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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23
An Open Market

Many often wonder why Pensacola,
being one Of the leading naval stores
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

ports in the country, does not become
an open market as well as Savau-
nah. This is probably because the
factors and operators are satisfied to-
let conditions remain as they are.
Jacksonville has an open market and
has gained nothing from this fact, so
1t Is stated, and the factors are salts
fed at present to turn their receipts
over to the Shotter Company at Sa-
vannah prices. In that city the mar.
ket is made, and Savannah prices
rule the world over, no matter what
other city may have an open market.
At least, this Is the statement OF ma
val stores men.
The Export Business.
Some idea of the growth and deyel.
opment OF Pensacola as naval stores
center can be gained from the exports
of the product, and remember, whils
the exports represent much OF tho
business. large quantities of both
rosin and turpentine and particularly
the latter are shipped from Pensacola
to the interior. At the yards the
big tank cars are filled from the inn.
mense storage tanks and shipped to
all parts of the country, and the same
can be said of rosin, as to its distribu-
ton. But the figures of the shipments
OF rosin and naval stores for the PEE
Rod beginning in 1890 to the present
date tell the tale, and in glancing
over the accompanying table remen-
Der that only eight months OF 1905
have passed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

|Charies h. Bliss, Mayor OF Pensacola.
fver, much property changing owner
|ship at two and three times its value
before the bond isue.
The chief executive of the city has
been very diligent and used every en-
deavor to expedite the Inauguration
Of the public Improvements contem,
plated in the bond issue, but there
nave been many delays from causes
beyond his control, but the work may
now be considered as well begun.
City Improvements.
Contracts have been let for a quar-.
Ter million dollars of storm and SAM
tary sewers. which the contractor as
Sures me will be finished by next
June. An expert sanitary engineer OF
nigh reputation has been engaged to
lake charge of the sanitary work and
also take charge of over half a million
dollars worth Of street paving which
is expected to be completed within
two years.
One hundred thousands has been
provided for a city hall and jail. The
contract for the city hall has been let
and ground is now being broken pre-.
paratory to actual construction.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23
BY Cnas. n. Bliss.

Pensacola began it's era of pros
perlty less than two years ago when
bond issue of $750,000.00 was au-
,horized in a special election by an
overwhelming popular vote. A tone
Of confidence fastened itself upon the
people and property values began a
steady advance. So firmly were these
convictions rooted in the public mind
that a general epidemic of yellow
fever in the south had practically no
effect upon values and in less than
three months after the epidemic
closed all traces of 1t had vanished
from the business circles of the city.
While the epidemic caused temper
airy lull, values did not decline and
since have been more active than
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

| where the storage yards for the ham
ding of the products are so complete
as those located north of this city.
There the immense yards of the Shot
ter Company are located, where the
thousands upon thousands of barrels
of rosin can be stored and two large
tanks, having capacity of nearly one
hundred thousand gallons of turpen-
tine, have been erected Near the
Shotter yards are those of the J. r.
Saunders Company, which company
withdrew from the Consolidated in
January, and now not only operates
as independent factors, but also as
exporters. There also are the empty
yards of the Export Company, which,
though out of business activity, Is
holding its Pensacola property, which
is valuable, not only for its real es-
tate worth and on account of its two
immense new storage tanks which
are located there, but also because IL
could be utilized at moments notice
did those interested desire to act in
dependently of the Shotter Company,
which now purchases the receipts,
and again enter the exporting BUSH
ness. II is estimated that the re-
ceipts of rosin and turpentine at
these yards each day will average
$4,000 for the entire year. which
gives some conception of the i'm.
mense amount OF business that Is
done north of the city.
An Open Market.
Many often wonder why Pensacola,
being ona of the leading naval stores
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

The Storage Yards.
There is no place In the country
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

the firmly intrenched Shotter Com
pany in the export business. Take
the operator, the factor and the ex-
porter today and you will<find a man
who may be termed ION velvet" The
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23

the business. Yes, and fortunes lost,
put the former are in the great ma
1ority. True the Export Naval Stores
company dropped cool million last
year, but that was in competing with
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-23


