Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 28, 1912, Page 4

PAGE FOUR. Ine tve“i "' Cook is & scholarly gentleman of ad-[ing the paet twelve months, ninety- nu eleurd“' mirable personal character, exem- |nine out of every hundred had the slary Y i g inst which she mow ) rlary in every relation of life and|three faults agal ;{u:lt:::: er::li\ lfterl;l::nl lr:n ":lhe full of intelligent and sustained en-| v.arns young girls in general. e OR00, R thusiasm in the cause of education.! —_— T!ffi EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., DEC. 28, 1912. bis instructions. Hundreds of thou- sands of dollars worth of property was taid to have been destroyed. Finding the maintenance of a hired “dynamiting crew” cost money, Mc Hockin was probably the most con- | meeting with Clancy ip Sea; spicuous in the testimony. “taking lessons” frop o, .- % Y The story of Hockin, as told, was: expert in Seattle ip poy 1 'E':“" As an organizer for the union he in- bomb by a spark insteaq w‘ _""l duced McManigal to do dynamiting. fuse, his causing ap b () s e o B Entered in the postoffice at Lake- He is just the kind of man to get thy | TFIRTY YEARS OF PROHI- -and, Florida, as mail matter of the| Lest possible results out of the pub »iond class. . F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. HENRY BACON, Superintendent of Printing. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ....- o ...$6.00 REC IRONEhN s Sanlihl 2.60 Three monthe ceo. 126 Uelivered anywhere within the iimits of the City of Lakeland tor 10 cents a week, From tue same office e issued THE LAKELAND NEWS weekly newspaper giving a re- ~ume of local matters, crop condi- .ons, county affairs, etc. Sent »vywhere for $1.00 per year. the South (arolina Cole Blease, governor, handed out gifts in the shape of pardons to sev- enty-nine criminals ‘“‘doing time" for their crimes, and his admirers gave him a Christmas gift by lynch- lie school system and the only kind that should be elected to supervis: the educational interests of a coun ty. We elcet many State and count! officers in Florida but it may be doubted if one of them sustains 2 nore important relation to the peo ple than he who determines the method, spirit and quality of the teaching given to the children in the public school. His work is con- tinuing in its influence, showing in creater or less degree throughout the life of every school child in the conntry, and guch work calls for a 1an of high character and equip- ment. No other kind should be elect- ed to such an office. Congressman-clect Emmey Wilson «f the firsy Florida district, is in Christmas favor of a primary in every town to clect the postmasters. We can see ro objection to this plan as we will be living under a Democratic gov- ernment and one of the doctrines of 3 ) cracy is for the majorit to ing a negro for the heinous crime of | Pemocracy OF Jority ” ; i rule.—Taylor County Banner. rot paying a note at maturity and tagged the body with a card signed ‘Cole Blease Supporters." A Not in ninety-five years has Eas- ter come any earlier in the year than it will in 1913, and it will not come as early again for another eighty-seven years., It is not likely that many persons now living will Le around to bother about a new hat cr new gown when Easter again comes as early as it will in 1913, The next Easter falls on March 23. Not since 1818 did it arrive sooner in the year. In that year it came on March 22 Not until the year 2000 will it come so early agalin. i If it were put to a vote of the pwo- e tle of the United States, we don't doubt that they would ratify by an overwhelming majority the decision of Postmaster General Yes, but you must recollect that the question would not be settled by 2 Democratic primary. It would be & primary in which all the voters, regardless of party, would express their preference, the postoffice being intended for the use of the public zenerally regardless of politics. How would that kind of majority rule stit you in awarding postoffices to the faithful under a Democratic ad- niinistration? The primary as a method of permitting the people to rule is all right within reasonable Hmits, but beyond those limits it can hecome a nuisance and a calam- ity that will breed more evils than the old convention system. The pres- ident of the United States is not a re puppet without discretionary powers, and he ought to .be able to appoing a competent postmaster—at Squedunck, for Instance—without Hiteheock | aagorly | listening fr and slavishly that the parcels post shall not be bowing to the imperious will of a used ‘as a carrier for whisky. The parcels post is intended to be a great Squedunck primary, uational henefit, and the man doesn’t live who has brains enough to prove that increased facilities for intoxicating liquors among the peo- Ple of this