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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
OFF TO TRAIN IN THE
STERN ART OF w

st. Petersburg, Jan. 22-Gity
torney Booth, and doubtless OF
business and professional men of
city. will likely go to Fort o
thorpe, Ga, In April for milit
training. Mr.. Booth a few Dc
since received a letter from the =
department inviting him to 80
training camp for the purpose of de-
voting at least two weeks to the
course for officers in the cavalry and
artillery branches of the service. He
had previous experience as an enlist
ed man and as an officer in the in
fantry and wishes to take up the
special course.
Some time since the war depart
ment made an official announcement
of its plans for holding a training
camp at which citizens will be given
practical training and problems in
war maneuvers. Mr.. Booth stated
yesterday it was his intention to
take advantage of the opportunity
presented and that it was very like
ly that other men Of the city would
do likewise, as number of names
have been forwarded to Washington,
d. c., of men who are probable can
didates for the training.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
|SE SITUATION
Renewed BY
LATEST MURDER
h AKERS KILLED BY MEX
TITLE RUSTLER; WAS TRY
|G TO RECOVER STOLEN CAT.
(By Associated Press. J

Paso, Texas, Jan. %. "Details
b. killing of Bert Akers, an
tican rancher of Ysleta, Texas,
Eaused a renewal of the tense
|tion produced by the Santa
Il massacre. Akers was slain by
hr6o Duran, a Mexican cattle
br, in a fight yesterday at San
hzo. chihuahua, a few miles be-
lhe border. Akers, with Douglas
b. and a Mexican police official
/ to recover cattle stolen Mon
from Mrs. Murphy, a neighbor,
eleta, and Duran and his broth
Frederic, opened fire from the
They shot Akers in the back as
|de horse on which Downs also
Iran was captured by Carran2a S
krs. He claims self-defense, ac-
b. to a statement issued by
kal Gabriel Gavira, the Juarez
bandant. The authorities took
/ measures to prevent trouble.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
GERMANY IS
DISCUSSING
SEPARATE
PEACE WITH
BELGIUM
LITTLE NEWS SITS THROUGH
FROM SEAT OF CONFLICTS; !;
RUSSIANS CLAIM SUCCESSES
(By Associated Press. J

London, Jan - The Balkans
continue to occupy the spotlight for
war news. Montenegro and Greece
are the points of notable interest
The situation in both is somewhat
clouded by lack of news of decided
conflict from such advices as have
been received. Further reports re
garding the resumption of hostili-
ties between Montenegro and Aus
tria, following the rejection of peace
terms by the former. are lacking.
There is small disposition in Teu-
tonic quarters to even admit any
break in the negotiations A Berlin
dispatch quotes Cologne newspaper
as conceding that obstacles have
arisen and there has been a refusa
on the part of the Montenegrin army
to surrender.
Petrograd dispatches late last
night claimed further success
against the Turks in the Caucasus.
A Russian official statement declared
that the Turkish army in Ezorum
had been defeated and was retreat
ing precipitately to the protection
of the Ezorum forts.
There is discussion in Germany of
separate peace between Germany
and Bel Il in nj A nromjnant Frank :
fort newspaper is quoted as suggest
ing that Belgium ought not to wait
too long before taking up the sub
ject.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
SHIP LOADED
With WAR
MUNITIONS
RETURNS TO
n. Y. AF|RE
NO EXPLANATION OF EXPLOSION
GIVEN; SHIP BEING UNLOADEI|
TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE
(By Associated Press

New York, Jan. 22. THE No,
wegian freighter Sigma, whic
sailed yesterday for Archangel, Rus
sia. presumably loaded with wa
munitions and supplies, returned tn
morning with her No. hold afire
She anchored off quarantine an
asked for help. The fire boat WI
sent.
The fire on the Sigma is believe
to be under control. No explanatit
of the fire is offered. The crew w
unable to say if it was an explosio
The vessel will be partly unloaded
determine the cause. Steel raj
various forms of structural steel a
large amount of railway suppl
are in the hold.
The Synag fire is the latest of
long series of fires and eXplosiC
on vessels shortly after sailing fir,
American ports with supplies for
allies.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
EMIGRATION OF LAB0RERS
By Associated Press J

