sea WILD PANIC IN ' EUCK IS FORMED TO STANDARD 0! LEJB $ THE Of 1 IH CO, SAN FRANCISCO Powder Explosion Across the Bay Causes People to Believe Town Was Visited by Earthquake. Thousands of People Become Panic Stricken and Stampede, a Number Being Tramped Upon and Injured by the Frightened Crowd. San Francisco. An explosion which occurred Satmday morning in the Dupont powder works at Sobranto on the bay shore north of Berkeley, caused a panic and the Injury of a number of people In this city. When the explosion was heard by the thousand employes of the California Fruit Cannery association, who were at work in the big establishment of the company at the foot of Van Ness avenue, they thought it was caused by an earthquake and made a mad rush to escape to the streets. During the stampede a number of persons were thrown down and trampled upon. So far as is known no one was killed, but many were badly hurt. Several ambulances were at once sent to the scene and all the aid possible was extended to the Injured. the The main crush occurred It) main hallway of the building Into which nearly all of the 500 women employes rushed. Those below somehow slammed the heavy doors leading to the street and the hundreds of women who threw themselves headlong down the stairs were crushed again the barred and bolted exit. Not until Lieutenant Wright arrived with j squadron of patrolmen were the doors opened and the women allowed to reach the street. SHRINKAGE IN VALUES. The Bankers Magazine Will Print a ' Startling Story. London. The next Issue' of the Bankers' Magazine will print a table telling the tale of millions evaporated on the stock exchange by the depreciation of securities of all grades and of all varieties, which the editor likens to a "survey of a district afflicted by the devastating calamity." For August the decline in 387 representative stocks reached the stagThis gering total of f680.000.000. makes an aggregate of 11,725,000,000 since the beginning of the year, of which $565,000,000 is In American railroad BhareB, $240,000,000 in British funds and $180,000,000 In English railstocks. . Judged way and ordinary purely from a percentage basis, however, the most serious losses have been In the South African market, averaging 25 per cent. As regards the month Itseir, the table indicates that American railroad securities are far In the front, with a ' THUNDERSTORMS AND LIGHTNING Eight Hundred People a Year Killed in United States. Washington. An average of 800 people are killed in the United States each year by lightning, according to data collected by the weather bueau. This means that about one In each 100,000 of population Is killed it that manner. The belt of most numerous visitations includes all of Florida, except the southermost tip, the lower edges of Georgia and the southeastern corner of Alabama. In that belt an average of forty-fivthunderstorms a year is experienced. The zone of next greatest frequency Includes the more northern parts of Gebrgia and Alabama, and Its annual average Is forty storms. e Refuse to be Held up and Are Shot by Highwaymen. Billings, Mont. Four men were shot, one fatally and one maimed for at Hunt-ley- , life in an attempted hold-uon the government townsite on the recently opened Huntley project. one American Six Finlanders and box car In a were sleeping awakened when by an order to hold up their hands. The Fins re fused. The robbers opened fire. Three Fins and oue robber were wounded The latter was captured but his com pankm escaped. Will Effect a Thorough Reform In the Land System and Establish New System of Judic ary and Police. New have York. Arrangements The details of Marquis Itos of the been for organization completed of Korea the conduct plans regatding under Japanese control are unknown, a $50,000,000 American syndicate, acbut the fundamental points are be- cording to an announcement published Monday,, which plans to develop sevlieved to consist fn effecting a reform In the land system which eral million acres of oil lands in Mexiis now in a chaotic condition, and also co. The purpose is to ship the prothe establishment of a new system of duct to Central and South America, aljudiciary and police on the Japanese so to Europe and Africa, to compete plan. These measures will naturally with the Standard Oil company. The syndicate will take over the be considerable of a drain on the Japanese treasury. It is thought that Mexican Petroleum company, which In 1902 Marquis Ito plans to ask an extra an- was organized in California a million owns and approximately nual outlay of a little over 1,000,000 of states the in oil lands acres of a of five for Those yen years. period PntosL Luis San Vera Cruz, well informed are confident that with More than a hundred gushers are rea