Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 24, 1913, Page 1

the biag b busige Your ) 8 In, 4 228, ciy, o 60 88 ny had exp Are Evey cy, as he ma rd, 5y isinfeol ‘onkey ater, e en v is th e Rem sale b nishin| 0 fo wdy fo uctio 60 erato ply i Tel 61 brang) m fo exp Fork e W ) mel I yo tsid) yoL0XE 1L ABNET WILL i ON SALARY B INFUTLRE JUISE PASSES SENATE EILL JING SALARY AT $3,600 AND {ULNING FEES TOTREASURY 3ills inircduced to Close Moving Pic- tme Shows and Amusement Parks on Sunday. (J. Hugh Reere.) Tallahassee, Fla., April 24.—The House this morning passed the Sen- ste bill placing all cabinet officials « & salary of $3,600 and requiring tbe turning over of all fees to the easury. The bill goes to the gov- ezor for his signature. The House also passed the Senate sesolution memorializing the Florida &legation at Washington to work for the submission of a federal con- stitutional amendment providing for girect eleciion of federal judges. Feon introduced in the House the gwe bill Blitch has in the Senato o close moving picture shows on Sunday. The temperance committee helu raument on this measure at 8:30 Menday morning. Howell also proposed a bill to close smusement parks on Sunday. The cabinet officers’ salary bill re- duces pay of those who also receive fees but increases that of the super- futendent of public instruction and auorney generals The debate on the mental nnzuln‘l bill was resumed in the Senate this rorning. The debate is on au znendment to render the bill worth- Jess as it would limit claims for men- 1l auguish to $100. The mental anguish bill was glizitly amended in the Senate and| tle debate on same will continue un- til 4 o'clock this afternoon. The governor signed the first bill pessed, which creates Bay county. Sidelights on the Legislature. Tuesday was & red letter day in tie legislative annals of Florida, for on that day the first commission ¢.uter bill was passed. In the morn- ins the House passed the Pensacola bill which had been put through the Senate by Stokes. At the evening s:sion the House passed the St. Pel- ersburg bill—thus making history for one day. The commission form is glowing in popular favor beycnd tustion, and like the county divi- £ou matter it is going to be more i1 more prominent in legislative liicrature of the future. When the boncers of Pinellas county began f.iting for county division they Were not given any great eucourage- ticut-—on the other hand they were tursidly oppesed, but they were re- icss in their determination to live a new county, and they finally Veu. This session will witness the Creation of several counties—possi- tiy as many as six, but in any event &cieral, Lo, witness the power of fair “oman! The committee of the tlouse Lid reported adversely the resolu- L for equal suffrage when Miss Jeiunetie Rankin appeared on the £tue wearing & modest little button ¢i which was printed the legcnd “Votes for Women.” Now, there u\ 1ot a member of the Legislature Wi | Vil not say, “She can have my vow‘ Miss Rankin secured H &l any time.” b Ler smilingly persuasive and al- ticcther charming manner a recom-| [Joward and Bell of Georgia, asked Ii.iment of the bill, and there is a Probability that the question will b2 £ilmitted to the peopie, which aficr il is the demccratic thing to do. “Allle” Angle was here in 1911 28 Zcmber from Polk county; now he is Liere as clerk of the corporation com- Littee and bill poster for the House. The office of bill poster is a newone. 4 blackboard is standing in the lob- Ly and on it is a bulletin of all com- Tlttee meetinzs for the day. The idea is a good cne, and is proving 2 aelp to members, many of whom find It dificult to keep up with their OWn committees. In the meantime the portly bill .poster is losing mo time in getting endorsements for the eollectorgllp of the port at Tampa. What & fraud parliamentary law times! Tuesday evening -| eutirety on third reading. The clerk and tabooed sports and things had UP TO NOON. been slipping tirough these local iclarters. The clerk began in his l'ope’ Condition Is Improving ard monotonous sing-song and read— “Hor for His Ultlmatep Recov well, say, tive minutes in a rapid