Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 29, 1912, Page 1

Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. HUFARER, PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, LAKELAND, FLORIDA, W EDNESDAY. MAY 29, 1912. AND BOYNTON, TAX ASSESSOR. WINNERS IN JERSEY — DICATE ELECTICN OF | TOOMER SPENT MOST i RETURNS IN MONEY IN SECOND PRIMARY. THE GENTLEMEN NAMED BY SMALL MAJORITIES. JOTE IN THESE RAGES CLOSE Practically Compiete Figures Showi Huffaker Leading by 60 and Boynton by 109 Votes. —All can- didates for State and national offices voted on in the primary have filed their respective campaign accounts with the secretary of State in accord- ance with the Florida primary laws ceived the last campaign expense ilists of all candidates who spent money in the second primary cam- paign. Among these who have filed their expense accounts are: For State Supt. Pub W. M. Holloway W. N. Sheats For Congress, Second [n trict Frank Clark J. Hilburn For Congress, Stu Clande 1, Wm i only five small precincts re- to be heard from—Fort (wer, Arbuckle, Haines City, . ond and Branchboro—returns . yesterday's primary give R. B .or such a lead over L. C'. John- | he race for prosecuting attor- it the election of Huffaker may cearded as a certainty, The sam: <aid of the relative situation | Boyuton and Louis W. Bates sor's race, Boynton hav lead to make it practical- | any later returns | ¢ ¢ u | s « 71281 Toome 110860 T MO TEDDY BOTH CLAIMING THE CONTROL OF CONVENTION (DBy A\sml-ml«'d Press.) Wishington, | Dixon, campaisgn man- farer, predicted today that Roose :vnuhl hiave more than Goo del n the fivst baltor at Chicago, ive of contests !Kinley, Taft's manag i sible for it TWenty-two precinets re- i ing all but somo . the figures in as tollows: ting Attorney: Hultaker ... Tolinson S0y these 108D » 1,029 Renutor Roosevelt's n taker's lead Boynton Ve IIRTOR .y Congros Poynton's lead 1oy o tive precinets mentioned polled | 1ed vote of 78 in the first It will therefore bhe seen a possibility o fuil returns will affect the oo ostanding of the candidates Notwithstanding the ballot was not N2 as on some previous elections mnuting proceeded very slowly ! was not until about 1 0 this that the weary election of-! Precinet No. 10, or East tud, Lnished the task of count- | INT votes there polled. Weat land's vote was 159, making tiie | f the two Lakeland precinets 120 Jess than in the first | ident’s actual stre AT1 delegates ¢ MISS WAY DOWN WRITES OF il PUMPKINVILLE GRADUATION. Editor Lakeland Telegram: Dear Sir- It is my painful duty to! inform you that a zrave lack of har- mony has ari . not merely hetween certain members of the Pumpkinville Polytechnic Academy but between { | 1913, certain other prominent ! people who were to take pare in our | geaduating pr m I have the g st fear as to what the outcome may although I am putting forth every offort to pour {cil on the troubled waters. In the! Lakeland pre-imeantime should any more of our “?r\oplo write you, you can be of as-| sistance to me by seeing that any | 8 ‘wm of their letters liable to ~.u|wl 1 offense to any other person is left| 19 [out before the letter is printed. | | By doing this, vou will u--.ulyi oblige Yours Respectfully, MISS MARXIA WAY DOWN, Instructor in English, Ancient His- tory, Mythology, Etc class of he, in the two = us follows No . s name wus left on . he not having given the | ‘ommittes official notice of | withdrawal. He got a big lot of | “ some not knowing he had with- A certain woman assured her hus- und others thinking that per- | had changed him mind {band she never told him a lie, and this county Claude L'En " " never would. He told her he did not \ 438 Nere mde‘l‘oo '“’6 doubt it, but would hereafter cut a fir o repotlia mer 837 | notch in the piano when he knew she 4 deceived him. “No, you won't!” she untry precincts failed to re- | oom 4 “fm not going to have ires on the State superintend- my piano ruined!” ®, and the only returns avail- i hose from the Lakeland, Au- 'e and Bartow precincts. These l"TlE “nPE l[n an Sheats 493 and Holloway 210. By Associated Press.) ! Pope and Kelsey Blanton are i members of the county execu- Dayton, May 29.