Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 8, 1912, Page 1

Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM A. W. Knowles, general manager, ‘ -I-[R ANS “0N0n |PROMOTERS HERE IN INTEREST i OF SISAL HEMP PLANT. { I [AD coMRA“[s and John 0. Nolte, engineer in charge, —_— ‘reprcsenullg the Sisal Hemp and De- ACE OF NEXT ANNUAL RE.|velopment Co. of St. James City, Fla,, are spending a few days in Lakeland UNION WILL BE soox .interesting some of Lakeland's lead- ing merchants and bankers in their (By Associated Press.) LAKELAND, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1912. MANY LIVES [WOODROW WILSON {FEOPLE FLEEING FROM RAGING LOOKS LIKE ROOSEVELT, TO0O0.|wanted WATERS, WHICH CONTINUE BUT WILL REQUIRE STATE i TO WORK DESTRUCTION. CONVENTION TO DECIDE. i erforce the meat i (By Associated Press.) |INVESTIGATION OF BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRIES. “to discover inspection laws,’' (By Associated Press.) ~Declaring he | the connection G. A. R, LEADER PROPOSES TO U. between the meat trust and the men! C, V, PEACE MEETING ON SCENE we have put in positions of trust to No. 161 BLUE AND GRAY AT GETTYSBURG OF GREAT BATTLE. Macon, Ga., May S.—The follow- proposition, which is the coming in- Macon, May 8.—Eloquent and 1ov+{1yise Sisal hemp and make New Orleans, May §.—Torras cre- Representative Nelson of \\'lsmnsiu! Dullas, Tex.,, May 8.—It will re-iyrged the House Agricultural Expen- [ing letter from H.-M. Trimble, com- dustry of Florida. The company will rope. tributes were paid to the mem-|They are installing a $37,000 rope of their dead comrades and lead-|plant on their plantation. at the annual memorial exercises ithe United Confederate Veterans d here this morning. Especial TRAMMtI.I. I.[A“s M".' ment A. Evans, honorary com- nder-in-chief, and to Gen. George 5 m MAN, BY 15, tion as commander-in-chief, at je Little Rock reunion last year. Tallahassee, May 8.—Complete and ¢ the next reunion this afternoon. |tor governor, are compiled here, and Antonio, Chattanooga, Jackson-|which are as authoritative as any- : he crowning of the Queen of the |the State committee Thursday can nion, Miss Mary Sandrett, of [r2ke them, show the following total tes were paid to the late Gen. ION, N[x]' I"fi“ESI E Gordon, who died soon after his The Veterans will select the place |accurate returns from the primary '; and Louisville are candidates. thing but the official tabulation by on, will be the chief event of the|vote: rnoon after the business session.|Park Trammel .......... L2647 reunion ball will be held tonight. |\W. H. Milton ..... s 11,449 he commander-in-chief and other|[J. W. Watson ............. .10,091 pers will be elected tomorrow [Cromwell Gibbons .......... 9,785 ning at the final business session. |F.. M. Semple ........... ety BT orrow afternoon at 2 o'clock the — pd parade takes place. It is esti-| Total vote cast ...........58,679 b2 of Park Trammell lacked only receiving one-half the total vote polled and, therefore, lacked only 2,863 of a majority over all his com- ed there will be 50,000 in line. INJURED IN SOUTH CAROLINA WRECK. petitors. olumbia, May 8.—Passengers on| Mr. Trammell received the highest n No. 31, which was wrecked |vote in forty of the forty-eight coun- e miles north of here yesterday,|ties and a majority over all in twen- being cared for and indications|ty-four counties. #that none are permanent!y in-| e carried Polk county, his home, b with 1,400 majority over all and car- train was a six-coach through |ried the other counties in which he , and was running at a good |has resided, MHillshorough, Gadsden J ‘ ., The axle on one of the driv-[and Leon, by splendid majorities over y heels suddenly snapped, theali. ! foller fell under the engine, the| His plurality over the next high- R being torn up for a long dis-|est man is 15,000. jos, and the cars following the en- The change in the order of the were all derailed. Not a wheel |candidates was somewhat surprising. . left on the track, and when thelA: first it was thought that Gibbons three coaches reached the torn-|was sure to be second man, but ‘first {ls they turned over. The din-|[)ilton forged ahead and