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Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
BIG OIL WELL NAY BURN.
Flow 81 100000 Barrels Daily Cannot
IA Stopped,

City of Mexico, Jan 20.-The new
oil gusher brought III recently by the
Pearson oil interests, which are IN
competition with the Standard OIL
company In Mexico. Is In Imminent
danger Of taking fire. The oil flowed
into the Tuxpan river, the food ex,
tending down the stream fer a great
distance, where 1t caught IRE. The
flames are gradually creeping up the
river and are expected to reach the
well tonight. II the well catches fire
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
HE REMEMBERS WASHINGTON
John Morgan, 1874, Probably oidssl
Man In thu World.

GradyviIse, KY, Jan. 2o.-John Nor
gan. a native of Germany. believed to
be the oldest man In the world, cele-
brated his one hundred and thirty
fourth anniversary here.
Despite lds extreme age he is In the
best OF health ana his memory of over
s century ego In perfect. He was IN
the war Of 1912.
He tells many Interesting stories OF
Washington and other makers OF his
tory In early times.
Some OF the news or your imane-
date neighborhood may be found IN
tha uau4 ada %ndaU
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20

Some OF the news" OF your imme-
diate neighborhood may be found II
the want ads. today.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14
ARE YOU A CAVE MANI

The Cave Mans idea Of advertis.
ing doubtless was to put his an.
n0uncement on leaf or piece oil
bark and fasten on the trunk OF q
tree or the side of a rock. Som.
men in their advertising have pro.
crossed very little farther than this
Others have developed to the stage
where they have a few circulars
printed for the distributing boy 10
stick under the first handy lumber
pile or throw in the brush by the
roadside. Others still consider it a
wild stroke of enterprise to put
their advertisement on the side If
the elephant when the circus comes
to town. aud then subside into OBJ
security for few years till the mex.
circus comes along. However, if a
travelling fakcr, with some question:
able scheme happens along. he yen-
orally catches the kind of advcr-
tiser last described
The experience of successful men
in every community in the country
demonstrates that there is but one
"best way to advertise. and that is
through the columns of the loca.
newspaper. II a daily paper is pub
lished Ia town, then it is, par en-
cellencc. the medium to reach the
people in that town. II goes in their
homes, carries the merchants mes
sage to them in the most acceptable
torn, and insurcs for him an audi
cnce that he can get in no other way.
1t is the natural medium for re-
spectacle advertising-the kind that
commands respect.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14
WILL HILLSBOROUGH
BE DIVIDED

The Pinellas Peninsula election oc.
ours today at which time the resi-.
dents of the west coast of Hillsbor.
Ough county, living in the towns OF
Clearwater, Ozona, Tarpon Springs
st. Petersburg, Bayview, Safety Har-
Dor. Largo and Dunedin decide the
question as to whether HillsbOrough
county should be or should not be d.
vided. The out come will not be
known until a late hour tOni.ht.
The people of the sections not af-
fected by the division idea have no
voice in the matter. 1t is up to
these people who live On what is
sometimes styled the Pinellas pen
insula or West Coast. In order to
create county, proposed to be
known as Pinellas, three-fifths ma
jOrity of all the vote cast must favor
separation from the parent county.
Else the election fails to register d.
vision and the West Coast remains
in the liillsborOugh fold.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14
COURT PROBING INTO
MIAMI MURDER CASE

Miami, Fla, Nov. l3.-That Hat.
tie Parcel, the l5-year-old girl whose
body was found in the Miami river
was dead when thrown into the wa
ter was the principal testimony
brought out at today's trial of p. c.
Cox, charged with the murder. The
evidence was given by DR.. A. G.
Post. who conducted the post-mor-
tenn examination. An effort was
made by the defense to have that
testimony stricken from the record.
counsel arguing that the case may
hinge on the question whether the
girl was killed by blow on the
head but the court permitted the rec
ord to stand.
According to DIR. Post the girls
wounds indicated that she had been
killed with a sandbag and that she
had been dead about twelve hours
when found The condition of the
body indicated that it had been in
the water about eight hours as there
was no water in the lungs or stomach.
II is expected that il will be sew
oral days before the States evidence
is completed.
The court decided to hold night
sessions TO expedite the hearing o.
the case. On the resumption of the
hearing tonight. Mrs. VIM. Parcel.
mother of the dead girl. testified to
the disappearance of bottle of
stryehnine from the house. arousiGg
the suspicion that the girl had COM
mitted suicide. She admitted she
had not told of this until the girls
father had been arrested for the
crime. Parcel was released at ais
preliminary hearing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Doan. neigh bcrs Of
the Parcels. testified to seeing Cox
driving slowly past the Parcel home
several times the night the Young
girl disappeared.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14
SPEAKING OF STORES.

