The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-16

ganized at Barlow with ranch of
25,OOO acres located on the south end
of lake KisSimmee.
j. F. Sherwood, formerly of the
Citrus County Chronicle has pur-
chased the Suwanee Democrat at
Live Oak of J. f. Pound.
G. G. Carlton of Plant City has
contracted to furnish an aggregate
of twenty five thousand crates OF
i tomatoes this spring.
The state treasury is now burdened
with the $692,946 Indian war fund,
and the next Legislature will have
the pleasant task of blowing" it.
The Peacock-H Hunt and West Com
pany and the j. p. Williams Com
pany, naval stores concerns of Savan-
nah, will have headquarters in Jack
sonville.
w. H. Ellis, of Quincy seems to be
regarded as the man most likely to
be appointed by the governor to the
vacant attorney -generalship upon the
retirement of Gen. Lamar.
The negro who murdered w. w.
Weeks the Jacksonville grocer has
been identified by Mrs. Weeks and
her son Ralph. 1t was a case where
all "niggers did not look alike" to
her.
Theodore Mayer, a travelling sales
man, has gone insane at Tampa, and
there are people mean enough to say
that he must have been insane or he
would never have gone there.
Harris, Gates q Co. New York
stock brokers have opened an office
at Palm Beach for the convenience
of their customers who like to watch
the ticker, and others who feel in
clined to "buck the tiger"
Capt. j. d. Rahner of the st. Au-
gustine Rifles, whose resignation
was rendered last month, has had
the same accepted. The company
has appointed II committee to look
over the field and secure new cap
tain.
Frank M. Simonton, solicitor of
the criminal court in Tampa, has
brought suit against the Tampa
Daily Times for lible in $25, 900 dam
age, and also against the editor, ID.
B. Mckay, for similar sum.
S. H. Gaitskill of Mcintosh, presi-
dent of the Florida State Fair asso-
citation has just returned from Ken
lucky with 25 head Of the best |
blooded short horn cattle-l3 bulls
and u heifers-with which he will |
stock his farm.
The pastor of the st. Augustine
Baptist church, II bachelor, who has
put up with II small room |
in the tower of the church, is to be
provided with a parsonage by the
church society. The pastor will
have to provide his own wife.
The double hanging advertised to
take place in the Jail yard at Tayares
last Friday did not take place. Rob
ert Bradford one of the expected |
star performers, was cOmmuted to
life imprisonment, and William
Sumpter was granted Il ten days re-
spite.
J. NJ. Johns a weIl-known farmer
living in Baker county eight miles
from Baldwin station was stabbed to
death ut country dance near his
home last Saturday night. The par
ties who did the cutting are said to
be unknown. The murdered man
leaves a wife and several children.
The cause of the murder was whisky.
The Florida Naval Stores Com
Dany, lessees of the state convicts,
through its president, offers to spend
10000 on hospital and farm for dis
lbled cOnvicts, in return for which
jhe company will ask to be relieved
)f the burden of paying to the state
5he annual charge of $l5l.5O for each
Of the cOnvicts confined in the hos
)ital.
Little 5-year old Johnnie Wilson
If near Barlow, in play pointed
empty gun at his brother
Roy, 10 years old, and playfully
pulled the trigger. There was a
oud report and Roy fell. His
wounds are dangerous, but the. boy
will get well. The father saw the
children playing with the gun but
le, too, thought it unloaded.
William ClaybourHe, well-known
,olored man Of ST. Augustine, while
N an epileptic fit fell into an open
ire place and was horribly burned.
The pain caused by the burns,
coupled with the violence of his fit
made it almost impossible to give
lin relief. While in the fit and after
Deing rescued from the fire Clay
,ourns bit II big piece Of flesh from
lis left arm.
The men composing the fire
department. of Tampa are out oh
trike. And thereby hangs a tale
Cor years these men, hired to fight
ire, had been made to act as servants
n the family of the chief; to cut his
wood and curry his horses. AS in-
they were afraid to do other
han protest. Then they formed !; /
lnion. The chief, to break up the
lni0n discharged the president. The
asked the city council to
einstate the man, but this request
vas ignored; then the men struck. If
hey are right, every self-reSpecting
nan, who wants other men to have
he same feeling, will hope for>their
success. Tampa's fire department
officials are the creatures of politics;
politics should be divorced from
fire and police depart.
nents if good service is expected.
REMARKABLE CURE FOR GROUP,
A LITTLE BOYS LIFE SAvID.