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The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
SEVEN JURORS SWORN
TO TRY STEVENS SLAYER
NJ. w. Chun, Who Was With
Chang at Time of Shoot
ing, Disappears

Seven jurors were sworn yesterday to
try l. w. Chang, the Korean, for the
murder of Durham White Stevens. OF
the five who were passed temporarily
the previous afternoon four were chal-
lenged. The remainder of the morning
session produced six men satisfactory
to both sides. AS the panel was then
exhausted a continuance was taken to
10 a. m. today.
The seven jurors so far sworn in are:
Thomas Brady 937 Fillmore street;
John Davis, 1888 Webster street; Henry
Wolking AIS Haight street; Fred A. Ell
lott, 33S Castro street: Cornelius Egan,
262S Nineteenth street; Patrick Lyons.
1927 Bush street and E. P. McKnew,
1431 Nineteenth street.
NJ w Chun, who was with Chang at
the time of the shooting, can not be
found. He was allowed his freedom by
Police Judge Cabaniss on his own re-
cogniZance.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
BOSTONIAN TO LECTURE
ON "QUEEN OF ADRIATIC"
DR.. II. II. Powers Will Give
Illustrated Talk on Venice
at California Club

DR.. H. H. Powers, president of the
bureau of university travel. Boston.
will deliver the last of series OF three
art lectures at, the California club this
evening. His subject will be. Venice,
the Queen of the Adriatic."
Society has turned out in great num-
bers to attend, the two former lectures.
CIubwomen from all parts of the city
have also been In attendance
Tonight's lecture is probably the best
of the course. and the California club
hall is expected to be taxed to its ca
pacity. The lectures are illustrated
Children who ATTENDED the FairmOnt
Christmas fetei Watch Hale Brothers
window
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
CANDIDATES ARE DISCUSSED

Discussion of candidates brought out
the fact that Seymour. Martin and An
derson, all of whom have been repre-
sented as 10th 10 take the position,
would be willing 10 succeed Biggy.
Cutler and Whelan have been known
candidates right along.
No other names were dweIt upon and
the commissioners were guarded even
in their references TO the five candi-
dates. None wanted to commit him
self too far in advance of the show
down." When the conference came to
end the mayor had failed TO indi-
cate his preference for any of the five
candidates discussed. This fact was
not altogether displeasing to certain
commissioners. who took IT as an in
dication that his honor would not at
tempt to force a chief of police upon
them.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
OPPOsTTION TICKET
Chapter InstaIIs Offcers

There was a large attendance at the
public installation Of the following Of
Ulcers Of Yerba Vista chapter No. 22s
Of the Order Of the Eastern Star in
Doric hall, Golden Gate Commandery
building The new officers are:
Maude Kinsley Cannon. worthy matron; Asa
Weston Collins. worthy natron: Trvpbfnnie Rav-
arc james, associate mstrOn; Rosa wilkins de
Ninton, secretary; Annie Logic Squier treas
urer; Annie Weise Spaulding. conductress; Mary
Bird Bowers associate conductress: James
Woods keyston Jr.. chaplain; Louise Christine
Perry. marshal; Ethel Maude Stevenson. organ
Benncr Elsie Pauline Dillman Anna Vera
Schieleln Frances May Jones and MARY r
Burgess. points Of the central star
The installing officer was Ethelwvnne
Morris, the retiring matron, assisted
by Past MatrOn John Wesley Hender-
son as chaplain and Susie Mills Will
lsts as marshal
After the induction there was q
short address by Past Patron Thomas
J. James and the presentation to the
outgoing matrOn of five pointed dia-
mond star Jewel of her rank in the or
der from the chapter The chapter also
presented John McCullum, the retiring
patron, a token Of appreciation of
services while he was in Office.
Officers Are Installed
The officers Of Amity chapter No
.-sb2, Order Of the Eastern Star were
publicly installed in Eastern Star hall
IN Church street last night by Worthy
Grand MatrOn Annie Marie johnson.
NTho was assisted by Grand Marshal
Lille Caroline Byce Of Petaluma. and
Past Matron May Frances Carter of
Harmony chapter. the former acting IN
her official capacity. and the latter as
trand chaplain. The officers are:
Margaret r. Alberti worthy matron. vvillfsn,
= Wood. worthy patron: Jessie Buruef ssso-
gate matron- Gertrude Reutschler. secretary
hosa - Moller. treasurer: Minnie ISorgr-s rtit
conductressi Mildred keutschler associate CON
tnctress annie harfjc Alma Scheppler Nina
= el-l-ef, ISABEL -asson and Hazel Giasson. points
tf the star; Anna Wood marshal: Newton =
fartrioee, chaplain. Harriet Ehlert organisf.
Aaua Miller warder; Elizabeth Miller sentinel
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
W. P. Humphreys and William
Croker, Lumberman, Rivals
for Office
@ Factions in Temple Wage
Strife to Gain Control of
Local Shrine
Arab Patrol Drill Team Is
Alleged TO Have Gained
Too Much Power

