The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-06-12
FLORIDA NEWS NOTES.

demand Is good and fair prices are
being obtained for them.
The Florida State Baseball league
Is getting into action with fine
bunch of players, many Of whom viii
undoubtedly develop for place with
the major leagues later in their ca.
Teer.
The Florida soldier boys. who are
soon to go into camp on the Black
Point grounds. will find Il rather a
difficult problem this time to be alb
sent from camp without leave. There
are only two ways OF getting away,
from camp-one by way of the bridge,
which will be strongly guarded, and
the other to swim the St Johns. The
boys will undoubtedly be there this
time when duty calls.
The statewide movement for good
roads has reached down into Manatee
The town OF Manatee has issued $l5..
600 of bonds for street improvement,
which have been sold to northern
bankers, and now the county com
missioners are advertising an election
to be held June % TO decide whether
the county shall be bonded for $3.50.
600 for the purpose OF building hard
surfaced roadways throughout the
county.
Governor Gilchrist has appointed
Messrs. Francis =. Fleming, Jr.. Of
Jacksonville, p. X. Yonge of Pensaco-
la and w. d. Finlayson of Old Town
to be members of the board of con-
trol, which has charge of the states
institutions for higher education, each
for a four years term, beginning
June 2s, 1909
Heavy express shipments Of toma
toes are going forward from Dayton;
and the returns so far are proving
very satisfactory to the growers. II
Is claimed that they will have a clear
market with but little competition VI
TO the middle Of June Shipments are
being made every day, about all of
the truck growers participating to
some extent
The passage of the Leggett bill. ap
proprlating S166,700 for the relief Of
the public schools affected by the SUI
pTeme court decision last fall. will be
eminently satisfactory to the educa
t.onal interests of Florida, esp. call
so to the teachers who have not yet
been paid for the extra work they
have done.
The senate passed the Cash phi.
mary bill by vote Of 20 to 8. Among
the important provisions in this act
are: A sworn statement of all cam
paign expenses must be given by
each candidate; no candidate can con
tribute anything of value during a
campaign; no literature seeking TO in
jure candidat can be distributed
on primary day; owners must pay
their own poll taxes; the ballot con
tains two stubs attached, both stubs
numbered-one is detached when the
ballot is given the voter and the 9th
er is detached when the voter depos-
its the ballot, the clerk then COM
paTes the stubs to prevent the wrong
ballot being used.
One of the most important actions
taken by the-house of representatives
before adjournment, was the passage
of a bill authorizing the state comp
troller to repay TO the counties OF
Dade, st. Lucie, Lee, DeSotO and 9th.
ers moneys collected by a special
drainage tax through an act of the
legislature OF 1905. The bill authoriz-
ing the imposition of general drain
age tax was passed In 1905. Each
acre was assessed FIVE cents and
nearly $4,000 collected. In 1907. the
legislature passed a bill authorizing
the refunding TO the tax collectors
OF the counties wherein the land wac
assessed Of the moneys collected.
This bill was vetoed by Governor
Broward. The money has remained
in the custody OF the comptroller the
past several years. and by the bill
passed the comptroller will return TO
the tax collectors OF each OF the coun-
ties interested the amounts collected
The money will then be refunded TO
the individual tax payers