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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
EMPL OYMENT OF ATTORNEYS
BY |. |. FUND TRUSTEES

The following letter, which is self
explanatory, has been received from
Governor n. B. Broward:
Tallahassee, Feb. II, 1907
Hon. Frank L. Mayes,
Editor Pensacola Journal,
Pensacola, Fla.
Dear Sir: 1t seems to me that you
have not before you the full report OF
the trustees, nor have you brief of
the laws upon the subject of the fund.
Up to the time of the adoption OF
the new constitution, in 1887, the al
tOrney general of the state, who was
trustee, had acted as one of the at
torneys for the trustees, and he had
been paid for the part taken by him
in the several litigations probably 500
900 or more, first and last, but the
writer's of the new constitution saw
Mt to write into it, and the people
adopted il, which constitution provides
as follows:
Sec. 20, Art 4. That no admins
trative officer of the executive depart
ment shall receive any additional COM
pensation beyond his salary, for any
service or services rendered the state
in connection with the Internal I'm
provement Fund, OF other interests
belonging to the state of Florida"
From the adoption of the constitu-
ton, the attorney general has never
acted as attorney for the fund. He
sometimes aids but with no compen-
sation. In the next place, the attor-
ney general is trustee for what? For
all who have any interest in the fund.
He is one of the trustees, having in
charge fund that may belong to the
railroads. or may belong to the people
of the state, and / submit that he
could scarcely be in the best condition
Of mind to treat impartially each of
the interests to the fund. He would
appear as attorney for the trustees
before himself as aTbiter, judge or
trustee, whose duty it is to act i'm
partially
Thinks Fees Not Excessive.
In the next place, I would ask
whether you consider the fees so far
paid to attorneys, in the last four
years, have been excessive, or whether
it indicates parsimony instead 1
herewith enclose to you list of cases
and amounts Of money on lands in
volved in each case. Would the man.
ager of a corporation, or would an in
dividual believe that one lawyer was
sufficient to take care of the several
cases named, involving the several
sums of money and land named? If
you owned the money or land, or be-
lieved that you did, what fees would
you believe or expect would be
charged you, as fair compensation by
attorneys, for legal services in each
case?
Mr. Williams was employed by the
trustees to defend the trustees against
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DevOnShIre Terrace.

Dickens was twenty-seyen years old
when, in 1899, he moved from Doughty
street to Devonshire terrace. George
du Msurier lived for some years in 1
Devonshire terrace In this celebrated
house Dickens wrote no fewer than
ten OF his bookS-''The Old Curiosity
Shop" ''Barnaby Ridge The Christ
mas Carol American Notes" Mar
tin ChgzZIewit," THE Haunted Man"
The Battle of Life" ''Dombey and
Son. The Cricket on the Hearth" and
David Copper6eld." Devonshire ter
race was situated at the corner Of the
Marylebone road and used to be called
the smallest terrace In London.
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ABOUT Us miles long, and averages
about five miles wide; on the west
coast only narrow strip along the
Caioosahatchee river and in the neigh
pornood OF Fl. Myers. Contrast this
with the 120 miles of Intervening nm.
cultivated territory between Fl. Myers
and the East Coast Railroad, by $50
miles long, from north to south.
Three or four states The size of Della
ware could be buried IN the Territory
and not found.
Good Roads Question.
/ notice, also, that some papers ara
discussing this matter from the good
roads standpoint, insisting that the
money be turned into the good roads
fund. I submit that if Chapter 100
Laws If Florida, is perused, it will be
seen that the trustees were created
and the whole of the swamp and over
flowed lands, and all the funds arts
ing therefrom, were irrevocably vest.
ed in the trustees for specific pur-
poses, the chief trust being drainage
and reclamation.
l herewith send you, On small
printed slip, references to the law in
the case. To make the matter plain,
l will say that congress granted the
land 10 the state TO aid the state in
retaining and draining the same The
legislature granted it to the trustees,
and required that they carry out the
work of drainage. Twenty years af-
forwards, the legislature began to
grant lands to the railroads, beyond
the alternate sections within six
miles, and have continued to so grant.
until there are outstanding claims Of
railroad and canal companies of
about twenty-four' million acres; l.
100000 acres have been decided them,
which leaves the balance between that
figure and the other of about 100000
acres. A great deal less than three
million acres of land, and less than
three hundred thousand dollars to pay
the obligation, if obligations they are.
We contend that the drainage and re-
clamation Of the territory comes first.
II we are mistaken, then the lands
and the money belongs to the, claim
ants
1 also herewith enclose to you a
clipping, showing letter written Oy me
about one year ago to quiet the agita-
ton caused by the corporations, who
sought to make it appear that the
money should go to the good roads
fund of the counties.
If there is any point in this matter
that you do not understand, or il
there is any data which you need,
will be glad to furnish it to you. as
I know what your criticism viii be.
with the full information before you.
With kind regards and best wishes,
Yours very truly,
n. B. BROWARD,
Governor.
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The Standard Oil Co.
and the NEWSPAPERS.

