The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-11-24
LATE STATE NEWS.

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John L. Roberts of Columbia county,
is dead.
Jacksonville is to have new $l4,-
600 roller skating rink. This has
again became fad.
Arthur T. Williams has been elect
ed president of the new Peoples
Bank and Trust Co. of Jacksonville.
1t is reported from Jacksonville
that unless funds are contributed
soon st. Luke's hospital in that city
will have to close its doors.
z The quarantine against Pensacola
was raised last Sunday. DIR. Porter
is satisfied there is absolutely no
further danger of yellow fever at
that point.
Gregg were married at Blanton last
week while sitting in their buggy in
front of the clergyman's house. MIR.
Williams is leading cantauloupe
grower of Blanton.
Fifty-seven thousand acres of land
in Jackson, Calhoun and Washing
ton counties have been sold for near
ly 100000. The property was bought
by the Belts Lumber Co of Ash
burn, Ga.
James 0steen charged with the
murder of George Carter at Moultrie,
st. Johns county, has been convicted
of manslaughter and sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary. His
brother, Allen Osteen, was acquitted.
I Great care should be taken that
none but the very best men should
be elected to the next legislature
from every county. Many impor-
tant questions will come before that
body, and it will require Florida's
purest and best men to correct the
many evils that now exist in public
Observation-Disclosures True Democrat.
The crate mill, head factory, We
neer plant, saw mill, warehouses and
contents of the E. w. Bond company
at Lake Helen were destroyed by
fire last Friday night, entailing a
loss of about $4,000, only partly
covered by insurance. A much lar
ger plant will be built Immediately
on the old site.
That Florida land is steadily on
the increase in value is evident from
the fact that Mr.. Edward Brobston
of the firm of Observation-Disclosures
pany, this city, purchased tract of
land at Perry recently at $3.50 an
acre. This land, Mr.. Brobston says,
sold five years ago at S1.25 per acre.
This goes to show that since the ma
val stores interests developed in
Florida, and so much land has been
bought and sold, the price is steadily
on the increase. Land in Polk
county, it is said, is advancing each
day, and within the course of a year
will be extremely high. Fort
in the center of Polk Coun-
tvs rich turpentine land, is destined
to be a city within few years.
Times-Union.
United States Senator B. R. Till
man of South Carolina opened the |
season at the Opera House Tuesday |
night, on which occasion he deliver |
ed his famous lecture on the Race
Question" The Senator handled |
the question in his usual inimitabIe |
way, and his pitchfork was brought
freely into use, and while a number,
Of his blunt, uncouth expressions
nay have Jared on sensitive ears,
MS logic will be admitted by all who |
have lived in the South and been |
face to face with this ques-
lion as it has existed, and does now
sxist in this section. his picture of
he negro's past is not OYerdrawn,
md is only too true; but as to his
for the future, time alone
AN tell, and is, as he says, only one
mans Opinion.-Kissimmee Gazette.
When the st. Johns circuit court
at $3.50 last Friday morn
ng Mr.. MacWilliams gave notice
hat no appeal would be taken in the
)steen case. Judge Call then pro-
seeded to sentence the convicted
prisoners brought before him. The
lrst prisoner called was Sim Jack
on, who was found guilty of murder
n the first degree for beheading his
wife at Evaville, several years ago.
n spite of the solemnity of such an
occasion, there was one comical fea-
ure. Judge Call solemnly read the
entence of death to the prisoner,
nd the spectators were awed, but
ackson, with a smile, said: THANK
-Ou, Jedge," and walked back to his
eat in the prisoners pen. He APP
Iarently had no fear, on the contrary
eemed to be in a comparatively /,
'leasant frame of mind, and talked
N smiled with the prisoners sur
ounding him.-Times- Union.