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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
MRS. FLAGLER TO WED AGAIN

According to the New York Her.
aid of Nov. 4
Society was greatly interested
Friday in the news of the engage
ment Of Mrs Henry M. Flagler, wild
ow Of the Standard Oil capitalist, to
Judge Robert Worth Bingham, one
time mayor of Louisville, KY. While
the engagement has not been formal
ly announced, her friends generally
accepted the pleasant news as true.
inasmuch as Mrs. Flagler made no
denial of it on Thursday and set Sat
urday as the time when she would
meet reporters. Messages of felicita-
tion had begun to arrive Friday at
the Palza Hotel, where she is stay
ing, when she left hurriedly for
Washington 1t is expected that the
wedding will take place Nov. Il.
Judge Bingham, recently of the
Circuit Court of Jefferson county,
Kentucky, chancery division, was APP
pointed Mayor of Louisville by erst-
while Governor Beckham to fill a
vacancy. He is a member of the
leading clubs in Louisville. His fam
lily is widely known in Kentucky and
North Carolina. He is widower
and has three children. The late Mrs.
Bingham was killed in 1913 in
collision between her automobile and
a trolley car. He is about forty
four years old. "
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
EXTORTIONATE DUTIES
Mexican Merchants Are Paving
Heavy Import Tax on All Goods
From This Country Shipped
to Mexico

The extortionate, or rather exorbi-
tant import duties put on all goods
from the United States and other
foreign countries shipped into Mex
leo, which was announced by the
Carranza government some days ago.
was put in full force and effect to-
day, though in reality the increased
duties were demanded yesterday and
were the cause of stopping the rush
of expectations to Mexico
All commodities are effected by the
extortionate duties, and in some
cases there are Increases of several
hundred per cent Shoes, hats, cloth
ing, household furnishings, iewelry,
and in fact every line is more or less
seriously affected by the heavy du-
ties applied to the shipments by the
Carranza government, and the result
will be an estoppage of the heavy
expectations through the port of La
redo for the time being Laredo
Times.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
TUNNY FISH BEING
USED BY GERMANS AS
SUBSTITUTE FOR MEAT
(By Associated Press. }

Berlin, Nov. All Berlin these
days is living ''in the sign of the tun-
ny fish the best substitute for gen
uine meat that has been discovered
since there began to be restriction
of, the regular meat supply On
"meatless' as well as other days tun-
ny now occupies respectable place
on the bill of fare of every big Ber-
lin restaurant, and great quantities
of it are being eaten.
One large and very we'll patronized
cafe, for instance. offers, each Tues
day and Friday, under the heading
of meat Dishes" the following four
items: "Fricasse of funny with rice,
funny schnitzel with peas. carrots
and fried potatoes, German beefsteak
OF funny fish with spinach and fried
potatoes, funny goulash."
The meat of the funny is coarse
and somewhat strong, or gamy, and
too much of it pals. But it is new
ertheless an excellent substitute for
meat, and likewise a relief from the
finer fish that grows very tiresome If
eaten week in and week out. The
supply OF tunnys is said to- come prin-
cipally from the Adriatic.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
ARRANGING TO EXTEND
WESTERN BUREAU SERVICE
(By Associated Press. }

Washington, Nov. .-EXtension
Of the United States Weather Bureau
Service in the Caribbean Sea and the
Gulf of Mexico, where the present
stations have been found invaluable
in gathering information of hurri-
canes and storms approaching the
American coast, is heing arranged.
New stations will be established at
Belize, British Honduras; Bluefields;
Nicaragua; Swan Island in the Car
ibbean, north of Honduras; Santa
Harta, Colombia: st. Lucia Island;
Puerta Plata. San Dominican Repub-
lie Island of Navassa between Cuba
and Haiti Guantanamo, Cuba, and
on one of the Danish West Indies.
Stations now are maintained at Bar
bados Trinidad. Curacao, Bermuda
and the Bahamas where the work Of
the observers will be extended and
improved Daily reports will be
made to the Weather Bureau here
and from some points two reports a
day may be sent In this way Of
ficials here will be kept in close touch
with all weather conditions and be
able to detect approaching storms.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
BIG MUNICIPAL WEEK.
All Kinds of City Problems to Be Dis
cussed In Springfield Nov. POPS

