Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 23, 1912, Page 1

yoL 1 00D ROADS AND CONVICTS 4 CONGRESSMAN HAS DE. D CONVICT LABOR IN -Almost party or govern- and foreign attaches, in Jacksonville Satur- < iay ey route to attend =t celebration, found e civie or political lite Viich particularly inter- Foew of them, and they Jmost every state in the heen in Florida be- <out junket. They were wd, and treely admit- now regard this state oning industrial giants woned with by the nation They, therefore, to what they backward about big senators and 100, tention N ole not ns o budley M. Hughes. its the Third District of was particularly interested uls He was one of the vlvocates of the Georgia eed conviets on road tholished the old feudal Snmter, one of the ban- =~ ot his district of which capital, is said to and more of them rcounty in any south- Liile satisfied that Flor- making some progress in istriaction, he does not ate of advance is any- 11 it should be, uever have roads under system,” said Mr. is only one answer 1l tor good roads, a sub- vLich the south is aroused. =l your convict lease contributes to the 4wl put your prison- ¢ highways, through benefit and v adds to the perma- voatate and the fixed ) & Uke w here frw pople muty . tor example, tvicts on her high- wizht them within the system to their landed teed onoan aver- nt. Within the nately 85 etion G000 has Sumter by e prices 1= bring now would terons five vears Uysi=" continue areatest saving is and econom- of his products thie has been re- portation over mnty Th10 N0 per cent wiuefit of this and lastly teels a difference second distances and country in clos- and his I schools and moral and umunities that all able- apportioned as they ose who are not weak- sent to the wille, whers perform isu 1 State The the state under © 1ot even wor- s compared with s¥stem to the tly Florida will ©i0p the system of s on the roads, =X months will be Iid not do so Zet 1 You'll I tion until First thing you celebrating the at Christmas, !LEE ARMISTEAD TO Publlshed in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State.. LAKELAND FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1912. HAVE TRIAL JANUARY 29 Tamy Lee Armis- tead, the neg » desperado, who ha Leen in the county iail for several weeks past, and who is unde s indict- oLt for manslauchter, haing death of Poiice ’lant to triad on Janug et cireuit court has soi hat date, sad mede some eriminal his- el Rover: bronght b e F1 T VAR At City, will ° Robles the cuse for rreial on 1 Armis tory hereabouts some two months ago Ofticer Yates tried to arrest him as a S Plant aun into the backed off and turning dashed away. Yates and Stockade Guard Grdner went in pur- suit. - They were joined by a third man some two miles from Plant City, and with a bloodhound trailed Arm tead into a swamp. The negro first Killed the dog, then shot the two offi- cers and made his escape from the swamp. The next day he was arrest- ed at Dade City and brought here by Sheriff Stuckie of Pasco county, Be- cause it was known that attempts would be made to lyneh Armistead if he were brought through Plant City, the officers made a wide detour, going more than a hundred miles through the country. The local militia guard- ed Armistead at the jail here until the feeling against him had subsided somewhat After lingering about three weeks, Officer Yates died, Gar- ner is recovering, FEDERAL MONEY FOR GOOD ROADS Gore, of Oklahoma, Plans to Have the Government Spend Millions to Improve the Highways. cious character at but the negro shoved : officer’s face, City, suddenly (By Associated Press.) 4 ST Hatannig ol PR Sea Island cotton bales included were | goction. who was shot by some un- (By Associated Press.) g that splendid ll.l, Washington, Jan. 23— Senator |, i S s0 good for citrus fruits, Down in 104 Knowu person or persons Sunday at- Washington, Jan. ——Represent- the little valleys the soil runs dark ore of a . 