If a store cant make good" it.
advertising will not pay.
A stores advertising serves t.
make it known quickly to the Who'll,
community.
If the store makes friends as rap.
idly as it makes acQuaintenances, it.
advertising will pay.
II it will not stand up under the
publicity test. its advertising-on
any considerable scale-would wreck
it-would wreck it by making pep
pie familiar with its defects-famil-
lar with its non-usefulness to them.
Thus store that is not sure OF
itself should avoid much advertising.
And, by the same law. the store that
thrives under advertising is the ali
right stCre-the store that makes
good.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14
PASSES NOT so EASY
TO PROCURE HEREAFTER

Beginning January next, ever,
railroad company in the United
States must establish and maintain =
pass bureau at the general offices O!
each company in charge of a super
lntendent. This is in accordance
with a recent ruling of the interstat,
commerce commission. The superin
tendent in charge of the bureau mus [
pass upon and sign every authorized
free-trip or complimentary pass Tor
the wives or other dependent men,
bers of the families OF paid employ
ees before it can be issued over anv
line. The commission explains that
the purpose of the ruling is to SIM
plify the business of issuing passes
and making reports TO the Federal
party; but there is a suspicion that
the commission has been led by cir
cumstances to look with questioning
eye upon the custom of granting
passes as heretofore praeticed. When
the bureaus are established requests
for trip passes will have to pass
through so many Offices before reach
ing the bureau superintendent. that
they will have to be made much in
advance Of the date they are to be
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14
CHINESE NAMES.

The following table OF Chinese
words appearing. or likely to appear,
in news dispatches. may help readers
TO follow with a clearer understand
ing the progress fthe revolutionary
movement in the Flowery Kingdom:
Hwans-Emperor.
Tsin-Prince.
Tsin Wang-Prince of the blood
Tsung-Clan, or family.
Nui Ko--Privy council.
Tsungtuh-Viceroy, or ruler OF
more than one privince.
Footai-Govern0r of a province.
Tituh-Chief military officer Of a
province.
Taotai-Governor of city.
Shang-Tung-Province east of the
mountain.
Shan-Hill or mountain.
Shih-Imperial.
Yamen-Ofice where official BUSH
ness is transacted.
Foo-A city of the first class.
Ting or Chow-A city or town of
lesser importance than that desig-
naoted by Foo.
Hoen-A city of dependent pro-
vince.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14

Ii is hoped that Governor Mann,
OF Virginia. will live up TO his name
and be a man. by resisting the DOW
erful Influences which are said to be
at work TO induce him To grant a
pardon or Communication of sentence
TO Henry Clay Beattie. convicted of
the murder of his wife. Beattie had
a fair trial and il was conclusively
proved that he was guilty of one OF
the foulest crimes in the annals of
the country. Yesterday the Supreme
Court declared that 1.-The trial court
was plainly correct in its findings
and there is now nothing in the way
Of this degenerate paying the penalty
Of his crime in the electric chair,
on Nov. oath. provided the Governor
does not interfere.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14

And now the WALES claim is In
the lime-light again. This time be-
ing up FOR hearing in the Supreme
Court. Our opinion is that the
aged claimant ought to have accept
ed that $4,000 the State offered
him in settlement. However. his
declaration that he is going to fight
for his rights till he dies appeals to
all fighters.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14
National Municipal
. League Discusses
MuniCipdI Progress
(By Associated Press. }