Springfield, Mass. Nov. 7.-Plans for
the holding of big municipal week
in this city newt month have just been
completed by the convention bureau
of the local Board Of Trade and the
Bureau of Municipal Research. From
Nov 20 to 25 the city in all of its
phases will be considered from every
possible angle. Already ten national
State and New England organizations
devoted to the improvement Of muni-
cipal life have arranged to hold con-
ventions and annual meetings here in
connection with the week. These are
the National Municipal, City Manag-
Iers' Association, Civic Secretaries
Committee, Municipal Research Con-
ference. Training School for Public,
intercollegiate division of the National
Municipal League, Western New Eng
land Chamber of Commerce. Massa-
chusetts ivic League and Massachu
'Setts Single Tax League League,
which comprise the more active and
prominent men and women of the
country who are working for the
proper solution of municipal problems.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
HEAVY FIGHTING
ON SOMME;;
BOTH SIDES
CLAIM VICTORY
(By Associated Press. }

London, Nov. Heavy fighting
on the Somme front in France and
in Transylvania is reported. The
British announced they had gained
ground near Butte de Warlencourt
on the Somme front, while Berlin
said the British were repulsed near
Eaucourt L'Abbaye ON the Transyl-
vanian front. Berlin said the Teu-
tonic forces in the region of Tulghes
retired before the Russians west of
Bedsea Pass and near Vulcan and
Rothenthurn Passes, however, the
Teutons claim to have advanced.
Berlin reported the capture Of
Bridgehead from the Russians on the
Stokhod river on the Russian front.
1t is said the Russians showed
marked activity between Dvinsk and
Lake Marocz.
The British admiralty stated to-
day that further reports from the
commander of the submarine, which
yesterday was reported as topedoing
the German dreadnaught in the
North Sea, claimed it's torpedoes hit
two German dreadnaughts of the
Kaiser in the clash.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
HONOR SYSTEM FOR coNvIcTs.
Club Women of Missouri Are Being
Enlisted in Movement.

Kansas City. Mo-, Nov. 7.-The wom-
en- of Missouri have taken up the fight
for reform in the conduct of the State
prison They are demanding an in
vestigation of the manner in which
the institution is run now, and they
have put both the leading candidates
for Governor on record for changes in
the administration of the prison and
the abolition of certain forms of pun
ishments for infractions of the rules.
1t is declared that some of these pun
ishments are cruel and illegal.
The trouble is declared to be an out
growth of the prison contract labor
system. The women demand that this
system be abolished, and they will
endeavor to have the convicts put to
work on the roads under the honor"
system. Club women all over the
State are being enlisted in the move
ment
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
FAIR WEATHER
AND HEAVY
BAil0TINc
DELAY IN LEARNING THE FINAL
RETURNS IS DUE TO THOU
SANDS OF WOMEN TAKING
PART; BOTH DEMOCRATS AND
REPUBLICANS SATISFIED WITH
REPORTS
tBy Associated Press. }

New York. Nov. Fair weather
which was general throughout the
country except in the Upper Missis-
sippi valley and western Colorado,
brought voters out early. The reports
at noon from practically all sections
indicated heavy vote, some points
are saying the bulk of the ballots
were cast before ten o'clock A big
early vote surprised the politicians
and caused much conjecture. Provi-
dence. R. l.. reported the vote
throughout that State was the heavi-
est ever known
Reports from New York State, Mid
die Atlantic States and Western and
Southern points indicated keen in
terest everywhere. Those in charge
OF the Republican and Democratic
national headquarters expressed sat
isfaction with reports. Political OBJ
servers were doubtful as to just when
the results will become known.
They are inclined to the opinion that
it will be later than usual owing to
the complex situation resulting from
great number of women voting and
from other causes.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
result IN PRESIDENTIAL
RACE WILL Be KNOWN LATER
Than USUAL, IS BELIEF
WAR INK Is A LATE INVENTION
(By Associated Press. }

