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VOL. XV. NO. 351.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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FOUND GUILTY
OF CD AND
IISDEIIOR
Is Forever Disqualified From
Holding Positions of
Honor and Trust.
GUILTY ON FIVE OF
THIRTEEN CHARGES
Jurist Hears the News From
His Son and His Only Re
mark Was "I Have Done
No Wrong and the Vote
of No One. Can1 Make it
Otherwise" Both Florida
Senators Vote For a Con
viction. '
BY ASSOCITED PRESS.
Washington, Jan. IS. -Robert W.
Archbald, of Scranton, Pa for twenty
nine years an occupant of judicial po
sitions on the Pennsylvania state
bench, the federal district bench, and
the United States commerce bench,
wos today adjudged v guilty by the
United States senate of crimes and
misdemeanors, stripped of office for
ever and disqualified from holding; po
sitions of public honor and trust.
His conviction came at the end of an
Impeachment trial pending: since last
mmmer on charges that Archbald was
guilty of corruption and had used his
judicial power to further his private
Interests in the acquisition of coal land
properties In Pennsylvania,
Upon five of the thirteen charges he
was found guilty. Upon th other eigat
he was voted not guilty. A majority
In some of the cases were against him,
but falling of the necessary two-thirds.
Any one of the five verdicts of guilty
was sufficient to bring the punishment.
.The end of the. long; struggle came
early this afternoon when the senate
voted on the first article. With the
gallery doors locked ta provent the
movement of spectators, and -an accus
tomed hush In the chamber, sixty-eight
senators rose and pronounced "guilty."
The vote on the first article, that Arch
bald had corruptly influenced officials
of the Erie railroad to sell him the
Katydid culm dump, was sixty-lght to
five.
JUDGE HEARS NEWS.
In the committee room nearby Arch
bald, his wife and son, Hugh. - sat
awaiting action. The first vote was
carried to him by his sob, Robert, from
the gallery. After sentence was Im
posed, he left the capitol. He will go
at once to Scranton. "I have done no
wrong, and the vote of no one makes It
otherwise." was hts only comment.
Sentence was Imposed by Senator
Bacon, of Georgia, after the senate by
a vote of thirty-nine to thirty-five had
upheld a resolution authortiing the full
penalty.
Of ten hnpe&cbed before the senate
Archbald is the third convicted. The
third charge, involving his Influence
with the Lehigh Valley railroad to
force It to relinquish a lease, he was
v convicted, sixty to eleven. On the
fourth, that Archbald had wrongfully
wrote .an attorney in a suit before nun,
he was convicted, fifty-two to twenty.
On the fifth, that he influenced officials
of the Reading, he was convicted, slx-ty-six
to six. On the thirteenth, that
he sought credit of litigants, he was
convicted, forty-two to twenty, several
begging to be excused. .
At his trial, the accused Judge ad
mitted practically all the facts of every
accusation brought against him, but
protested in defense that none f them
were wrongful nor corrupt, nor could he
have been convicted in any court of
law for them.
MAJORITY UNEXPECTED.
The conviction upon the first count
came with an unexpected majority
against Judge Archbald, only two
thlrds being necessary for a conviction.
Continued from Page Two.
Directors and Officers of Union
Pacific Road Tender Resignations
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
New York. Jan. IS. Directors and
officers of the Union Pacific Railroad,
ko also were directors of the South-
Pacific, tendered their resignations
today as the first step in compliance
with the decree of the supreme court
dissolving the two roads. Inversely,
directors of the Southern Pacific also
connected with the Union Pacific re
signed. '
Julius Kruttschnitt resigned as di
rector of maintenance and operation cf
the Union Pacific and was elected
chairman of the board of directors of
the Southern Pacific, succeeding R. S.
