Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 14, 1914, Page 1

re with® gvm IWISH TO PREVENT . FURTHER FIGHTING Family Sail from Vera Cruz %m Huerta Was Not on Board i my Assoclateq Press.) Washington, July 14.—United _administration officials today pected Huerta to resign momentar- u&l‘ turn over the government ign Minister Carbajal. Official ¢ here said that Huerta ii‘t'w‘getod to resign today or on ednesday. He is repairing the flr“d to Vera Cruz and this indi- tes ‘that he expects to make a fjek departure for the United fifl’. Envoys of the South Amer- n republics are trying to effect &Wer of power in Mexico thout more fighting. Carranza, titylng the United States that he mld not consent to a conference th Huerta’s representatives, de- mded unconditional surrender of ixiean authorities at the capital d guaranteed the residents’ lives. d property. The United States nounced that it would not inter- ‘e "fil a military campaign, but wld met recognize the mnsntn- malists it the capture of Mexico ¥ I8 attended by excesses. (By Associated Press.) Mexico 'City, July 14.—Huerta's nilly is expected to go to Vera az goday acti(n'd'um to prevalent re- ts and wid jrobably embark on steamer Espange. (B! Associated Press.) mlnm July 14—A dispatch =——===m General ‘Funston says that erta was not on the steamship Es- gne when the vessel left Vera Cruz o 148¥. Members of that official's l chm aily nlled however. asol, | of st shirret \TiONAL BANKS WANT 8 h shirre pari kg throughout the country LOAN OF $37,000,000 at t {ffon (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 14.--National are 0 Al \ying to Secretary McAdoo's let- chiffo: i asking their opinion about put- g government money out to move /D8 this year. Many urge a loan “last year when the treasury de- stment put out § natio: $37,000,000 ..;AY PLACE CHIX UNDER aI] 7 BAN IN NEW ORLEANS chiff — (By Associated Press.) » chorNew Orleans, July 14.—There are arasol Mew cases of the | The au- yritles are consideri placing " ickens under ban. The Dbirds oy no plague cgerms, but food sown fo them attract rats. It is \‘\)md that fowls be prohibited ";"m certain districts of the city 3 SN, \!'UST SECURE PERMITS TO IMPORT CATTLE 14 .- live | Washington, July In case u are @& breeder of stock, it & not be out of place for vou to ow that'ander regulations of the partment of agriculture, you must wre two permits from the :y of agrigulture before you port cattle, sheep, swine and oth- __ ruminants from any of the t'¢ for breeding purpos except V'seen America. One of these per- s4s, upon presentation to the Amer- msul at the port of shipment i# 511 emtitle the specified animals to » eF glearance; -the other will assure, bject to imspection, their reception d entry, subiect to observation in arantine at the port entry, on ,..@ date prescribed for t at any time durir imediately follow Cattle fom Grea d the Channel ! s larantine for a ys. If from ot pt those of No arantine period -runting for date of secre- can part r arrival eks exeept North "bject to & guarantin 2 e + Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best Siate E LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 14, '1914. No. 202 MRS WILIIAM G. SHARP TO PRESIDE OVER AMERICAN EMBASSY T0O FRANCE Mrs Wilham G. Sharp will be the presiding gems over the American embassy to France for the remainder of the Wilson administration. She is the wife of the new ambassador Ineminated by the president and con- I firmed by the Senate. Mr has been a member of Con from Elyria, Ohio. He is a man of means and will be able to spend much more than his salary in keeping up the embassy, which is one of the quirements of modern ministers foreign countries. He will succeed Sharpe re- to another Ohio man, Myron T. Her- rick, former governor of that State. A REAL MENACE The menéce of the plague to Flor- ida is an actual condition and not a theory at the present time. How serious this menace may be- come will depend very much on the lack of it, taken the authorities of Florida ecities, action, or the by par- ticularly of the ten principal seaport cities. The question of what authority that of the United States govern- ment, of the State or of the munici pality—is responsible in the present situation is not at issue, beyond the primary fact that it is the plain duty of the city to take the initiatve for ts own protection inst disease, so far at least, as reing sanitary measures can ac lish cleanli- ness. In the campaign azainst the inva- sion of the plague, of which one form is popularly known as bubonic there is a stern necessity that ac- tion, prompt and