The evening leader., November 07, 1916, Image 1

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VOL 3. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS.
FULL SYNOPSIS
OF TOE GAME LAW
STATE OF FLORIDA
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1. The title to all wild birds and 1
game is vested in the various counties 1
of the state. 1
2. The following only are game T
. "birds: Swan, geese, brant, ducks, 1
rail, coots, mud hens, gallinulas, I
shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, T
woodcocks, sand pipers, tatlers, cur- *
lews, turkeys, grouse, pheasants, quail !
and turtle doves.
3. It is a $25 fine to catch, kill,
ship or have in possession any game
bird, plumage, skin, eggs or nests 1
thereof, except as provided by law.
4. Open season Nov. 20 to March i
10 following for deer, wild turkeys, 1
quail, doves, swan, brant, rails, geese, 1
coots, sand pipers, curlew, snipe,
ducks and plover; Nov. 20 to Dec. 10
following, for pheasants, and October
1 to March 1 following for squirrels.
Unlawful to kill squirrels in any
public or private park at any time.
5. It is a SSO fine to capture, kill
or injure any game bird or animal
by pitfall, deadfall, scaffold, cage,
snare, net, salt-lick, blind pen, bait
ed hook, baited field, drugs, poison,
chemicals, explosives, or similar de
vice.
6. It is a $25 fine to catch, hunt
or kill any game bird or animal be
tween dark and daylight the following
day.
7. It is a $25 fine to kill more
than one deer, two turkeys, twenty 1
quail, or twenty-five birds of any oth- 5
er species in one day. It is a SSOO *
fine to kill more than three deer, ten
turkeys, or three hundred of any other
game bird species in one season.
8. It is a $25 fine to barter, sell, or
offer for sale any game bird or animal.
9. It is a SIOO fine to hunt outside
of your voting precinct without a li
cense; a $25 fine to change or alter a
license.
10. It is a $25 fine to transport
within or without this state any game
without a proper license. It is a SIOO
fine for any common carrier to receive
such game for transportation.
11. The witnesses furnishing evi
dence to convict for any violation of
the game laws shall have half of the
fine imposed.
12. Persons residing in the state
twelve months and the county six
months may on payment of $1 to the
county judge receive a “resident coun
ty license;” a “non-resident county li- ,
cense” for $3, and a non-resident hunt- ,
er’s license” for $15.00. No license
good except in county issued. No li- (
cense required of resident Confederate .
veterans.
13. County judge to have 25c, 50c,
and SI.OO respectively, for each license .
issued, county game warden to have
25c, 50c, and $3.00 respectively, for j
each license issued; balance goes to (
the county school fund. (
14. County game wardens are ap- |
pointed by board of county commis- j.
sioners, said appointment to be based ■
on recommendation in primary after j
November, 1916.
16. All grades of licenses shall be .
of different color, containing a synop- ,
sis of the game law printed on the ,
back, and shall be good only for the «
open season or fraction thereof imme
diately following their issue, I
KILLS HIMSELF !
WHEN CHARGED
. WITH RODBERY;
PUNTA GORDA MAN COMMITS 1
SUICIDE RATHER THAN
BE ARRESTED
Punta Gorda, Fla., Nov. 7.—Facing
arrest accused of complicity in the re
cent robbery’ of the Homestead bank,
R. C. Addison, agent for the Gulf Re
fining company here, shot himself to
day, dying instantly.
Addison asked the deputy who serv
ed the warrant if he could go into the
house. The deputy consented, and
heard the shot.
Locke Addison, a brother, was also I
arrested in connection with the rob
bery.
shall move forward again in due j
il the people >
THE EVENING LEADER 1
POWELL ALWAYS
BOOSTING FLA.
That Stewart A. Leßlanc was hon
estly surprised at the beauties of Tar
pon Springs which were unfolded to
his vision by a few photographs sent
him recently is again evidenced by his
letter to W. B. Powell. Mr.'Leßlanc
had also written The Leader to the
same effect. We publish the letter to
Mr. Powell just to emphasize the in
terest outsiders take in Tarpon
Springs as soon as they see photo
graphs of some of her beauty spots:
New Port Richey, Nov. 6, 1916.
