Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 28, 1913, Page 1

Prins ORE ested in seeing and becoming ac- ‘/,-——_. WA H H[GE[“S uainted with and hearing talk, The I N ISHINE a State-wide citrus protective asso- ciation, any members who contem- PG o) plate attending either of these con- 400D NEWS COMES AT LAST | ventions can attend both. Special rates have been granted by mo%:xr:mm m:.‘ all railroads in Florida from all the (1)1 AND INDIAN, Citrus Exchange will also be dis- cussed very thoroughly and fully, and as this convention is held on the day following the general conven- tion, for ti.e purpose of egtablishing passenger points in Florida for these | two conventions, and the hotels have First Reports Are !fllfl' to Have|given special rates, as have already }ecn Exsggerated Owing to |been published in the Florida Excitement and Flood. Grower, S The Florida Grower will also pub- .B; Amsociated Press.) lish the special excursion rates giv- Columbus, March 28.—The re-|en by the railroads, and as the Ex- meeting whom you all will be inter- financial condition of the Florida - LARELAND, FLOSIDA, ELAND, FLA, MARCH 28, 1913. ALLENS DIED N ELEGTRIC CHAIR THIS AFTERNOON ——— THE LAKELAND EVENING TELEG was taken at his father’s home, Floyd Allen, charged speciil sally with the killing of Commonwealth | Attorney Fcster, was found gum;.-‘ of first degree murder on May ul and sentenced to death. Claude Al-| len, his son, was tried on a charge of killing Judge Massie, and con- FLOYD ALLEN AND SON CLAUD E, THE ONLY TWO HILLSVILLE | victed of murder in the second de- GUNMEN T0 PAY THE DEATH PENALTY FOR CARROL COUNTY COURT HOUSE M URDERS, ELECTROCUTED. FRIENDS PLEAIIIE_E_WEHE UNAVAILING Governor Mann, Who Left City Yestcrday for New Jersey, Decided to Return and Stop Lieutenant Governor’s Contemplated Postponement of Execution. (hy Associated Press.) known to be in court and trouble rised estimates from the flooded dis-| change is sparing no amount of work giets of Oblo and Indiana show the | to make this the biggest convention poports of loss of life in many cities | ever held, and will lay plans for the sd towns have been exaggerated, | future at this convention, as well as be greatest anxiety still centers at|discuss the fallures and successes of Deyton, where an accurate estimate |the past, every member should show , o victims is impossible, but it is be- | nis appreciation of past efforts and lieved the deaths will Bot excoed tWo | his interest in future plans to an ex- or three hundred. tent that will insure his presence at The death toll at Columbus prom- | this meeting. 108 to Le much less than at first re- ported, the deaths in the western part of the city will bardly exceed o o. thice hundred. In Piqua, where five hundred dead were at first reported, there will probably be less than twenty victime. — KILLED BY WILD ICE CAR. St. Petersburg, Fla., March 28.— W. H_ Flagg, of Battle Creek, Mich., was run over and killed here yester- a runaway fice car Richmond, March 28.—Floyd Al- len and son Claude Allen, the only two Hillsville gun-men to pay the death penalty for the Carrol county courthouse murders, were electrocut- eu here this afternoon. ¥ As soon as Governcr Mann left the State yesterday, friends of the Al- lens opened their pleadings with the lieutenant governor. | was thought imminent. The jury having announced a ver- dict of guilty, Judge Thornton L. Massie sentenced the prisoner to one year at hard labor. With the last word of the sentence, a crash of lirearms broke from the spectators’ venches. Floyd Allen, the prisoner, vith a smoking revolver in his hand leaped from the prisoner's dock and Acting under orders of Atty. Gen.|joined the rush of the gang toward Williams, Supt. Wood of the the door. State penitentiary delayed egmtlol{ When the courtrcom was cleared o Floyd Allen and Claude snnmiu“. body of Judge Massie, riddled Allen until the question of the Iteu- i\, pyllets, was found lying over tenant governor's constitutional !