In the recent report of the inter
state commerce commission on the
Standard Oil Company the following
remarkable statement was made.
The Standard buys advertising SPACE
in many newspapers, which il fills not
with advertisements. but with reading
matter prepared by agents Kept for
that purpose and paid fer at advertis-
ing rates as ordinary news. The as
sumption is that this literature fur
nishes many of the idcd. touching the
great benefits conferred upon the pub
lie by the Standard Oil Company"
This is a very strong statement. but
doubtless there were facts sufficient to
warrant the commission in making
such charges. What the commission
should have done, however, was TO
publish in that report the names of
the papers who thus sold their news
space at advertising rates.
There are a few. and a very few. of
the newspapers in this country that
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

attempt to defend the Standard Oil
Company in their editorial columns.
This editorial space may be sold at
advertising rates the same aS the
news columns, or it may be generous
ly donated in consideration of the news
space contracted for. In either case
when the public reads these arguments
in the editorial section of paper the
chances are that paper will lose the
confidence of the people, for there are
few in this country who can be lead
to believe in the virtues of this trust
as pictured to them by the agents OF
Rockefeller in the editorial sections OF
these papers.
The question of the sale of news
space is an entirely different PROPOSE
ton. The editorial page is usually I'M
derstood to present only the editors
views, while the news sections repre-
sent facts only; and when these news
sections are sold at advertising rates,
and the people are fooled into believ-
ing these articles as facts, then it is
time these particular papers were ex-
posed
The interstate commerce commits
sion should have given the names of
the papers VINO have been guilty of
thus selling their news space. To say
that there are many who have been
doing this will not help the people to
ascertain which ones they are, and
without knowing this the public gen.
orally can have no way of rebuking
them for their unfair methods.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
The Appointment
of Judge 7. Emmett Wolfe.


