Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 15, 1912, Page 1

Publlshed in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. SULTY” 1S JURY’S VERDICT| .. RTSON CONVICTED OF | ™\ ks the motives rGHTER—WILL BE (ED THURSDAY. Lan. 1a.-—The jury . State of Florida AT u returned a ver- n-thirty yvesterday. <harged with the The six men jury are M. G, 1 M. Futeh, Lake- Auburndale; J. . W, D. Henderson, \. Williams, Bar- paid any m day in Lak the office of he will be a voered that at the freunit court WL ( P M. K. Johnson *od on the charge tor causing the \teade in July last of ourt was called for tv the defendants. granted the motion s attorney for a sev- rtson's trial bega: (By Johnson will be Pittsburg, Lorimer con (rats to bre .oor over on ofiic LORIMER DENIES PAYING MONEY FOR VOTES. Associated Press,) Washington, Jan. 15.-—Se tinued before the s ting committee the which caused | He said none mey, Sheritt Johu Logan i endin lan . having fal business. Mr. | will go before the people again for Sheriff, and we predict winner, ANOTHER PREACHER HAS GONE WRONG of Lakeland. A |Mixed Up With Death Of Young Girl, Though He's Old Enough To Know Better. Associated Press.) Pa., Jan. 15.—Di the deadlock for him for United States Senator. He erated the declaration that man who voted for him, did so for personal friendship. to “break 10 beat ex-Senator Al- bert Hopkins, nator demo- reit- every ¢ the was g the come | gan '|NO CAUSE FOR ALARM, HOWEV- LAKELAHD FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUABY 15, 1912, COLD WEATHER YET CONTINUES ER. AS DANGER POINT IS NOT NEAR. | " : I'he present cold weather is net yet fover, as reports from the Weather il!urunu bring the information that the temperature will fall lower to- night than last night, going as low as freezinz, Thermometers over the varied this morni some regis- terin G odegrees while others went | as low as There was a heavy frost but no i Late yesterds shone for the first time in several days and this morning dawned bright and clear. No damage was done last 1ight o vegetation but Weather Ob- server Wuartz, of Tampa, advises not to relax vigilance and the growers: will do well to protect all tender veg- etation tonight. The packing houses have been do- ing a land-ofice business today, wag- ons filled with the golden fruit hav- ing beepn making trips all day long, the growers being of the opinion that afternoon the sun strict special or regular( sttorney Blakeley ordered the arrest D. McFarland, former Thursday and Friday the introduction of 1l being conducted ~ed doors. of Rev. W. head of the Pittsburg High School, but who is now in charge of the|gip to improve after tonight and that in case a freeze should occur the fruit would look better to them in boxes safely on their way to the northern markets. It is hoped that conditions will be- ¢ sairday was taken up in|United Presbyterian Missions of East |the temperature will not fall lower i« lawyers for the State| Tennessee. fendant. Speech-mak-(Coe made a ‘iiess on the stand, the|tions necessary. He declared Elsie Dodds [than 32 degrees. However, it will statement just before | pay all growers to be on the look-out ten o'clock in the|she died in a local hospital Friday,|and be in readiness to protect all ten- onded at elght o'clock | that the minister was responsible for | der vegetation. + defense having put|her condition which made two opera- If. had the opening|Yyears old and is the father of Miss Coe was his secre- arguments. John J.|daughters. opened for the defense | tary. « speech of one hour and e | DRANE CANDIDATE Iohnson, H. 8. Phillips tary. Then followed vl for the defense by McFarland is 60 two FOR STATE SENATE The speech of Her-| Apnguncement That Will Cause Con- 1= was one of the most 1hing speeches ever court-house at this vch of Thomas Pal- « masterpiece. The catly on the fact that was circumstantial, 1 the jury believed fixed the guilt of nouncement State Senato; nanded to the jail.