—Wilbur Wright |is holding his own, but physicians ‘ommittee. Mr., W. H. Pugh's *as on the ballot, but he had have little hope. His family, how- ever, still appear hopeful. R zzins’ I"awn from the race. i COMMITTEE MEETS JUNE 5. May 29 —Chairman W f the State Democratic ex- dmmittee, called the commit- t in Jacksonville on June time the results of yes- imary will be canvassed. d WITH ONLY ONE HAND. New York, May 29 —Harry W Richard, of No. 1323 Halsey street, Brooklyn, who has only one hand, | will endeavor next week to break a “long-distance piano-playing record ! "n Hotz's hall, Wyckoff avenue and ! Willow street, that borongh. Beginning at midnight next Tues- doy he will try to play continuously for sixty hours or more, while his ference vote in Hamilton wife and relatives serve him with “d yesterday, shows that focd and drink. on carried Charles Ryan, ¢ 7 Hull street, | n's “home" recently played fifty-three hours Richard supports his wife and three ! <mall children by his piano playing Harmon, yje uses his rizht hand exclusively | the last excent for some of *he bass notes. | flaving been written on which he strikes with the stump of his left arm. TISON BEAT HARMON IN HIS OWN COUNTY. | — | L 0, May 29.—The of-| t of the Democratic presi- Gov county by total vote was 7,808 o 1,621 for and Bryan 67, | &reat as the Colonel’s, | lest Istronghold of the opposition four delegates will 2o to the Balti n (blow 1o 1, ol | ing potatoes and | PRINARIES xI%ACH GAIN DECISIVE VICTORIES NEGROES DISSATISHED WITH EX- FOR CLOSING CONTEST OF STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN. (By Associated Press.) Newark, N. 1., May R 1 Soprimary Roosevelt's the to the His plurali ully Iait. The re sAceeded his greatest 1l convention 10,600 over Vi Wil Tatt. trinmph Ol cast tor son s 1s as he g tes, the fou e county, 2N e from ut of the 1 being e convention uni e Wilson structed. Voie d8 o osta antis, in the about ¢ 10 1 Coplaces e governor a vict I'att of 20 to wowed his ¢ o country distriet President strength in jone factory town where he spoke he Hetro's cent was heaten 4 Vote terday, to 1 Was o not the ot Stute Jorsey of al eh per Lover the New wWas primary Tast but (South Dakorar one Foeddd DISTRICT 0 COLUMBIA DEMOGRATS HAVE SPLITINCOMENT o, (By Washington, trict o tion split today over the the to Ba rearly convention Assoviated Press.) May 2% The delegation halt the more, out PROF. A. S. MEHARG WILL nearly is Q0= and the secretary of State has re-|‘eit and Wilson were winners in yes- ter rtory was complete, vl former presi- dent having every one of the State's [twenty-cight del ni- ty esult expectations. | Should it become nece: | Seme districts gave him ten votes to|some of the v Hto Cihan port DL 24 ir b e | These ratio gave | Voo mo Th i o h Dis Columbin Democratic conven lection of and walked LOCATE IN LAKELAND. Mr azents W Pickard H Cline, Bros, & Selsen through has jus Florida The purcha State avenue on the edge of oris Mo AL S, Me agen nent of as Itur Mr. Mehars from Live Oal u will move his 1 in a fow it e home in the make this hi As a specialis demon department of agricnl several years throughont Prof. Meharg i= in a posi judge of the merits of Lake! vicinity, as compar:-d parts of Florida. Mr. Meharg expressed W highly pleased with our grow : and surrounding country, dv that he believed that Lakeland splendid future. When inter last evening Mr. Meharg suid fact that I have purchased : and intend to locate here family after traveling over * for years in the demonstra partment of the government strongest indorsement that 1 the wit you of this part of the cour s will say, however, that | hu confidence in the future do. of all this region. I should ; fruit growing first, as the- no doubt that much of 1} peculiarly suited to this ind the same time I do not fact that there is a gr rich truck land, suitablc all kinds o I am convinced also tl.:° much undeveloped land adapted to the cultiva: jand I predict that one its will be reaped ‘1 alone.” Mr. Meharg wa his wife. They home at Live Oak to back with their new home first of August Mr. Cline and respected citizen have disposed « ?