Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 21, 1913, Page 1

o . THE LAKELAND Published in the Best Town in ti: LAEELAND FLOBIDA, TUESBAY, JAN. 21, 1913 EWEHAGE §IX (AR T YARDS HERE, AND WORK WILL BEGIN AT ONCE. RS SEWER PIPE Now I . 2000000 ;,o.;.ooooo ' FIREMEN WXLL BANQUET. ' 4 cC. v, o eland’s Excellent Volunteer _’FMION . : ganization Will Have a Celebu- A - X i tion Wednesday Night. < It T :upa and Jacksonville < ‘, The Lakeland fire department has « don’t look to their laurels © | irsued thg following invitations to its < they will lose their claims to ¢ “ members, the mayor, members of the B )l called the Loancention ' City Council, and a few other citi- p @y for Lakeland will put & ! e ] oo e S RLANL | You are cordially invited to attend U | *in a claim for the title. That &/ | the banquet given by I enterprising young city has ¢ T i e he Lakeland Volunteer Fire Depart? g 4 been holding a wumber o o|NEGRO TAKEN BEFORE GRAND ENTERS UPON SECOND TERM DE- | aqetee” Fire Jo¥r” | HAROLD DAVIS TOOK NEGRO'S {® large gatherings this season, | JURY TODAY AND SENTENCED | NOUNCING VARIOUS INSTITU- | oAty opom, LIFE ON ACCOUNT OF A o TIONS, MEN AND MEASURES. | Kennedy's Restaurant. $5 DEBT. some of them (he largest held € < in the State, notably the Bup- < \ W Gurley, of the firumof| = g iy & (0., of Mobile, Ala., ¢ tist State convention. Last ¢ today, for the purpose < they have been having the o .12 out the ocniract of [€ State Federation of Labor in v installing ar up-to-date | & its annual session. This isan © . spstem o Lakeland. SIX |00 bods. and the bare © ~wer pipe wi: now in the i R ] railroad v:.rds, and work | T act of its meeting in a cer- € reat pul improvement is < tain place advertises that ¢ mmediately and will be (€ place among a wide-pread € utmost expedition. | & constitnency. Tampa Times, & oo tact will be completed 2 v s s s s oot tosaodae ¢ 1 or rainy season sets «ing to make a potato r rincipal streets,” de- E ‘;} o Guriey, “but we will not | that way long. So\'eml’ IH[ |NAUB“HAI. pat to work at differ- and we expect to progress vork at the rate of com-| Wilson Is Kept Bllly Explaining His 1 am here in 1o supervise this work, be- 1 enzineer? Mr. Hazelhurst, LT i Jnsists upon work com- woorizhitoap to the mark, and that's 4 of work Lakeland is goirg lock a day, W Gurley & Co. have carried Ler of big contracts of this South, and have a repn- woon for rapid and business-like iton of such work. The instal- will be followed i ey h-. the paving of t‘u\l s ul Lakeland will then he a { . and will enter upon an growth and oros- ! i | ot | OF JAX CROOKS KILLS HIMSELF. 1 the or ureat est CTIM (TIX ulonot aim o lose my Hie took it away . I love you and my but know | with me now."” t Fy vars of age, men o, you ] 1 l | above lines to his et Landerdale, V.| a farmer | * resideny of Okiahoma. ' il oof deadly carbolie the empty bottle down | < at hig boarding | \dams street, and | fecel vesterday morning s life becanse of he- | nd rohbed of voin Jacksonville S Linto the old game of match- | s by two crooks, Gober lost | esday. Listening to the ap- the men, who told him he Yack his $50 and $500 r went to Fort Lauder- withdrew $200 from his fturning to the city Satur- * niet at the Union station onfidence men. The game “+d and the farmer’s funds "in the hands of the crooks. U< Gober the confidence team P him $20 of his money and to leave for home, agree- YeT, to meet him in the | ‘“ated building before he left omething for him.” Trust- "en the farmer kept the ap- "It but the pair failed to and he then reported the the detective department. “'ricken and fearing to face iober walked to the desk . arding place yesterday “ and tendered the clerk the %im by the crooks, in pay- s Toom rent. Receiving “ he walked