The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-10-09

Furniture and Novelty Factory was
burned few days ago. Loss, $1,000;
no insurance.
President Mckinley has named
Joseph E. Less as collector of Gus.
toms, district of st. Johns, and Den
mis- Egan, postmaster at Jacksonville.
A special from Washington says that
the board OF engineers has. disapproved
of Major Mahan's plan for dredgo
for Pensacola harbor as being too ex.
pensive. They have ordered new plans
for dredge to cost not exceeding
$4,000.
The preliminary trial of F. NJ. Tate,
at Braidentown, for the killing of Mar
shall Joe Terry, before County Judge
J. j. Stewart, resulted in Tate's being
discharged on the ground Of justifable
homicide. Judge Meresdon, of Tam
pa, represented the state, and Judge
Bingham the defense.
The town council Of Melbourne at
its last meeting passed over the veto
of the mayor sweeping ordinance
forbidding bicyclists or anything else
on wheels the use of the sidewalks.
At the same meeting they took meas
ures looking toward the immediate
clearing and Smelling of more than q
mile of streets.
j. E. Jngraham, land com missioner
Of the Florida East Coast railway, st.
Augustine, has issued a circular with
regard to an east coast exhibit at the
State Tobacco Fair at Lake City, Oc-
tober ~ and 29. A list of premiums
will be published, in short time, by
the fair committee, also information
as to rates, accommodations, etc.
A department of current news has
been organized in connection with the
Orlando High school. A committee of
five pupils has been delegated to report
each morning the events chronicled on
the previous day in the fields of do
nestle politics, foreign, commercial,
educational and miscellaneous news.
The reports will be brief and concise,
and on Fridays of each week there is
to be summary of the weeks events.
The Orange county commissioners
have taken the initial steps toward
building the bridge across the st.
Johns, and the people are to build the
approaches to it. II will be one of
the best things for both Geneva and
Sanford that have been done in years.
1t will place the Sanford market
within easy reach of Geneva, and will
give Sanford q somewhat distant
suburb over what is to be frst-class
shell road.
Quite number of residences and
Jacksonville, and plans are being
drawn for Others, the cost of which
will not fall far short Of 500, 900, and
it may exceed that sum. Few people
realize the amount of construction
that has been done in Jacksonville
within the past year. and the amount
that Is now being done, and yet this
is one of the surest indications of gen.
uine prosperity.
in. Cobb, of Washington City, field
agent of the United States Fish Com
mission, is on visit to Florida to ex-
anime into the fisheries in their COM
mercial and natural phases. He has
worked up the Gull coast from Key
West to Carrabelle. On account of the
quarantine further west, he will go to
the east coast. He is gathering special
data for the Tampa Fish Congress, in
1898, and secured copies of all the
Florida fish laws while at the capital.
While in Washington recently, Rep
resentative Sparkman had several in
terviews with the chief of engineers
with reference to river and harbor
matters, particularly in connection
with the work at Pensacola. He re-
ceived assurances from the depart
ment that o new dredge to cost about
sl25, 900 would be built for that work
and other projects IN tne state, III
place of the one originally contem-
plated. The plans for this dredge are
now under way. Florida's great sea-
coast naturally will entail considera-
BILE work before his committee, and
Mr.. Sparkman laid the plans for much
of this while at the national capital.
The Queen and Crescent Navigation
Company, of Columbus, Ga, has just
bought new steamer, the jamie Roe,
to ply the Apalachicola river in carry
ing the mail and passengers. She
halls from Evansville, Ind. and is 116
feet long, stern wheel, has eighteen
staterooms, and is Of very light
draught. The steamer G. d. Owens,
Of the same company, now engaged in
the mail service, will be put into the
freight trade between points on the
Apaalchicola river and Carrabelle.
Three or four more large turpentine
plants have been started west Of the
Apalachicola river, and the Queen and
Crescent line, which has the contract