Lovett, resigned. Judge Lovett. Mor
coNVie
JUDGE. ROBT. W. ARCHBALD, WHO IS
FOREVER BARRED FROM PUBLIC OFFICE
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FREE ROUGH AND DRESSED
LUMBER, HIGH TARIFF ON SILKS,
. IS THE DEMOCRA TIC PROGRAM
BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. ;
Washington, - Jan. 18. Fre and
rough ' dressed lumber. hewn and
squared timber, shingles, - laths and
the retention of approximately the
present high tariff on the higher grades
of silks, reductions in cheaper silks
used by common people, penalizing .the
drastic tariff bar to shut out "dyna
mited" silk was Indicated today as
parts of the expected democratic re
vision program. The committee on
ways and means of the house devoted
the day to hearings on the wood and
silk schedules of the tariff. The bur
den of testimony on the wooden
schedule was a plea for preservation of
the present rates. Silk, involving' im
mense interests, presented a complexity
POWERS ARE TRYING
TO SECURE PEACE
Bringing Pressure to Bear on Turkey
and the Balkan Allies Not to Renew
ths War.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
London. Jan. 18. The British foreign
secretary, Sir Edward Gray, and the
ambassadors of the powers are making
valiant efforts for a peaceful settle
ment between Turkey and the Balkan
allies. They have had additional in
terviews with the heads of delegations,
advising moderation on both sides and
warning them If either party plunge
Europe into war again It will Incur the
heavy weight of disapproval
The meeting of ambassadors today
was the lengthiest held and discussed
a note to be presented to the porte as
soon as a definite decision comes from
Constantinople. According to official
dispatches the Greeks are doing their
utmost to surround Janina.
KENTUCKY ADDS TO GOV.
WILSON'S LUCKY THIRTEEN
Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 13. Kentucky
added to Wood row Wilson's collection
of "lucky thlrteens" today when,
meeting on the thirteenth day of the
month, the state electors for president
and vice-president cast thirteen votes
for Wilson and Marshall
timer L. Schlff and Frank A. Vander
lip also resigned from the Southern
Pacific executive committee and were
succeeded by Robert Goelet, James N.
Wallace and E. P. Swenson.
From the Southern Pacific board of
directors, In addition to Judge Lovett,
the following resigned:
Otto H. Kahn. Charles A. Peabody,
M. L. Schiff, Frank A. Vanderhp, R. W
Goelet, L. J. Spence (vice president,
and Marvin Hughitt.
In their stead the following were
chosen:
James N". Wallace. Horace Harding,
W. P. Bliss, C. X. Bliss, C. H. Leigh
ton, J. X. Jarvie, C. IL Kelsey and
E. P. Swenson.
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of complications. "Most silks are a
luxury," commented Chairman Under
wood. ."We .want a larga amount , of
revenue from luxuries, so we can put a
less tax on the necessities of life."
- Tomorrow the committee will have a
hearing on the metal tariff.
Representative Kltchln. of North
Carolina, democrat, referred, incident
ally - to meats, and Representative
Longworth, of Ohio, republican, asked,
"do you democrats purpose to put meat
on the free. Hat?"
"Yes," replied Mr. Kltchln, Tm going
to vote for . It."
Representative James, of Kentucky,
democrat, in the cross-examination re
ferred to the " "greater necessity for
conserving the Interests of the poor
people than of conserving lumber."
GUANTANAMO TO
BE A GREAT STATION
First Steps Towards Making it an Im
pregnable Outpost of Defense For
Canal are Taken.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Washington, Jan. 13. The first for
mal move toward making the United
States naval station at Guantanamo an
impregnable outpost of defense for the
Panama canal was taken today when
orders re issued designating a board
of officers of the army and navy to
visit Guantanamo Immediately for
finally approving or amending the
elaborate plans of defense prepared by
the joint board upon data furnished by
the army and navy war colleges.
This special board, which will sail
for Guantanamo January 20, is com
posed of Major General Leonard Wood,
chief of staff of the army; Brigadier
General William Crozier, president of
the army war college; Brigadier Gen
eral Erasmus M. Weaver, chief of the
coast artillery corps; Rear Admiral
Hugo Osterhaus and Captain William
K. Shoemaker, of the general board of
the navy.
RADICAL CHANGES IN
NEW YORK'S TAX
SYSTEM
New York. Jan. IS. Radical changes
in New York city's tax system, where
by nearly a score of the sources of
revenue are proposed to help meet city
expenses without increasing the bur
den of the rent payer have been rec
ommended to Mayor Gaynor, it was
learned today, by a special committee
whjch he appointed to study this
problem more than two years ago. -
Some of the most striking proposals
are taxes on the unearned increment
of real estate; on public advertising
signs; on every horse-drawn vehicle,
on automobiles double the taxes now
levied by the state and give half of
the proceeds to the city and non-exemption
of churches for local Improve
ments. AMERICAN ESCAPES REBELS.
