Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 16, 1912, Page 1

Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 16. 1912. | CONFERENCE OR FRUIT GROW.- ERS AT GAINESVILLE . July 16.—It is pro- have a conference of frui Gainesviille on Aug, 135, ¢ iden being to determine upon a g5 ENEAR tandard for fruit shipment in regard + condition of maturity or ripencss. l’u commissioner of agriculture and 'h. State chemist, with the governor, are active in preparation for this The best intormed men are believe a standard Gainesy ed to wers at i ) LU0 reeting, ying that they \LUATION OF POLK LOPERTY NOW week, and after ©oassessmen? | OEADENEN MRE ot YET UNIDENTIFED FOpUTLY Was con- | Though It Is Thoug,ht That One Is| relation to the | ! s of prop.; Elmer St. George, Whose People | 't to fix the | Reside in Tampa. + on cach m'up-" Saturday e :x-w«lurn' | No positive identitication ot the| of all taxable | year two men whose bodies woere found be- & BV, heen made, ity tor the FOUT oo tho W sus61,270, The| g fmorning has yet track yesterday wits $T.066,450, though are, been an in- two million dol-|one of the, assess- | gy the tan s SOT, or. who made raises v27u and the com- the rest, or $1, there is strong reason to believe that bodies is that of Elmer| Herease . George, who has relatives resid- ing in Tampa, and which city may Le considered his home. Parties who have thus identified the| Meade, worked for several months, think they i body Knew St George at k. Lont ol the inereased [ where he be made in the Mul- Woat the .Au%;usz | ago. wid all objections | neard and acted jand which place he left some weeks| The bodies are still in the under- Gentry & [ taking estublishment of money heen raised | | sude on all kinds |00 having the county, but throngh the efforts of Dr. W, D assessments in | Nowlin to have them embalmed in the hope that some friends or tives would turn up and be given the| ssstoner’s district rela- any other on: of the value i that disteiet! cent L000 | have viewed the sult ( the hope of giving but most of them actated merely by Hundreds of persons some in usetul clue, burial remains LS00t $0 How this re SO sments have morbid curiosity round numbers The jury in charze of the inquest | andd the rate of | held a session last night, but after! reased ong and | examining the crew of - the train | {which is supposed to have struck the information it adjourned trusting that thrown on the what it was last vild have plenty [ men, dtairs next vear, | bearing on the matter, to await developments .3D\'LRTXSE§ [ =ome Tight may yet be MAMMOTH CAVE | mystery. A Mr. Bailey, of Fto Meade, was that of El-| and eliciting no thought | 5 . one of the bodies ire Received Here i / D v th mer St Georze, Who worked for him B the Natural . at that place, but, of conrse in the - condition of the remains, n mistake | la passenger |18 Casy Mr. Dennis, another con ; Naghville mil-| tractor alzo of ¥t Meade, came up very beanti- todify and he also was prety positive | lepicting he that the body wa at of St Georwe Mr. Wolf Mammoth Cave wrry ame UL \ ongidered otiel (Continued on Page 5.) (BAILEY, OF TEXAS st PAYS HIS RESPECTS !t | 10 THE PRESIDENT | | rions natuses ‘ ' 1o Ba d i dent in <oy for h titude on 1 Texa resid precon 1 s to UNDERWOOD AND WILSON HAVE PLEASANT MEETING RECOMMEND DISSOLUTION OF U. §. STEEL CORPARATION . By Associated Press.) Members of stigation 1@ United report, uts suit 1 m in i of .