finally Wat- \flr and the last two sleepers were [son ‘“nosed him out,” leaving the d over and the passengers!Jacksonville man in fourth place. vasse waters reached New this morning, and within forty-eight |28 to decide between Taft and Rmsv-lg‘w the Bureau of Animal Industries. hours this section will be flooded, en- [velt as to Texas' preference for the dangering thousands of persons, who |presidential nomination. tically safe. Couriers have been de- |ident in the county convention re- spatched throughout the surrounding |turns received today, but contests and | country this morning warning the [uninstructed delegates may change people to tlee, the result. | _— With reports from all but 36 of IREFUGEES BRINGING MANY the 249 Texas counties, \Woodrow STORIES OF DISTRESS. NORTHERN PART OF COUNTY (By Associated Press.) May 28 Morgan, La., May 8.—Stories of | Wilson distress are heard as the flood strick- |necessary to control 315, coiony was started on the Atlantic en inhabitants in the neighborhood 5 ~ ! ol the Torras levee break are brought | WINTER HAVEN DISTRICT I northwest of Kathleen, composed of in. Each has some pew experience to VOTED ROAD BONDS YESTERDAY ‘],‘-..;-,m from Clay Center, Kan. They Tf‘ld(e of how they l‘.*'fll'l'(l- Prac- el {named the colony Clay Center, Fla., lll\d") ll! got away with nothing bur| Ay election was held yesterday in ‘nl'ln-r their home town. In a short ; :lel:rlu‘tll::;ldg rll:;sm\l\onl:'. Not al\ Wom- ) Lortain territory comprising Winter Period, they have done wonders, They J emains here, and many 3 ‘o cleare p ake i --1. ‘ ! ; City, Davenpor?, |lave cleared their ground, staked out en also moved out at the approach i Y la townsite, sold many of the lots (o of the water which is still rising at Eloise, etc,, for the purpose of creat- | Hiaky . of : ; ; ii {the people from Kansas, the rate of two feet in twenty-four {ing the territory described into a'\pom have come down and are now Returns this morning gave 'which have located here in the past Haven, Haines hours. bridge and road district, and bonding living there. The land has been Capt. Wood, of the battleship Ne- same for $130,000 for the construc- subdivided in 10 and 20 acre tracts braska, at Bayou Sara, has been or- dered by the navy department to give and sold to well-to-do farmers who ] 5 are actually living on the land, One all aid to the sufferers. Other strick- man has alfalfa now in bloom. They en sections report similar experiences shipped early potatoes and tomatoes A report received this morning said [sive community of Davenport not a guom, there, having gotten their the west levee of the Mi; iDDi riv- [ vote was cast against the proposition. 'wround in shape to raise their profit- er had broke south of Torras, and the That section will blossom as the rose g, crops in a very short period. people in the threatened terrvitory are when it secures the hard roads pro- 7y, passenger trains stop both ways fleeing to the levees, !\i«ln-d for in the bonding plan. [They have established a postoflice eipedsaniopile oot | : j:eml the mail is nu:v being throwa BATTLE BETWEEN Mfl HOLLERS '\NP kol . the: ikt A POLICE AND MINERS SAYS HE'S HIT romomerie vy ten e o & bt s i soon as this is in, several new houses Pottsville, Pa., May 8. Nearly ZI? tion of good roads. The bonds carried overwhelmingly. We understand that in the progres- (By Associated Press.) Portsmouth, 0., May 8.—'I'm up will zo up. Since they have established their it sERARE Wake K 3 W against » wall and am being hit,” score of persons were hit by bullets & i 'I"";' }'" and e "" i colony, another colony has been e e L Qrate | souted Ty a speech here today. q during a battle between the Stat| ‘1'.