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\ s expected the A thoerect we for the con- B Kibler, of | New York, July 17, Ethe] Con- ier. The lat-f pad, the chorus girl tried for the at- ity and make fiempted murder of W. E. D. Stokes, was found unconscious in a vacant wmes mestioned VORK HARDER | MANUAL LABOR. WPANY LIELAND. Publlshed in the Best Town in the Bcst Part of the Best State. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY. JULY 17, 1912. | Hanson from Dr Stanloy compeldle bei twenty-tive days, he did not se ITH AMPLE CAP- | _ILL HELP IN i food, both for himself an ik Lk & | he prevailed upon one of v U 3UILDING. I 1o take his «;1:\0-- and o | mokallee and bring the o capital | _ orivilege | PTovisions, " tho I'il‘ dearly wing the | time of of the India 1~|l:«‘l- nd, | Pr Godden states that v ool I8 oW left the ! of aps wade almost to his knee this paper relieve his lorses from t sults of the water hie to build a ratt of log with =and. ETHEL GONRAD He was comy one house he was « (nterprise are of the State, 1. D. Bassett, Bros., of Dun- Fivay; and land besides be secured business for Chorus Girl Who Was < =00n as prac- a hand- Adventure. b president of By lot on the had chloroformed, and the con=| (hjef her mou Gibraltar, 1t pands and feet were tied avery potent | ghe had been followed by imd upbuilding le' i in-| v of the city bheen Wis over ndustrial | NEW STEAMER FOR ST. JOHNS. | el [ The contract has been {sonville for the construct [ Johns river line. Work 10 rushed to completion, The (th of Mr. and Oseood ! \ 1 commence atonce NIt th the prob- | shovld be er Will have a lens | MISSIONARY TO INDIANS; HAD | HARD TI} 1}: IN GLADES. | to th single for this service as it was the lie severe ro- and cover Fort Myers v INTHE LIMELIGHT Stokes Assault, Has Associated Press,) west side lust night, mind suddenly went blank.” steel river steamer for the and During that | white in need ot} d his hors the Indian uldle to Im-| most needed wlled to pay n festiivals. vhenever he ompelled to In order to 15 compelled it AGAIN Tried for She a handker- th, and her | 1. She s=aid ] a man and | | | | let in Jack- ion of a new Clyde ot, same is will new steam- INT feet and on be REORGANIZATION OF ARMY UNDER 0 B00ZE DU LM POLIGE e 1ton, July 17, *omonths, PROTECT IHE WE Wit 80 INCREASE N CO\SU.xPII N RING 1911 y o did .m‘ s the W BAPTIST STNE. . PAPER BACK i Lyithe ")!l()'l) i wouzh to spare, I you care to stud the matter from the standpoint of the TWO PLANS ARE BEING CONSID- ‘AND WHEN EXPOST WAS DIMI-| s ) ) o 2 VL DAPTIST WITNESS 0 BE RE ERED BY WAR SECRETARY | NENT AN ABOUT TO PEACH 4y wuy 175,102 e MOVED TO THIS CITY AND PUB- STIMSCN. ; WAS KILLED. Dpared with 163,893,860 Hons in LISHED FROM THIS OFFICE. | - L1910, In addition to the domestic 5 . By Associnted Press ! ( \=sociated Press.) [ production, )+ sallous of spir-' Lakoland. is.to be congratulated on Wishi TR B L B Plans for New York, July 17 -Purther ar-jits and 6,7 sallons of wine having again published in the city recrganizing the army are being |rests in tl aurder case of Herman ' were imported duving the year. Re- tho Baptist Witness, the official or- threshed out by Seeretary of War | Rosentiag cambler, who was ' duce this to pints and divide by li.‘; 1 of the Florida Baptist State con- Stimson in a council here, Two plans | hot down cavly yoesterday, a few pepadetion of the United States, a “{vention with a constituancy of ncar- are under consideration, One would | hours betare he was to tell the dis-covding to the last census, then fig- :]\ £0/000. The Witness now has o reate a e composed of men [ O whko had served their enlistment in tie regulars, and who, for small pay, would report at stated times tor dreill and inspection. The would bring the army up to full warl Seryve P other strength and eliminate the reserve By Associanted Press.) ide: New York, duly 17, Lounis W. Srh TS bber, who formerly van a gambling DEPARTMENT OF LABOR house in opposition to Rosenthal, | was bronght to headquarters, nl.’lk-j BILL PASSES HOUSE. or v hether 1 plan | rien ar ict attorney of the police protection vre what was your shar are expected to disclos police or the gamblors Rosenthan, Several s of the police of the records of briates gamblors, hoe Lill utder the eye lotted the homes .\ study ! MURDERER SCHWARTZ GOMMITS SUIGIDE ing the fourth arrest in the murder | Bedy of Slayer of Little Julia Connors for will show just what happened | te the pints you did not get, perhaps. | ine- ~-A body was (By Associated Pross.) L;‘h"' “I ‘l’l:,‘ ‘l::m,",;;,,.l;:.'," r\n\.