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B s 1ED WITH 5L00DHOUNDS NTAIN DESPERADOES SUR- NoLD AND THEIR CAPTURE oW HOURLY EXPECTED. [e . t--ouiated Press.) | AR | va., April 1L—With) 4 the trail of Sidnu| 4 ldwards, the two .men wanted for) 4 court house, news bi} o isoexpected any ! 2 rict around Sugar| :‘] d Rock is sm'!'ound-‘: 9 and the escape of| 4 2 lit be impos- | ouzht 10 be 1 ) S ; 1 b R0ADS ASSOCIATION JMEETS WEDNESDAY.! 1§ il 2 \ Lrtant meeting od the % {ablands Good Roads B L+ il be held at the Club % t p. m. on Wednesday, Y f Soners have promised 5 Lopdance and they are now bl t s active, work on the 2 st This will be a very s peeting and a large at- Curnestly dasired. Here- | weetings wild be held only L uonth on the first Wednes- = p: 0 month, TET AND BELL RINGERS | COMING THURSDAY NIGHT. | b TRt | svening the mext Ly- ', on comes to the Herron | + tne male quartet and bell ! R - Ot their ability the daily | 1 Watertown, 8. D, says: . Otrerbein Male Quartet and B ¢ on both programs | md undoubtedly gave real satisfaction than any ber which has been on| I up to this time, The miade a decided hit yester- cvening, and were re- ber of times, The sing- . splendid condition as to { wannerism and have the vas us to the interpretation «w and old melodies. They * audience wllh'lhci" mor and comical special- !l as with music of more nature. As bell ringers, the " 4s W [1eport to it regarding intrast LAKELAND, FLORIDA, CLAUDE L'ENGLE HERE THIS MORNING. Claude L'Enzle, candidate for Con- |8ressman at 2¢, was in the Tele- | gram office this morning a few min- utes, and stated that he was enrout o B oW Wiaere he was going to ‘open court today.” Said when he 12 court he would come back to see the Lakeland peo- 20t through open PLANS FOR SENATOR TAYLOR'S FUNERAL (By Associated P'ress Nashville, Tenn., April 1 rations began this morning for the ) reeption oo Senator Taylor's body on it's arrival Wednesday morning. The taken to night for in- Wednesday and will be Knoxville Wednesday terment, Senater Taylor died yesterday at W40 a0 m. oas the result of an op- eration last Thursday for gall stones, In his death the country of its greatest citizens, COMMISSION VICTORY Washington, D. C., April 1. nal victory was won today by the In- terstate Commerce Commission, when the United States Supreme Court de- cided that the commission has has power to compel water lines to ate as well as interstate business, reversing the Commerce Court, -Sig- Strawberries are still going north, although the price at the track has dropped to 15 cents per quart, growers’ REHEARING IN PATENT MONOPULY CASE (By ciated Press.) Washington, April 1. Defeated parties to the patent monopoly case recently decided by a vote of 4 to 3 by the United States Supreme court, excellent and gave several ug selections yesterday med them to be artists ER'S GREATER SHOWS ARRIVE. s Gireater European Shows the city yesterday morn- r own speclal train and *d to erect the great ‘“‘white ie magnet for the small boy. T S0 young—or old. al appearance of thel rpasses that of any show ! the city for some time is all apparently new, s are clean and bright and ts of the best horse| on + seen in a long time. { from all outward appear- | 2er Show bids fair to| organization in all| s to our city her-, tess of our meighbor- ne of the cleanest and +% that has ever vis- Sanger, the own- » enjoyved the dis- 2 the premier show-| “land and the American| "W entering into its sw—‘ n this country. “ion with the “big show™ “tazerie of wild animals, * elephants, camels, lions, | ‘imas, tigers, monkeys, | | L2t Shows gave a w~ry} fireet parade over lh’:; -_"»Hs of the city this The parade was headed by | “pany of musicians and fol-' © 4 first-rate colored band. ] “ut performance was giv-| | % Ompany of artists this aft-|chimneys is to hold the glass over .Lr";” another will be given to- re-hcs oclock. Courteous atten- ~“cred by all employes of the s ome of ‘the ‘strongest fea- today asked the court to rehear the igsue by a full bench. The govern- ment joined in the appeal with a re- quest for permission to intervene. CHICAGO CARPENTERS ARE ON STRIKE (By Assoclated Press.) CHICAGO, April 1.