Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • Page 1

I 7 Vi i I I I i 1 fv 11 4 iI THE WEATHER Partly cloudy Tuesday with probably rain in the afternoons by night Wednesday fair with fresh and variable winds I Get Wlth in 25000 touch 1 It Ad 1 iJ ft Journals Daily Circulation average i iff I daily readers Use a Journal nn 11 II first 1906 culation 6 was months for the of 5848 t1 i lili I 1 VOL IX NO 248 FENSACOLA FLORIDA TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 16 1906 PRICE CENTS in i MILLION DOLLARS I I DAMAGE BY STORM Terrific Hurricane Struck the Coast of Central America SEAR LUEFIElDS i Little and Great Corn Islands I lands Swept Bare I CN MAINLAND STORM DAMAGE WAS CONFINED TO FATH THIRTY MILES WIDE IN WHICH I CROPS WERE DESTROYED TOWN OF RAMA COSTA RICA SADLY DAMAGED By Associated Press Xnv Orleans Oct 150ne million is damage including the partial 1 ioi of a town was done by a I tanc on the coast of Central aca hch is reported in a brief iVsj message received here It is I ited today that there is no prob Iocs of life HIt hurricane appeared central ir Bluellelds on the east coast of langa It swept in from the sea 3 Ing Li tie and Great Corn islands oh wer swdpt bare of vegetation Ll the topography even altered by waves On the mainland the storm damage confined niostly to a path thirty wide in wlrich the banana and i urr crops were destroyed and an ations blown down Rama forty miles from Blueflelds JnJ Port Limon Costa Rica suffered rcat damage IDLERS MUST WORK OR rov By Associated Press The Mobile Item says ThO crusade of the police department against the army of idlers who Lave Infested the city for years is Laving a most gratifying effect in the opinion of those capable of judging I or the past three weeks negroes and vhi men who could not give satis fact ry accounts of their movements Lae been chased to the police station nl docketed on the long charge lucy are being held for loitering and the threadhare defense so often put ip by negroes and others arrested un ekr these conditionsthat they are orking for so and so on the fruit harvcs stands them no good now ItiIge Clarkg dont take that old mug any more If the person arrested cannot show through responsible 10I1S that he is really engaged in cmie kind of pursuit its to the city pn on for him or leave the city Within the past three weeks more fan a hundred have been arrested rnl hn docket shows each day that Ieze unable to show a clean record srl oher marks of desirable citizen Fh are given the privilege of lean the city or going to jail OXfORD MADE WORLDS RECORD By Associated Press New York Oct 15 Oxford at to one won the Westchester Ji ipht handicap six and one hlJe furlongs at Bolmsnt Park to 4av making a new worlds record fort distance 118 15 one fifth of a Efld faster than the previous best tpie on a circular tract NECK BROKE RI FOOTBALL GME Now York Oct 15Because of the derth of Charles Surdam from a broken irok sustained in a football game SVnrdny at the Morristown Ml all games scheduled by the Morristown high school have been cnr Icl and the team has been abandon it Arcpdy messages have been rc crlnl by students in private schools for their parents forbidding them toNy t1 game NOTHING HEARD FROM EXPLORERS New York Oct 15The middle of Jf ir having been reached the time 1 set for receiving news from the PI pcdition hope was practically 8 I iloncd last night of hearing this from the band of explorers who fd from this port fifteen months a IT first word from Peary was ext fl to come to Morris Jessup rincipal backer of the expedition day at his office It was said that hOJIl of hearing from the explorer JIar was abandoned fIGHT OVER THE WIbHTM FODTUME Brought to Sudden and Mysterious i I terious Ending in Philadelphia Yester I day I Bv AssocIated Press I Philadelphia Oct 15A fight between two women over the distribution of sixty million dollars left by thc late William Weight man the chemist was abruptly halted today by the production of a small piece of note paper turned yellow with age What the pr per contained was not made public The halt in the proceedings was made at the suggestion of counsel for Mrs Jones Wister who was acting as guardian for her dauhtcr Martha a contestant The beneficiaries predict that the case is ended forever William Wlghtman first made a will leaving the estate equally between Annie Wightman Walker a daughter and his two sons Ten years later another will loft the entire estate to the daughter the sons having died leav in eight children The widow of William Wightman married Jones Wister and she contests the will on behalf of her daughter Martha on the ground that he left a codicil in which he provided for the grandchildren The sudden halt caused rumors pf compro miss but this is denied by the attorneys I AfTER HEAD OF MUTUAL lifE By Associated