Washington, Jan. 13. A. H. Law
ence, manager of an American-owned
hacienda near El Potrero, Vera Crux,
escaped unharmed when that property
was attacked by rebels, according to a
report received today at the state de
partment. Mrs. Lawrence also escap
ed with her husband. The identity of
the American sugar maker who was
billed while attempting to defend the
property was not learned.
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PICK ONLY IDE
PROGRESSIVES
Says He Will be Acting Only
as Representative of
the People.
ADDRESSES NEW
JERSEY ELECTORS
Interprets His Election as a
Distinct Expression of the
Impulses of the Country
and Says He Will Not be
Acting Partisan When He
Selects Only Progressives
to AidtHim.
, BY ' ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Trenton,, Jan. 13. Gov. Wilson, for
whom a majority of the states of the
union today officially cast their elec-
torial votes for president, proclaimed
in a speech to the New Jersy electors
that he interpreted the election as a
distinct expression of the progressive
impulses of the country.
"I shall not be acting as a partisan,"
he said, "When I pick only progressives
to aid me." He predicted there would
be no division in the counsels of the
democratic party, and foresaw soli
darity. .'
The speech at a luncheon given the
electors just before the official balloc
was cast, was the last Wilson is sched
uled to deliver before the inaugura
tion. "I feel it, would be unbecoming In
me not to make a speech today," he
said.. "I feel it would be unbecoming
to speak in any other tone than for
the men with whom I am associated.
The people have set their faces in a
definite direction and any party or
man who doe' not go with them, they
wui.;ajdc& afCUi A.reict..'
"Therefore, I feel I am acting In a
representative capacity. I have no
liberty in the matter. I have given
my bonds and ray sacred honor is in
volved, therefore I shall act only as
Jthe representative when I choose only
progressives."
Tomorrow the legislature, will re
ceive Wilson's final message.
SUPREME COURT
HEARS ARGUMENT
Will Decide Who is Entitled to Valu
able Tracts of Land, Said to be
Gushing Oil In California.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Washington, Jan. 13. Argument was
begun today before the United States
supreme court of what reply it should
make to a request for Instruction from
the United States circuit court of ap
peals for the Ninth circuit, which was
unable to decide whether the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company or Ed
mund Burke and other separate entry
men were entitled to valuable tracts
of land, now said to be gushing forth
oil in California,
The railroad comp-ny has received
patents to the land. The government
recently brought proceedings to have
the patents cancelled but that ques
tion Is not before the court. The pat
ents contained a provision excepting
all mineral lands from the grant. It Is
this provision which now furnishes the
principal contention.
Burke and those in a similar posi
tion claim that the exception prevented
the land passing to the railroad and
that they are entitled to the land un
der proper entry. The railroad con
tends that the exception Is void, and
anyway, that evidence cannot now be
produced to show tle lands are "min
eral" or oil lands, the government
having issued a patent for them and no
fraud having been practiced upon it
Primarily the Southern Pacific rail
road alone is concerned In the present
controversy but the same exceptions
are contained in patents to practically
every land grant railroad traversing
the west and so all will be affected by
the decision.
CHECK CHICAGO'S
WAVE OF CRIME
Grand Jury Meets and Court Gives In
structions to Put An End to the
Lawlessness.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Chicago, Jan. 13. The January
grand jury was instructed to take
drastic measures to check the crime
wave in Chicago when It was sworn
in by Judge Richard E. Burke today.
"It Is my duty to call your.atten
tlon to the prevalence of crime so
wholly unnecessary," the judge said.
"The citizen in his home is unsafe. In
out streets he is constantly alarmed.
Auto bandits and highwaymen appear
to have full sway. Their deeds from
day to day become more desperate.
Some drastic action should be taken
to check, if possible, this utter disre
gard for law and order. The widest
latitnde -is yours to restrain, if possi
ble further violations." '
ONE IS KILLED AND THREE ARE
INJURED IN BOILER EXPLOSION
AT M'MILLAN MILL CO. MILLS
HARRY WILCOX, A YOUNG
MAN, ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
RETURNING FROM A HUNT
WHO'LL BOSS N. Y.?
SULZER OR MURPHY?
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Gov. Sulzer (at the top) and Charles
Murphy.
Albany, X. Y Jan. 13. When Wm.
Sulzer was Inaugurated governor of
New York the other day he made a
remarkable statement. "The people
have elected me governor," he said, in
effect, "and I'm going to be governor.
I shall not surrender the reins of my
office to any political boss."
The statement was remarkable chief
ly because it was made in New York.