\.r::‘\l Found Floating in the Washington, July 17, The House | \whitman urging an investization of | Hudson. passed the bill to create a department | the newspaper allegations that the e of Tabor, the seerctary of which shall | police are in partnership with the | (By Associated Press.) : gamblers, | New York, July 17, have a place in the cabinet. DON'T KNOW; THIS MAY BE 50 Hitchcock Sags Corpomtlons Did Not Contribute to Republican Cam- paign Fand. Associated Press.) July 17, Postmaster Hitcheock told the committee that (By Washington, il nk stigating " inve Senate I the Republican campaign fund ol"“ 1908 amounted to $1,658,7 S He sitid that none came from any cor- |, ion and nearly all the donations M s less than $500, ] SENTENGE OF MITGHELL Lange case, has been postponed. Pres- ahor, of Nathan Swartz, murder of Julin Connors fronx on July 7. he committed suicide. S and sister HAS BEEN POSTPONED that he tences of One Year and Six Months, Respectively. | that "knite, (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 17, -Sentence conveyed it to & vacant pon John Mitchell, the labor leader, z had confessed to his f had enticed the Gompers and Momson Drew Sen- uirl to u vacant flzt near her home ‘.md there attempted to assault her; when she began to scream he [ stabbed her repeate C¢ly with a pocket- He then placed the body in [the box where it was found, and later lot. found floating Monday in the Hud- son, which has been identied as that indicted for the in w contempt of court, in l'l)llll(!l'll()ll= NEV-I HOSPITAL 1IN JAX. ith the famous Buck's Stove and | lent Gompers and Secretary Morri- the American Federation of have been given one year, and | m, of some new St. Ground has been hroken in sonville for the crection of the hand- Luke's liospital, and by Jack- the first of next April the entire staft the to put up a bonus ir Dr. It is believed that circulation of nearly 5,000, and goes to almoszt every postoffee in the State, and theretore will be quite an adver- tisement for Lakeland, The Witness was Lakeland for about two yes wecount of the desire of the Lakeland | News Publishing Co. to sart a daily Hocal paper, it as to be relieved of the contract for printing it, and it was removed to Arcadia list fall, Ad- ditional facilitics having been placed in the oflice of the Lakeland News, it is now able to handle the Witness in connection with its other publica- tions, and Dr. Nowlin being desirous to have the paper printed in the town where he resides, a contract has been entered into whereby the paper will ia future be issued from this office. Two other towns in Florida offered Nowlin the paper with them., Nowlin has not asked Lake- published in rs, but on ked would locate Now Dr. ather land to put up a bonus, hut we be- lieve the business men of Lakeland will recognize the advantage of hav- ing the paper located here and will stand by it in tho way of advertis- ing. The advertising is the thing that enables the religious paper to pity expenses, br. Dudley ('. Nowlin, the business managzer, will move from Arcadia to Lakeland with the paper Aug 1. 1t is the purpose of D, Nowlin to get a locition, open up an office and carry i line of religions books. This will nean one more line of business added locld vhreadth of beam of 12 feet and will to the town aecie : - . i » ' . register 00 tons SiX months, respectively, and corps of the hospital will be set- i f | It will be quite an advantage to Sl RAISE ASKED IN WAGES ted in its new quarters in Spring-| 1 xouin (o have the paper :;uru ould make he | A Lt : Gt d Judge E. B Dillon, the Republican WOULD BANKRUPT ROADS. . {field, on the boulevard, hetween " i sont slay at fomg x‘rml‘lu o for governor : Ohilo, is I,l' s CANADIAN ROADS FAVOR FREE IRHL i Tt dtast Ak 'll'l' can lx I\I"IH his personal attention. e 2 b y 18 i ¥ e Then, Toakeland is one of the best I’”;l“llx'.h'“m' sears old and a native of Ironton, O. (By Associated Press.) TOLLS FOR AMERICAN SHIPS. mail '“*'l'i‘"lfli"" points in the tSate, 1‘ ’;' "-‘" e After his admission 1o the har he be- New York, July 17. -Many rail- < ,$|00.000 HOTEL FOR having «ix railroads going ont in as Rl o ‘v" gan the practice of faw in Columbus [ roads would face bankruptey if the | (By Associated Press.) ! ST. PETERSBURG. | many :vections, and heing almost in o5 ; 3 “1'"'\."