Press New York Oct 15The Tribune says that word reached here last I night that a warrant be sworn out for President Peabodys arrest on a charge of coercion of agents when the Mutual Lifes president visits Frankfort tomorrow Coercion is a i criminal offense In the Blue Grass I state and many Kentuckians are i thoroughly aroused espacially over Colonel Biscoe Hindsmans dismissal It is explared that Mr Peabody will appear before Commissioner Pruitt in the Frankfort state house It is believed sevaral of the managers who have resigned recently or have been dismissed including Colonel I Hindsman 0 Page of Detroit Herbert Fall of this city and Sutton of Massachusetts will attend the hearing SHOT FOR TAKING 1 ANOTHERS WIPE i By Associated Pcss I Vidalia Ga Oct 15wm Gilpin I a lumber inspector last night fatally shot McDonald a prominent lawyer of Douglass at a local hotel It is said that Gilpin learned that McDonald had arranged to meet Mrs Gil pin at the hotel and Gilpin secreting himself in the room shot McDonald when the couple entered Gilpin and his wife surrendered RAWLINGS CASE SET FOR OCT 29 By Associated Prc Washington pL 16The supreme court today fixed Octobrr 21 for hear lag the case of Rawlings the I Georgia prcach under conviction in Lowndos county that state for killing the two Carter children Rawlings attacked the proceedings of the trial court on the ground that preachers i wore not allowed to sit on the trial I jury Rawlings himself being formerly a Jlcthodist minister BRAKES CAR HIT TRAIN i Chicago Oct 15A street car with brakes out of order without sand and running on a bad rail dashed into a moving freight train on the Belt railroad at West Fiftyfirst street and Kedzie avenue last night and twelve persons were injured The gates were down at the crossing and the motorman saw the danger signals but could not stop ills car owing to its deficient equipment BAKERS DEMAND I ONE DAY OFF Montpelier France Oct ISThe local working bakers today declared a general strike because of the refusal of the proprietors of the bakeries to accord them a weekly day of rest as provided for by thelaw The city authorities have appealed to the government officials for thq assistance of military bakers in order to prevent a bread famine 1 I tr 1 i Jt tJ EVANGELIST SAM JONES DIED SUDDENLY lfRlUN Was En Route From Oklahoma toAttend union at His Georgia HomeBody Sent t6 Carter sville By Associated Press IIttle Rock Ark Qct 15Rev Bam Jones tha wellknown evan gelisl of CartersyMle Ga died early today of heart failure in the sleeping cr of a Rock Island Railroad train I near Perry Arklr Jones had been I conducting a successful revival at Oklahoma City and left there last night for his Georgia home where he 1 desired to attend a family reunion on Tuesday being the fiftyninth anniversary of hs birth Mrs Jones and their two daughters were with him AMHICANS ARE I THE VtjOHLD9S CHiiPI8 Captured Sixth Game From Nationals by Score of 8 to 3 Sunday By Associated rrcsn I Chicago Oct 15Tl1c Chicago club I of the American Baseball League is the champion of the world By winning Sundays game to 3 against the local club of the National League the Americans earned the right to float the worlds championship pennant as well as the pennant of the American League to ride to the grounds next season in carriages and to have Worlds Champions lettered II on the blankets worn by their horses The game was the sixth of the series and the fourth victory for the Americans Score by Innings Americans 34000001 aS Nationals 10001000 1 3 Summaryy Left on bases Americans 9 Nationals 9 Two basehits Schulte Davis Donohue Overall Evers HitsOff Brown off Overall 6 Sacrifice hitsSheckard Jones Stolen baseRohe Double plays Davis to Donohue Struck outBy I Overall 3 by White 2 Bases on balls I Off Brown 1 off Overall 2 off White 4 Hit by pitched ball Chance Time I 1 hour and 55 minutes Umpires OLoughlin and Johnstone The attendance was 19249 making I the total attendance for the series 99 846 The rec ipts Sunday were 20 861 and the total for the six garnet i was 105540 Of this amount the players share is 33401 Tho American League team with twentyone I members will receive 2505153 th 11 Nationals share for nineteen men is 835817 II I 200 MEr BURIED Ir ELiSH COlU lOne Hundred Believed to Bet i 1 Safe in Lower Part of I the Mine I I By Associated Press Durham Eng Oct 15An explosion I occurred in the Wingate colliery near here at about midnight resulting in some 200 men being entombed About 100 of these a believed to be safe in the lower part of the colliery but there were between 60 and 80 I men in the seam where the disaster occurred I I Up to 2 oclock this afternoon 24 bodies had been recovered from the Wingate colliery and 30 miners had been brought outalivel PYTHIAS AT NEW ORLEANS By Associated Press New Orleans La