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VOL. 21.
OCALA FuORID, T 0 ESDI Y, FEBRUARY 24, 1914
NO. 44
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SiPEi JUDGMENT
AGAINST SPEER
Until the Truth or Falsity of the
Charges Against Him Has Been
Established
Macon, Ga., Feb. 24. Positive de
nial that he has ever been guilty of
official misconduct during the twenty-nine
years he held office, is made
by Federal Judge Emory Speer, of
the southern district of Georgia, in a
brief submitted to the congressional
committee, which recently investigat
ed charges against the jurist. This
inquiry was directed by the house
committee on judiciary after formal
charges against Judge Speer were
submitted to that body. Sessions ex
tending over two weeks were held by
the investigating committee in Macon
and Savannah, at the close of which
Judge Speer was given permission to
submit a reply to the accusations
lodged against him. In the brief
Judge Speer reiterates declarations
made as a witness before the commit
tee and answers in detail many of
the charges made against him by
other witnesses.
While the original document was
delivered to Representative Webb, of
North Carolina, yesterday, the con
tents of the brief were not made pub
lic for the first time. It contained
more than three hundred printed
pages.
Before answering the specific
charged made against him,
Judge Speer, in his brief, denies ac
cusations that he was ever guilty of
being tyrannical, dictatorial, parti
san and arbitrary while on the bench.
In submitting this denial the jurist
sumbits photographic copies of let
ters from several legal organizations
of Georgia, other bodies and promi
nent persons endorsing him for ap
pointment to the United States court
of appeals.
Referring to the Jamison habeas
corpus case, in which he was reversed
by the United. States supreme court,
Judge Speer holds that the case was
not reversed on its merits, but be
cause the plaintiff had not exhausted
his remedies in the state courts.
Charges that the estates of Col.
W.A. Huff of Macon, was. unfairly
held in bankruptcy and its assets dis
sipated by him, are answered by the
counter-claim that the property final
ly was sold for $31,000 more than
Col. Huff claimed it was worth.
Judge Speer submits statistics in
tended to show that he conducted
bankruptcy cases carefully and eco
nomically. He denies that bank
ruptcy admission in his district was
so expensive for creditors that they
were willing to battle on almost any
terms rather than go into his court.
Says He Saved the Central Road
The jurist replies to the accusa
sation that he wrecked the Central
of Georgia railroad in 1892 by an
alleged "midnight order" throwing
it into bankruptcy ? by the assertion
that he salved the road from being
absorbed by the Richmond and Dan
ville railroad.
Judge Speer denies that he ever
committed an illegal act with regard
to drawing juries and claims that
his every action is sanctioned by the
federal statutes governing the con
duct of judges.
In reply to nepotism charges in
volving A. H. Hayward, his son-in-law,
and member of the law firm of
Tallv & Havward, the jurist flatly
asserts that such accusation are un
true and says that the appointments
in every case were made by the ref
eree in bankruptcy. He adds that
Improved . Farms
from 20 to 500
Acres.
Unimproved Farm
Lands from 5 to
1,000 Acres.
he never ruled on a case where the
fee was contingent.
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The brief says "certain individ
uals have given, testimony that
Judge Speer's decisions were unfair
It will be an easy matter to turn to
the record and precisely locate the
occasion and cause for the calumni
ty and discover that every import--ant
detractor and representative of
evils which it had been the purpose
of congress to annul."
SHATTERED RECORDS
' III CHICAGO
Worst Storm in the Windy City Last
Night that has Been Felt
This Winter
Chicago, Feb. 24. Four persons
are dead from the effects of the se
vere day. Plate glass windows in
the downtown retail stores were
broken and signs were torn from
their fastenings by the gale that ac
companied the storm in its eastward
march. The mercury stood at 10
degrees above zero at noon and last
night was the coldest of the winer.
Chicago felt the blizzard first yes
terday afternoon, when several in
ches of snow fell and was immedi
ately piled jnto big drifts by the high
winds that prevailed. Trains bound
in all directions from here are badly
delayed. For the first time this win
ter the harbor is ice-bound.
The northern section of Montana,
from where the blizzard came, re
ports 40 degrees below zero this
morning. All wires to the west are
working .badly, heavy coatings
of
sleet and snow over the country just
west of the Mississippi having brok-
en nearly every wire. The storm
jextends far to the south, and almost
unprecedented drops in temperature
are reported from Oklahoma and
Kansas.