—Building op- erations involving thirty to fifty mil- lion dollars are affecter by the strike of fourteen thousand carpenters or- dered for today. The Carpenters are demanding an increase of five cents an hour . OXFORD WON RACE AGAINST CAMBRIDGE April 1 cight-oared Putney, Engiand, ord University won the with Cambridas The race Sat- fiasco owing o race vrday the swamping of both NOTED DETECTIVE FORMER TAMPAN resulted 1noa detective in charee Tom Felts, th of the sleuths who are chasiung the len zang of desperadoes in the 1l of Virginia, is well remembered Tampa, having three years been in the employ o ir Line as chiet special agent, Baldwin, of the Mr. Felts b he- was so successul that he later b the A ing under W. G. Baldwin Detective Agency came a partner of Mr. Baldwin. Tampans who know Felts feel that, with him in charge of the search for ¢he gang, all will be quickly appre-| bended. —Tampa Tribune method of cleaning lamp An e the spout of a kettle of boiling wa- ter until it becomes well steamed, then polish with a clean dry cloth, apd the glass will be beautifully |brigat. ple in the interest of his candidacy Mo L'Engle was accompanied by | Hayes Lewis, of Marvianna, who s rnning tor delezuts to the Demo- eratic convention frem the State al arze, Prepa- | Lody will lie in state at the Capitol! loses one HE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM MONDAY. APRIL 1, 1912. EMIN[RS QUIT IINDICTMENNS [ {MANY THOUSANDS ARE NOW IDLE IN COAL FIELDS IN MANY STATES. | sy (By Associated Press.) Cleveland, O, April 1. Scores ol thousands o1 coal miners work today in the anthracit and in the ! toelds of Pennsylvania contral competitive field portion of the industry, Of- i movement is Ca suspen- sion” of whether work, o develop into a widespread strike pdepends on the outeeme of voting in the union ranks and of a conference days The anthracite men are more apprehensive as to the loutcome than their bituminous breth- Approximately four hundred | thousand men are affected today twithin ten ren, Airship CITY, TO PASS THIS P For the first time in the lives of most of them the people of Lakeland will this evening have an opportun- ity of seeing a real airship in action, A message received today conveye the information that Aviator Bonney, vho has been at Kissimmee, as a teature of the hig celebration just pulled off at that city, would leave there this afternoon in an effort to fiy to Plant City. and that he would Lakeland between . pass over and 6:30 o'clock. A later message this afternoon confirmed the state- ment, Mr. Bonney having left Kis- simmee on schedule time, and there being every probability that he would id by 6 o'clock. make Lakel The message did not state wlu-lll-, LONGWORTH BOOM. Governor Is Started by Taft Leaders in Cleveland. (leveland, 0., April 1. -Taft lead- ers in Cleveland, confident of victory in the State central committee meet- iLg at Columbus Saturday, and at the primaries May 21, have started a boom for Congressman Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, Col. Roose- velt's son-in-law, for the Republican nomination for governor. The desire is to conciliate the dis- ccrdant elements in the party. Long- worth has not taken sides in the Roosevelt-Taft fight. For {POST OFFICE IN- STALLS IMPROVEMENT. | The post office has received and placed in use a cancelling and dating | stamp, similar to those used in the [large cities. Letters mailed from | Lakeland in the future will bear this them a very stamp, which gives Imetropolitan appearance, aside from |the convenience and dispatch with which they can be handled WILSON STRONG IN FLORIDA. Tallahassee, April 1.—The polit- ical situation in Florida is viewed with more than ordinary interest at azo the State capital this year, and par- which will fae Seaboard | Genlarly the contest as to who shall Fort King avenue work- | get Florida's delegation to the Demo- contain seventy-five hedrooms, twen- cratic national convention. The centiment for Woodrow Wil- son is strong in this section and r--| ot the bi-| this is| i!».-e\\«-vn the men and the employers | Will Pass Lakelan_d T Igi; Afternoon AVIATOR BONNEY, EN ROUTE FROM KISSIMMEE TO PLANT WORK [0DAY| ~ ARE RETURNED.. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. IN EVERGLADES MATTER. i Nt singleton Phe deteidants are charged indi- with | viduadly having approved or presenied talse vouchers ag about by their opposition to the Kv- eralades land promoters. Al the in- licted men were formerly connected with the agriculinral department Over OINT ABOUT 6 0'CLOCK. er or not a landing would be made at LAkeland, but it is not at all un- likely In il will be sutliciently low 1o afford a the event pas any good view of the wonderful airship, and it is probable that large crowds will watch the horizon ecagerly at the appointed hour and be in readi- ey to cheer the daring aviator in his trackless flight, Some time ago Mr. Bonney corre- sponded with the Lakeland Board of Trade relative to making an exhibi- tion flight in this city, but the af- fair did not materialize. Now, how- ever, the citizens will an op- portunity to see him in action with- cut any expense whatever, have WEST VIRGINIANS Will Hear Col. Rocs>velt in Several Speeches April 4 and 5. That severa! Charleston, W. Va., April 1. ol. Roosevelt will speeches In West Virginia early in April was the information received here today. Young, of the State Roosevelt com- deliver Secretary Houston G. said that Roosevelt would speak at Huntington on the after- noon of April 4 and at Parkersbury in the evening, with train-end speeches at Point Pleasant and Rav- mittee, enswood. On April 5 he will speak #t Keyser, Cumberland, Md, and Martinsburg. TO PENSION EMPLOYES. The Western Union Telegraph Co. i+ planning to peusion the employ« who, atter years of faithful servi ere neapacitated for work. The mini- ‘mum pension allowance will be $25 per month, except when otherwise di- Irected. No pension will exceed §100 { per month, | | $60,000 HOTEL FOR OCALA. The contract has been closed in Ocala for the erection of a $60,000 {I.t tel on the cite now occupied by jold Montezuma hotel. In the build- irg there will be seven large stores street and will hotel |t¥-seven of which | baths will have private IAGAIKSI‘ FORMER EMPLOYES OF | 1 ! (By Associated Presso) | Wasiington, April 1L Indictments arowing oat of the Florida kver- elades investigation in the Depart- ment of iculture, were reiurned gy the Federal Grand Jury here to- day a 1 CL Gl Elliot, Allanson D, Morehou=o, Rey. P Teele and Frank ! eainst the | coveriment. Eliott and Morehous: | ilv.lu- asserted that the charges vinst them and their diswe p rem the department were brought Pytf!ished in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. ; No, 128. e FLOODS, CALSE had fallen from a r:u'| . SN SR o {!mousmns OF ACRES INUNDAT- ED. AND GREAT DESTRUCTION and | some wood ross the train was coming. I forward another a wreek he sprang ; leared the track in time to prv\-'n(@ OF PROPERTY WROUGHT. the oncoming train om running :nm the uh.\’ll‘llll.mll His faithful CThe Associatod : ‘:Il.\\ to duty cansed him to lose his Momphis, Tonn., L Nearly i;.-|| lox |‘.x. he .\\.L\ URDIE 0 RIOAT b s S o aisinlits - Trom: lori fo. St e ek himselr Bryan was bro anis Feoprt record breaking floods (o this city and sent !n the' Beye o ingig issippi. The lovees in seve wpital where 1t \\:.|.~ sadd .l:|:~: night eral places have b \ inundating i i doing wello Tampa Teibune G of acres. Considerabls property and live stock have heea M'SS“URI’S ANI'. lost, and many tamilies were com- { pelled o tee, The engineers in '"“Js]' I_Aws l")"[ln CFarse of the levers are patrolling i ‘!lu‘ banks, roady to rush repair ma- RS RS terial at any place showing weak- (By Assoviated Press.) Lyoss, Mare miin hore has ineroased Washington, April 1. The anti- seust laws of Missouri were upheld the fear of further disaster today by the Supreme court of the | RS United States. The court approved CANDIDATES WILL SPEAK AT the State’s ousting the Standard (m; AUBURNDALE WEDNESDAY P. M. co, and the Indiana and Ih-puh!h-j Oil Co. of New York, and the refining of each fifty thousand dollars, Wednesday afternoon the candi- dates for the various oflices will ad- [dress the voters of Auburndale and WAY phag seetion, the meeting probably VIroing held at the school house at ginfan, as the length of the avms S0y eyaate, AN candidates are cor- adjustable, Jqlinll,\' invited to be present and let (the voters know where they stand on ’ New York, April 1, why prices high, according to the witnesses who appeared before the marketing committee here Satur- day, is that women no longer buy their food supplies in bulk, but in- sist that their tea, sugar, butter and groceries of almost every variety be handed to them in small but expen- These foodstuffs were the old-fashicned Persons of unequal weight invented by a IS¢ QL seesaw One reason (By Associated Press.) New York, April 1. Anthracit aperators believe the suspension of work in the hard coal fields, which vent into effect to will not con- tinue long. They think the meeting ot operators and miners Philadelphia 10 will settle the wage workers' dis- e, No bitterness s shown on cither side. The sus sion is not a sive packages. strike but a temporary stoppage un- purchased by Uil new agreements are made, housewife, the witnesses explained, St : I|il||--|' by the barrel or a hundred ands at a time. Now the purchas- c c poiind AM[R' AN IoBAC 0 as the tea, coffee, sugar or other com- COMPANV r'N[D|lxlmllly that the package contains. o | jors pay for paper wrappings as well " | While the public is paying for it, (By Associated Press.) i"""""‘“"“ to some of the testimony, New Orleans, April 1.