Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 13, 1912, Page 1

.LOUGH‘\IAN RESIDENT DIED FROM RATTLER'S BITE iIMS OF (;AND'DAI[S Tuesday morning, about 10 o' lock, ! l\h‘. James ). Fields, of Loughman, | while inspecting a picce of land sev- | rANDING OF PBESIDENTIAL AS. the line of Orange and Lake coun-| RANTS ACCORDING TO THEIR ties, in searching for a corner mark- | OWN STATEMENTS. |er among a heavy growth of palmet- ; jtoes, was strcuk by a rattlesnake, Iy Associated PFOSB:) [ Mr. Hancock, who accompanied | 1, D, C., April “-—‘“or"{him. after rendering first aid, drove the delegates to the Re-) National convention will! elecied at the conclusion | Peunsylvania primaries to- to Loughman as secure the services of a doctor and !t immediately left for the scene, ac- |companied by the doctor. But the 1+ issued from Rooseveli fong delay in procuring medical aid adquarters show a wide ' gave the poison a chance to do its|¢ e us to claims to deleg&l‘dsl\\'ork. He was taken to his home, «iected. Taft's headquarters where he died the same evening. } i« Taft, 334; Roosevelt, 113;| Mr. Fields came to Loughman from |7 i; Cummins, 4; unin-|west Florida, but was a native of |¢ {Dooly county, Georgia. He leaves a |l 3 wife and one son who is two vears Taft, 49; LaFollette, us, 4; contested, 164; un- . 106, The chief difference! The interment was at Kissimmer southern States, where the on Wednesday afternoon. —Kissim- forces list as ‘“‘contested’ mee Gazette, gates claimed by Taft. cadquarters claims for i; Marshall, 30; Wilson,27; . uninstructed, 12 ! s men claim 72 for him, ] | | ! sistrs, FLOOD STILL leral miles north of that place, near SOUTmN soon as he could to [ Mississippl is taking tithe in South- notify his brother, S. R. Fields, who | 1ana. great flood behind it, { pouring {levees over the fertile lands of the that a thousand square miles will be Vicksburg the water is falling. ‘old, and also three brothers and two | [ar no loss of life is reported. Bol.n HOLD-UP MEN ;\'“,__‘,‘:m,"g_l,'.' by the lnmnl in_ north ROB RESTAURANT .- twenty by forty miles is under water, I.AKELAND FLORIDA, SATURDAY. APRIL 13, 1912. Publlshed in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. PRIMARIES IN WORKS HAVOC| PENNSYLVANIA NORTHERN LOUISIANA SUFFER- | DEMOCRATIC FACTIONS UNITE ING FROM ITS RAVAGES NOW. ON WOODROW WLSON. (By Associated Press.) Philadelphia, April 13.—Voters of Pennsylvania are taking part in the most important primary since the Jaw was enacted in 1906, The chief interest of the contest is for the State's seventy-six delegates to the National convention. The regular Republican organiza- tion is backing President Taft. The the | Roosevelt faction, however, has strong claims and will elect a large number of delegates for the former president, Although (By Associated Press.) Greenville, Miss., April 13.—The Arkansas and Northern Louis- With the mighty force of a the water is two gaps in the T through delta. Before night it is estimated nundated. In the maintime river has ceased its assault on the ast banks and there are brighten- As far south as So ng prospects there, the Democrats have split, both factions are supporting Woodrow Wilson. Clark and Har- mon have some support. Congres- slonal State tickets will be selected Great Damage in Louisiana. (By Associated Press.) New Orleans, April 13.—Several [alse. Fd hundred thousand dollars damage R e TO RAISE PARAKEETS. the sudden break ast night of the levee near Alsatia, It is estimated that a territory ouisiana since At Daytona, J. N. Gamble is hav- ling an enclosure wired to protect parakeets, which he will later place thercin with the intention of raising (By Associated Press.) EAT CANDIDATES New York, April 13.