Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-09-02

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There has been so much talk in Jack
sonville about Barefoot BILL, the burg
lar, that the populsce is getting nervous.
The other night Jacksonville man shot
and killed a goat, installing thaanimal
for burglar. The chief of police saws
people will be going to bed with bells
Oh their toes pretty Soon"
The Jacksonville Floridlan charges
that the saloon people Of that city are
qualifying negroes to- vote by the hun
Ieds by paying their poll tax. Attor-
ueys have been engaged by the temper
ance element and the matter will be ia
Fen into the criminal court. The Anti
Saloon League of Florida has sent letters
10 lis committees in every county III the
state requesting them to offer reward
of $50 for evidence that will convict of
any similar violation Of the law.
One day last week Gov. Gilchrist re-
ceived letter from a woman in South
Florida which informed him in very
plain terms that the Pensacola woman
who asked for a pension because she had
thirteen children, among whom were
three sets of twins, was not in it little
bit. The writer signed herself Mrs. Car
lie Llscomb, and she declared that she
was the mother of twenty-three children,
and as further evidence she enclosed q
list of the names of all the members of
the Liscomb army. The governor did
not undertake to write to every member
Of the somewhat numerous family, but
he sent souvenir spoon to the mother,
accompanied by congrstUlstory letter,
and he expressed the hope that she may
have many more happy returns of the
interesting events.-Florida.
While Mrs. N. @. Pike, Of DANA, was
doing some fancy cooking the other day
when Mr.. Pike drove his automobile up
pretty close to the kitchen door. The
hot stove making the room very warm
Mrs Pike and her little child went into
the yard for bit of cool air. About
this time Mr.. Pike picked up can of
gasoline and began pouring the fluid in
to the tank on his auto. He had been
pouring but a short time before the gas
oline was ignited by the hot stove and
the kitchen was a roaring mass of flames
The house and its contents were destroy
ed, the clothes they had OH, the auto
and one rocking chair being all that was
saved. He'll know where to fill his tank
next TIMEX.
L. E. Lindsay, of PeghorD, got the
contract to build the road from Whittier
to Bassinger. about % miles, for 1925
per mile. Muck, sand, clay, pine poles
and straw will be used.
The ApaIachicoIa Times says that as
Mrs. J. +. Creal was stepping out of
Creal Bros. commissary she placed her
left hand on the door facing and ring
on the third finger caught on a nail.
Her weight tore the finger out by the
roots, leaving the ring and finger on the
nail. The accident was of an unusual
nature.
Last Friday Nebraska johnson sold
forty-five acres of land adjoining this
city for $50 per acre, and supposed he
| had done well, as he had tried to sell the
same property three years ago for 50 an
acre. News Of the deal getting about,
his friends regard him with pity, or, in
plain words, think him easy. Without
hesitation they agree that the land is
worth double what he sold it for.-Kis-
simmee Gazette.
Charged with embezzlement, Clyde
Jordan, a rural free delivery carrier op.
Grating out of Barlow, was committed
to Jail at Tampa in default of bond last
week. He failed to buy money orders
with funds entrusted to him.
John Hays, q Lake City negro who
makes a business Of catching and killing
rattlesnskes for their oil, killed mon,
ster last week that was seven feet si1
inches long, nine inches around the larg
est part and had nine rattles,. the largest
RATHER he ever saw. For the oil he getc
five dollars pint, it being used for rheu.
matism aches and pains.
Pietro had drifted down to Florids
and was working with q gang. He had
been told to beware of rattIesnakes, but
assured that they would always give the
warning rattle before striking. One hot
day while eating his luncheon on q pine
log he saw big RATHER eoiled few feet
away. He eyed the serpent snd begar
to lift his legs over the log. He had
barely got them out Of the way wher
the snakes fangs hit the bark beneath
him. "Son Of a guna!" yelled Pietro
why you no ringa de beu?"-Every
bodys Magazine.
| 9. Q. Strickland, at his farm neal
Gainesville, is experimenting with new
kind CT fruit which he calls the "garder
huckleberry," says the Gainesville Sun
The barry in color is very much thu
same g our regular wild huckleberry
but ID about four times as large. Tn,
fruit is very rare, only few having seel
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