(By Associated Press.)
Richmond, Va. Nov. 1.-THE
most notable tendency in American
municipal life is that toward hope.
fulness," said Clinton Rogers Wood
ruff, Of Philadelphia, secretary Of
the National Municipal League, in
an address on American Municipal
Progress" before the leagues an.
nual convention today.
Grating is becoming more and
more unpopular as people come to
know more about it. The revela-
lions. while disgusting. are import
ant and encouraging, because they
reveal conditions which an enlight-
ened public sentiment promptly
seeks to correct and eliminate"
The increasing tendency toward
an expansion of municipal functions.
simplification Of the machinery Of
city government. and the greater
use Of the direct primary and meth
DDS of controlling public service cor
porations. Mr.. Woodruff regarded as
the more important progress Of the
year.
THE movement for the establish
ment Of commission governments In
American cities owes a large part of
its success to the fact that 1t is a
simple form of government, easily
understood, and providing short
ballot and a simplified form of NOM
ination and election" he said.
Chicago and Philadelphia were
pointed to as evidences of the wider
use of the municipal primary. Sec
rotary Woodruff referred to the re-
ported use of sums as large as
100000 by candidates in Chicago.
"Thc remedy for this difficulty lies
in the direction of restricting the
amount to be expended by the in
dividual for election expenses" he
said.
Some idea of the growth of the
movement for an adequate SUPER
vision of franchises in the interests
of the public may be gained from
the fact that today there are IA
cities with utility commissions.
The progress of Socialism was re.
viewed by the speaker. his record
showing that mayors and village
heads have been elected in IS towns
and cities in the last two years; and
IS other city officials have been seat.
ed by the socialists. The tendency
Of the Socialists to raise class dis
has kept them from working
with other municipal reformers, he
said:
1T is too soon to estimate the
true value of the Socialist movement
in the city," said Mr.. Woodruff. IF
The Socialists will place the empha-
SIS upon the many excellent features
Of their platform. and eliminate the
dea of class distinctions, and will
,ffer to work with all other citizens
irrespective of party, who have for
heir object the advancement of high
teals in city life, they will contrib
tie an earnestness and an aggres-
'iveness of great value" Secre-
airy Woodruff said the work of civil
ervice reform in municipal affairs
lad scored victory in the defeat
4 the so-called "Gaynor Charter" in
Jew York.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14

Application Pending for Admission
as mail matter of the second-class.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14

We have received No. I, Vol. I, OF
the Lakeland Evening Telegram. II
is only sufficient to know that 81
able man as Editor IlctheringtOn
Is back of the enterprise to predict
q bright and successful career for
the Telegram Supplement.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14

Gilchrist scored big hit with his
Thanksgiving proclamation, on ac-
count of its breyity. It's the first
time the Governor has ever been ac-
cused of such thing. as his mes
sages and State documents generally
hold the blue ribbon for verbosity.
Bet you can't do ii again. Gov.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14

TWO county battles are being
fought out today in FlOrida-"Pinel-
las seeking TO secede from Hills
borough, and capital removal con-
test in DeSoto.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14

At the present rate of progress the
Mcnamara jury may be completed
during the lifetime of the defend
ants, but ii looks doubtful.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14

$10,3963S
H. L. SWATTS,
Treasurer
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-14
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
From the same ONCE Is issued
THE LAKELAND NEWS

. weekly newspaper giving a re-
sumo Of local matters, crop condi-
tions, county affairs. etc. Sent
anywhere for $1.00 per year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-31

times latcly?" said the superintendent
neryously placed his cap on the edge
OF the glass topped table.
Hayes trembled and his heart sank
To be turned in, in railroad patois,
means to be the object OF complaints
by passengers.
What have l done, SIR" he muir
INJURED anxiousy.
You have disturbed the sleep of a
large number of passengers on this
line" said the superintendent. Let
ters have come to me from travelling
men who ride on your train, and they
say that when you announce a station
at night your voice not only wakes
them, but scares them and knocks
them out OF a proper frame OF mind
to do business the next day. Here
after, Mr. Hayes, when calling out sta
lions | wish you would not try to dis
place the window panes or experiment
with sound vibrations on the bell rope.
But it seems that Mr. Hayes is
walking library for volumes and vol
umes of stentorian noise. 1t couldn't
be suppressed. and as he had no time
to attend a ball game and let out
steam on the bleachers, he had to re-
sumo his old habit of standing at one
end of a yellow car and closing the
door at the opposite end by sheer force
OF his low register. Also he would
cough when impelled by the platform
draft, and the stovepipe would COL
lapse with a jangling noise. For
time the gentle patter of cinderS
would be stilled and the volatile dents
In the water cooler would take up the
echoes. At least, that was the descrip-
ton given by the sleep-eager passen-
gers who signed a petition which was
sent to the big chief at Omaha ere
another month had passed.
The railroad officials were deeply
puzzled by the case of Conductor
Hayes, who had proved himself relia-
BILE and efficient in every other way.
Some one suggested putting him on
day run. where people sleep at their
own risk, or at the mercy of the train
butcher.
In the meantime the hilarious story
OF Conductor Hayes and the sleepy
drummers found its way to Chicago
and Conductor Hayes was ordered to
report here He came wondering and
promptly he was set to work learn
ing the list of train departures. Then
when the new station was opened.
like an admiral on the porch OF a bat
tleship, he stood in his high balcony
and began his interminable recita-
lions in earnest. For a day or SO he
wrestled with echoes and acoustic
snares, but now he has mastered the
problem OF resonance in the great sta
ton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-31
MAN |SA MEGAP HONE
Railroad Caruso With a Cyclone
in Either Lung.
Clyde Hayes, Who Calls the Trains in
Chcago's Big Northwestern Sta
ton, Has a Voice Like
Foghorn.