! CITY IMPROVEMENT BONDS VOTED.
Street Paving .............. $15OOOOOO
; Sewers Observation-Disclosures. 250OO0OO
City Hall .................. 100000
Water works. to either purchase or con-
struct Observation-Disclosures. 25OOOOOO
Total .......................... .S75OOOOOO
Already issued from above:
Street paving 100000
x
! Total now being expended ........... S3OOOOOOO
Note-The 100000 now being expended for (
street paving calls for than double that amount
the part of the AUDITING property and the
street company. -. Ne = -s>ssass* E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES.
Of a Man Who Tempted Death for
 Twelve Years

| From the St. Louis Republic Frank Ras. formerly a professional | trick cyclist, bicycle racer and high diver has been in the jaws of death score of time sduring a career extending over a period of twelve years.
 His greatest accident and most marvel ous escape was In the attempt to loop the loop at St. Louis. Refs. who had never looped the loop, consented to make the ride. He made the first turn of the giant wheel but in the second round the ma chine misguided and Refs was hurled into the air.
 His nose was broken, the flesh was llt- erally torn from his left cheek both his arms were broken many of the small bones in his hands were Splintered while his entire body showed the marks of the great fall.
 He was hastily taken to hospital. where the surgeons, after careful exam ination, found that seventy-two bones had been fractured. while the body was cov- cred with bruises from head to foot Some of the doctors gave him an hour to live but at the end of eighteen weeks he left the hospital. hardly showing a trace of the accident.
 In 1896. when he was riding a wheel down the chutes. going at an estimate ed speed or JU miles an nDuf, une machine swerVed and he shot Into the air. His left arm was broken. but his other injuries were slight. The next season he tried the same trick riding backward. Result. right arm broken and a rib fractured.
 In 1889. when riding down Cass avenue a full speed Refs dashed into d street car. Spectators turned their heads that they might not see him killed. When they looked again he was scrambling to his feet Total injuries, right wrist sprained and face bruised
 Two years prior to his Reis had figured in similar accident. He was racing his wheel when he suddenly came upon a grand avenue car.
 Unable either to stop or turn his ma chine he took daring chance and shot his wheel straight ahead in an effort 10 beat the car to the crossing. Instead of beating the car Reis plunged into the fender, one of the old-fashloned flat va riety.
 The wheel, instead of stopping when 1t struck the fender continued to roll and the machine and rider sailed gracefully over the fender to the other side of the street. The motorman the while was yainly trying to stop tho car For a mo- ment the passengers were awe-stricken. then the humor of the situation appealed to them, and they laughed heartily as
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Refs, who was smiling and uninjured, rode down the street
 In diving from hundred-foot pedestal at the Lagoon in Cincinnati in 1s95, ne misiudged the tank below and his body was hurled against the side of the recep- tacle His body fell into the tank and he was dragged out unconscious. Left shoul- der bruised, otherwise not injured. As member of the Morgan Wright bicycle team In 1905, he figured In more than twenty spills, but escaped without serious injury On one occasion, at Louisville. Ky. he was guiding squad in a ten-mile handicap on the three lap track at Fountain Ferry park.
 On the last turn Refs was unable to guide the machine around the bend and the quadricycle. making speed of nearly a mile minute, dashed over a twenty foot embankment and sailed in the air for distance of fifty Sect. None of the riders was injured.
 By way of variety. Refs was shot at in a street fight. Though the firing was at close range, the bullet merely grazed his right ear
 In lighting a gas machine in his bowling alley a year ago he ignited four gallons of gasoline which exploded with such great force that buildings for blocks around felt the shock. Although ReIs stood within a few feet of the explosion, only the hair on the back of his head was scorched The building in, which the ex plosion occurred was wrecked
 Refs has not appeared in public for nearly three years Personally, he pre- fers the show business and would be eager to take a few more chances with grim death if II were not for the objec- tions of his family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
The New Northwest.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
 z People who wish to keep in stock such Information as they are likely to need are advised to get new maps of northern and western Canada and study them. It is getting to be necessary to know how the land lies up there. and what boun- daries and names it has acquired so far, and where the rivers run and what they are called There are new provinces, some of them very recently delimited. into which settlers are crowding by thousands and in which new wheat-land is being broken by the hundred thousand acres. MT J. J. Hill has planned for immediate Construction a railroad running westward from Winnipeg to the Pacific, and to be extended eastward from Winnipeg to Duluth. The primary purpose of this hoad Is not to handle transcontinental traffic but to carry to market the products of the region that it passes Through. Eight railroad companies are said to have charters to build railroads to Hudson Bay. MT. Hill is reputed to have one of them. Ships can sail in and out of the great bay from the first of July till the middle of October. and there are serious thoughts in many minds about shipping grain to Europe by that route That project is still in the specula- tive stage. but the grain to be shipped already exists. and is raised in quantities that increase enormously every year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
STRIDES BY THE SOUTH.
Brilliant Future is Before the Pros
 porous Southern States.