reform effected In the land system on this property, with the oil ported Koreas revenues will Increase remarksame grade as that of the southofthe lu inconveniencthe without least ably eastern Texas fields. ing the present taxpayers in the next thoi-oug- h five years. With Koreas financial independence assured, It is more than likely that loans will be floated with Japans guarantee. Marquis Ito by his usual tact has now apparently won over the powerful poiltii fans to his side and consequently no opposition will he raised at Friday's council meeting. It Is also expected that his plans will pass the next diet without much opposition. WILL APPEAL TO POWtRS. Persia Will Ask England and Russia to Stop Turkich Atrocities. the Constantinople, Replying to Persian complaints regarding the last violations of the frontiers by Turks, the porte blames the Kurds, hut it is certain that. Turkish troops supported the Kurds, who, as always, committed great atrocities. Persia will again apply to England and Russia to intervene and put an end to this dangerous situation. News from the Persian frontier is contradictory, but there is no doubt that the Incident in the Suj Bulak district was of a serious character. The Turkish official version states that the officer commanding a detachment of 100 men which has been stationed for four months at Mergrovar, a disputed frontier town, received Intelligence that the Persian commander, Medjlss Saltana. with regular troops, 1.000 Persian auxiliaries, and 400 Armenian revolutionaries, was preparing to deliver an attack. He consequently applied for reinforcements, and two hatalllons of Infantry and one battery of artillery were sent from Van. Ths Persians subsequently made an attack, but were repulsed with heavy losses, the Armenians, particularly among many of whom were captured. Resolution Presented at Meeting of Bar Association Is Tabled. A resolution Portland criticising President Roosevelt for commenting upon the trial of the beef trust case in Chicago a year ago and adversely criticising the presiding judge and his rulings was introduced at the final session of the American Bar association by George Whitlock of Baltinfore. It met Instant disapproval from all parts of the hall. President Parker repeatedly asked Whitlock to withdraw his resolution, but Whitlock insisted that It be voted on. A motion to table the resolution prevailed. Our Trade With Washington. Acebrding to official figures, the trade of the United States with the countries In the fiscal year just euded aggregated more than $600,000,000, against I.atin-Ameriea- $231,-000,00- 0 in 1807 In Latin-Amerlcn- n countries are included British Honduras, British and Dutch Guiana, anl the West Indian Islands under British, Dutch and Danish control. The Imports In from the same countries 1907 amounted to $350,000,000, against in 1897, having thus a little more than doubled during the decade. $155,-000,00- 0 Runyan Puts Blame on Lady Friend. New York. Chester B. Runyan, former paying teller, who stole nearly 5100.000 from the Windsor Trust company, told the court on Wednesday the story of his downfall, and attributed It chiefly to Laura Chester, who ho charged with receiving some of the stolen money. Having taken some money for the purpose of speculation and Vist, he said she urged him to take more so as to "have enough for yourself." Runyan said he gave her $10,000 besides several smaller sums. Of the amount stolen $25,000 is still South Dakota Blue Law Which Would missing. Prevent Flirting. Mexico and United States in Accord. Highmore, S. D. The common conu Washington. Acting Secretary of ell has passed an ordinance prohibiting State Adee announces that Presidents male and female persons from loiter- Roosevelt and Diaz are now in entire ing on the steps of any church, publiG accord concerning the future of Cenbuilding or doorway of any store for tral America and the settlement of the the purpose of visiting, eating candy disputes between the five republics. 5r peanuts, or loitering in the streets, This Is takeu to mean that the United States and Mexico have formulated a alleys or vacant lots, or any other places for the purpose of flirt- joint note to the Cntral American reing in the evening. It will be unlaw-,- u publics inviting them to hold a confor parents or guardians or other ference with a view to agreeing upon persons having minors under their a treaty Insuring. permanent peace. Th Impression is that all five expressed charge to violate this ordinance. readiness to enter, such a conference. Pearl Harbor Needs Widening, DeepIowa Women Use Tar and Feathers ening and Straightening. on Drunkards. Honolulu. At a meeting of & reprela. men Bayard, Finding that the offcalled Rear sentative busiqpss by Admiral Very, resolutions were adopted icials were slow to act, a Law and Orleclaring that the deepening, widen- der League, composed of women and ing and straightening of Pearl harbor girls, was recently organized here to enchannel wras an Imperative comenial force the law. An ultimatum was Isnecessity to both the territory of Ha- sued that tar would be applied to all waii and the United States. Contracts common drunkards, and last Sunday 0 night six offenders were picked up, have been made in Baltimore for tons of coal to be delivered at paraded through the streets, and then Last week the Honolulu for the navy. Of this amount tarred and feathered. 