The Pensacola journal., 1908-10-27
NEWS AND VIEWS
He Got the Limit.

He Got the Limit.
A A. Thompson, who lives at the
Horne still. about nine miles west OF
town. was tried Saturday for shoot
ing or killing quail in violation of
the game law by Judge Joseph Bell
He plead guilty and was given the
extreme limit of the law, the SEN
tence being that the defendant pay
fine of one hundred dollars and
costs, or in default of the payment OF
SAID nne and costs to be colfiled in
the county Jail for a period of sixty
days at hard labor.-Ocala Banner.
A Very Salty Opinion.
Hundreds of negroes are register
ing and getting read, to vote. The
whlskey question has done more to
bring them back into politics than
anything else. And one State CAM
paign for prohibition will result in
the Whlskey men getting them all
qualified to vote. WHIT does COM
merce care for the human race2 II
it knew that bringing the negro back
into politics would result in social
equality and intermarriage for the
sake OF gam they would pay their
poll tax and induce them to vote
Polk County Record.
Population Over Two Thousand.
Census Enumerator r. A Barlow
has almost completed the census for
Osceola county, and the results show
very gratifying increase. The fig
ures for the town are nearly complete,
and up to date the names OF 2,002
residents have been recorded, Mr..
Par f0xx h f1I-S
plete will show Kissimmee's popula-
ton to be about 2,02O-Kissimme
Valley Gazette.
Another Jump for WiIk.
Poor old Senator Wilk Call has
again been heard from, and this time
to the effect that he has again desert
ed the democratic party, and is now
lined up for Taft, the republican
presidential candidate. Poor old man.
For so many years the leader of DEM
ocracy in Florida, loved and esteem
ed by thousands of loyal democrats.
How hath the mighty fallen" 1t is
charitable to believe that the old gen.
tleman has reached his dotage.-Mad-
ison Enterprise.
Can Now Go Ahead.
Formerly the Record always join
ed with other papers of the state in
protesting against the shipping of
green oranges from Florida, but we
don't any more for if the people of
the north prefer green Florida
oranges to ripe ones from other states
and counties why let them have them
-Volusia County Record.
This viii be good news to the
orange growers of Florida, who can
now ship their oranges whenever
they get ready.-DeLand News.
A String Tied to 1t.
The announcement is made from
the White House that the president
will not consider it pernicious politi-
cal activity on the part of any gov.
ernment employe in the classified
approaching presidential election.
This Is encouraging and an assurance
that the Roosevelt dynasty is not yet
fully ripe.-Pensacola Journal.
Perhaps this announcement has
string tied to II. 1t means that if
the government employe votes right
that is, votes like the president
considers right, it will not be per-
nicious political activity.-Ocala Ban
ner.
Prison System Running Smoothly.
Hon 3. E. McLin, of Tallahassee,
commissioner of agriculture of the
state, Mr.. s. A. Rawls. lessee of the
state convictS, came down last night,
stopped at the Ocala House and this
morning, In company vita Mr.. r. s.
Hall in Mr.. Halls touring car went
out to Salt Springs to inspect the con-
vict camp there. Mr.. McLin who has
charge of the prison department at
Tallahassee whenever the oppor-
tunity offers itself he likes to visit
the camps of the convicts in person.
Mr. McLin says the prison system is
running very smoothly, there being
few complaints and those of a minor
character and the convicts seem to be
in good condition and spirits.-Ocala
Star.
Again Changes Hands.
Again has the world-famous St
Louis Cloud plantation changed hands,
Mr.. w. Reese Parker, of Middletown.
Del. purchasing il in it's entirety from
W. B. Makinson- The price paid has
not been made public, but il is under
stood to run high into the thousands
This place has laid idle for years, or
even since the death of its original
owner, Hamilton Disston. the COM
pany into whose hands it fell persist
emily refusing to part with it except
as a whole, and as it contains about
$500 acres, it was almost impossible
TO find a purchaser, but now that it
has been sold to a man backed with
sufficient capital TO develop ii, the
good old times Of a dozen years ago
viii return. The plantation will be
cut up into small farms and sold to
actual settlers.-Kissimme Valley
Gazette.
Better Wake Up.
II is quite possible that the demo-
cratic state committee is taking mat
ters a trifie too quietly in this cam
paign. The situation in the Third
district is somewhat