Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 12, 1913, Page 1

71 N N THE BEST FART OF THE BEST ST A, VWEDNESDAY, NOV, 12, 1913, D EVE] ~ PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN 1HL ATE LAKELAND, FLORID 4,000 NEW MENBERS | MOERTO 0. €, Thig Is the Report Made by the Pres the National Convention Today — f 10 4B0LH USELESS IoVERNOR GIV GHRISTAIAS GIVING REASONS FOR CHANGES N LAW Is Rerort Made by President Made Last Night by Mrs, August Belmont ISSUES STATEMENT RELATIVE TO CERTAIN CYANGES MADE IN PRIVARY LAW DESTRONED. R];SUI.T OF TERRIFIC EARTH:|wide anpeal for the abolition of the QUAKE WFICH TOOK PLACE LAST IRIDAY NG PLANS at H” fl UA (By Associate P'reu.) — ‘New Orleans, Nov. 12.—About .| four thousand members have been %N;;‘g%lfigcu added to the ranks of the United STEAMER. WEICH WENT DOWN,, IS BELIEVED T0 HAVE BEEN THE REGINA —_— Daughters of the Confederacy in the last twelve months, Mrs. Alexander | B. White, president general, told' 3 i the delezates at the twentieth an- Other Poats Went Down Jin Recent News of the Disaster Bronght to nual convention here today. Many Storm and Toss of Life Is Lima Today by Couricr; Much chapters, however, have been Heavy Sufcring Reported dropped, said the president, in the e R Ing of the Board of movement to weed out dead timber. | it one of the principal Mrs. White urg Ars i tiie ohetry 2ed that chapters be;' Port ichi ) ‘Nov., Bsion was Ve St cut out where not working. She 3 v shinmen hore betiove the over. Roads day, which has g Many shinmen here hetieve the over asked the convention to discourace turned lamation of the gov- any movement to obtain pensions for | ) dma'mr i dlsms_“Conf(‘ederates from the United States i ]“'\“ o the vl]-‘,‘,‘:"\ily,“. In'n‘;nm- of Ayma- s', efléctl"fi work and gove.r{xment. gl o st'-icteri : o i “il v st’)r{n. { g “(,‘ql od x.(,,nl(, ‘A\s 0 . - Iwere thrown open to all residents of | “I plead ruilty to at 1 & o qualifications for new members. i ports from points along the Canadian jreached fere by courier, Survivors theitinltadiStatea o minht want tol plead euilty to at least partially B othito - peon;e ishore point to a heivy loss of life, [4TC living in oven spaces and are : : ] Leing responsible for the amendment nd the country people! A acainst the foolish Christmas' X it Many bodies have been washed S'fferin: from lack of food and s]ml-l‘f:?r:(,’n "}'“"':“' pt::nv:;o?rinm qh]::"d "l‘tn the Pryan primary law providing to the town could be The covernment today is for-| i 5 hin useless Christmas 2ift and a plea for intelligent and thoughtful giving in- stead were voiced last ni~ht by Mre. the Gives _R"asons for Amendnent Pro viding for the Ovening of R:gis‘ra‘ion Books Auznrst Delmont, president of Shues, at the ovening meeting of the 1015 campai>n to be waced by that azainst insincerity,| TAllahassee, Fla., Nov. 12.—Gov- i and waste in ('hristnms;(‘““"' Park Trammell, in reply to an s A x‘:lx'l.‘;;:|1::ij:11‘Il:;‘t;""'h'm.' | article recently in the Jacksonville in the mountainous portiem | ke mr:otln: i ":nmbMShml‘“"tm”o“" rel Talle jotihe S“""Sf“m N)"‘,MV T ehanes made in the Brvan primary ('.isnstvriflm Hangon ot Rt G law, issues a statement as follows: (By Associated Proes.) (Ny Associated Press.) s orcanization Lima, Peru, Nov. 12 I'en towns! % o lii=os | {eomrulsion destroyed and sev Tluron, steamer in Jake Iluron to e ative to certain »f the | the Resina, which is known to ha 7 Ass 5 (B; ociated Press.) i for the recistration books to he open ntering the efforts of | f the Poard of Trade, would volunteer to as-| the aporoaches of the entering the city, im-| DS that exist between a0nual meetings and will work for ts of the city and the Suffrage through amendments to the ithe roads are cared for . It was proposed to| kinz forces for the day SEABOARD ENGINEER MADE panies, one each for wards, as it chances two hichways leading| On the portions J. Weeks, an engineer of the Sea- ways, at the 0l|t.5kirts‘b0ard Air Lane, is one of many men ork will be done at the who have ‘“‘cast their bread upon the eeded, and it is honed waters” through doing an act of yard. ay some real practical brotherly kindness and accomplished. stimnlate