25.000 tons will be carried in foreign league tarred a man as a warning, but It had no effect so a wholesale crubcttonxs. sade was started p ob-jcu- re 40,-00- HERMIT OF OSCEOLA DYING. Pioneer of Nevada Supposed to be Son of John C. Breckenridge. Ely, Nev. Patiently waiting for the final summons, John Breckenridge, sn octogenarian, Is lying at the county hospital, steadiiy refusing to disclose his history. Although one of the pioneers of White Pine county, little Is known of him, but It is believed he Is a son of John C. Breckenridge, the famous Kentucky statesman of the days. Breckenridge came here forty years ago, and since that time has been a recluse, living most of his life In a squalid cabin near Osceola. Of fine stature and magnetic charcter he has avoided contact with his neighbors, and until a year ago boasted but one friend. That friend was John Winner, a saloonkeeper, after whose death the old man tolerated no visitors. He has never received mall nor sent any, and never permitted any one to question him as to the past. anti-bellu- TAKES SLAP AT UNCLE SAM. Venezuelan Paper Intimates That United States Protects Adventurers. Caracas, Venezuela. El Constitutional, the government organ, commenting on the $5,000,000 fine assessed against the New York and Bermu-des- e Asphalt company, for complicity In the Matos rebellion, after stating that the evidence against the company was taken Inostly from the fl ords of cases tried in the United States, sayB editorially: It now remains to be seen If the state department (American) , will , again convert itself into the protect-defender and tutor of adventurers who have confessed their guilt and who are legitimately chastised by the legisiv tures of all civilized nations, including the United States, In which coving try there abound sentences perfectly analagous to that now pronounced against the guilty company by the Venezuelan court, WORK OF INVADING TURKS. Persian Women and Children Slaugt tered and Property Destroyed. Teheran. General Dowich and other officials, according to reports received here, have been captured and afterward were killed by Invading Turks. Many Inoffensive Persian villagers, Including women and children, were slaughtered, women carried off and property destroyed. Turkish regulars with artillery were within four miles of Urumiah on the fifteenth, and continue to occupy Persian territory. Turks are reported to have occupied Merlvan, Persian Kurdestan. The Inhabitants telegraphed that If the government was powerless, the people must beg Russia to assist them. Burned to Death 'in Hotel Fire, of Boise, Idaho. R. N. Jenkins Rockville, Idaho, was burned to death, four persons were Injured and one is missing as the result of a fire which destroyed the Commercial hotel at Caldwell early Monday morning. The overturning of a lamp is thought to be the cause of the fire, which for a time threatened to wipe out the entire business portion of the town. Volunteer firemen, after hours of work, got the flames under control. Besides the Commercial hotel, several other buildings were burned. The loss is $10,000. Fell Over 300 Foot Precipice. San Diego, Cal. Word has been re- ceived of the sudden and tragic death of Miss Eugenia Goold, formerly ol this city. She was with a camping party near Howard, Colo., and while climbing the side of a canyon the earth gave. way and she fell over 30G feet, her body bounding from cliff to cliff, until' it lodged behind a boulder far below. The body was recovered with difficulty. Miss Goold while In this city was an active member of the Baptist church, and was highly Steamer Sinks a Tug. Md. The British steamer Barnstable ran Into and sank the Baltimore, s tug Gerry, towing mud scows off Point. Five members of the crew of the dredge Standard, Including the captain, who was returning with the Standard from the city, were men were Twenty-fiv- e drowned. aboard the tug. Six clambered up the side of the steamer by the anchor chain. The remainder were rescued by the steamers boat or swam to the dredge. The cause of the accident was a confusion of signals. Par-row- PRESIDENT SMALL OPTIMISTIC