efficient yuld be taken. This necessit) vased upon several known facts: First method of transmission, by the fleas t are carried by the rat which n be inf d by this dread disease, and by the further fact that rats are practically insep- arable, unless removed by fumiga- marine commerce of the world from the ships that handle the The fact that the be for a considerable ity befor tion, Second. in- fected rat may period in a port or dis appears in Third. in the history of the world has been known under different names, has proved itself the most destructive &f all epidemie claimingy its victims in greater numbers than @ll the wars that have devastated the Jecause the plague, which diseases, countres of Europe and Asia these facts it must t [; th menace of this negro laborer or hobo, who was Nithly esteemed by all his asso- riding on the train, was also Cittes. He had lived in Lake- Iied. iland for some vears. He leaves a wife and two lovely daughters, THIE DEAD who are at present at Aucilla, in IFour Men Meet Death When Boiler of Engine Explodes Near Holder CONDUCTOR A. ]J. VARN, ENGINEER G. W, CHASON AND TWO NEGROES HURLED TO THEIR DEATH All But Two of the Crew Were Riding In the Engine When Ex- plosion Occurred; Cause not Known; Bodies Brought Here. A trous wreck occurred and had a room at Miss dis: about one mile this side of Hold- er, on the West Coast railroad, 70 miles north of Lakeland. The engine boiler on train 113, e was aged about 30 years, and was unmarried. He was a mem- txploded, killing every member 2nd also of the local O, R. C. of the crew except the flagman,| Iingineer Go W. Chason was also a fine type of railroad man, A and the colored brakemian. Conductor A. J. Varn, <ngineer G. W. Chason. Will Frazier, colored fireman, Unknown colored laborer. the western part of this State. e was aged about 42 years. man, also mhde headquearters mn Lakeland. The only members of the crew| The wrecker went up early who escaped were Morton Thig-|this morning and cleared the pen, the flagman, who was in(track in time for “Sunny Jim, which reached here at 12:30, the caboose at the rear of the ; ! 3 bearing the remains of Varn and train, and who was uninjured; and Josh Phillips, the colored Chason. The bodies of the two brakeman, colored men were sent to [Tigh The cause of the explosion is Springs. of course, unknown, as those| The remains of the two wreck who were the only actual wit-|victims were taken to Gentry’s nesses of the tragedy have pass-[undertakmg parlors and pre- ~ hevond the possibility of giv-Ipared for burial. The father of ing testimony. The matter will Mr. Varn arrived from Ft.| be sifted thoroughly, however, Meade at 11:30, and the body | the wrecked boiler and engine will be shipped tomorrow morn- Laving been carefully set aside, ing to that place, where the fun- and it will be kept under guard cral will take place shortly after until an expert Federal in<pc«‘tnr|tlu- arrival of the train there. examines it and gives his deci-! ‘The remains of Mr. Chason sion as to what cause was re-|will also be shipped tomorrow sponsible for the feaful accident.{morning to Aucilla, the inter- ment occuring at that place. The bodies of the two victims were badly mutilated, particu- larly that of Mr. Varn, It has heen stated that the ne- aro laborer or hobo who was riding on the train was still alive Conductor A, J. Varn, or “Bert” as he was known to a host of friends, was one of the most popular men in the railroad’s| employ. He was a member of | the well known Fort Meade fam- ilv of that name, his father and| a brother, Kline O. Varn, resid-[when the colored victims were ing in that city at present. Mr. M}\ul to ITigh Springs this morn- Varn had been making his head-ling, hut that death was certain varters here for a long time,'to ensue in a very short time, this estimate was reached, or wheth ‘UNUSUAL SCHEME TO r it is avithin a thousand per cent| GET IIARVPST HANDS! St B M UL i Washington, July 14 Ambrose HuLaitilssauiiosanlikeiyitopie ATt Huntington, a farmer living near of any Florida seaport city as of t Giltner, Nebh 1, is the author of ! lonisiana city. And the rats of any ;\ quaint a sign as you might wish Florida scaport city are quite as|to see In front of his home he kely to be infected with the plague [nosted the following 5 I need five harvest hands for i1 the form [of dissaied rals, a5 4 |more than a month Wages $2 per Orleans considered her own rats 10 4, .. (phijcken once a day; washing, be, prior to the actual discovery of the disease there No one knows, and human life i too precious to be risked by the cal lous indifference of any