By Associated Press.)
|e Hague, Netherlands. Jan. p.
festriction by the Dutch govern
of the movements of metal
FRS who were intending to 90
Feat Britain to take advantage
|gh wages there has called at
6n to the position of the Meth
ds in connection with war sup
+ enforcement of the regula-
was a surprise to the workmen
Frned, several thousand of whose
fdes had been employed in Ger
runitton factories since the
ming of the war. The labor rep
|tatives who conferred with the
fnment officials were told that
action of the authorities was
|Sarv because so many men
leaving whose service woulo
|Taluable to the country in case
fed, and that the prohibition OF
Patton is now applicable with
Fegard to which country they
Ht wish to 90.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
Train HITS SNOW BANK: ALL PERSONS
IN TWO COACHES REPORTED DEAD
(By Associated Press. J

Seattle, Jan. 22-Five are known
to be dead and many others believed
to be dead and injured when the
Cascade Limited on the Great North
ern Railroad was struck by snow
slide near Corea, a station on the
west slope of the Cascades, near the
summit The diner and day coach
were swept three hundred feet down
the bank and all persons in both
ears are reported dead or injured .
Five employees in the diners ars be-
lieyed to be dead. The first passen-
hurt, next to two dead men. Three
trainmen ar '0d
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
RUNAN|A IS
SELLING fOODSTUFFS
T0CENTRAL POWERS
(By Associated Press J

Vienna, Jan. % .--Rumania has
sold to the Central Powers $4,000
carloads of cereals, mostly wheat,
Indian corn and navy beans. The
sale, unlike some others which pre-
ceded it, has been made at reason
able market price, and no special in
ducements were offered, nor will it
be necessary this time to engage in
the wholesale bribing of Rumanian
government and railroad officials to
get the purchases out Of the country.
Rumania was obliged to sell to the
Central Powers because she cannot
sell to anybody else. The closing of
the Dardanelles has locked the gate
to other markets, and Russia, the
only other entente power with whom
Rumania now has physical contact,
is not in the market for Rumanian
cereals. So long as Serbia was still
fact and a neighbor, Rumania was
able to ship some of her foodstuffs
to Saloniki, from where they could
be reached by Entente and neutral
consumers Now this route is closed.
With the conquest of Serbia the
Central Powers have gained a great
economic advantage. Rumania must
sell to them, if she does not want her
crops to rot on her hands, and what
is considered just as important here,
must sell on terms more favorable to
Germany and Austria Hungary than
she has in the past.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
llIf;ld RfSlDENT'S'|TOUR il| i
IS FAVORED BY :
v. J. BRYAN

Miami, Jan. % William Jen-
nings Bryan, now in Miami, sees an
advantage in President Wilson get
ting away from the atmosphere lin
fected by the big dailies which rep
resent the manufacturers of muni-
tions' and out among the mass of
people who are not frightened by
imaginary wars, if it Is true, as re-
ported in press dispatches, that the
president intends to take the stump
for military preparedness. When
asked yesterday morning by the AS
sociated Press for his views on the
presidents reported intention to take
the stump for preparedness, Mr.
Bryan said:
THE president will decide for
himself whether he feels it his duty
to take the stump for preparedness
and does not need any advice on that
subject. There would be one advan-
tage, however, in getting out among
the taxpayers and away from the at
mosphere infected by the big dailies
which represent the manufacturers
of munitions. He will find that the
mass of people are not frightened by
the imaginary wars and are more
interested in preserving the peace
full ideals of the nation than they
are in fattering the vanity of mill
tary experts and swelling the divi-
ials.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
FLORIDA BAPTISTS
ELECT OFFICERS