judge to fill the position made vacant
by the retirement of Judge Francis B.
Carter, Governor Browar6 has select
ed gentleman whose intellectual
qualifications and legal attachments
are in keeping with the position to
which he has been elevated.
| While the friends of the other can
didate, Mr.. w. H. Watson, of Marian
ma. will be disappointed at the failure
of their favorite TO secure the appoint
ment, both Mr.. Watson and his sup
porters may find satisfaction in the
fact that he is still a young man and
Z that the future must necessarily hold
much in store for one whose ability
and character have already won such
general public recognition.
As Judge Carriers resignation goes
into effect to-day. it is presumed
that Judge Wolfe has qualified, being
in the governors Office at Tallahas-
see, and that he is to-day the judge
of this circuit
The appointment of Judge Wolfe
will be received with satisfaction by
his hundreds of friends in the first cir
cult, and throughout the state He is
an able, dignif1ed, and pleasing man,
and as judge of this circuit will doubt
less show TO splendid advantage, as he
is possessed of an exceptionally bright
legal mind.
The new circuit judge has held many
public positions of honor and trust in
the past He has been the assistant
United States district attorney, and
then district attorney, for the northern
district OF Florida; he has been TO the
state senate from Escambia county,
and has also been a member of the
house of representatives, and in COM
ing back to Pensacola to live he leaves
the position of private secretary to
Governor Broward, position he has
held for the past two years with entire
satisfaction TO the governor, and with
credit to himself.
In this appointment Pensacola gains
both ways. The retiring Judge, Fran
els B. Carter. of Mariana, will move
TO Pensacola in few days, and make
the Deep Water City his future home
To both of these distinguished gentle
men, the one coming back to his old
home. the other coming to make it his
new home, Pensacola bids a hearty
welcome
Few men have ever served Florida
in Official position who have been
more beloved than has Francis B
Carter, and in retiring from official
life the best wishes of his loyal friends
throughout the state go with him. It
Is d pity that in the political life of
Florida there are not more men OF
the type of this jurist-a man ALSO
lutely incoTruptible, who has always
been firm in the discharge of what
he considered 10 be his duties, and
yet with all the tenderness and sin
Cerity Of woman.
Judge Wolfe is confronted with 10
small undertaking in attempting TO fill
with equal satisfaction the place made |
vacant by Judge Carriers retirement.
II will be In many respects d trying /
position, but his friends feel sure that
the new judge will make good and
that his record in the Office will prove
abundant Justification of their support
and confidence.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
lie East Coast Railroad; the L. an.

the East coast railroad; the l.. & N,
in two suits, one for 1,447,000 acres.
and another by the same railroad COM
paHy VS.. Trustees, for s224, 600, amount
of land, 103, 900 acres; Kittel and
others vs.. Trustees; East Coast Land
& Transportation Company's claim
for $4,000 acres of land; the East
Coast Railroad Company's suit for p
040, goo acres OF land, for which ne
was paid in 1906, for services render
ed prior 10 that time; and in 1906 for
services rendered in 1905.
Since January 4th, 1906, We have
had but one attorney, Hon. W. s.
jennings In 1905 the trustees en-
ployed Bryan & Bryan, and Hon. W.
s. Jennings, of Jacksonville, as addi-
tional counsel, and also paid Hon.
resent them in the Kittel case. In
1906 We had but one lawyer, Hon. W.
S. Jennings, but it is my opinion that
you will agree, after carefully con-
sidering the property involved, that
the trustees should now have more
than one lawyer to defend their title
to the lands and possession of the
money.
Where Fees Come From.
In the next place the fund is spoken
of as the peoples money, the intima'
ton being that the money is in the
state treasury and is derived from tax
alton, which is being used to pay law
yers to defend the title to land and
money. in the hands of the treasurer,
which is not true. The money paid
for attorneys fees is some of the same
money for which the suits are
brought by the railroad companies.
If the corporations win, they win the
whole stake, except what is paid out
for attorneys fees. Is it best to use
a portion of the fund, with the expec-
tation of saving all Of the land and
money of the fund, or would anyone
advise that the best course would be
to employ no lawyers, that the trus-
tees permit judgment to be obtained
by default, and the money and land
go that way?
This matter is an important one.
The land being sued for, by the rail-
roads, would be worth in dollars. If
reclaimed and used for purposes of
agriculture, more than all of the rest
of the lands in the state, so far as dol
lar and cent value of crops are con-
cerned. The land is in portion of
Florida that will become very valu-
able, and add greatly to the assess
ment rolls of the state In fact, it is
the only farm lands in Florida
meaning that south of Lake Okeecho-
bee-that distinguishes Florida from
any other state in the Union, as it is
practically below the frost line, in ad-
dition to its great richness of soil.
The strip now being cultivated in
Florida, east of the Everglades, is
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
Dainty il Not Substantial.