fire L t ~ nianaer, and at the concluding para- Are _Ei - Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State, HE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLCRIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1913 wasg given to local bills when the St. Fetersburg commission bill came up. It was a mile long and the rulcs re- quire that all bilis be read in their tct up and fetched a sea-goiug sigh, Le coughed, turned the fifty cr more pages of type-written back and forth over his forearm as if trying to tind the place to begin. Finally Ogilvie 8ot up and addressed the chair and [5 REPORTED SR ASGASSANTEL understood that Sunday baseball momnon WAS NOT CON- korse-racing and other like territic{ FIRMED AT THE VATICAN graph, which & always “that this act shall become effective upon its pus- sage and approval by the governor,” be closed the reading with the for- n.al statement of the clerk, “third reading of the bill in full.” Thero was & roar from all parts of the L:ouse. It would probably require an hour to read the bill in full, (By Associated Press.) Reme, April 24.—Assassination of Archbishop Sereggi, of Scutari, was reported here today, but has not been officially confirmed. The' pope vas not informed. His strength in- creases and the improvement in his health is maintained. DEATH OF MR. G. P. FREEMAN AT BARTOW TUESDAY NIG! Rev. W. 8. Patterson was called to Bartow yesterday afternoon to ccnduct the funeral services over the remains of Mr. G. P. Freeman, Bar- tow’s well-known photographer, who died suddenly Tuesday night. Mr. Freeman was on the strcets of Bortow at 9 o'clock Tuesday even- ing feeling as well as usual, but when he went home he was taken with an acute attack of indigestion and was dead at 10 o'clock. BILL OVIDING ORANGE GOUNTY iPASSES SENNTE Only Requires Governor's Signature to Form the New County of Seminole. (J. Hugh Reese ) Tallahassee, April 24.—The Seml- nole county bill passed the Senate this morning, and it now only re- quires the signature of the governor for it to become a law. This bill di- vidles Orange county, and it will only be a short time until Sanford vill be one of the county seats of Florida. The House is extremely fortunate in baving two splendid reading cierks. Young “Buck” Lanier is au apt understudy of his distinguished clhief “Uncle Nat Walker.” Uncle Nat is such a familiar character at tke sessions that they would not scem the same without him, and there is no better reading clerk in the world, for he knows just how to do it. At the Tuesday night session referred to Uncle Nat was being rested by Lanier, Things did mnot ove fast enough to suit him, so he jumped into action again, and the House was treated to an example of reading such as was never heard be- fcre—there were no spaces or punc- tuation marks in Uncle Nat's read- ing—he went to it with a vim anu vigor and facility that was not short o1 remarkable, and the members lis- tened In awe and wonderment. A certain senator lost his walk- ing cane, and he was telling his friends that he wanted it, not so much for the value of the stick, you kuow, but there were a lot of old associations around it that made it valuable. An inebriated individual found it, and was looking for the senator to restore it. He held the stick knight-wise across his body in a carry-arms fashion and pointed to suieral rounds of copper wire that held the ivory head in place: *“I vuess,” he said, “that shese are the shosiations round it that make it valuable.” BiG LUMBER MILL BURNED NEAR TAMPA The Loss In Estimated at$100,000, the Mill Having Been Com- pletely Destroyed. (Hy 2ssoclated Press.) Pittsburg, Pa., April 24.—Eight- ecn bodies have been removed and i+ is reported that seventy-five have heen found of those killed in the ex- plosion yesterday of the Cincinnati riine of the Monongahela River Con- solldated Coal and Coke Co. at Fin- lcyville. It is believed that one hun- dred perished and seventy-five es- caped. Up to noon twenty-two bodies had becn taken from the mine and oth- crs were reported f-und. STOLEN $5,000 RETURNED Tampa, April 24.