1Y advi v g i 2 7 : ; b < v valleys . s da Gore of Oklahoma will advocate a (.mmu-' by states, with compara-|ernoon while he sat alone in his|ative Hefllin of Alabama has intro- ," P l; pood trucking land, and ) iati i : i acl 0O [ g land, & Federal appropriation of from ten [tive statistics and the percentage of [ home. Suspicion pointed to the ne- | duced a bill imposing a fine of $100]'® 12k "“ e to twelve millions for ten years for [the total crop ginned prior o Jan-furges ang they were placed in jail. | 1o $1,000 upon any person making a / v"‘; lllh awhy” of the Lake ; i [ i i g i stoo © [T © Lake- good roads. To share in this the |UAYY 16, last year, follows: [Feeling was not known to be so high, {sale of cotton er cotton futures with- | : ‘l i t W ¢ 0 ot By Sto Alabama, LG3S,099; [ ang theretore Sherift Hadley went to|ont desianating whether the sule 18] AW ber states w ave sxpend double o il y state A IR 30 eAgenG: 1ol Arkansas Florida SXTH Columbus yesterday on business and {of actual or future cotton. Another er treble the amount recefved from [ Lonisiana, 357 Fwas not in town when the lynehing [section of the bill makes a similar| Tooning sharply o the lett and the government B0y Mi PR LOSTOME Novt Geenpred. Sheritt Haddley is an anele ive for reportiog the sale of cotton [crcs ng the railroad, abont 1wo miles Carolina, T OKlahioma, 9160 Lor the dead man on exchange without differentiating [ fron own, we came to the grove and ! South Carolina, 1,534 COThe nesroes declared their inno- | between actual and future Lare nospot of Mro do €0 Swindell, WIft MURD[R[R HBARee, SHN0 0F 81 Texan; e onee to the last, bat the mob wotild one 1 Lakeland's most substantiag S e B e oo i ey e oon| STANDARD OIL it s Lot us see i s eelery B[fiINS I_Ir[ SEN.":NC[ Lo IR writhing in azony mob quic | wir ipped,” said Mro May, a5 w & vin, 65,502; South Caroli dspors Vil U virtim } fi'_--l»s “[Avv le ent A the lower o o the tield ! = ’ ; | : uy \ ] H its palde grecy oA { " winging iy the darkne L rh before us, in all |v i | At ain Tiees ) | ! heat L stretehed away six neres ol @ His, Jan. 23 When th :PROMINENT SPEAKERS | (v Asociated Press,) pret o celery as o yon could wish to parents of Dr. Harey B Webster, | TOURING SOUTH FLORIDA [ARGE CROWD ATTENDED [ BaMalo. N Y. dan. 25— The|see. mouched by the eold. My Seivnced, TorLgelor ATE TN 1 15) JEWELL KELLY SHOW. standard 0il Company of New York | SV 11 has taken the precantion to bigamous wife, beaged the sherill o] apaiiie, Jan, 28, Prof, ¢ K vis lined $35.000 in the Federal]lva some of the old Tow hammork delay. Welister's trausfer 1o thic ponis uarrie and Ao P Spencer of th v % Conrt, tor Pring rate concessions | #it 1o the north, aud on the other tentiary, the convicted physician be Eaiversity he Jewell Kelly Company ,-N;I::m R (U Do RS TV AN s Ao ki {18 colery field, and it is hor came angry. and declared he wanted Jert yesterday for points Sebivinddt Rl oL tlall 5 - “.“ 906 The maximum fine penalty | e this protection that he prows LOISO/LUDEIROR IO ALE YL e \' South Florida, where they will |+ Ban "\"' iy "'] y “"’L“ L “] would have heen 2,860,000, Some | 1 ry and berrvie This field, oy i 4 i i SN 'l and P < fquest was granted on tarm extension work Tl ””l“‘ “: ; .”“ .{;.[ o : time aoo the Pennsylvania was fined [ the n side, rices almost abraptly tinerary will embrace Citros. Will il : y Sinpt Bl 00 d the New York Coentpai | to crest of the hill, and e has [ Horough, Polk. Oseeola and Orange | MPosed of firstcluss - artist Vo, planting the eelery on SAVS SI[[[ IRUSI “‘“”' ties, and the speake Wil i NCA 108 PUHOINEtY ) 1 per terraces and the borries o | i oL O el b h ke bown bast asplendid play ' wer He hus |nu\|~|-4| ample Is ~0I A MONOPOI.v : ming special in November. The IR e Wl el ll]'l—[ C“ANG[ lN " cirrigating from a large sprine expect to he absent about two wiel the Jarge audience wi delighted. | [ ms of a pump and pipes open will be field, where 1 s cat MLy an which the water flows alons the row rs will be Summerficld, wher 1L s renined S8 I8 & tevelation to 1t ; b : J to be drained away in the crecke that party a today, Crystal Spring W e never seen a Utheater (v Associated Press - 5 Mo i Kuights Statio i A e el Yawrenne, Wnst, d8d While | 7KITts the Toot of the dower e : B, o R ARG e A : The celery was about il ik rview, Davenport, st Clo modit while The stage s there is no immediate prospects for | © 5 4 E imodious. whil ' i 3 3 high and almost ready tor dir Fatt and Cameron ity The j first ttlement of the textile strike, there 1 Chery age " 1 1 g ] ] 1 ! npor Jann | I of u coiieili it in He hias had o zood deal o1 ol v aven t, January . 