Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 6, 1912, Page 1

. f\w THE LAKELAND EVENING TELEG Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. YOLUME IL LAIQ.;.A}‘D FLORIDA, l'RIDAY DEC 6, 1912 No. 30. INGENENTS ™ 25erme FOR REGEIPT OF SND PROGEED MADE AT SPECIAL MEETING OF Emphasize Evangelistic Campaigns.” CITY COUNCIL CALLED FOR PURPOSE LAST NIGHT. l.ast night tke City Council held |the benediction will follow. 4 spevial meeting for the purpose of waking final arrangements for the yeceipt of the bond money, when it <lall become available, and to desig- nate a depository for the funds. After some discussion it was de- ided that the First National bank, #s (ustodian of the bonds, be em- powered to send the latter to the jliunover bank, their correspondent, aud to receive from the latter the proceeds of the bonds, upon final ap- proval of same, in instaliments of $70,000, us agreed. It is under- stood that when the money is re- cvived here, the city will divide it between the three banks, letting cach handle a part of the funds, upon a basis of what may be con- sidered a just and equitable appor- tienment. Notwithstanding that all known ohjections to the bond issue have heen cleared up by the decisions of the courts, the bonds are still sub- ject to the approval of the attorneys orf the purchasers. These have writ- ten for abstracts of the legal pro- ceedings, including the decisions of the various courts, which have passed on the legality of the issue. This involves some additional delay, but it is hoped that every pretext for postponement will be shortly sutisfied and that actual work on sewernge and street paving will soon begInA BOARD OF TRADE MEETING TONIGHT The regular meeting of the Lake- land Board of Trade will be held to- night, and the Boards new quar- ters in the Auditorium building will te used for the first time. The hour ot meeting is 7:30, and it is hoped that a good attendance will be on hand Orders for advertisements for our Christmas edition, to be issued on Wednesday, Dec. 18, are already be- ing given by entcrprising merchants who realize the value of this med- itm in reaching the holiday shop- per. Hardly a household in the ter- rtory from which Lakeland mer- chants draw their trade, but will re- teive a copy of this pujer, and it vill be read with intervst, as much for the ‘‘store news” in the adver- tisements as for the other interest- ing features. The advertiser who s his copy in early Will get the ', t deal. | | | | FOUND DIFFERING OPINIONS AS TO DIVIDING STATE. Pensacola, Dec. 6.—Simply to as- “rtain the state of feeling, he ex-! plaing, and not from any partisan- 1 basis, John G. Oliver felt the ‘dse on his recent business trip tliough East Florida upon the prop- ion in that section of the State ' form a new commonwealth o/ “est Florida, with a capital at Tal- | i assee, ‘There is not the sentiment uxainst creating a new State of West rida, I found,” said Mr. Oliver terday, “as there was when the PToposition was up some years ago 0 have Alabama annex this part of Florida. Naturally, there would not ‘But to say,” he said, in answer 1 4 question, “that I encountered "le opposed to it would be foolish. I was through Tampa, Key West and Sich cities and towns and there are vsentially many against it. At the Same time, I talked to a number of "en who admitted that they would "0t oppose jt.” l FELL TWENTY FEET AND DIDN'T WAKE UP. Nashville, Temn., Dec. 6.—Wel- hrurne Starnes, a student of the Vanderbiig university, while walk- ‘13 in his sleep last night fell from 'be window to the street below. a Ustanca of twenty féet. | were the principal subjects discussed | Wells. ‘ he impeached for his acts before he WILL REVISEEVERYTHING TARIFF FRONGONSIGNED 10 AGATE T0° ZNGHELL BY BLEASE HOUSE LEADER U UNDERWOOD'S SOIITH CAROL[NA GOVERNOR FORECAST OF INCOMING AD- MAKES SPECTACLE AT GOV- MINISTRATION'S POLICY. ! ERNORS' CONFERENCE. (By Associated Press.) _Delegates throughout the Presby- Washington, Dec. 6.—*"“We're go- tery will arrive today to take part ing to revise the tariff from agate in the gathering. An “All Together" to zinc,” said Majority Leader Un- R T s b e derwood at the White House today, when hearings in the matter were church work. The Presbyterians in begun. He said the opportunity to this country have set before them-|p . posro it pe given every intei- selves the task of raising $1,000,000 est affected. He talked with Tatt for the church cause and $500,000 but not on the tarifr i for extension work during the com- A ing year.—Tampa Tribune. 