Leader,
Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Gentlemen:
I am in receipt of a letter today
from Mr. Stewart A. Leßlanc, secre
tary of the Old Spanish Trail associa
tion, Mobile, and he says in part:
The Other day Tarpon 'Springs
sent us some photographrs of that
city and environs and to say that I
was surprised at the beauty of the
place is to put it mildly. Pictures
of Tarpon Springs we immediately
forwarded to Motor Age, Chicago,
which, as you know, is cne of the
leading automobile journals and
read by almost every tourist. I
think the pictures will be a surprise
to them, too. They are working on
a story in connection with The Old
Spanish Trail and requested us to
let them have photographs along
the route.
I am sure you will be pleased to
have this information as it was not
written to me for publication, and is
a direct expression of appreciation of
the beauties of your favored city.
Respectfully,
W. B. POWELL,
Secretary
New Port Richey
Board of Trade.
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TO IIS A BBL.
!■■■ " ‘ ' ’■ ’ _ »j, '• “"A* ,
Embargo Would Not Help The Situa
tion in View of the Big
Local Demand
Minneapolis, Minn.—Milling men of
Minneapolis believe wheat and flour
prices will go much higher before the
new crop in Texas is harvested next
June, or the winter wheat begins to
come into the elevators from Kansas
and other southwestern states next
July.
“The millers are helpless to stop the
ascending price of flour,” said F. J.
Atkinson, vice president of a large
flour company. “We are put to it to
obtain in the Northwest, the quality
of wheat that we require, because of
the partial crop failui'e in this section,
and, for the first time in my memory,
Minneapolis mills have been import
ing wheat from the Southwest. Na
turally, the quotations on flour must
folow those on wheat. I will not be
sui-prised, before the winter and
spring ai'e over, to see flour selling at
sl2 or sls a bari'el.”
It was a number of Mr. Atkinson’s
firm who gave out the fact, when quo
tations for “first patent” flour were
made of $lO a bari'el, that this is the
highest price quoted on flour since the
days of the civil wax 1 .
The rise in pi'icc during the past
fortnight, has been rapid. From a
price of SB.BO 10 days ago quotations
were forced upwai’d by the rising
wheat market at the rate of 20 to 50
cents a barrel a day until “first
patents,” the highest grade flour,
reached the $lO price. This was
based oix December wheat at $1.95 a
bushel, plus the four cents premium
for cash wheat. It should be remem
bered that $lO. flour at wholesale in
Minneapolis means from $10.50 to sl2
a barrel when it reaches the consumer
in other cities.
Minneapolis millers do not believe
that an embargo on the export of
wheat or flour would reduce the price
to the consumer in this country. “We
have barely enough wheat for home
consumption,” said Mr. Atkinson.
“Though the present high prices are
based partially on the failui'e of the
Argentine crop and the mounting quo
tations in London, the most compel
ling cause is the home demand. Ex
port trade in wheat has fallen off to
compai’ativey small amounts. Prices
! ar? relatively higher in this country
than in London and that is one reason
| exports are smaller. With Rumania
land Austi-alia to draw from, European
i users will not pay the American
' price.”
TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1916.
RAPID WORK ON
TWO MJLE BRIDGE
The bridge which is being built from
Clearwater to the outer island, and
which will span nearly two miles, is
imported to have pi-ogressed 800 feet
and is going ahead at the rate of 100
feet a day. Washington’s birthday
(Feb. 22) is set for the opening.
It is human nature to want to get
to the very edge of the great deep and
gaze into endless expanse of gulf or
ocean, and this bridge will undoubted
ly be the means of blunging thous
ands of visitors to Clearwater who
otherwise would not have come.
Every improvement in Pinellas coun
ty helps the whole county as well as
the particular locality in which the
improvement is made.