5 19 - } cuidence of a concilia y spiri | ' 1 1 : pect The Kelloy Compa 1o ! : '”n s IX ; With i vkcesdve raly bk his crp beling the ouly W touch '8 el Ane quarters e plans for a con- 1 t y! to “gobhbis \ mped into instant favor here o and) ! | aakinie sbendidly. wwitin 1ok : ¢ - sser en Il be greited by iicnees | ferenee have been made. The loom | SRKIHE it s " 4 xers of ail the mills went ot be. | V150 Precantion ol Lo, o s ri 1 = 1o balance of the week | 4 . L] Lok Rt v " G 2 5 ase of unsettled conditions. The |’ i WAR ON HARMON Wite i Name Ouls™ will e the |21 OF umsettled conditior S bela tadegling [©irikers’ ranks have been swel lay tonight. This is one « | 5 e | remain ton long in the row With L2006 operative (R} I e 5 3 WAIIERSON C“olc[ Columbus, O, Jan, 22 The Pro-]tre plays of the comjpar ( l B j"“ bis shinfFiue in thoe cole rop ‘_,,‘_ vee Democratic L ne of Ohin 15, sharp | this year 1t TRy hould yield 0r K[NIUCKY anized January 2 with the avowed | A matinee has been a im + of hindering Governor Har-|Saturday afternoon at o “'Ic"coLK ”[cl‘nrs "m., s presidential chances but whicl ! 2 Mr. 8 dell’s place, we Ky.. Jan. 23 Declar- itia]l meeting, today ht-:ax. s GRAUSTARK COMPANY TO ‘m‘ ) Grifling and it was here Wattermon to e | first direct attack on the state’s exe SHOW HERE TONIGHT' o el e B ikt heshiti for itice | A T'on I'm or | ber ounty Turning down a lane presidential nomines member he The first copies of a pamphlet. o The Graustark ( reached o0 o . b, n dual who wa H Kentacky sla- t was said 100,000 copies a Lakeland this mon . fi ! i Yer (e Hitel } e ng men busily en- A resolutior ) i were sent out by their engazement tonizht at the He at the Wi Ho I didn’t realis wedd in covering three actes of ber ( & Johu 1. Lentz 1 theater. The mpal COMES |l a 26 o ¢ th Pine straw to protect them pre= nizatio 1 th Mattering oom lat 101 g dift t \it the usnal saluta- " Durbir i Kento the press all « nn " . Ve " that we 2 B G all who witness t ) o 1 the Lakeland professed that o s with 1 Democrat victor a ¥ CANDIDATES PLENTIFUL aviga i Democrats not to lose the op- want to witnes " ‘lnhoun end mity of this victory by the nomi- tization, and that the compar . Qut number of candidates ha \ narrow sidelong glanee was n of any but a pregressive can- | far above the ordinary, is the declara-! visited L rom Now | cvoked by this announcement, but i h hills ahd di small truck farms, mal swamps. BISHOP WARREN TO PRESIDE OVER COLORED CONFERENCE MANCHUS HAVE |IN THE EMPLOY CHANGED MINDS| OF CAPITALISTS The State Mission Conference of the colored Methodist Cliurch con L T S 3 i 5 % !nln‘s in Lakeland this week, begin- DECIDE NOT T0 ABDICATE THEIR | PROMINENT UNION MAN CLAIMS |yinc Thursday moruine il continsi- ntil Monday he I'MANIGAL IS HIRED TO DE- STROY UNION. THRONE—REACTIONARIES IN THE SADDLE. conference will b P Wy vastom of over by Bishop Henry W Denver, Colo, the Northern Methodist their Bishop to preside over the it being the CBy Associated Precs)) (Ry Associated Proes) i Church tor !:nx Peking has undergone Fhe Jan, 28, ~*TPg ke Hanapolis, MeMan talisis from destroying the Union,” R, M. Roll, & Ky.. offered in the convention of the United Mine Workers of Ame constitutional amendm providing uld bhe col London, Jlan situation | Ortie 2l employed by cap CJored conterences Miners ; iy Bishop Warron has Just completed his labors in Jackson- Ville where he the Northern Contor- an extraor- dinary change Hendersou, lmperial family presided Methodise awind comes o Lako land tomog- row Lo the prople. While in the city Bishop Warren will omer {has revised its policy and abandoned \nnaal cit all thoucht of abdication, according R, assist colored to a telegram received here, Premier | that 1o man s gible to of- fice in the union unless he has been a Yuan Shi Kai has stepped aside, he at the Tremont hotel 4 2 3 [} e Tremont hotel, leaving the Manchu reactionaries in [mine worker for tive ye and has S o ol beey @ member of the organization three yvears, The amendment was KATE SHELLY IS DEAD. adopted. Roll said: “"The eapitalists WEATHER FORECAST. Live employed MeManigal to destroy ;” : i 0 l‘l : " b “ll 2 I] . N wa St the Structural lron Workers Union; ,' ”.”