—The big mill of the Dansby Williams Lumber Co. was totally destroyed by re last night. The loss {s estimated at AND THIEF CAUGHT. €100,000. Jesup, April 24.—Penitent, over- PRESIDENT BELIEVES come with remorse and half sick from worry, J. D. Stringer, the Seuthern Express messenger Who (By Assoclated Press.) was arrested early Saturday morning Washington, April 24.—President|for the theft of $5,000 from an A. \Vilson visited the capitol today, !h-‘!rt L. baggage car between DBruns- third time in his eight weeks in of-] /ick and Jesup on Wednesday night, ce. e is the first president to £0|i; now in the Wayne county jail at taere to save time In discussing ap-! Jesup awaiting indictment and trial. pointments. He arranged his visit Fvery penny of the moncy that he tc provide ample time for his con-ftock has been returned, even to the ferences before the Senate convened |ton dollars that Stringer remove: The delegation, including Hughes, | from the $3,000 roll of bills when be buried $4,990 in a glass jar 40Y verds from the Jesup railroad sta- tion Wednesday night. The ten dol- lars were given to H. G. Kelley, friend of Stringer in Brunswick to keep for him, and when a special Southern Express officer went to Prunswick for the money on Sat- urday morning, Kelley promptly turned it over. Mr. Kelley was in i7norance of the manmer in which the money was obtained by Stringer. IN SAVING TIME. the appointment c¢f W. V. Turley, o? Cl.attancoga, as public printer. Sen- ctor Hoke Smith conferred briedy. Senator Tillman was the last caller. FUNERAL OVER THE RE- MAIKS OF IZRS. FLANAGAN CONDUCTED THIS }ORNING. This morning a larze number ol criends of the family gathered at the family residence on North Kentucky venue to attend the last sad rites over the remains of Mrs. W. P. Flan- scan, who passed away yesterday norning. The eervice was conducted by Rev v. H. Steinmeyer, assisted by Rev. 1. C. Jenkins. There were many vvely ficral offerines, which attest- d the love and esteem in which thie ocd woman was held. Interment vas made in the city cemetery. GERMANY REGARDS SITUA- TION AS CRITICAL (By Assaciated Press.) Berlin, April 24.—The official view here of the Furopean situation s that the pcwers will work to~e ‘tec many indications that the Ger ~:an government regards the situa- tion l‘,!mml. BGHOP SEREGG (AUSTAD HUNGARY >r to solve the problem, but therc HANTS SCUTHRI EVACUATED BUT MONTENEGRINS HAVE A DIFFERENT IDEA, ACCORDING TO KING NICHOLAS. It Steps Are Taken to Oust Monten- egrins It Will Be by Force of Arms, (By Associuted Press.) London, April 24.—"Take imme- d.ate combined action; turn Mon- tenegring out of Scutari, or we will do it alone,” declares a circular note sent by the Austro-Hungarian gov- ernment to the powers today. The rote {8 virtually an ultimatum. King Nicholas Is Defiant, (By Associated Press.) Cettinje, April 24.—“Scutar! is rom today Montenegrin,” was the Cefiant answer of King Nicholas to- duy to the European invitation to surrender the Turkish citadel. The king made this statement in the course of a speech to an audience iacluding ministers of the Balkan Siates, and added, “Should Europe etill think of snatching Scutari frou. Montenegro, which has given her Iifeblood to take it, Europe will have to carry out the task by force of arms.” NIANIGAL WiLL SOON BE RELEASED [FAOM PRISON Will Be Set Free Without Further (By Associated Press.) Los Angeles, April 24.—Ortle Mc: Manigal, confessed dynamiter and chief witness against the McNamara biothers, who has been imprisoned gince April 1911, will be released within thirty days, without any re- striction, say attaches of the dis- trict attorney’s office. REPUBLICANS WILL SETTIE THEIR POLICY TONIGHT. (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, April 24.—The tarift discussion is again under way today in both the Senate and the House. I'ie House Republicans conferred re- surding a caucus tonight when it in proposed to settle their policy on the cctton echedule. Representative Pcters of Matsachusetts, a member ¢! the ways and means committee majority is among the speakers, pre- scnting an elaborate defense to the committee measure. ERYN LAID PLANS FOR PEACE BEFORE DIPLOMATS. (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, D. C., April 24.