‘ “l Jid l'!" l]l the belt, ang Htarted southeast of them on the F i T firans % ing low elt, and i . police and a mob of striking miners, | 1M being hit below the e ¥ same railroad about halt way be- g inersvi ing T e ight,” he continued, mak- = at Minersville, this morning. It i I'm here to fight,” he « o tween Clay Center and Kathleen, Orleans |Guire the State convention of May |gjtures committee today to investi- luntil now have been considered prac-|Las a substantial lead over |:::5;::: GR[AI D[Vfl.m’MfNI IN {United Confederate | One can hardly realize unless they Wilson has more than enough votes huvg recently ridden over Polk coun-|its annual reunion in this city: to control the State convention on|ty, the enormous influx of settlers . Harmon 149, Clark 41!.’1\\-.4\'» months. Last September, a Coast Line railroad, about six miles niander-in-chief of the Grand Army or the Republic to Gen, C. Irvine Walker, commander-in-chief of the Veterans, invit- tion to participate in the semi-cen- tennial celebration of the battle of ing members of the latter organiza- Jettysburg, was read at today's ses- siop of the U. C. V., which is holding Memorial Hall, hicago, March 4, 1912, Irvine Walker, Commander in Chief, United Con- Lieut, Gen, ', federate Veterans, Charleston,, S, C.* Dear General—l have read your al orders No. 9 with very great pleasure. From it I learn that you are fully advised of the action taken by the State of Pennsylvania, and the plans already well under way for the celebration of the fiftieth anni- versary of the battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1913, and that you also know that the commission, created by that State has requested all ‘surviving soldiers of the civil war, north and south, to participate therein as officially invited guests, to be provided with seats in a body at all official functions during the cele- bration, under the joint direction of the commander-in-chief of the Granid Army of the Republic and United Confederate Veterans, subject, of course, to the approval of the com- mission, “If this event might mark the final and complete reconciliation between those of the opposing armies of fifty years ago, and the permanent estab- lishment of harmonious and fraternal relations betweep the north and the south, it would certainly gladden the e thearts of all our countrymen. led out of the windows and from| No announcement has been made n baggage and broken fur-{Ly Mr, Milton as to whether or not | ngs. The day coach, the com-|he will enter the second primary but | Sation car and the express car were | it is known that he has received smn--i B¢ standing, but they were derailed. [strong urging not to do so, the hope-| % 'The injured: J. F. Ellington, Chi- [icssness of the fight having been | i eago, slight scalp wound and injury |pointed out on the strength of thel g0 right shoulder; not at hospital. |figures. John Frank, Baltimore, knee and ®dack wrenched. A. T. Martin, em-|FINAL FIGHT TO BE .ploye, Culpepper, Va., scalp wound MADE FOR RICHESON. and brulsed arm. Mrs. A. T, Martin, rint, heek and left hip bruised. T. Joston, May 8.—The final fight for R. MBrtin, employe, Washington. |life in behalf of Clarence V. T. Rich- d hip sprained. F. B. Elli-|eson, who, while a Baptist minister nnsboro, slight bruise of nose | with a pastorate in Cambridge and tnee. Judge E. H. Calloway, |engaged to marry a wealthy young , Ga, scalp wound and|woman, poisoned his former sweet- ed back; gone to Augusta. N.|heart, Avis Linnell, of Hyannis, will hn, traveling salesman, Chi-|be made this week. Richeson, who light wound left ankle; at hos- |confessed to the crime before being Mrs. H. B. Bane, Lanark, W.|brought to trial, has been sentenced alp wound top of head, slight [to death by electricity in the week right leg below knee; at hos- | peginning May 19, but his attorneys ith six children. Charles Arm-|hope to prevail upor Gov. Foss to al- , Jacksonville, a waiter, scalp|low a petition for clemency to go to . Tom Harris, dining car wait- |the executive council, which will i G. J. Halter, Baltimore, knec|meet Wednesday. Wt the Jerome hotel. All above| Richeson's lawyers are hopeful of hite, except dining car walters, |success. Brumshell, Ontario, Canada,| The plea for commutation of the g slight. William Barrish, New |death sentence to one of life impris- slight injuries, went to desti- (onment will be based, it is under- L 8. Call, of Savannah, in-|stood, largely upon the contention Iy injured. tcat Richeson was suffering from a form of insanity when he gave Avis NG BANK PRESIDENT Linnell the poison which caused her ARRESTED IN SAVANNAH.