IS CAPTURED Congress Will be Asked to Authorize the Construction of Four more Fighting Machines. Massachusetts Congressman Says Ws Must Make up Our Minds That it is Necessary to Maintain a Large Fleet in the Pacific. New York. Congressman Roberts, of Massachusetts, 'who, with other members of the naval committee, Investigated the needs of the Brooklyn navy yards, makes the statement that the trip of the battleships via Magellan Is for tactical reasons hlone. We all believe the Suez route the easier and cheaper, said Roberts, "but going by the hard route will determine some of our needs In the Pacific, particularly In the matter of coaling stations. I have not the slightest doubt that a million dollars will be used up In the Pacific route, but if naval tacticians wish to determine certain things now Is the time. Representatives Foss, chairman of the naval committee, said the committee would probably ask congress to of four authorize the construction more battleships. He said: We may as well make up our minds now that It is necessary to maintain a large fleet in the Pacific. Our interests on that coast are too great to do otherwise. BATTLESHIPS FOR THE PACIFIC. Admiral Evans is Busy With Details of the Trip. Washington. Details for the government of the great battleship fleet around the South American continent are being systematically, developed aboard Admiral Evans flagship, the Connecticut, and at the navy department, where, by the presidents order, the various bureaus are now authorized to execute plans for the fleets movements. It Is settled that the battleships, or at least a number of them, will go to Puget sound. Tne number will be determined by the capacity of the sound to accommodate them. The battleships carry only 120 fathoms of anchor chain and most of the water there Is more than sixty fathoms deep, so as .safe practice requires that the chains be not less than three times the of the water only a few ves-cabe accommodated near Bremerton at once. n KING OF PACKERS DEAD. Came to United States a Poor Boy and Became Captain of Industry. Chicago Nelson Morris, head of the his concern bearing big packing name, died here Tuesday of heart disease and a complication of kidney trouble. He came to Chicago from Germany when a hoy of twelve years and did not rest until he found employment. He got it in the stock yards at $5 a month. He burned the carcasses of dead horses, rows, and hogs thrown aside and sold the grease. His wages for the year amounted to $60, and at the end of tjfe first twelve months young Morris had $35, which he had saved. He was one of the most loved of all rich men in America, for his heart was always tender and he was ever ready to help a person In need. - Nelson Morris has started hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young men in business, and helped them make success. Long Chase AMERICAN n IRELANDS OPPORTUNITY. Forward to War. . lord mayor The Fontency, Belgium of Dublin on Sunday unveiled the monument erected to commemorate the bravery of the Irish brigade in the battle of Fontency in 1745 in the presence of 300 Irish visitors, the local authorities ani the clergy. The monument was presented to the town by various societies. Frank Sullivan of San Francisco, in replying to the toast, Gael, asked that "The Ireland be patient and await the inevitable war between America and Japan for control of the Pacific. He declared that Irishmen should not enter the British army or navy. Frank Looks Sullivan American-Japanes- e d FLAG. MINERS OUT. Ninety-fiv- New York. S. J. Small, president of the Commercial Union of Telegraphers, arrived In New York Sunday morning from the west. Speaking of the strike situation, he sid: We have full 93 per cent of all tha commercial telegraphers In the United States on strike. This applies to small and large cities. Thousands of one-maoffices are closed, and the the doors are in possession to keys of city officials, to be turned over to the Inspectors of the company when they arrive. We have started to raise a large fund tw-- of them In fact. One of these is for the benefit of the strikers, and the other to be expended in propaganda work in favor of government control of the telegraph. Although the call for funds has only been out for a few days, manv remittances were received before I left Chicago and, strange to say, as much was received for the campaign fund as for the benefit of Much has been published about arbitration, but the cry from, coast to coast is No arbitration. Commission Bars Filipinos From Using Any Other Emblem. Manila. At a mass meeting of 3,090 Americans, resolutions were adopted protesting against indignities to the American flag and congratulating the Philippine commission on the enactment of a drastic law