Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 6, 1913, Page 1

¢ THE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State LAKELAND, FLORIDA, MONIMY JAN. 6, 1913. fH OFFGILS 0 : VER AF- 12 i SEVE PLA Fl (£ IN THE VARIOUS OF- cgs OF THE COUNTY. . Tomorrow sev in the The term will place. oiticers : take hold Each will e or v the governor fo | his term from the ¥ o the first Monda L pissioners and the (0] usual today vk of the montl | up the work o th WAl following day, the new for the nex yraanize i1 12 not known yet who of the re Hancock, o Whidden, o the presen chirmen AV adl hold overs on the commigsioners, Mulber Kver Whidden, ol Lakeland; RKathleen \, T. Mann, nst, Fort Meade. A, . Lewis My noi oard will he cotposed i« entirely, all the ol W, Hancock, For Lakeland, and W retiving, T he sali AL M. Law, . Fort Meade. 1 Marion mm; s X4 . Bartow, will Bartow Lan heri eistra aned oconuty oy o havinge ade the conaty rk. e has not y¢ s he will 1siness ures ity will ell, W udge for lideo Crive practice judre n o1 3. Preston, wh the Preston wil of law in Bartow. sent offic fere o s o Lis pr Hrs of sue He was educated i Polk and law 00ls ol Ga., th mivergity prodict for uistration the county vill at him judze, R He succeed the present prosecut 1ittorney tson, who has just filled out il four-year term in tha Huffaker was educate iv college, and received his State univer law ation at the has been practicing 'Wo years. Mr. Jchnso inue in the practice of law Boynion succeeds J. H. " lection, fficial He has been It is likely that h t2e in the real estate bus My with “r A. Parker will follow T. B. of ° county superintendent Prof. Parker was educate: @ for one term of four vears, n he retires he will becoms TOMORRDN £RAL (HANGES WILL TAKE officers of Polk expire ue wdojoq Aep ayl :l? ofticer, a hold over, wmembers The new Bartow, | and Mr Langford on the Onelis, fol-| ! Mr. | 1! prac- | county. | school. | a suce B assume the duties of Lan- the office of tax assessor. aster has been tax assecsor 't ¥ears and he retires volun- having been a candidat> loynton has assisted Mr. "I in his office every summer latter’s term of office, vfore he comes to his pres- some good experi- principal of the Plant City high Prof. Parker was educated it. the public schools of this county ond at the Jusper Normal, at Jasper, JFa. He has taught successfully in the public schools of this county for scveral years. The other officers elected, namely, 1. J. Drane, state senator, and R. W. Hancock and J. C. Brovn, repre- sentatives, will nog enter actively on the discharge of their several duties natil the Legislature meets in April. OHIO BEING FLOODED WITH COUNTERFEIT MONEY. scrool. i Springfield, Ohio, Jan. 6. This State is being flooded with (‘ounler-| feit ten and twenty dollar gold cer- tificates, according to word received today by local bankers. Fourteen of the counterfeits were detected by one bank in Xenia last Saturday, the same having Dbeen passed on customers. Counterfeit silver dollars of the iS92 vintage are cireu- lated. GOMPERS ANSWERED CRITICISM AIMED AT FEDERATION (Ry Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 6 head of the cration of Labor, the Senate S r also being 1 i e g 1 | ¢ ! [ t Samue! tGompers, American Fed- i spoke today hefore in- | jary in favor of the Clayton anti- hills. the aimed at | tederation because the comviction “labor Teaders in the dynamite con- spivacy, and attacked the Employer and Manufacturers’ par- | Steel corporation and ciation. subcommittee on injunction contempt swered criticism ol | association, ticularly the jthe National Ervectors’ L) R 1] a Dunedin, ! Lanized Cloarwater, has or- lannch the financiat noar and will Dunedin, that s0oon the first town. Lank of jastitution for GRO PREACHER JMLED fner He an-| the | A REVISION OF THE TARIFF 1o NOW UNDERWAY WAYS AND MEANS com'rrn{ BEGAN ITS LABORS. STARTING WITH CHEMICALS. