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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-04-19
FLORIDA NEWS NOTES,

After an outing around Lake Okee-
chobee, including an inspection OF the
drainage operations. Thomas A. Edi'
son. the great inventor, gives his
views of the project Mr.. Edison
speaks of the drainage as scheme OF
great magnitude, but one that re
ouires far more TO accomplish The
desired end than is at present being
done He claims that the friction in
the canals will be something Of an
obstacle and thinks that a great many
more canals and lateralS will be
needed The inventors opinion Of
the soil and the future Of the Ever
glades if properly drained was that
il would be the garden spot Of the
world.
The green foliage which now Gov
ers the beautiful oaks which have
made Gainesville famous is truly &
scene Of beauty.
More houses, more houses, Every
room in ST Petersburg has been oceu-
pied during the season; next year ST
Petersburg will have 10 accommodate
thousands more Of tourists,
With an $4,000 court house in the
course Of erection. s $4,000 business
block nearing completion and other
huildings going up in all directions,
Arcadia is growing some and then
some more.
Building Scuyity in Pensacola is
drowning out the political noise.
The county commissioners Of Pi-
nellas have at last come together on
the good roads proposition ana have
adopted $ resolution calling for :
bond issue Of SST0.O00. Of which $780,
COO is 10 be expended in building and
improving the public highways and
the remainder in building 4 court
house and jail. All the commission
ers and all the districts Of the county
asrsed on the proposition and II IS
believed that the bond issue will ear
~ unanimously. This is the biggest
thinx that has yet happened for the
new county and congratulations are IN
~axier
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TELEPHONE CANNOT;
TRANSMIT DISEASE
Scientists Prove Telephones Do Not
Spread Disease.

scientists prove Telephones 10 MOI
Spread Disease.
1t is reassuring to learn on what
appears to be excellent authority that
the danger of acquiring tuberculosis
through the use of telephones is
practically inconsiderahle. Some
time ago an inquiry into the condi-
ton of public telephones in this coun-
try produced only negative results. A
further inquiry of q more elaborate
kind has since been made in England
and the conclusions are equally en-
ccuraging. The experiments were
planned by Doctor Spitta, bacteriolo-
gist to the king, ut the instance of
the postmaster general. First he
picked various telephones which had
been in use for various periods, and
having prepared washings from the
mouthpieces inoculated nuNber Of
guinea pigs TO determine the pres
ence of tubercle bacilli. The results
were in every case negative. The
telephones in this series of expert
ments were chosen at random from
railway stations. meat markets. post
offices and other public places. But
Doctor Spitta was not fully satisfied
and advised the postmaster general
to allow him to undertake further ex-
periments with telephones used NJ
clusively by consumptive patients.
Accordingly telephones were fitted in
the wards of a sanatorium and used
by patients in various stages OF pull
mouary tuberculosis. They were mel
Their sterirEed nor even wiped while
in use and at various intervals the
mouthpieces were removed and hand
cd over to Doctor Spitta for invesu-
cation, The experiments were car
ried on during the year 1911 and final
report has now been published show
ing that the results were uniformly
negative. Doctor Spitta's conclusion
is that the transmission of tubercu-
Iosis through the medium of the tel
ephoue mouthpiece is practically i'm
possible." - New York Evening Sun,
March -, 1912.
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GOV. GIcHRIsT ANSWERS
TAFT'S LYNCHlNG TALK
Chief Executive of State 5Iames
SIowness of Courts for Mob
Rule of Today.

