The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-08-04
STATE NEWS IN TABLOID

The first bale of cotton for the sea-
son of 1866 was raised by Walton
| Blackstone a negro of Leon county.
State Senator Geo. NJ. Lee of Lake
county died suddenly of heart failure
at his home in Leesburg August I'd.
J. L. Green and Edward McCrae of
| Sanderson are"both dead as a result
of "a duel fought with pistols at that
place last Saturday.
| The supreme court has killed all
hope of Sunday base ball in Jackson
vile. That law of the last Legislature
! is one that is constitutional ="
| Wade Wynn, well-known citizen
of Starke has gone "datfy'' on "gues-
sing contests" and has been taken to
the asylum at Chattahoochee.
Gov. Broward has set aside fund
of $4,000 as Immediately available
for the state board of health to fight
yellow fever. The fund will be used.
The question of uniting Manitee
and BraIdentown under one charter
was voted down at a meeting of the
joint consolidating committees of the
two places last week.
Gov. Broward on Tuesday appoint
| ed M A. Brown to the position of
private secretary to the governor, in
place of Charles II. Dickinson, who
was a holdover from Gov. Jennings.
John b. Nauhan. eX-rer resentatiye
in the Florida Legislature from Es-
Gambia county has been sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary for
| manslaughter. He hates to go, and
has given bond pending appeal to
| higher court.
The supreme court has refused the
request of Gov. Broward that it pass
upon the cOnstitutiOnalitv OF the
Buchanan educational law. The
court says it is not authorized to
pass upon the constitutionality of
statutes affecting the governor b eX-
ecutive duties and powers.
The first step in carrying out Gov.
Broward's plan to drain the Ever
glades was taken by the board of
| trustees Of the Internal Improve
lnent Fund last week, when the board
ordered a preliminary survey made
for drainage canal from Lake Okee-
| Chobee to the st. Lucie river.
| On July 10Th. two young men left
Green Cove Springs for bicycle trip
to Portland, Oregon. If all that en-
ergy were expended on a Bradford
county cotton farm or strawberry
garden these young men would soon
be able to wear diamonds and ride to
Portland in u Pullman car.--Starke
Telegraph.
| Angus Paterson, prominent at
torney of Madison, is dead He was
member of the constitutional con-
vention of 1865. He was devoted
member of the Masonic fraternity
and took an active share in the pro-
ceedings of that order. He was
high minded and efficient attorney
a gentleman of the old school,"
Victor Vitello, the Italian reported
with yellow fever at Tampa last
week is slowly but surely recover
ing. There has been no new cases.
Dr.. ]. Y. Porter, the state health
officer, who took immediate charge
of the situation in Tampa is being
congratulated on all hands for his
prompt, vigorous, and effective
handling of the case.
The board of commissioners of
state institutions has awarded the
state printing contract for the ensu-
ing two years to the Capital Publish
ing company, of which I. b. Hilson
is pretty much the whole push. If
the work for the coming two years
reaches the same degree of finish as
has characterized it the past four,
it may be found proper to award flu
Iture contracts of the kind to Talla-
hassee's village blacksmith.