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ENGLAND Will
NOT INTERVENE
British Government Declines to Fly
Into Rage Over the Murder
of Benton
London, Feb. 24. "The pacifica
tion of Mexico is an object that we
honestly desire to see accomplished,
but it is impossible to effect it by
British intervention. We do not in
tend to make any attempt of that
character, which would be both fu
tile and impolitic."
This is the attitude of the British
foreign office as outline 1 yesterday
in the House of Commons by Francis
Dyke Acklani, parliamentary under
secretery for foreign affairs, "after
full consideration of the series of
victimization of British subjects in
Mexico, culminating in the removal
of William S. Eenton by Villa at
Juarez.
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PATRIOTS, AFTKR ALL
Contractors in Heathen .Japan
Ready to Steal from the Gov
ernment as American
Christians
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. Tokio, Feb. 24. Three prominent
Japanese contractors furnishing sup
plies to the navy have been arrested
cn charges of bribery. The arrests
indicate that the naval scandals
brought to light through relations of
a naval attache in Berlin with a Ger-
man contracting firm will prove
i more extensive than first suspected,
1 Discussion of the subject led to a
serious commotion in the House of
! Representatives jesterday. Korehiro
Kurahara, a deputy well known in
the United States and Europe read a
' letter in which high officials of the
to
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Japanese government were named
and which alleged that they had 1
been guilty of amassing wealth by '
graft. I
Kurahara refused to disclose the
name of the writer of the letter. He
was thereupon ordered to appear be
fore a committee of the house for
punishment.
ROMANCE AIID REALITY
Written in Reams by the Prose Bard
of the Ocklawaha and Silver
Rivers
Silver Springs, Feb. 24. The
"Daylight" yacht City of Ocala, Cap
tain Frank E. Mathews, is due in
port at sun-down on all odd days;
sails from Silver Springs for Palat-1
ka at 8 a. m. on'all even days; and
docks in the deep water city, "Gem
City," at 5 p. m. on same days she
crui-ses from Blue Roads.-
The Hart Line steamer Hiawatha,
Captain Harris, docks here at noon
on all even days of the week; steams
at 2 p. m. same days; puts in Palat
ka at crack of the day on all odd
davs.
mam
The Mills Steamboat Line, Sharp
Shooter, Captain E. L. Mills, with
freight, steams from Silver Springs
for Paiatka, via Xorwalk, Tuesday
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon; due in
Eureka same day at 8 p. m., and in
Paiatka on Wednesday late in the af
ternoon; cruises from Paiatka at
noon Thursday and arrives here
again Saturday forenoon ; then
steams for Ocklawaha river stations.
The Hart Liner Okeehumkee
which broke down just above Con
nor a week ago and was tied up at
the orange grove for a week was
manned by a Hart Line crew in the
foreweek and steamed for Paiatka
where she was docked and as Okee
humkee the II she passed over into
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OUR NEW OFFICE
MAOMMM
List of Real Estate.
Sea Haven. The famous Hart Line
will resurrect the Okeehumkee and
she will be known as Okeehumkee
III. Long live the staunch and pala
tial Okeehumkee.
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The tug boat Oregonian III, Cap
tain 'Mason, has returned from Pa
iatka to which point 6he towel a
raft of pine timber from the Oklawa
ha river forest.
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The Ervine D, a visiting yacht is
In port. The Ervine D was one of
the vessels which a few days ago
ably assisted the Sharp Shooter in
taking off the passengers from the
Okeehumkee and transporting them
to Silver Springs.
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The Oklawaha River Farm's
dredge, Captain Clarence White, Is
in the canal digging on the Tiger
Den end, in the country where the
Little Ocklawaha runs purple. The
tender Oregonian, Captain Dillon
Long, is near the dredge at Muck
land. The Wanderer, Captain Jordan, is
at Brooke reservation. .'
The Isabel, the Luna, the Louie
on the Orange Creek and Fort
Warren, the Queen Bee, the Oregon
ian II and the Royal Buck are in
port.
The Anna is at Connor. The Lo
tus at Electra and the Tuscawilla at
Eureka.
The yacht City of Ocala left Sun
day for Green Cove Springs with an
excursion party and returned to Pa
iatka in the late afternoon.
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The Hiawatha was due to dock
Tuesday at noon and to steam, at 2
p. m.