hassee.-Governor Albert w.
Gilchrist received a telegram from
the Washington Post, stating that
President Taft in a speech declared
that lynching forms a disgraceful
page in our history. The men who
pull the rope should hang by the
rope
The Washington Post asked the
Governor to wire it his views on the
matter
Governor Gilchrist replied as fol,
lows:
Replying: Lynching is deplorable
and should be prevented whenever
possible. Lynching is due largely to
the ineffciency of the courts. In the
Bill of Rights of practically every
State, there is substantially the follow.
ing: No one shall be deprived Of life,
liberty or the pursuit of happiness
without the process of law There is
also the following: Right and JUS
tee shall not be dented or delayed
Whenever right and justice butts
up against due process of law, right
and justice are side-tracked-due pro-
cess OF law having the right of way
Courts are too often operated on the
principle that due process of law is
the end and aim of all law rather
than right and justice. The delay in
cident TO such necessarily causes the
people to decide the case before the
courts act, rather than wait, as Col.
onel Roosevelt has suggested. and de
eide the case after the courts have
accepted. Judge Lynch naturally pre-
sides.
However reprehensible lynching is
it is difficult to indict the lynchers
whenever the entire community en-.
dorses their action. No grand jury
has ever yet indicted all of their own
members. Make the courts more eff,
ticient and lynching will be dimin-
ished.
ALBERT ". GILCHRIST. Gov"
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ICauIHG VIIIACHS' MT TAT I
Workers 6attleacetul mapNeves UntII
Collapse, and Then Are Forced
to Flee for Their Lives.

Memphis, Tenn,-.With one main
levee gone, water tapping the crest
of the entertainments at half dozen
points and several breaks believed
to be only the question of hours, Ma
jor Clark S. Smith, United States en-
gineer directing the fight against the
waters encroachment, described the
Mississippi river flood situation as
grave. The Reelfoot Lake levee, west
of Hickman, Ky, was the first of the
main entertainments to so.
Golden lake, so miles north of Mem
phis, and the levee on the Arkansas
side, eight miles below this city, are
regarded as in imminent danger. At
both points sandbags have been piled
on the surface of the revetments to a
height of one and half feet, and the
water is washing over. AT Mound
City, Ark. and at Holy Bush also the
levees threaten TO cave.
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- -----rrsss dispatches OF the early .
week state that ''Mr. Justice Hughes OF
the United States Supreme Court is be-
ing arocQed as $ by the hkUyerdiTsglI
to dam tiAt great rivers and store
their flood waters in such manner
as to prevent freshets and afford a
constant flow of,water throughout the
year,
Herbert Myrick said the Southern
Commercial Congress has made Ger.
tain that rural Credit systems will be
established which will enable small
farmers to pool their interests and
obtain the money necessary to finance
congress will be instrumental in in
augurating farm loan associations,
which will make land the basis for
bonds. which will be better invest
ments than government securities
], o. Wright told of the manner in
which Florida has tackled the drain
age problems and advocated similar
activity by other states.
The waterways conference was ad.
dressed by Herbert Knox Smith, COM
missioner of corporations, and Sena-
tor Francis G. Newlands.
The conference adopted resolutions
providing that congress shall be ask
ed TO provide for survey of all dis
tricts in need Of drainage, This reso.
luton will undoubtedly be adopted by
the Southern Commercial Congress.
Launching the conference on cotton
handling and financing, Harvie Jor
dan of Atlanta declared the bad man
ner In which American cotton was
handled a national and international
disgrace, estimating that one hun
bred million dollars was lost to grow
ers by Anticipated methods-the cred,
1t system with annual interest charges
fifty to one hundred per cent. I'M
merchantable bales, freight rates 500
per cent. higher than on other staple
products and poor warehouse facili.
ties.
DR.. A. c. True, director Of expert,
ment stations: J. o. Wright, chief
drainage engineer Of Florida: Direc-
tor z. Dana Durand of the census
bureau. and John Lee Coulter Of the
same bureau spoke at various confer
ences.
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VEGETABLE SHIPMENTS
INCREASING RAP
East Coast Farmers Begin !.
Crops Through Jacksan
willie to North.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS shE
through Jacksonville to the M
markets are increasing dali! Z
a short time will be at Their I
From the east coast sections 81.
of produce is being gathered al.
ped, and solid car loads Of "a
and other vegetables are CONF
ward with a steady increase,
The shipping season from N
has commenced and it is Ell
that nearly three hundred bl7j
potatoes will move from that i
this season, as the planting b
unusually heavy. The tarmsh
been assisted by ideal weans
the yield will be exceptionally
Like reports are received ny
southern part of Florida, Whdf
ers annual plant large taa
land in tomatoes, beans, pepl
cucumbers. These farmers VI
tinue shipping for a month q
and with good prices preyalF
get rich returns from theiF
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DIXIE PROBLEMS
ARE DISCUSSED
'Hs SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS is IN SESSION AT
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
RURAL CREDIT SYSTEMS
MUNSTER esan One of the Speakers.
Harvey Jordan Speaks on
Cotton Handling.
RURAL CREDIT SYSTEMS