}, desk; Commonwealth Attorney The reported five hundred drowned iy sternoon B s. Chillicothe dwindled to twenty- five. similar rcsalts expected from Zanes- yille and other towns in the Ms- Lingum valley. Indiana points report improving condititns except along the Ohio o’ the Hibb Fish Co., while he was fishing on the dock. LOUISHLLE 15 NOW right to act on the petition for 60m- | \vjjjjam M, Foster and Sheriff L. F. mutation was finally determined. The \vehp jay dead on the floor; Augus- respite held good only until this aft-| s Fowler, a juror, and Elizabeth wnoon, in the event Lieutenmant i Ayres, & spectator, were bleeding Governor Ellison declined to inter-| o wounds which proved fatal the fere, | next day, and Dexter Goad, clerk of Fearing intervention Governor | the court, lay shot tirough the neck. Mann suddenly abandoned his New :('.nzl(l was one of the principal wit- Jersey trip and returned to Virginis, | sscs for the State at the convic- river. taterest now centers on the rw! cue wnd relief work in Ohio and ln-| diug, which promises soon to be t ired to threatened cities and v s alung the Ohio river and later | t tue vicinity of Cairo and then the Mississippi. o 1 possible for a few days o (cicimine whether the floods of (. esissippl river will excéed the 158 stuges recorded last spring dowin viiu millions of dollars worth of 110 o was destroyed and approxi- 1 two hundred thousand were e homeless in Arkansas, Louisi- I Mississippi. . N THE GAP OF RAGIG FLOO (By Associated Press.) Louisville, March 28.—With wa- ter sweeping over the lower sections of the city, and the Ohio river stead- ily rising, Louisville faces the sce- ond flood of the year. The police last wight ordercd people to vacate their homes in the threatened district. FLORIDA'S NEW FEDERAL JUDGE —_— The following brief sketch of Judse R. M, Call, just appointed United riaking action by Lieutenant Gov-|tion of the prisoners. etnor impossible. The execution of Floyd Allen and his son, Claude Swanson Allen, rurks the first blow of justice upon the notorious Allen clansmen whose luwlessness for years held the natives of the Virginia mountains in terror oud culminated early last year in thie shooting up of the Carroll coun \When the courtroom was exam- ined later it was found that more tian 260 shots had been fired. Twen- coven ghots took effect upon those Lilled or wounded, Anoarmy of deteetives and news- paper correspondents soon was ccovring the muddy roads of the ponntrins in gearch for the prison- aree. The jury recommended a sen- tence of fifteen years in the peniten- tiary. The State demanded a new trial and a verdict of guilty in the first degree was returned om July 27 and he was sentenced to death. Friel Allen pleaded guilty of mur- der in the second degree and on Aug. 14 was sentenced to eighteen years it. prison, Three days later Sidna Ldwards pleaded guilty to a like charge and was given a sentence of fifteen years. Victor Allen was ac- qiitted of a charge of having par- ticipated in the murders. Sidna Allen, brother of Floyd Al- len and recognized leader of tae clan, and his nephew Wesley Ed- wards, eluded pursuit for many weeks, and eventually escaped out of the Virginia mountains and made their way west. They were cap- tured at Des Moines, lowa, Sept. 14, a3 the result of a love affair of young Edwards. A letter from him was lost by Maude Iroler, of Mount Airy, N. C., and detectives followed its information and captured the two men. Sidna Allen was placed on trial Nov. 11 at Wytheville, Va., charged with the murder of Judge Massie. WATER 15 CREEPING THROUGH STREETS OF GINGINNAT (By Associated Press.) Cincinnati, March 28.- -The tlood water of the Ohio erept into block after block of the lower business dis- trict during the night, and at day- bieak had recched a stoce of sixty- three feet, A rise of a few more feet will severely cripple the street ty court when five persons lost thei* ers. Floyd Allen, the-cause of um;mr system and probably put out of lives. a thrill of horror throughout the na- ticn and the shocked Virginia au- tl.orities moved expeditiously to bring the criminals to justice. On the morning of March ‘14, 1912, Floyd Allen stood before the The news of the crime gont ¢hooting, who had been wounded by Sherifft Webb in the courtroom, was taken the day of the erime, together with his son Victor Allen and his ' nephew Bird Marlon. l Sidna Ldwards, a nephew of the Aflen brothers was captured in a hut States Judge for the Southern dis- tvict of Florida, is timely right now: Rhydon M, Call, of Jacksonville, was. born in Fernandina, Jan. 13, | 1858, His father was Major George Wate; Recedes and Thousands Go to Their Homes. ..ssocialed Press.) \veit Dayton, March 28.