‘npod that they Lako‘and wil their T of demonstrating de weeks his eyer sold his fine prove on South town harg, part- amily and trat- for State, 1o i and other “If as v city aring ad a wed The Zrove h my « State o de- the an give 1 Zreat yvoment | itrus i be 1 At % the | al of ne, Raised on Mt. Blackburn for First prof- ; on the summit s summit on the L - aslno View, P Lis tria] connedt |CAPTAIN OF CARPATHIA RAPIOLY BEGOMING LENGLE FOR WORSE COAST LINE TO CLOSE OLD POLK ST. STATION. In an announcement printed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railway o Uit is stated that after May 31 the old Istation on Polk street will by closed cand hereafter the Coast Line will Washington, It is tlnl—t.\:up only at the Union station. On itted at the State department here | the same date the railway will dis- that the insurrection in Oriente pru‘}uuninnv stoppi at the Tampa Bay Cuba, is beeoming worse, with | Lotel for the om. probability that it will spread to| The oid Coast Line station on Polk provin It i A there ds Istreet s an old landmark of the city. no intention of inereasing the Amer- |1 has passed its period of usefulness in Cuban waters. lnow that the Union station has been 'y to send opened, and even that time Is now West i 2rown too small to handle the in- ‘vestaent Gornez wall {ereasing tratlic, notified in advance [lm[\( open after ISTING POLITICAL CONDITIONS, AND DISCONTENT SPREADING. (By ed Press.) 29. Assoc M ay n Vince, a other an naval foree 3 before at Key The old station was the opening of the U nion station, only until the streets [ tween the business section of the [ ity and the station could be L proper condition for trave! ‘]"l Tribune. GEORGIA IS HOLDING STATE DEMOCRATIC \I!) Associated Press.) Havana, May 29 General of the rebel leaders in Ori- in o newspaper inter primary cause of the| its failure of the govern- epeal the Morna law which | providinz placed oz, one Tam- ente provinee, says the nprising is elfensive to the all he (4} negroe: no recognition of po- | or racial lines HUB ALLEN ACQUITTED. S By Associated Press.) Atlanta, May 29, The State Dem ocratic convention is being held here \ sociated Pross.) My thi nz him with brib cold (Ry Cotumbia, s ( 4] tiab™ | Evans w dequitted Atternoon taiy select delegates 1o the Bal- The manazer of the Un campaign in this i been eitect Watson Hisore convention clection of v derwond 1ol Hutchens, State, Hewed acompromise I on oflis presiding by Iunl Witson fo PRESENTED WITH LOVING CUP BY SURVIVORS) (By Associated Press,) New York, May 2 Capt commander of the Cunard lin 1 Carpathia, hip that the resciue of the Titanic ented with THOUSAND BOOSTERS For Underwood to Accompany Geor- gia Delegation to Baltimore. \tlanta, May Georgia's dedezation to the Democratic national convention, which will by, o State couvention here Wednesday, will be accompanied to Baltimore Lono Underwood boosters, Ros Ga,, 20 teon, sped 1o chosen at Passeners by a handsome sil- of the traveling special Plans have been completed for the trip n the re | the primary the [orvention will instract the ver loving cup by a committes Tirani rived here when the Carpathia (1t two trains todiy urvivors i aceordance ult of State with NEW STEAMSHIP LINE 1S PLANNED FOR CUBA. s preferential twenty lehit votes of Georgia tor Congres an Underwood. I dele trom the Firth, {nrday, trict thos: who were named Sat MoeCall, peneral freight and | except the Charlote avent thy Northern |1 vention ] { [ passeno of frefght atid of Wil b chosen by district cau- Charlotte pas Harbor says that his and toprior to the State con roadroad, company pro Thomas K. Watson, candidate one time Pop- president, will tton the Georgin delegation Cuba | thee | ulist Post | | poses to zo atter busine jand he sround fman, h “Th We have heen in the coustruction of onr that we huve had little time we have in Boca Grande, Fla,, the best ports in the world, in is here looking over for Talking i ik He has annonneed his intention o Zoing to Baltimor,. | fight against W. J to a Havana to continue his Bryan first visit to Havana re railroad to look one of 5 s my o busy for seven “What did Noah live on when the flood had subsided and his provisions in the Ark were exhausted,” asked a we are Sunday school teacher of her class on Sunday. “I know,” squeaked a little girl, after all others had given it up “Well, what?” inquired the teacher. “Dry land.” ARIZONA