Had the chief executive of almost any
other state made it, it hardly would
have been regarded as unusual. But in
New York it is different.'
A good majority of the delegates to
the convention which nominated Sulzer
where hand-picked by one Mr. Charles
Murphy, boss of Tammany Hall. They
were Murphy's tools, ready to dance at
his bidding. As it happened. Murphy
did not think it wise to make! them
dance at all, but let them take the
course they thought best. They nom
inated Mr. Sulzer, New York's pres
ent governor, therefore, does not owe
his nomination directly to Mr. Mur
phy, but the latter thinks that Mr.
Sulzer should feel Indebted to him for
permitting Sulzer's nomination.
Mr. Murphy was a great power in
the state house during the Dlx ad
ministration just closed. Many believe
that Murphy came nearer answering
the description of governor during
those two years than did Mr. Dlx him
self. This arrangement proved very
satisfactory to the Tammany chief, as
there were many jobs to hand out and
some fat contracts.
Mr. Sulzer, apparently, is of a dif
ferent sort. He Is able, honest, demo-
cratic, and has made a good reputa-l
tion in congress. He does not feel!
Hke jeopardizing his reputation by sur- i
rendering any of the powers of his
office to the notorious Tammany ring
or to its chief, xne wnoie country
will be Interested to see how he keeps
his New Year's resolution.
RENEW FIGHT FOR
MORE BATTLESHIPS
Secretary Meyer Urges His Program
for Appropriation for Three Big
Battleships.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. .
Washington, Jan. 13. Renewal of
the fight in the house for an Increase
in the number of battleships to be
built for the navy during the fiscal
year, for which appropriations soon
will be made, has started a campaign
by the two battleship program advo
cates looking to a compromise on a
single battleship.
In the meanwhile the navy is press
ing for provision for three big fight
ing ships. Secretary Meyer urged this
program today before the house naval
affairs committee.
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Charge of Shot Entered His
Left Side and He is in a
Critical Condition.
Jumped Into a Laundry
Wagon While it Was
Crossing Bayou Texar
Bridge, When Gun Slipped
From His Hand Ham
mers Were Cocked and
One Charge Was Fired.
Harry Wilcox, a young white man.
son of Conductor Wilcox of the Louis
ville and Nashville, was accidentally
shot late yesterday afternoon on Bayou
Twcar bridge, when the gun with
which he had been hunting was dis
charged, the entire charge of shot en
tering the left side of the young man.
He is at the Pensacola Sanitarium in a
critical condition.
Justice of the Peace Johnson went to
the sanitarium immediately after the
young man arrived there and took his
statement. To the Judge, Wilcox said
he had been hunting In the afternoon
and was returning to hi home at the
corner of Alcanlz and Cerv antes streets,
when he saw a laundry wagon coming
from East Pensacola Heights to the
city. He decided that he would take a
ride instead of walking and the driver
stopped while he, Wilcox, Jumped into
the rear of the wagon. The gun was
cocked and loaded and as the horse
started Wilcox said he lost his balance
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STEAMER STAYS
FAST ON . A REEF
Captain and Crew of the Uranium Are
Aboard, But All Passengers ar Safe
ly Ashore.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Halifax, N. S., Jan. 13. The steam
ship Uranium, which terminated her
voyage from Rotterdam by piling upon
a rocky reef ten miles below Halifax
in a fog yesterday, remained fast early
today with Captain Eustace and crew
aboard, but with all the S80 passengers
safely ashore here. Whether the ves
sel could be saved was problematical.
Wrecking steamers planned to pull, on
her at the noon tide. The , steamer Is
stuck bow on with seventeen fathoms
of water on her stern. The bow plates
are ripped open and No. 1 hold is water-filled.
The rescue of the Uranium's pas
sengers was accomplished by life boats
from Chebucto Head and by transfer
to the government steamer Lady Lau
rier. There was no panic, notwith
standing that most of the passengers
were foreigners and among the number
were many women and children. There
were many thrills but no serious acci
dents and all of the passengers were
landed here during the night.
The Uranium is a 22-year-old boat
which has sailed about all of the seven
seas under four different owners and
under as many different names.