30 o'clock tonight the Pres- bytery of St. John's will open its session in this city. Rev. J. C. Tims, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will introduce the leader of the conference, Rev. C. K. Vardel. Rev. Vardel will address the as- mbly on “Personal Evangelism to Later Rev. J. W. Stagg will deliv- er an address on ‘“‘Consecrated Pos- scssions.” The announcements and (By Associated Press.) Richmond, Va., Dee. 6.—A sweep- ing resolution repudiating the re- marks of Governor Blease of South Calorina, in support of lynch law, was adopted at the Governors' Con- ference today by a vote of 14 to 4. Governor Blease, defending himself, snapped his fingers in the faces of i the other governors, and declared he NEBRASKA ADOPTS INITIA. TIVE AND REFERENDUM. | ciared not what the conference did for left undone. “Four times this norning has my life been threatened my utterances,” said Blease. 'l was quoted yesterday as saying ‘To hell with the constitution. | say now to hell with the governors of a'l the States and al' the people of the United States.” The conference was thrown into an uproar. The governor of Ala- Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 6.—Governor Aldrich today issued a proelamntion declaring adopted the State consti- STATE GLOSED Trial of Sidna Allen Will Soon Go[CTct: That providing for the privi- lege of direct logislation through tho to Jury; Defence Begins This initiative and referendum carried by Afternoon. a vote of 189,200 for, to 15,315 = ¢ ainst, bama and others denounced Blease, (By Associated Press.) e e s MNTERS, CONFER- |STEAMER STRANDED ELCE«MEETS MONDAY, O ROCKS ALL NIGHT teday at the trial of Sidna Allen, Wireless Message Says All on Board leader of the Hillsville gunmen, charged with the murder of Auor- Are Safe But Pumps Damaged. ney William Foster at the Carro for court house shooting. The delmne will will begin late today. ” ne:;ll:::lton(h;er ll" l’r:sident . Nowlin af BAAL CREDTS D5 | . ' | CUSSED BY COVERNDRS =555 Richmond, Dec. 6.—Rural credits | '“VIDg is the program: and plans for States to check the| The most effectual way of utiliz- drift of population to tho cities, | "8 our country churches, J. R. (By Associated Press.) Duluth, Minn., Dec. 6.—With fi- teen passengers and a crew of twen- ty-five, the stranded on the . Nowlin, president of the Fi..- iia Baptist Ministers' Conference, order o'clock. KFol- Easton w lhlrly-lln- miles this side of Port Arthur, On- tario, all night, while a stiff north- east gale raised mountainous waves steamer rocks, at today's session of the Governors’| The character of the proaching Conference. Myron T. Herrick, am- | *iited to our homes, J. E. Skinner. bassador to France; Governors The problem of the town and the O'Neal, of Alabama; Burke, of Kan-|‘ity churches, J. J. Cloar. sus; Eberhart, of Minnesota, and How may the tide of matcrial Hadley, of Missouri, were the prin- [ Prosperity be turned into channcls cipal speakers. Tomorow the gov-|©! sPiritual utility? B, R. Pendicton, ernors go to Washington to meet the The work of the pastor, \\. G. president. Patterson. and the snow fell heavily, A wire- less message says that all aboard are safe, but the steam pumps are camaged badly, The citizens in Pensacola are pre- naring to vote upon a $400,00 hond 'issm' for municipal dock purpose. WORKING HARD ON 5 T 1 L SR ARCHIBALD CASE. | CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR- sionary campaign library No. 2 of ERS AT WORK.|the Young Pcople’s missionary (By Associated Press.) SAR e wovement. We have our social Fri- Washington, Dec. 6.—The House That Christian Endeavorers urc at night, always the same time and the where to go if one time is missed. We average nearly fifty present ev- vork in Florida a good many of us ame place, so it is easy to know They are also on the mo\¢ in | “The Texas Endoav- its State [ery wee election lust There L300 Jerers, | seem o the Jarge churches and towns. We H ] { roiagers conducting the prosecu- ton of the Judge Archbald impeach- | know. ment irial worked early today over [Other States, a byief ccvering the law in the case, | Oer” for December said o tar.” Senator \Works asked yesterday that | President since his are some good people who Loth sides present at once legal ar- June had written think that Christian En- vuments on whether Archbald could | They are already getting pro:ram | deavor is not a strong enough move- plans made for the Texas meeting next June. Almost all the papers rea our office had helpful words i Thanksgiving spirit. Among we noted with special interc:t t “The Miumi Herald,” for i1 ons for thankfulness took in 1 tire city and were nald became 2 member of the commerce court. vould like such believers to note for West Palm Beach, especially in the winter, is not what would be called a village and this church is one of the largest and most popular the year around in its locality. ing rue fcarefully the above, FATY:MILLIONS FOR NATIONAL BANKS them that roas- { en- the ; mainly o of any practical sort, or as may !