from the house ¢ drug store and purchas- I of carbolic acid retraced 'o the boarding place. stairs Gober 1 tnd then cried: 1 have LETE ained 18 7’|l<hfd to emer- | the | . Luke's hospital in k. ! u‘d“(‘x but died a few ‘ter reaching the institu- onville Metropolis —— ; . iford Herald of Tuesday k. 4 dretty cug of the new ot there, recently con- “ilh other improvements at " $70,000. Position in the Matter. (By Associated Press.) nton, Jan. 21 President-clect Wilson, today declared that it ar rangements were made for lur reception a popu- at the capitol building substitute for the inaugural Mrs. Wilson and dauphters would attend. The that the impression that the rremhers of his family would not he present He said he opposed the the inangural bl chiefly was an indi- rect expense to the government, FANAMA TOLL QUESTION SHOULD BE ARBITRATED ar u Laill, was incorreet, idea of becatise it (Ry Washington, Associated Press.) “The Unit a States should cither submit the Panama free toll question to impar- tial arbitration or n-vm from the po- “was the declara the h favoring sition we've taken, of lwi.l} in a spee tion Senator Rootr in the re- provision in the new pval ol free tol | INPORTANT DIAMOND FIND MADE TODAY (By Associated Press.) New York, Jun. 210 -Smuggled diamonds worth more than $20,000, Lovernment were found in a package aLents say, governor saia | received tfrom Amster- ‘ TO BE HANGED. (By Associuted Press.) Guitport, Miss., Jan. 21, Loliie ¢ Dickey killed nemed Perey Newelerk, prised in the 1 store The negro was taken before a grang {*h he yesterday by a negre act of rohbing from it, and ot the Pdistance cone ohe other boys placed a psbell in it ||-wln‘d up the aun, pointed iy at the Jreast of Albepr and pulled the trie- or. The other boys tried | bim, tetling him it was loaded, ! fwere too late. As the gun was | | most againgg the hoy, it blew a | | through his killing him stantly, to sto hody, FARNERS QRSERVED Farmers' Club held an nuu pleasant interesting nn EThe i.‘.l\ and Panama canal aet e said thay Con- | ing at the hospitable home o! sress was tired ont before the bilt | W. H. Cliftord, on ! was taken up last summer, and the|@ttendance was good, the weatl Weastre neveyr received proper con- | Wi ideal, the dinner, spread u | sideration. the large shade trees, all that L most exacting epienre conld and a general spirit ol neigh ness and good fellowship preva o1l combining to make in the who participated in thy ph ures ol the occasion. A This being “Ladies’ | shiort business session, presided Ly President B, H, Gray, the n was turned over to the lu they rendered a most the day Hike 1o stand out menmor those day,” mng and inter dam by Nathan Groen, a '“«llll(mlll““‘ and instructive program. i Lroken. Groen was arrested after BEst uumbicr Was & paper by Miss which diamonds valued ar $60,000 l.‘lf”' Conibear on **House : vere seized in his place of business, Science for the Housckeeper. REVIION OF MONETARY I SYSTEM DISCUSSED. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 21.- Former| Representative Charles Fowler out- lined to the House currency vommil-l tee today his sugegestion for the re- | vision -of the monetary system. He} proposed that all banks come under | federal control because banking is an interstate business, and that clear- ing houses should be established at conters to he designated by com- mereial zones under the management of boards of control and elected by banks of the zone, a deputy United States comptroller to preside over board. : NARSHIP MAY BE SENT T0 VERA CRUZ (By Assoctated Press.) Washington, Jan. 21.