—A bril- Loit suu uas tempered the keenness bar of the Carroll county court house in the mountains March 22, 1912. «t Hilleville, to receive sentence for Fdvards, who is lume, had eaten hie part in aiding the escape of an-, nothing for several days and was other mountainecr from the custody | very weak when found. Claude of he sheriff, A crowd packed the Swanson Allen, another son of Floyd Losty air and the flood wa- © subsided perceptibly. Thou- | . Lwod vietims who have been i downtown sections of the | re able unaided to make their | ¢ suburbs today. J.rts of Main street the side- visible and the work of clear- ' tLaolic conditions is progress-: i 4 marvelous speed. Militia- ! [ deputies were ordered to bar | a (seers from the stricken dis- Ut ind to shoot all offenders. $20,037,000 Damage Done by Flood. 1,y Associated Press.) bu:tn, March 28.—Property loss by fr will exceed million and a halt ol The flood damage to the ¢ity vl approximately be twenty u dollars, The water has re- 1 the main business district wany parts of the residence There is no lack of food. NTION CITRUS GROWERS LILSIN TAMP. NEXT MONTH | 01 Thursday, April 17, there has ¢ ¢illed to meet at the Tampa | .:ino, at Tampa, Fla., at O¢ % in the morning, a general o1 of citrus growers of the of Florida, whether aifiliated e Florida Citrus Exchange or {5 giscuss the desirability and| Ity of organizing a Floride lent of the California Citrus; t tive League. it is hored that . grewers as can do S0 Wil 3 UL present at this convention, which o presided over by Prof. H.| ;: d Hume, the presideat of th‘;? ! State Horticultural Soci _0“ the following day, Friday. il 18, will be held the annua: ‘ion of the members of the a Citrus Exchange. Every T of the Exchange should be nt at this convention, and make i I ;‘_-'d'm that the Exchange has eve: the biggest and rost rousing con- | ing between the Tu s {rian allies at Tchatalja resulted in W. Call, an eminent Floridian and a gallant officer of the Second Flor- ida reeiment, who met his death at the battle of Seven Pines, in 1862, wiile fizhting tor the Jan.l that gave Lum birth. Thus lesing a father's prote-tion at an corls age, Judze Call was reared at ‘he home of his maternal grandparents, Rhydon G.| and Sarah B. (Smith) Mays, and ill was at their orange grove in Put- nem county that he received his pri- mary education. In 1874 _he ma- triculated at Washington and Lee university and he was graduated from that institution with the de- aree of bachelor of law in 1875. He was at once admitted to the bar in “jreinia, but did not begin the prac- tice of his profession until two years later when he came to Jacksonville and entered upoa Lis legal work. For six years he was a member of the city council of racksonville, In anuary, 1887, he was appointed I"niteq States district attorney for| . thhe northern district of Florida by p:esident Cleveland, cerving for two until he was gucceeced by 2 appeintee; was appointed Duval county by Gove years, tepuhblican solicitor of inor Flemingz in 1991, In this Posi-| pient, and as soon thereaiter & of the prisoner was well little court room for the (‘hrlrilPN‘TI,"llvn, known, ! mountaing “tembers of the Allen family were cn March 28, The next day Friel walked up to a posse in the and surrendered himself Met)wds -imfloyed invSecurmé The following information scut out by the treasury department regard- ing methods employed in securing sites for federal buildings, will be of \nterest to Telegram readers, as all bids for a site for Lakeland's goiern- w.ent building are to be in Washing- ton by April 8: Jreasury Department, Office of the Supervising Architect, Wash- ington, D. C. Upon the enactment of a law au- thorizing the acquisition ol a site for a federal building the trcasury partmeut invites, through u local newspaper, proposals for the sale or " ites For Federal Buildings | ~ aequired by purchase, accepts the offcr o1 the svecessful bidder, subject to the conditions hereinafter tated and the