VOTING TODAY ON CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT (By Associated Press ) Ariz, May atic presidential primaries are b reaching out for business. My impres- sions of this territory are of the best and I am here to establish a connec- tion for the interchange of business with this island and the United States through our port, which, by the way, is 100 miles nearer Pana- ma than any port in the United States. lLogically we are the outlet from the isthmus. Before the canal iz finished we expect to have a line of steamers plying between Havana, | and the Isle of Pines and our port.” | I who rep Mr | sed with Phoenix, 24 Demo- Mr. Mct'all is accompanied by A. Caldwell, of Tampa, Fla , fresents a large concern Caldwell is also much ple; the business prospe Havana Post {irg held in Arizona today crate 0 | MULE KICK RESTORES SPEECH. ts of Cuba Max Michael of Philadelphia, 29 STARS AND STRIPES Ty old, had kicked Lozika, 1 the power SEaE speech fmule. v the youngster Time by Miss Dora Keen I was unable to rday back irned out th Cordova, Dora Keen and part “6it Saturday from ti Blackburn, having been 11 SONS 1o raise the Stars of his fed 1o ex colors of her mountain im She sent a Sage stating that she had reacl morning of Majy She stated all members of her party | ¥ho are Alaskan:, well L were CONVENTION TODAY: R[ll]SEVEH AND WILSON INSURRECTION N GUBA SHENTS FOR STATE SUPERINTENDEN, CONGRESSHAAT-LARGE FORMNER LE AB NG COMPETITOR BY 2,000. AND THE LATTER BY 1500 VOTES SHEATS' LEAD MAY REACH 5,000 Came Near Getting Frank Clark's Goat Over in Second, but Looks Like He Will Hold His Job. AT U ampa, Fla., May Special to Evening Telegram) - Reports from the State vaces are coming in slowly, but at noon Claude L'Engle for con- sressman at competitor, 1,500 oy large, was his W. M. Toomer, It is likely coming from will leading by about that later the country L Engle's Hillshorough Votes returns, incts, increase lend carried by about too loomer In the race MEN D000 yotes for Staty superintend- ent, Shents Joads Holloway by © There is no rea 0 to believe thar fuller retures will erially affect the reltive siand- of the candidates in this contest, jand Shea ured. Return vl indicate that the have heen eleet- district 1D Hobbs and Harris elected Second district the race be Clark and Hilburn and it is not possibl, i in connection With it but the indications favor the clection of Clark, For nationai committe Crawford defeats Bugene by a large majority, ne " election at i seems ; Enderwood dele ( | s od W In this Hant In the 1" een are is v lose, oo a0 positive s ment vll'l‘ Matthews man, ACTUAL WORK. Of Arranging Chicago Convention Hall to Begin This Week ago, May The work of setting the stage and arrangements for the Republi tional convention on June 18 wil] he- #in this week, Toward the end of the week members of the nationat rommittes and representatives of vi- Hons State delegations conte 2 actuai ating which hava sted Wil be in the city to ipopreliminary work May 29 is the time tiling of eredentials from States election laws provide for after that (' take T'he Fimit and wher night of et Tor the contest the conventions or exeept primaries date On will claim seite 6 the national committos the than Tunge St to begin hearing of for more 200 contested William Arms, S, Stone, sergeant-at- has on file more than 100,000 requests for less than 10,000 specta- tor’s seats to be distributed to visitors from the various States. Mr. Stone hes a foree of men at work sorting ont the applications and the commit- tee members are passing upon the eligibility of the applications. REAL CAUSE OF DISASHER. | | To the Titanic Claimed to Have Been Found by Canadian. Halifax, N. 3., May 29. - That the Titanic disaster resulted from change in the arctic current, causing a great pocket of wold water within the was o ernment a usual course of the gull stream, the statement made ¢ today by Johnson, Canadian gov of who was in charge of the « sent out on the Montgomery in sear the Tit dead This change, ( it known inspector lighthonses xpeditior government steamer hoof the bodics ol apt. Johnsor wasn to Capt Smith, of 1 h id it e said ich 1 p why { Titanie, he did not avoid L was overy th wher di Capt ed th is found