Berlin, Nov. 7.-"War ink" is the
latest invention to supply an existing
need. The minister of education an
nounces the invention of fluid high
ly adaptable to school work, which
does not penetrate loosely woven pa
per nor blot as ordinary ink does,
be ready for introduction into all
public schools. The chief advan-
tage of the new ink is that it en-
ables pupils to use cheaper paper
for the exercise, and makes them in
dependent of the glazed papers that
ordinarily take ink successfully
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
WOMEN WHOSE FIANCES WERE
KILLED IN WAR CONSIDER =.
THEMSELVES WIDOWS
(By Associated Press. J

karlsruhe, Baden, Nov Tile
authorities of the grand duchy of
Baden have found a welcome solu-
tion to the problem that has long
bothered them of how to address
women whose fiances have been
killed in the war, and who regard
themselves as welded even though
no ceremony ever took place.
By order of the grand duke to the
ministry of justice such women are
entitled to call themselves and to be
called Frau" instead of "Fraulein"
if they can establish satisfactorily
that they were engaged, with earn
est intention of being married, to
men who have been killed in the war
or who are reported as missing for
specified length of time.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
VOTES COUNTED
WHILE BAL[0T|NC
IN PROGRESS
THIS ELECTION BOARD SYSTEM
SHOWS WHAT THE RESULT
WILL BE BEFORE POLLS CLOSE
{ BY Associated Press. ]

Topeka. Kan, Nov. THE use
of the Doube election board system
whereby votes are counted while the
polls remain open, enabled Kansas
voters to know how the balloting is
going.
Incomplete returns from twenty
five precincts here gave Hughes ,3S9
votes, Wilson 974 votes. Sixteen pre-
cincts in Wichita gave Wilson SIS
votes, Hughes 416 Nine precincts in
Wwandotte county gave Hughes 37S
votes and Wilson 329.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
LATEST TURN IN PINELLAS
COURT HOUSE ROW

M Clearwater, Nov. THE latest turn
IN the attempt of the citizens of st.
Petersburg to wrest the county seat
from Clearwater and have 1t located
IN their city has taken the form of a
decision by Judge Reaves which de-
MES a demurrer filed by the county
commissioners.
In speaking of the present situation
the ST Petersburg Times of yesterday
says:
Whether the temporary structure at
clearwater use as court house is in
reality court house is now prop
osition for traverse jury to decide.
The famous court house case institu-
ted by M. p Miller and others against
the county commissioners go compel
county seat election assumed this
status Friday even when Judge o. X.
Reaves of the circuit overruled the de-
murrer of the county commissioners
to the replication of Miller filed after
Judge Reaves held that the commits
sioners could not be forced to call an
election on the grounds that Pinellas
county already, under an act of the
Florida statutes, possessed a court
house
Originally Miller and 1thers man.
dRmused the commissioners to call an
election TO decide where the county
seat should be established. Judge
Reaves sustained the answer to this
suit and cited Florida law to shoy that
the building now in use in Clearwater
was a bona fide court hourse and as
such an election could not be called
inside of 20 years to vote for its re-
moval. To this a replication was filed
in which direct statement of facts
was set forth, calling for proof.
Among the charges enumerated were
declarations that the present building
was only make shift structure, in
adequate for the purpose for which it
was built and that it had been erected
over night as subterfuge to fore
stall the calling of subsequent cleo
ton TO fixe a permanent location.
Fraudulent intent was charged against
those instrumental in putting up this
building.
Demurrers were filed to this by the
county commissioners and it was upon
this phase of the case that the court
was asked to act Friday Judge
Reaves overruled these demurrers, ac-
cording to Lunsford & DeVane the
firm OF Tampa lawyers representing
Miller. This puts the case at issue
and the next step will be jury trial
to decide if the building Clearwater
Is actually court house.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07

and supplies for the Willow Creek
mining district. The government is
taking immediate steps to survey
small tcwnsites at these places.
The railroad north and south from
Anchorage passes through and de-
velops large agricultural country
There are now between 800 and
900 homesteaders along the line of
the railroad in this section and the
developed The homesteaders are
supplying a considerable portion of
the focdstuffs for the railroad en-
ployes and other people in that sec
tion of the country Recently the
Alaskan Engineering Commission
contracted for 400 tons, or over g.,
900 bushels, of potatoes with the
Matanuska farmers. roducts are be-
ing hauled by the farmers to Matan
uska and shipped over the railroad
to Anchorage and other points along
the line. There is still room for
large number of homesteaders in the
vicinity of the railroad, and the gov
ernment hopes TO encourage farmers
from the States to come to Alaska
and take up homesteads in the terri
tory tributary to the railroad in or
der to develop the agricultural lands
so that the country may some day in
the near future be self-suppcrting.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
WORK ON U. S. RY. IN
ALASKA IS PROGRESSING WELL
(By Associated Press J