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Jun 6. cvision of the tariff got a start to- v when the House ways and means Committee began its hearings, start- today with schedule A-—chemi- citls The committee plans to Lrongh the list, taking a new sched- cred. When the hearings ended this porning, members of the committee dovoted themselves to the formala- ition which it is hoped ady by March Thix tion of log have o { work will be passed on by the caucus called soon the extra ses to he of the new House, the 10 decide Lation will he in the torm of a sin- or separate hills, sehed chter apening sion, wle measure by zcliedule NEW USE FOR PARCELS POST. St Cladrsville, Jan, 6. —The Ohin, sived an absent- his din- work at noreels post today missing his tiinded man from He lett near-hy town home for without tench with him and, 1o Cols post, Le went the postoflice later Vs handed the catines BRISTON FAVORS N DUSTRAL CONMSIo Industrial Concerns of the AT OCALA YESTERDAY.| “or Criminal Assault on White Wom- | an—NMilitary Called Out to Prevent L\n(! ing. Tan, o ) lu.n on jnil 1 winal assanlt on citizen Ty i wi loaded wavon alternoon alons the hor an when he and un- eon The RIS honie S001 her + sherilf and and The 0 ) ut three miles trom the cne of crime, and was arrested. o was identified as the The o his vietim nrompt action | T neo to iail n i e neoro ini and saved him from @ mobh The lo litary company was called ont Quie od to dispose of him . o preserve the peace now prevails. | HON WUGH OF TH ANOUNT HAVE YOU? (By Associated Press.) \Waushington, Jan -The latest cstimute of the population of conti- pental United States places figures ap 96,496,000 on Jan. 1913. This figure was used by the treasury de- partment experts in determining the total money in cirenlation on that estimated at §3,- s ‘I d 3 n 2 - \\'hi‘ h 580, ‘an-. was 320 BIBLE PEDDLER DEI-'IES LAW AND GETS LOCKED UP. a e i- St. Petersburg, Jan. 6.—V. A. Cook, a peddler of Bibles, refused vesterday to pay a license to the city or pay a fine, when it was imposed on him for failing to take out a li- cense. He went to jail and said he would work on the streets beofre he would pay a license to sell religious mottoes and tracts and Bibles, 28 he thought such a dealer should be ex- empted. d e | a deseription | is hame ! cuilty man | Country. \ssociated Press.) [ (By Washinzton, Jan. ywrosented today a1y al commission Democratic | 20| wie every other day until all are cov- | whether the new leg- taking his | It was sent by par ! notitied by telephone and | Says It Should Have Power Over thic LO3GES WILL NOT BE SUBJECT 10; JIATE GOURTS RULING HANDBD DOWH IS THAT SUCH CASES GO BEFORE INTERSTATE COURTS (By \seoriuu-nl Press.) | Washington, Jan. 6.— Railroads atd express companies today won a 1cvolutionary decision in the Su Preme Court, when it held that con- tacts limiting to small sums their ahility for ol shipments are ot subject to State laws bat to in- perstate laws. 1t was further held contracts limiting their liabil- in return for a low rate are not interstate com- loss 1 thay 1 noviolation of the Scores upon scores of i | ieree laws, | " sieh contracts have been held void Lorder State laws, { X0 BOOZE FOR BALLPLAYERS OF CHICAGO NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicazo, Jan. 6o According 1o oad President Nationa! | plavers of | the “wu- thereafter recontly Taid down by hy, of the Chicazo club, the haseball went | 110 season nization on Jan and Vi Marphy's edict precipita? s Frank Chanc T e the el heated the late s play- the I2vers, from dor, who elimed thin ol aeconnt of Mina lost no game quent tippling 10 Eneeceds sivs the or- of the president muse he oheyed ARCHBALD TRIAL 5 0N AGAN Straighten Out Certain Relationship. cinted Press) el sumed A\ cduded to an \ to tuke over the e hey i corporations, I d it is prog 10 ilar the 1o have tiu concerns over the tral Tocompanies. 