The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-02-15
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LATE STATE NEWS.


Hastings has about 5000 acre.
planted in potatoes this season.
Tallahassee will have daily pa.
per during the session of the legisla-
ture.
A 35-pound African pompano was
captured in the waters near Miam
last Monday.
The United States grand jury al
jacksonville continues to grind out
indictments for peonage.
Herbert A. Ford, a prominent citi.
zen of Ocala, died at his home In
that city last Saturday morning.
Tomatoes are being shipped daily
from the lower east coast, and the
crops are reported to be in excellent
condition.
Hon. Albert J. Winburn, state
senator from the twelfth district,
died of pneumonia at his home near
Mayo about noon last Sunday.
Joseph f. Bawman, n negro law
yer of Jacksonville, was arrested
Monday night on Il charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses and
utterlng forgery.
S. A. Rawls, president of the State
Board Of Trade, has issued call for
meeting of that body to be held in
Jacksonville ednesday, February
Goth, at 10 a. m, in the auditorium of
the Jacksonville Board of Trade.
Effective at midnight Saturday,
the following changes were an
nounced on the Atlantic Coast Line
Morton Riddle, general superintend-
ent of the Second division, at Savan-
nah, succeeds H. A. Ford, general
superintendent of the Third division,
at Jacksonville. Ford is assigned to
other duties at Wilmington, N. G.
j. N. Brand, now superintendent of
transportation at Savannah, sue
ceeds Riddle. r. r. Wootten, now
superintendent of the Richmond di-
vision, succeeds Brand.
Lloyed S. Tenny, assistant patholo-
gist and pomologist of the U. s..
Dept. of Agriculture at Washington,
is in the state making experiments
in the handling and transportation
of oranges, with view to arriving
at the cause of the large percentage
of decay in the shipment of Florida
fruit. A number of experiments
made at Arcadia recently, when
fruit was handled in the ordinary
way. which permitted drop of two
feet from the sizer to the bin, show
ed 70 per cent of decay in three
weeks, while by avoiding this drop
in handling the fruit the same lot
showed only 8 per cent decay.
Tn cnoo h in ~ nf fho RI ro in
ment filed with Clerk E. o. Locke of
the United States circuit court last
Monday, the Times Unioni of Tues
day says: ALLOWING 1900 words to
the column, set solid, the report of
Special Examiner Adams shows that
the 24l, 200 words of testimony, pro
and con, would fill POI columns of the
Times-Union. There are seven col
umns to the Times-Union page, and
dividing the POI columns by seven,
means that the drainage hearing re-
port would fill twenty EIGHT solid
pages of the Times-Union, and then
leave four columns on twenty
ninth page. This is figured with no
allowance for headings, etc. Taking
the average daily paper of fourteen
pages, and, leaving out all the ad-
vertising and the editorial page as
well, and this drainage talk would
fill two complete papers, of fourteen
pages each, and leave over four col
umns, for use in the comic supple
ment, or as basis for getting out an
extra" This document is the re-
port of Special Examiner Charles S.
Adams, appointed by Judge James
w. Locke to take the testimony in
the case of the Southern States Land
and Timber Company VS.. N. B.
Broward, ct al, bill for injunction,
etc