Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-04-14
A HOT OLD Time
IN HIGH SPRINGS
The Municipal Election Tuesday
Was Full of Excitement.
THERE is TALK OF A CONTEST


The Regular Nominees Were Defeated
and Independent Candl dates Sue
eeeded in Sweeping the Field.
Charge of Fraud May Be Made.
High Springs, April 10 The much.
talked-of special election was pulled
OF here Tuesday. Times for a while
were quite lively, aud none the less
hostile. For some while in the morn
ing portion Of the day the managers
seemed to be At loss about the law
governing the same. A small para
graph was read governing elections,
and they construed it in great diversi-
He'd ways. Some coutended that a
qualified voter would have to have his
poll taxes paid on or before the llth
day OF March, while Others argued that
poll taxes for this election we're good
issued a. late as April 8, 1905.
But one OF the conservative inspec.
tors advanced the thought that ina,-
much as the time according to Law had
expired March 81, and that the time
continued for paying the same until
May was simply favored and not law,
60 the inspector compromised with the
two contending factions by recogniz.
ing all poll taxes for 1904 that we're
paid mp TO April /, 1906.
The following lie the official count
W. g. Holland, IA; B. Dougherty, "a;
]. @. LSComt, Al; w. j. Rives, %; W. Z
Summers, "a; ID. A. Demswg, 40
Three highest are considered duly
elected, Though there 10 much talk of
q contSst. The three securing the lsast
AumbeE Of tallots are the regular con-
ventional nominees.
An alleged effort was made to perpe-
trats fraud b. some 1904 poll tax re-
csipts being presented which we're
issued In April aud abbreviated Apr"
Ia date line and in several unsuccessiul
attempts we're made to demolish the
"a" or convert it into an M" the
pr" being left unmolested.
Mr.. Setter, one OF the manHgeTs,
caught on to the trick, and exposed ths
fraud publicly, for which he was highly
These defsced receipts
we're only prevalent among the colored /
voters, but il is not conceded that q !
negro 10 the author Of the scheme. {
Captain w. g. Shehee. who 10 a
returned from Hampton !
Springs this evening. and " in . feeble
being absolutely helpless. y
Tourists have been returning TO q
their Northern homes for some time. @
Mrs. K. @. Philpot, who was quite
III last week, 10 now on the stage OF Z
action, TO the qualification Of her nu-
merous friends. G
The Atlantic Coast Line Railway q
sontinueS to do rousing freight busl- .
ness in this section. u
Miss Pauline Weaver. the recog. q
niEed belle Of High Springs, is visiting .
relatives In Pensacola this week. b
High Springs has had two millinery y
openings quite recently that would re- q
feet much credit ou towns three times q
he size Of this one.
Col. J. w. Patton, q surveyor OF "
gainesville, was in the city yesterday. q
COLONEL Patton says he has been sur q
'eyinR land about three miles from al
he city, down the Santa Fe river. for u
AF. Setter. It 10 Whist is known ~ the si
I'd Mckinney property, and is said to
e very valuable. The land IL un. q
'sually good for agricultural purposes, N
md u also contains an immense guam m
ity Of phosphate. which can be mined q
nth the least expense Of any deposit p'
y the State. The land also has large b
crsaee Of hammock and hardwood 81
nd it 10 IN such quantities that ia a u ~
q saw mill Will be estSb- 81
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