Islam temple. Mobiles Of the Mystic
shrine, VIII hold the annual election
tonight in Dreamland rink. It prom
ises TO be the most exciting political
event in the history Of the temple since
It's institution. Two factions are
battling for control. one headed by Will
liam p. Humphreys and the other by
William Croker, the Iumberman. Pres
sure is being brought TO bear on sew
eral hundred members with all the zeal
usually manifested in general cleo
ton
II Humphreys is elected it means q
continuation of the policies that
marked the tenure Of Office of George
Filner. Those who are espousing the
cause OF Crocker assert it is time for
change. They contend the Arab
patrol the drin team Of the temple.
has been allowed to gain too much
power in the local shrine. and they be-
lieve Crocker would correct this al
legged evil.
BACKED III OAKLAND MEN
The opponents OF Crocker are say
land members Of Islam because they
expect him. II elected, to assist them
in securing a temple for Oakland. This
movement 20 secure temple for Oak
land is not new one and has been
the cause Of more than one clash in
the temple. At the present time there
are only two temples in the state, one
IN this city and the other in Los An
geles.
So strenuous has the campaign been
that 1t is more than likely that the
political tactics employed this year
VIII be roundly denounced at tonight's s
session 1t may result that hereafter
the potentate VIII be elected in line of
succession That would do away with
The circular letters and buttonholing
Inat have marked the present cam
paign.
Following is the Humphreys ticket,
The one for which Filmer and the Ara b
patrol are working
William 2. Humphreys potentate: Harry
Eaelr. chief rabbsn. Charles u. Van Orden.
dss-siant raJban; Alexander WOodside, high
priest; A. H. Rasmussen. oriental guide; james
M Anderson, recorder: Thomas J. Morton,
Fnmer. william p. Humpbsers lanes n An
derson and Francis Ferrier. representatives TO
the imperial council to be held in Louisville.
OPPOSITION TICKET
Following is the opposition ticket:
4 william Croker. potentate; II. d. LoveIand.
clicf. rabbsn; Il. p. Moore. assistant rabban;
p y keesling high priest; i. ". le Ballister.
oriental guide; J. ". Anderson recorder:
Thomas Morton. treasurer; William E. Knowles
trustee; William Croker, H D. Loyeland F.
W Bilger and J. " Anderson, representatives
10 the imperial council.
In addition TO the above tickets
Howard a. Nauman and Adolph Bolde-
mann are Independent candidates for
representatives 10 the imperial council.
TWO or three others are also expected
10 make independent fights for places
among the representatives.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
BULGARIA IS WILLING
TO INDEMNIFY TURKEY
Notifies Powers Ii VIII Paw
SI6,50O,0O0 for Its Inde-
pendenCe

PARIS. Dec. S.-The Temps this
afternoon publishes dispatch from its
sofa correspondent saying that Bull
gsria has notified the powers of her
willingness to indemnify Turkey in the
sum Of $1,000. 600 for the damage sus-
fsined by the Bulgarian declaration Of
fr7TanrrTanra
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
COURT ORDER CHECKS
NEW EXPRESS TARIFF
Wells, Fargo 6 Co. Restrained
From Putting Higher Rate
Into Effect December 10

,, Inc SUIT against gan WeIis, fargo o,,s, q 20.
court by NJ. s. Kohlberg and other
merchants of the city asking that the
express company be restrained from
putting higher tariff into operation
between New York and California. took
an unexpected turn yesterday when
word was received that the company
had reflled the same rates with the
interstate commerce commission. This
action by the express company simpli
fed the case. and an order restraining
the company from putting the new
rates into effect between December TO-
the time they proposed to make the
change, and December IA, when the
new tariff will be issued by the COM
merce commission, was issued.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
BoYcott Continues

-CONST ANTINOPLE. Dec. S.-Marouis
Fallavicini. the Austro- Hungarian am
be4.ador. has resumed negotiations
W. a view to reaching a direct ar
rahgement with the porte. but the boy
eott against Austrian goods has not
SoS-oott ~ uJ o1 ne ne
luggage of passengers from an AUS
srlan steamer were sunk.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
Baggage Makes the Right Train

Without fail when the moving is left to u.s.
ANY ything moved or forwarded anywhere
THE PACIFIC TRANSFER CO..
SO Ellis st. near Market. Phone Kearny S95
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
Turkey BUYS Ammunition

BERLIN. Dec s.-The Turkish gov
ernment is negotiating for the pur-
chase OF sl.875.000 worth of shrapnel
and infantry ammunition with a Ger
man company at Dusseldorf.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-15
4 Peculiar Well in Florida.