Seward, Alaska, Nov. 7.-Wm.
G. Edes, chairman of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission, who re-
Gently returned from Anchorage, re-
ports excellent progress on the con-
struction of the United States rail
road.
Fifty-nine miles of track have been
laid from Anchorage. With the sew
enty-one miles Of the old Alaska
Northern Railway that are now in
operation to Kearn Creek, there have
been completed 1870 miles of the 470
that will connect Seward and Fair
banks The track so far laid from
Anchorage consists Of six miles houth
toward Seward; thirty-eight miles of
main line northward to Fairbanks,
and fifteen miles on the Matanuska
branch into the Matanuska coal
fields
The right Of way has been cleared
from Potter Creek, on Turnagain
Arm, to Kings River, in the Matan-
uska to the Little Susitna River
Rail will be laid this fall as far as
Kings River, on the Matanuska
Branch, a distance of sixty-two miles
from Anchorage, and to Wassilla on
the main line, approximately Is miles
from Matanuska. On the main line
in the Susitna valley, between Mon
tana Creek and Indian River, dis
tance of IS miles, the right of way is
20 per cent cleared and number of
grading contracts have been let.
Grading of the right of way will pro-
ceed in this section from Talkeetna
TO Willow Creek, and north to Broad
Pass. At Willow Creek 1t will con
meet with the work from the Nenana
divisic n.
Rail will be laid in the near flu
ture as far as Potter Creek. which is
fifteen miles southeast of Anchorage
on Turnagain Arm, and from. which
point the rock work on Turnagain
Arm will be attacked during the win
ter
For the week ending Sept. 9, 1858
men were employed on the Anchor
age Division, which includes Commits
sicn employees. stationmen and labor
ers, the August payroll being $685.
800, 900.
The population of Anchorage,
which is the main construction base
on the. railroad, is between 4 1000 and
5000 At Matanuska. the Junction
of the Matanuska branch with the
main line, a townsite was recently
surveyed by the government and a
town is now in course of develop
ment There is also a small town
at Moose Creek, about fifty miles
from Anchorage, where the first
mine on the railroad is in operation
At Wassilla. the name of the town
where the railroad crosses the Knik-
Willow Creek wagon road, several
people are gathering Wassilla will
be the distributing point for freight
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
DESTROYER AND
submarine SUNK
IN DUEL fought
ON OCT. IS
(By Associated Press.l

Rome, Nov Z An Austrian sub
sunk in a duel on the night Cf Oct.
10th, according to an admiralty
statement The submarine had at
tackled transport which escaped. 4
majority of the destroyers' crew was
saved together with two officers and
eleven men from the submarine.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07

All species of wild game except the
antelope increased in Colorado during
the last winter. according to a census
taken in the national forests of that
State. Yet few animals seems better
worth while propogating than these
shy and dainty little fellows. Colo
RADIO might learn lesson or two from
TelIowstone Park, where a arge herd
Is thriving Springfield Republican.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
VOTE SO FAR TAbU[ATED IN |
KANSAS. GIVES WILSON LEAD
OF SY0TES OUT Of 4,374.
POPULATION OF q. s.
HAS INCREASED 24O00,OO0
IN THE LAST Is YEARS
(By Associated Press. }

Washington. Nov. THE popula-
tion of the United States has in
creased 24,OOO,OOO people in the last
Is years, and the number of beef
animals has decreased 100000 and
sheep 100000. 200, while hogs have
increased only 100000.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
NO RECORD OF
: siSa TRANSFER H OF LANAo
TO NORWEGIAN REGISTRY
(By Associated Press. J

London, Nov. 1.-THE transfer or
the steamship Lanao. sunk by a sub
marine Oct. 2S, from American to
foreign ownership, has not been re-
corded at the American consulate. it
was said at the consulate.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
new ASHFORD, MASS.
FINISHED Voting
At 10 TODAY:
pF1URNS MADE
CLr ed Press. }