—Four men, ARCADIA ORDERS GATES. birds of that specie. When the young HAVE TO0 TAKE. \armed with revolvers, invaded a res- il birds mature it is his intention to taurant on Kast Fourteenth street,| The Arcadia City Council passed an |liberate them, hoping in that way to ¢ Kitk is telling a good joke and, while forty patrons looked on,|0rdinance requiring the Atlantic |restock the forests hereabouts with { that happencd in Lake- held up the manager, and took seven |U'0ast Line railroad to erect and|those beautiful birds, which at one maintain automatic gates on allltime were native to this section. ow weeks ago. He was pay- hundred dollars. They then escaped akeland school an official in a taxicab. 1 company with Prof, _——— siting the different class AT THE CHURCHES TOMORROW. teachers had evidently ug the visit and had' There will be services tomorrow pupils, especially in the gy the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyter- history. Every question was jun, Cumberland Presbyterian, Epis- psiored promptly without quiver or (opal, Christian, Lutheran and Cath- ition, olic churches, and the public is cor- “ue pupils had not been in- dially invited to attend. ARE SURE TOUGH iy I I t Livo Now i charge was a little dubious aing what prominent citizen as their guest that morning pupils seemed so eager and irming around in such a (By wanner that finally she said: Chicago, “n. do you know what 8 years old, itizen we have with us down by a down town street car be- Associated Press.) April 13.—Leslie Traler, a newsboy, was knocked ? fore a horritied crowd, which thought ; \ T Yok S < fentl instead, he ¢ R, En returned to Stark governor to wire in his views on the T the chorus rang: him crushed to death, Instead, he| S . i e Washington.” crawled from beneaty the car, said trom south Florida Sunday after a i . P lones was so .mmh amused a few unprintable things to the mo-|tiresome and tedious journey. He| Gov. Gilehrist replicd as Tollows: v retr i Csiidee! s areloss, and |went trom here to Tropie, Brevard “Replying: Lynching is deplorabl: =ty retreat into the next torman for being =0 careless, andy : S vt | Kirk followed and when ran away unhurt frounty, to look after his —orunge NG SIOHA . Hry was pu ‘t thoss = [cvove property, then to Bartow 1o possibles Lynching is due largely to ¥i ;\.nn(]nl D ; ake possession of an automobil., cac inefliciency of the courts and itcoln BIG RELIGIOUS RALLY. [which he had to take in licn o principle guiding the conrts, In the S8 AR ARy by s lmoney owing to him, He left Bae- Bl of Rights of practically every ¥ ! = ¢ '\... .' 3 | e N . 21 v Ny « n 3 g v fol- nd so he sald, “Jon Y A\ men and religions movement has tow last Thursday in company with State there is substantially the fo r If 1 o into the mext Peen started in Sanford with enthu- | Mr. Snyder, a chauffear, riding in lowing: *No one shall be deprived Il have me Rooker T.” Sism and representative church-'the automobile, which is a *“White of life, liberty or the pursuit of hap- LR ave o Ker 4 > & {5 Ao " . At - pien are very much interested in the [tonneau of great power and speed, of Diness without due process of L onrier Informant, : movement. It has been decided to |t hold a big rally next week prior to |t SIXSHI.\:E PREACHER” the campuign soon to follow. f AT MIAMI t v s v e THE HENRY BILL " New York, an author of note %1 4s the “Sunshine Preach- n Miami last night and * at the Fort Dallas. (The Associated Press.) cart is making & tour of Washington, D. C., April 13.—The Florida and will visit Cuba House (ommittee on Elections of gathering material for & President and Vice President favor- ‘h sTie will publish soon, ably reported today the Henry bill, B "In and OQut of the Beaten whicy would provide publicity for all L.