REPORT?™-
RATION OFFICER
FULL ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAS
BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BETWEEN
SEPTEMBER 28 AND NOV
# EMBER 1
To the Boai’d of County Commission
ers:
Five needy little children have
claimed my attention the past month.
The little Mexican boy, whose mother
is in the insane hospital, came back
wonderfully impi’oved physically by
the three months’ visit to a northern
farm, which had been arranged by a
lady who is interested in him. Through
the kind assistance of an American
consul, the uncle of this boy was
x’eached, and he sent the necessary
l-ailroad fare for the child’s transpor
tation to his Mexican home. Effoi'ts
were made to secure temporary homes
for two little children in the northern
part of the county, while their father
received surgical attention, but befox-e
final arrangements were made he left
the county with the children. Two
other motherless children had to be
cared for dux-ing the sickness of their
father, and the three year old girl was
greatly benefited by the care which
she received in the excellent home
which sheltered her. As it became ne
cessary to find another place for the
ten year old boy during the last two
weeks before the father could take
them again, I had to take him into
my home, -as no other place could be
found for him.
Several cases of sickness and need
were reported, though in one case the
sick woman refused to be made an ob
ject of charity, and was indignant at
the well-meaning friends who import
ed her case. She declared she could
pi’ovide for herself as soon as she is
well again, and there is no doubt that
she can make good her assei'tion, as
she is already eai’ning money with
her skilful fingers, though not yet
able to walk around. Two. pathetic
cases of needy old age have been re
ported. One a white couple, both past
eighty, who, according to their neigh
bors have made a brave struggle
against the limitations imposed by
age, but who can no longer manage
without some assistance. The other
case is a coloi’ed couple, the woman,
it is claimed, being over one hundred
years of age. The son does nothing
for them, and the colored chui'ches
hare helped the daughter supply their
needs for several years, and now ask
for county aid for them. Their in
creasing feebleness makes it necessa
ry to pi-ovide them with permanent
shelter and care, which can be given
them in the little home for the aged—
which the colored people conduct in
St. Petersburg, for at least half the
sum would be required to support
them in a county poor house. The
daughter and the chui'ches will con
tinue their aid. Aside from these
there are seventeen names on the
county list, three infirm men, nine
widows, —two of these having little
children, the remainder being infirm,
three families in which the bi-ead-win
ner is not able to work, and two fam
ilies whose need is caused by deser
tion.
Since my last report I have made
156 visits, and traveled 548 miles, 48
of them on foot.
Respectfully submitted,
Sarah Colton Smith,
County Pi'obation officer, and Relief
Agent.
“We would have this one great curse
to the industrial masses—the liquor
traffic—removed as far as possible
from them.”—The Journal of United
Labor.
MONEY STOLEN
EIGHT YEARS
M RETORN
YOUTH CONVERTED BY BILLY
SUNDAY WRITES AND PROM
ISES TO REIMBURSE TAMPA
STORE KEEPER
Converted to Christ by the eloquence
of Evangelist Billy Sunday, a Tampa
youth whose feet slipped from the nar
row pathway of right-doing some
eight years ago has written from a
far-western state, where he now lives,
to G. F. Altman, who conducts a hard
ware establishment in Ybor City, con
fessing to participation in the robbery
of Altman’s store back in 1908. He
writes Mr. Altman that he is working
and that he will lay aside every cent
he can and remit to the man he
wronged until the amount, some S2OB,
has been replaced, says the Tampa
Tribune.
In his letter the youth tells how his
conversion to Christ by Evangelist
Sunday; quickened his conscience and
made it, impossible to longer conceal
from the man he wronged the fact that
he was cne of the guilty parties. He
told Mr, Altman in the letter that it
was the one time he had acted dishon
estly, and that he intended to clear
himself by making repax-ation.
Store Robbed During Night
One morning some eight years ago
Mr. Altman found that during the
night his place of business had been
entered and the safe l-obbed. He fig
ured his loss in cash at $207. The
young man writes him that it was
S2OB that was taken. The late E. D.