Chicago.-Clyde B. Hayes is the rail-
road Caruso. Every day from $3.50 p.
M to II he proclaims the departure OF
more trains than any other station
caller. His concert platform is of all
steel construction and it is located
way up near the splendid ceiling of
the new Northwestern railroad sta
ton.
Thirty thousand people each day
lend appreciative ears as he skylarks
the suburban schedule on the Milwau-
kee and Galena divisions, plus enough
overland trains to keep Chicago and
the Pacific coast bound in close fel.
lowship. Presidents of the United
States, boy orators, world famous
eyangelists, divinities of grand opera,
baseball umpires-none OF these ever
had the constant opportunities of Train
Announcer Hayes to enlighten and
electrify a listening multitude.
Passing swiftly over the poor boy
and burning ambition section of his
life, we find Hayes in full charge of a
night accommodation train in Nebras-
ka. Yes, until recently he was a rail-
road conductor, and was treading the
threadbare aisle OF a Nebraska &C
commodation, occasionally unlocking
a brightly nickled lantern from his
left elbow and dropping off into the
night to wigwag the engineer.
One day the division superintendent
of the Northwestern line at Omaha
summoned young Conductor Hayes in
to his grim presence
Are you aware, Mr.. Hayes, that
you have been turned in a number of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-31

Take Pittsburg, where. as we
have seen. the typhoid rate was
127 per 100000 population. Pitts
burg is a city with a population
in excess of 100000 Hence its
annual death roll from typhoid
must have amounted to az times
1877, or something like 444 At
$4,000 a life, this death roll will
cost Pittsburgh s2,664,0 900 a year,
or $26, 640,000 every decade. And
the loss to the entire country. fig
uring the typhoid deaths at 10000.
reaches the astounding total Of
S120,000.0O0 a year, or $1.2O0.00O,-
600 every decade
This estimate, however, is with
out question too conservative
Mr.. Allen Hazen. an eminent
American engineer, says in his
book, Clean Water and How to
Get It," that the reduction in the
number of deaths In five cities.
brought about through water puri-
ffcation, amounted to 44O. In
proved general sanitary condl-
lions, he says, were responsible
for 1877 Of the 440 decrease. The
typhoid reduction amounted to
only Il. The reduction in the
number of deaths from other
causes amounted to 232-three
times the typhoid reduction II
this ratio of deaths due to water
holds good generally then our ty-
phOid deaths are only a small Part
Of the deaths due to bad water.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-31

sons died; in Lowell
1872 out of $50; in
Lawrence "a out of
al. OF 514 cases
in New Haven 10
resulted fatally.
b u tt er had 56
deaths and 1870
cases. In Scranton
there were Ill
deaths ard Lis
cases; in Cleveland
Az deaths and
> 80, go.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-31

is a string of good-sized
towns-Plymouth, Wilkes,
Barre, Wyoming. Blooms
burg. Nanticoke, and others,
all of which empty sewage
into the river, and a number
of which take their drinking
water direct from the river.
Wilkes-Barre does, and its
pumping station is on an
island in the river. When
the stream overflows, as it
does every spring, the pump
we'll is flooded with the foul
est of water-the rolled river
flow containing suspended
sewage and the reeking. sui.
phurous waste of coal mines.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-31