\r-\\ and to endorse the zovernm yrporati ‘azain;t it { sition on the |t have [ involving about § | himits fakes that can be found in Florida, | Creof the | with her 1y to rec-| ARGHBALD [5 OUNNONED 0 SENATE WILL NOW CONSIDER R [ will be adopted and that this action| NINTH IMPEACHMENT CASE e will result beneficially ror the fruait) v o o ALY $10.000.000. s of Pida, | IN COUNTRY'S HISTORY. coun T é (Y Associated Pross olk county were | i Washinzton, Taly 1 Tudue Archbaid of the Commerce Court, the [ winth man in the hiztory of the gov- crnment to he impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” was sum- [roned before the Senate 1o stand trial upon charges made by the [ House involving certain coal mine [ transactions in which he used his po- beneh to gain tinancial advantages Every senator thok an Gath to do impartial justice J. P. MORGAN BEHIND FLORIDA TIMBER DEAL. A special from Valdosta, Gu., says: The biggest land sale that has been reported in this section lately is said ocenrred in Taylor county, last week when the MeNair 170,000 Florida, Lumber Co. timber lands to thé O'Bryan snydicate of Chicago at $20 an acre, the deal 3,400,000, It is said that J. Pierpont Morgyn is behind the deal. The huyers are prominent lumbermen of the west, and it is sald that when the timber upon the land has been cut the land will be sold oft for agricultural de- velopment, and it is probable colonies will be planted upon it sold acres of ad privilege of furnishing them oo | s aIAND THIAL that | 1 PROSPEROUS AUBURNDALE, EMBONERED | DISTRESS OF 1 wil] was made on June 17, . ! of one sheet of paper and is typewrits| EXPOSED TO DEPREDATIONS OF MEXICAN REBELS. AND WITH- OUT ANY PROTECTION. 1 CIy Associated Pross. . Mex,, July 16 More So0 American citizens, with wives and children, along ihe Mex- | ican Northwestern railroad, in north- | ern Mexico, are in dar izolated trom the horde means for escaping the depredations ol Moxican rebels now operating in that Suflicient facts became Fnown today of the real sitnation to! warrant a statement that it would be | O surprise it Juar their r of being region, | Amiericans in all towns | along the line were warned to leave Mexico at once, SARASOTA MAY BOND FOR $40,000 IMPROVEMENTS. |, \ ¥ 1 wsota, July 16, At a meeting of the citizens with the council re- cently the question of honding th» town for an additional $10,000 came up. It was shown that the work of | improving the streets, extending sew- | erage and water, as well as a drain- | age svstem for the eastern part of | town, were needs that must be mr-:' ried on. The itiment of a major- | increased bonds. A recent bulletin from the census | bureau gives Florida credit for 21 l,-‘ males of voting age. Of these SGLY are negroes. IN MANY IHHIVING ORANGE GROVES Aubarndale, Fla, July 16, The auvantazes Auburndale has been tay cred with certainly makes it an ideal ist nature il her people will a spot, and other great advantages that have given her, including a number progressive citizens voho are looking to the future, We have within the three ot the Teen o wide awake incorporated most heantifl or, for that matter, any place in the United States, Arviana with her high it shores, affords the most bean titul spots for residences and orangs groves; Lake Stella with the boul | vard opened entirely around it, an cvergreen srow! anted trees of quick along its shore, will maks witlks ane Lake Len: =il entirel should be most attractive found, while 1o he rich hammock tronnding it a gard pot fit for the gods or man, of gros erdure the entire \iburndale is without doubt [ the best citrus and general fro tions of Florida, the soil in portectly adapted to orange, frait, tangerine and kumguat cultur ¢« sides peacl cairs, plums, or o g s, zuavas, ba other Iy do splend OV 1 1 ving acrea br. AL L Mr. Carter, A_J. Mob K. M L. E Clih ver. Mp. § erTes ea Mr. Dunson, res; K. 8 cerson, W. . How ,Ir ett, R. O. Dunning, vve { Patterson sisters and Mrs. E. O ver, twelve acres cach; Dr at. ALK "“ and Cap*. J res vcach; Mr. Jackson, Mr. Rodgers, twenty vard, Mrs. Mci'r u?.:: Patterson, th Wondward in