Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 18, 1913, Page 1

U 168U6 GIRL Wlo U Gt ‘ Pittshure, Pa., Nov. 18.—DMiss 4 IC BLU NB Clizabeth Reagan, last 1 t cap- , IV i tured a robber who was riflinz a bar room in her father's hotel here. The robber had held up the men in the 'room at the point of a pistol when the girl covered him with a gun. 'Pfl [E TO FACT FHAT NO AC' STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN NOVEMBER 18 IN HISTORY ! ongress Has Been Finally ized in Defiance of This | #ountry’'s Warnings 1793—Battle of Bliecastle, be- tween the French and Prussians. 1851—FErnest Auzustus, Duke of Cumberland, fifth son of King George I, and a died. 1852—Duke of Wellington’s fu-; gress is rezarded here 88 pora) (ook place in London with | he final touch to President creat pomp. defiance of tie United| 1860—Georzia Legislature appro- | Surprise was caused here Priated$1,000,000 to arm State. 1861—Confederate Conzress met. ! 1870—Battles around Dreux con-| y Associated Press)) o City, Nov. 18.—Comple-! he organization of the Mex-| dispatches that President | oes not contemplate active tinye petween the French and Prus-|up the matter later this afternoon. | supporting the warning‘slaus' erta. Talk of luerta's res-j 1883—Standard time substituted Is still heard, but his acts o 1ca) time, Iated to dissipate any idea! 1904—Incipient revolt in Panama ' as such intenttons. For- | whecked by prompt action of the pre keyed to such a piteh' zporjcan minister. | y would welcome anythinz, p the tension. Many nativea; Washington as the only re-: xican officials seem con-| ~ : | Jacksonville, Nov. 18.—In addi- hat the United States is bluf- I tion to the big waterways convention iin session here, this city s entertain- ling deleczates to the National \Whole- sale Drugeists’ annual meeting iwhich opened today. The new tar- iff laws will cause discussions on a number ef points of the druz busi- ness dnrine the convention. It is also pronosed to have a liberal dis- cussion and perhaps some action tak- | DRUGGISTS HAVE BIG MEETING i | RS TO AID HUMANITY ncton, Nov. 18.-—The cul- | and conservation of men, by them better cared for forests cultural lands will be one of | mes of the fifth Nantional hil distinguished officer, ! BLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE LAKELAND, FLORIDA, : I THIS ORDER MADE ON STRENGTH OF EXTRADITION WARRANT W OR Order Not Carricd Out Yet on Ac count of Arg §:ent Between Counsel (By Associated Press ) Concord, N. H., Nov. 18.—Judze Edear Aldrich of the receral Court, today ordered the re-arrest of Harry K. Thaw on the strenzth of the ex- tradition warrant recently 1ssued by Governor Felker. The arrest was delayed when the counsel encazed in an argument over tte custody of the prisoner. The jud2e will take ACCUSED BY BANK Providence, R. 1., Nov. 18.— Henry DeKay, James F. Allen and Orian R. Farrar, charces with hav- ing misappropriated the funds of the Atlantic Nationzl Bank, of Provi- dence, appeared before the U. S. court here today for an examination. They were canght in New York. AMERIGAN STATE BANK WILL NOVE QUARTERS Ahout Dec. 1 the American State ion Congress that opened in y today. Conservatton lead- 1so looking forward to a bit- en durine the session on the matter : Bank will move its quarters from the of handlint narcotics and habit Raymondo buildineg, to the handsome The drug men are ¢Orner room in the Van Ilues build- ) formingz drues. [itest over the matter of na- 'y yigug to co-operate with States and | br State control of forests, y,njcinal wovernments in rezulating and other resources, especi- tyo ga10 or disnensation of injurious land habit-forming drugs. i the west. The conservation- lize the urgent importance ofl bdefinite steps to prevent the| s oo o o e \WATERWAY ASSOGIATION SIILL IN SESSION - One of the arcuments pre- by the advocates of federal is that private interests are | valuable concessions that be obtained from the rovern-) (By Assoclated Prees) nd they hope for vreater suc-| Palatka, Nov. 18.—Relationa dealing with the individual tween the federa! government and of the Union. “This year's Waterways activities was tne topic bss ” the call savs, “affords an before the Mississippi-to-\tlantic ‘\\'ator\\'nys Association here today. ! The subject was hancied ny Colonel A. M. Baldwin of \Washington. FOR DEEPER WATERWAYS | Yo ! pnity for service not enjoyed fighe historic conference of gov- bat the White House, At that mce the conservatton genti- was crystallized into a move- At this year's Congress it is ed that the conservation move- vill be chaped Into definite Mmendations for lecislation by‘ tate and Federal authorities. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 18.