country is a national ben- efit. D State Game Warden Waterbury, of Towa, is visiting in Pensacola, and in comparing the game laws of £0 plainly on the two States he says that the big- popular majority, as declared in a before doing so. The loglcal extension of the primary to its full limit wouldn't give the the | American people much time to make cheaper and quicker distribution of a lving; they'd be so busy with their multifaricus primary duties. s L A TIMELY MESSAGE FROM ONE WHO KNOWS, A recent Atlanta dispatch talks a vital question touch- ing the social life of this country, gest need of Florida along this line | ang what it says I8 so much needed i3 a licente tax for hunters. From to be told in every city and town this source his State receives about in America that we do our share in $100,000 per annum, being more than sufficient to sustain the department in an efficient man- rer. There is now a surplus of some- hing like $150,000 in the treasury of the State to the credit of this de- partment, according to the Iowa of- fielal. Here is something for our legislators to think about. Killing Rame in a civilized country js not' 8 natural and indefeasible right; it s a privilere regulated by law and as such it could be made to contrib- ute handsomely to the treasury if tte Towa plan were adopted. The superintendent of the public echools of Escambia cunty is Mr. N. R, Cook, 2 centleman who has held that position fop twenty-eight con- secutive years, and his constituents intend to keep him at the head of thelr schools that much longer if he ives and is willing to serve. this amount | giving it publicity: *““The girl who wears tight clothes, paints and powders her face, and wears great bunches of false hair over her forehead, is the kind of girl vho {nvariably lands in the police station, unless strong parental In- fluence holds her back, according to Mrs. Mary Bohnefield, matron at the Atlanta police station. Mrs. Bohne- field is the author of the following three dont's for girls, wich she be- lieves will keep them out of mis- chief if followed: “Don’t trot the streets and make a gpectacle of yourself. “Don’t paint and powder and bur den your head with false hair. “Don’t wear tight, immodest dresses.” Mrs. Bohnefleld says tha of the three hundred or more young girls Who have found their way to her Mr. | vard for one reason or another dur- A Rare 0O Namara is alleged to have appealed t, the union for funds, and in this way, the government charged, oth- ers became implicated. For instance. the government set out that the nnion executive board decided at Jast to allow McNamara $1,000 a BITION IN KANSAS Kansas has had thirty years of eonstitutional prohibition, and the resuit of the experiment there after cuch an ample test ought to settle the question of the efficacy of that|month. for Which he would be re- methed of dealing with a great prob- | quired to give no accounting. Let- lem. Here is what Attorney General | ters also were written which, the Lawson of that State says about f¢, | rovernmeny asserted, showed cer- and it doesn’t leave the whisky | tzin business :z_:'.oms‘, recognizing crowd a leg to stand on: the “dynamiting erew™ as a regular “The test of the value of pro-|institution, eent word as to what hibition is the net résuly for Kan-|jcbs should be blown up. All the in- »as in thirty years. Almost a thjrd | dicted officials were declared by of the entire population is enrolled | their letters to be “linked together in school. Illiteracy has been re-|!n guilt.” duced from 49 per cent to less thap That was the case the government 2 per cent and that trifling amount | at the opening of the trial, asserted is entirely among the foreign ele-|it had to place before the jury. It ment. was stated the trial, in the num- “With 105 counties in the State,|ber of defendants, in the fact that cighty-seven of them have no fin-|the defendants were allied with lab- sane; fifty-four have no feeble-mind- | or unions, in the nation-wide extent cd; ninety-six have no inebriates,|of the conspiracy, and in its rami- and the few we do have come from | fications, was unprecedented. Me- the cities which defied the law to|Manigal's confession, detailingtwen- the very last. Thirty-elght county |ty-one explosions which he said he Poor farms have no inmates. There! personally caused, was scrutinized is only one pauper to every 3,000|to determine in what minute parti- ropulation. In July,. 1911, fifty-|cvlars corroborative witnesses were three county jails were empty, sixty- | needed. five counties had no prisoners serv- ing sentences. Some counties have not called a jury to try a criminal| case in ten years, and a grand jury is 50 uncommon that half of our peo-!utes. A curly-headed, dimple- vle wouldn't know what ig is. In my | ciiceked girl, garbed in a pink dress, kome county in western Kansas,| wus called from North Randall, O., every city. Dozens of them were brought from the Pacific coast to there has been but one grand jury.