| gther essent Mr. Drane first citizens ol the verdict the| prigpity of r In this issue of the Evening gram Mr. H. J, Drane makes of his candidacy r from Polk county. not only in poin esidence, but also jals of citizenship, siderable Interest In County Political Circles. Tele- an- for is one of Lakeland's| & ot in the and uainuntil o nextiwould refiect credit upon the county Will be brought|,s & member of the Upper House of It s presumed| pa General son Will make | jarity with ez JAssembly. His trial. I this 0S| wide acquaintance with public 0 the Supreme|ang pis knowledze of State a would combi He has h Various Vegetables Be- ed From State. In due tin - CItrus| form of the king and| .06 ana suntil thefy, o people vegeto- | £ in earnes' ] opening. | uising. Carlots | | had a trying| " g ™ SN the Lakelay ¥ is near- \ e | Jones mads i A g 1o The Tomatoes will ree quantitic . Squask zg- 1ash, €281 g150 in atten vegetables 'Tts from near- State are that a ios this | him for his well speech, red up pectations of his friends | ready learne ne to render him a eld many position e he will publish a iples for whic vill also appear | a more definite w | HIGH SCHOOL HAS NEW PRINCIPAL | d a d to admire and re many splendid tra | marked ability. Prof. Sheat dance, and made reviewing briefly work since coming to Lakeland his feeling of regret that his relations famil- lative procedure, his | men, fairs | most useful man in the important position | p, oot has a r. ad U201 CROPS MOVING, | e secks. trust and responsibility and has al- to the highest ex- h he wfore 1y spect ts and was his and irege is being with the Lakeland High School wer “fore. More sec- potatoes this ious season. i now severed = leaves tonight re he will at-i rrow of the t From | tte m]jvhn Ch candidates nd. From | When her n s Wil v l Wwage a live-| tained a po s friends are very | ing since November 25, and (auied a | that rolled into this depot arrived a{:rs who had never seen a train o( cause their pay was cut to meet a cut | country-wide search. brospects, LOST HEIRESS HAS BEEN FOUND 100, {Meade in time. Since From Tampa Weather Station. Tampa, Jan. 15.—(Special to the Telegram.)—While no damage has vet resulted apparently, Florida is cooled off and another cold wave in the interior with northwest winds locally will carry temperature to freezing tonight in northern and central Florida. Vizilance should| not be relaxed. i WURTZ. SOUTH AMERICAN PRESIDENT FIRED FROM HIS JOB. fated Press) | Buenos Ayres, Jan. 15, - Paraguay- an revolutionists have captured Pres went Rojas and forced him to re- | sign i Frostproot, Fla, Jan. 14 Fr For twenty-five | vears the first family of this commin- ity lived here in faith, waiting tor | this year of 1912, when a railroad | should open up this territory, con- fnecting it with the civilized w | Two other tamilics tollowed thi jone after six years, and one by o1 PAL number ivereased until now most two hundred and fifty peop de here, and others spend the ters her Ei u miles ftrom any ra ind with no « tin date wher would reach us, there has been plar his count a thousand acr s and apefruait Whe on the citrus zoue has muci and enterprise shown forth? Rev. Carson. the first set- is family here, his for- ighbors assured him he would soon starve out and that they would come out and haul him back to Fort then some of »se neighbors have followed the rail and now have fine homes her U'ntil seven efforts had Been mad: tn inject steel rails into the hill coun- try each promoter’'s scheme failed, al- zh about as much jocal work wa inne on each as was required to fin- nger train little later than was scheduled, be-| No. 63. UPHOLDS LAW AS CONSTITUTIONAL SUPREME COURT THAT EMPLOYERS' LIABIL- ITY ACT IS VALID. Associated Press) on, Jan. 150 The consti- tutiovality of the emplovers’ liability S8oin 190N, W i by the Supreme Court of the es in all cases before the 1t was also decided that state Coqrts may enforee that act when lo- Gl laws are appropriate The decision was unanimous, mak- i o complete victory for the Gov ernmient Justice Vandevanter de- clared Congress had the v ulate the relation of interstate rail- roads to th Lo reg- employes. He said pthat Congress had not gone beyond its power hy abrogating common law rule and that an employer was no. | lable for injuries resulting to em- ployes by negligence of fellow-em- ployes NO FRICTION BETWEEN TAFT AND HITCHCOCK. (By Associated Press.) After a conference at the White House it was officially announced that there is no friction between the Postmaster-General and the President. Some (‘ongressmen saw a possible break between the two and Hitchcock aligning himself with those trying to bring about the nomi- nation of Roosevelt. RICHESON HAD THREE HAICB SAY POLICE. Boston, Jan. 14.