—At- tended by the governors of several| *tlantic coast States and members of Conz2rescg, the sixth annual conven- tion of the Atlantic Deeper \Water- ways Association met vere today, Concressman J. Hampton Moore, aresident of the orranization presid-; ing. The president and vice presi-| dent have been invited to address the Among the subjects to e/ B TITED FOR RECORD IN POLK COUNTY ished by Security Abstract and . Title Co., Bartow, Fla.) meeting., ing, Main street ad Tennessce ave- nue. The workmen are now making such chanves and arran“ements as are necessary to house thls institu- tion properly, principal amone which is the installation of a vault for safety deposit boves, and to hold a mammoth 9,000-pound fire and bur- glar proof safe of the Hall manufac- ture. The American State has made ranid erowth in the past several months, and this erowth will donbt- less be more pronounced in its new and handsome quarters, where its business can be dispateled with ereater facility. Mr, J, L. Skinner, the president, has just resioned as postmaster of Lakeland principally for the reason that he wished to cive more of his time to the upbuilding of this institution. N:GRD PHYICI BEST PART OF THE BEST STATE ¥, NOV, 18, 1913, l,__ | Hie i REPORT IS TO EYFECT.THAT IT WAS CAFTURED BY REBELS |Army Officers Contemplate No Trow ] tle in S:bduing Navejo i Indians (By Associated Press.) Nov:s 18.—An unofll- wireless messaze received here suid that Tampico City, a Mexican port, had Galveston, cial by a steamship company fallen into the hands of the rebels. The through the steamer Minnesotian. messase was relayed here (Ry Associated Press.) : Waghinoton, Nov. 18.—United 'States Marshall Hudspeth's requoest for cavalry to subidue the bellizerent Navajos now fortified on Reautilul Mouantain in New Mexico, has been referred by the war department to General Tasker Dlisg, the Mexican border ofli ers don't expect in taking the Indians. rol.. Army serious trouble G000 ROATS RALY T BE HELD THURSOAY The meetine, held in the pork last nitht to make nlans for Good Roads day on Iriday, was nrot as well at tended as those in charee had honed for, and the meeting was therefore postponed until Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at which time every one interested in - Good day ureed to be present, the meeting to be held in the p:n‘k'. At this meet- ine there will he musie vy the band, and the prooram for the following day will be outlined in order that those who are voin~ to assiet will un- derstand where the work is to be done and how hest to ro about it. toads AUTOYORILE VICTIM DICS Jacksonville, Nov. 18.—John T, Wilgon, 6% years of ame, who was etruek down and riun over hy an an- tomobile, snid to have been driven by R. P. Illoffman on ‘ihursdav, Nov, 6, dfed at St Luke's ho«.ital early yesterday morntne, loffman is under hond to await trial. PRESIZENT DISCUSSES [REYTES A SCTNE (Ry Associated Press) Lexinoton, Ky., Nov. 18.—The annual convention of the Sonthern Medical *esociation was thrown into November 17, 1913 Ibdel & Stephenson to J. S. a jeoe N. Skipp2s to 8. 3. Gran- D. Edwards to M. (1. Warin '.‘I | will be also a number of five-minute e Mahoney, ¢t at, 3 Henry one. yan A. Rizgins to W. V. Bl Cs Overstreet A. rude w bert W. Hancock to C. Jones. . proag Taylor to John €. Jjons flloy & Miller to tearg: k. M. Van Hook to Mra P. Gardiner. Moy & Miller to F. Cliza A. . 0. Pearce, et al. to Burtie O. D. Denham to J. E. Wagne~. rtha C. Preston to J. W. San T. Smith t»~ Cmma and Flnm‘ er. ~="3T OF APPEALS mbany, nts on the & fuled to bezin before the court ppeals today in an attempt to the men convicted of the mur- of Herman Rosenthal, the gam- gaved from the death chair. four convicted men are Whitey s, Daco Frank, Lefty Loule and the Blood. Nov. 17.—Ar- nen 8 case are i Wae-! are “The Commerecial a uproar today durine the symposinm “The Rivers on the necro by an attempted de‘ence and Harbors Work of Congress' of the race by Dr. P' D. Robingon, “Aids to Inland Navigation,” “The of Lexinoton, a necro. Phygicians Waterways Poliey of the Nation and ‘had pointed out the dancer of ne- many other kindred tonics. There ' oro servants as diseage carriers and Nohingon 1!1ls remarks wore stricken from the record and he (lovernar is the considered YValue of Waterways,"” rrotested, cpeeches and disenssion of Atlantic, oastal projects by delezates and vis-| was not allowed to finish, Hatfeld of West Virzinia, | epeaker today. | b |NEW AFTERNOON DAITY TOR JACISONVILLE itors. HARVARD HONORS ASA GRAY Cambridze, Nov. 1%.—Ilarvard ['niversity, with secient17c men all| yver the world are today honorinz| —C Pensaenla, Nov, 1% n. Man- [the memory of Asa Gray, the famous can whe is interested with his hroth- American hotanist, on the centennial leps in the Pirmineham News, Mobile !nf his birth " Prof. Grav spent 31!1tem, and Peneaeola News, has re- .ears at Ilarvard as its Figher pro-{tnrned to Pencacola from Jackson foscor of natural history. He was'yille and announced that he will one of the first of the American nat«:gm,-w; lannch a new afternoon ra- uralists to accent and champion the per in Jacksonville, to bLe known o8 princinle of evolution as extended to the Jacksonville News. The paper is to make its anpearanece on Nee. 8. A1l equipment has heen ordered and is expected to arrive by the first. organic gpecies by Darwin, BI3 CONFFRENCE OF . CHARITIES AND CORRECTION' | pBuffalo N. Y., Nov. 18.