The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-11-01
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Large quantities of oysters are be
ing shipped from Carrabelle.
The State Fair at Tampa will b.
held from February 5th to 22d.
st. Joseph's Catholic Convent a
St Augustine is to be enlarged by 1
costly addition.
A mid-winter exposition of Floridi
products will open in Jacksonville
Jan. 18th and continue up to Apri
18th.
Lake City is moving for cotton
yarn mill and a committee of promi.
nent citizens has been organized tc
further the plans.
Congressman Frank Clark made a
masterful speech in favor of prohibi'
tion at the foot of Main street, Jack
sonville, on Tuesday night.
Hon. Park M. Trammell of Lake
land has definitely announced that
he will be a candidate for United
States Senator to succeed Senator
Mallory.
The Rt. Honorable Bob McNamee
of Tampa, spok kesman general for
the whisky interests of Florida, is
now trying to stem the tide of prohi-
bition sentiment at Key West.
The state encampment of the
Florida National Guard for 1907 has
just come to an end at Pensacola.
The encampment was one of the
most successful ever held, as well as
enjoyable.
B. f. Brinson, a Lake City tie and
timber operator, was before the
United States court at Jacksonville
charged with holding three negroes
in peonage, and is held in $500 bond
for future appearance.
Prof. f. G. Cantrell, principal of
the high school at Milton has been
placed under arrest for killing ne
gro at palachicola. Cantrell is
still teaching, but is under surveil-
lance of a deputy sheriff, pending
the adjustment of his bonds.
James w. Perkins of DeLand has
sold his orange and grapefruit crop
in bulk to A. G. Haynes for $500.
Mr. Perkins is solicitor for the Crimi-
nal Court of Record in DeLand, and
orange growing is only side line
for purposes of recreation.
James M. Smith, a Jacksonville
grocers clerk, shot and killed John
b. Milton another young man at the
corner of Bay and Bridge street in
Jacksonville last Saturday night
Smith was separated from his wife,
who kept boarders to maintain her.
self and children. Milton was one
of her boarders, and Smith was jeal-
Gus. Case looks bad for Smith.
The immense ginnerics of w. w.
Gordon & Co. at Gain esville burned
Tuesday afternoon with nearly
hundred bales of cotton. The fire
gained considerable headway before
it was discovered. The loss aggre-
gates about $4,000 to $4,000. Near
ly hundred bales of cotton belong
ing to customers, stored in a sepa-
rate apartment, were saved before
the fire reached them. The machine
shops of AdamsOn d Blake was also
destroyed with loss of $4,000. Cor
don's insurance not known.
pbudbOl OOuu O6dIu VI 6llSu-
cola, in letter to Frank L. Mayes
of the Pensacola Journal, says there
is nothing to prevent the legislature
of Florida from passing a law for
state prohibition. Mr.. Beard says:
THE Constitution of the state of
Florida places no limitation or re-
striction upon the power of the legis
lature to prohibit the sale of intoXi-
eating liquor in the state. / take the
intent and meaning of Article XIX
to be as follows, viz: That as the
sale of Intoxicating liquors is legal,
in the absence of State Prohibition.
Article NIX permits any county,
upon complying with the conditions
specified in the article, to prohibit
the sale of liquors in that county.
Without Article XIX, there could
be no local or county prohibition, on
ly state prohibition. Article XIX
permits local, or county, prohibition
in the absence of state prohibition,
but is in no way limitation or re.
striction upon the power of the Leg
islature to establish state prohibition
While Article KIN permits local, or
county, prohibition in the absence of
state prohibition, the converse is not
true. If we had state prohibition,
no county could permit the local or
county sale of Intoxicating liquors.
Should the governor convene the
legislature in extraordinary session,
and in his proclamation specify state
prohibition as one of the purposes
for which the legislature is convened,
or, if after convened, he directs the
attention of the legislature to this
subject, think that state prohibit
ton law could easily be passed; and
l am firmly of the opinion that the
courts will uphold the constitution
ality of such a law. If, however, the
governor neither mentions state pro-
in his proclamation conve-
ming the legislature nor directs the
of the legislature to it, af-
ter convened, then the matter could
not be taken up, except by a two
thirds vote of each house. So you
see that, to great extent, it depends
upon the governor whether the legis-
lature would consider the question
in extraordinary session."
Heavy, impure blood makes a mud
dy, pimply complexion, headaches,
nausea, indigestion. Thin blood