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> L AKELAND E PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST PART OF THE BEST STA \OKED FOR 00N oo W (Py Associated Press.) Washington, Nov, 19.--~With the declaration that the water power of the United States was rapidly pass- ing under monopolistic coutrol, Gif Colon, Nov. 19.—Mayor-elect ford Pinchot, formerly chief sovern- !John Purroy Mitchell of New York,"ment forester, today told the dele- {accompanied by Mrs. Mitchell and a'gates to tie National Conservation "party of friends, arrived here today | Congress that stern me=zures would to inspect the Panama canal. It is be necessary to offset this tendency. understood that Mr. Mitchell is giv-i He advocated strong federal control inz much thought to the subject of of resources and quoted ficures to By Associated Press ) appointments during his trip and {m- /show that concentration of control o City, Nov. 19.-—f"resident'p°"a“‘ announcements are expected had nearly doubled within two years, today planned to first sub-, t0 be made on his return to New tion the majority report of the com- his callinet the messaze he in-| YOTk about Dec. 4. Imittee on water power richts. The S e — rules were suspended, and the ques- elivering to congress tomor- | A cabinet meetinz was called SECRETARY DANIELS tion was debated on the floor, de- afternoon. The document | AT KANSAS CITYxsplto the protests of scores who fav- 0 review the Important acts L ored water power control by the Huerta administration, deal-| Kaneas City, Nov. 19.—Secretary States, not national. Senstor Burton nkly with the dissolution of of the Navy Daniels has arrved here ~of Ohio championed a policy of strict s and strained relations wlth"" deliver the principal addresses at national control. ITe declared he was ted States. It is believed lhe;“‘e celebration of the one hundred conducting no crurade arainst cap- s will receive the message and eizhteenth anniversary of the‘ltal, but must recoznize the dancer protest, thus glving ‘,lrma”conc]usion of the Jay treaty, which of monopoly and said it was impos- roceurs today. sible for the States to solve this tion to his acts. All foreign ats except the American great national problem. F EEI IN HERE ARE SOME POSERS BIB I- l San Francisco, Nov. 19.—Passen- GULF UF MEXIEU !pers who have traveled or wanted to , Washin2ten, ~Nov, 19.—What to BAIN Hfl U UN do with currency bills now being completed by two factivus 1s balking the committee and giving serious [1 concern to Senate leaders. One bill AFF AND CABINET MEM- , BERS HE LEFT and the other is the work of Repub-; SIERN MEASURES MUST NOGALES lican members of the committee aid- BE TAKEIW i . ed by Senator Hitchcock.. Both will o .| be ready before the end or the week : S Bty ays Message He Will Sub-| J ! This Was the Substance o° Stirring it Congress, Be-ore and e ithoficominitleo s evenly di- Address Yade Today by 5 on the Glass bill. The two factions By Associated Press.) will probably each return bilis. s, Mexico, Nov. 19.—Gen-| ; anza with his staff and'MAYOR-ELECT MITCHEL "the cabinet members left AT COLON vhat the effect of the depar- 1 have on conditions between ls and the Was=ington gov- Through Willtam Bayard resident . Wilson was notified (By Associated Frc=, { | | i represents the administratton views TO OFFSET THIS TENDENCY Cabinet vided there can’t be a formal report Pinchot iSouth today. It is not hnusual development. O'Shaughnessy are expected ;tra\'el via Pullman coaches, have d the opening of congress . personally complained in vain, and aired their troubles in the newspa- pers, over the allezed arrocant and imperious manner, and frequently Ynnpnrontly inexcngable sacx of such [treatment as would be expected from TIME FOR BRAMBELL BOOTH | York,” Nov. 19.