Hobbs was sheriff at the time of th
robbery, but neither his men nor those
of the police depax-tment could get
any trace of the thieves.
The young man who now confesses
to part in the crime writes Mr. Alt
man that he had two companions; that
his companions entered the building
and did the actual stealing and that
he waited outside, doing duty as
watcher. .%
Mr. Altman told a Tribune man yes
terday that he had long ago given up
the matter as an unsolvable mystery.
He said he would carefully guard the
voung man’s name, as he is ,glad to
j know that he has been converted and
; feels sui'e that his feet will no more
slip fi-om the path of rectitude.
BROMRCHVOW
10 VOTE TOR
WOODROW WILSON
MENNONITES WENT TO POLLS
THIS MORNING FOR FIRST TIME
—ADVOCATE PEACE POLICY
Chicasha, Okla., Nov. 7.—The men
of the Mennonite colony west of th>s
city, voted this morning for Woodrow
Wilson. This is the first time in their
lives they have cast a vole.
One of the precepts of the Mennon
ite religion is that they shall not take
any part in politics. They never hare
violated this pi’ir.eiple until today.
They voted for Wilson because he has
kept the country o it of war.
One of the cardinal pi'inciples of the
Mennonites is that they shall not take
part in wars.
COCKIAILS GOOD
THING FOR COWS
Marquette, Mich., Nov. 7.—“ Cows
have their hopes and ambitions like
human beings, and when they go to
their meals they should be fed in
coui'ses, with a cocktail as an appetiz
er and a dessert for the finish.” This
is the assertion of State Senator Al
ton T. Roberts of this city, who is
looking after the welfare of a fancy
dairy. “Several years ago one of my
men tried phonographic -music as a
means of inducing the cows to give
more and better milk. For a long time
the soothing tones brought results, but.
after a while the cows became tired
of the music and we began to experi
ment on other things.”
The senator is not feeding alcohol to
his cattle. Instead he is using the red j
table beet as an appetizer.
REXALL STRAW VOTE ELECTS V
WILSON-STRAWS SHOW THE
DIRECTION OF THE WIND
ROUMANIANS IN
DQBBUDJA GAIN
SOME SUCCESS
BUCHAREST CLAIMS GERMANS
HAVE BEEN COMPELLED TO
RETREAT—TEUTONS REPULSE
BRITISH ATTACKS BRITISH
SUBMARINE HITS GERMAN
DREADNAUGHT, BUT EXTENT
0$ DAMAGE IS NOT KNOWN BY
BRITISH ADMIRALTY
Associated Press cables from the
various fronts in the European war
are summarized by that news agency
as follows:
After a week of doubt concerning
the operations in Dobrudja where the
Teutonic allies have been marching
north almost unimpeded on a line from
the Black sea to the Danube river,
Bucharest reports that the Rumanians
have taken the offensive probably aid
ed by the Russians and have compell
ed the Teutons to retreat at several
points.
In the Jiul valley on the Transyl
vanian front the Rumanian advance,
however, has been checked by the
Austro-Gei'mans, who have been rein
forced. In the Predeal pass region
where there has been heavy fighting,
Berlin says the Rumanians also met
with reverses.
Over a front of twelve miles on the
Somme front, Berlin reports that the
Anglo-French attacks Sunday were
l'epulsed with heavy losses. London
admits that th<s British' were compell
ed to relinquish German tx-enches pre
viously won by the British at Butte de
Warlencoui't, near St. Pierre-Vaast
wood. However, the French gained
ground and took six hundi’ed addi
tional prisoners.
The Austi'ians brought up heavy re
inforcements on the Italian front, but
have been unable to advance, accord
ing to Rome.
London says that a British subma
rine hit a German di'eadnaught, but
the damage is not known by the Brit
ish admii'alty.