addition th * smaller grov te four acres each scatter s of f tewn, making fully rore, making a total of iacres of groves within t | Belmont VE committee (' 8. Just outside the limits we he ever o0 bearing groves Cshipping from this point, and withic « radius of four mi'es of the depot we have the famous Lynchburgh srove of 3200 ac croves and others adjoining, ln-sldm the new Lakeland-Auburndale Homes | [ Lo zrove being planted of 320 acres An o up-to-date Citrus | hange T piacking located here, in' Large of Capt. A, K. Hines, with a Lst-class equipment of all machinery Lond appliances, which is giving uni- | | versal satisfaction, and every grower Siould be a member. The quality of Hinit raised here is A 1, and prices have heen all that could be ex- coted, The Howard groves, Mr, J. Rollinson, superintendent, feen shipping grape fruit up to about Iy 1, and prices have ranged up to even $10 per box. The yearly ipments of citras fruits from this peint vary from 15,000 to oves in the past, roves coming into bearing, it will onreach the 100,600 mark, salways done fine Yonld be planted dendidly but pot acres of honse s being have 65,000 Peaches here, Other and more fruits do « enouzh trees that twenty persons, listed after Sunday night's flood, are dead. | Members of the Democratic committee came fer with Gov. = == | candidate for contributions Labout $250,000 10t (fund in 1903, Ango, a French aviator, a wild buffalo while go. He w handling the chines. SENATE PASSES WORLD but with the new ate Iution of Senator that the greatest warship po sible WILL OF LATE GOVERNOR BROWARD IS FILED. The last will and testament of the ale zovernor and United States sen- Napoleon B, Broward, was led Saturday for probate. e died n Oct. 1, 191, in this city, The 1896, and AL W, Fritot ctor-clect, ttested by Barrs (3 11 I W R I'his will consists ten. He begqueathed his entire estate to his wife and her heirs. Mrs. Bro- ward was appointed sole exccuiris of | e estate, oo+ HILLES INAUGURATES TAFT'S CAMPAIGN . with scant ' New Chairman of Republican Com- mittee Takes Up Duties—and He Has Hard Job. By Associated Press.y Washington, July 16 Ch: to direct President Taft's for re-election. 1t is said 1e may resume his duties as secretary 0 the president after the campaign TWENTY MISSING MAY BE VICTIMS OF FLOOD. (By Associated Press.) Denver, Col, July 16, 1t is feared as missing ty of the citizens was in favor of DEMOCRATIC LEADERS CONFER WITH GOVERNOR MARSHALL. (By Associated Press.) Indianapolis, Ind., July 16, national to con- Thomas R. Marshall, viee prvui«I"IlL here today BELMON'I‘ CLAIMS TO HAVE GIVEN DEMOCRATS $250.000. (By Associated Pressy Washington, July 8 stitied investigatine campy that he o had Democratie \ngust e sh betore the Se 1 uiven the Armenia | yyyapop KILLED WHILE HUNTING WILD BUFFALO. ed Press, ) Hubert Latham was Killed by hunting in Con- one of the pioneers in heavier By Associs Paris, July 14, than wir ma- « EATER{BATTLESHIP RES(- LUTION OF TILLMAN (By Associated Pross Washington, Jnly 14 The Sen passed the terror hattleship reso Tillman, proposing United States bnild the md pur oan nd 1o the race for vaval sap —————— Gov. W R maey Stubbs, of Kansas, in anted; room for plenty more We have said we Lud uo room for o “”.”