Oct 151Nearly every state in the Union was represented today by uniformed companies when the Knights of Pythias biennial encampment opened with the formal transfer of camp James Carnahan The transfer was made by Zach speaking on behalf of the encampment association to Charles Shivley supreme chanceller who in turn transferred It to Major General Arthur Stobbart Uniformed companies are still coming in tonight tt wen he died Mr Jones arose from his berth in the sleeper at about five oclock this morning complaining of sickness at the stomach He drank a glass of hot water and immediately collapsed Rev Walter Holcomb who has been associated with Mr Jones for several years took the dying man in his arms and in a few minutes the evangelist breathed his last The body was embalmed and sent to Cartersville this afternoon where interment will be had ELK9S MEMOHml if EllED AT Hflfli5flUfl Marble Shaft and Fountain Erected to Memory of Delaweiler Harrisburg Pa Oct 15A marble shaft and fountain erected by the Order of Elks throughout the United States in memory of Meade Dela weiler of Harrisburg was unveiled here today the anniversary of Mr Delaweilers birth The principal address was delivered by Judge Jerome Fisher of Jamestown whose subject was An estimate of Dela weiler the man and the Elk The statue was unveiled by Mr Delaweilers two little sons after which it was turned over to Mayor Gross and by him to the park commission The memorial consiss of an elaborate marble structure inlront which is a life size bronze elk Both front and rear are marble seats and in front isa lifesize bust of Mr Dela weiler On the sides are ornamental drinking fountains and from the center a large marble shaft thirtyfive feet high is capped by a massive marble ball There are also two large bronze urns on each side of the shaft Mr Delaweiler was one of the leading men of the order At the time of his death in June 1904 he was exalted ruler of Harrisburg lodge and president of the board of directors of the Elks Home at Bedford City Va iBASEBAll THE I I SUBJECT Of I SERMONS Two Chicago Preachers Find Inspiration in Championship Games BY Associated Press Chicago 111 Oct 15Two pastors used the championship baseball series as a topic for pulpit disclosure last Sunday Both agreed that the game is the cleanest of all sports but they deplore the fact that gambling was permitted on the grounds and that one of the contests was played on Sunday They appealed to the managerS to take a stand against these two evils future Rev Johnston Myers preached on A Homo Run at Immanuel Baptist church and declared among other things that if the same spirit which sets men wild at such baseball games as have ben witnessed the last week in OMcaeo were manifested in the I church there would not be a spectic left in Chicago Winning the Pennant was the I subject chosen by Rev John Roach Stratton pastor of the Second Baptist church Baseball is the greatest grandest and noblest of all sports he said There are but two strong criticisms that the best element of a community ought to make on the game First the amount of gambling attendant on the big leaetic games The second criticism is the almost general custom of playing the game on the Sabbath I NURSED MOTHER I OF PRESIDENT I New York Oct 35 Minnie Jackson the colored nurse of President Roose I velts mother is dead at Evergreen I I She was 94 years of age She was brought to Connecticut as a slave I by Stephen Bullock the presidents maternal grandfather I 4 3 PROPERTY OWNER SECURES fr tL TEMPORAR INJUNCTION 104 5 All lllj American Army Officers Appointed by Gov Magoon In an Advisory Capacity By Associated Press Havana Oct 15Governor Magoon today received the acting heads of the various government departments and informed them that he would soon appoint mmerlcan army officers to act in an advisory capacity with I them Major Ladd and Col Crowder will act in such capacity immediately and Colonel Blade has been selected for the public works department The governor explained that these officers would keep him in close touch By Associated Press Findlay Ohio Oct 15That the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey owns a majority of the stock ot the Buckeye Pipe Line Co of Ohio and the Ohio Oil Company was testi fled to by directors of these companies in the trial here today of the Standard Oil Co of Ohio for alleged conspiracy against trade John OBrien director and superIntendent of the Buckeye who also owns stock in the Standard of New A special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners was held last night Chairman Avery presiding and Commissioners Wiggins Sennott Andrews and Stewart present The meeting vas for the purpose of revising the registration books of the county as required by law and for the transaction of other business Before taking up