The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-03
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he will be obliged to reside lin Tallahas
see for the next few years.
According to The Seminole Indians
around Fort Ogden. there is a great
change in the seasons every seven years,
seven years of wet and warm weather
following seven of cold and dry. This is
the first year of the seven wet and warm
years, and the wet part is coming true.
DR.. Charles w. Bartlett, the new
agent of the State Board of Health, is
now in charge of the quarantine station
at Mullet Key. He arrived there Sunday
with his family. He is a native Cuban,
and highly educated, which will make him
a safeguard at the entrance into the
bay.
Dr. Carradice, the female doctor from
Jacksonville, is still giving trouble in
Tampa. She was in the Police Court again
Monday. charged with being drunk and
disorderly. This time she was turned over
ITO the state and sent to the county Jail,
where she will remain until tired by the
Criminal Court.
The citizens of Pensacola on Tuesday
honored the victory won by Admiral Dew
ey at Manila two years ago. A big parade
was had Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock
labor organizations participated. big
picnic was held at a suburban resort. and
it had what will be the largest attended
Of the season.
High Springs News: Alachua county has
plenty of material to pick from for coun-
ty officers. There are at present about
dozen candidates for the Legislature,
three for county judge. three for tax col
lector, three for treasurer, two for tax as
SCISSOR, two for clerk two for sheriff, two
for surveyor and one fer superintendent
of schools. Some of these are good men,
and some are not, according to our way
of thinking.
With the closing of the Hotel Alcazar
at St Augustine Tuesday the season of
1900 IS entirely at an end, but it has been
an unparalleled one in the history of the
Florida East Coast Hotel Company. The
AlcaZar being the long-season house, has
entertained more guests than the others,
and has far exceeded any previous season.
A noticeable feature with the Alcazar this
year was the number of season guests
which it entertained. Many of those who
went there last fall remained here until
the last, while hundreds of Others spent
several months
Monday at the turpentne still of B. S.
Fisher, six miles north of Mayo, Adam
Mack shot and killed Freeman Apple
white. both colored. Judge Breare and
Sheriff Mourning were at once notified, and
went to the scene, where, after viewing
the body, the witnesses were summoned
to Mayo and a jury was impaneled,
whose verdict was not made known. Al
ter the inquest, warrants were sworn out
for thirteen of the participants in the
tragedy for gambling, seven of whom
were present, and who were arrested, and
upon trial pleaded guilty, and were fined
81 and ccsts each.
Contractor Rittenhouse Moore has Sc
cured another dredge for work on the
new government channel at Tampa. This
dredge will come tom Mobile, and is ex-
D cted to arrive within a few days. There
will then be three big dredges at work
On the channel Both Of those now en-
ployed are working night and day. Those
OF the river-frout property owners who
are interested in the proposition TO bulk
head the docks. are anxious to have the
movement carried through as rapidly as
poss bic. as the material for the work can
be obtained so much more cheaply dur
ing the proc IS of operations on the har-
Dor contract
For four years Messrs. Griffing Bros of
Macclenny and Jacksonville have been
an orange-growing country. once every
year they have visited Miami, spending
from a week TO ten days, investigating
the probabilities OF the success of this
branch Of horticulture there. For the last
three weeks they have been there, and
have visited every part of this section,
examining critically all the young groves,
aud have come to the conclusion that
there is no place in Florida where the
orange trees grow so rapidly. The firm
has now backed its Judgment by purchas-
ing eighty acres of pine land two miles
west of Miami, on the south side of the
river. on which they propose TO raise
model grove. They also purchased from
Mr. Dearbon a ten-acre tract, which they
will clear and use as an experimental
grove, planting sweet seedlings, buds on
sour orange stocks; IN fact. on this par
ticular piece they will plant all the va
.rieties of stock now used In any portion
Of the state. They have also secured lands
at Lift e river. on which they Will in the
fan plant from $1,000 to 100000 orange and
other citrus trees, budded on rough le-
mon stocks. There has always been more
or less doubt in the minds OF many I'm re-
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