Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-08-12
[. = ST Are News
hlaEs That Is happening In Florida as Told by
uf Exchanges.


spznese colouists have Of 9 deal
ioo acres of Land In the Tefglades
wh;ph they will plant rics fincipal-
Inssr cane and vegetables.
he biggest sale that has been cOnam-
bed inthis section In some time was
8 Of the Zig mill at Silver Springs BY
5P. Rentz 20 r. L. and T. B. Dowhng
Live Oak. The mill has . capacity Of
ne than 3 million and 9 gpa1sr feet
kpopsh.=Ocals BanneE
NE Miami Metropolis AJs Desconess
lrhilk who isspisse Of Assocists JUS
s CHARLES B. ParkhiIl of the State su-
ms CooIt, hes written . book ON the
EosssS Wbfk -xmong the Sepinoles
book isbp sale as Tallahassee and
proceeds PIN sbe denoted to further
ssyors amdng tina Indians.
Proposals have been asked for by Capt
prgs E. spslding, engineering corps,
Is. army, who has charge Of the engin
ing Office in this district. for material
4 raising training walls, dams and
IRE projections in the st. Johns rivet
nile Point and Fuleon's cut, between
city and Msyport. These bids will
4 received until September /. Bids
he also been asked for rock excavs-
Is in the river opposite the city,
&ich viii be received until September 8.
he work by the United States gov
Isment Of reclaiming for navigation
\ Okiawahs river from Leesburg will
y be resumed by the dredges. When
; R7, 900 appropriated by the govern
et Is spent there will be no river on
) globe any more famous. The i'm
Ifemerts contemplated OF the river
d bring that picturesque stream into
ter prominence and add 10 the At
tions Of that section Of Florida. ,
be tax collectors 81 the drainage dis.
g are having lot Of trouble in locatr
! the lands for tsxsnpn already. They
~ drainage tsk 70 collect for three
- sad tbsisuds nave changed own
Sbip = uunberTof times. Our UNDER
niing was that the land companies
srsto pay this tax for six years-mak-
I 3 total Of 30 cents an acre-to COM
IS the drainage, or take Ii o. far on
I'd completion a. thissnm in total,
"a TO that in the hands of the trus-
vould carry 1t. We dare say there
b Be more trouble still before the tax
eoiiecsed Miami Metropolis.
a. Gfsce, esnaemanly burglar and
Blower Fho worked Jacksonville to
Is priqf 10 May IL, 1908, and got =
3Aaoe n as years in . convict camp,
esssp ed and . reward Of 800 Ia Of
for hi capture.
81 bones Of . man which had been
LED up on Gulf Beach were found by
NY from, Pensscols . few days ago.
y 6oeknown who the man was, but il
evident that he had been drowned.
<sports from Key West indicate that
n Is progressing rapidly on the extern
j Of the Florida East Coast railway
that Knights and Pigeon Keys are
nearly connected. The workmeu
handled IN several shifts and force
sinues on the job night and day. Al
mbo Island temporary rail is being
81 for construction cars and four Of
.se cars will be sent to Key West very
"a. This is . work that interests al
florida and has drawn the attention
The civilized world.
after wiping mp everything in the
@te the Orlando ball team has disband.
because there were mo more worldl
|oonquer." F8
There were in Florida in 1906, accord
: to the STATE census of that year, ITO,
head Of sheep. Ofthese the great
number in any one county was IS,
in Walton, Santa Rosa coming mex
kh 1881. During the past Eve year
IRE has been an increase Of 81 per cen
one county alone and not Of thoe'
hing more than 9 medium number o.
Tsp, 80 that fair estimate Of the nun
! in Florida would be about 10000
IA. There were IS, $50 goats in Flori
In 1905. II
Horace West died at 4 O'Clock Thurs
afternoon in the fhsane asylum o
attahoochee. West, 4 will be re
mbersd. was ,srrested and convicted
Cisy copytyyj recently on charge o
attempt + hpsOE an Atlantic coss
e trait Aer his conviction he wa
minsd end sdjudged insane and sen
b T. MHoAil, on the Stringer place Ii
Annuthzhe hammock, had an 81
ns experience with an alligator Las
ek. The welr broke in one Of th
10 lake, uesr the stringeF place an
water drainsa1a IN suuDdergroun
Ase leaving = small pool Of waits
d fab in the bed o. tho lake. 7
ssain the depth Of the pool he prof.
with . long pole md stirred mp .
asor In the bottoms The slbgssc