el o S Sttt s e B LR L Gl L LI e e L o i e oo o e 2o HE LAKELAND EVENING TELEG Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. oL 1 '[u MKEMNH 12.—Frank Mur- HUH-I years old, a farmer livins uear Ocoee, committee suicide yes- SEHﬂnI- teday in his home with a shotgun. He is said to have been out of his rizht mind for some days. CRANGE COUNTY CITIZEN COMMITTED SUICIDE. Oriando, 12y, 50 June puGEMENT EFFECTED FOR | ENLARGEMENT COSTING $15.000 TO $20,000. e Ma.. June 12.—Thei 11ic instruction of Polk | cuin called session yes- today, and a number ot| jatters bave come up for oOn yesterday Messrs He is survived by a widow and six hildren, Florence, Daisy, Earl, Orma and William. The family, anticipating that Mur- ray would attempt to Kkill himself, kid all weapons from him, but terday afternoon he found a shot- sun, and went immediately into the | {bedroom and killed himself. He B : pointed the gun in such a manner | s and G. B, \lurtoll i that the whole top of his head was .ikeland sub-school dis- |, g o . (blown off by the discharge. The before the board in ”“‘.lraevd‘\ occurred shortly after 4 .+ addition to the Lake- 1o'clock. Plans werp sub- addition to the | Lena, < hool S The second mecting of th socia- ’ building, | . : ; land school ted will HOm of West Florida Rural Carric N IREEET Che prected ¥ . | fitiong B hen “(‘-(l‘(\'( The | CONVeRed in Merianna a few days seating CAPACILY. ago. The session proved pleasant | ved the plans submitted, i and HiortalTa { with the Lakeland school ' the same lll'l‘ﬂHKt‘lllt‘lll* . with them that have the Fort .\leade| That is, the ool board will borrow the oo 1o wssary for the erection of 10 vost between $15,000 on condition that the ool trustees pledge as ‘he money the sub-dis- | “or the re-payment of the E HTlllIIMKE SHORKS FELT AT SOUTH CAR: OLINA POINTS TODAY. (By Associated Press.) Columbia, June 12.—Three dis- tinct earth shocks were felt here ati 5:30 this morning, The vibrations| ,were the most severe since the dis- .mrhanres of 1886, when Charlesten, . (", was so badly damaged. Th-~ pt-ople were awakened, housesrocked, ! pictures and dishes rattled. No dam- age is reported. There is much fear | - which resulted in the 000 vy nogroes. Shocks were felt the following prominent ... .0 aygusta and Savannah, Ga. of that thriving town: | Tremors were also felt at Charles- mayor, | ton, but no damage is reported. Wil Jones, city clerk. | | lones, E. M. Baynard and mxvxmw PREPARING B """ FOR HEARING NEXT MONDAY. ' management of these with R " UBURNDALE'S NEW CITY OFFICIALS. i+ held a municipal elec- s Ryall, ves- | | per )u'n to I five teachers (nent the principal of the Lakeland school will receive $200 per month, | ator .| Mulberry and Fort $175 :wulor high schools in the country,|the | | | | | | LAKELAND, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12, 1912. SALARIES OF PRINGIPALS STEAM ROLLER WERRILY --- OF POLK'S HIGH ~ CONTINUES IS - Jackson i ! pasK the question: What can woe g LGHOOLS FUNGTIONS 2.0 L P USome of the legislators, said Mr ety Plockson, of LAKELAND PRINCIPAL WILL RE- CEIVE $200 MONTHLY UNDER NEW AD USI“\IENT { Jutie 12, Ay session of the county ered to sell themselhves vertain. amount of honest men secking leaisla- Prion repudiaty such me stid My impos=ible 1o money | MORE CONTESTS DECIDED IN FA- \\”1 .1" | VOR OF TAFT AND ROOSE- |, VELTIANS HOWL. Associated Pr Inne 12 hods, Jackson, it is almost [ prove ything, as such proposal ¢ | B) Palways made when no other witness- Recourse 10 oe qpeo present. My It men, who have that even when lected as presidential electors, is the [are made in sounced plan of William Flynn, of [ 1,44 2, should the convention | (he little end of Taft, The Roosevelt lead-! oy 5 | made this statement today in a4, sen, *the situation rous attack on the national com- < nators offered for in schools having from | mittee in which he declared such a md fifteen teachers $175, in|move, while it might defeat the llv--lmmhl have helped every citizen