— Secretary Bryan today made public {his plans for {international agree- rient for peace. Almost every am- tassador, and minister in Washing- ton were present in response to the sccreary’s invitation to hear the ex- planation which will socn be the hasis of trealy obligations. NINORITY REPORT, PRE- SENTED TO HOUSE TODAY. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 24.—The mli- ncrity report was presented to the lHouse today by Representative Vie- a | or Murdock, of Kansas, the Progres- sive member of the ways and means committee, urging a tariff commis- sion, and the reasonable reducticn of any duty obviously excessive, and opposinz radical reductions not founded on adequate information. CHARGES FILED AGATNST CHIEF CLLRK BEAVER. Washington, April 23.—Charges kave been filed with the postcffice department, through the Florida delezation in Congress, against C. S. Peaver, chief clerk of the Railway Mail Service at Jacksonville, charg- ing him with favoritism, acceptine presents from clerks, and other al leged offenses against the civil ser- vice. J. C. Grosser, cf Jacksonville, mukes the allezations. THE HARD LUCK STORY OF “OLD BILL” JENKINS hens is in receipt o [3 leuer tmn an.old Lakeland citi- zen, who wandered away at the time of the big freeze to try his luck in other climes, and from the tone of the letter “Old Bill” Jenkins has svre had some tough luck since he Lit the trail for pastures new. The story runs, as told by the gentleman himself, that he lost his grove by the freeze and left this fair city some fifteen years ago for Galveston, Texas. The tidal wave came along socn after he reached tiiere and he was washed out on a log, which landed him over in Call- fornia. He hadn’t been there very long when a little two for a nickel earthquake came along and wrecked his house, scattering his eartnly be- lcngings to the four winds of Heav- en, leaving him only a change of mind or heart—he didn't say which. He left those diggings and ‘went to Dayton, Ohlo, and our readers can imagine that this last straw, in the form of the great flood of a few weeks ago, was the one that broke the camel's back—or rather Bill's back, and he writes Mr. Stephens that “I am now headed for Lakeland and am going to try the circuit over apain.” We predict for Mr. Jen- kins, however, that he will find in Lakeland Paradise regained, and that in the contemplation of her many wonderful improvements, growth and progress that he will for- | get the days when ill winds blew, and will “live happy ever after.” Here's to Bill's future good luck— he's bound for Lakeland, where he should have stayed in the first place. RAILWAY MAIL CLERK STILL MISSING. Jacksonville, April 24.—Nothing could be learned this morning as a result of the search for the where- abouts of W. G. Turknette, the young substitute mail clerk from Citron- clle, Fla, who mysterlously disap- peared on the 8th of April, after he had reported on a Jacksonville-Tam- pa train for instruction in the mail dutles that would develop upon him later. Inquiry and strict search is sijll being made by the postoffice au- thoritles, the police of the Q”n and fiis people at home, who are' greatly distressed over his seceming loss. WOMAN SUFFRAGE MAY GET IMPETUS Suffrage Committee Will Push Bill and Expect Favorable Report at This Session. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 24.—Members of the Senate woman suffrage com- mittee practically decided that one of several resolutions to amend the constitution to give woman the bal- lot will be reported favorably at the present session, If the tariff bill cecuples the House several weeks, Chairman Thomas will bring up the recolution in the Senate, making a dctermined effort to pass it. LONG AS DEMOCRATS ARE GOOD REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE NOTHING TOSAY. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 24.—By a unanimous vote the Republican Scnate caucus today decided that there will be no reprisal upon Pres- ident Wilson for the Democratic koldup of Taft’'s nonfinations, but opposition will be shown te appoint- ments where the merit system is not followed and where vacancies were created by removal from office, car- rying a fixed tenure, unless for cause. SOME EGG EATER BUT NOT ENOUGH. Philadelphia, April 24.