the registration books the commissioners approved the bond of Chc2ver Shine as notary public and ordered the names of those stricken from the registration list published in both The Journal I TO INVESTIGATE PEOiiGE tr FLODA Washingtcn Oct 15Cases of alleged peonage in the region south of Tampa Fla were brought to the attention of President Roosevelt today by Miss Emma Stirlin agent of tile Florida Human Society I Tfie department of justice has decided to make a thorough Investigation and to bring criminal proceedings if warranted by the facts developed Assistant Attorney General Russell will go to Florida to look after the prosecution BUTONjREADY TO BEGIN SENTENCE Atchison Kas Oct 15 Bailey WI1 iaer one of former Senator Burtons counsel said today that he had received no communication from the former senator but said Mr Burton I had previously expressed the wish to begin serving his sentence mediately if the supreme court finally decided against him as it did today OFFICERS ELECTED BY LUMBERMANS AID ASSN The Lumbermans Aid Association No1 colored held a largely attended meeting last night at which the following officers were elected i Benboe president Chas Morton vicepresident Faulk treasurer i Chas Taylor recording secretary Joe Rayne financial secretary Willis Wright Archie Livingston and I I Jim Munroe trustees with the various departments until it was possible to appoint Cubans to cabinet positions Governor Magoon said today he had I seen nothing to indicate that the liberal leaders were insincere in their action and only seeking office He I added that representations made today regarding the rebel soldiers had been without foundation The governor said he had no expectation that congress would reassemble until a I general election was held I I Supt Hutchids and Capt 0 Broadbent to Select Site Supt A Hutchins and Capt Root Broadbent of the Life Saving Service yesterday received a telegram from the department constituting them a commission to select a new site for the life saving station to be erected by the service to replace the old one Superintendent Hutchins recently advised the department at Washington that it was inadvisable to have the station located in the former place owing to the fact that large I portions of the island had been carried away at that point and recommending I a site about a mile to the westward The department has now authorized the superintendent and captain to select the site which will be done at once in order that work upon the new building can commence Supt Hutchins was also notified yesterday of the fact that wagons for tho large lifesaving boats ana equipment had been shippcfl and would reach here at an early date Standard Controls the Two Big Ohio Oil Companies Jersey after taking an immunity bath testified freely regarding the business and connections of the company Other directors also gave information It was announced this afternoon by the attorney for the prosecution that the state would conclude Its case tomorrow This came after Judge Banker ha refused to admit evidence to show that an agent of the Sthndard had offered and paid rebates to a local grocer for handling its oil Ccmmissioners Strike Names Prom Registration List an dthe Nevs The commssioners then received the registration books from Supervis itor of Registration Scott and began revising the same striking from them all those who had expired moved from the county or moved Into other precincts This work will not be completed until today A list is made of all the names stricken I from the list and these will be published I in order to give those whose names are published an opportunity I of appearing before the board and making explanation FOR VIOlATION Of ELKINS By AssocIated Press New York Oct 15A jury was so cured today in the criminal branch of the United States circuit court for the trial of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and Frederick Pomeroy traffic manager of the road jointly Indicted for violation of the Biking law which prohibits the granting of rebates It is charged that discriminations in favor of the American Sugar Refining Company and others were made by defendants I i Judge Holt denied motion of counsel I for defense to quash the indictments an dthe case will proceed tomorrow I I GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP I I i By Associated Frees New York Oct 15The report current in America that Premier Campbell Bannermann and his associates are considering a scheme of government ownership of British railroads i is true to some extent says a Lond fti special cable to the Times I The government has no Idea whatever of bringing In a bill for the na I tionalizatlon of any other railways than those of Ireland The Irish i roads the government is Inclined to think should be taken over by the i national in order to