attorney geneial's ap- proval of the title. No intermediary between the land owner and the cvernment is necessary. While it is advantageous to all concerned to have proposals submitted at the date fixed in the advertisement, in those cases where it is impracticable to gubmit an offer then, belated pro- porals will have due consideration if received before the departmeni makes its selection. Whenever the department is un- denation of land s_uitulm- for the|able to secure from the owner a pro- purpose. posal to sell the site desired (or any The offers are opened in Washington | part thereof) for a reasonable’ price, the time stated in the ad.crtise- | g resort may be had to condemnation prac- | proceedinzs to ascertain the valua- tion he served with credit until JunC]m,uM(.' an agent of the dep:rument;ticn of the property. If the price, 8o when he resizned to accent the judzeshin of the Fourth judieial circuit tendered him by Covernor Aritchell. Jud-e Call has continued i rvice upon the bench a 69 3, 1893, < honorab! 'cince that time, having been re-ap- inted by Governor Ploxham in PG STRIEE TURS RETRENT (By Associated Press.) Constantinople, March 28.—Fight- rkish and Bulga- gerious reverses for the Turks who It is contemplated to Have several began to retreat and soon became district managers present at this panic stricken. wmina- s and |is sent to make a peisons tion of the proposed loca iserch others as he decms !‘ ud to investizate the reas ol the prices placed on the propers l-."fl as compared with recent sales of real estate in that viciuity, (It thould be noted that the de- iencss ccirable, i made. judicially deternined, is satisfactory, he award is confirmed and paymeat If the damages are deemed excescive, however, the procecdings are ¢ emissed and some otner loca- tion ig taken under consideration. Where an acceptable title to the gite seclected (or any part thereof) partment is not provided with a reg-can not Le eecured by veluntary con- wlar force of site agents, but in the | veyance, nvestization of sites is ollized to depend upon those of its employes who have had experience in such werk. These representatives are sent t> inspect gites as soon as practica- le, having due regard to the per- formance of their ordinary official duties.) Based on the agent’s report, to- gether with written representations frcm other sources, the department selects the site and, If the property an agrecment may be rcached with the owners.as to the price to be paid and the title con- demned under a consent verdiet fix- ing the award at the asrced valua-| tion. When condemnation is neces- sitated by the condition of the title, it is customary for the owner to pay the costs thereof, besides furnishing the usual surface surveys and the ab- part of the consideration for the site, but will be agreed upon after the (Continued on Page §.) commission :ll railroads exeept two. Across the rviver, a square mile of residences are partially submerked at Covington and Newport, Ky., and occupants have fled. The Ohlo i3 nine feet above the danger line at Portsmouth and Ironton, Ohlo, and is rising rapidly. (By Associated Press.) Cincinnati, March 28.—Another flood stricken village, Venice, in But- ler county, has been heard from with the news that thirty lives have been lost, five families being wiped out, MRS. EATON INDICTED, Will Answer to Charge of Murdering Husband, Plymouth, Mass., March 27.— Mrs. Jessie May Eaton was indicted teday for the murder of her husband, Read Admiral Joscph G. Eaton. The widow, who is twenty years the junior of the naval officer, was arrested last Thursday. The indictment charges that Mrs. Eaton placed arsenic in a cereal drink, which the admiral took with kis meals. The evidence upon which the widow was arrested revealed that most of the family life of the Eatons had been unhappy. DIXIELAND REVIVAL IS lAllcn. youngest member ofgthe gang, ! No. 1%, COVERNOR CUTS 00T MORE WORK FOR LEGISLATURE MAKES MANY EXCELLENT REC- OMMENDATIONS TO LAW MAKERS. Repeal of Law Donating Lands to Railroads, Sale of State School Lands, and Other Matters. Tallahassee, Fla., March 28.