In their investigation Of the wells
and underground waters OF Florida
the biologists of the United States
Geological Survey have noticed many
interesting things. Among these is
we'll at Welaka, on the St. Johns
River. from which two kinds of wa
er are obtained.
This well is 500 i.el deep. Til.,
length Of thecasing $ 10 feet The
we'll was first drilled 160 feet. and
from this depth ordinary sulphur
water was obtained. The we'll was
then garfield to a depth of 309 feet,
where. * encountered strong miner
al wa1e., having disagreeable sa "
taste. In order to use both kinds OF
water an inner tubing was run near
IL to the bottom of the well. Both
this and the outer casing were con-
nected with pumps, so that ordinary
water and mineral water can be
pumped at the same time. A favorite
jkce played on visitors is to give
them a drink of the weaker water IN
re first glass and to replace 1t with
III, brine in the second.
Not more than half a dozen wells
of this kind are known in the coun-
try, but there is no reason why sim
liar wells can not be obtained IN re-
sions where the waters in the upper
strata differ from those lying deeper.
In these Investigations of the wa
ters of Florida the National and
State surveys are cooperating, and
much valuable information has been
gathered during the wnter's work.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-15
Coal Strike in Alabama.
Alabama union miners have called
Tagging Business.

The boast of the Republicans that
their policies have carried the coun-
try safely through the panic, and
that business is rapidly revlvlng,
does not seem to agree with the
facts. For instance, the United
States Cast Iron Pipe Foundry Com
pany, known as the Pipe Trust,
has Just made its report which
shows very disappointing results.
The President of the company says
in his report:
During November, 1907, business
absolutely stopped; the company did
not lose it's business. There was no
business.
when there was added to this
natural condition the depression
which was caused by the panic, the
result was a stagnation such as has
never been known in the history OF
the cast iron pipe business in this
country. Not only was there a ces-
sation of busiress and a sharp fall
in prices in November, but there
was a declining market all through
the winter and early Spring
months"
But the report tries to encourage
the stockholders, although no dlvl-
dend is declared even on preferred
stock, by saying "that with the op-
enjng Of Spring business has i'm
proved" It need hardly be said
that but very small orders would be
an Improvement over the entire
cessation Of business reported.
The other branches Of the steel
and iron business, although not
making quite as disastrous a show
ing are nearly in the same fix. Yet
the Republican platform boasts that
Republican policies have protected
the business Of the country.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-15
SWEPT BY FLAMES.
BOSTON PROPERTY VALUED AT
S1,500,oOO BURNED.
Famed by Stiff Northwest Wind Fire
Races Through Buildings Along
the Harbor's Edge.

Fire believed to have been caused
by spontaneous combustion or a
locomotive spark, and famed by a
brisk northwest wind, swept nearly
a quarter of mile of the harbo:
front of East Boston late Wednesday
causing a property loss estimated at
nearly s1,500,000. Much of the loss
falls upon the Boston & Albany rail-
road. One person is reported miss
ing and it is thought that he perish
ed in the flames. He is Daniel Sulli
van. a watchman at the Cunard line
pier.
The fire was the biggest and most
destructive that has broken out along
the ha Dor front for many years.
The flames spread with remarkable
rapadity and by the time the first fire
fighting apparatus arrived on the
scene they were beyond control and
leaping from pier to pier.
Within an hour of the time the
fire was discovered four piers, their
warehouses, a grain elevator con-
tanning 10000 bushels of grain and
many loaded freight cars had been
destroyed.
Several vessels and lighters mar
rowly escaped destruction. The big
Leyland line steamer Devonian.
which arrived from Liverpool. was
moored at one of the piers which
was destroyed. The discipline on
the Devonian was so excellent, how
ever, that she was warped out into
the stream without even having a
square inch Of paint blistered. Less
fortune were the British bark Bel
mont of Yarmouth, n. S., and the
schooners Paul Palmer, fve-mast-
ed craft, and the o. H. Brown. a
four-masted schooner. The Belmont
was moored by steel cables to the
pier where the fire started. So quick
/ ly did the flames envelope the wharf
and warehouses that it was impossl-
BILE to slip the cables from the
mooring posts, and it was necessary
to resort to the tedious process OF
cutting half dozen more Of the
great wire ropes.
By the time the Belmont was got
ton out tn stream, the paint had
been burned off her hull, her cabin
had been practically destroyed, her
liee boats charred and ruined, and
her spars, sails and rigging badly
burned. The Palmer escaped with
slight damage to her fore topsail
and fore rigging, while the rigging,
sails and spars on the forward par'
of the Brown were badly charred.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-15
TIE CURIOUS INK FISH.
Ehe Vcracious Seaman Relates Some
of its Wonderful Doings.