—Reginald ('harles Goucher, of Stuebenville, O.. . student of the University of Penn cylvania, lost $25 on & wager thas he could eat fifty eggs in an hour 2rd he came near doing it. Grucher ate forty-five eggs in fifty minutes. tut could not eat the remaining five. Goucher would break five or six at » time in a glass with a little mil} ‘nd in this way had ‘swallowed fom juarts when his overloaded stomac! ‘«volted. 1 l ’ {, f No. 147, BRYAN FAVORS PROPOSED TARIFF ON' CITRUS FRUT CITRUS EXCHANGE HAS TRIED TO INDUCE HIM TO VOTE AGAINST MEASURE, L’Engle Has a Living Wage Bill Which Would Turn Out Crop of No Account Boys. (By Winfield Jones. Washington, April 24.—War to the knife is reported to have been declared between Senator Bryan and the Florida Citrus Exchange, the late ter representing a vast investment and the employment of an army of men, Coples of correspondence between the Florida senator and the general manager of the Exchange indicate that the battle will be the fiercest fought in the Everglade state for years. The fight follows the efforts of tho Fxchange to induce Senator Bryan to vote against the proposition of re- dvcing the tariff on citrus, William (hase Temple, manager of the Flor- ic: Citrus Exchange, in a letter just made public, declares that while the new tariff schedule calls for a re- duction of 50 per cent on citrus pro- ducts, in reality fits enforcement neans a reduction of 75 per cent. Senator Bryan has announced thal he will have to vote for the Demo- cratic tariff bill In the Senate. An industrial investigation by the department of labor to fix a federal standard of living wages In all oc- cepations {8 proposed by Congress- man L’Engle. He said today he will soon introduce a “living wage” bilk in .the House, directing the govern- ment to prescribe living wage stand- ards, and penalize all employers who 1ay “starvation wages.” L'Engle said his bill also will pro- puse a federal seven-hour day for women, prohibit employment of chil- dien under 16 years throughout tha uction and bar magufacturers from working any of thelr men moro than ten hours a day or sixty ho‘u a week. The principal features of L’Engle’§ HIl was proposed as a “rider” to the Wilson-Underwood bill in the Houss Democrats® tariff caucus, but were rejected as having no place in a reve Thue measure. Representative Frank Clark made a vigorous fight in the Democratie caucus for a hizher duty on pine- apples, than s provided for in the Underwood bill, now in the Housa. Mr. Clark took thie position that ine asmuch as oranges and other citrus fruits will enjoy a duty of half g cent a pound that pineapples should aiso be included in this arrangg. ment, as they all come In the same class of agricultural products. The duty on pineapples as provided for it the present bill amounts to aboug one-sixth of a cent a®pound. Tha substitute Mr. Clark offered is as fol. lows: Pineapples in barrels, or othe ¢1 packages or in bulk, one-half of one cent per pound. When seen afte the cauvcus Mr. Clark sald: * While in the caucus I made an ef- fort to have the duty on pineapples raised. 1 shall, of ccurse, as a good L'cmocrat gunport the tariff bill from A to Z when it is brouzht into tha House. 1 believe that the present bill, althouzh it has not been any tco kind to Florida, taken as a whole, is a good measure, and will do as much as a tarifi bill can do towards reducing the hish cost of living.” er JAWS LOCKED FOR FOURTEEN YEARS. New York, April 24.—After foue. teen vears with jaws locked followe ire tetonus during which time he frd through a tube, Lee .Recy Siefrid, 29, eon of a farmer mnear Waterloo, N. Y., spoke for the tirst tive today in the Coney lslapd hos- pital where an operation wis pere formed. It was after an attack of tvphoid ™ that Sigfrid found himse'f with hip disease and deafness. The hip dicease was cured aud tetanug sct in following an operation. Hie Jaws locked so tightly that six teeth had to be broken to admit a tuba tironeh which be might be fed Liquids,