WOULD ANNUL AN
EXECUTIVE ORDER
Democrats of House Adopt Amend
ment Taking, Fourth-Class Postmas
ters and Assistants From Civil Ser
vice. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Washington, Jan. 13. An amend
ment to the postofflce appropriation
bill to annul the . executive orders
which placed fourth-class postmasters
and assistant postmasters and clerks
of first and second class postoffices
under civil service, was adopted by the
house today sitting as a committee of
the whole. It was offered by Repre
sentative Cullop of Indiana and will
have to come before the bouse again
when It finally passes on the bill. All
republicans refrained from voting.
British Government is to Pay a
Telephone Company $62,576,320
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
London, Jan. 18. The British gov
ernment Is to pay to the National
Telephone Company of the United
Kingdom the sum of $62,576,320 for its
property, according to a decision
reached by the railway and canal com
mission, sitting as a court of arbitra
tion. The whole of the telephone system
in the British Isles passed into the
hands of the state on January 1. 1912.
The National ' Telephone Company
originally asked $105,000,000 for its in
terests, but during the seventy-three
Robert Eddins 'Loses Life
When a Battery of
Boilers Burst.
HAD BEEN TESTED
VERY RECENTLY
Accident Occurred About
Ten Minutes Before the
Plant Was to Close For.
the Day, and When Fire
man Was Engaged in
Turning . Valve to Send
Steam Into the Dry Kiln.
Edward Eddins, a white man, was
killed and three negroes were Injured
late yesterday afternoon when a bat
tery of boilers connected with the '
planing mill of the McMillan Mill Co,
of Pine Barren, exploded. The boilers
were about 100 yards distant from the
planing mill and consequently the lat
ter was not damaged. The cause of
th eexploslon is a mystery for it was
less than two months since the boilers
were given a thorough inspection,
found in first-class order and a certifi
cate to this effect issued.
The accident occurred about ten
minutes before the hour to close down
the mill3. Eddins, who was the fire
man, was Just preparing to turn
valve, sending steam into the dry kiln,
when, without warning, the two boilers .
composing the battery burst with a
tremendous roar. Pieces of the flyln?
metal struck the fireman on the head
and jaw, and he was so badly Injured
that he died within two hours. The
negro helper at the boiler room was
badly scalded and Is in a serious .con
dition. The two .others Injured were
not employed In the mill, but were
near the boiler room when the explo
sion occurred and were badly, though
pot seriously Injured.
Fragments of, the boilers were sent
for several hundred . yards, one piece
striking and killing a cow, while sev
eral had narrow escapes from Injury.
The fact that the boiler room is some
distance from the planing . mill ac
counts for others not being Injured.,
The explosion caused much excite
ment at Pine Barren, and rumors of
the accident soon reached Pensacola.
President Finlay, when called over the
'phone by The Journal, stated that only
the battery of boilers of the planing
mill had exploded, and that no damage
had been done to the plant excepting
the loss of the two boilers.
ACUTE SUFFERING
IN FLOOD DISTRICT
Hundreds of Families Threatened With
Famine and One Steamer Leaves
With Food and Supplies.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Evansvllle, Ind, Jan. 13. Acute suf
fering 'and threatened famine In the '
flooded districts caused the hurried or
ganization of a relief expedition lato
the inundated districts on the Ohio
river and at noon a steamer left, pro
visioned with a week's fcod supply for
500 families.
The boat will travel 25 miles each
way from Evansvllle.
Washington. Jan. 13. Surgeon Gen
eral Rupert Blue, of the public health
service, fears that flood conditions may
increase the danger of the cerebro
spinal meningitis epidemic in certain,
counties of Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis
souri, and Illinois. Rising waters, th
surgeon general expects, may Jrlv
large numbers of people together under
unsanitary conditions. Surgeon von
Ezdorf, the service expert on cerebro
spinal meningitis, has been ordered to
the affected district and other officers
are being held in readiness to go.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 13. Police and
fire department employes working to
move families from districts menaced
by the Ohio river flood were cheered
this morning by news that the rise was
less rapid than registered last night.
While nearly 1,000 persons were home
less today and the .outlook was that
this number would be doubled, yet it
was believed property damage would
not be as heavy as in previous "record
floods.
day trial just ended this claim was re
duced by many millions.
It bad been expected by stock ex
change experts, however, that the com
pany would receive from $80,000,000 to
$90,000,000. The stock of the company,
fell from 141 to 109 on the award.
The arbitration has been one of th
most important In the history of the
country.
During the trial the parties came t9
an agreement as to the cost of th
plant, the sum being $51,568,825. Th
court then had to decide the per cen
tages which should properly be added
to that sum and also the depreciation.
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