The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-02
FLORIDA MO0NSHINERS.
BIG PATCH OF PRISONERS
SENTENCED AT PENSACOLA.

More Winter Tourists in the City Than
Ever Before-A New Hotel With 600
Rooms Among the Possibilities-The
Fruit and Melon Industry-The New
Trading Company.
PENSACOLA, FLA, April LIN the
United States court here to-day twenty-one
persons, previously convicted Of Illicit dis
tilling, were sentenced variously in fines Of
500 to $500 and to imprisonment for terms
ranging from two 10 fifteen months. Those
convicted operated in the different counties
Of West Florida. and for a long time sue
cessfully defied arrest Last December a
party Of officers made a raid through the
county and destroyed a number OF stills
They were in turn raided by the mo on
sinners at Bombay, when two of them, as
previously related in these specials, were
killed. Fourteen Of the moonshiners were
implicated in this affair, and sx of them
previously convicted were to-day sentenced
TO fine and impriso nment In the Ohio
pealtentlary. They are Robert
Sparks, who got two years,
and Jack Newberry, James Boswell, Isaac
Hally, James Harrison and John Maddox,
who get four years and six months each.
The other seven who are known to the offi-
GERS have not yet been apprehended. A
large number Of moonshiners, other than
those above mentioned, and who are yet at
large, were Indicted at this term. IL is be-
lieved that the vigorous proceedings insti
tuted against them by the officers has had
the effect of virtually killing the illegal In-
dustry In this section.
WINTER TOURISTS.
This city has never made much Of
bid for the annual winter tourist
travel to Florida, and, of course, has
bad but a very small portion of it.
The present season, however, Is likely
to inasgurate a new era in the history Of
Pensacola. Never before have so many dis
ttnguished personages visited the city, and
without exception they have expressed
themselves as having been very agreeably
surprised at the magnificent advantages
here offered for health and pleasure seekers
During the summer great improvements
will be made in the hotel facilities, a new
hotel with 600 rooms will probably be
erected and efforts will be made to secure a
large number Of visitors next winter to
spend the season here.
Reports from every section Of West
Florida are to the effect that the outlook for
the fruit crop this season is without prece-
dent.
proportions In this part of the state, mainly
through the efforts OF the West Florida
Melon and Fruit Growers Association, and
thousands Of trees have been planted this
season.
The melon growers are making extensive
preparations for the coming season, a large
number of members of the association hay
lug decided to plant melons exclusively. 1t
is said that the sales of fertilizers through
Florida ba a kxxyi0a
as during any previous year. and the out
look for farmers Is decidedly encouraging.
THE NEW TRADING COMPANY.
The announcement of the formation of
the Chiriqui Trading and Development
Company, with u capital stock of
100000, all Of which has been
taken by Pensacola, Birmingham and New
York capitalists, was big surprise here to
those who were not on the inside. Senior
R. R Romero, who has large and valuable
concessions from the Colombian government,
and who came here for the purpose of or
ganizing a steamship line between this city
and Bocas del Toro, modestly asked that
company with a capital stock of $50, 900 be
formed for the purpose. But as soon as the
level-headed capitalists discovered what
prospects were ahead they Immediately
placed the capital stock at $500, COO and be-
gan work at once. The first steamer laden
WIN Oauoh6o hdh dAIOhuJ dIElNtu ITOn
Bocas del Toro another is now on the way,
and the company is now negotiating for the
purchase of several large steamships to be
used in that trade.
Great preparations are being made for
the entertainment of the members of the
Florida Medical Association, which body
convenes in Pensacola on April ID.
Some idea Of the vast amount of fish
shipped from this point may be obtained
from the fact that on one day Of last week
u single firm shipped five solid carloads of
red snappers, beside supplying their local
customers and filing telegraphic orders for
small amounts to interior points.
A new saw-mill, which will have a ca
pacity of so 900 to 10000 feet per day, is
being erected at Hammack's station, on the
Pensacola and Selma railroad, by Messrs.
Charles Lowell and S. J. t'Pad'1 Foshee.
The cut of the mill will be shipped to this
market.
Considerable interest is being manifested
in this part of the state over the probable
outcome Of the canvas Of ex-senator Call
for reelection to the United States Senate.