ELECTION
RETURNS
HOT OFF
THE WIRE
AT ROYAL
After you have talked politics all
day and kussed and diskussed the dif
ferent angles of the situation and
figured out just how your favorites
are bound to be elected go home and
get your supper, then come back
to the Royal theatre and get a com
fortable seat and enjoy one of the best
shows you ever saw and the returns
will be flashed on the screen as they
come in and befoi'e you go to bed you
ought to know who is the next presi
dent of the United States and the next
gorei-nor of Florida. Then you can
forget it all and go to sleep.
PA REN T-TEACH ER S’ M EETING
.... j
The Pai'ent-Teachers’ association
will hold its next regular meeting in
the hign school auditorium Thursday
at 3 o’clock. At that time a report
will be made by Mrs. Fernald, the
treasurer of the association, regarding
the financial rewards to the organiza
tion, which were the outcome of the
Hallowe’en celebration. A progi'am
has also been prepared, and will con
tain something of interest about which
every ictizen of Tarpon Springs can
think to make for greater cooperation,
civic pride and progress in the town.
It makes no difference whether you
are directly or indirectly interested in
the welfare of the schools and a great
.er Tarpon Springs, you have a hearty
'welcome at the meeting Thursday.
TEN CENTS A WEEK. 55.
Rexall straw vote, in its last report,
posted at the West drug store, gives
Wilson 299 electoral votes and 554,500
popular votes. Hughes gets 232 elec
toral votes and 396,896 popular votes.
The straw vote of the Rexall drug
stores was collected from every sec
tion of the country and represented
the complete electoral vote of 531.
Considerable interest has been
shown in the Rexall straw vote which
has been posted at the West drug
store here.
The figures given take into account
all the votes cast up to noon yester
day.
tarplsprings
HIGH SCHOOL
THIRD IN RANKS
Today’s Report'of the County School
Boaid Shows Tarpon Third From
Top of List of Fifty-two County
Schools.
Beginning with this year the School
board and county superintendent have
asked all the teachers of the county to
keep an actual account of the number
of minutes lost by tardiness in each
school and l-eport the same at the end
of the month together with the repdrt
of attendance. The percentage of at
tendonce for the first month in the en
tire county is 94.2. The actual num
ber of minutes lost for all the pupils
for the first mosth is 12,992, which is
an average of 5.4 minutes per pupil.
The following is a table showing how
schools rank in attendance. At the
head of the list is Pinellas Park which
had an average attendance of 99.6 and
at the foot of the list is the Harris
school which had an attendance of 83.-
6. The tardiness report shows the
Keene school at the head of the list
with no tardiness whatever and the
Safety Harbor school at the foot of
the list with an average of 17.4 min
utes per pupil. The ranking of ihe
other schools of the county in both
attendance and tardiness is shown by
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WHEN IHEYrT
> MUSTERED PHI
WHAT THE YOUNG MILITIA MEN
WILL GAIN FROM UNCLE
SAM’S SERVICE
Thei'e will be gains for the "oune
militiamen for whom the bug! - ' ha
ounded; gains that in many cas swill
far moi-e than offset their 1 'sses
Suddenly they hare learned that there
is a bigger boss in these states than
business—obligations which a 1 ! the or
dinary obligations salute and gire ,w?.y
to. Suddenly they learn that there
is a mortgage on their tinm and
strength and skill prior to all ttv liens
that it has been the effort of their
young manhood to satisfy. Suddenly
after being hard fastened to r task
for years, they find themselves shift
ed from their vocations to what has
been their avocation, and with noth
ing to do but be a soldier.
It is an immense change; a snap
ping of all the little chains that re
stricted life; a change of the ghts
duties, associations and physical and
mental habits; a chance to deve’op in
new ways; a general revaluation of
men and things, All men wi ll not
profit by it enually, and some will be
bxxrt by it. But to verv many P witT
be stimulating and devloping, leaving
them better citizens and broads- and
more valuable men than it found tVop.
They will have opened a great window
of life and looked out, and that m
worth while.