—Damages the farmer is reaping the harvest, To aggregating twenty-six thousand dol- substantiate this assertion Thomas lars were awarded today against the Vallette, manager of a wholesale American Tobacco Co. by a jury in krocery, declared that where a few the Federal District court in the Years ago canners paid farmers $6 a anti-trast suit brought by the Peo- ton for tomatoes the producer now ple's Tobacco Co., of New Orleans, for *demands and receives from $10 to alleged ocnspiracy to destroy compe- $12 a ton. tition. ! ISR o : | DEMOCRATS WILL PASS WOOL BILL TODA (The Associated Press.) Washington, D. (., April 1.—For the first time this session, the House met at 11 o'clock today with the avowed intention of passing the Dem- ocratic wool tariff revision bill be- fore adjournment CHANGE IN REALTY FIRM. Mr. J. W. Ellis announces that to- day the firm ot J. W. Ellis & Co,, idonlors in real estate, was changed It6 that of Ellis & Barhite, the busi- ness in the future to be conducted by Mr. Ellis’ son, Mr. Joe Ellis, and Mr. Frank Barhite, who has pur- chased an interest in the business. Mr. Ellis retires from active busi- ness on account of ill health, and it i in the hope that he will be im- - proved physically that he sold an in- |s"’mxt I)EMAN“S terest in the business to Mr. Barhite. OF THE MINERS Cineinnati, April 1. ing their demands for inere the miners gave oat this statement: WILL SHOW PICTURES OF NATION'S LAW MAKERS. As sustain- ——e d pay certainiy Wasii- Moving pictures lave tage in ad the center of the “Our desire for a twenty-per-cent. iigton lately and the pesult will merease in pay will not seem n probabiy be seen in every hamliet of onable when it is learned that most the country before many days are of the 170,000 anthracite miners passed. Speaker Clark, imme diately !work only about two-thirds of the atter his return toom Kentucky re- i!iln" The averaze working time for coently, was the central figure in the |each man last year was 240 days lirst veel of ilms ever exposed in the land the averag salary ecarned by Lall of the Youse of Representatives. ;--auh man for the year was $500, or The patrons of picture shows wiil [less than $10 a week. now have an opportunity to sce how | “Our men take greater risks than The to- = dertukes 1o restore order h the spraker's eye, how the the desk when he un- what to ca r pound they do in other countries |tal number o1 killed in mines and men lv!urinu the last ten years was 24,037, the process is waich all speakers | i “The yearly record of deaths in adopt when they desire to avoid al- imines is now about 2,500 In the low nz their eye to be caught. n | 1 ! g April primary. { | News comes from Anniston, Ala, that the mobilization of the State troops will be held in Anniston and "nited States the death rate for 1,000 men is 291, as compared with 1.43 in Great Britain, and it is more than double that of any other coal-pro- ducing country in Europe.” | fact the first production of the coun- terfeit presentment of the presiding oficer of the House of Representa- tives will exhibit that official in ev- ery possible pose. It will show him as he is to be seen every day be- ; AT LAKE CITY. The Columbia County Bank ia Lake City opened its doors on last Thursday for business. A bright fu- ture is predicted for the new insti- tution. that Florida is expected to partici- pate in this military maneuver Squire N. F. Hurst, who died last!tween 12 o'clock noon and the suc- week at Poplar Plains, Ky., at the cceding half hour, but there was no age of %9 years, had served as mag-|disorder; the reproduction” will lack Thomas A. Edison, the great in-|istrate in his county for fifty-five the dramatic interest which centers ventor, is now taking his annual rest at his Florida bome in Fort Myers. years, a record said to be nnequaledlln the speaker during an excited de- in the State, or perbaps in the Unit- bate with its inevitable disorder.

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