~ \hn}” 5wo'! known and prominent T\hflnn—i !"hrr‘r\l. s and workers In the canse of North Carolina, is fftv: was born fn' eharity and correctional effort are ‘at Lanren Springs, N C.: eduecated i here attending the fourteenth annual in the public <schon's and hich | gacsion of the New York State Con-|echools; is a farmer and stock ralser; of Charities and Correction, ivmg corved ag a member of the board «which opened today. Prohlems of ;of arriculture and the State Senate, I national importance will be discussed also as a director of the State nrison. . with a view of planning mensures ffe was elected to the Sixty-eccond for the relief of the poor, the delin- Conerees and re-elected to the Sixty- tquent and mentally deficlent. third Congress. 1 { | | | | | TODAY'S BIRTEDAY EONOR Conereseman Rohert T.. Donghton, | g | ference (Py Mesociated Prees) Nashincton, Nov, 18, —Pregident and eahinet met today to disenss the Moxiean situation. The overnizht develonments apnarently hroucht no chan~e in the tanzle. The keenest interest is‘ehown in the orranmiza- tion of the new Mexiean Congeess, Talk of hockading Mexican yports hag been revived, hut hizh offi“lals eav that no such step has deter mined on Many moves are under consideration, are enneeline patience and a wait- heen hut foremose advigers in? game. EERE'S A CHANCE FOR SMALL POST r Washineton, Nov. 18—Announce- ment is made by the civil gervice that be held within the next thirty days commission examinations will for the poeition of fourth class post- masters in the States of Flerida, Vir- inia ard North Carolina, in accord- ance with the provisions of President Wilson's order of May 7, 1912, This order removed the cloak of civil ger- viee protection from a larze body of fourth class pastmasters who had been blanketed into the classified cervice by President Taft and direct- ed that these poeitions be thrown open to civil service competition, The examinations will be open to the present postmagters of these offices as well ag to any other persons who de- gire to compete. At all the fourth claes oflices in the States named where examinations are to be held, full informatipn will be posted with- in the next few days. commanding LY ELY FGHT I} PROSPECT (Py Associated Press)) “ashinaton, N TR ovident when the National Conserva- jtion Conarcss met today in Lrth an- Inual convention that a sharp fight was planned by delegites who Le- {lieve that the federal government i l N0V, wag to re:late their own possessions. It was reported that the committee named to water power vroblems had failed to and that a majority would recommend re- vision of government ““Conversation methods, That States riohts advo- cates faced strenuons opposition was [apparent in the speech of Charles (" athrop Pack, retiring president, i who deelared that “enemies” sou~ht ito make it anpear that conservation meant reservation and bottling up of ’ resources. consider aree THIS IS APPLE DAY Washington, Nov. 18.—If you don't cit an apple today, you will be one of the few people in the United States who fail to celebrate, for to- | day is known as Apple Day all over the conntry and the department of arriculfure ig anxious that it be gen- ved. Lonthority than Dr. Wiley, former [hend of the pure food burean of the sovernment, has made the statement that the eating of apples is the best posrible method of preserving the health of the nation. A national {health food Lag been the title that has been civen the apple. It grows { gortions of the country, and, he world, awenouch, to he t perfection is [reached west of the Rocky .moun- crally obsc 1in mo ST, erentest is usnrping the rights of the h‘|~'.|<-s| No less a national | No. 15. (CHANGE S A HODEL PLANT THE ELITOR FLORIDA GROWER WRITES OF THE WAY FRUIT IS HANDLED | i}fi;‘,h]y Compliments the Manager, Who Hes Built Up High Ef ficiency Standard The Florida Grower in its last is- ;sue has a very interesting account of the work ol the Lakeland Citrus Ex- fchance from the pen of that paper's imlmm\d editor, Mr. Edgar A. Wright, which we reproduce for the benefit of our readers: “Now that we are right in the midst of the season for packing and shipping citrus froit it might not be out of place to azain harp on the de- 'slrnhility of the correct handling; it brines home the bacon. Fruit can- not be knocked around like coal and |ro:lch the market in good shape. I '!rm-omly saw a picture of a carco of oranzes that were brought from the interior of one of the South Ameri- |ean countries. The fruit was piled in a heap just as so much coal would be, and 1 cannot believe that it would keep very long umder such conditions. Almost all of our Florida i;v'l('!