"You talk about fights with sharks
and sighting sea serpents," said
Third Officer Carl Ducks, of the Ger
man steamship Allegheny, as ne
leaned over the chart table. DO
you see that spot on the map in the
Bay of Bengal? Well, we were be-
calmed there for week when / was
working before the mast on the full
rigged ship Arethusa ten years ago.
There had not been as much as
breath of air stirring for a week ano
all of us lay around respondent anc
hopeless, for the Bay of Bengal Is
Lot the happiest place in the world to
be becalmed in.
1.-The skipper had no orders to
give, so didn't give any, and no one
of US In the fo'cs'le knew what to do
with himself. On tie seventh day
when this idleness got on our nerves
and we were lazily drifting with the
currents, the man at the wheel sud-
denly discovered that the Aretnusa
vas being pushed over to port, not
withstanding that he had his wheel
hard over endeavoring to keep the
vessel in straight course.
None of US could understand 1t,
for there did not seem to be as much
as a small current in the sea and
there surely was not a puff OF Wlno
in the tapping canvas.
Suddenly Metzger, the bos' 'un,
leaned over the starboard rail for
ward and pointed excitedly to the
water below. All Of us ran to him
and there dimly visible and almost
entirely submerged, was huge lnA-
fish close to our starboard side.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-15
RECLUsE FOR FIFTY YEARS.
French Woman Grieyed for Husband
Who Died on Wedding Day.

For fifty years No. 10, Boulevard
Poisoniere. in Paris, a house Of four
stories. has been closely shuttered.
and yet it has been continuously in
habited. Servants were seen to en-
ter and leave the building and the
ether day it was dressed in the black
and silver trappings which usher
frances citizens 70 their last resting
place.
Nine. de Provigny, its occupant for
fifty years, was dead. She was an
old lady of seventy, and for the last
half century she lived in that closed
md shuttered house without news
paper. without an open book. With
out a flower, and without a word to
her from any living soul. For fifty
wears Nine. de Provingy wore White
satin. She wore it on her wedding
day and always dressed in white to
the end.
Fifty years ago Nine. de Provingy
died. They had been married IN the
morning, and the young husband
died of applexy an hour after the
ceremony. When sic recovered from
the shock. if. need, she can lie said
ever to have recovered from it. Nine.
IL i'.ovignv had the house shit MP,
Tut she retained .er servants on con-
dition that they were never to con-
front her with a living being and
never to speak to her again. She die
not know the trend of public events
Motor cars were unknown to her
She did not know whether France
was a republic. She had never
heard of the Dreyfus case, OF the
death of Queen Victoria, or any ma
tional or international event. IN hel
ws.i Nice. de Provigny left he'
whole fortune to men and women as'
ed over sixty years Of good charac'
ter. She left a large house in the
country as a home for them and So
900, 900 for its support.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-15
Hryan's Strength.

According to our view, Bryan's
phenomenal strength in the Demo
cratic conver ton, now admitted by
his opponents as overwhelming, has
been due to great popular demand
for him on the part of the rank and
file of the Democracy; but this view
is questioned by persons as entitled
to their opinion as we are, and pos
sibly as well informed upon matters
pert, ining to politics. Many of
these claim Bryan worked for the
nomination and the result is due to
persistant effort upon his part. If
it is, he is oi.e of the greatest polit-
ical leaders this country has ever
produced: for, in the face Of the
protests of the greatest papers Of
his own party, and the persistent eff
forts of its brainest leaders and
cleverest politicians, he has swept
everything iwfore him. If he can
do that and yet do it so quietly as
hardly to b. noticed in the doing of,
what will be theresult when he gets
before the country for the election?,
Parker has fought his nomination,
but declares he will be for him if
nominated and believes he will win,
Ridder has fought his nomination
and will fight it to the last; but will
be for him, if nominated. johnson
has fought his nomination fairly
and openly; but will be for him if
nominated. And so will Gray, even
if he will not accept the Vice Presi-
Dental nomination. Some man in
Georgia, whose name escapes us,
says he will not notify him, if he IS
nominated, and DR.. McElway, Of
Brooklyn, can not surrender the
right of the tail to wag the dog and
will oppose MIN under any and all
conditions. But these two will not
hurt him seriously--Columbia Rec
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-15
Newspaper Folk.

