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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

has been taken by the screening OF
cisterns, which serve as the breeding
places for hundreds of millions OF the
stegomyia or house mosquito Whlcn
is the most elusive as well as the most
dangerous species of the mosquito
tribe. Last summer in the nsnt
against the fever, which resulted In a
general screening of cisterns, IL was
noted that in many districts or the
city the mosquitoes became SO scarce
that people could sit on their balco-
MES Of evenings without suffering an
noyance or discomfort. 1t is only
question of a few years we assume
when the swamp and salt-marsh lands
around New Orleans will be drained
and made uninhabitable Tor mosqul-
toes OF all descriptions.
This work will be undertaken Tor
commercial, if not for sanitary rea-
sons. 1t is bound to come with the
expansion of the city, which is grow
ing with remarkable rapidity, but
there are other considerations that
promise such a result. In the first
these lands are remarkably fertile and
highly desirable for the purpose or
cultivation, for the production of veg
etables, fruits, rice and other mar
ketable crops. In the old days, when
the digging of canals was done by
hand, the drainage Of such a large
area of land was made impossible by
reason of the expense involved, but
in these days of improved machinery
a mammoth steam shovel would eat
its way through miles of marsh in a
few months, leaving in its wake ca
nails that would reclaim vast stretches
Of virgin soil of wonderful richness.
The reclamation Of these swamps and
marshes means the determination of
the mosquito, as New Jersey is now
demonstrating.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08
VOx P0PULI
z 2
THE VALUE OF GOOD
ROADS TO THE FARMER

Editor Pensacola Journal:
An easy way for the Florida farm
ers to make money and his land worth
from $500 to $4,000 per acre more
is by building good roads in every
county and township.
The pushing man from other Sec
tons who is seeking investment al
ways wants a good road to drive on
and will not be satisfied with any
thing else. It will be worth to you
ali it costs twice over.
Free mail delivery is assured if
your roads are hard and your teams
and wagons will last twice as long
If you want a purchaser for your
farm surrounded by good drives, he is
always waiting with the cash.
When you drive to market you can
haul a full load and haul it easily
and with good roads your farm is ac-
cessible to the world.
You and your family are proud of
your home and you will find that
home in this very desirable climate
surrounded with good roads. the best
place under the sun
G. w. JOHNSTON.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08
THE FIGHT ON THE
STATEHOOD BILL.
New Orleans States.

Until Friday next when a vote will
be taken the joint staUehOOH bill will
occupy the attention of the Senate to
the exclusion of other measures,
though there may be one or two
speeches made on the railroad rate
bill. The statehood measure is in
charge Of Senator Dick, of Ohio, who
wishes TO make an immense state of
OF over 1850 square miles out of
the territories of Arizona and New
Mexico, necessitating the citizen trav-
cling 500 miles in order to reach the
state capital So far the only argu-
ment that Senator Dick has been able
TO advance in opposition TO seperate
statehood for the territories is their
small population as shown by the cen
sus of 1900. But he and other ad-
yOcates object TO an amendment pro-
viding for two states when each OF
the territories shall have a population
sufficient to allow it two members o.
Congress under the apportiOnment
that may then prevail In answer to
the complaint that the proposed new
state will be unweilCy in size it is
said that il will not be as large as
Texas. but it is we'll 10 bear in mind
the fact that Texas is compact. its
population is homogeneous, and
moreover Texas has the right to sep
.arate herself into five states whenever
she shall see fit. In this connection
the Washington Post says:
why not give the new state the
right 10 separate itself into two states
when each Of the present territories
shall have 100000 population The
argument of the Single-star-Or-buster
is that the population must perpetual
~ remain stationary. They dwell on
barren wastes" that must forever be
wilderness. The same was said of
Kansas-Of regions that now support
a teeming population, with farm lands
worth 500 an acre.
There are immense areas of desert
in both Arizona and New Mexico that
will some day be as fruitful as a gar
den. FOrty-Odd years ago Colorado
was considered a far more hopeless
case than either Arizona or New Mex
leo is to-day; but Colorado is becOm-
ing a great agricultural state, as
Arizona or New Mexico soon would
be If granted statehood.
But suppose Senator Dick is right.
What harm can come from inserting
the provision Of separate statehood if
population should warrant il? His ar
gument is there will be no such pOpu-
latiOn. Very well; then there would
be no separate statehood, for one
depends on the other. Again, the
foundation stone OF our system is
home rule. What objection can any
one raise to the proposal of leaving
the question 10 the people as proposed
in the Foraker amendment"
II is evident that there is "a niger
in the wOOdpile" of quite a prOnOuncea
political complexion. If Arizona and
New Mexico should come in as sep
arate states it would mean four new
Democratic members of the United
States Senate whereas joint statehood
viii give only two. Politics are at
The bottom of the scheme from first
to last. The Republicans think il will
give them a good chance TO capture
The two senatOrships. but if one may
Judge from the feeling the scheme has
aroused the political engineers are
likely to be hoist by their own petard.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08
Candidates for Office
Are Misunderstood.