-—Disquiet- ing reports of a grave cituation at Vera Cruz, Mexico, today caused the State department officials to serious- Iy eonsider a dispateh of a warshin from the Atlantic fleet at Guantan- amo to the Mexican port. If no re- assuring news is recelved during the day this may be donme. cach | will not attempt to discuss this p for the editor thought it so o lent that he succeeded in capturin. it, and will present it in full t« readers of this paper for their Joyment and instruction. Other splendid papers were rea: 1= follows: Mrs. G. W. Cline, “Sciene ol Cooking;” Mrs. F. C. Wilcox, ' he Fireless Cooker;” Mrs. Phill “Stains, Iron Rust, Ete.;” Mrs. Kis- singer, “Cooking, and ral | Housekeeping Details. Mrs. Mercer presided over he woman’s meeting, and, inciden: to the introduction of the various nimu- bers, made some apposite remu she herself being one of the best formed ladies in this section on 1 - ters pertaining to domestic scien e ps, Ger n- While several of the old “charier| "{CIVE THE OLD BOYS VACATION. | but be struck with the members” could not number of new faces, evidencing 1! rapidity with which the country filling up with new home-huilders In the Farmers' Club these n«weom- ers find a very heipful and pleasant organization, and the meetings al- wars tend to a better understanding of the conditions of a new country and the foundation of a social and reighborly spirit, which goes far to- ward making life more pleasant and satisfactory. were present, the wrin Chiet 0! was shot and ¢ who was sur- He sat the gun down and weng some while he was ! When Otto returned he By Associated Press) Jan. 21 Ceowas inaugurated for olumbia, Gov. Cole his sec- fond rerm before o great erowd in the In attacked newspapers abolition of foot- L eoneral assembly hall here today. | Lis address he | ond advocated the Mr. Kennedy, proprictor of the | ‘ opuldar cate bearing his name, prom- Bartow, Jan. ‘ Harold Davis, the | son of Mr. J. R. Davis, shot and killed Tom Malloy, a negro, at the Lome of the latter last night, and at the coroner's inquest this morn- ing the jury brought in a verdict of 21 (Special). ires to serve an excellent spread on cighteen-year-old this occasion, and the affair undoubt- ‘unl\ will ho greatly enjoyed by those llnnlln.m- enough to he present, The department boys are justly pop- with the people of Lakeland, | lire | ular jury this morning. Ile plead guilty |41l jn the State university, Tle who feel indebted to them for valiant f murder in the tirst degree and young ond was sentenced to be hanged a | harced the president of the uni- -A»Hl‘ faithtul service on many ocea- | Davis was placed in the county jail MITORE i 10T6x. PronbE iation i et With NTTR D L o l'lmvl\[‘“m\ and those who are honored | without bail to await trial at the tho O o ovariodt a i vom Winilirop eollege o the Sty dtat ith an invitation to their banquet | next session of the Circuiy Court, i K i versity. !v l[l! hl:‘l _U‘lllll!l‘tl ull the nmmlrtulliill.\' : It appears thar Malloy owed Davis I T < t6 be bronght in closer touch with [ £5, and last night Davis went to { WAUCHULA BOY KILLS \RRANGEMENTS AT THE NEW the personnel of the organigation. Malloy’s home and ealled him out, __ ANOTHER BoY PCSTOTFICE BUILDING [2nd ater a shore conversation relas I A Jate Wanchuly dispateh says: peaking of the new postoflice ”»‘*' 'f‘ the matter, Davis pulled out U trasedy ocourred just south of | U, Postmaster Skipper vaid Eufl" EHAMPIUNE | his pistol and shot the negro four town Friday alternoon when ()Hnil womorning thag it will be a few times, death resulting tnstantly, Barwick, the nine-vear-old son o Lo us ver betore the buildine will b BAIHEH AI WASHINGIHN The ocenrrencs ts deeply deplored Noes LN Butler, shot and killed Al- | foidy Tor ocenpniey, as the contrie here as the lm\'ils family is one of ]lwn Silsox, the nine-vear-old son of J1ers are not yet through, but that !lhu most A;.n‘(.mmu-u( .lll Bartow, Jack