The wife OF a farmer had a sister
come from Chicago to make a visit
One day the thrashers came, and the
guest insisted on doing the work alone
and sent her sister away to rest. When
twenty-seven thrashers filed In to sup
per that night they found a sandwich
tied with ribbon, one chicken croquette
one cheese ball the size of a marble
and a buttonhole bouquet at each
piate.-Emporia RanS Gazette
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

A bottle of beer exploded in a mans
hand in Jacksonville few days ago,
and tore his hand nearly to pieces.
1t is d good thing it exploded before
the man drank it. Had il exploded
afterwards his internal improvements
would have been badly shattered
Jasper News.
And had a fund been raised to put
him in a hospital for repairs it proba-
bly, would have been called an Intern
al Improvement Fund.-Pensacola
Journal.
And John Collins would have in
sisted upon an itemized statement OF
expenditures, but never go after it
Wauchula Advertiser
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
Deimas Now in Charge.

Perhaps the most farcicaI point of
the whole proceeding has been, that
Thaw, the lunatic, has been permitted
to dictate the method of defense. His
lawyers have now. however. kicked
over the traces. Perhaps they have
awakened to the absurdity of the sit
uation.-Tampa Tribune.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

Editor Farmer, of the Bronson
Times-Democrat, who is a candidate
for state senator from Levy county,
has issued a strong address to the
voters of that county, and has ac-
lcepted the challenge of one of his OPP
'ponents for a joint discussion of the
issues in the campaign.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

Grover Cleveland is scheduled to
deliver a speech in Chicago on the an
adversary of George Washington's
birth, and the usual third term presi-
Dental boom may be looked for.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

1t is now said that the brother of
Mrs. Harry Thaw, who is the constant
companion of the slain architects son,
will give some sensational testimony
against Thaw. This opposition Of Mrs.
Thaw's family is sure to enlist sympa-
thy for her.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

suits had never been Instituted, and
the state stood no chance of losing
tho money.
So far as the right of the governo,
to continue these drainage operations
is concerned The Journal did not
raise a question. 1t was simply as
TO the propriety of spending SO much
money for leral services, and the man
ner in which it was done.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

II has been decided not to establish
that southeastern sub-treasury this
year, and now Atlanta, Birmingham,
! Memphis and the others that were in
the wild scramble have begun to say
you did it"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

Editor Albert Williamson is not
very much impressed with Mrs. Harry
Thaw's mother, and says that she is
the indirect cause of ali this trouble
There is much truth in this statement,
and If Mrs, Thaw had been given the
proper care and attention as a small
girl things might have went different
with her
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

Can you name the next governor OF
Florida? We can, and will, later on.
Jasper Banner of Liberty.
We'll wager that his initials are
found in the first letters of Tampa,
Arcadia and Jacksonville Now, did
We guess it?-Pensacola Journal
Not on your life It's Arcadia,
Wauchula and Observation-Disclosures
Advertiser.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
Cheerfulness.

The cheerful mans thought sculp-
lures his face into one Of kindness,
touches his manner with grace and his
business life with friendliness toward
humanity.-Jacksbor TEX Gazette.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
Hard on Evelyn.

Mrs. Evelyn Thaw told it all yes
terday, and it was almost as good as
one of Bernard Shaw plays for people
who like that sort of thing. Poor,
weak, pretty, foolish little creature,
Live Oak Democrat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
Rnfh Are Ther.

Teacher - Is there any connecting
link between the animal and the veg
etable kingdom? Bright Pupil-Yes.
mum; there's hash.-Philadelphia In
Quirer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

It is safe to predict that Judge
Wolfe's successor as private secretary
10 the governor will be his predeces-
sor
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

It's good morning Judge Wolfe in
the first circuit to-day
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
The SidcShoWs.

Now, look out for the orators in
TRADES against high life, the terrible
Itenderloin, hopeless depravity and the
whole lot Of entertaining sensational
isms. These are always the sideshoWs
that so along with the kind of circus
now performing in Gotham.-Tampa
News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

The position of circuit judge having
been filed. there are still two more
pluns To be handed out Speculation
on one would be hard, as it is rumored
there are 149 applicants. but for the
other-well his name viii likely be
Brown
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
For Civ Treasurer
For Tax Colfector.