The hundred newspaper men ans
women gathered at Gaffney are repre-
sentatives of that which is best and
noblest in South Carolina. The
gathering is thoroughly repre-
sentative. Not all the newspaper
workers in the State are here and the
pity is that more are not here to
ioin in the pleasures that have been
provided; to talk shop and enjoy a
brief and needed rest.
No people on earth deserve a
chance to get away from the "ever-
lasting grind than do these men
and women who day after day toll
to provide the news.
DR.. Lodge said that he thanked
God that there was not single vel
low journal in South Carolina; this
was simply saying that there is not
dishonorable or unclean newspaper
published in all Carolina. 1t may
be more renumerative to publish a
sensational sheet" but that is not
the sort of journalism that is prac-
ticed in this proud old State-and
| will never be.
| Newspapers workers deserve ap'
probation and they are receiving II
more and more every day. It is
largely because people are better in.
iorL.ed because they read more an0
because they see results Of conserVa'
tive and well directed journalism.
TIL rewards of the real newspa
ner man are not what they shoulc
be, but that will come too, in due
time. An independent and self-re
specting press is the surest way tt
receive just appreciation.-Gaffne1
Ledger.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-15
BREAK IS MADE,
OUR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
WITH VENEZUELA AND.
Senior VeIoz-Goiticoa Notifies Secre-
tary Bacon That His Government
Orders the Legation Closed.

A dispatch from Washington on
Thursday says the diplomatic rela-
tons between America and Venezuela
that have existed uninterruptedly for
more than half century, though in
recent years severely strained, were
Thursday completely severed. That
afternoon Senor VelZo-Goiticoa, the
Venezuelan charge d'affaires, called
at the state department at Washing
ton by appointment to present to
Acting Secretary Bacon notice from
his government that he was to quit
his post here, close up the Venezue-
Ian legation in Washington and re-
pair to Venezuela.
The charge explained to the acting
secretary-that the action of the state
department in withdrawing Jacob
Sleeper. the American charge, from
Caracas and in closing up its lega-
rion there made it necessary for his
government to take similar action
in the case of it's own legation in
Washington.
Just what took place between Act
ing Secretary Bacon and the charge
can not be known beyond the fact
that the latter presented his letters
of recall. He made no demand for
his passports, nor could he do so
consistently. in view of the fact that
Foreign Minister Paul had declined
issue such passports to the Amerl-
can charge when he withdrew from
Caracas, on the ground that there
was no necessity for passports, the
country being in profound peace and
his person not being threatened in
any way.
senor Veloz-Goiticoa did communl-
cate to Mr.. Bacon the fact that the
files and papers OF the Venezuelan
legation would be placed in the Gus
tody of Senor Jacobo Pimental, the
Venezuelan consul general in Ne"
York. This statement is regarded
IS an indication that the Venezue-
Ian government will follow the pre-
cedent established by the United
States in refraining from interfering
with trade by closing the consulates
notwithstanding the branch in dlplo'
matte relations.
It ispointed out by officials who
have followed closely the develop
ments in the Venezuelan situation
that there is not the slightest danger
of war in the immediate future OF
indeed at all. Rather will the situa
ton resemble that following the
rupture of diplomatic relations be-
tween France and Venezuela, for In
stance, where legations were closee
on both sides and all official relation:
terminated while trade between the
two countries continued. The histor!
of these episodes in the case Of Vene
zuela is very much alike. Senor We
loz-Goiticoa's withdrawal follows
that of Minister Russell as diploma
tic representative of the Unltet
States to Venezuela about two month";
ago and that of Mr.. Sleeper, thu
secretary OF the legation, and Lieut.
:! Ruggles, the military attache, abou
two weeks since The reason for thu
withdrawal of the American Legation
at Caracas arose from the perslsten
refusal of Venezuela to give redress
for the governmental action b.
which all American interests II
Venezuela were either destroyed O.
confscated, or to submit the claim
of American citizens to arbitration.