‘! and is now servinyg his thivd term on { nding demands of the varions Washington, July 17, l'l‘f‘sldulll’ the ;,'Pn; raphic :xll center u;thn SA!'llt' ne 7'1 “.1" ;, he bench. {classes of employes for increase of Taft was told by Representative St Petershury is to have a new Having the State paper here and the 2 i -’:”I"Il']' ‘[ s ghould be granted, <aid B. A [Knowland ‘that the Canadian rail- $100,000 hotel. The Sunshine City only Baptist ook house in the State ; i)‘ : 1 SEEKS JUDGESHIP. Vorthington, when he resnmed his{roads are acting in sympathy with continues to make ready for more will natarally make Lakeland Bap ‘m‘ n ; fivzument in behalf of fifty castern | the American railroads behind Eng- sunshine seckers Minmi Metropolis, tict headauarters for Florida 15 proved Lake City, July 17 Hon. Gay Gil-!railroads before the arbitration com- | lond’s protest azainst free tolls ; ; ““' i Ien, of Lake City, has announced }rl-w‘l sion, which is deciding the wage rough the Panama canal for our Judge John . Karel, of Milwau- o ORAY WL didacy 1o succeed Judze Tra 1] dispute, m Kee, who has announced his candi- | MIAMI RAILROAD MAN U “”Hi Certer, resizncd, of the Third Judiciai B 5 dacy for the Democratic nomination " n s "1 ';‘ S renit for governor of Wisconsin at the Sep- COUND DYING ON TRACK. lnous ‘}n‘y. Mr. Gillen | o001 Wl at tember primary clection, was once a d w his . \ i X torneys in the cirouit, and has many | fumous foothall player at the Uni- Miami, July 17, Friends of Harry ot : \\lwll'v friends at the bar of all th ies and ‘ TWO UNKNOWN MEN BURIED; versity of Wisconsin Mebonald, .'.l well-known r.|i?1'u.|:l than hedens where hic professional duties | ho £ inmi wh prof {ran, who formerly ran out of Miami, it Ciwer | STILL REMAIN UNIDENTIFIED e e o o ul failed il hive a % ? — é I Al efforts to solve the mystery oi ' HEP"HIE“ SPHE“UINB the ddentity of the two men who wer 3 s e | 1 “.] dead beside the W, & BV e A ar Winston, Monday moru-! shipped fr IN PORTO RIGO - proven fraitless, and it now ‘>|u a th both bodies must be n=igthed to their graves namele 1 unmourned The various slender clues picked FIRST GRAPEFRUIT SHIPPED efruit were) e John Bryan grove | one of the man was Elmer St. » workinz in informatio grim tragedy, ha run dowr There are those who still believe t p here and there, whils the dark to secure some bearing on proven worthless when Geore or Dennis St. who worked a George, 1 ,VI“. at Dan da D=1 1t Meade; but this is very uncertuin T8 iyl was claimed that this man S matured, s 1y col-| George had relatives in Tampa, b a ored, and has t o of beinZ i jater it was stated that these rol of . vols et : Itives resided at Wilminzton, N. ¢ . i and those investigating the ea — R \< about concluded that th jecture, and that they are no 1« AT DLPO)\T B[msmE"Efl he identification of the dead B"-ls WILI- BE han when they were rst dis ifora onzidera- g tarifl i i jeach ving dead beside the roner’ to get light railroad 1 © mad on the me ments, fl\’ this mornir rase nz by That s “by being struck by the loco COCAINE CRAZED" NEGRO RUNSAMUCK AN miIR- him Satn that re- loss of hi vocident took dent befalling in the wlted e of Atlantic Coast Line train E Southern, near Ba - L2, known as the € 1L & N, con- nEHS AN[ wuum]s but just how it on, at about 8:30 o'clock on ,'”"_‘ never e known He was found on dght, July 11, 1912, while ly- Tampa, Fla, July 17, Bob Har jthe track between a couple of cars or sitting on the said Atlantic U's, @ negro from Live Oak, a X with both lezs cut off, unconscious Line track, and ining frac- 1y cd from cocaine, shot vd neoaris leath’s door from loss of skull on left o, which, in killed two women and one man of lor blood opinion of medioa anthority Lis own race, ond rionsly injurced Friends hurreied the unfortunate 4 in by this jur as onflicient | three other He harricaded himself {ren to the nearcst physician and all e death; and that death was ir @ room and resistod the police un- 1hat conld be was done for him, but » the said unknown's own care- | 1l e was smoked ont h hmniu:!l.‘n- shock and 1o:s of blood was too es55 or negligene biankets, which were for irough | great, and ho died in the afternoon S necessary i the re- the window: n he red at{of the day of the aceident of the larger u morn- | the door of the rocm his body was| those of the suppo od St George riddled with bullets held until this afornoon when Besides the throe nesroes e killed STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VORS S180 T8 tered, it botini 1cl outMERE, Ha sho! cman 1 T.| TO ORGANIZE AT KISSIMMEE e to hold then: 1o; ver Riggs through the 1 m:an-| S chief of polic Imington, cther colored woma irough Plans for the mecting Kissim- i) '.: b e ||-..('Hllvlllll-r.\.’~' \\~{;! be 111: lll:‘fv‘\]. .lT: pated that the " do B i .llufll'll,\ _.lukln:vmnu e Lu.,ntx of X i d Trade of that city held a meoting re- b ten the m PHES'“E | cently and « i m three dat tess, ther :nr‘r t '..l;r)ll\\'lili 3 - !‘\”'L x \".Hl 1 and mourn the Mt ke Ky A asadin e $doe i laidin panp bt ‘ i 3 S sned 1 th onsills ‘I,u:‘nl of 's 2N Wi . rmi §Trade. 1 mittee in cha 1 i ime of life, their dutics 0 nt | yet, but it is pr U sealed “A’")r to those abont ! Talt. Thompso fourth secre- ;-:ilx be chos too Ytary Taft has his election. fearly o