Live Oak. Jan. 22.-The annual
election of officers for the Florida
BAPTIST convention was held Wednes-
day morning and the following gen
tlemen we're elected: Hon. n A.
Rlitch. of Tallahassee, reelected
president; f. Sanford, of Winter
Haven and Judge Ira J Carter oil
Jacksonville. vice presidents; c. Il.
Collins DeLand. reelected recording
secretary and treasurer; ]. w. SEN
tarfitt of jacksonville. assistant sec
retary.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22

letters, it being estimated that $5,-
900 10 needed
Enclosed with the circular letters
is a hand bill stating how the cam
paign has been carried on. This
fight began in earnest during the
hilodays when the whole city was
fine-ocombed by a large number of
citizens ferreting out cases of law
violations, and evidence in abund-
anca was secured, enough, we be-
lieve. for the conviction of nearly
every retail dealer in the country
is one paragraph in the hand bill .
Another paragraph reads as follows:
Broke All Liquor Laws
"On October l, 1915, the anti-sa-
loon league stated to the people of
Jacksonville that 1t would enforce
the observance of the Davis act and
all other anti-liquor laws as far as
possible. We now make the further
statement that we have given the
liquor dealers ample opportunity
since that date to prove whether
they would obey, or defy, the law,
and we find from investigations
which have been carried on for the
past ten days, by from so to 100
law abiding. peace loving citizens,
that the majority of the dealers have
broken every provision, not only of
the Davis act, but of nearly every
anti-liquor law upon the statute
books
ut is amazing to right-minded
men to what length of develtry the
liquor traffic will go. One of our
investigators said: Il thought | knew
something of the vileness of the Ii
quor traffic before. but on this
round of investigation ! have seen
intelligent and seemingly high
minded men sink TO the vilest trick
cry and the boldest violation of the
law, from the open illegal sale of IL
quor over the bar. to the passing of a
bottle through a dark hole in the
wall. Miami Metropolis.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
SENT THEM RIGHT BACK

ooola Ian. 22-An INDECENT lam
ilv consisting of woman and her
Go email children, two of them tod
ding babies, arrived in town yes
tordav The authrities put them IN
.barre Of the Kings Daughters
who provided them with food ana
,od,;no The woman said she came
80, near Savannah. so today MIS-
pi+tinrer and Mrs. Clyatt raised
money to nay her fare to Savannah
and sent her and her children to that
a;tr with a request to the King S
na,gbtars there to look after them.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
(By Associated Press.)

ashington, Jan. 22. The rev
>n that Mexican bandit leaders
a convention in Cordova, Mex
n November, and decreed death
mericans in Mexico and we'll
ID resistance to CarranZa, are
outstanding features of the Mex
Representatives of
Zapata, Argumade, Higinio,
lar and others are believed to
participated in the Santa
el massacre, and carried out
agreement. Carranza authori-
know of the agreement.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22

The rolling stock of the Italian
State railways at the close Of the
last fiscal year included 4,971 steam
locomotives, so electric locomotives,
1O.037 passenger coaches, 1O2,027
freight cars, 1871 baggage and pos
tai cars and 2,S9S work and repair
cars.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
WAR TO THE DEATH ON
MIAMI BOOSTERS

THE movement started by the
North Miami improvement Associa-
tion to abolish chickens and turkeys
from the residential sections Of the
city is good one."
This is the first sentence CT long
communication sent to The MetrDp-
oils today and signed by the San
Carlos, Gralynn, Praza and Green
Tree Inn hotel proprietors, the hotel
men closing their communication
with the appeal: 1--WE hotel keepers
of the city beg of you to assist us IN
this fight: we have begged our
neighbors not to bring in gobbicrs
and roosters, but it does no GOOD,
and they seem to have no regard
whatever for the nervous people VINO
come to this climate to recover their
health"
The hotel owners state that they
are constantly being urged by their
guests W Dt HlONNu W Obhti pdi - vi
the hotels lin order to get away
from the bowling noises of some
neichbors roosters and turkeys.
Ask Council to Act
j. j. Weaver, in last nights
meeting of the North Miami I'm
proyement Association, introduced a
resolution asking the city council 20
legislate roosters and turkey COB
blers out of the city.
Boosters here crow all night.
and this Growing is our greatest
nuisance, said Mr.. Weaver. When
I moved to Miami it was two weeks
before | could accustom myself TO
their all-night Growing sufficiently
TO get what sleep / needed. There is
no reason, humanity or sense in
maintaining these pests in civilized
communities. St& Petersburg has
solved the rooster problem, ami I
would like to have our councilmen
find out how it was done. People
come here who are ill and they want
rest and quiet. Men of Miami ought
not 10 be permitted to keep roosters
where they will disturb others y
Miami Metropolis.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22