advance the welfare i of Ireland and especially in order i to furnish the facilities required for rth highest development of her agricultural I interests hJJ it 1t1L Restraining City From Interfering if liN I I terfering With WaterFront fJ Id Property i 4 I it li BILL OF COMPLAINT I i I if If i I Goes Into Ownership Ques if 4 tion in Detail i i 11 If STATED UPON RELIABLE AUTHORITY I 1 jr THAT OTHER SUITS t1 3 WILL BE INSTITUTED WITHOUT I 1 1i it l4 DELAYCITY MAKING PREPA hi tI i ir RATIONS TO FIGHT THE OASES ifit i TO A FINISH 1t I jl i Mayor Chas Bliss and the City 1 of Pensacola were restrained yester i tj I 1 day afternoon by Court Commissioner it it Coston from interfering with Mrs I 1 Barbara Pape in the possession and Ilt occupancy of property along the eastern I I waterfront the court commissioner rIa granting an Injunction In the afternoon I i after hearing the arguments If I of attorneys i This is some of the property that it has been in question during the past I i few days and which the city prevent i tj I and any rebuilding upon the mayor i I It wIth the street force removing fences i and portions of buildings which had I been erected and warning the former I occupants that if further attempts I 11 were made at rebuilding they would 1 be arrested i I Yesterday Avery Avery counsel 3 for Mrs Pape filed a complaint In the circuit court and at the same i time petitioned that a writ of Injunction issue restraining the city from further interfering with the petitioner I in the possession of the property a Court Commssioner Coston heard the i II arguments of the attorneys in the afternoon ii commencing at 3 oclock City Attorney Jones represented the Ii t1 city in the litigation and Avery lA Avery appeared for the complainant I After hearing the arguments tho fiI I court commissioner granted a temporary I 4 restraining order which prevents I 1 the city from interfering further I until it can substantiate its claim to the property In question I I 1 I Petition of Complainant The petition of the complainant r1 tch setting forth the facts in the case is Has follows cj 5 To the Honorable Frances Carter i I I judge of the circuit court of Eacam I I bin county state of Florida In i i chancery sitting Barbara Pape and Pape her a husband both of whom are over 21 I years of age of the city of Pensacola in said state and county bring this their bill pf complaint against Charles Bias over 21 years of age of said city of Pensacola and The City of 1 I I Pensacola a municipal corporation of i the state of Florida And thereupon your orator and ora I trix complain and say I tl 1 That your oratrix Barbara Pape is the owner in fee simple of 1 the west twelve 12 feet of lots 1 eleven 11 and twentyseven 27 I i and all of lots ten 10 and twenty six 26 and the east 10 feet of 1t lot nine 9 and the east ten 10 I I feet of the north forty 40 feet of 4 lot twentyfive 25 all block number f4 I one hundred and fortynine 149 i i in accordance with the plan of the fe I 1 water front of the city of Pensacola i 1 all of which is whore high watermark ft I of the bay Pensacola That the said property was acquired by it IX your oratrix Barbara Pape by deed of conveyance made to her on the 1 4th day of March 1005 by Herman 1 1 Krone and Clara Krone his wife that the said Herman Krone acquired the i said by a fee simple property conveyance I from William Fisher in the year 1898 and that the said William Fisher prior to the said year 1898 acquired I the said property from one Jesse Tally that at the time of the I purchase of the said property by the i said WBlllam Fisher the said Jesse Tally had the same under enclosure thereon and i and a residence and had maintained such enclosure and residence I dence for the period of more than i ten 10 years that after the said William Fisher acquired the said property as aforesaid from the said I Jesse Tally he kept up the said enclosure and the building constituting ir the said residence until he conveyed the same as aforesaid in the month 1 of March 1905 to the said Herman Krone and the said Herman Krone after he acquired the said property I kept up and maintained the saM fences and building thereon until he I conveyed the same as aforesaid tc i rt the complainant Barbara Pape who kept up and maintained the said 1 1 fences and residence thereon until 11 the night of the 26th of September fh A 1906 when the same were destroyed by a huricane i 2 That during the whole time I that the said property was under enclosure and occupied by a residence I I as aforesaid by the above named I parties each of the said parties claimed the sam continuously asserting I title therto adversely to all the world and theIr title was not questioned by Many person whatsoever 3 That the said Jesse Tally acquired the said property by a fee Continued on Page Four tti I IJ I.