Since the dates Of the Florida pri-
maries were announced by the Demo
cratic State Executive Committee
candidates have begun to bob up in
considerable numbers, particularly in
counties on the peninsula and, as
usual they are coming in for their
full share Of newspaper criticism.
Miami is somewhat suspicious of
Office seekers, but Jacksonville takes
the position that they are a harmless
lot and greatly misunderstood. This
Is what the Jacksonville Times-UniOn
has TO say on the subject:
The day of the candidate is near
at hand. and the Miami Metropolis
puts MS all on our guard by the fol
lowing paragraph: Whenever with
the next two months, you meet the
best fellow you ever Saw-the fellow
with the smile that won't come OF
and the shake that is hearty. who
wants 20 know all about your health.
solicits the welfare Of the wife and
children. and who volunteers the
information that If there is anything
you want al any time don't fail to
come to him for it-dOn't get
frightened. and have him run in for a
lUnatic, for he is entirely harmless
and not crazy-just one of the vol
luminous number OF candidates for
county and state Office now floating
around and about the community hunt
ing for your vote" We believe the
candidate is misunderstood. His in
terest in all mankind Is not always
8 vote hunting interest. He simply
gets acquainted with many people he
never knew before. finds them inter
eSted in the election in which he is
interested: il they are polite, thinks
they Intend voting for him, and likes
them for IL; IS confident OF election,
knowing his supporters. and not
knowing those who viii vote against
him: is generally happy and loves
everybody. We believe the sham and
the humbug is much oftener the voter
than the candidate. How many times
men let a candidate think they will
vote for him when they intend TO vote
against him? As a result. the Candi-
date is friendly and happy until the
votes are counted. then he is often
something else. and often has cause
% be.
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CONVICTS SHOULD BE
SELF-SUPPORTlNG.
Birmingham Lelger.
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There is no principle of economy
more clear than that every prisoner
in the penitentiary should be forced
TO earn his own support and repay the
tax payer for the cost he has brought
on them. 1t is the bad men of the
state who compel the tax payers to
build prisons and maintain wardens
It is the criminals who compel us to
maintain a costly judiciary system to
try them. 1t is they who compel us
to pay jurors immense sums every
month. 1t is they who compel us to
serve on juries. They should pay the
whole cost. The criminal courts,
the juries. the jails and penitentiary
are all made necessary by those who
commit the crimes.
During the month Of February the
convicts of Alabama earned for the
good people of the state $65,34O. That
goes a good ways toward paying the
cost they have brought upon u.s. It is
a gain of $4,000 over the receipts
from February Of last year. That was
the shortest month of the year and
the receipts indicate a greater return
for all the months. That will bring
the receipts close up to S1,000,000 for
the year.
1t is to be regretted that the con-
yicts have to compete with free labor,
but there is no way to avoid it. The
tax payers have committed no crime
that they should not be compelled to
support a lot of criminals in idIeness.
That is not to be thought Of There
is no line Of work for criminals in
this state in which they would not
compete with free men. 1t is essen
tial that they support themselves and
ray the cost of their trial
The criminal is the one man who
has no right to complain of his fate.
Not one in a thousand Of them but
could have staid out of the penit en-
tiary If they had wanted to. Going
to the penitentiary is largely a matter
Of choice. With the state receiving a
million dollars a year from the men
who commit the crimes, the tax bur
dens of those who do not commit
crimes, will be materially lightened
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08
LEGAL ADVERTISER ETs,
sHERIFF's saE