—Gov. Park Trammell, following up the policy adopted by him of giving out in advance of the convening Legis- lature from time to time some of the recommendations which he proposes to make in his message to the Leg- fslature, today gave out the follow- ing: Repeal Law Giving lands to Rail- roads. *“One of the statutes of this State under which raiiroads have hereto- fore had donated to them larce quan- tities of State land is still in force, and should a new railroad be com- structed it would, under this law, be entitled to the alternate sections of the State land on each side of ¢ railroad within six miles thereof. In the event the State did not still own the alternate sections the company would be entitled to lands to make v;: the deficit anywhero within twen- ty miles of its road. The State has but little land except in the Ever- glades. In that territory the State owns about a million acres of land Should a railroad be constructed through that territory and the land grand law above referred to was still in force, the railroad wouid be en= titled to a large quantity of the State land, and would thereby get from the State public property worth probably one or two million dollars. The time has passed when the State can afford to allow land prants to encourage railroad bnilding, We can- not afford to have the public lande further applied in this way. For this reason 1 urge that a law be enacted repealing scction 632 of the general statutes, which constitutes our pres- ent law providing for rallroad land grants, State’s Right of Anpeal. “Under our present law the State i deprived of the right of anpeal In a criminal case upon the constitu- tionality of the law. Should a jus- tice of the peace, a county judze orf the cireuit judge in a eriminal case deelare the statite under which the wee is heing tried to be unconstitus tional, there is no means pre vided for the State.to have the ruling of the trial court passed upon Ly an appellate court. That we may have the constitutionality of “criminal statutes passed upon by the appellate court when they are declared uncon= stitutional by the lower courts, I sug- gest that a measure should be passed a'lowing the State the right of ap- peal in such cases. Sale State School Lands on In- stallments. “A good law would be one to au- thorize the State board of education ty sell State school lands on reasons able installments. This would fre- quently result in the State getting & better price, would encourage sete MEETING WITH SUCCESS.'“e“ and often aid a proor man to The meeting begun last Sunday pizht increases in interest and at- tendance. The scrvices are held in the afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and at 7:30, and wiil continue through Sunday. Sund:; ai 11 and 7:20 o'clock. The preacher is itev, F. E. Stein- meyer, pastor of the Methodist church in nalachicola, Fia. . He Las had cor -able gxperience in revival work. [lis sermons are very thoughtful and and yoinz lveryone should hear him. All are cordially invited to these serviers UG FERCIARD EITERS ADRUNDRLE (Ry Assoclated Press.) Adrianople, March 28.—King Fer- dinand, of Bulgaria, entered Adri cple and drove through almost an endlees line of Turkish prisoners 2nd jces will be held ! | prrehage who would otherwise be un- able to pay all cash for the land he desires. “That the diversity of crors for's which the soil cf the Everclade land is suitable may be ascertzined and aleo for the pnrooes of demonstrats ing the agricultural value of this land for the production of the@iffer- ent crops, I ¢eem it advisable that you pass a bill providing that the ~ intefnal imorovement trustees of ( b ablish and wz2intain appeal both to ok“l‘\md ghall cstablish and maintain 80 long as they lelieve for the best in- terest of ‘fu" State, one or more ex- perimental farms in the Everzlades. The Stote owns within the Evere glades ngd, it is my opinion that such wental farms, which would be | of put little expense upon the inter- | nal improvement fund, would add of the State as well as enhance very iwry materially to the development | fmlch the value of the State’s and other lands in that territory. A Settler’s Act. “While the State owns only about received the sword of the Turkish |one hundred thousand acres of land, commander in chief. ] (Continued ‘ox Page 5.) about one millions acres of B g N