—Gen. (By Assoclated Press.): ell Booth, who succeeded his| Bridgeport, Barbadoes, Nov. 19. , Gen. Willlam wooth as head ! —The British cruiser squadron in Salvation Army of the W"”d'[ West Indian waters last night re- LAKELAND, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, KOV, 19, 1913. TE GAUNDAHL FORFENED LIST NIB4T'S BTCH The wrestling match held at the 1 g , ‘uditorium thenter last night be- HE SAV tween Tom Dodge and George Grun- ’ feit., Grundahl claimed a foul but dahl, was won by Dodxe on a for- but both referces state that they saw Grundahl claimed he “had been gouged in the eve and was un- to see to continne with the match and the ateh was therefore BRITISH BATTIESHIP TOOX OFF THE HELPLESS PASSENGERS none. et 3 able Ship Caught Fire in English Chan- o | nel and Barned ! Rapidly awarded to Dodge on a forfeit. There was a large crowd out and many were (By Associated Press)) London, Nov. 13.—7The British battleship Iron Dulke earry today res- cued the crew and thirty passengers from the burning steamer Scotsdyke in the ¥nolish chenner. The steam- er ceuzht fire off the Iste of Wight coon al'ter midnight and burned rap- idly. A heavy sca prevenred launch- ing the life boats and the forepart of tlie vessel was a mass or itames when the battleship drew alonzstde and took off the helpless passensers. much disappointed with the ending of the mgteh., All had looked for- ward to a great match and 1t would have been such if the men had con- tinued. wrestling the referees’ deciston is final, and they have to gtve 1t accord- ing to their best judgment. It is to be deplored that the match turned out as it did, as clean wrestling Is a manly sport, and when disputes arise as they did las{ night it hurts the sport. The mateh was to have been two falls out or three, but as neither referee saw the foul as:was New York, Nov. 19—The commis-|claimed, they had to award the sions for uniform motor vehicle leg-!match to Dodee. There were ‘sev- islation of several States are meet- |[eral people here to see the match ing the American Association here|from Tampa and Plant City. Both today in an effort to secure laws. The changes recommended : gave their decision as they saw it, ac- are as follows: first. An unlim- | cording to the rules of the zame. ited tourist privileze. Second. A li-!Grundahl was on the wereets this cense fee only sflicient to cover the|morning and his eye was red and cost of registration and conduct of |inflamed. the New Jersey State Motor Vehicle department. Third. Drivers’ li- censes to bhe issued only to those ofl 200d character and physical condi- ¢ion that would enable them to drive IN Exp[ufilu" properly. Fourth. A maximum speed limit of thirty miles per hour, (By Associated Press,) Acton, Ala.,, Nov. 19.—When with no other speed restrictions than requiring the driver to drive searchers thi® morning enced their work, twenty-four bodies had been WANT UNIFORM LAWS FOR MOTOR CARS at all times with due regard to pub- lic safety. Fifth. The gradual elim- ination of grade crossings on all of According to the rules ol’x i new | of the referees are square men and d here today and received a!ceived peremptory orders to proceed ovation from over 5,000 officers; to Vera Cruz and the vessels sailed embers of the Salvation Army, |at midnizht. Innection with his visit there | With the arrival at Vera Cruz of | &'a monster parade. One of the|the British equadron of three crui- s of Gen. Ponth's visits to this|sers, a powerful fleet of war vessels v is to find 200 men and wom-, is believed to be in the Mexican gulf. | lling to go to India and the?'l‘he United States has seven haltlé-f ast as missionaries. 1le is a|so‘shins there, while German and g to induece at least 1,000 Amer- French cruisers are anchored off the to attend the great Salvatfon city. onvention to be held in Lon- ext year. EARTH'S AIR FNVELOPE IS : THREE MILES THICK | DY AND EAGER TO FIGHT | : Los Angeles, Nov. 19.—As a re- | Indon, Nov. 19.