set of mu nicipal authorities It is the duty of every seaport city in Florida in the present situation, to be and carry to a finish a camps rats Any rat showing signs of dis should be sent at once to one laboratories of the State hoard ¢ alth, at Jacksonvi Tampa or Pensacola, for bacteriological exam ination. Every healthy rat should be killed, for the rodent is a rapid fnultiplier of his kind, besides being a deftructive pest, ¢ And this war égainst rodents is not to be quickly ended. It must continue months 1 a rat for ally a as rare in a city BOARD OF STATE Leila at an early hour this morning, Galkloway's, near the Auditorium. ' er of Lakeland Lodge of Elks, Will Frazier, the colored fire- - GIRL WHOSE DEATH : PUZZLES BALTIMORE POLICE The thousands of arcused over the laltimore and persons of the police many city are mysterious death of Winter, a pretty whose body was found in near thec ity. the girl was murdered thrown "now accepted as a fact, Miss Ella G, | pher, "Curtis Creek That (et ste- and body thig score was removed from the i minds of the detectives by the iden- tification of a hat picked up in Cur- where the body was discovered as the property of the girl and by the report of antopsy physicians that there was not enough water in the lunzs to admit of a theory of drown- ing. It is protty elear to ai' now that the young stenographer mur- dered during the drizzling rain of the night following her disappear- ance from home on Thursday, June 1, and her body thrown either into (turtis creek or into the bay half a n_lllo below. The discovery of the hat in the creek supports the theory that those waters received the body from the hands of the slayer. The police say' that the hat could not have been carried so far up the bay by the slight tidal swell, and the wind in question, they contend, was not suffleiently strong to have blown it there, mending, and a bed in the hay mow. Every worthy young man hired will ‘have a chance to marry ong of my five pretty danghters If he wins one of them he gets 160 acres of land thrown in. But he's got to [make good in more ways than one.” It is stated that Huntineton had {more than a half hundred applicants. ‘Ih: five lucky ones were hard at work in the wheat field the other aay, when it hocame noised about [that the young ladies were preparing ito lea in a day or two on an ex ltended summer vacation in the New Uingland Stetes, whereupon the en ‘tire force of harvesters quit in the midst of the jeaping. into the water is| All doubt on | tis creek a half mile above the spot | WHITNAN SAYG NEWHAVENWILL BE INDICTED IN HIS DISTRICT IF CRIMINAL IN- TENT IS SHOWN CUowmerce Commission's Report Was Sent to District Attorneys in Various States (By Associateq Press.) Washington, July 14.—The com- "merce commission's report on New Haven road was sent today to dis- Itrict attorneys in States traversed by the road. District Attorney Whit= man of New York, declares that ine dictments are certain in his district if the papers show criminal intent on the part of New Haven directors Xlllll\il}.‘,l‘llll‘ln. or | ———— (By Associated Press.) ’ New York, July 14--Directors and (former directors of the New Haven railroad will not discuss the inter- state commerce commission’s report on the investigation. Former Pres- ,ident Chas. S. Mellen, branded it as 'the report of a political tribunal made for political purposes. The full hoard of the present directorate meets here Thursday and is expect= ed to make a statement. ! STILL FIGHTING FOR CONFIRMATION OF JONES (By Associated Fress.) Washington, July 14.—The ad- ministration's fight for the confirm- ation of Thomas D. Jones as a mems= of the federal reserve board, is expected to be resumed in the Sen- ate today when the banking and cur- rency committee reports against the appointment. Administration senators, after a canvass today, declared that Jones would be confirmed by a majority of five to ten. Indications are that the for confitination of Paul M, Warburg will not begin until after Jones is disposed of . ber APPROPRIATION BILLS HELD UP IN SENATE (By Associated Press.) 14.—The legis- Washington, lative, July judicial and executive ap- propriation bills were today held up by the disagreement between con- ferees over the milage feature, The Senate insists on retention of 20 cents mileage and the louse de- mands 5 cents per mile By a majority of ten votes the House today abandoned its program and agreed with present mil- nts a mileage reform’ Senate of ¥ the to retain the allowaner 20 ce mile, followed a spirited debate graft eage The vote high of in charges of mileaze "freely used,