The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1910-01-07


Nenalor county expects ~ liD 80
crfioals % oeIeEy during ire soer0n
Out OF 90 prisoners in Iampa'e tlll
before Christmas 80 were held On ne
charge 81 mur1er.
CserIey s6hnson. 8 coloFed driver q
Jacksonville. was recently s9nt % ne
cify fan 90 serve q sentence o. Sly
days on Ire charge o. cruel treatmels
Pour fen from South Hampton, L
L. are making 4 trip % Jacksonville,
al the yaW from that place ~ 3 ultle
thirty foot gasoline launch. They are
out just fOE a lark end th8 eoyentnte.
TIE Panama Exposition in Tampa -
February WI b the greatest eeleOfAr
ton ever given IN FioEida. Cheap rates
win be granted By the railroads and
many interesting events are scheduled
20 take place.
AIIeging that q building belonging
10 bin was destroyed By IRE because
Of the failure Of the Tampa water
works company % provide q proper
pressure for the Gre department, Rob
ert Mugge, Of that city, IL suing the
company for $4,000 damages.
Jefferson Foster, son Of Thomas Eos
ter. OF Evavilie, was found dead Sun
day morning near his home, with gun
shot wounds In hls neck. An empty
gun shell was found near the body.
Foul play IS suspected aud the sheriff
Of 50. Johns county was notified
Samuel Hogan r. dead and a negro IL
I'm n serious condition, nc Starke, from
drinking whisky that 10 alleged 20 have
been poisoned and sent 10 John Bennett
from Jacksonville as a Christmas pres
ent. Bennett passed the bottle around
and those who drank first detected the
plosOn, saving the inteded victim.
There Is Joy IN ApalaehicOla and 81
Joseph bay territory these gOOd-by days
Of 1900, for Il u now known beyond All
possibility OF question that Feb. 1 viii
see the ApalachicOla NOrthern'B trains
operating 20 st. Joseph. The track is
already down and the final surfacing
was about completed when the crews
quit work on Christmas eve. The hrst
cars, Il ~ now authOritatlvely stated
will strt with the second month OF 1910.
One Of the largest land sales ever
made IN Florida with the exception OF
a few former transaction like the Dis.
ton sale, was made last week which
covers 100000 acres lying on both sides
OF the Kissismmee river, $4,000 acres
Of which is I'm OsceOla county on the
east side OF the river, and was the prop
erty OF the Consolidated Land Co., OF
jacksonville; the remainder, 70 wit
$1,000 acres, lies in DesOtO county and
was owned by Walter Graham and y.
X, Mcconnell, who bought the same
last year from d. Il. Skipper. The con-
sideratiOn a said 10 be more than a
million dollars. The purchasers were
r. II. Lynch and associates, OF 81 Paul.
MF. Lynch was the campaign manager
of the late Governor Johnson, Of Min
nesOta. These gentlemen have been
among the largest settlers Of colonies
IN the great northwest They will place
settlers BY the hundreds and thousands
on their Florida purchase.
Senator w. ]. Morgan. the popular
auto race Frontier, tells the New York
papers that the famous ormond-Day-
tOna Reach races will not be held again.
While all the worlds records from one
90 300 miles were made on this beach
the expense 10 too great 70 saddle on a
small town like Daytonia, without any
help from the railroads and steamship
companies, which have never contrib
uted a dollar, although they derived
the greatest profits from these events.
Ihe Florida East Coast Automobile
Association, too, whOch has raised
something like 10000 during the past
seven years for the promotion OF the
races, ID a unit IN the belief that II has
90 have anything more 20 do with d
nancing the project.
done enough and the board has declined
~ oA..L - 49,. ~ Tlo,,st Cioth.