‘ It is one of the series of’conlribulinns to campaign funds, to- .. &3 of the “Seeing the World gether with their disbursements. The Each book of the series vote was unanimous. bistoric resume, tinted with the al, ethnological, scenic, and WORK MAY SOON BEGIN Bterests and are well illus- ON A. 0. & G. B. RY. Ties street crossings in that city for the - iflagmen before each train. LAFCLLETTE AND WIL- 151,9 281 |STARKE MAN LOST roads were good and fast time was | AVORABLY REPORTED " dark the machine stalled in a boggy branch. within miles of the place and the travelers built a fire and fought mos- quitoes until morning, went in quest of help to p machine out. whole day to do this and to make some necessary repairs. ing again some more mishaps oc- —_— ¢ friends here became uneasy over his non-appearance and telegraphed to railroad is one of A general strike of the engineers in this country the threatened near future probabil- ities. GILCHRIST GIVES VIEWS ON LYNCHING — e Tallahassee, April Gil- wotection of the public. The A. ( . will doubtless compromise with he city, as it did here, by placing SON IN WISCONSIN Madison, Wis., April 13, fl\\'Hh" Mlicial returns from all but one small | . ounty, from the recent presidential chirist this morning received a tele- wimary, LaFollette is shown to Im\‘vl\“"“"' from Washington Post, a news- 2 votes, President Taft, _”'_!p;uwr, stating that President Taft in Wilson, 45,504; Clark, lasy night, declared that o “lforms a disgraceful page The men who pull AFTER LEAVING LAKELAND. Ithe rope should hang by the rope’ The Washington Post asked the 13, Gov, 36,251, ¢ S[)lil‘l'll | Iyuching [in our history. There is also the following: ‘Right he $2000 class. It was expected and justice shall not be denied or de- hat he would reach Starke Friday svening and he had written his rela- luyed.’ ives here to that effect. “Whenever right and justice butts Until Lakeland was 'uu against due process of law, right and justice are side tracked—due Iprm'ess of law having the right of way. Courts are too often operated on the principle that due process of law is the end and aim of all law rather than right and justice. The delay incident to such necessarily when they causes the people to decide the case ull the|before the courts act, rather than wait, as Col. Roosevelt has suggest- ed, and decide the case after the courts have acted. ‘Judge Lynch’ nat- urally presides. “However reprehensible lynching is, it is difficult to indict the lynch- ers whenever the entire community endorses their action. No grand jury passed the But from there toward Dade ity the traveling was slow and near There was no habitation It consumed nearly the After start- urred, causing additional delays. Saturday Mr. Ensey's relatives and | The engineers of the Atlantic, has even yet indicted all of their own ! S T — Okeechobee and Gul? railroad, having [Bartow to find out when the trave| o0 " oo the courts more effi- BRYAN completed the field work on the first elers left. Some Bartow friends also| . " lyaching will be @imin AT PALATKA APRIL 26. raiiroad survey across the Ever-|became alarmed and telephoned toy ., . e glades from Tampa to Fort Lauder- Lakeland, learning that t:ey' h:"‘ “ALBERT W. GILCHRIST, . April 13.—Hon. William dale, have gone to the company’s of- |passed through there Thursday aft- “Governor.” ernoon. Br‘il!l three times the fices at Tampa, where they will soon candidate for president of complete the profiles and estimates 1 States, and probably the on the work. It is understood that il platform orator in the bids will soon be registered for con- >day, will deliver his fam- struction work. " “The Signs of the Times" ¥ on Friday evening, April 5e benefit and under the of the Palatka Woman's There are 248 paupers to r-xernf 10,000 of population in Great Brit- ain and Ireland. — Ments for the lecture were A metal-backed ring of rubber fas- wheel of an automobile, is claimed by its inventor to prevent the splash- 'Y Hutchinson. It is possi-| this date may be changed, dat lfto dpn_ go to Dade City to start inquiries along the route, and was about to when, lo! great joy of the anxious ones. They had encountered bad roads south of Ocala, but from there had bcen able to make good time.