prohibiting the display of any ensign except the American In the Philippines. The resolutions also Invite the Filipinos to join with the Americans in making the policy of the Philippine commission successful. Among those who delivered addresses at the meeting was Congressman McKinlay. The new law prohibits., under heavy penalties, the public display of any flag other than the American, except those of recognized foreign nations. It is believed here that the law was passed by direction of the president and secretary of war. The Filipinos nationalist .party nas adopted resoluti f.e disclaiming any intention of showing disrespect to the flag and affirming its loyalty to the American government. GOLDFIELD e Per Cent of Out and' Will tay Out Until They Win. That Operator-Ar- Los Angeles.' With the arrest of four Mexicans here Friday afternoon the revolutionary movement which under the name of La Junta has for three years been a source of endless trouble and annoyance to the administration of President Diaz is conceded to have been stamped out. The men In custody have been hunted through the western half of the United States, Into Canada, along the Mexican border, until the pursuit grew 69 hot that they were unable to venture out of doors In the day time. When finally overpowered In an obscure section of this city, the cries for assistance induced a crowd of several hundred people to pursue the carriage in which three of them were being transported. Excited countrymen threatened to mob the officers, calling them kidnapers and assassins. The men under arrest are Richardo Flores Magoe, president of the junta, for whose arrest the Mexican government is said to have offered a reward of $20,000; LIberado Rivera, the secretary; Modesto Dias, editor of La Revolution, one of the four papers published by the junta, and Antonio L. Vilareal. The latter Is said to have escaped from jail in El Paso while awaiting deportation on charges connected with the iacipient revolution in Cananea about two years ago. It is believed that the Mexican government, under whose orders the detectives have been acting, will make Bvery effort to secure possession of the "And In this case, revolutionists. aid a prominent Mexican citizen, "they ivill be shot as soon as they set foot on Mexican soil. MUST USE TO TELEGRAPHERS' STRIKE C'zima- - Throughout the United States and Canada, Opponents to Diaz Are in Jail. After a An American Company Being Organized to Develop Millions of Acres of Oil Lands In Mexico, Tokio. MEM AN OUTBREAK IN ARGENTINE. Chief of Police Was Leader of Short Lived Insurrection. Buenos Ayres. A local revolution broke out in the city of San Luis, capital of the province of San Luis, a town of 11,000 inhabitants situated about 140 miles southeast of Buenos Ayres. The chief of police was the leader of the insurrection and the government and other provincial authorities wero made prisoners. The insurrectionists immediately chose a new governor, named Adaro, and installed him In office. News from San Luis received Sunday, reports that complete quiet has been restored and further disturbances are not anticipated. Vines Close Down bn Account chinists Strike. of Ma- Butte. The big Gagnon, Never-sweand West Stewart mines and crosscut have been the Daly-Davi-s forced to close down by the machinists strike. Business men are be coming alarmed at the possibilities of the strike on the part of the machinists. It is feared that other mines may follow the example of the properties mentioned and shut down as fast as the machinery becomes unfitted for use. Both the unions and the mining companies- show no sign of weakening. at ' Owners Declare Other Union Miners Will be Given Work. Goldfield, Nev. The miners employed on the Mohawk mine, who walk-- ' ed or', because of dissatisfaction with the change room requirements, are still out. General Manager Finch of the Consolidated says the men are violating one of the main provisions of the agreement between the mine owners and the Western Federation of Miners, and that if they do not return t work their places will be filled HITCHCOCKS ORDER REVERSED. by other union miners. The men .claim they were humiliated and subjected to The local Administration Determined to Punish the gaze of spectators. union has taken the matter miners the Guilty, But Not Innocent up, and if possible a settlement of the The interior depart- difficulty wiH be remedied in a few Washington. ment is revoking the orders of Secre- days. thousands tary Hitchcock, Schiff Doesnt Blame Teddy. of public land Lj.ries in the west, New York. Jacob Schiff says to and as soon as possible all entries where proof is complete and against blame the administration for the presboth difficulties is which no charges are pending will ent financial