The reason the oOnservationis's
a.o,.rad that they would oppose the
appointment of Secretary Houston o, OF
or nsDartment of Agriculture for
m .so crnreme court bench was the
sear that he would not be frienoiy
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22

(By Associated Press.)
king, Jan. %. Rebels in Yum
province defeated the govern
troops moving northward.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22

to them. The position from a politi-
cal point of view has to be filed by
a western man.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22

There are more than 1900 miles
of railroad in Egypt and plans are
in progress to increase the mileage.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE HOT
ON THE TRAIL IN JAX

Out of Jacksonville comes the re-
port that something is due to hap
pen soon in connection with alleged
violations of the Davis package law
In fact it is stated by members of
the anti-saloon league that suffi-
cient evidence has been COLLECTED to
dealer in Duval county. The cam
; paign has been carried on since Oc-
tober /, most of the work of collect
ing evidence being done during the
Christmas holidays when 100 citi-
zens of Jacksonville devoted a great
deal of their time in making the
rounds, purchasing liquor to be used
as evidence against the dealers. No
word of the action has been publish
ed in the Jacksonville papers, but
circular letters have been sent out
under date line January Ia, some
Miami
c.. w. Crooke, of Jacksonville,
superintendent of the anti-saloon
| league, signed the circular letters in
which the details of the work were
stated 1--WE are in the fight to the
hilt of the sword" says the letter.
'and will never quit until it ends in
victory" 1t is stated that the Davis
package law closed over half the
saloons in Jacksonville and most of
! the package houses admit that it is
impossible to keep the Davis law
and make a living selling liquors, so
. they are violating the law and the
city is running wide open. -
Got Evidence in 10 Days
In getting evidence the league
sent cut large number of citizens
and detectives and it is claimed that
''in ten days we secured enough in
dispdtable evidence with bottled
liquor to convict, imprison and take
the license from very large major
ity of the retail dealers. The liquor
is stored in the vault of one of the
largest banks of the city and will be
produced as evidence for the prose-
cution." Requests for financial as
sistance to carry the fight through
the courts are made in the circula
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-07-27
Western Pacific Gives
Out New Directorate

Try Eycrins Herald Leased wirel
oau Francisco. july THE per-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-04-29
FOR COTTON WAREHOUSE sYs-
TEN.
!. A. Hanks Issues Call to Members of
Organization, Saying Life Is in Dam
ger.
To the Members of the State Ware

To the Members of the state Ware
house Associaticn:
The State warehouse system has
reached a crisis in its life. Our one
MES are strong. organized and pre-
pred for its destruction.
The usefulness Of the system has
been demonstrated wherever operat.
ed; Its possibilities of development for
establishing cotton values cannot be
over-estimated. 1t can be preserved
and extended, IL It's friends unite and
work In harmony to this end.
You are therefore urged to attend
q meeting Of the association, to be
held in the offices Of the State Ware
house Commission. in the city of CO.
lumbia. on Wednesday afternoon, May
8. In order that in the multitude of
counsel q plan of effort may be agreed
on. The meeting will be called to or
der at $3.50 o'clock.
II will not be possible. in the short
tlino intervening. to reach the men,
bers by personal letters; but the
meeting 10 Of. vital Importance. and
each member ID urged TO attend.
~ Respectfully,
J. A. Banks. President.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-04-29

Ths Rock Hill once Of the Equi-
sabls Ixfs Insurance Society Thursday
morping received check for a quar-
~ Of million dollars with which to
pay claim arising out Of the death of
The late Lewis w. Parker. Of Green
VILE. 8. c. The life insurance con-
tract In this instance is known as q
Corporate Policy. and was payable to
the Parker cottonpMills. This policy.
personally written by Manager w. J.
noddy. was the largest life insurance
contract ever made In South Carolina.
and the present death claim arising
therefrom represents the largest sum
OF money ever paid on one life by the
Equitable or any other life insurance
company In the State Of South Caro-
lina. Rock Hill Herald.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-04-29
INDORsIss CLEANUP WEEK.
Board of Health to Cooperate Will,
Other Organizations i'm Promoting
Sanitary Measures.