of schools having from fifteentotwenty- [ publican nomince for president, { the State $200, and in schools | would save the party in the biz Re- ' his bill but a party came from Jack- twenty-five to thirty | publican St ] Under this arrange- Bartow, yesterday's x (By srhool board a ! i the salurvies of prinei-| Koose senjor high was | The salaries will be gov- crned by the number of teachers in each school, and are as follows: ’l‘lwI principal’s salary in rem six to ten teache month, Jack=on des such | s hedule for ipals of I wdopted. been se- schools Conaress they usually comes out id the exposer the horn,’ continued Mr, rank S0 many support a hill nominate ‘hools having | er LRLITH I Jack- Four dollars wias rs shall be $150 cents to Laving from | teachers §2 psonville with $8.000 and next morn- Glasierek, of West Virginia, Dix said, will by need for such action. TheTaft | forces will not dare to steal the nom- | ination.” i These statements were made after W|SGUHS|" cl"“nnuas‘ national committee had awarded | m[sxs IM w"" to Taft six delegates at large from but Sen- was lost the principal of the 18750, and the dartow school principals of the Meade schools There are no other the other one received $5.000.° each. and as no schoo] in the county is | pow employing as many as twenty-| Arizona and two from the Fourth five teachers no principal will re-|cCalifornin district. The Louisiana m' u Es l“srr ceive the maximum salary of $225 contests were then taken up. —_— WEHARD . HOBSON ISACANDIOATE FOR sSheridan, Wis,, June 12.--A wall * water from a cloudburst last night | swept down Clear Creek canyon on to the town of Buttalo, which has two WL JACKSON TELLS HARDWARE MEN SOME ‘(lm'l il inhabitants, speedily S. GENATOR | INGIDE LEGISLATIVE FAGTS .o """V 0.9, l" leaused a number of deaths, Water Was entering the second story win- Florida R(-utn Dealers’ Asso- | dows of the telephone exchange when ciation is mesting in Tampa and this | communication ceased abruptly. ALFIELD & OHLINGER BUY LARGE TRACT AT FROSTPROOF. (By Associated Press,) The Troy, Ala, June 12.--Congress- man Richmond Pierson Hobson an- nounced his candidacy for the Unit- ed States Senate in onposition to Sen- ator Johuston, in an address here morning's Tribune has the following resume of a specch made by Hon, W, K. Jackson, of this city, on the ef- s wd wide-awake citizens, ! hound to make rapid pide « murch of progress, White Plains, N. Y., June 12— Since Harry K. Thaw arrived at 'lh' White Plains jail he has heen sp--nd-i ing much of his time writing notes and questions which will be when the hearing to determine i whether he is now sane is held be- June 12.—Miss <~1..n,‘furu Justice Keogh in the Supreme ‘or and manager of ourt next Monday. He has the sam: typewriter which he used in when similar proceedings were heard Justice Mills Thaw's mother his sister, Alice, Yarmouth, Lkere today and remain announced EETING OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. used Fducational Association 'Sates, has issued a ontaining informa- b ; to Chi- and mal Educational (ountess of will be held July t city. The local com- tires for the enter- W . TRAIN NAECAED J h s, eote,, will untii a de- vision i3 con- Tates are quoted principal points in I return: town, $4 L1 DeFuniak t Myers, $45.50: rain Jacksonville, from ! ; Lakeland, 100 : of the rails, (By Associated Press.) Dalton, June 12.