1 ILSON HAS NO SUPERSTI TION ABOUT 13" HO00D00. | ne-"' Prineeton i, dan b + Wilson is not at all super the 13’ S the number as ons brines him I | cussing the matter today jn bo 8 that | has ligured in my life and ne | hoodoo rather zood is curions how connection with bad fortun | bhecome president in 19015, 0 the electoral colles fermally will elect me will « {tallots on Jan. | | The last day the Wilsons { Permuda, where they went r election, was Dec. 13, On | Ang. 13, the president-elect seat No. 13 in a car from v-~ .\Pagnl. The train rew destination at 11:1 “Ther: letters in his name and in his ' tcenth year as a professor in 1’116 ton was chosen as president o 1 university. MINNESOTA LAW ANNULLED TODAY (By Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 6.— The Minne- scta reciprocal demurrage law of 1907 was today annulled as uncon- stitutional by Supreme Court. The ceurt held that the federal ‘govern- p.ent legislated upon the subject to toke away all power if any existed from the States and to legislate, €0 far as anti-state commerce was con- cerned. Several States have similar laws. | enongh, e chbhald is i fenpey G Hon 1o hald. ;NE-HALF FLORIDA CITRUS CROP IS MARKETED estimat by the | 1t orities an ' that farl T il it kne vailroad bas | | shout one halr o crop ho been markered h wno that | the Atlantic hianled anarter million bhetweer two and two and o hone imd the ard railrond abont as many 1 ne of | It this 18 a hopetul regates in e izhborhood | fenr and a quarter million pboxes i rally supposed that half cens in excess of e crop rowers and DPers are Ao that within the nditions L will mats | prices will rise the the oranges has passed which has wronzht marketing of the fruip xo far. seid that fruit, proportionate to the crop, marketed this time lust than at this pe- riod of the present year. Orlando Reporter-Star 8 PATTON CASE GOES 10 LOWER COURTS (By Washington, i market | impro and that 11 is believed that | which | atfec hwl Qa umthuun with rh' in the oranze ally period of rot a havoe more had been year, Press.) —By ing certain disputed counts against James A others, charged with violation of the Sher- Associated Jan 6. Patton and man law in running a so-called cot- 1910, the sent the case ton corner, in January, Sipreme Court today againgt the men to trial in the lower courts, | (hased, [ rew. | ot THIS MORNING FOR SPRING TERM | Mys. Archbaid Takes the Stand to! This !, the! It 1\' at | uphold- | DIVINE SARAH BUYS COLORADO RANCH FOR SON. St. Paul, Jan. 6. Madam: Sarah Lernhardt today turned down Mrs. Harold McCormick, of Chicago, who offered “any sum” if she would ap- pear at the Congress hotel Jan. 31 at an entertainment for the Windy city'’s four hundred. The Madame couldn’y be engaged, because she is under contract to play in Portland that night. The great actress, by cable, presented her son, Maurice Bern- Rardt, manager of her theater in Paris, a New Year's gift of a 1,500 ranch near Springs, The ranch pur- but probably will be tomor- Abe Frank, of Chicago, owner the tract, demands $110,000 the ranch. The Madame a flat ofter of $100.000. A\ comprom ire will be effected, according 1o kd ward Sullivan, tative, bave today fere Colorado Col. has not bheen for makes Bernhardt's represen- | The actress outdoor diversion, ke will spend much ranch. ROGRELELLER (5 THOUGHT#T0 BE ! IN NAS3AU Associnted Press)) Jan Williiom Rocke- withted Witness the \ at 1] aceording visitors wants her son to | She SUVs time on the | By Miami, teller, Pujo committe, hama island, from there, 0 as i in Nassau, 10 is SCHOOLS OF CITY REOPENED the this! Ihe wehiool opened with weeks! Alter chonts o the the A vaeation ol city veopened worning fol sprine term aheland public per attendaree than hefore the holidays, and prospeets are ex- | done the ! collent for cood work heine | tern Morton i I'he Take privat chool, vesided over by i haed and Lirnne 1 at with o fine DT tondinee i Fake \| mmell a ooy nambher " (LORGIA PENSION CROOK MADE TO DISCORGE thanta, W \\ I, who fone Densioney ha as colleetod pension coree the which n within l T | the | o period Quepecting the man's reeord, investigatod | rtmont re he was (nsion commissionor o ord ound from war & that Contederate in Washinzton a army ! re most needed it, but finally back the 360 | Lindsay de deserter from the vhen his services w Th first and denied paid I'onsion Commissioner min and e Ie savs t cined to give his name, not prosecute him. ¢oman State whos as relatives in the ord is-untarnished. WISONS' PIGUTRE I | | York fated Press.) iinting the ( \ ==t New Lortrait | lan. % | may fup to March 4. 