AT a meeting of the Sumter Board
OF Health held yesterday that body
heartily endorsed the action Of the
Sumter Civic League and Sumter
Chamber of Commerce in inaugural
Ing a cleanup and paint-up week for
Sumter, beginning Monday, May Is.
The local health board and health
Officer McKagen promised that the
health department will cooperate in
every way within their power. Mrs.
r. d. Graham, chairman of the COM
mittee on sanitation of the Civic
League and Mrs. E. H. Moses have
been appointed committee to see
Supt. of City School, S. H. Edmunds
and Miss McLane. supervising prin-
cipal Of the Washington Street school
regarding the participation by the
boys and girls of the city schools in
the clean-uo campaign. This COM
mittee will also see the directories of
st. Joseph's Academy about the schol-
ars of this school participating.
Health lectures will be delivered at
the schools by DR.. J. Il. Howell, direc-
tor of Rural Sanitation of the State
Health Board. and there will be q big
mass meeting Of Sumter citizens next
week some time before the cleanup
campaign begins addressed by Dr.
Howell and local speakers from the
Sumter medical profession.
1t is planned. and hoped that big
clean-up parade of the children of
the city schools, and st. Joseph's
Academy with the boys high school
military companies, the Sumter band,
1siness mtn, ladies Of the Civic
League, city school teachers, city Of
fcsals. physicians, ministers, and 9TH
er citizens in the parade in automo-
piles the first day Of the cleanup
week. The police, and fire depart
ments will be asked to join in the pa
rade, too.
Fuller particulars will be given out
an couple of days. 1t is hoped that
Mayor L. 4. jennings will issue an
official proclamation endorsing clean
up week to the citizens Of Sumter,
and 1t is believed that he will do 30
when his attention is. called to same.
City Conrcil can always be depend
ed upon to lo its full duty for the gen.
eral welfare of Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-04-29
The S'o,l,iu, Citizen.

The bane Of public officials is the
citizen who lacks even a semblance Of
interest in the community or civic well
fare. And strange as it may seem in
a democracy, absence Of this interest
seems to be pretty generally prevalent
in the average American community
a fact that is acknowledged by many
leaders in public life and civic ad-
vance. A citizen would have 'the
city," whatever that name may signi-
fy when the great body Of citizens is
eliminated, keep the streets and alleys
clean, preserve the public and indi-
vidual health. eliminate all nuisances,
make everything in town spick and
span and satisfactory, while the citi-
zen sits back and looks on or care
lessly does his worst to counteract
the efforts Of public servants to-
achieve the end he demands.
The cleanup and paint-up" CAM
paign, according to thousands of city
and town officials Of other places, is a
most potent combatant Of slothful
citizenry.
First, the campaign arouses the de-
sire in men, women. and children for
homes and towns beautiful and sani-
tary.
Second, it impresses upon all the
fact that cleanliness, thrift, and civic
pride are essentials by which they
will be able to satisfy that desire.
Third, the campaign gives all some
thing to do with their hands and feet
and heads for the general civic pub
lie good. All citizens. male and fe-
male. young and old are members of
one big committee Of arrangements
for doing something for their town.
Fourth, it's educational influence re-
mains steadily the year round, and
year after year. automatically elimi-
mating many nuisances caused form
erly by carelessness or thoughtless-
ness.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-04-29
OswcgO Club Meeting.

Oswego, April 22.-The Oswego
Democratic club was called to order
Tor the purpose of reorganizing. L.
w. Andrews was elected president; T..
G. Cauthen, clerk. The following
delegates were elected to the county
conventions: B. NJ. Oliver, S. NJ. Nc
Coy, and r. E. Brown. Alternates, E..
T. Cummings and j. F. Moore. B.
Nj. Oliver was elected executive COM
mitteeman.