—The day after Avis Liunell met her death by poison given her by Rev. Clarence V, T. Richeson, the clergyman who was then a guest at the Brooklyn home of his fiance, Miss Violet Edmands, the wrote a letter to another fiance, according to information given out by the police today. This letter was tten to Miss Patsy Felts, of Salt e iCty, who had loaned Richeson [money when he was a poor theolos- | ical student and in it he wrote that |soon, in that very month, he would I be on his way West, where he wouldj | seek a church that he “might preach to thousands instead of hundreds’ Frostproof s First Train Commumty s 3zg Ebent ing 12 o'clock on Friday last. They citizens of Frostproof and vicinity were out to meet the train and o war whoop went up through the torest] and groves as the locomotive seream cd us a sig of its arrival On this train were many passen-| sers, among whom was notod Mro Ko 0. Flood of Lakeland, who has done mich for Frostproof and the railroad, | long with Mr. and Mrs. M. Kelley of Minneapolis, Minn. manager ol the St. Paul basebail clab, Mr. Ed- ward Byron and oti 1 Cronk Lake, Mr, and Mrs. Rabon (hride and om) of nor ¢ On this train wa rom the Wilson- impany, for Ca and 1 fuantity of packazes g zoods for} the local merchants and an organ for F. E. press and freight for this Jacques. The ot sisted of seventy-one packazes and| Loxes. Passengers going out were By courtesy of J. W. Carson | special message wire from the dis- telephon Imnfl patcher and ove Lakeland was delivered 10 announcing the hour of arrival of the xpected train and the 1‘n] dren were cecompanied by th ! Winegord 1o see the i 1 be a lifelonz 3 en all Polk « e the first pa t that depot reatest demor.s memory of the cars before. DECLARES | nocon-| PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR LEE'S BIRTHDAY. Under the direction of Miss Annie | Browning, President of the Dauzh-| ters of the Confederacy, preparations are going forward for the celebration [ Friday of General k. K. Lee's birth- day. Hon, Herbert S, Phillips, of Tam- pa, has been eng address of the da contribute to the oratory of the oeea ion, rendering it oa very pleasant ntindeed. The colehration will and others will (* cather is favorabic, not it wit ‘wlu' held in the Odd fows™ Hall | The exercizes will begin promptly at |2 o'clock, TVEITMOE DECLARES HIS INNOCENCE In His Annual Report Labor Official Denies Complicity in Dynamite Plots. Fresno, Cal., Jan. 0. A Tveitmoe, secretary and treasurer of the State Building Trades Council, under indictment for dynamiting non-union works, in his annaul re- port, read to the meeting of Coun- cil, declared his innocence in regard to the National dynamiting conspir- acy. He also defended other accused men, U. D. C. BENEFIT. The State Theater will give pro- ceeds of Tuesday night's entertain- ment for the benefit of the Monu- ment and Lakeland Band. Jvery member s requested to help give the Star people a packed house. MISS ANNIE BROWNING, President U, D. ¢, GOVERNMENT TO OWN WIRES Hitchcock's Proposed Recommenda- tion Creates Profound Sensation At Washington, (By Associated Press.) Cashington, Jan, 15, - Postmas- { ter-General Hitcheock, who last night announced that he would propose | rovernment ownership of wire com- panies, was sommoned to the White 3 Honse [ ved the otticials of Washington to the [utmost and s said to have cansed surprise at the White House, This wis evident when efforts were made ').n\l night to recall the announce- jment. The effort did not come fror. His announcement has stir Pressure may be made making thi | Hitehcork 1o have him refrain [ recommendation 10 Congress. Con- gressmen and Senators are greatly Lintereated (By Associated Presso New York, Jan. 150 The an vouncement that Postmaster-General Hiteheork is about to recommend th government ownership of the tele plione and telezraph, is vecoived with irprise by oflicias of 1ie companic A bolt frem a reky,” said Theo dore Vail, President of the America Pelephone and Telezraph Cong and the Western Union. e de that he doubted the conld ran the busing SHIPPING STRAWBERRIES. Galloway, Jan. 11 We had a lot of rain and a cold suap the latter part of last week. The ground was Kobert Duncan and mother, bound | Wet avd but little harm was done "tor Tampa for a few days outing Strawberry shipments have increased, however, and nine refrigerators were shipped last Friday + STRIKING OPERATIVES STILL MAKE TROUBLE Ope in working time. d o deliver ahe |take place ip Munn Park it thej {the wint ARCADIA HAS FEARFUL TRAGEDY | W. D.. ROBINSON SHOOTS FATHER- IN-LAW AND IS IN TURN SHOT DOWN. roadia, Jan ' Incensed be- catse o voung man called to see Mrs, from whom he had been arated for six months, W . Moore this alternoon gquarreled with Lis wite's father, | 1. Robinson, shot him three times throngh the body, intlic o tatal wounnds, and was in turn Killed by ) F Robinson, his brother-in-law. Young ohn Lawrence Robinson was wounded but not sevi- ously About one year azo Moove, who is aomerchant of Arcadia, mavied the daughter of the elder Robinson, They lived together until six months ago when Mrs, Moore returned to her father's home. Yester Robinson and Moore met downtown and were together several hours, finally going to the Robinson home for dinner. It was hoped by the father that his daughter and her husband would be brought together and their troubles settled, After the meal was over and the men were smoking and talking over family affairs, a young man, whose identity is being concealed by the family, called to see Mrs. Moore. The husband is said to have been drink- ing and he immediately became quar- relsome against the family. ‘The el- der Robinson attempted to pacify him, but he heaped insults upon the family until the father-in-law or- dered him to leave the house and never return. 1t was at this point that Moore be- gan to shoot and before he could be stopped had fired three bullets into the trunk and abdomen of the elder man. Young Robinson procured =« pistol as quickly as possible and emp- tied the gun at Moore, killing him @ most instantly, but as he fired, Moore also fired at him, inflicting painful but not fatal wounds. The young v had called to Mrs. Moore left during the trouble 1. R. Robinson, who is expected to die from the s of his wounds, is the head of the ( tner Lumber Co., with headgnarters at Gardner and is prominent in business cireles throughout the State. Moore has been engaged in the mereantile busi- ness here for a long time and respected Mrs, Moore, widowed and probably fathe s at one blow, is prostrated with STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE TO MEET. Jacksonville, Jan. 150 The State Demorcritic Executive Committee will meet tomorrow in Jacksonvill lIruun indications it promises to he interesting session [ The fight for chairmansiip of the |eommittee will be wazed with some Preal in cace dadge Price, who 15 now | erairman, retire Several candi- diates are alter the job Among the many things 1o he dom [ by the committes are setting date wd issuing ealls for the primarie tor this spring. makin Asstssment 1l dotails of th A flight will probabiy be or candidate and primaries, [ wazed on the proposition of a presi- | dential primary in connection with {the state nominations and on the of- tices of cireait judgzes and state’s at- torney being put back in the pri- mary | MOVING PICTURE COMPANY GOING TO TAMPA. ; i Tampa, Jan. 15 Tampa is to b headguarters of the lead- ing moviug picture manufacturing country, according hoin the Billboard According to thi companies of 1o pecial disp; nhonuser Company, ducers of w oon ¥ T nues in New Roch sea views on the way down, and end- ing with semi-tropical Florida scenes. = pom s s S