—In the event|sult of extensive expertments con- | velopments of a serions namre‘dmtnd with balloon-carried meteoro- | xico Uncle Sam has many sonsll“""fll instruments on Catalina is-| ghout Furope who are not only(land last summer, the government y, but eazer to take up arms, |Weather eervice here announces all r Squier, military attache of the|records for upper air recearch have jcan embassy here, is hesiezed |been broken. The twenty balloons Il gorts and conditions of men|sent up, some of which reached a, want to co to war. The apnli-| heizht of 20.2 miles, reveal that the & range from weather beaten |2ir strata coverning the weather, ers of fortune to voung hloods|conditions is abont three miles thick; earch of adventure, and from |that after an elevation of 11 miles isl nental cavalry officers to belli-i reached, the temperature fs nearly Australians ang t-anadians. The|normal, tending slihtly to warmer. can lecation has also heen wor-| The lowest temperature recorded was by these glory seekers and ad-|S7 below zero at 15 miles and 48 ati urers. 20 miles on reveral of the instru-| ments, Twenty rubber balloons, each enquinped: with instruments, were liberated and rose until they hurst, the hichest elevation romrdfldl {being 20.2 miles. Of tne twenty! anconver, P. C., Nov. 19.— wallnons Iliberated, thirteen ~have! it seventv-five neonle make 1D heen found. ; party of the world-tonring \'"W} “Tw, most important discoveries Glants and Chiearo White SoX'were made,” eaid Forecaster Carpen- ch safled today for the Far Fast tar “the first that the air envelone the gteamer Fmoress of Janan.!cyarding our temperature on earth dqnarters of the party will be on'is only three miles thcx, and the rd the stermehip until the land~},-'hnr that man can withstand more at Hone Konz on Dec. 11. On climatic changes than any other ani-, 12 the steamshin St. Albans mal he being able to live in temper- transport the party roward Ma- atures of from 50 below to 130 and Anstralia, For Aslastic ahove zero.” | vel a eperial steamship has been { rtered. Here is the nersonnel of* wowEN'S COUNCIL IN MICFIGAN | | tourists: PLAYERS §'T TOR FAR EAST, Mr. ana sers. John J. raw, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dovle,. port Huren, Mich., Nov, 19.—| . and Mrs. James Thorve, Mr.| | Port Huron has been honored ‘v the Mrs. Charles M. Tesreau, Mr. National Connsil of Women who “e d Mrs. Al Demaree. Captain T. L |gan their triennfal conventian tere g Mrs. Honston, of Havana, Cnba; | today, to continue util the 2er iner | . J. T. Meyers, Mr. and Mrs. | With but one exception the eon on-| Mam Klem, Chricty Mathewson, tions have been always he'? in Wache hur Fromme, Fred Snoderass, fneton. Many of the most intellor- . Wiltse, Mike Donlin, H. Snar-‘e_-,,’-g women of the country are here, | . business manarer; Sid Mercer, among them beinz Mrs. May Wricht . P. Hanna and H. Burchell, Sewell, of Indiananolis; Mrs. Kate w York basehall writers; Bert Waller Barrett, of Alexandria, Va., nney, Jack Gleason, Trainer Ed. |president of the orzanization and Dr.’ ckall and two photowraphers.; Anna Shaw and possibly Miss Jane Kinney of Truxton, N. Y., 18 aAddams, of Hull House, Ch!cago,I p digcoverer of MeOraw and 8 hero. may be president. hipper of his protége. ! will be publie. a corporation anxfous to build up a bizger buginess. PBut the California State railroad commisston, actinig on complaints of many travelers, is go- ing to the root of the matter, and has ordered the Pnllman company to appear Lefore it today and explain its “practices, rules and reaulations.” Rates will not fizure in the investira- tion, but itz scope in other directions will be wide. These are some of the thin2s the commiscion wants to know. Ilow mueh the company de- pends on pasgengers’ tips in firuring porters’ wazes. \Why unper berths are pulled down when not occupied, making lower berths stuffy and eramped, Why the answer “No low- ers loft” so often proves to have been a mistake the next morning. Why a passencer cannot pet his berth made nn when he wante it, but must wait the porter’s pleasure. Ry T ST AL THE WINTER (By Associated Press ) Texas City, Texas, Nov. Preparations indicating that the sec- ond division of the T'nited States army would remain here a1l winter Winter quarters are 1D, == hecan today. being prepared. SAVING THE FCRESTS Realletic the Waghington, Nov, 19. rainstorms and foresters trail, fightine and herdine thouginds of sheen and cattle, will farm nart of the prozram