¢ cx- Werner Jones, merchant Endeav- 5 ; pressed, “the common thine: of orer, of Auburndale, had recently | 8 ‘AH“' ‘\rsoflalnd‘}’ress.j life.” The other paper was The!lthe misfortune of losing his store Washington, Dec. 6.—The House Lakeland News, which contain:d afh_‘ fire. Co-workers of other places banking currency committee today censidered the levy resolution di- recting the secretory of the treasurv te deposit $50,000,000 of the gov- ernment’s fund in National banks, and referred the matter to a subcom- mittee, beautifully written explanation of , besides those in Auburndale and the similarity yet difference, hcw..outhw« stern district, will surely tween growing old in years and the sympathize with Mr. Jones, who has late autumn weather especially that been an officer in his home, Presby- of northern States. .!enan society, ‘“‘lo, these many Something splendid in the way ofIyearn." news came from Miss Maude ¢ »..rk,i One of our minister friends in secretary of the large society im|Jacksonville has written saying he NEW GOV. GENERAL APPOINTED | \est palm Beach. “We have insti-| enjoys reading the Endcavor press Toklsnvp:csm:if?le:::;;t Gen. | tUted @ weekly C. E. “At Home” |news and it helps him. The ques- s AT = to give the young people, their | tion comes to the mind of the press eral C"‘"}‘ Terauchi, BOVErnor gen- | ¢iands ang strangers, a social «ven- ' writer, “Why do not people say such efal of Kores, was todhy &ppointedl o ey 3 week. Now we hate our | encouraging words oftener?” b °f Japan, succeeding Mar-|, .o (Congregational) church we| Bradentown has a live Young Peo- quis Saonji. have the old room for social zather- | ple's society and they are now en- ings. This At ilome is informal. {joying services in their fine new We have simply a drink for refresh- [ Presbyterion church. With other ment and play games. Different | young people of the town they have m[ I"mn‘l'En ones are donating checkers and oth- | formed a branch of the W. . T. U. er games. We also have a reading’|and are going to work for the tem- table. Here we keep the society | perance cause. They are to meet (By Associated Prees.) cepy of the C. E. World still taken |regularly in these union temperance Boston, Dec. 6.—Indictments were | by the leader of the prayer meeting | meetings and are sure to accomplish returned by the Suffolk grand jury | committee. One member gives The something. today against three alleged rare-|Christian Her:'d Best of all. “an Recently greetings came from Mrs. beok swindlers, Walter V. Dutton.|unknown friend” sont a missionary Mary Bradt, leader of Sunshine so- Frank T. Daniels and Geo. M. Fisher, | library of thirty-eight volumes. ciety work for Florida. She is much all of whom are under arrest. Twenty of the booke are the mis-[encouraged as a Mr. Pingree of the BOOK SWINDLERS ment these days for young people of | Florida Sunshine movement is now acting as her helper. As Mrs. Bradt is not personally in the lives in New York city, she appre- ciates all the more the help of workers living here who will write tu her address, W. 28th St., New York, of Sunshine hospital or any kind of benevolent service done by Florida people. ; GRACE A. TOWNSEND. Interlachen, Dec. 4, 1912, FORMER LIEUT. GOVERNOR GETS IN BAD. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 6.-—Henry B Gray, former lieutcnant governor of Alabama, and one of the most prominent society men of Birming- ham, Tuesday was fined $100 and scntenced to jail for twenty-four Lours for contempt of City Recorder Clement Wood. The contempt consisted in giving an assumed name when arrested in a raid on an immoral house, and misrepresenting the case when tried. 600D PROGRESS MADE IN WARREN'S GASE Trial Will Probably Proceed With- out Further Obstructive Tactics. ('8saad PojBjo0Rsy Aq) Cincinnati, Dee. 6.—The cross ex- amination of Joseph K. Warren, an aatomobile dealer of Boston, formes- | y an employe of the National (ash Register Co., was resumed today in the trial of John K. Patterson, and twenty-nine others connected with the company, charged with violation of the Sherman law. Good progress hiis been made in Warren's exami- nation, and it is believed now tha: the trial will proceed without fur- ther obstructive tactics, |USE OF ALGOHOL BAFFLING OBSTACLE: (By Ausm' iated Press.) New York, Dec. 6. alcohol among army and navy ofli- clals was declared to be the most teftling obstacles to progress, in the report of Colonel Mervin Maus, chief surgeon of the Eastern Di- vision of the army. He recommends that no one using alcoholic bever- ages be appointed to any position of responsibility or importance. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The use of | Subscribers have ben respectfully requested through these columns on several occasions not to pay the car- rier unless he delivers the proper re- ceipt. This is a mutual protectiosn for all parties concerned and if sub- ribers fail to take the receipt they st not be offended if this office in- 3 on the payment of amount shown by their account to be due. The form of the receipt, as will casily be seen, prevents ang mistake, il only the subscriber will insist on receiving it from thecarrier. 'TORE DOWN FENCE 10 WITNESS HANGING (By Associated Press.) Princess Anne, Md., Dec. 6.—-A ci'owd of one hundred men and boys tére down the fence today to wit- ness the legal hanging of Wiley Mills, a negro, for assault on the fif- teen-year-old daughter of Former Skeriff W. G. Phillips. Miles con- fessed his crime. Walton county has just let the contract for the construction of sev- "enty miles of hard roads. ——— A woman's exchange is to be op- encd in Crescent City by the Wom- au’s Club there. FIVE MEN WERE KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION (By Associated Press.) Huntington, W. Va., Dec. 6—Five men were killed by an explosion of a boiler at a sawmill near Wilson- dale last night. field, but ORDINANCE PUT ON FIRST READ- NG LAST NIGHT ORDINANCE 141 MODIFIED SO AS TO PERMIT STREET PREACH- ING UNDER REGULATIONS. At a special session of the City Council held last night, an ordi- nance to take the place of crdinance 141 was presenied, placed on its first rcading and put in line for passage at the next regular meeting of the Ceuneil. The section of the ordinance re- ferring to street preaching, as will read: person or persons giving pa- speaking or vending, amended, “Kvery sech performance, exhibition, ride, lecture, shall pay a license of $5 per day; provided, that the mayor sihall have the power to issue such permit with- out license to bands for parades, to pelitical speakings, and to preach- ors, for services, under the following conditions: That any preacher de- siring to hold street services, before applying to the mayor for such per- nit, shall secure the endorsement of taree or more of the white resident pastors of churches of different do- nominations, for such permit, and suall present said endorsemeni with request for permit from mayor. The rsarshal shall have the power to dea- fgnate what point on a particular street may be used for such pur- poges.” Mr, Shellhamer, who has been thy nost vigorons objector to the law ax it now stands, was asked by a Telegram representative what he thought of the proposed modifica- tion, and he intimated that in the raain it would be satisfactory. HOW MISS YOAKUM SHOT UP THE WILD HOGS. Kingsville, Texas, Dec, 6. -Miss Bessie Youkum, daughter of B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the bhoard of the Frisco system, who has been passing several days at the King ranch, had a thrilling experience pe- cently when out deer hunting. Miss Yoakum ran into a pack of javali- nes, or wild Mexican hogs. Her Mexican guide dropped his gun and took refuge in a tree. Miss Yoakum had but three shots. She killed thres of the javalines. Picking up her guide’s shotgun, and retreating to a tree, she Killed two more of the vicious beasts, which were charging at the foot of the tree, the others cscaping into the underbush. Miss Yoakum will have the head of tho largest javalina mounted and keep it as a souvenir of the trip. WORLD'S GREATEST AUCTION BOOK SALE. New York, Dec. 6.--The greatest auction sale of books the world has ever known came to an end here recently with the last of the offer- inzs from the library of the late Robert Hoe. The sale, begun over a year and a half ago and divided into four sections, fell but little short of the $2,000,000 which it was estimated the famous library would bring. The total, when the last book vas disposed of was $1.( 060,60, The four largest library ions in the last seventy-five years in their grand total have realized less thaa the Hoe library in which new rec- o:ds have been set for almost every offering of rare manuscripts or books. WORKING HARD ON ARCHBALD CASE THE JACK JOHNSON MAR- RIAGE DISGUSTED HIM. Relleville, 11l., Dec. 6.-—Enraged by the marriage of Jack Johnson, the negro pug. and Lucille Cameron, white, Charles Kanch of the Illinois Legislature, declared today that he will introduce a bill at the coming session prohibitng the ntermarrage of whtes and blacks. [Illinois is one of the few States which allows mis- cegenation. ,‘ e~ s—