-—An bhearing Knights of excursion Pythias to Chattanooga, alhoun, Gu, wus wrecked by the spreading two miles north of here, $ Miami, at 8:30 o'clock, killing Claude Hol- $ Pensacola, : icom, white fireman and Arthur Tampa, : Y Pilcher, white section hand. Several dangerouly injured passengers were a hotel I¥ to all rail- nd sotpovers are principal points be on sale ‘d to return fare from Jack- <0 on any line, low- per berth $5.20 upy one berth to Dalton and are at brought there MAN WANTED AT KISSIMMEE ARRESTTED IN JACKSONVILLE Jacksonville, June 12 —Sim Stall- ings, a white man, who has been wanted in Kissimmee for nearly a year to answer to the charge of as- sault to commit murder, was last night jocated in Jacksonville by De- tective Lyons and taken to the po- e station, while a telegram imme- diately dispatched to Osceola county carried the news of his arrest. According to the police, the trou- ble which broyght abou: Stallinzs Te of these fold- ete information ‘fampton, at Talla- i formerly the | arrive [ Nevi both beir TWO NEN KILLED this afternoon. forts of the busines; men of Florida Last week a dezl of considerable e e i to get modern collection laws passed | magnitude was consumated when Wm VOTE FOR TEDDY by the State Legislature, The Tri- [ Messes. Alfield & Ohlinger, well known real estate dealers of this ! IF HE LOSES HIS HEAD | bun, says: TTEEES USecretary W. K Mobile, Ala.,, June 12 “I'm go- inz to vote for Roosevelt if they chop n:y head off,” declared Postmaster tyron Trammell, of Dothan, a mem- | ber of tha Alabama Republican deie- city, purchased 880 acres of tine or- ange and grapetruit land in the Frostproofl section, The land lies within one mile or | the Frostproot station, and is par- ticularly adapted 1o the growing of ! citrus tenit. The new owners have | Jackson, of the | State Hardware Dealers’ Association, then addressed the meeting, stating that b was glad that the matter had been brousht up as it was import- mvestiantions: which !ou' the city There was a majority for | His position is endorsed by Gov.ling when the bill came to a vote n! One thousand dollars each | ‘I do not believe there | was paid three of the senators and | committoes to plan their work the No. 191. " DEMOCRATIC ~ LEADERS = GATHERING NOW IN - BALTINORE ADJUSTMENT OF THE GREAT MACHINERY OF CCNVENTION NOW IN PROGRESS. Baltimore, June 12, Only part of the work accompli=hed by the Demo- chatic national convention, which opens here on Jute 250 will be per- hall. The appear there, but ults are attained lights will HE uight at various and otlice buildings through- where convention head- ane been established by the Lational organization and the organ- [izatious supporting the candidatos Htor plaves on the national ticket A political convention is a law unto itselt. With out leaders and termed in the tesults will vanvention befor: | these 1 burn lotels into tie ‘l‘ arte nreat body of little headway, delegates could make but even the most tute leader cannot always know when the delegates will upset carefully prepared routine. Nevertheless, until the delegates ballot and one of the ciendidates receives the two-thirds vote necessary for nomination, those who are trying to learn in advance what the result will be will wateh tiiese headquarters. 5 A national convention nas been lik- |ened o a great engine in which the fly wheel is the national committe the governors the committees on cre- dentials and resolutions and the fuel it the body of delegates which supply the motive power, controlled and reg- viated by these three committees. The actual work of the convention started here when members of the nitional committee began to arrive This committee consists of ftifty-two members, one from each State and from Alaska, District of Columbia, [ Hawaii and Porto Rico. [Its quarters are at the Hotel Belvedere, situated in the Mt Royal district within | walking distance of the convention Lall. The two top floors of the Bel- vedere Rave been engaged by the sation. He is one of the two dele-ant and within thy cognizance of the ¢ gates to the Chicago convention from | association. Ite stated that he had : asurveyor and his crew at work sur- this State, who kave determined 10 {heen one of the representatives of { V0¥ the Tand, and it will soon be stand by Col Roosevelt. The other i”"' Floridic Retuil Dealers’ A ,v_‘_‘h-.ul\ to be placed on the market, | Messr< G D Lavie the el and they are and 1. b contract tor Mendenhall arveying the pushing the Postmaster 1. B, Daughtry, of G : from the third ! tion at the fast session of the State and that he had Legizlatare Aone Lo work L trict Baha==ce in the interests of o siN : S\iton ALl buy. four of the ln-.'