{i\):’-lln-wv men now realize this, fnnd the advances made alonz these {lines have heen remarkable; the in- vestications of the covernment here and in California being larcely re- ! for this tmprovement. I know that there are people who will say that orances do not keep as well | i spongible The Internseronal Annle Agsocintion some time aco niepared a gpecial booklet telling of | | now as they did in the =ood old days, when they were knocked from the is! 197 ways of preparing the apple. These hooklets are for rree distribu- tion and will save many a family a qnarrel ahout the way to fix that speeinl dish, "OPPER COMPAMIES MY BF INVESTIGHTED (By Associated Press ) The feature of Seattle, Nov, 18, - this morning’s session of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor is expected demanding con- of charues companies thronch resolution investization tthat Michizan copper [have aequired mueh land frand, It has been charced that these companies obtained land through grants in aid of canals never built. to be a restional Jackeonville, Nov. 18,—Some- where on the road from Atlanta to Jackeonville, Fla., a fat man is in'umllin': a wheelbarrow, slowly and "Hlil!f’l”_\', but with determination. The fat man is Edward Stmmons, a ! trees with clnbs, packed in barrels {and carted miles over rourn roads in ithe body of a four-ox team, to be {afterwards manhandled in the crude nackine houses of the day, but this is not true, unless there is some inate dicease within the froit, An orange or grapefrnit that reaches the mar- ket withont a bruise on it will keep indefinitely. “There are now many good packe- inz houres within the State of Flor- ida. The one mentioned by the Stroller this week s a erackerjack, but there is one honge in the State ilhr't I Lelieve decerves speeial men- tion, becaree of the fact that the re- sults obtained within a short time were so truly remarkable that they wonld geem to leave no room for donbt or arument. This is the housge of the Lakeland Citrus Grow- Ascociation. Three years azo this was a discredited association, havine no standing and not much memberehin, and packing abount 15, 000 hoxes put up in a rather indif- ferent way. “The leading men of this assoclas tion realized that somethines must be I'done, and done at once. They had no money a8 a hody, bhnt there were come loval hearts within this small aceocintinon of six members, and they | i ers' ASTERS | Ie left At-(did raise enonch money to add to push | the equipment of thetr inadequate, ont-of-date honge, and the next qu2s- tion was to find the proper man w0 run it. There is an old gayinz that a prophet is not without honor save |in his own conntry, but there seems SAYS IT WAS UNAVOIDABLE {to be exceptional eases, for they did ST T (choose a man rivht in their midst, a man who had had no exnerience in B charze® with ran- 1, honge, but who had : vor and killing wohn T, Wil- packed his own froit in nis own lit- m, an azed white man, to be heard tle house for a number of years, and postponed till Wednesdav wy o pag the reputation of being 8 fternoon at 3 o'clock hy dustiee Ab-iy00q (ranoa orower, and a man of hott., HKoffman saye that the affair method and business ability. | was an unavoidable accident, and re-|{ wyp pop,. Kinney did not want favets the death of the old man €X-‘ypo fon Lyt after due consideration ceedinely. \Wilson died at St, Luke's he agreed to take it, provided he was hogpital Saturday morning. given full charge over every opera- tion, from tree to car, and that he could have gome new equipment. He iw:!s given full swine and in this old New York, Nov. 18.-—The "mgn.:nnd poorly eqnipped house he sooa Afanhana s beran to make an Impression, to call die “ttention to his paek, and to get rec- ceordinT §) homs=s A aznition in the markets of the coun- famous invefitor. and eustomers hezan to wire, { “e ‘ {tremists represent only a fractional Send us another car of that good X n'd Shield brand.’ per cent of our papple.” he said native of Cuthbert, Ga. lanta Friday. 1le intends to the wheelbarrow the entire distance hetween the two cities. The answer it Ile's trying to reduce his weicht, | ap) J conville ov. 1%.—The case 24 np-to-date today, was EDISON SEES HOPE FOB US the the | turkey trot, | (s and woman smoking wi'’ Fdienn, h out, | the e P Vs “The firet geason that Mr. Kinney took charze of this honse he had 19, 000 boxes of fruit to pack, but before lthe close of the season he had im~ The St. Augustine Chamber of | creased the membership to thirty- Commerce bad a *‘get together” meet-!nx, At the close of his second ses- ing 2 few nights ago at the Klks son he had ninety-seven members, bullding In that city., The affair proved a great success. - ST. AUGUSTINE HAS “GET TOGETHER” MEETING e ey (Continued on Page 8.)