/ hereby announce my candidacy for re-
election as city tax collector, subject TO
the action of the white democratic pTi-
mary. J. c. WHITING.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

The Manatee Record says 1.-The old
red hills of Leon will soon vie with
each other in welcoming the gay and
festive legislator"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

If Editor Farmer. of the Bronson
Times-Democrat, is elected TO the sen
ate from Levy county at the special
election soon to be held there, this will
make seven members OF the next leg
islatIre from the fourth estate, the
others being Editor McCreary Of the
Gainesville Sun. Editor Zim of the st.
Augustine Meteor. in the senate. and
Editor Russell of the Palatka News.
Editor Mckenzie of the Palatka
Times-Herald, Editor Wilson of the
Biountstown News and Editor Mat
lhews of the Starlle Telegraph, who
Is a prominent candidate for speaker,
IN the house.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
Matter of Self Respect.

They are having a hard time find
ing people for jury service in the
Thaw case who have not formed and
expressed an opinion concerning it,
though doubtless they would be able
to find plenty who have formed an
opinion but have too much decency
and self-respect to express it.-Green
Cove Springs Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

In the telegraphic reports that went
out from Washington giving the
amount listed in the rivers and harbOrs
bill the omission of a zero from the
figures OF the Key West appropriation
caused quite a stir in the island city,
and the people Immediately became
indignant to think that they should
only have received twenty thousand
Later reports have corrected the mis-
take and now it turns out that Key
West receives two hundred thousand
dollars, more than she has ever re-
ceived at any one time, and they are
all happy again.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
Too Much of II.

Too Much of II.
We are surprised, not to say morti-
fed, at the published reports of the
Harry Thaw trial in our metropolitan
newspapers. If Thaw smiles, or his
wife, or his mother, or the Countess
of Yarmouth, his sister, smiles, the
newspaper writer's proceed to tell it
to an already weary and disguised
public
Harry Thaw is a rich man, and it is
said that he killed a rich man, but
does the question of7dollars absorb an
other considerations, and because OF
riches. become exceedingly great dur
ing his trial? Even the color of eyes
of each Juryman is described, and
such other trivial, frivolous things as
are entirely of no concern to the pub
lie
Harry Thaw is accused of murder
He should be shown such considsra-
ton at the hands of the court as be
longs to any citizen of this great
country, but no more. He is just an
ordinary human being-his riches
making him not one whit better than
the average man, and the great daily
newspapers are making long cared
mules of themselves In wasting so
much time and space on his trial
White Springs Herald
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

The member of the legislature in
Texas, who is is alleged that Senator
Bailey referred 10 when he said some
one had been lying about him, has re
piled TO the senator and says: If
Bailey did cali ME q liar, l would sim
ply consider the source. Only cats
and dogs fight, and DULLES browbeat."
From this We infer that the distin-
Cuished representative must be q very
small man in stature, but even then
other things besides big men. cats and
6oss. have been known To resent the
lie IN q more fOrcible manner than
this representative seems to have
done
The Tampa Tribune is kicking
against the errors in the state census
report, and says that it indicates either
great carelessneSs or an utter ignog-
ance of the Importance attached TO 4
census of the state. Perhaps the fault
in this case, if there have been mis-
takes made, was due more to the
amount. of pay allowed the enumera-
tors than to carelesSneSS in the offices
at Tallahassee. The compiling of the
census returns was made by one of
the best clerical experts in the state
and the chances are the mistakes
were made before the returns reached
Tallahassee
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15

The Arcadia Champion says that il
Congressman Sparkman succeeds in
landing that million and half appro-
priation for Florida rivers and har-
bors he can ask for what he wants
when he gets home and be pretty sure
of getting it, but suppose the people
decided they wanted another million
in the next bill, and told your Uncle
Steve 10 stay where he was until that
WAS landed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-15
Enr City Marshal.

Frank l. Wilde announces his candf-
dacy for the Office of City Marshal, sub
ject to the action of the White Demo
cratic Primary and respectfully requests
the support of all good CitizeEsI
The friends of Capt. Jos Fondebilla
hereby announce him as candidate for
City Marshal, subject 10 the action OF the
white primary and request the support or
ali citizens.