BY virtue Of an execution issr,.5
Of the Circuit Court Ct Fsca-. gu
County, Florida, wherein Bagds ,i', -. ~
Factory Company is plaintn and n go 81
Gray is defendant, I have Levied ~ -. "
and will sell at public Out,rv in 80 ~.
of the Court House door IN tho I'm, III
Of Pensacola, to the highest bi5 ,I
for cash on Monday, the md d. - :,
April, A. d. 1906, during the i.. !,
hours of sale, the following descr-r7[a "a,
real estate tO-wit: Lots / - q,
IA and 10 in block Is, New eirv -, H.
same lying and being in Escsm5t,
County, Florida. J. C.. Van d..
Sheriff Of Escambia County Florfl.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08
J. E. ABERCRONBF
r. P. REESE.
B. L. BARCLAY.
w. K. ROBINSON.
GEO T MORGAN

We, y. r. ADeTcrOmble, X. p. Rpl.s
B. L. Barclay. w. X. Robinson ;-i
Geo. T. Morgan hereby make aap-fs.
ton for letters patent incorporate,
us into a corporation in acc0rdg-S
with the laws Of the State OF FLaf5
under the following charter:
1. The name of the corporation sal
be The Robinson Livery and IND,
taking Company, and its princes
place Of business Pensacola, FIg-t
2. The general nature Of the 5-s
ness shall be that OF buying. se.-,
and trading in horses, mules. vealss
and harness and stable supplies and
the doing Of general livery, feed and
sale stable business; the embalm.-,
of the dead, the directing Of funeras
and the doing Of a general undsrtas.
ing business and the buying and SELL
ing of funeral and undeTtabers SUP
plies; the owning holding, leasing and
renting Of all real estate and O-he-
property incident, necessary or con
Venient to such business.
3. The amount of capital stock
shall be Five Thousand ami Four Hun
dred Dollars ($5,4OO.OO) divided into
ffty-four shares Of Ona Hundred Dol
lars ($1OO.OO) each, payable in prop
erty and accounts the value of which
has been fixed by the incorporates az
Five Thousand and Four Hundred Dol
lars.
4. The said corporation shall ex's.
for ninety-nine (99J years.
5. The business Of the company .5
to be conducted by a president, a vice.
president and a secretary-traasU-C
and a board Of three 90 directors.
The directors shall be elected annual
" at a meeting of the stockholders q
the second Monday of January Of
year. and the directors so elected shall
on the same day elect the presidr1-
the vice-president and the secrerarr-
Until the first election w..
K. Robinson shall be president. B. J..
Vice-presidenJ and Geo. r..
ecretary-tTeasurer and the
board Of dictors shall consist Of these
persons.
s. The highest amount of indebted
ness to which the corporation shall at
du4 LlLlE SuDJbCt lLSC4l ~ o-AnAl AIC 4 -f a
Dollars, (S5.OOO0O).
z. The names and residences Of tla
and the amount Of s-oe-
for by each is as fOllows.
J. E. Abercrombie, Pensacola, F.J--
da, Ten Shares.
R. P. Reese, Pensacola, Florida Ten
B. L. Barclay. Pensacola, FIo-.i.,
Ten Shares.
w. K. Robinson, Pensacola, Fl--.5a,
Eighteen Shares.
Geo. T. Morgan, Pensacola, F-o-a,
Six Shares.
(Signed)
J. e. ABERCRONBE
r. P. REESE
B. L. BARCLAY.
W. K. ROBINSON.
GEO. T. MORGAN.
State Of Florida, County Of Esoam1a
Before the undersigned, person.
appeared J. E. AbercrOmbie r. p.
Reese, B. L. Barclay, W. X. Robins
and Geo. T. Morgan. each a. w-,-
acknowledged their signature 10 20
foregoing instrument and thai re
same is their act and deed for --s
purposes set forth.
In testimony whereof l have aa-a-
unto set my hand and fixed my oii0,- I.
seal this Sth day Of February, 4. D.
1906.
(Signed) J. J. HOOIQN.
fSaaO
Notary Public, State at Large. CON-
mission expires May s, 1901.
15febOaw4W
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NEW JERSEYS
MOSQUITO WAR
New Orleans States.
3 : q. ). ). -

