bradford Tan Vrankln tor merly a deputy coroner of OaklahdV AlmtMiTMA 14 HlWaA ti 1 wounded and unconscious In a pool 0ti ftv Blood in nis nearoom to oay witn nisr iiIimi iniinHii Std bsli In his arms Tha child was unharmed but like me tather was bathed rrom neaa to ioorA i b4 with the wounded mans ooa Van Vrankln Is slashed and stabbed on hie left side from his hip to hla ankle In about a doxen places COURT STRIKES BLOW AT CHURCH Tribunal Declares That the Swedenborgian Tenets Are Immoral rOTTSVILLE Pa July 15 Seven mine workers were killed and ten others Injured to day by a terrlflo explosion of gas In the WllClamstown colliery of the Summit Branch Mining Company In the lower part of the an thracite coat flelds The mine was wrecked and set on Are The explosion occurred in No I shaft of the colliery and It Is believed to have been caused by one of the men lifting the gause of the aafety lamp Juat after an explosion of a shot which brought down a large body of coal The explosion shook the entire col liery The work of rescue waa Imme diately begun and when volunteers were called for almost every man at the workings offered his ervlces which meant a hasardous trip Into the burn ing mine Hear the foot of the shaft the In fured were founds Thev had ruahd4 JTeward tha entrance only to fall un conscious All of the dead were found Short distance from the shaft tadly battered and burned STEVE ADAMS NOT GUILTY 0P MUHDER GRAND JUNCTION Cor July Steve Adams member of the Western I Federation ot Miners was acquitted ot the murder of Arthur Collins this aft ernoon Adams alleged confession of the crime was excluded aa evidence by lodge Shackteford and eight witnesses testified to an alibi for jhe accused man Collins who waa manager ot tb Smuggler Union mine at Tellurlde Cot waa shot through a window of hla office on the night of November I JlOt when playing cards with friend The fl 4 HO WORD Oft CAIfAL StlPPLIES WASHUJOTONV July IlwNo word has been received from Coloner oet hals regarding the bide ef Fanama supplies Captain Bc gg expect word to morrow If nene eomee hey will makeno change to the orders altcady IssuedV IX aperlil Dlnpattb te Cbroslcle PHItADEI PHIA July 15 clslon of the Lancaster county Orphans Court If sustained means the wiping out ot the New Church Swedenbdrglan lit thli county said Alfred Weill of the Philadelphia bar to day Weill Is counsel for the Academy of fhe New Church at Brynathyn which by the Courts decision haa been denied a legacy ot 17000 on the grounds that the cSurch teaches Immorality In the academy among the text books Is one on Conjugal Love and thla book Is open to alt pupils There are forty seven young men and boys and thirty girls In the school The text book deflnes Conjugal Love as follows Conjugal love Is celaatlat spiritual and holy because It corre sponfla to the celestial spiritual and holy marriage ot the Lord and church Of course other so called love la not usually discussed In print No pupil Is admitted to the academy who has not been baptised or la prepared to be Immediately baptlssd Into the New Church The Court holdathat the teachings ot the church and practices oi its members are Immoral and opposed te public policy PUTSiGLAMP ON JAMESTOWN FAIR Government Files a Claim for Nearly One Million Dollars NORrOUC Va July 18 The United tatea Goerrnent filed a petition In the Jamestown Exposition Federal Court litigation here to day asking protection at a creditor ot the exposition on account ot Its 1000 000 loan and claiming priority of payment lover everything else owed by the ex position company The petition sets out that the balance due the Government Is S73J Of the II 000 000 loaned Mie exposition the Government had got back but 110204 1 It had been thought that the Oov ernments loan waa only a lien on the exposition gate receipts but to days petition flled by Assistant United states District Attorney Talley claimed that under the speclaj statute appropriating tha lean It cornea aa a general lien The aSSI avMnM lnfltMt wffh ml Kniie out tne weapon cannot ue wuraj wi I TW evidence that the man never left that 0V house alter receiving nis wounas toes I i I Ml f1 4h the theory that he Inflicted the wemndai fljH upon himself wniie insane i i Bloody footprints left by bare feet and there la a bloody