Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-09-23
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Ounb III 6OuIn6Iu WaleIs 10 th0 SAoNO
Dale. owned by the Florida Land Sales
Co., which will make her initial dip in
the water today. The Grace Dale was
built by W. l. Huffstetler. She is 81
feet long, 1 feet 6 inches beam and will
draw about % inches of water. This is
not q very big hull, but to drive it there
has been installed IS horse power Buff
alo gasoline engine. This engine is
guaranteed to drive the hull through the
water twenty miles per hour, though
builder and owner expect her to make
around 20 miles per hour in good water.
Miami News-Record.
Dsytona's pet squirrels, which are pro-
tected by q town Ordinatce from being
killed, so that they will afford pleasure
and amusement to the winter tourists,
are becoming so destructive and annoy
ing to all the residents who try to raise
fruit and nuts that there is q strong ten
dency toward repeating the ordinance
and making away with the little rascals.
Peaches, persimmons, pecans and other
nuts sll are carried of in such quantities
that the owner gets none at all, in addi-
ton to which it has been discovered that
they infest the bark of the oak trees
with fleas.
Fernandina thinks she has fine chances
for a sponge industry, as several Greeks
from Tsrpon Springs are in the city look
ing over the situation. The men max
ing the investigation are confident of the
existence of the sponges, but the quanti-
ty is yet to be determined.
Wednesday afternoon the body of a
white woman was found floating in Sims
creek. Upon investigation she was rec
ognizsd rs Mrs. Phoney Booker, q coun-
ty charge. An inquest was held by
Judge Marshall, q verdict of accidental
drowning being returned. The body
had been in the water for a week and
was in 8 bad state Of decomposition
Palatks Times-HG raid.
The thief that has for the past several
weeks been depicting many Of Ocala's
chicken yards, has been captured at last
and he proved to be an old negro man
named Andrew Will ans, who only re-
Gently completed serving term for the
same offense, and who, in fact, has been
sent to the chain gang many times be-
fore. He was caught early Sunday
morning with q bag of killed chickens,
which he was selling to the negro restau-
rant keeper near the o. K. Teapot gro
Gerry. The thief was located through the
efforts of W. E. Gray, the well known
barber. The arrest was made by OFF,
cers Baisden and Moxley .-Ocals Banner
The new storage bin, which has been
under construction for the Seaboard Ali
Lane in Fernandins for several months,
is completed and the machinery is now
being placed in position by Mr.. Elms, OF
the r. W. Hunt Co., of West Brighton
n. Y, and this work will also be com
pleted in q few weeks. The bin is the
only one of its kind in the state and has
q capacity of 1000 tons. The advanta
ges accruing to the shipping of the city
by the bin are many, the principle feat
ure being that it permits the rapid I'M
loading Of freight cars brought in fol
which ships have not yet Arrived.
Tampa, Sept. Isl. F. Easterling
book-keeper for Bustillo Bros. & Dfaz
was shot and probably fatally injured
yesterday afternoon just after he stepp
ed from q street car in front of the fac
tory on Francis avenue, West Tampa
There was large crowd Of Italians and
Cuban cigarmakers across the street
from the midst of the crowd came the re
port Of q revolver and Easterling fel
with bullet in hisibody. Several week
ago. at the beginning Of the strike, whel
a committee from the union went to Bus
tiIlo Bros. & Disz' factory to call out TIT
men, Easterling went TO the front step
and fired q coupleIof shots from revol
yer over the hoods Of the assemblage
IL il believed he has been a marked maj
ever since.
One of the largest raids on gambler
ever made in the history Of the sheriff
Office Of Hillsborough county was mad
in Plant City Monday night. The rai'
was remarkable for the few officers tina
did the workland the numbers agAins
whom they had to contend, but the!
handled the job with apparent ease ant
no serious trouble Is reported. Thirty
five arrests is the "crop" six Of whom
have given bond. Two Of the arrests IL
the same house were made for adulter7
and one for vagrsncy; the balance wer
followers Of the green baize.
A carrier pigeon was picked up ut 81
by the schooner Carrie W. BabsoH, CAP
tain Marshall, on August II, while tn
vessel in question was outward boun'
from Tampa for Belize. British Hondu
ras. The pigeon was brought to thi
port and Captain Marshall is holding
for Identification by its proper owners
The Carrie W. Bsbson was At q poin
soms dxty-eight miles west Of Tortuga