1t is understood that The will be ready to hang in the the in- today tho ocenp portral! White suration wW. N commission Honse soon after It was learned se has secured that | MAY TRANSFER STOCK [ OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC. tl Washington, Jan Press.) -The Supreme Conrt today had a plan advanced by the Union Pacitic attorneys for the disposition of the entire stock hold- irgs of the Union Pacific in the Southern Pacitic by transfer to th stockholders of the Union Pacific. Associated [ BEING PAINTED, President-clect Wilson ! wneh time for sittings | b | evening some o Norvell rorning Cpristians,”’ treated of the jud: i v hieh wained. tian for plication tarinm waf a zrent was i large spoke | Priat mon was peceived with sism, Londreds proniise led by and fConrt of wilt |- tment placed on the sae |y ithrom | | \ | | | This would not so effectually end the merger as to comply with the court’s dissolution degree. No. 55. J. N. HEIoKELL APPOINTED 10 SlICCEED DAVIS NEW SENATOR IS THE EDITOR OF ARKANSAS GAZETTE, A LITTLE ROCK PAPER. (By Associated Press.) Little Rock, Jan. 6. —Governor L'onaghey today appointed Editor J. N Zette, Toeft the Heiskell, Arkansas Ga- late of the senator to succeed the Pavis. The appointment is for short term ending March 4. M E. REVIVAL CONTINUES WITH GREAT INTEREST. The Methodis erterday had sreat day tull and in the There was a house oth morning and nizht, Wl for The turned away want of room al music of day was o duet by Mesdames and Bates in the morning, solo by Miss Riggins in the fl\vnhu:. The evangelist preacned in the on Uhow God o Tonors and in the evening he Fhere was service caening about throe hundred Many testiticd 1o the Chrig- lite, and quit ard for prayver dent arter in the 1o re- aonumber came Four made ap- member=hip. Men's Meeting a Success. Fhe men's meeting at the Mr s tor church \udi- There S gataering, and tass timely on - som Spro uhject 1 His ser- sreat enthn- neluded 10 and alver ( to aspir i The sinui holtield S omorn e manhood Messrs ther wis and Suber. Ihe < was well cuded neticial Orchestig W eements Metlonry ht 1 playing tospirnnal and 1 Pl o nis this i (Y ssivt men abd will 1 meetipy Services tonie weaching: tomoriow be only 1 morning at here will zirls at Tevited Yoy v omen the rvhody al weok and [MPORTANT SUPREME COURT DECISION ON TAXES. Under o de i Flovida, CAN ASSCSI property at a Suprer ol State of the cities nothe State hi her valuation than the assess- property by ihe connty. The Pincllas turg) and is regarded important the State's affects not only appealed count st. Peters- me of the most eV s down d highest nal it , a8 the from which the case was appealed, ! nicipality in Florvida, at than the assessment county officials beinu The Suprem: kolds that higher, and sustains right to place property within the city, of the valuation fixed by for State and 1t every mu- right of a tuation t the the city to assess a hiche miid v upheld Court by its decision sment can be in its nation on regardless the county purposes the e city its own val county FLORIDA PREACHER'S UNIQUE RECORD. Perform- for five Waveross, Ga., Jan 6 ing the marriage ceremony of his danghters is the unique dis- tinetion held by Rev. R. 1. Tayler, of Quiney. Fla., who is in Waycross visiting relatives. The fifth daugh- ter of his that he married was Miss Annie Maude Taylor, whose mar- riage to Rev. Frances Rhet: Bridges, ot Ocala, Fla., took place here at the home of Mrs. J 3. Bailey s