trail between tla jM telephone In the kitchen and tbe bed iii room where the father and babe wereJ iiMoverad The dishes in the kltohenl 5 and In the pantry are smashed lntoj small bits and there are many other i evldencea In the house either ox ttrriflo struggle between men or the SSj fury of a madman i tfj At 10 oclock this morning Van VrnJ nfi kin was unquestionably In hla rlghtt 1 mind He aroae at oclock andrt drove hla wife to the depot la San V1 lu where she took a train for Oak Hi land where her husbands brOthefrs Atm and with whom she intended to 2 remain until Friday Her husband returned about 10 oclock to hie home with hla babe what haneened between that time i I mnA Ml 1 i metier nf eonlerture hut i at that time John Gordon a telephone Al employe called at the nouae to takey i out the telephone which had belonged to a prevloua owner of the place which had been occupied only about Jj ten daya by the Van Vranklna They purchased the home for 7000 Gordon kA VnmVa ftt th Annv tint ilM tint rain I admittance He called at the home of iv Mre Amonn across the street and to gather they entered the Van Vrankln home On tha operating table Van Vrankln waa entirely Irrational Ills stories were conflicting and proved to be without foundation He claimed to have been stabbed In a right In Mllpttas The wounds were evidently Inflicted with a knife but none which might have been used waa found about the place Charles Bothwell a well known local Mason had Van Vrankln re moved to a private aanatorium Bradford Van Vrankln formerly lived with members of his family at 941 Chestnut strest In Oakland Ha a for some time a Jeweler at Fifteenth and Broadway besides a deputy Coroner He was married three yeara ago Attempts to arouse any one at the Chestnut street residence last night were futile if 9 inJBDES C0WMTTTZD IK ELKO OBATEYABP Workmen Quarrel Over Division of Territory and One Ii Slain ELKO Nev July IS A ths tesult of quarrel over the division ot work In caring for graves In the Odd Fellows Cemetery here Jack Potan shot Frank Whittaken his aged fellow Inmateln the County Hospital three times with a pis tor killing him instantly Whit taker fell dead over the grave he waa waterier The quarrel originated the I day before and when Dolan aew hie companion on the disputed territory Bunaay no advanced without warning and shot him HEAVY TRAVEL ACROSS ATLANTIC NEW TORK July The rualt of Atlantic travel eastward still conttnuee to be almos up to the average ot other years Steamship agenta assert that the season was later than usual thla year but that It haa made amends for tbe falling off In the earlier stages and promisee to continue later than usual The three liners leaving to day with full cabins for Europe are the laat to salt on the high summer schedule as the wlner rates eastward go Into effect to morrow 1716 minimum are la the same all theiyearrounibut the rates for the bestcablna are practically cut In halt For Instance a deck rabln on the Lu sltan1rsallnsrt dajrialstloa for on passe re will be una in theMaureUhla sailing Julytd KERN GIVEN A WARM WELCOME I INDIANAPOLIS Ind July 18 The reception given John Kern thej newly nominated Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States held In the courthouse yard at clock to night waa as hearty and generoua and spontaneous as the cltt sens ot Indianapolis regardless otipoll tics could make It Fully 6000 people gave Kern a hearty welcome and cheered him enthusiastically The candidate addressed the crowd for about twenty minutes after being presented by Vice President Fairbanks Four years ago Kern presented Fairbanks to a big non partisan gathering under similar circumstances sKXIsUjT ciat a COW eeemsTUsr Ula aatire keOalac at Xean sad Bt luv Streets er seaetsarters fvr verr a et MaMeal laeftre awats free Stela way riaaee awe Tea have ae seed euewaer foe ear aroel eer Uls the Wearer demorutraung tne moat wonderful instrument in tie world Tlie VictTola It reproduces all themusU talking machine reproduces and ellxnlnatea alt of tha objectionable features It ha ao born no mechanical noise It Is artistic It I the Stefnway ot the talking chin world rrtiSeeVM ShpmanKaiy Ga atetawsrv asMl OtWrWain Vleter Talklag Jtawhlsw i KEAR1T AJfB StTTTKIt 4 lUTlKNX8rSATK8n areutwaya IMih OaaJaael JS 9 7 B4 Mi 0.