today at the National Concervation Coneress, In addition to the miniature forests themselves, the eyhibition Includes an interest riding ’ln'! digplay of many queer inetrn- ments uged by woodsmen in their work. Water power development in nationa] forests is shown by maps, charts and colored transnarencies. The famons White Tonse map of the ecountry's natural resources fs aleo on view. This was the first map made for the government Pensacola, Nov 19 2A/5.000 fn nnexnanfed anpro- —Annroxi- mately priations s now available for imme- diate vee at the Pensacota navy vard in anticipation of its occupation as an advanced marine bose fs the sub- lgtance of a telesram received from Secretary Danfels and read by As- gistant Secretary Franklin D. Roore- The meetings velt at lunch on the pilot boat yew onr states—Washington, our improved highways; and, until such times the installation at once at every grade crosging of signal de- vices which are absolutely reliable.” SALOONISTS TO CONTEST DADE COUNTY ELECTION Miami, Nov. 19.-—The attorneys for the wets will file consest proceed- ~ings in the cirenit count to contest the wet and dry election that was held Oct. 1. Tt was expected that the attorneys wonld file their con- test todayv but failed to do o0 on ac- eonnt of the vast amonnt of work i1 the preparation of the papers. So far the attornevs have kept secret the gronnds of the contest proceed- in2s. Circuit conrt will convene on Tunesday next with Judze Wolfe on the bench. BAYAN SIS 7S N SERIDUS HATIER (Py Associated Press) Mexieo City, Nov. 19.—A tele- gram from Secretary Dryan was re- ported received at the American em- haeey saying that o matter of a se- rions nature recarding Mexico was under congideration in Washin3ton. ZIGZAG PLAN FOR FUTURE GOOD ROATS Wasghneton, Nov, 19 —Good roads in the future ghould he nurit on the 7izrzar plan for the avoidance of hills and sten grades, the federal office of good roads announced today in de- claring that the lives of horses and antomobiles could be lengthened therehy and the cost of naulinz re-} dneed materially, The experts con- tend that “the lonzest way around often may be the shortest and most economical way home,” and decry the natoral tendency to build| straizht roads whenever they muat' breast heavy grades. SUIT STARTED AGAINST removed from the Acton mine of the Alabama Fuel and Iron Co., which|and TLord TROUBLEIN ENGLAND TRIED TO GAIN MONOP OLY OF MEXICO'S OIL OUTPUT Is Claimed by Those Who Keep in Touch With Such Affairs Washington, Nov. 19.—A big came of world politics, this is the un- derlyinz cause of recent events im Mexico, according to wyparently au- thentic information obtained here to- day. If this information can be accept: ed as true, and recent events are cit- ed to force such a conclusion, Presi- dent Wilson, in his fight to prevent Juropean powers from gerting a grip jon Mexico, which might have re- mained firm for a generation, has played practically a lone hand. The history of this game, as re- i vealed today, goes back to a disclo- {eure made a month avo to President Wilson of a combination between Gen. Huerta, as de facto president of Mexico, and important fieures in the government of CGreat Dritain, | which, if it had been successful, {wonld have meant tnat England {would have gained a monopoly of the ;oil output of Mexico. The importance of tnese oil con- cessions to Creat Britatn 18 what is said to lie hack of the entire ques- tion. Recently, under the guidance of Wington Churchill, first lord of the Dritish admiralty, England has i begun building oil-purning battle- | ships and many naval experts think that this is the type of war vessel of the near future. In its be:inning the Mexlcan oil ‘mu‘stlon is said by diptomats here to jhn\w- played around c rtaln agree- ments between Winstun Churchill Cowdray, formerly Sir was the scene yesterday of an ex-| Weetman Pearcon, the moving spirit plogion. Six men were slizhtly in- jured, while thirteen escaped un- hurt. It had not been determined today what caused the explosion. November 18, 1913 Mrs. Adele Lane o Mrs. rine French. s Hattie F'. Leavitt to Mrs. rine French. J. F. Kilpatrick to Mrs. Ila Wa- ters. Fla. and Georzia Land Co. (arter-Deen Realty Co. ‘M. L. Robinson to Annie Law- rence. John H. Gentry to T. J. Ivey. T. J. Tvey to Carrie Gentry. J. W. Sample to Georze Lindblad, A. 0. Graddy to R. S. Tucker. A. 0. Graddy to R, 8. Tucker. R. S. Tucker to W. H. Jas. L. Devinean to 0. 