!. T: I: !. !
OW grossly Inconsistent
( saul we are! When, for the
~ ~ sake Of gain, a Missouri
I s8& ms ! physician administered ty.
(15 dasaN phoid germs to some of
EeM pHHs1A his relatives, thereby
alsStHI causing six or eight ill,
GNlp wy nesses and one death, we
stood aghast. called the
physician murderer, and
clapped him into prison for life And
when, during the Spanish war,
some twenty-five hundred of the boys
In khaki were needlessiy slaughtered,
many of them by typhoid. we denounced
In scathirg terms those officials whose
carelessness and incompetency caused
the tragedy. But we hear with abso
lutte Indifference the statement that
yearly the pollution of our water
sources needlessly causes more than
$4,000 typhoid illnesses and $4,000
deaths. We pay no heed to the fact
that year after year in the United
states seven times as many people are
needlessly i'll of typhoid fever as there
were soldiers wounded in the battle of
Gettysburg, and three times as many
persons needlessly die from typhoid
fever as met death in that tragic strug.
gle
1t is the old, old story of the mote
and the beam. We do not see the enor.
nifty of this terrible wrong, because we
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-24
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r,,.or in Wisconsin.

| walker in Wisconsin s"',ia Oracle are
|t'sss sing a weekend house party
'rl'ln Inmates at their cottage on
] ss cSDeva, Wis. Their guests are:
g u.l :.o McGath, Philadelphia;
VIII, a,;,dred Wright, Milwaukee,;
r1sanor conneyy OF Dubuque,
,.s,ov Grow. Misses Virginia
l a Walker OF Pine Bluff
Ds snests at the Oracle cottage
.sot Little Rock Gazette.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-24
MORE ITALIANS
COMING HERE
John NJ. Oracle TO Bring Three Fam.
lilies From Italy to Join Colony
On His Plantation.

Col. John NJ. Oracle, the prominent
Jefferson county planter of New Cas-
cony, spent yesterday in the city and
left yesterday afternoon for ST. Louis,
on business trip. Col. Oracle stated
yesterday afternoon that he was MAX
ing arrangements to bring three Ital-
ian families, including about eighteen
people, to this country from Genoa,
Italy, to work ON his farm. He has a
large colony of Italians now working
on his farm and finds them to be good,
thrifty Iaborers.
Col Oracle said that the rain Tues
day did the cotton crop in his section
great damage. He will leave soon for
his summer cottage at Lake Geneva,
Wis, where his family goes each
year. j. Pierce Oracle, Of Rob Roy,
and Attorney Asa Oracle, of Little
Rock, are now with Misses Maud and
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-24
ARkANSANS WON
The BLUE RIBBON
RADIO Was Big Succe>s-.judgc
FuIk Spoke.

Colorado Springs, Colo, Aug. 233.--
Not to be outdone by enthusiastic
Texans, Ollahomans, Kansans Or
Missourians, loyal residents of Ark
ansas, who are summerlng in the
Pixies Peak Region, have organized
state club which is among tie liv-
Hest of the organizations in Colorado
Springs and Manitou. When Missouri
brought out it's "Show Me- badges on
the occasion of its picnic celebrating
admission day, Judge Guy Fulk, Of
Little Rock, felt that it was time Ark
ansas was heard from, and he
promptly had printed badges declar-
ing ARKANSAS Can Show You" This
BODICE brought forth so many requests
from Arkansans that ii was decided
to organize an Arkansas Club, and
this was promptly done with Judge
Fulk as president, and Paul John
son, of Fort Smith, as secretary and
treasurer
sas Day" and a great gathering of
Arkansans was held in Manitou. It
was successful.
THAT picnic was one of the best
ever held in tais region" was the way
native of Colorado Springs express
ed his opinion of the Arkansas pic
mic Although the Arkansas club IS
the "baby club" here, it proved be-
yond doubt that it can arrange and
give program second to none. Al
| ter picnic lunch, at which free cot
fee was served by the Cave OF the
Winds management, Judge Fulk, made
| the opening address, after which
speeches of welcome were made by K
e. L. Giles and Mayor w. B. Kirby of
| Manitou. The presidents of the vari-
Gus state clubs made interesting talks.
A feature of the musical program was
the singing of Good Old Manitou'
written by Captain w H. Rogers, of
Manitou.