| o point out in the court room Peter | arrangement by which we in the fu- IN THE CIRCUIT ! . ture were to regulate the time !ax! and that was twenty-five years ago.’ S LABOR UNION LEAD- J. Smith and George (Nipper) An- derson, of Cleveland, as men she | 8w going up a lonely road with & 0x shortly before an explosion 2t tandall. A mechanie came DYNAMITE CASES proposed explogions in Detroit. envineer came from Panama to re- count his experiences with Hockin. North An (Continuea from Page 1.) D‘.(H'llil;k.;lbh:“ud ",l“t llhed despe;ul toys in railway stations, who cared A L I'tor suitcases, filled with infernai tke murder stage. M f th i achines, hotel ¢lerks who ‘“booked’” ] s ence 5 Heag of iite: ovidonts that e the MeNamaras and McManigal for 1:'eclnd;‘d ult‘ l,os Anielos‘ t;vy the rooms, detectives, stenographers. Lions ofigullt; by the 'MoNamara contractors who suffered from ex- brothers came out here. Federal ploslons, and all edge of the defendants’ conversa- tions or movements, which the gov- ernment undertook to weave into a completed story to show at once the !ndividnal zuilt of each, and the telephone operators, Judge Albert B. Anderson ruled that ! b while the specific charges were il- lagal transportation all other evi- dence relative to explosions mi; it Le offered as showing a motive. The testimony was that the destruction of the Times buflding was not strict- The witnesses came from almus(; Men who drove livery wagons, cheel ' Then he began to “‘hold out” on the pay allowed McMznigal for jobs. This resulted in quarrels, and the McNamaras decided to have little to Go with him. Knowing this, Hockin iwent to a contractor in Pittsburg !:-.nd betrayed the dynamiters. That ‘was before the loss of life at Los Angeles. Later Hockin worked for Burns, while still remaining as an official cf the union, and when the federal grand jury began work in Iudianapolis, Hockin took informa- tion to the government. *“Hockin paid me $250 for the FBoston and Hoboken jobs,” said Mec- Manigal. “Then it was arranged | should meet J. B. McNamara for the first time. Hockin had telegraphed Uie to meet him in Indianapolis. We went from there to Muncie, Ind., vhere we met J. B. Hockin made all arrangements here about getting rigs, boxes and cans for the nitro- glycerin he was negotiating for. He had me buy a piano box and rent a touse, fill barels with sawdust and {put them in the house for storinz i the explosive. Hockin paid me fo- | the rent of the house and arranged | with a well-shooter to get the nitro- | glycerin, which we transferred to the house in Muncie. “In February, 1910, in Chicago, | 'received a telegram from Hockin to {come to Indianapolis. 1 did not go, remain on the stand only a few min- ' yyt J. B, McNamara came to Chi-' “mgo and told me Hockin had sent | him to explain a new Invention. J. . R, explained about the alarm clock oxploding bombs. A few days later Hockin wired me to come to Indian- | 2nolis, where he and I and J. J. Mc- scheme, With it I went to Mt, Ver- non, 1., and nulled off a job on 2 rower house, for which Hockin patd me $125." ! It was in the summer of 1910, when explosions were frequent that | MieManigal said his relations with | liockin were broken off because he | , discovered Hockin had been keeping | part of his pay. About that same | time witnesses said Hockin began to give information about the dyna- miters, related pieccemeal their knowl- ! i Presideny Ryan, of the fron work- | jers’ union, and all the other defend- ,ants were charged with being prin- | cipals to the conspiracy through the {writing of letters. Ryan’s defenge Namara fully went over the clock | | | explgg . Beattle, and his retury to .4: ,clsco preparatory to g, T fAngelel, were all traced, i . A woman in sap Frapi. rented a room o M&\'umar: an who rented a room 1, s, and another woman fri,,; ., lan, telephone operators 3 nected McNamara wigy, the company which sold hip, 1 gelatine, the men fy m ,Schmidt and Caplan launch used to carry (y, ... ™ a clerk who sold the - . ters by which the o, launch was disguised; , ' rented the house in whi 'pounds of nitrogeletine in San Francisco; a cle;; in Los Angeles to whop M | bid “good might" at aboyy 7 'at night, after the bopy, » set in “Ink alley" i, the I building, and policemey wt ,the wreck after the 1, , destroyed and MeNamarg i &ll testified. | McManigal testificq, o, testified, that Hockin 1.4 .., more explosions wer. |1 B cbout the time of the ! dynamiters. * Theso e 1 oy !were: To blow up t1,. 1, Ks'ot ,‘: i Panama canal; to bl L3 [ bulldings in eastern (i ; offices of ‘‘open | were located; to blow 1) ; road bridges, and even 1, . .. . explosions on the Pac & woy, g ad by LN inz wy shon | TY, FLORIDA.