Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-05-28
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Things Grswn In the Peninsula state OF
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Press and Dakctaisn: The moderate
drought Of She apring months lie now
over, end Is followed by the gentle and
seasonabie showers of the s'wst season"
They usually occur besween eleven and
three O'Clock. so that many days which
open with o clear sultry forenoon are
soon overloaded with rain-storuas and
delightfully."- cool and breezy. Some-
timea there is sharp lightning and
strong wind, but more often ihese rains
come precisely in the way se enjoy best.
The grestest heat we have seen on clear
days was about ninety degrees. Tie
base ball season has not yet begun here.
About june and July the young chaps
will get the base ball fever up TO blood
heat and play insanely in all the towns
for the gate money, in the hottest days,
as they did last summer.
do not perceive any decrease in the
healthfulness of this town because OF the
advance of summer I I'M sufficiently
intimate with the undertekers and
several doctors, to know what is going
on In their line. But there is ON intense
ly exasperated feeling here on the yellow
fever sensational reports that Surgeon
General Hamilton of Washington has
published against ua. These reports
have been greatly exaggerated, and
many of them are false. The facts are
sufficient refutation. For instance, DR..
Hamilton pretends that for month"; pass
he has known Of q succession of cases al
Sanford, our sister city twenty miles
away, but that he kept still about il.
Yet the Sanford people during that time
organized and maintained their ..South
Florida Exposition which ell tourists
went to see, ss we'll as most OF us at Or
lando and other towns. We never heard
q whisper of the fever being there till
recently. And DR.. Hamilton allowed
the precious lives OF the president and
his wife and all those senators and others
of the nobility OF Washington. to be i'm
periled by going to San
ford. mixing in dense crowds,
and skylarking about among other
noted places. The great government
surgeon now contesses that he wiokedly
concealed his secret information that
Sanford was having .s150 cases and SIX
deaths from yellow fever" but allowed
end tens of thousands OF
northern visitors to pass freely all over
the state. IL pute the Doctor in the
dilemma of either being o public SLAM
derer OF cur state, or q false and un-
guardian OF the public health.
Now alter ell this trash of the asso-
dated preas reports has been fully
over here we OF orlando believe
Just this: That there were three or four
genuine cases down zeal Tampa a few
weeks ago but that it is wholly suppress.
I'D; that there has not been a case Of gel
low fever in Sanford or any other part OF
this country. and that at this time there
Is not g case of IL in the state. Whenever
any one here has an errend to Sanford,
he goes right along and stays az long as
be likes, just as though DIR. Hamilton
had never mentioned Sanford. I have
1ene so. and SO does every one else. In
'act, the press reports are the subject OF
as much ridicEle here as wrath.
The undertaken OF Sanford publishes
sworn statement giving the name
md disease OF every person that died
n Sanford IN the last fourteen months.
There are only twenty-six in all, and
over five were from any sort OF fever,
While none OF them were called yellow
That is q small mortality fol q
own OF some $500 people, including
nfants.
l rode out yesterday with q real estate
gent to examine and select some lots
or q Dakota man. The agent declared
hat he is now as busy and as success.
al in making saies as he was any month
asst winter. 1t il becoming quite the
lyle for those who mean to invest to
ONE in the dull summer season in
lopes OF low prices.
1 presume that many readers will be
Interested in the phenomena of this
Innate 40 shown by vegetation and
ruits. For instance, on May 18th we
Vere all at my brothers. Ia Chuluota
Vhere We Toasted on his first ripe water
melon, and ate o dozen or two OF very
weet, ripe peaches from young trees
hat I planted March LIST, 1886. Since
hen we rode to Niagara Villa" q vine-
ard 9 Orlando, where several hum
lred vines, n and two years planted,
re bearing . fine crop Of grapes. They
re chiefly white Niagara, grapes,fully
and will ripen about Juno Let.
They will be shipped to northern cities,
lrrivIng in market ahead Of any grapes
rom other parts Of the country, and
Judging from last years sales, the own
rs are IRE OF ready cash at the rate Of
ifty to seventy-fv i've cents per pound.
They have put in 10000 new vines this
rear. and they feel safe in raising tons
md carloads OF grapes Of . sort in which
40 other section can compete against
hem. They also have splendid Della
and Muscat or raisin grapes. They
aavs thus successfully exploded one
more false idea against Florida. For
years ii was said that this sandy pine
lacd would not support q grape vine
the native sorts); but here came
these industrious Yankees who took