The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-07-12
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Ex-Gov. Francis P. Fleming is op
posed to the new state pension law
Says it imposes too heavy burdel
upon the people.
| Governor Broward attended tn,
big picnic given by the Cotton Grow
ers Association at Lake Butler OF
the Fourth. He also made an ad
dress. Comptroller Groom was alst
present at this picnic.
Jos. A. Mcdonald of Miami haI
been elected president of the bank o
| Bay Biscayne in place of w. M
Brown, resigned. Brown was als(
president of the defunct Fort Dallas
National Bank.
The democratic executive com.
mittee of Orange county has asked
the governor to appoint II. ?. War
I low solicitor of the Criminal Court
of Record in that county to succeed
the late Judge Welborn.
Daniel Driscoll, just 2l years old
and Clara Sjustrum, IL years old,
both of st. Petersburg, attempted to
elope early in the week, but the girl s
father sent telegram to the sheriff
in Tampa who nipped the romance
at the bud.
Harry j. Snyder, a young postal
clerk at Pensacola, was arrested last
week for rohbing special delivery
letters. The young man was en-
gagged to be married soon to young
lady from Missouri, and she was on
her way TO Florida when the arrest
of Snyder was made.
Major Fl. B. Hearsey, formerly
weather observer at Titusville, has
been appointed to accompany Walter
Wellman from Spitzenbergen to the
north pole in u balloon. Its safe
bet he'll wish he was back on the
coral strands of Florida before he
gets halfway across Greenland's
icy mountains.
There is a large alligator farm at
South Beach, near st. Augustine,
and 100 large alligators are in cap
tivity there. One day last week an
old worn-out horse was killed and
fed to the gators, together with sew
eral sharks. Many cottagers at the
beach enjoyed the noYel sight of see
ing the saurians eat.
Otto Meyer, young German ma
chinist of st. Augustine, started to
ride on his bicycle from st. Angus
tine to Philadelphia. At Folkstone,
Ga, a NANCY cur bit him ON the calf
of the leg and he has abandoned the
trip. He will now ride In parlor
car like ordinary gentlemen, with
the added advantages of comfort
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takes a flee dog to teach man sense.
The Fort Dallas National Bank of
Miami has closed its doors. Dust
ed" is the word best understood.
When the people of Miami get over
making apologies for the break and
get down to the hard pan of facts it
is just possible that the extent of
losses entailed by the failure may
leak out into the world. At present,
according to the press reports COM
ing from Miami, everybody is happy,
and Mr.. Brown, the president of the
defunct bank, is being hugged by an
admiring populace.
Safe blowers robbed the safe in
the store of Tucker d Rowlands at
Newberry last Saturday night and
secured u considerable money. A
few days prior to this act there was a
safe blown open at Sanderson and
81 900 secured. Oh for a Jim Weeks
in every county in the state. Jim
Weeks is the sheriff up in Clay
county who with the help of one
man captured four safe robbers at
the point of u GUN and these four
are now digging phosphate for the
state on Il 20 year sentence.
Gov. Broward has appointed his
pet, M.Augustns Brown, state inspec.
tor of naval stores, a position that
pays between $2,5C0 and $1,000 a
year. M. Augustus has all the ap-
pearances of d cheap skate, and the
people where he lives evidently so
regard him. He ran for sheriff of
Duval county last year and secured
total of 276 votes out of a possible
$500. Repudiated by home people he
was taken up by the governor and
fed out of the state pap bin until
now-when he takes part of the bin.
Complaint was made on Monday
to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion at Washington by the Florida
Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Pro-
tective Association, against the At
lantic Coast Line railroad ct AL, that
the rates charged by the defendant
lines on citrus fruits and vegetables
from Florida TO northern and eastern
points are unjust and unreasonably
high. They complain that they are
unable fairly to compete with ship
ments of fruits and vegetables from
the West Indies by sea, and they
ask the commission to fix minimum
rates on such shipments that will be
fair alike. to the railroads and to