.~-"' ety completion, although the FORMER FLORIDA BANKER lators, =aid Mr. Jackson, promi-ed to or the past \\"t'l\" I:;t\.- retand Work to some extent upport the bills but when the thme REPORTED MISSING WUCH SUFFERING IN FLOODED DISTRICTS come amagority voted against them told them,” said M Friends and acquaintances ot My 4 | Jao kson, o proposed would hotest poot Hma Garthside, who betore her ma that the lem riage was Miss lma Curry, ot ke raise the credit of the West, will be interested in the too man and do away with the deadbeat {lewing from the New York Hera' In Florida no men, at present, can | “F l“msm“‘ ot Sunday: be made 1o par his bills unless ue . “Mrs. Hma Garthside, of Mo watits 107 Mr Jackson then stated | . B ¢ hi (By Associated Press.) tain View, N. J., as the po et is objection was net with the June 12 It condition i flood & New Orleans, lLa, law but with the procedure required, | ; : {ports of which in small Lt e cases | o of the peacs to send out uocenet alarm for her husband, ¢harl who has been missing since T livre yesterday W miserable was the samg Seuthern Louisinna, cansed by coming before a justic P wat ! the Hymedia levee by tie has been an agent for an - s they were when larger and coming l‘ RIAEE "'"; 5 o s "' ! : . . ght 1 o N mobile concern, but, she said, 1. before the Circuit Court. In all | ! bevt ""‘" s ok ” e '1 by refugess e man, his wit ¢ 1iet wWith business rev Shoe wall accounts, he said, the expense I i "”’]" b s St : ' : 1 CETER ren, s nt 1 cived a letter from him postuio of collection wounld be greater than Ill‘l, i ';' by fioboken. the amount to e collected e T ATY ol T : . [their way throush the submersed The missing man is describ Dead Beats Hold Balance of Power w‘ bt The S Al teing 3% years old, 5 feet T 1u “When the bills which had been )’ : . tach 4 s watsted. Conditiors at Lala a Vv 1o1l, weighs 150 pounds, has b submitted came from their respec- ' 4 " i i P . {bad, with water over the floors o hair, blue eyes, light complexion tive committecs with unfavorable re- W " . howus smooth face. When last seen port (Mr. Jackson not being notified y s wore a blue suit, straw har and when to appear before the commit- shoes.” to give intormation regarding ' VAUSE RELEASED FROM JAIL. them) Well Known in Florida he began to seck the reason “Charley” Garthside was @ My, Jackson was informed that “the known in this State and es=p- non-debt payinz part of the popula-| among the banking fraternity ton holds the bulance of power at was at one time connected wit the ballot box In order 10 b Bank of Bay Biscayne, in M clected to the fezi-lature, the | Fla., and for several yeais t» {lators informesdd Mr. Jack-on, active part in the business of must mnot antaconize this element, city However. a series o! which would wa'ch their offieial acts dr Walter Vause, the young man who was placed in the county Jail soms days ago to await with Miss Matie released from custody yesterday wit- Sanders trial for «loping Lon Sanders, wa ernoon, Mr having with awn prosecution, and the costs arrest orcurred in Kissimmee several ' stances caused his withdra» ud if they pas-cd the pro having been raised popular months ago, and, although the man the bank and he left Florid: ation would < their ords= ription among the friends of | has besn known to have visited this north. Since which tim. muns arainst them unz man “e 12.—Out of a city several times during the inter- his Florida friends hav. Two thousard, f. a numb _Whe ik eges from wr'ting months he has never befors tle from him crams wefe sent 1o members of ; aqua Mr Vaus 0 James Cum- been in the hands of the police His wife, who, acrord.n: legislature,” said Mr. Jackson, ‘from volint ibscrited 0 the fund to * "he Butler coun-' It is said Stallings attacked a atove is now seeking informa ioyal dealers throughout the

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