The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-04-19
LATE STATE NEWS.

Land May l.
LAKELAND.-The fremont Ho
tel and valuable property at Lake.
Lakeland gentlemen. Considera-
tion 10000.
SANFORD.-Up to the present
date there have been shipped from
Sanford something like 56l refrigera-
tor cars of celery and lettuce, bring
ing 1926 per crate gross, netting $l.40.
Looks like pretty good gardening
business doesn't it?
GREEN COVE SPRINGS-Bol-
ton, Riley, Bennett and Harvey, pro-
fessional safe crackers who blew the
safe of the Green Cove Springs bank
last February, were tried last week
and each sentenced to fifteen years in
the phosphate mines. The men be-
gan serving their term at Dutton last
Monday.
DELAND-At the regular meeting
of the board of county commission
ers held here recently, the board
unanimously adopted a resolution
asking the legislature to reinstate
James w. Perkins as county solicit
tor of criminal court, who was sus-
pended from that office by Governor
Broward.
PENS LATHE Pensacola
Journal says that Il. A. Jennings will
make the race for governor If assured
he is the choice of the people, and
can win on platform of progress
and prosperity. If he finally decides
to run, Mr.. Jennings says he will be
the candidate of no man or faction,
and, if elected, will be absolutely un-
trammeled.
PENSACOLA - James M. An
drews, chairman of the Escambia
Board of county commissioners,
prominent in city and county was
arrested in Pensacola Monday upon
a warrant charging him with forgery.
At the preliminary Andrews was
held to appear before the circuit
court, with bail fixed at $4,000.
ST. AUGUSTINE.-Chairman of
the finance committee OF the Ponce
de Leon celebration reported that
about $1,000 had been collected from
all sources, which met all indebted
ness.-The road from here to South
beach will shortly be equipped with
electricity.-Improved Order of Red
Men will hold their annual conven-
tion at st. Augustine next year.
PENSACOLA - Protests against
the amendment to the charter of
Pensacola making many offices,
which are now appointive, elective
ones, are being made, especially by
officials of the city government.
Mayor Bliss telegraphed the COVER
nor to withhold his signature from
the bill until a protest from the citi-
zens can be forwarded.
JACKSONVILLE.-Senator Ben.
Tillman delivered his lecture, The
Race Problem, at the Windsor Au-
ditorium last Thursday night, and
argued that the only solution to the
problem was the repeal of the fif-
teenth amendment. The Senator
yankee gets to be white man as
soon as he stays in the south awhile
Col. w. M. Toomer, one of the most
eloquent speakers in the state, will
deliver the Grafton at the Southern
vile, April 26th.
MADISON.-Prof. G. w. Curtis,
pretending to be q deaf and dumb
palmist, was arrested in Valdosta.
Ga, recently for stealing a suit of
clothes in Madison. Several travel
ing men, knowing that his deaf and
dumb nature was only assumed,
succeeded in getting Curtis to talk.
He said that he was under oath TO
support himself for two years as u
deaf and dumb mute, and to report
at Chicago August II, 1907, with a
wife whom he had won as deaf and
dumb man. He had a woman with
him whom he claims to have mar
ried recently at DeLand where she
had been teaching German, she says.
PENSACOLA.-Reports from PEN
sacola say terrific cyclone passed
county last week, doing
report adds that A. J. Ferreli. of that
and that County Commissioned j. r..
or less seriously hurt.--United States
Deputy Marshal William Ray, of
Pensacola, who was assaulted Friday
iilpi Juob DClOIG WtIIib
his horse in a drive
Ray was hit on the head twice with
a blunt instrument, his skull being
partially crushed.
Observation-Disclosures in this sec
tion have begun to harvest the pota-
to crops, and large shipments will go
forward from now until the close of
the season. Some claim full crop,
while others say that there is
shortage. A conservative estimate
of the crops at Hastings and adjoin-
ing districts is placed at 5000 acres,
with an average of about 40 barrels
to the acre, or 900 barrels all told.
The prices quoted at present are
$3.50 per barrel but of course the
price will drop some, later on. Half
a million dollars is a safe figure to
estimate the value of the entire
crop.
ARCADIA. - Great excitement
prevails at Venus, a settlement of
some $50 persons, thirty miles south
east of here, because of rumors that
the Seminole Indians are preparing
to go on the war path to avenge the
removal of the body of Tommie
Tiger some weeks ago. Sunday
night, unknown persons attempted
to assassinate Thomas Crews, a mail
carrier, in his home near Venus, He
returned the fire and his assailants
escaped. A trail was discovered
leading from the Everglades, with a
smouldering fire, where the party
had camped for the night and re-
ports were brought in that Indians