F rom the Wall Street Summary.
 That the south is a prosperous and rap- idly developing division of our great public is freely conceded That 1t is independent and self-sustaIning section is not so generally admitted. yet such seems to be the case. Statistics in finance, agri- Culture. manufacture and commerce go far to confirm this d fact.
 In the decade between 1S96 and 1905 bank deposits in the south increased 2I6 per cent almost double the gain of the east in the same period. In 1906 the banks of the nation had $6 t0.0D0 more in de- pOsits than In 1896. Of thls amount the south contributed more than one-thrd In the year l905. the increase in deposits over the preceding year was Sl2S. S!S This almost equaled the gain shown In the four years bet ween ls96 and l@o when the total was s153. .S5s .S29. In manufactures her gain has been noteworthy. Alabama. Arkansas, Georgia. Louisiana. Kentucky. Tennessee and Texas are the great man ufacturing states of the south. and twen- ty years ago enjoyed an aggregate in- vested capital of $li7.U10Oo. In 1900 this had increased to S5720OD.0J0 In lsSD man ufactured products from these states totaled only s22l .ooO0co: in 1go s73,, vO When the figures for l906 are computed the valuation ls expected to reach the $L0Oo 0O0.o00 mark,
 Nor Is this all. Agriculture has always done much for the land of cotton" but in recent years from products and prop erty have shown immense increases. The valuation of farm property in 1890 $l347. 000.0O0 more than a decade earlier Diversity. also. marks it's agricultural yield. The annual production of corn ex- ceeds JO0.Go0.000 bushels: rice, 2O0.0O0 o0o pounds: butter. over 20o,000,o00 pounds. and cotton last year, 100000 bales. Poultry exceeds s25.o0oe0o annually and eggs ap- age surprising improvement is shown. In 1880, this was tabulated at B,f62 s4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
The Fall of Jenkins.

From Harper's Weekly.
 William Allen White, the Kansas edi- tor. in telling of the troubles of d city editor in drilling green reporters. was reminded of an amusing case that came within his own observation
 There Is one thing you must remem- Der above everything else" said the city editor of a St. Louis paper to d new re- porter. and that is: tell In the first few lines what your story is about-in other words. give the substance at once. Then follow with recital of the facts. and conclude with interviews with the people concerned That Is the only order ly way of writing your story"
 lSe new man gave close attention to this lesson. the result of which was that he handed in that night news item reading AS follows:
 Rufus Jenkins carpenter. slipped and fell in Vine street yesterday and spraned his ankle badly.
 MT. Jenkins was walking along Vine street when suddenly his feet slipped from under him and he fell. spraining one of hls ankles.
 When seen by Il reporter. he said: I was walking along Vine street. when in some way my feet slipped from under me. and fell heavily to the sidewalk. spraining one of my ankles
 MT. Frank Fuller sald was walk Ing behind Mir. Jenkins on Vine street when saw him slip and fall to the side walk When 1 assisted him to rise he told me that he had sprained one of his ankles.
 .'Dr. Thomas Rich, who attended Mr. Jenkins said: MT. Jenkins has A badly sprained ankle due to a fall in Vine street. He will be laid up for some time.
 MT Jenkins could not attend last nights meeting of. the carpenters union. The president. in converting the meeting. expressed regret that Mir. Jenkins could not attend. as he had slipped and fallen in ''''" street, spraining one of his ankles" fi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

s950-One Broom house on hill in Tuxedo, on pike road; pay s1OO cash, balance $l5 per month"; this is "eineh."
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A Tuberculosis Cure.
From Harper's s Weekly.