enthusiasm ent, and to perfect the Weeks met an engineer friend who day’s efforts, it was de- mass meeting for next ne, Nov. 17, in the city here will be music, other attractions, and of procedure can be ef- this meetine every citi- nd, and especially all eonle living alonz the land, old man, and if you're hard up ! plentiful if it cotld be delivered. Poposed to improve, will fand assist in making you get it,” said Weeks, an event long to be nd an occasion of real t's meeting there were of assistance. Some of Some time ago a business man of ky and ahle-hodied of Ocala wrote Weeks that ke wished to' } of the Board volun- reonal services; others, r themselves and the enterprise, offered to ble-todied substitnte; ers eeneronsly donated 8 Or more teams. A com- ppointed to ascertain by at numbers may be re- at st in the movement, Ry ghave their contribn- made—either in per- b by furnishing substi- h, which can be used teams, the ecovernor was thich he etated that he 8 to head the movement “duties wonld permit, - arking all up that the pronrie- ploves mirht help in the broached. . PITRT TR M{%ch Nov. 12.—War-| business New Orleans, Nov. 12.—Women 2ashore and the coost is stiewn with|!¢r- {suffragists of Louisiana with repre- Wreckage. The James Carruthers, tan Warding provisions and has appro- sentatives of other States today larsest Canadian freizhter on the|Priated funds for relief. formed the Southern States Woman's Suffrage Conference, whiclr will hold State constitutions, RICH BY KINDNESS Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 12.—C. | in after |years had the supply returned an hundred fold. Several years ago was ‘“down on his luck” and loaned him the sum of $200 with which to keep the wolf from the door. The friend found afterwards that he was lake, is believed wrecked. to have been Scven Tives Lost (By Associated Press.) Menominee, Mich., Nov. 12.—It was reported today that the bar-e Plymouth with a crew of seven went ,down in Sunday’s storm. The tug Martin which had the Plymouth in tow, arrived in a sinking condition. \ CLEVELIND STILL FURIED U DER 6 FOOT SNOW (By Associated Press.) Cleveland, 0., Nov. 12,—With the city buried from two to six feet ‘under snow the problem of distrib- ‘unable to pay the debt and as he:utlng available coal and food sup- an orzanized and sys- wished to leave the State he went to plies has caused the greatest anxiety Weeks and offered him a small tract here today. | of land in Marion county near Ocala in settlement. “I don't want your go home and send me the $200 when “No, 1 want you to take the land and you must do it," insisted the friend. Weeks finally a>reed and proceeded to forget that he owned the land. buy the land. “I don't own any land in Marion county,” Weeks wrote in reply. The Ocala man then came to Jacksonville and told Weeks that | the land was recorded in his name, and then the engineer remembered that his friend had deeded the tract to him for the debt of $200. result of the conference the tract, which contains a phosphate deposit, | was sold by Weeks for $11,000. Af- ter the sale Weeks played the part of an honest man and sent the engineer friend $5,500, amount himself. The other engineer was as greatly surprised as Weeks at his unexpected good fortune. NEGRO TRIAL FOR MARY PHAGAN MURDER Ga., Atlanta, Nov. 12,—Judze As a| keeping the same, Fifteen hundred badics "have been without milk for thirty- 'gix hours, but other food is fairly ! Factories have shut down Lecause of "lack of coal and may not onen for a !week. Triple prices have teen paid [teamsters who hauled produce from “the railroad vards to the central market, and even then supplies in the market were all sold before noon )'ostqrdn)‘. Twelve hundred men are at work clearing the streets and the car tracks which are a tangled mass of wires and poles. | WAS PENSACOTA WOVAN ILLEGALLY PUT IN ASYLUM? Pensagola, Nov. 11.