In New Jersey the fierce, man-eat-
ing mosquito is keeping large areas of
good land from cultivation, deprecat-
ing property and retarding settlement
of various districts 10 such an extent
that the state has proclaimed a war Of
determination and is convinced that
by the use Of scientific methods a de-
cisive victory will be scored over the
pestiferous insects. II has already
been demonstrated by experiments
thar mountaineering marshes can
be drained at comparatively small
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

will be in the nature of an embargo.
It is scarcely in the power of the otner
sections, even if so disposed, to estab-
fish a blockade.
JOHN S. BEARD.
Pensacola, Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

The Dublin Times says: The lid
s. 20 be put on and battered down in
Savannah"
Shouldn't think the authorities
would let EN- batter IL down after it
was once in place.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

Andy Hamilton, of insurance scan.
dal fame. only stayed in this country
long enough to catch an outgoing
steamer for Europe. And, incidental
~. he better stay there this time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

IL Tom Lawson can, as he says,
serve a subpoena upon John d. Rookie
Teller. he should proceed with the
GOOD work and not stand away of
talking about it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

Wonder IL Miss Ida Tarbell couldn I
tel where Deacon Rockefeller has Sc
GREETED himself
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

Wise husbands viii soon begin to
save I'D their spare change 10 pay
for that Easter bonnet.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

Eseambia Lodge, No. IS, ?. & p !,
Special communicate
"A Escambia Lodge, No. -, T. 70. -
XXX A. NJ, will be neld Fr--
" evening, March 9th. a. o..
O'Clock. Work in N. " Dr--
Visiting brethren frateTnally iny..s'.
G. d. BETER. .,
W. G. DAILY, W. -
Secretary.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08
"NosE AROUND"

In your Attic and Cellar;
spend an hour making an in
ventory Of the things you find
that are worth less TO you than
ready money" would be worth;
write descriptions of each OF
the articles in a series of
"FOR SALE ADS"
and turn them into money"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08
Pensacola, st. Andrews and
Gulf Sfeams hip Go.
STEAMER TARPoN

VIC. BARROW, Master
FTRsT-CLAE9 PASSENGER AM
FREIGHT SERVICE
Between
PENSACOLA, MOBILE. APALACHE
COLA. cARRA5ELLE. ST. AN
pREWs, MlLLVILLE.
And all points on ST. andrews Bay
carrabelle ard ApaiaShisoia-
SCHEDULE
Leave Pensacola Sunday, s:SV
m for Mobile, Ala
ieavs Pensacola, TUESDAY. $3.50
for st. Andrews, Melville, ApF
iacaicoIa, Carrabelle and inte'mea.a.'
points. ,-.,., .,,rv n
]. r SAUNDERS,
e. R. COBB, Prs'iasD
Gen. Fri. and Pass Agt
Pensacola. Fla
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

It is hardly probable that there viii
be a dearth Of grader sass next year
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

because Congress, in its wisdom has
decided to economic by cutting of
the expense Of free seed distribution.
A large proportion Of the seeds here
tOfOre sent out went TO people who
had no use for them, and, if reports
are true, the result from the seed
planted was anything but gratifying
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

The LandIady-Coffee wasn't known I'd
the ancient Greeks.
The Boarder-Then, to Judge by this
brown liquid in my cup, 1 should say
some Of them used to board here.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

That Apalachicola sea serpent is
about due to put in his annual appear
ance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08

Notice is hereby given that On No..
day, March 18th, 1906, application nil
be made to the Governor Of the S.a-s
of Florida for letters patent for Cha
ter of incorporation, a copy where,
is herewith and hereunder pubIsbaf
Signed:
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PENSACOLA FLORIDA, THURSDAY MORNING MARCH s, 1906
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-06

aboard the car and there was hope.
When he reached the city the train
men offered to call an ambulance for
him, but he said he felt strong enough
10 get home alone. He got upon his
FEET and, resisting with all his will q
disposition to faint, staggered out Of
the car. When he had passed the gate
without being stopped he seemed to
gather new vigor, walked briskly out
Of the station and boarded trolley.
He has never been heard from by
the police. but his friends aver that
he and his wife are living under an
assumed name in foreign land.
CHARLOTTE SHERWOOD.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-06
MAY PREVENT OPENING
OF cOLvILLE RESERVATION