Sileox. [110 test day the work is finisied so | Juvenile l-armers Will Be Weloomer| 20111 Dovlal fathor eine oo 0: It seems that AThert and Julian LUt the move can be made, Gie Tomgrrow by President. St Sl .m;. silcoy, Ogto Barwick and James But- | povimene will occupy the new quan - Taft. g among her most rected citizens. <7 o, ages cight to ten yenrs, had se- | | ki | o cured @ shot zun to shoot a hawk, ! e fixtnres ol the postothee,” (By Associated Press.) ; TEAM WAS STOLEN fand after the hawk flew away the | My Skipper, “are just as th--! Wushington, Jan. 21. Virtually boys were playing with the gun, Otto f=icied and specitied by the postoflice cvery train into the eapital lml-nr\' Horse und Buggy Belonglng to J. H. had the gun and it was unloaded Hivovector. Although as it now = 1rought one or more hoy “vorn cham- Wendler Driven Off by Un. known Parties. 15 oonly one window specitied pions’ winners of the corn growing fror the smbe or stambs and deineey bognests from their home States to T R | s Loame roing 1o have WS g e week sight-seeing, receiv- | i AL Hh0 nEed, and - have-another of el isih st it ot a horse and buggy belonging to Mr. | ing expert instructions tfrom ll0|) LW A 1 v indows for the sale of stams.” e R NI endler, driving the turn-out [ Speaking further about the ard e, Tafe will welecome the behiatlip; S0 oF Sti0. ADopn DRy angements tor boxes, ote., Me. SKin- f e tarmers at the White House building, in which Mr. Wendler's of- er stated that there will be plenty o0 00w fice iy located. ol boxes tor all who want them, and i 1 The team had been lofy standing that those who now have hoxes Will | g K ON V! {at the side of the building about fhe given space in about the sane WOR DAVIS | N80 o'clock, and when the owner Bt MEMORIAL PARK. | place as they have at the old post ot ready 1o go home about an hour cilice, ! oDk R S i I.““'ilmvr the animal and vehicle were AR R 1 1) R " i m‘l inb 4 "'“ "' ” i riissing. No ¢lue to the missing prop- | \ N it ving he Jdeflers H 4 " t s hee 18covered, thov | Davis Memorial park at I”uir\i'-\\‘.»" i I“.'l ‘.l RihvanaC hoEh i A e & search and inquiry has been made jhear here Woraken upoan o ear : throughout the day. est with the advent ol spring, ac- " lad TR e : ; wo lads are said to he missing, llul'llllnl 1O an announcement from | ¢ 5 ‘fruits. spice, ,ard other artic! "LADIES' DAY" HOLDS' FIRST SESSION Senate | Ry Wiashineton, Associnted Press,) lan. 21 The first an- the United taal convention of cliamber ot commerce of the Stittes was called 1o order toda Fwo prineipal ndg of the convention striven for vill be the continuation of Taft's riff board or some commission or- and tederal by tized on similar lines, reorporation for the association noact of Congie SCORE OF PERSONS ON WITNESS LIST TODAY. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Cpersons whose V Jan, inter 21.—-A are affected the agricultural schedule, M the witness lis; when the House “ays and means committee resumed the tariff hearing. They are viimental to a long list who testi- ted yesterday regarding citrus tallow, nursery stock, 8. Much of the evi- seore o were sup- | dence hore on labor cost as a vital "1 factor | | in the consideration of the wriff, COMPANY PAYS HIGH FOR CONDUCTOR'S TEMPER. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 21. Ejected from a Chesapeake and Ohio train Jor refusing to permit the conductor counties of the State to reverse his seat, F. M. Spiller to- day received a verdict in the Frank- lin Circuit Coury of $3,000 damages. Most of the judgment was made up of punitive damages. Spiller was ejected without hat or overcoat three miles from a depot and in two feet of snow. Washington, Jan. 21.