|death, Oct. 14, 1911. An alienist who examined Richeson in jail has recent- nnah, Ga., May 8.—James B.|ly declared that Richeson is at pres- , president of the Merchants|ent partly insane. 'hmen‘ Bank, of Claxton, was d here yesterday when he ar-| News comes from Tampa that a on a Seaboard Air Line train|branch office of the Western Union h alleged vioiation of the State |Telegraph Co. will be opened within ng laws. It is claimed Smith|the next few days in the lobby of the @drew $2,400 from the bank with- | DeSoto hotel. depositing the proper collateral. MISSISSIPPI DECLARES 4 directors, who ordered his arrest, that they will forwad a war- for him this evening. Smitk already wired the bank to chargel fm unnmwwn amount to his private account. I e states that there may be a (By Associated Press.) nical violation of the State bank-| Jackson, May 8.—Returns from laws, but that he Fas done noth-|vesterday's primary show Underwood criminal intentionally. The pres- |carried at least sixty-five of seventy- t, who is but 21 years old, came |eight counties. Not more than twen- the city with his family and was|ty-five per cent of the full vote was mce taken into custody. polled. ‘v.ivn genius —Orlando R believed three rioters were fatally |ing further answer to Roosevelt at- hurt. tacks. STATE MEDICOS HAVING FINE TIME AT ANNUAL CONVENTION. 'SUMMERS HERE MORE PLEASANT THAY IN NORTHERN STATES. Persons interested in Florida or My S Physicians from wlho intend to buy lands here,” si are gathered the Lakeland Telegram, “should come liere today to attend the anneal State |11 11e snmmertime.” We very strong- Jida State Medi- |10 recommend this. In the summer [veu see the land at its very worst, r ! 11 there is ever a chance for standing {vater on the lands it will show it in the summer time. It is the hottest period. Come down and be convineed Tampa, all portions of the State Convention of th cal Society. The convention was called to ord this morning in the music room of the Tampa Bay hotel. Mayor D. B, McKay, in very fitting languaze, wel- comed the doctors and turued over Florida in the summer is not to them the Keys of the city. Dr. J.[nwar as warm as in your northern B. Wallace, on behalf of tie Hills-[vities during the heated spells. We borough Medical Soclety, al«) made |have continued warm weather, day an address of welcome. Thes: were |after day, but it never gets hot in very pleasingly responded to by Dr. the sense that you 'know it at times A. H. Freeman, president of the as- in the north. Few people who have sociation. not tried a Florida summer will be- There are a large number of dele- lieve that people continue their usual gates here, and more are expected on vocations during the summer, and the evening trains. accomplish things. Yet the Tele- gram’s remarks are true and the re- ports of deaths from heat prostrations THE IMPROVEMENTS MADE that adorn front pages of newspapers IN CONSTRUCTION OF AUTOS. |in July and August are always with an eastern, northern or Western date Ot course everybody remembers the | line.—Times-Union. aw, and o ettal taveations . they | NEVER HAD MISHAP ki s _IN 43 YEARS' RAILROADING. were; how the horse was to hecoms® extinct, and the poor oX; oh, my' 190} peggiys ponn., May 8.—Of all the tough to eat, he would be tu engineers who have gripped the lev- to die. But time does wonders “VEN | g g9 o oines on the Reading sys- in a few vears. The first machines, |, 0 Jone has a braver record than of which we were so proud, =re the | oy o 10 of this city, placed ones which were turned out tv die |, p 0 o ovilid Jist after a continuous one or two survifors havinz been service of 43 years, without a sin- placed on exhibition 1n the o MU-| 40 ey seums. The horse, however, =11 for| =y 0 0 tive of Philadelphia, more money today than .-t beTOT& 1, g Gy geg (ntared the service of while the ox stays om, still mORATCh |y o o0 o 4 brakeman. A year of his field, which the auto will never i]llel" he became a conductor on a seek to wrest from him But the;v-oal train, serving in that capacity automobile of today is a THing Ofj, \0py gl er 1570, when he be- beauty and usefulness, and it DECES~y 00 o an. tnat sity is every day, and ir £ 1to.