The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-19
FLORIDA.

James and William Powell, sons of a
well known Wankegan, Ill, man were
drowned while bathing on the beach at
Melbourne Monday. They were % to 30
years of age.
The Mayo Free Press thinks if Senator
Mallory's illness is going to keep him
from attending to his official duties much
longer, that he should resign. The Free
Press also criucises severely Senator Tai
iaferro's ability as a senator.
Fernandina Mirror: Tom Haggerdon
contemplates going into the gopher bust
ness, and, as a special inducement, offers
anyone half the gophers they can dig.
Gophers smaller than a 25-cent piece will
be taken only as change. Come early and
avoid the rush.
The importations of tobacco at Tampa
for the last week number $3.50 bales. The
total importation of tobacco here for the
year runs up to 6,244 bales which is the
largest for the season of the year Bust
ness Is good, as indicated by this, but the
importations win be much heavier after
the new crop gets on the market.
Messrs. McQuaig & Bechams teams
reached Orlando Tuesday from Conway
with the first spirits turned out at their
camp. They sent away a carload yes
terday being the first car of naval stores
ever shipped from Orlando. Shipments of
rosin will follow at once and from this
time big loads of naval stores will be no
novelty on the streets of that place.
Gainesville Sun: All the candidates for
nomination in Alachua county are in favor
of the primary system. Any Democrat
who is not faVorab to a primary Will
of the Democrats of the county. No
office-seeker who desires to conform to
the will of the people will declare him
self in favor of the convention plan.
Every Democrat has a right to have a
say, and under no circumstances should he
be deprived of that right.
Messrs. Frank, coleman and Andrew
Carnegie are at Boca Grande which ls
the great tarpon fishing point of the West
coast. There is no hotel there for the ac-
commodation of visitors, but a floating
hotel has been, aud is now used for such
purposes. Mr.. F. P. Roach is making
Uzeppa Island This is located about five
miles from the great pass, and will serve
as means of accommodate ton to men.
More tarpon are said TO be caught there
than at any other point in all Florida.
Real estate IS booming in and about
Braidentown, the transfers recorded in
the office of the clerk of Manatee county
reaching $4,000 in one week. Many good
and desirable people are coming in and
materially strengthening the community.
One of the most notable investors is Hon
w. W Carnes, of Memphis, Tenn. He
owns a controlling interest in the cleo
trio light plant and street railway system
of his city and is a man of large wealth,
and great prominence in affairs. He went
to Tampa on the invitation of w. r.
Fuller, Jr., who accompanied him to the
Manatee section. Mr.. Carnes remained
there for several days, and one of the re-
suits is that he has bought six bearing
groves at a total outlay of $4,000. For
these properties he paid cash. The people
who sold Will invest their money in Gre
ating new groves, and thus the interests
of the community will be greatly ad-
vanced.
Cutler settlement on Bscayne bay,
about fifteen miles below Miami is at
tracing considerable attention at present
through the interest recently taken in its
development by several prominent Ger
mans. Through the efforts of Mr.. j. e.
Ingraham, such men as Baron Herman
Count Schaumerei Count Stuelpnagle and
other influential natives of Germany have
bought land at Cutler, large tracts Of
which are now under cultivation. Mr.
Ingraham has just returned to st. Angus
tine, from visit to Cutler with Count
Schaumerei and Baron Herman, the out
ccme of which was the additional pur-
chase on the part of Count Schaumerei of
| another piece of land to be planted imme-
diately in citrus fruits, mainly oranges,
grapefruit and lemons. Baron Herman at
present has twenty-seven acres in toma-
toes, and within another year the in
crease in the acreage of land owned by
these Germans will be quadrupled. Baron
Herman and Count Schaumerei have re-
turned to their posts in Washington, but
they have left Count Stuelpnagle and Mr..
Goethe at Cutler TO look after their lands
and crops.