Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-08-26
STATE NEWS
Things That Are Happening In Florida as Told by
Our Exchanges

The Florida Land Syndicate, which
recently purchased one hundred thous-
and acres of land in the southeastern
portion of Leon county and Wakulla
and jefferson, will proceed at once
on thorough business lines to the devek
opment of the property. Tallahassee
True Democrat.
The good news comes from the cOun-
ty Of st. Johns that thrifty farmer Of
that section has made a success Of rails
ing alfalfa, and as a reward secured six
crops in a year, Bringing him $25 per
ton. If this valuable crop can be raised
in st. Johns county, there certainly
must be land in Orange capable of grow
ing it successfully. Alfalfa is somewhat
"finiCky" about the soil it roots in, but
when once set needs no attention but an
OccasionFh application of fertilizer for
an indefinite number of years. Let some
Of oUr farmers try it.-Orlando Sentinel
Clarence Lutz is responsible for tale
of wild animals up at Odessa that fur
nished good deal of sport for the peo-
pie fortunate enough TO witness the &C.
Currence. 1t appears that a party of
men were going along in the palmetto
up there, and hearing a RATHER in the
bushes, began an investigation. Push
ync In h,,c
gray fox holding a RATHER by the back of
the head and slowly crushing it to death.
Quickly securing guns they killed the
fox and then shot the rather On skin
ming the snake they found II rattles and
taking with them the tail of the fox
they returned to Odessa.-St. Peters
burg Times.
Indications are that more than two
hundred buildings have been erected
since the first of January III Fort Myers,
says the Press, and then tells of the eff
orts it is now making to get up COM
plete list Of the improvements in that
city during the past year. This is GER
tainly fine showing aud indicates that
Fort Myers will soon be claiming even
more attention. The prosperity and
progress of Fort Myers is creditable and
excellent and the Press is to be given due
praise for the part that it has been taken
in putting forward the advantages and
attractions of the Dlace
West Palm Beach may soon be the ter
minal of q new railroad, says the TrOpi-
cal Sun. The plans are all made and
the men who are back of the project
state that the work is going to be done.
The road will be narrow guage and
will be in the nature of an interurban.
The projected line of road will run from
West Palm Beach west through the
Okeechobee road lands, and then strik-
ing southerly course, will go through
the large land holdings Of the Palm
Beach Farms Company. 1t will extend
south probably as far as Deerfeld, run
ming parallel with the Florida East Coast
railway, and about five or six miles west
of this line. The road will be financed
by the Palm Beach Farms Company and
will be for the convenience Of the farm
ers who are expected to settle on the
holdings of this company within short
time. The G. T. McCrimmon Co., of
Miami, will do the work when the Oper-
stions are begun.
Albert Williamson published several
pictures of negroes in the Floridian last
week, but we failed to recognize the ne
gro that Albert has employed on his pa
per as linotype operator and all round
printer. If he was not in the bunch AL
bert, produce his picture as credit to
your Office, for he is the only negro in
Florida operating type setting machine
or setting type in a white mans print.
ing Office that we Fuow of.AWhite
Springs Messenger.
About 200 farmers from Southern
Italy are expected to colonize in Volusis
county by next fall.
A negro preacher called Rollins and
several other aliases, while under arrest
for using the mails for fraudulent pur
poses and being conveyed from lamps
to Barlow by U. s. marshal and post
Office inspector, last Friday, lesped from
the running train and escaped. Hi
speciality was ordering goods from vari
GUS firms and not paying for them.
Three negroes in Tampa suburb have
, been taken to the pest house on accoun
Of having small poI, and this fact ha
been the grounds for all kinds Of rumor
about there being an epidemic Of small
po1 in Tampa. There is nothing alarm
ing about the epidemic except the m
mors.
Quail are reported more plentiful il
Msnatee county this year than in years
, An automobile fire apparatus has beef
, ordered for the progressive city of Mia
mi.
T. J. Yearly from Fowler's Island o.
{ the Suwannee river is operating q mil
3 which Is saving the old cedar stumps il
{ that section into stats for the manufaC
q ture Of pencils by the Dixon Pencil Co.
Thieves are getting so thick and slic
in Jacksonville that they are robbing th
polioemen's homes and getting ava