—Starke 0 Wednesday by County tened out a few inchés from the'ETaph. ample notice of the change ing of mud on pedestrians and other'tons was recently made by a Wis- vehicles. consin factory. At last Sheriff Langford decided to g esbags : BOMB EXPLODED IN TAXI. Paris, April 13.——A bomb exploded inside a taxi-automobile in the Rue De Lyon this morning. The chauf- feur and several pedestrians were in- jured. The outrage is believed to have been committed by chauffeurs, many of whom have been on strike for more than two months. The taxi- cab was passing along the Rue de Lyons from the Place de la Bastille to the great railroad depot of the Lyons line. Many windows in the vicinity were smashed. take the 11 a. m. southbound trair, Mr. Ensey and his chant- eur serenely rolled into town to the Tele- An exhibition cheese weighing six |THE WISEST AND MOST REMUNERATIVE ADVERTISING. The county commissioners of Osce- ola county -awake and they are aiding materially in the devel- are wide for cight hundred copics of the Kis-; simmee Valley Gazette, to be mailed weekly to homeseckers throughout the United States. The Valley Ga-| zette is a splendid newspaper and it out-talks a land agent.—-Times- | No. 142. THESE WOULD GO 10 TALLAHASSEL ARKANSAS AND | REPUBLICANS BADLY SPLIT, BUT |cpment of the county by subscribing CANDIDATES FOR STATE SENATL AND REPRESENTATIVES IN THE VARIOUS COUNTIES. Names of candidates for the offic - o State Senator and members o. Union Short Talks. {the Hauze of Representatives, wh have qualitied for that oflice, hav. i T G SR been announced by Chairman Wil LEWIS CASE NEAR CLOSE. 1. Price of the Florida State Dem _— foratic Executive committee, The; St. Louis, April 13.—With half |follow: the arguments to the jury completed, | Judge Amidon reconvened the trial of E. G. Lewis in the United States| District Court here this morning for what was expected to be the last day of the case in which the publisher is charged with fraudulent use of the mails. Counsel for the defense ar- gued for two hours, after which Dis- trict Attorney Houts closed the gov- ernment’s argument. LIE PASSED ON FLOOR OF HOUSE (The Associated Press.) Washington, D. ¢'., April 13.—The lie was passed on the floor of the House today when Representative Graham, of Ilinois, branded as “ab- solutely and unqualifiedly false™” the statement made yesterday by Repre- sentative Mann, the minority leader, that Graham had told Mrs, Haff, and other woman lobbyists, not to return a fee protested by an Indian client. Ensuing debate was bitter, Japanese army officers are testing a new bullet-proof coat just invent- od by w native. It is said that bul- lets fired from a revolver at a dis- tance of twenty-tive feet make only a slight dent in the coat. HUGUENOT CHURCH’S 2251 BIRTHDAY (By Associated Press.) Charleston, 8. ¢, April 13- The ! I'rench Huguenot church of Charles- on, the only congregation of its kind on this continent, will nh.-n-ru-" two hundred and s of th tomorrow as the twenty-fifth - anni tounding of the parish, JAPS TO TEACH GIRLS. Anne )Im::m.: York, April 13 Miss ghter of J. 1%, his made arrangements to employ a Sl of Japanese jia jitsu experts to ! instructions to New York \\'Ul'l\-z ing girls in self protection against street. rowdies. The work will bhe given under the auspices of the working girls’ vacation clubs, of which Miss Morgan is a leading pa- tron. New Morzan, ive | THREATENED STRIKE OF MANY ENGINEERS (By Assoclated Press.) New York, April 13.