—A joint resolution was introduced today by Representative Taggzart, of Kansas, o give all employes of the United States, except those in the naval or military service, who served in the Federal or Confederate army dur- ing the civil war, thirty days’ leave 0. absence on pay beginning June 1913, to attend the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the bat- tle of Gettysburg. H : and it is thought by some that they [ the board of commissioners appoint- | 4 % might have driven off with the team. Led by Governor MeCreary. Nineteen | { |One of the boys, who works at a local the Davis farn, which | was sent to deliver have been | 2 I'bread to a residence between | | 7 and ence s heing | IS o'cloek last night and has not been Laeres ol on Lakery, sOome jJefterson Davis was bhorn, purchased and 2 stone P built around 1t with tnnds appro- | £ { . censine Of course the connection | priated by the Stare Fhe statue ot 4 G 2 ol the disappearance of the hoyvs and the former president ot the Confed- Lihat of the team is bhased wholly on i the spring. | the ||l'n|>t'l‘l\f} will he improvements of | eraey Other erected surnise. The is a dark vhite spot on forehead, unshod, and f\‘ as hitched to a high top buesay | S | Mr. Wendler will give a reward for recovery of the property and the conviction of the thief or thieves, (By Associated Press.) ' Guadalajara, Jan, horse roan with are expected to 2ot ander way as soon | as weather conditions permit, ANOTHER CITIZEN APPROVES IDEA OF MORE SHADE TREES. Editor Telezram—In last Satur- 21.—The vol- | qav's jssne of the Telegram. we no- cano Colina broKe into active erup-{yice an article headed. “\ Word ton last night, thousands fleeing | \hout Shade Trees.” We heartily from villages. It is believed that {commend the idea sugszested and there has been loss of ilfe in remote | hope our City Council will take the villages. | matter into consideration at once, a8 e {now is the time to set shade trees. LOCAL OPTION ELECTION It probably would be a good idea IN FRANKLIN COUNTY | to let the City Council have the work | done and charge iy up to the prop- erty benefited. In the older parts of our city where Fla, 24 Carrabelle, Jan. 21.--On Wednesday, Jan Franklin Coun- ty voters will azain decide the liquor | ghade trees have been set, they have Guestion, or not the | grown remarkably well and are an county will continue in the dry col- ornament and a comfort to such por- umn or be numbered among the wet | ¢jong of our city. The campaign The setting of shade trees in front prior 1o the is one of the | o 115 and residences will cost but a most heated ever witnessed in the | ¢rifa anq wili be an enduring monu- as to whether eetion county, and close observers predict ment to the progressive spirit of our thar the vote will be a close one. | citizens. W iliam il U ESHEN T A LRI, Alots All whom | have conversed with ter known as the Georgia Cyelone. | oy this subject azree that it will be s heen enzaged to conduet a num- Ler of mectings in behalf of the pro- a wise move to have shade trees set all over Lakeland, and we believe the | hibition cause ! City Council will approve the idea. fome have alveady expressed them- sENATuH HWE“ WILL selves, favorably, and one of our most prominent members has ex- pressed o willingness te allow a re- BE RE-ELECTED (By Associated Press.) Oklahoma City. Jan. 21.— The re-| tion of Senator Owen was ity taxes to the owners f setting 1} bate of th, for the o trees | lep us zot wise to the situation and set to work at once. Yours truly, PROPERTY OWNER ele assured today when the two Houses of the Petor<burg is making preparas Legislature voted, giving him a large [ ¢jons for t':c biggest and bost Washe- majority on a separate ballot. * |ington birthday parade this year that joint balot will be taken tomorrow.| has ever been known. 3t