| This work he followed for six becoming more eviden! ~ TR TP vears, when he had charge of a coai mobile of tomorrow jtrain unti] 1881, when he became an e the rear as derful machine, and wi one of today as far ! the one of today has ! iengineer on passenger trains t which ! News comes from Apalachicola that in their day elicited murn admir- [tWo new river steamers will be put ation and comment on mans inve’ in commission on the river by next ter-Star. (fall, qupon which in tife neighborhood of | “To that end, voicing, as he be- twenty-five new houses will be builtjioye. the common sentiment of his this fall. This land o which We o ondes, and speaking for them in speak is all being sold to substantiod 'y janalr, the commander-in-chief well-to-do people from the north, who o0 Grand Army of the Republiv vl develop it immediately and we' Gl 1 you and your comrades i feel that those Kind of people! oo pived Confederate Ve rans wiil be a strong asset to the devel oping of Polk county which is be- vond a question the hest county in | tiie State of Florida, being the higl st point reached by railroad iy the State, having an elevation of 227 feet above sea level, and having ex-! shipping facilities, fine| schools and churches and good wa-, ter. Our county contains the best| citrus fruit and highly developed | truck farms in the world and we feel | proud to know that these settlers have selected this location for their| permanent home. On the latter tract mentioned, they expect, as soon as the settlement warrants it, to estab- lish a town, the name of which they have already selected. It will be known as Senga, Fla. ALLEGED BANK WRECKER NEAR PHYSICAL COLLAPSE. Norwich, N. Y., May 8.—Frank T. Arnold, former cashier of the First National Bank of New Berlin and 'confessed embezzler of the wrecked ibank’s funds in a sum exceeding $300,000, is a prisoner in the hospital ward of the local jail, broken in spir- its and praying for death to relieve his physical and mental torment. Arnold, who until the collapse of the First National Bank of New Ber- lin, a2 month ago, was easily the fore- most citizen of that village, was brought to the jail here from New Berlin this morning, following his arrest last night. METHODIST BISHOPS GATHER IN LOUISVILLE (By Associated Press.) ; Louisville, May 8. —Fourteen bish- ops of the Southern Methodist church l are here today attending a meeting of the General Board of Church Ex- tension. wl i gRE cellent most. cordial greetings, and sincere- ly requests that you and your com- les, in numbers at as pos- sible, join with the Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic in the semi-centennial HEG celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Gettys- bhurg. “Let us assemble there, and meet and greet cach other hand to hand and heart to heart in the spirit of true friendship and brotherhood born out of love for the flag and devotion to our common country. Thus will all the wounds of our former strife be healed, as they must some time be, that this people, as a united and vital force, may effectively and mightily solve the problems of our nation's destiny in world affairs and human progress. “Let us assemble there, and in- augurate a great peace monument under which shall be entombed for- ever any lingering prejudices and bit- terness that may have survived the ebbing tides of passion through half a century of peace, to symbolize to all our people and to the generations yet to be, that even out of the dead dust and ashes of war, under the sunlight of our Christian civiliza- tion, the fragrant flowers of peace and amity may grow and bloom. “Let us assemble there, where so many comrades of the Blue and the Gray found common sepulture on that historic field made immortal in the world’s memory by tbeir unex- celled heroism, and there in that sa- cred presence mutually pledge to each other our constant fealty to a re-united and indissoluble Americaa republic. “With this invitation goes the out- stretched hand of friendship which [ feel will surely be accepted in th= spirit in which it is extended. Fraternally and sincerely yours, H. M. TRIMBLE, Commander-in-Chief Grand Army of the Republic