Pittsfeld Mass, Nov. New
State was the first to make election
returns. The polls closed at ten
o'clock this morning The count
showed: Hughes, l6; Wilson, Z. In
1912 the town gave Wilson 4, Taft
Z and Roosevelt 6
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
GIVEN
OVATION WHEN
He Went TO
PRINCETON
TO VOTE
(By Associated Press. }

Princeton, Nov. President Will
cast the fiftieth ballot in his pre-
cinct here. The president and his
wife were greeted here with a dem
on stration staged by the Princeton
students and professors. The Pres
ident left for Longbranch at $50.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
(By Associated Press. J

Cardiff, Wales, Nov. Captain
Mainland Of the steamship Lanao
said he knew nothing of the reported
sale of the Ianao to a Norwegian
firm.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
1881 Taken Prisoners
(Rv Associated Press :,

Paris, Nov. 7 THE French have
taken 1881 prisoners since July l
along the Somme river, the war Of
fee announced.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-07
LAKELAND. FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOV. Z, 1916
HUGHES BALLOT
WAS NO. IS;
SAID It WAS
LUCKY NUMBER
(By Associated Press. }

New York, Nov. Charles e.
Hughes voted at 7:05 this morning
in small laundry near his hotel.
This ballot was number l3, which he
said was lucky number.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-27

Of yesterday but the charge cannot
possibly be true and, therefore. ac-
cusatiOn will prove a boomerang. The
South has not the strength TO govern
or misgoVen the country-if the
Democratic party be guilty Of mis-
government the guilt is that of other
sections as well; why should the
whole burden be laid on the South /.
The South is the poorest of the
sections but she pays her share OF
the taxes without murmur; would
the Herald have her do more? When
she was the richest of the sections
she did her full share in making and
sustaining the nation. as nobody cat
deny.
She is the least populous of the
sections IL we divide the nation into
North and South or South and East
and West, but she has never failed
OF adequate representation when cali
ed on for military service in any of
the nations wars-would the Herald
deny the truth of this claim:
But what is the patriotism that
makes the statement ere ,ited to Mr..
Hughes and the New York Herald;
that Is its quality and what would
it lave? We are told that the nation
las been unified and consolidated by
the events and policies which have
shaped our HISTORY for the past half
century; is it true that we are still
divided into sections animated by
s:Icb differences if the chari;ts be true
or by such feelings If they be I'M
true? Is one section governing the
nation to its hurt? Then other SOC
lions must be strangely lacking in du-
ty. If one section be not responsible
for the evils we feel or apprehend
then why do some of us seek to de-
ceive all of us?
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-27
Legalizing Fashions !?

The lawmaker of Ohio who has in
troduced a bill to prescribe the fash
ions to be worn by women in the
state of Ohio" must either have a
keen sense of humor or entirely lack
this desirable mental attribute; for
such a law would subject Ohio to the
laughter of the universe. And yet,
the bill introduced by the state solon
while on its face is futile proposition
nevertheless does serve a useful pur
pose of bringing up in formal way
notification that designers of femi-
nine costumes are perhaps. q bit dar-
ing these days in their ideas. The
/ L. bill comes right out tc say that
transparent stockings SHAH not be
displayed or worn in plDiic places,
and that pek-a-boo waists are to be
provided with an Opaque liains. The
bill does not lack definite details as
to direction for fashions.
Now Massachusetts has invaded
this sacred ground to some extent, by
legislating against the long and dan
gerous hat pin. Governor Crane having
signed an act imposing fine of 500
upon women who do not provide pro-
lection to the public when those long
hat pins are worn. That law will no
doubt raise loud protest from the
Bay State women or at least many
of them, for they regard it as an in
vasion of their personal rights. But
there is sound common sense in tax
ing steps to render the lengthy hat
pin inocuous. The Ohio idea, is
however, too ambitious 1t under
takes more than all the kings men
and his whole collection of oxen
could accomplish. Fashion is not a
matter of law but of conscience. The
less man has to do with fashions
DEGREES, the better for him. If the
fashions are too daring, it is certain
that the good sense of the Ohio wo-
man or the American women will see
that notifications are made. whereas
mountain of laws on fashions would
avail naught.