Washington. Feb. 5.-Ar attempt
by the law firm of Marsh ant Gordon
to secure from the Indians of the Col
Vile reservation fee of $3.50, 900 cash
for Work i'll opening the south half of
the reservation will probably defeat
the opening of the reservation, as Sec.
rotary Hitchcock has refused to permit
the lawyers to share in the Indian
money as the contract they made with
the Indians has expired. The Sec
Rotary will use his influence to prevent
the passage of the bill.
A woman makes a rival happy by
envylug her.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-06
DUMB MAN REGAlNS
SPEECH ON DEATH BED

Fargo, n. D, Feb. 5.-Dumb for
three fourths Of his life. Phillip
Sohell, a former resident of Moore
head. Mimi, recovered his speech the
last few hours of his life and spent
his dying moments in bitterest de-
nunciation of his physicians and at.
Gen5ants.
Schell lost his speech when sever
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-06

years old: through excitement and
fright and lived the next twenty one
years of his life in silence. The re-
markable recovery of his speech just
before death astonished his attendants,
tut they were still further surprised
when he began to abuse them.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-11-22
ITO BE Continued
Burns Pot of Gold.

Robert Burns, the sweet singer OF
Scotland, didn't bury a pot of gold I'M
der his humble Ayrshire cottage to be
stumbled on by his descendants. He
lived poor and died poor. But he tuck
ed away his noble thoughts in writ
ing. In the end the most of them got
into print. Verses written to be seen
by all who might chance upon them
and letters intended for private read
ing were scattered all over Scotland.
England and the continent. This was
Burns pot of gold. "Must thought be
lettered and sold for bread?" asks a
despairing American poet. Burns
gave his thoughts to the winds and
went without bread
Recently J. P. Morgan paid $4,000
duties to bring two volumes of the
gathered manuscripts of Burns into
America. leaving it to be supposed that
they were valued at $4,000 in Europe
and are to be held at $4,000 here.
That much gold would have constitut-
ed the second generation of Burnses
millionaires and the poet himself a
multimillionaire as fortunes are reck-
oned today, But it is said that per-
haps 100000 was expended in the long
search for these treasures. So first and
last Burns souvenirs have been a YER
liable mine for the enrichment Of for
tunate holders and discoveries. Scot
land feels like defrauded heir about
the transfer Of so much Of her posses
sions to America. Doubtless the poet
would have preferred that they remain
in the land where they were written
and be held as too sacred ever to be
mixed up with the dollar mark.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-11-22
CHAPTER XIV.

Y UPON becoming president Of
strong bank and the close as
| sociate of Hallam and Stat
~ ford in all their undertakings,
Guilford Duncan became at once fac
tor to be recognized and reckoned with
in all enterprises with which he had to
do. He had brains, character anG in
domitable energy, and these had al
ready won for him the respect Of the
men Of affairs. Now that he had con-
troll Of money also, his power and in
duence were multiplied many fold.
Very early in his career as banker
Guilford Duncan discovered that half
the merchants in Cairo We're young
men Of little capital who were stag
gering under loads Of debt on which
they were paying ruinous rates Of in
tereSt.
1t was easy enough for him to pro-
tect his bank by gradually reducing its
loans to such men as these. but the
prudence thus exercised added to the
number Of his enemies. He cared lit
tie for that SO long as he knew his
course to be right.
Looking farther afeld, he saw that
like condition Of things existed all over
the west and was the inspiration Of
much greater undertakings than those
of the merchants and shopkeepers.
He used often to talk of these things
with Hallam.
you're quite right" said that saga
cious fnancier. ''The country has gone
on big financial drunk, and of course
the headache will come when the spree
is over. But it won't be over for a
considerable time to come, and in the
meanwhile the country is getting a
good deal of benefit from it.
FORTUNATELY it is taking a better
course than such sprees usually do.
Ordinarily the existence of an inflated,
superintendent and deprecated curren-
cy results in wild orgy Of stock gam
bling, grain gambling, cotton gambling
and all the rest of it. There is no more
of good in that-in fact, there is far
more of harm in it to the country-than
there would be if everybody went to
betting at roulette or faro. It makes
the lucky gamblers rich and the I'M
lucky ones poor, but it produces moth
ing, even incidentally. This time the
gambling is taking more productive
form. Instead Of betting on market
fluctuations men are putting money in
to factories, mines, mills and railroads,