- 1y Martha A. Foote Helen M. Fon Foote, Albert i K Foote, W. A. I'o \ " Trustee —Bili A from Title. It appearing by the 0 ey 8. Preston in the alo. i (U tihat W. B. Owen, [l ) pog Frederick R. Foote, 1.t 1o Charles K. Foote, W. 1\ 1), W. A. Foote, trustee, t:v named in the bill of conl non-residents of the Si. . #da but are residents o1 11 [ Btates that their postoflice i unknown. That there is no persoy within the State of Florida, the sorvice of 3 subpoena upon whom wou!d bing rald defendants and that th <id de- fendants are over the aze of twen'y- [ sutic of ol the: Sitase ‘\'us that the McNamaras and those “’." UL L S LD m'!v'ho confessed nlone knew that a .. “dynamiting campaign” was belng one years; it is therefore ordered that said non-resident defendants be ani they are hereby required to appear ly a part of the campaign against ron-union iron and steel work, but One by one the defendants heard ! vas done in an effort to unionize various trades In Los Angeles. James the charzes repeated against them E. McNamara, who set the bomb, t-’:v:m:l'(:pnlwm;(i‘Ms”“nnmes :m'n- was @ printer. Witnesses stated Iilo‘f . P ; r ‘d “'é “lcc“ i ‘“: that McNamara afterwards ex-[ °''M8 wrapne AIPART A Schmidt to help blow up the Times tullding. He was named as hav- ing sent word to McNamara the rmonth after the explosion that “things were all right oh the coast,” and as having requested the dyna- n.iters again be sent to Los Angeles, later acknowledging another explo- sion there on Dec. 25, 1910, as “a Christmas present.” McManigal said he called ay Tveitmoe's office in San Francisco, but met only Eugene A, Clancy there. Anton Johannsen wag mentioned by witnesses as hav- rressed little regret thay twenty-one reople were killed, and, in fact, ex- pressed disappointment that he had not killed Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, froprietor of the Times; that the dynamiter was sent to the coast at the solicitation of Tveitmoe, a rec- oenized union labor leader, and that Tveitmoe furnished David Caplan apd M. A, Schmidt, who were also indicted for murder, but who never were captured. All the 100 explesion came in for serutiny by the jury here, and the Soldk of om‘m““fm B g ":"" g helped Tveitmoe. William J. Poston to Los Anseles, Burng testified he told Mayor Alex- “Who caused those explosions?" ander, of Los Angeles, the day after was the question beofre the jury. the explosion, that “Tveitmoe and Broadly the charges were that J Johannsen were behind it.” Testi- J. McNamara began them nnd'mony about Johannsen was permit- thought them an effective means of | t8d 00 the ground that though not a fighting “open shop” contractors, defendant, “he ?'ad been shown to “Make the damare as heavy ag pos. | b@ 8 conspirator. sible.” McManigal said always were ,Ing back to McManigal a posteard i carried on, and that the executive' toard members did not know what | i Secretary McNamara did with the $1,000 monthly appropriated for his | vse without his belng required to' | 7ive an accounting, ! Beyond doubt the testimony whh~h| attracted keenest interes; was that which related to the blowing up of ‘the Los Angeles Times building, | That a man could deliberately buy ' 500 pounds of high explosive wi the purpose only of destroying pro-- €Tty gave unusual zest to that part | of the story. 5 Unrestricted by the court, the government went into every avail- | ,Tble detail of James B. McNamara's activity on the Pacific coast which | Was considered essential to the , charges here. The dynamiter's ar- ;rival in San Francisco, his brother's office in Indiananolis in i July, “The best pportunity Is offered to Men and Boys to supply their needs for the Winter, after he left . camera, says that amon to the bill of complaint filed in sud ceuse on or before Monday, t day of January, A. D. 1! wise the allegations of said bill wii be taken as confessed by said de fendants, It 18 further ordered that this o der be published once a week for five consecutive weeks in the Lukeland Evening Telegram, a newspaper pub- lished in said county : This 27th day of Nouw 1912, A. B. FERGU0ON Clerk (irenit Court W S. PRESTON, Solicitor for Compluinunt ' Aerlal Photographs Next. The inventor of a £prc e ] for photography from t 1910, his accompanying Me. | Point, land companies will be atle t0 i Manigal as far as Chicago, his gend. | d1splay aerial photogrs ban development, merc {tise their location in a . AT | genulne motion pictures of journem of | through clovdland vill some dij b the dynamiter's {as common as preseut day suapshots s of subat to adver in Clothing, Overcoats, Shoes, Shirts, and Hats, at greatly reduced prices, on the best and highest grade Merchandise ever shown in Lak land. Come while the sizes and assortments are good. Bailey & Pruitt C-