—The inves- tigation of the Mississinpi State In sane Asgylum at Meridian, promnted princpally by Mrs. Alice Shear, of Pensacola, is canting wide interest _throughout Missiesippi, Lonisiana, Alabama and Florida, The inquiry _committee is making an exhaustive protbe into the charge by Mrs. Shear that her hushand connived with Mis- sieeipni State officials to put her out of the way, placing her in the State Agylum for the Insane at Meridian | for a period of almost seven years. The committee's work carries with it {Ben H. HIll, of the Fulton county the hearin? of a number of witnesses | superior court, today et the trial of who are alleved to know of the ex- HARD LUCK OF WALF FROZEN MOTORMAN Savannah, Ga., Nov. 12.—Numbed with the cold, Henry Jackson, a mo- it rounded a curve Monday morning. His neck was broken. The car ran a mile before the motorman was missed. U. 5. MAKES FIRST I'"VE MITH MEXICO, (Py Associate Press) Washineton, Nov. 12.-—Confer- ences which are being held between William Bayard Hale and General Vencustiano Carranza at Nortales are interpreted here as the first open (move by the United States to show {movement in Mexico. Officials to- +day wouldn't comment on Hale's ex- act status, but on previous occasions |there as the president’s personal (friend and then took part in the con- ference with John Lind and Rear Ad- miral Fletcher. There is little doubt fin Ciplomatic cireles that Hale will report to Washington for official pur- !poges, It is not believed that the [ United States will recoznize the reb- the attitude of the United States to- wards the revolution. MOVE TO ENFORCE PRO- HIBITION LAW IN ATLANTA Atlanta, Nov. 12.—War to the death on “booze’” was declared yes- terday at a meeting held at the Girand Opera House, attended by thougands of ardent prohibitionists. Definite form was given this expres- sion by the apnointment of a commit- tee of twenty-five to take permanent charge of the movement to see that the prohibijon law is enforced in this city. Resolutions were passed, set- ting forth that charges are afloat that flarrant violations of the law are numerons, and as one proof of this asgertion, pints and half-pints of James Conley, the nearo sweeper, istence of bad conditions at the Aev-lwhisky, in unhroken packages, were 'PE FIEND CONVICTS charged with bteing an accessory to lum, but Mrs. Sheer is the princinal exhibited at t'e meetine, with the |the murder of Mary Pha~an, for to- witness. Conley will be tried on two before the committee Thursday ard 2t clubs by non-members. These res- day. She beran her testimony statement that they had been bourht ell of Marquette nris- counts of heing an accessory after it is evpected that several davs will olutions aleo ealled upon the police | : i ‘hera for a conference the faet to the murder of the little be neeeceary in ta"ine her evidence. jand the rrand jury to make strict| Leas M. Frank, super- Mre. Shear alleves thot she was kid-|inveetization and act whenever it Ferris today, suve that a wav n emall avantities to der, and now is in jail here nnder co to Missicelnni for the sunnosed | and ~radnally enttine centence of death. execution nurpose of Fein~ ploced in a =anitar-} nfirmed dome fien1 by nreme Conrt. ta enre done Tnetead of admin- factory girl. intendent of a local pencil factory, napped at Milton in 1900 by a physi- was shown that the law was not rig- where the girl worked, and where cian sent by Jertert Shear, her hue-Jidly achered to. her oody was found last April, al- band., With the allewed aid of her ready has been convicted of the mur- gister the phyeician indveed her to GORRIE STATVE TO PE His UNVFITED IN JAVTTARY Jackeonville, Nov. 12.—Florida's | N - Y has oeen postnoned pendine the ont- inm, but inctead she was placed in contribution to the National 17all of that it e no=cihle to come of his apneal to the State Tn- the insane azylum. His motion for a new 2 him coraine, mor- trial recently was denied by Jadwe WOXEN IN MAJORITY ver drne he craves. firet ten davs of this its care aainet Frank lar~ely uvon| v ton~h on the man, Prneeel], mind masters the fact 1 _;\ro done ta be had, he; eowa £2id ne t, trt he resi~ns himse!f, Phoehe Cousins, the first = and Wardan snirida I uneoneeiousl|woman lawver and once a noted log: ~nd *° as S. Roan. The prosecution bascd the evidence of the ne~ro Conley. ONCE FAYOT'S WOYAN DESTITUTE STETS AT Washineton, Nov. 12, ——M\ies American ON GRAND JURY Podwond Citv, Cal., Nov, 12 "\Vomen will direct affairs of the San Vtaten eountv erand jury, orcanizad|statue is nearly completed, will hej and eleven fory hara with ei~ht men members. The Apawn frnm a venire of 17 waTan womnen ~en, ahont twn weeks of turer, ig secking a government nosi- the eelections, holdine that women anee from the done tion in Washinzton. s to take on flech, and ten from her home In St. Lonis 13 torney ceneral of the State aas wiven | Tnol e of the most daneer-|friends here, askinz them to aid Ier him an opininn to the contrarvy. 