The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-06
THE MORNING NEWS WEDNESDAY. JANUARY g. 1897

wearing out of pine timber IN the Caro-
linas and Georgia.
! The declarations in the suits of VIM. A.
Bisbee against VIM. +. Kigore. captain
oe the revenue cutter Boutwell, and c. r.
| Bisbee. collector OF customs OF the port of
/ -. Johns, in which ne Sizes each for $4,000
| damages, we're filed IN the office of the
| clerk OF the circuit court al Jacksonville
! Monday The suits are brought for dam
( ages which MIR. Bisbee alleges he sustain
| ed by the collector and the captain of the
cutter OBTAINING his vessel, the tug Daunt-
| less, in port when ne had a chance to go
| to the relief of a schooner which had been
blown ashore, and from the saving of
which he could have secured salvage.
Chandler correspondence OF the Morning
News Jan ): The Plant system will make
Improvements az the depot here.-Two car
loads of material are now on the ground.
George S. Brooklin of Washington, Ind,
has purchased the Thomas Vlaskamp res
idence and orange grove and with his fam
lly have arrived to take possession of the
same.--The wonderful recuperative pow
ers shown by the orange trees in this sec
tlon have greatly encouraged the people
and many who We're slow to begin the
work Of building up their groves have
gone TO work with viii to push them for
all they are worth. Many groves that
q
ing pruned out and worked preparatory
to being budded in the spring.
Real Estate Agent G. r. Taft of Gaines
vile made an interesting discovery Mon
day morning. In looking over his chart
and comparing II with a list of lands he
has been Offering for sale he observed that
1850 acres described on his list were loca-
ted In Newnans Lake, nearly a mile from
the west shore, and was at least ten feet
under water. referring to the abstract ii
was found that in some unaccountable
manner the 16O-acre tract was reported to
the tax assessor who entered it upon the
tax books opposite the familiar term "un-
known" OF course no one offered pay
ment, and the supposed land was sold at
tax sale. Being in a good part of the
county, 1t readily found a purchaser, and
since the first sale it has been traded and
changed hands several times. First a
firm with headquarters in New. York
made the purchase, afterward selling to a
man in Chicago, and so on. until the land
has changed hands eight times, each pur-
chaser having been furnished with an alb
stract. Now the owner lives in Montreal.
and has listed the land for sale with Mr..
Taft.
The plaintiffs declaration in the $4,000
damage suit of Wilson Mccall, as admin
istrator of the estate OF Edmund 3.
Breare, deceased, VS.. Eugene Il. West
was filed in the office of the clerk of the
United States court al Jacksonville Mon
day. In the declaration the plaintiff al
leges that the defendant, acting as an
agent of the Manhattan Life Insurance
Company of New York, persuaded the said
Breare to apply and receive a life insur-
ance policy in the above company in the
sum of 5000, which sum was made paya-
BILE to his heirs, executors, administrators
or assigns: that the said Breare, before
the payment of premium on the policy,
assigned and transferred to the defendant
the policy, without any good or valuable
consideration, and not being related to him
by affinity or consanguinity. and having
no insurable interest in the life of Breare,
ana that afterwards Breare died. This
was on March %, 1896. and the said plant
# proved to the satisfaction of the said in
surancc company the death of Breare, and
that the said insurance company paid to
West, their agent, the sum of S. 0O0 with
which to satisfy the claim. but the amount
was never paia to him by the said West,
and he now Lrings suit in the sum of $10,-
900 against West.