Tourists and Ocalans
The speed yacht City of Ocala,
Captain Frank E. Mathews, which
sails from Silver Springs at 8 a. m.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays,
docks in Paiatka at 5 p. m. same
days, and the Clyde Liner, Osceola
or the City of Jacksonville from Pa
iatka that night at 10 o'clock for
Jacksonville and arrives in the me
tropolis at crack of day next morn
ing. Mr. W. Romane Fisher, traveling
agent for the Hart Line, is in South
Florida. The Hart Line's literature
is of high art and the booklets and
hearts are displayed on the peninsu
la and in the north most liberally.
The morning and evening meals
and lunches served on board the
palatial Hart liners and the day
light vessels touch the palate to all
good things that it ever wants for,
and this rich boat food is sent by the
steward in such heaping plenty that
the travelers' eyes -bulge and thei'
waist bands are loosened; for they
are on the Oklawaha. The vessels
on the raging Oklawaha are known
around the world for their splendid
menus.
Master Carl Mason of the City of
Ocala, who is one of the chroniclers
of the Sharpshoter's log "book, sent
in a few extracts from the City of
Ocala's log book, and in them he
noted that the vessel made her reg
ular schedule and that she listed on
the register more passengers than
the week before.
On the Oklawaha
This is the forty-fifth season for
the famous Hart Line and the third
season for the Daylight line, and the
fifty-fourth season for the freight
line.
This wonderful, unique and ro
mantic trip up and down the beau-
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Orange Groves
from 5 to 50 Acres
that will pay
from
20 to 40 per cent,
on Investment.
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FAMOUS MEN Itl
SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Ford, Edison - and Burroughs Revel
ing -Among Fort Myers Fruits
and Flowers
Jacksonville, Feb. 24. After
spending Sunday pleasantly in Jack-
sonville, Thomas A. Edison, of Or
ange, N. J., the electrical, wizard;
Henry Ford, of Detroit, the noted
automobile manufacturer, and John
Burroughs ,the famous naturalist,
left yesterday for Fort Myers, where
they will sojourn for the balance of
the season, at Mrs. Edison's hand
some winter home.
.Mr. Edison and Mr. Ford arrived
from New York over the Atlantic
Coast Line, and were joined later in
the day -by (Mr. Burroughs who came
direct from his winter home at Grif
fin, Ga. Mr. Burroughs also has a
winter home at Orange Park, near
Jacksonville, and he made a short
trip to that point yesterday, spend
ing several pleasant hours with his
friend, Mr. Xixon Waterman, the
well known author.
Mr. Ford was entertained during:
the day by L. C. Oliver, the local
distributor for the Ford automobile
factory in this territory.
Mr. EdfSon stated that the party
expected to remain in Florida about
six weeks, most of which time wilk
be devoted to fishing and hunting.
!Mrs. Edison, Miss M. , Edison,
Charles and Theodore 'Edison, of Or
ange, N. J., as well as Mrs. Ford,
Edsell Ford, of Detroit, .Miss Bogen
and iMiss Kunz, of New York, were
members of the party.
SUCCESSOR TO HIS
HONORED SIRE:
Stetson Junior Remains at the Head
of DeLand's Great School
DeLand, Feb. 24. The trustees
of John B. Stetson University held
their regular annual session Thurs
day afternoon, and the usual presen
tation day exercises were held at the
auditorium Friday. At the meeting'
of the trustees the officers for the?
following year were elected and are
as follows:
President, John B. Stetson, Jr.;
vice president, H. B. Stevens; secre
tary, Silas B. Wright; treasurer,
Lincoln Hulley. Administration com
mittee; Dr. Lincoln Hulley, J. B.
Conrad, E. L. Hon, II. B. Stevens,
S. A. Wood, Countess Santa Eaula
Iia and Silas B. Wright.
The treasurer's and burser's state
ments showed the university to be in
excellent financial condition and en
tirely out of debt with a balance in
the treasury.
LAKE WEIR W. C. T. U.
The following program was ren
dered under the auspices of the
Christian citizenship department, at
the Weirsdale school, Feb. 20th,.
1914, .Mrs. J. F. Sigmon, Christian
citizenship superintendent, being In
charge: '
Song, "America."
Invocation; Rev. J. A. Logan.
Inauguration of George Washing'
ton, read by Mrs. Reed.
Exercises of children, each one
carrying an article of common use
that Washington never, had.
Yells given by L. T. L.
Address by Rev. Logan.
Salute to flag by school children. .
The children were well trained by
their teacher. Miss Cora Murray, and
were presented with buttonleres tied
with white ribbon by the union. i
Benediction, Rev. Logan.
Photos were taken of all present
by .Mrs. Gregory.
Minnie D. Albertson,
Press Superintendent.