—J. C. Stuart, chairman of the General Managers' Association of fifty eastern rallroads, | has issued a call for a meeting on April 17 of the conference commit- tee, to discuss the recent State vote of the engineers and to determine whether the railroads shall make any | counter proposal to their demands| for more pay. MARRIED FOR FIFTY OENTS. A well-known pastor here actually received fifty cents for performing a | ceremony of marriage, in this wise: | After tieing the knot the grinning groom asked: ‘“‘Parson, how much do you charge?” | “0,” said Rev. O, “The law al- oty LB | Persons, L. Senators. First Senatorial District (compris ing Santa Rosa county)—J, H. B Miller, Milligan; R. A. McGeachey Third Senatorial District (Holme and Walton counties)—B. H. Lind- say, Bonifay; Daniel Anderson, De- Funiak; €. M. Cox, Bonifay; Danie Campbell, DeFuniak, Fifth Senatorial District (Liberty Franklin and Wakulla counties)- S. P. Roddenberry, Sopchoppy; W. ( Rouse, Crawfordville; Nat R. Walk er, Crawfordville. Seventh Senatorial District (Poli: county)-—John I. Cox, II, J. Drane Eighth Senatorial District (Leo county) S. Wells, Ninth Senatorial District (Hei- nando, Pasco and Citrus counties)- John . Davant, Brooksville; Fre L. Stringer, Dade City. Eleventh Senatorial Distric (Hillsborough and Pinellas) - George K. Altman, Tampa; W, F Himes, Tampa, Thirteenth Senatorial Distric (Dade, Palm Beach, St. Lucie an Brevard countiesp- 1. M. Hudson present address, Tallahassee, Fifteenth Distriet (Bradford coun ty)- A Z. Adkins. Seventeenth District W. A. Tison, Live Oak. Nineteenth Districet Orange counties)— Arthur E. Don negan, Kissimmee; Louis (', Massey Orlando. Twenty-fivst District (Levy ty)r 0. 8. Bliteh, Monthrook. Twenty-thivrd District (Lake coun ty) W. M. Igou, Eustis, Twenty-fifth — District (Calhoun and Washington counties) A, J MeClellan, Blountsville; Thoma Wewahitehka, (Suwane Speneer, Twenty-sixth — District (Putnan connty) P Wall, Twenty-ceventh District (Mana tee amd DeSoto connties) Franci M. Cooper, JL T Hanmphrie District «Volusio Deland; 1 Twenty-cighth Conrad, . Patter, Daytona, Twentv-ninth District (Clay an Baker counties) Max B Browr MeCienny; €0 K. Barber, 1 ¢, Cobi Trirty-first District (St Johns) L. W. Zim, St. Augustine, Representatives. Aliachua County J. ', Adkins, J W. Jones, E. R, B, Kite, Josep Nash, T. Il Edward F. Z tronger, Baker County— M. J. J. J. Rhodes. Willard, Combs, H Bradford County--John Houston John M, Sanders. Calhoun County L. M. Griffin Jr., Blountstown; J. W. Nicholl- Clarksville; W. T. Walderff, Blounts town. ('nrm l'oumy George W. Scho field, . Stephens. !lay (ounl)f—.l. V. Carns, I. W Pinchback, E. D. Prevatt. Columbia County—S. D. Duprer, I. J. Brown, W. J. Feagle, E. G W. A. Rivers. Dade County—-J. L. Billingsley Miami; Thomas Brewer, Miam'. Robert R. Taylor, Miami; George A Worley, Miami. DeSoto County S. L. Griffin. Duval County—St. Elmo W. Aco-- ta, Charles PP, Cooper, lon L. Fari: A. G. Hartridge, Walter C. Warring- ton. Escambia County—A. C. Bloun’ Will €. Langford H. €. Clapton, J. T. Harper, Jame Libadt o L _ [MeHugh. . “Well,” said the groom, “here iS| po v County—MH. B, Floye a half a dollar, and that will m"ko‘!\palat-himla; H. S. Mahoney, Apa- $2 for you!” And Rev. 0. pocketed the half dollar, and drove five miles | back home, wondering what his fee |Otis F. would have been had he sald the| (Qhonpard W. L {lachicola. Gadsden County—Alvin Holland landers, S. H. Strom, J. 1 Taylor, John H law ‘allowed him $50.—Deland Reg- | Thompson, Charles B. Whiddon. ister. Edison is now planning to have, much of the teaching in schools done | by means of moving pictures. Hamilton County—No candidate qualified with me. (Continued on Page 8.) (Osceola and’ AT~ RN ™ ~ .