1 ) thtem al She has writ- furiee, althenh the at may gerve on ever sent to Marquette'in obtaining a ‘position in one of e women used the stren=th of t» onally after they had | departments. Miss (‘myrfns, now 73 malority by electinz, one of the rather gtrennona’ vears old, Is well known in many number as eeeretary, althouch t had been adminis- cities of the country, is now in destitute circumstances. It is said sha men nomirated a eandidate of thc:fi ar, own for the position. Jedee 1. Doek made| Fame in the canitol at Wasghin~ton, the handsome Crecian marble statne {nf I'r. John Gorrie, the man who Jin'nv:md ortificial fee, and con'ed the fevered hrow of his patients in ke unveiled early in Janvary. The jearly in December, when C, Adpran | ) | leenntor whn made the model warded the work after cavarost the details of ‘ll} i*“"."v"ivi'm, N fniches natopn and droce far the etatun | re 8 vears after jt was o lres than rionsly rod, this statw rd in the meantime Gen, i piece, } ‘s oreat eoldier-g-to'- bkas been hanging fre for neasiy icn years. torman, was thrown from his car as| |its interest In the constitutionalist ! J\\'!'Nl he went to Mexico he was| | els but Ilale's information may ve| an important factor in determining, {m more than 5,000 within a few weeks during the last Christmas sea- | £on, the Spues have outlined for this year a national campaien and hone Ito establish societies In all cities and ‘towns throuchout the country. Mrs. J. Pordon Harriman presid- ed at last nizht's meeting. District Attorney Whitman, newly enrolled as a member, and Francis Crownin- shield delivered addresses. Mrs. Bel- ymont was the orator of the evening. [The orfzinal purpose of the socioty, she said, was to prevent compulsory givinz by pirls in stores and fac- tories to their employers, the custom of collective giving which the girls felt they could not afford but which "they could not avoid without embar- rasgsment and possible loss of their! positions. This was one of the chief objects of the society, she added, but ;th the only one. Another prinmi {attainment coucht, she said, was a general cultivation, by all classes of | i eivers, of more thoughtfulness and exnression. We do aniionce o when it is for the man lower down | instoad of for the man hizher up. [ ,in in exch of the voting precincts for two months preceding the primary of 1914, and for the books to be open for one month in each voting pre- inct preceding cach general primary election thereafter. 1 did prepare |this amendment and advocated its adoption by the Levislature. It was adonted by a majority of over two- thirds of the members of the llonse, althoueh it was epnosed by the mem- bers having Senator Bryan's bill in charge. “I also prepared an amendment to the measure providing that after the new and complete reeistration in 1914, that re~istration should not be required every two ycars thereafter by the voters who nronerly recistered 1914, except in the larve cities, It being provided in this amendment for a transfer from one political nar- ty to another if the person desiring the transfer mosle apnlication for the transfer at least ninety days prior to a general primary. This amendment was voted for by a good majority of the members of the House, but failed of adoption on ac- “We do not disapprove of collec- itive giving when it is done on the spur of the moment,” she said, “or | for some particular cange, because then it means that you have collect- ed a senge of human fellowship of which the money collected is but an! lexpresglon. We do not approve of it ! for the man lower down instead of !for the man hicher up. connt of a two-thirds vote being nee- essary. “I have no anoloey to offer for my part in eonnection with either of these amendments. 