“‘ U e RO b 4 do not want | and all L Binies Monatnf: dali ould be boosters. Op this subjecy |+, V0T oF presidential g ¢ the knocker wi g i Salrs primaries and the olection of fed W Plame, as fr district judzes by o 1 otote o jople dog sat ont in 1 1 zht chi And howled ar 1 ne CLARENCE S. DARROW CASE les D, Hilles went to New York this morn- ing to assume his dutics as chairman of the Republican national commit- tee, and campaign No. 219. NOTHING IN THAT BUBONIG PLAGUE SCARE ‘}AVANA PAI’ER SAYS ONLY ONE | CASE HAS DEVELOPED THERE THUS FAR. In Saturday’s issue of the Cubz News, published at Havana, ap- pears an interesting article relative Lo the bubonic plague, written by the cditor, NMr.’Av D, v ell-known newspaper Roberds, a former man of Flor- fda, having several years azo been connected with the Miami Metropolis As the article contains much of in- {terest, we republish it :”,'. the benefi: of our readers: “ls it or is it something else? Has Mendez Guerra— named like a lucky ball player and an equally unlucky general —got. the bubonic plague, as announced last week, or has he got a light case of the pip avated by the suspicious circumstance that the government needs an eleven million dollar loan mighty bad? “The president has informed Con- gress that unless he gets that loun one of two tragedies must occur —-reg- ular duties of the government must be neglected, such as street cleaning, repairing, and other details of proper sanitation, they are free to imply, or else the work of sewering, paving and improving water systems here and in Cienfuegos must stop, which would entail international difliculties. Ob- viously Cuba can’t bear the prospect f international difliculties so it is the regular work which will be neg lected, unless the loan is forthcom- ing; and just fancy how Havanu would enjoy seeing the street clean ing neglected, for instanc righi row, with a bubonic plagu on hand and more cases a possibili Aiso Loy how delighted Washing imll world be, Lnpossible to Believe. “These being the circumstances, Havana willing to doubt that any case of plagne exists at all, were it not for the charvacter and rep- serving on her would be vtation of the men to such a state of wspicion of it and all its administration sanitary bo seofling vworks has the roduced the Lowever present peopls It is impossible that ,Tor example, a man like would lend 1o masine b Gt e Iis name and his incomparable rep- uiation world's fore- most physicians deal as he to fake a plague scare i United Stat 15 ole of the to such dirty it would order 1o convinee 1t that Culia has othor loun Who the Patient Is imply 2ot to have an his been diaznosod as the plague, The paticnt Vieente Mendez Guerra, & | Gallego, 47 years old, six of whi Do has spent in Cuba, He s work itz in a <tab M vderes strees rext the Disen totlice when, on the 2uth, he wem wad feeling mighty tired; this cond 1 went from bad to worse till it landed him in las Animas hospital, where they keep hem isolated Iy wetallic sereens ntforma- | L Prensa has prints erning bim down 1o the de- his izl S white and they change i times every four hours for him. Dr. Juan s in charge; among the ler him is an American \na Waddle. She is on dut knowledse. of MAY CONTINUE SIX WEEKS. | '™ * in the aiternoon until 11 a nil 1 These nurses wear linen un Al 5% voloe wa ¢ of b (By Associated Press ) i and over their heads a il he howled " i Los Angeles, (q Tuly 16 | han apron-like prote hours went hope of completin ' Clar contagion, with While dodging 1 we thirew, | S Darrow ju 1 ritw "1i.|1““ or the tha | the moon w : vestern this month, ha ‘ abandoned, 1t 1o see his wa sky', [may last six weeks sary because Monds oughs and it Aud his voier {was at first feared he d there wasn !:““‘ e o U OTTON MILLSICLOSED transmitted hr Over whicl veep, Thke nurses hand! th gl v » ¢ h <5, ) | ends has ¥y notion of b plenty of men like tha New Bedford, Ma Tuly 1% what they think a ame 00l L 1 1 1 1 i -‘ Who witd -‘AI' “1; m ;‘,“ .-y‘ 0 v. Za otton mills| Was He nght ing wrong, ™™inz the count with ! sound-— ! Tie pessimist's doleful song. i here 13,000 oporatives are on al Lo strike as a protest azainst a new 1 clozed to- “n no trouble so stem of wags There has of the plague patient’s strug- delir with his heroi (Continued on Page 4) e B o=y,