From Hampers Weekly
 A great deal of interest has been aroused in the medical world by the ex- periments being conducted by Dr. Giusep- De Carcano and other Italian experts in the use of the Behring system of vac cination as a cure for consumption. While the experiments have not yet been com pleted enough data have been collected to indicate that the investigators are at least on the right track and number of cures have been effected.
 The treatment consists principally of the injection by means of an ordinary hypodernic syringe. of a serum Into the veins of the patient. This serum is short ly to be placed at the disposal of physi- clans generally in order that 1t may be tested in the largest number of cases and under as many conditions as pos sible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

s15Oo-Two 50xl40 lots; 17th st. and Ave. l. a corner si6o-Two 5Ox15O lots at Booker City, near college. S6oo-One lot, No 1, block 5S, Ensley Highlands
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Notes and Personals.
Even at Last.
m the Columbus Dispatch.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
 "In the dark still hours some one shouted 'Burglar!"
 You don't say?"
 "Yes, and then we all rushed out of our apartments and down the steps. In the shadows of corner we saw a crouching fgure.9 .-ls s4.lfl
 And we pummeled him until he was black and blue. Then the lights were turned on and everybody gave a sheer that could be heard a block"
 "How exciting. And it was really the burglar?''
 No: it was the janitor We had made mistake, but everybody got the chance to settle up an old grudge"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

Thousands of settlers from the United
 States have crossed the border north of the Dakotas, and report that they like the country. the land. the neighbors the government, and the prospect, and expect to transfer their allegiance and become subjects of King Edward It is a new thing, this crowding of United States Americans into Canada, though the re verse has been going on for generations. It seems good thing for the emigrants, and nobody objects
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

acres; in 1890. sS, ,G63oOS acres and in 1sOo. 10I, ,753,Gl9 acres.
 Such returns are marvellous and mag nlficent Every American will realize therefrom the dominant possibilities that await labor in the former Confederacy. and will rejoice if the efforts now being made to gain for the south an influx of desirable immigrants prove successful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

Attractive ads. are illustrated. Let the Gawk make your lllustrationA Ane-ierald Building.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-01-19

M. x. Armstrong, pioneer resi-
dent OF the state and a leading
citizen of st. James, died at thu
home of q nephew at Albert Lea last
week Thursday afternoon.
The new factory for the manufac
ture OF plug tobacco at the Saltwater
penitentiary is in operation, aod
will turn out 300 pounds weekly
It is intended for the use 81
prisoners. "
c. M. spargue, Sank Center, is
candidate tor the republican nomi'
nation for lieutenant governor.
Things are getting in their deadly
work at st. Paul. Miss Annie
Meyers was knocked down and
choked into insensibility near he1
home on Concord street Tuesday
evening. Ap. roacning pedestrians
frightened her assailant and he
escaped.
The buildings aud machinery of
tho Capitol City Furniture Co., St..
Paul, were destroyed by fire We'd
nesday morning.
Lloyd Porter, a farm hand at
Allen, lost an arm in q corn shred.
der. Tuesday.
The Northwestern Lum herman g
association held its annual meeting
at Minneapolis, Wednesday. An
increase of prices is pedicted.
Six young boys Of Mankato filed
themselves full of yellow literature,
organized a club known as the
Bloody Six" and on Sunday took
freigt train headed for St. Paul in
search of frontier adventures. They
we're rounded up by the St. Paul
police without loss of life.
The government has presented
the state of Minnesota with an
island in Cass lake for park pur'
poses.
While alone in the house little
son of Il. Hendrix, at Faribault, set
fire to his clothing and was burned
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-01-19
! ) death last Thursday.