1 belleved when the Lecislature was in session, and I yam still of the opinion now, that these two amendments were desir- able. “The Bryan primary measure as “Some persons think that we on- pose giving, Far from it; we do not oppose pgiving, but we advocate intellicent givinz—riving that fe done with the Christmas snirit of izood will as distinvuished from giv- ine that is comnulgory, from fear or with the hope of ottaining reward— whether that reward be the favor of the man hicher up or advancement. iTho world at large should put more of the Christmas spirit into giving. Christmas ghould be a time for ev- ery person to do his or her share. “Some folks say to us, ‘Of courge you want to promote useful givine.' The word nseful has many chanees {of meaning. Usually when one thinks of a ueeful present, it I8 a present decidedly middle-class or {commonplace. So we do not attemnt | to promote nseful rivine in the com- !monly accepted definition of that 'word. The thine we are really ont Ito do I8 to aholish somethinz, We feel that when we have done that there will follow rond sense in riv- {In= and that everybody will be prof- ited therehv, “\We pronose to deerease the cost of the rit and increace the eond will; to ma¥e the heart of Father {Crristmas reinien by little acts of Findnees, nneelfehnees, hy pnttine thonoht into the pift we fent onr deaor ones. Cive generonslv; bnt vour heart, with all yvenr Non't make a hveinecs of Ton’t waste from than~ht. rivine, make it an art. what shond be a geason of good will! freely given.” \ - -|Sonthern snmmer by his genius, v\'i”‘l TO UNTANGIE CURRENCY BILL (Py Mssociated Proes.) Washin~ton, Nov, waa Pillar, of Joekennville, the artist and Demonerats in econference todav tonk 1 the evrreney sitnation with a nldn of brin~ine the adminictration Tl ot of the tan~le into whieh it had fa'l'en. It fe n'anned to pt the Pe- Nemarrats form secentahle to the nrecident fore the confereree met jof the Senate bankine committee met _r--rin in an effort to acres on e perte, but it fs not thought they are "u!:ely to get tozether. 12 . —Senate! orlzinally prepared and fntredvced in the Lecislature, only required that the reistration officer should onen the recistration book for as much as one day, in each election precinct be- tween Nov. 1, and Dec. 31, and that from Jan. 1 to May 1, the books should be open at the county seat. As orizinally introduced, the meas- nre prescribed only one registration hook and a duplicate thereof for the ontire county. To register the voter had to write his name in this hook 1t the time of his revistration, there- fore making it impossible for regis- tration to be carried on in more than one precinct on the same day. “It was my opinion that the meas- nre did not afford reasonable oppor- tunity for convenient and inexpen- fve regietration to those living in >lection precincts other than those in which the court houses were lo- *ated. The citizen who happened to 'ive at the county geat or near by, had reasonable opnortunity for con- enient and inexpensive rezistration ‘or forr months. On the other hand \Ir. Bryan’s measure only required the re-igtration ba 'k to n. aren for 's much 28 one fa*, “® ®e precincts throuzhont the county, and this only Murine November and December, five and gix months tefore the primary. In other words a citizen to recister in his own precinct must recister on such day in November or Decembep 18 the rezistration officer desicnates, or else be forced to lose the time and nay the expense of the trip from his home preeinet to re~ister at the jcounty seat some time between Jan. 1 and May 1. “Thinkinz a measure which in its operation wanld work such diserimi- nation azainet the voters who did not live in, or near the county seat towns was all wrong, I prepared the amendment which now gives a per- son opportunity to register in his own precincet any time during the month of January or February. “The man who lives in a precinct ten, fifteen, twenty or twenty-five miles from the court house, heins to pay the expensges of carrying on reg- ietration just as much as the man who Ilives at or near the county seat. (Continued on Page 4.)