11. White. Farnest B. Simmons w0 0. H. White. S. Love Kelley to Harry F. Kel- lozg. W. S. Knizht to Grant U. Conant. Ferdinand Schwab to Schwab. Oscar monds. J. C. Holbrook to Milton D, Wil- son. M. L. cane, W. F. Steege, J. W. Kimbroneh to Y. 7Z. Mann. Rosaltha Shores to Cyrus. W. Shores. Wm_H. Shupp to 8. A. L. R. R. Co. S. M. Wilson, et al. to 8, A, L. R. R. Co. W. D. Stuart to C. .. Morrison. A. B. Canter, et al. to C. L. Morrison. Seseoms Investment Co. to E. A. Kinnedy. Povnton-Henderson Co. McCormick. *H. F. Dutton to Camp Phosphate Kathe- Kathe- to G. Ryals to H, H. Ed- Robinson tvo Maggie La- Hallam & Co. w0 H. V., to M. 8. TELEPHONF. AND TFTR: o GCRAPF COVPANIES | (Ry Aecociated Press.) | Chieaen 19.—Hearines |n‘I the government guit a<ainst the Telenhone and Televraph Nov American Co. NEGRO FARMERS' CONFERENCE Hampton, Va., Nov. 19.—Hamp- were onened here today before ton Neero Farmer's conference which | most of the deputies Inro jail. Brown. | Roy II. lin the firm of S. Pearson & Son, | Limited. Incidentally, the son of Mr. Lloyd-George, chancellor of the lnxrthnol' in Creat Britaln, is sald to be an employe of the Pearson com- pany. DBut the preliminaries of the nerotiations are unimportant. The statement is made, and docu- ments are produced to back it up, that duoring the last days of the ! Diaz rezime, concessions were grant- ed by the Mexican government to Lord Cowdray and his company to all (the oil from the immensge tracts of E~|vuhlln lands in the States of Chiapas, ‘('umpm-h('. Tahasco, Vera Cruz, the Valle district, of the State of Sam Tuis Potosi and the southern dis- tricts of the State of Tamaulipas. Then came the Madero revolution, rand Joge Vasconeelos, a prominent Mexican lawyer, s anthorized to {make an invegtication of the subject 'fnr President Madero. He reported that the concesgions were illeral, The result was that a movement 'was beoun to revoke the concessions, i Abont this time the Pearson company | besan to try to sell its concessions to | the Standard Oil Co., it is said, Next followed the overthrow of {Madero and the roming into powes lof Huerta, and here beoing the his- "mry which is interesting at thile [time. Private oil concerns are sald ;m be intimately mixed un in the afe | fair, bnt the part plaved by fovera= fments is what is attracting artention at this time, ! Percistent reports hecan to be efe- 'm]':tr-:l that Great Britain needed | the Pearson oil concessions in Mex- i feo and that unless these concessions zwnru gained and made leval 'Y‘y the { Mexican congress, Great Britain had | just as well stop building its oll- burning dreadnonehts. In return for these oil con-essions, it is renorted, Yuerta was to have zotten the supnort of Great Britaia and money with which to carry om | his government. This has been de- nied, but men in close touch with | the situation here insist that they can prove it is true. { When the ontlonk for the oil con~ ceseions bhecame gloomy Sir Lionel |Carden was hurried to Mexico City |as Great Pritain’s minrster. Huerts i dissolved the concress and threw 1t the United States special examiner, opened here today is the best in |he)was said that the sentiment among Miss Mary E. Bell. The enit is di-| rected azainet the company's alleged control of the telephone service of Oregon, Montana and ldaho. history of the institution. The ex- hibits show that remarkable ad- vancement has been made in secien- tific farming by negro farmers of the country. i(he delegates arainst Huerta canséd him to take this action, put now it is declared that their refusal to com- S, (Continued on Page B.) ... , e S e T R s sesaidnnid NEXCOSCHENE

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