Is death last Thursday X.
P. Dahiln, a farmer at Cokato, fell
upon the ice and fractured his skull,
, death resulting in q short time.
Granville is agitating the question
of waterw0rks. .sEs fgg.sr:
1t cost Sherburne county s94S to
hang Crawford, the box car
murderer. : 29.s $ssss@
Fergus Falls reports . profit of
81, 500 from it's municipal lighting
plant.
+ Five new towns have been plated
in Beltrami county.
|, Mrs. Henrietta Schlegel, aged so,
was struck by a train while cross
I ing the tracks of the Chicago &
Great Western at Mankato Friday.
and was killed.
St. Paul's Episcopal church at
Winona is to celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of it's organization
May 10th. :ss sts5,
Wright county paid &215 wolf
bounty last year. lila.
William Williams, convicted OF
the murder of John Keller, will be
hanged in the Ramsey county Jail
February 18th. es&
A full grown wolf was killed on
4th street Minneapolis, Saturday.
Now listen to st. Paui$shout about
the country village.
st Cloud is short city attorney.
He was last seen in Minneapolis but
no further trace as been secured.
James Doran, leading St. Paul
stockbroker has failed. Liabilities
100000. ,. -
Thomas Conley, Of DEBORAH,
Iowa, was burned to death in a fire
which destroyed business block at
st. Paul, Sunday evening. He was
sleeping off the effects OF 9 drunk in
a hallway.
The Indians on the .Leech Lake
reservation are on short ratiOns and
are threatened with starvation.
.L,f#ss
A new National bank is. being
organized at Elmore. .. s..
James Conley, half breed Indian,
suicided by taking poison, at Man
kato, Sunday.
The Union school building at L.
Sueur was destroyed by fire. Sun
day. Origin of fire unknown.
In order to retain tine county seat
the business men of Henderson
propose building an ele;ric rsllroad
to connect with the NJ. & Str rail-
way at Arlington. s$s==y
Lyle is to build $780, school
house this season. =.
ripestone young men have or
ganized social club.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-01-19
STATE.
NEWS

At Otsego Monday afternoon
Willard A. Brandt shot aud killed
his wife and her friend Justin
Adams and then co mitted suicide.
Brandt and his wife had family
troubles and she mad threatened to
leave with Adams. A little four
years old boy is left alone in the
world.
Thomas F. Murphy, bookkeeper
for D. Marks & Son. St. Paul, is
charged by tho police with having
raised a $l.O0 check to $1,9s7 and
securing the cash. Murphy is not
to b. found.
Nels Grenberg, who was on trial
at Fergus Falls, charged with muir
der, has been acquitted on the
grounds of insanity and has been
committed to the asylum for insane.
A Danish colonization society has
purchased the entire town site Of
Partridge, in Pine county, besides a
large amount of adjacent land.
Rev. Father Ravoux, aged 81
years, the oldest Catholic priest in
the northwest is dying at st..
Joseph's hospital at St. Paul.
Mary Ruker, the eleventh victim
of the West hotel fire, died at the
Minneapolis city hospital Tuesday
morning.
The 5Srd annual meeting OF the
Masonic grand lodge of Minnesota,
was held at st. Paul this week.
An effort to secure the Sunday
closing of saloons is in progress at
WinOna.
The Glencoe electric light plant
was damaged by fire Monday.
The loss is slight.
Tuberculosis is prevalent among
the cattle of Sibley county.
Rock county stockbreeders have
a county organization, which held
an interesting annual meeting last
week -"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-01-19
Odds and Ends.

What if it we're possible TO graft
as profitably in the orchard as il:
public. positions9 .-.
If Uncle Sam had to make a living
off the land he has left he'd have
hard scatching. Il.
j. D. Rockefeller is pitiful ex--s
ample of how wretchedly poor,
enormous wealth makes a man. sss ssss
The dairy COW is the only repre- I
sentative of the bovine race that
can look hog in the face and say.
II am as profitable as you.' s
There are enough OF the microbes
of good citizenship in the country to
destroy the graft plague if they will
grow right active.
A correspondent asks Are there.
any honest life insurance COM
panies2" There are many not yet
found out, is the only really safe;
answer. :s
Up to date women average more
honest than men; but there may be-
a change in this; women are said to-
be SURPRISING men in scholarship In
universities.
Said u man after a two month u
experience with $4,000 motorear:
II wish I bad put half the money IN
fine team and carriage, I'D have
got deal more pleasure and salts
faction out Of Them" There are
Others.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-01-19

( To Remove Objects From Eye. *s
p When anything gets into the eyexit
Is a good plan to dip clean feather
in sweet almond oil, raise the lid. and
brush the feather across the eye sur.
face toward the nose. S