Hundreds of thoughtless and unjust. Schiff attribo passed to patent. thousands of acres were tied up by butes the crisis to too rapid railroad, Secretary Hitchcocks orders of sus- industrial and commercial developpension and there is not a single word ment, and says we must remember the files of the departof evidence In the e war and San Francisment to justify his action in a great co earthquake destroyed an enormous majority of the cases. The present amount of wealth which sooner or administration is as determined as land thieves, later must make Itself felt. Insufficient Hitchcock to punish aut does not propose to punish the attention has been given to the fact that both Japan and China have eninnocent along with the guilty. tered into competition for the world's surplus capital. CASE OF VILLAREAL. Another Junket to the Isthmus of Panama Proposed by Tawney. on Washington. An examination the ground of the estimates for the appropriations for continuing work on the Panama canal, submitted by Secretary Taft for the fiscal year of 1909, Is to be made by members of the next congress, who will have charge of the preparation of the sundry civil bill, in which the appropriation for the canal is incorporated. NATIVES COST LESS. So Government Will Hire Filipinos to Keep Islands in Shape. Washington. Inquiry at the war department on a report from Japan that the authorities plan to increase the troops in the Philippines by adding thirteen regiments of natives, shows the story originated in a recommendation by General Mills, department of Cisayas, that the scout force be increased by fifty companies. The recommendation is due to the desire to reduce expenses, natives costing less than American soldiers. Russo-Japanes- Marquis Ito Praised for Downfall of Taft Advises Oklahomans to Reject Constitution. Korean Government. Department of State. Oklahoma into this Tokio. Itos City. Secretary Taft, in Marquis entry Washington. Villareal, the alleged a occasion was made the the Saturday night in convention speech by city held at is Mexican revolutionist, being advised the citito hall him to a demonstration of 1,000 people, give Los Angeles awaiting the action of public success in con- zens of Oklahoma and Indian Territory of his its appreciation has He authorities. the immigration new convention with Ko- to reject the constitution recently been In the United States more than cluding the by the convention at Guthrie, three years and cannot be returned rea. This convention is considered to adopted and declared the next congress would be a surrender by Korea of its aut to Mexico except for some, special emphaVillareal will probably be dis- aomlcal authority to Japan. The im- pass a new enabling act.wasTaft not represized the fact that he charged from custody unless the Mexi- perial carriage escorted by mounted can government requests through the police was sent to meet the Mar- senting President Roosevelt; thatin the no expressed are his own, and state department that he be sent to quis, and he Immediately proceeded to views sense Inspired by the presidenL Mexico. the palace to report to the emperor. to Infernal Machine for Cortelyou. Roosevelt Discusses Proposed Cruise. Brother of Sultan Has Been Called Throne. the of The explosion Philadelphia. Oyster Bay. Plans of the prospected Tangier. A courier from Morocco what appears to have been a large cruise of the battleship fleet to the confirms the reports that the addressed In City, a were discussed Pacific package Friday by reppercussion cap to Secretary of the Treasury George resentatives of the navy department brother of the sultan had been proB. Cortelyou, created excitement In with President Roosevelt, who had as claimed sultan August 16. After anof the Philathe Nicetown nouncing by a salute of four guns his The guests at luncheon Assistant Secretary delphia postoffice on Tuesday. Brown-soassumption of the throne he ImmediAdmiral of the Newberry, Navy package, which was collected from a of the navigation bureau. Will ately formed a court The influence box In the northern section of the of commander the Atlantic of the former sultan in the south de-is Evans, Clerk Roberta, city, was received by of Indian A- disappearing and Mulai Hafig has his Commissioner who says It was about four inches squadron, clared his intention to appoint long by two. inches wide. Roberts ffairs Leupp, and Lawrence Graham, brother Mohamme Kalif of Fez and was unhurt. What was In the pack- secretary of Porto Rico. Mr. Leupp then proceed to take command of the age, aside from the explosive, tha recently completed an extended inves- Moorish forces besieging Casablanca. west. in affairs not Indian the of officials will say. Mexico Must Make Request Through rea-Bo- sub-statio- n n tigation