“ LI G Lok Dol Tampa., Fla., Jan. 23 Fair to- 3 district in ISNIL died today at o her another man as shrewd might get to | ¥ i night and Wednesday be head of the Miners’ Union, for the Sy MU nhat ik Erom A Moingona bridge, across the Des WURTZ. sile purpose.”’ GEORGIA HAS A QUADRUPLE LYNCHING “On Moines river, the scene of her heroic act, Six months ago she was operated on for appendicitis and before recovered Bright's Disease sot in During a violent storm thirty years ago Miss Shelly, who was station agent at Moingona, crossed the bridge over the Des Moines river on her Lands and knees at midnight to flag cneer train on the Chicago & she STATISTICS OF COTTON CROP Census Bulletin Today Gives Inter- esting Figures Relating to While Sheriff was Elsewhere Business,” Mob Take Four From Jail and Kill Men Staple. \onhm rnrailvoad and save it trom plunging into Honey Creek, ove (By Associated Press.) Hamilton, G, finiar This| Which the bridge had been washed Wazhington, Jan. 23— The Census i was the seene of a lynehing | *V*Y Lurean’s pinth cotton ginning report ol the season, issued at 10 a. m., to- day and showing the number of run- ning bales, counting round as half Lales, of cotton of the growth of 1911 ginned prior to Tuesday, January 16, with comparative statistics for last and other record years, is as year follows: United States: 14.510,676 round bales included were bales; 97.668; last night when a mob composed of several hundred men broke down the r'NE ron n[‘ltns Negroes, Belle Hathaway, Joha Moore, Eugene Halling and “Dusty’ and hung them to trees, afterwards Reprclenutlve Heuin of Alabama In- filling their bedies full of bullets, troduces Bill Aimed At the Cot- avction with the Killing of Norman Hadley, a wellsto-do farmer of this doors of the county jail and took four N 'J Crutelfield, about a mile from town The negroes were arrested in con- ton Speculators. ill begin to whoop ‘em up didate I'lun of the most competent critics, on the; VISITED OUR ~ BERRY FIELDS {FLORIDA GROWER MAN INTER- | ESTED, BUT FINLDS INFOR- | MATION HARD TO GET. strawhorry a litele the from | bid | }1\.|!. W? e et | tower VOl evelr see a Now, | KNitehen pateh or rden bed, Wt acres. 1Us certainly a dark, black n, shiny leaves that look don’t mean ote in bug one of three to e sight the deep tor all the world like varnished, and the searvlet out beneath, the carth and they had been berries white hlos- morning peeping soms open wide-eyved to the and diamond dewdrops sp; sun - Hing among all, a thousand points of slittering light Well, 1 hanve! I owent bherrying around Lakeland, the center of the industry in South Flovida, the other day An item in the Jocal papes about strawberries bringing $1.25 a quart in New York City, set my mind thonght which ended in my going famous bervies, and the men who vaise them; how they did it and what those veri golid mines” looked like en a train of thos to see table This is indeed o fine country aronnd Lakeland, The rolling hills and little valleys, the stately, tall, round pines mostly virgin timber, un- . red by the unzightly box of the turpentine men; the oak and hickory Broves, ks, rank with ferus and palmettoes, with the silver-leated bay or gracetul cabbage palmetto litting their heads above the tangled maze of vines amd erveepers; the sparkling lakes, of which we canght glimpses now and then; the hill sildes gashed here and there, showing a deep chrome yellow denot- y, sandy loam the bayheads or er i * (Continued on page four.) -