The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-22
NEWS AND VIEWS
FROM STATE PAPERS.
sveneali outdone.


! Trilby and made her sing like an an
! gel. That was DuMaurier's romance
but fact was ever stranger that fic-
tiOn and the detection of the murder
! ers of the Christmas family in jack
! son county, this state, few days ago
puts the Trilby incident in the shade.
! The detective who says he has I'M
earthed the criminals and solved the
bloody mystery, had been concealed
near the scene of the crime for sew
eral weeks, hiding in the woods ia
| the guise of an escaped murderer
] from Georgia, and hiring a negro to-
/ bring him his meals. He suspected
/ the negro knew something of the
! crime, and with the aid of conceal
| el TentrilOquist, talked to the negro
through a mule. The negro's super
stitiOn was aroused and ne told the
details Of the murder to the mule.
/ The arrest of Will Christmas and
| Walter Holland followed. The MUIR
der of the Christmas family was one
| Of the most atTOciOus crimes ever
committed in this country, and until
recent developments, has been COM
piete mystery The affair created so
much indignation that nearly $4,000!
is on deposit in the DOthan banks
as reward for the arrest of. the muir
derers.-Live Oak Democrat.
Chance for New Industry.
The New Orleans Board of Health
offers five. dollars for the first mos
quito Of the variety which conveys
yellow fever found in that city, three
dollars for the the second one, one
dollar for the third and five cents for
each one thereafter. This will prob
ably result in a mosquito raising in
austry in that city.-Bristol Bee.
Why Price is High.
Bear in mind that if you should !
plant a few sweet potatoes now
they would probably mature in time
to bring you a dollar a bushel in
next August But there are some |
people who wouldn't dig sweet pOta-
toes in August for a dollar a busheL |
The large numbers of that sort of
people may have something to do |
with the scarcity that makes the
price.-Tampa Times.
Deep Water at ApalachicoIa.
Deep water at Apalachicola means |
cheap freight rates for every citizen
living on the rivers above Apalachico- |
la, therefore the project of deepening |
West Pass and the channel to the |
docks in Apalachicola is of great in, /
terest to an extensive population. The |
Times trusts that the party of distin- /
guished visitors who were the guests /
of Apalachicola on last Monday, learn /
ed enough while here to convince |
them that the West Pass project is /
not merely a local. project; that if car
ried out to a successful end it cannot /
fail to benefit many thousands of citi- /
zens who today are forced to pay en-
tIrely too much of their income to /
greedy lines of transportation. Con
gTess can make no mistake by sup,
porting to their utmost this deep wa
ter undertaking. Generally speaking,
congressman are like other men, and
The Times believes that it is their de- |
sire to benefit the country if possible. /
1t frequently happens, however, that
many deserving points of the country |
are neglected. Unfortunately Ana
lachicola and West Pass have been on
this unfortunate list'-not from any
desire Of the congressman but rather
from a want of knowledge, perhaps, of !
the true situation. In a measure this
lack Of knowledge was overcome re-
Gently. At any rate we shall believe
this to be true until convinced to the
contrary. -Apalachicola Times.
Niagara Falls Already Ruined.
Niagara Falls are already ruined"
saws the eminent hvdre1lic an oinaarl
Alton d. Adams, in Technical World
Magazine for April. Already enough
water rights have been granted by
New York State and Canada to divert
all the water which now, falling over
both the American and the Canadian
falls, makes the great cataract one
Of the natural wonders of the world
If the capitalists and promoters who
now hold franchises were all to es-
tablish plants. the entire flow of
Niagara river would be diverted into
underground channels; and the
mighty cliffs over which the torrent
now pours in resistless granduer
would be left rugged and bald and
dry"
Mr.. Adams sees small hpOe in the
proposed. treaty between the United
States and Great Britain. He does
not believe that Canada will be a will
ing party to any treaty which will
cut off the great income in enjoys
from leasing Niagara power His
plan is to eXcavate and deepen the
channel leading to the American fall,
which will otherwise run dry long be-
fore the Canadian or Horseshoe Falls
will be at all affected