Nashville, Tenn.-Maurice Francis
Egan' United States minister to Den.
marx; Senator Francis G. Newlands
OF Nevada; J, o. Wright, chief drain,
age engineer for Florida. and Herbert
Myrlok OF Springfield, Mass, were the
speakers at general meeting of the
southern Commercial Congress.
Danish Dairying" was the sub;ect
OF Mr.. Egans address, in which he
reviewed the marvellous development
OF dairies in Denmark and pointed
out the great wealth which awaits
american farmers who adopt the
same methods.
senator Newlands advocated the
appropriation of at least $4,000 900 a
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$4,000 VOTES IN
FIRST PRIMARY
WILL PROBABLY BE LARGEST
EVER CAST IN AN ELECTION
IN FLORIDA.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE VOTE
Total Qualification of Democratic
Votes in the state Is Nearly
$4,000.

Observation-Disclosures fifty.
Ave thousand votes will be cast in
the Democratic primary April 80, says
j. Ira Gore. Mr.. Gore has been be.
siesed with inquiries the past several
days regarding this subject, and gave
his views of the situation in the
state. Mr.. Gore is familiar with 10.
cal conditions throughout the state,
and his figures will prove of interest
to every one.
The total qualification of Demo.
cratic voters in the state is nearly
[o'ooO," said Mr. Gore. q have heard"
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collectors in the state, and they have
given me statements showing the to-
tai number of poll taxes paid along
with an estimate of what the total
qualification in their respective coun-
ties will be, including those who are
exempt by age limit, those who have
just attained their majority and those
who have moved to the state since
January, 1911. l have compiled these
figures and they show the following
facts:
"Alachua $500; Baker, 700; Brad
ford, 1900; Brevard. 600; Calhoun, l.
600; Citrus, 500; Clay, $50; Columbia,
1850; Dade. $500; DeSoto, $500; Du-
val, 5000; Escambia, 1900; Franklin,
SOC; Gadsden, 1.15O; Hamilton, 900;
fernando, 900; Hillsborough, $500
Holmes, LOO; Jackson, 2,4OO; Jeffer-
son, 1900; Lafayette, LOO; Lake,
$50; Leon, 1,150: Lee, 700; Levy, 600;
Liberty, 450; Madison, 1900; Mana.
tee, 1900; Marion, $500; Nassau, ESQ.,
Orange, $500: Osceola, 100; Palm
Beach, 1000; Pasco, 1000; Pinellas, l.
200; Polk, 5000; Putnam, 1000; Santa
Rosa, 1900: St. Johns 1,150; st. LII
Gle, ZOO; Suwannee, 1900; Taylor,
500; Volusia, 1900; Wakulla, 400;
Walton, 1900, and Washington coun-
ty, 1850 Total, 74,756.
This shows total qualification of
74,756. l estimate that Is per cent. of
this vote will not be cast Twenty
Ave per cent of the total qualified
vote will be 1857. Allowing that 2
per cent. of this will be thrown out
because of mismarking, etc, the total
vote should be be, approximately, 54,-
SOS, or the largest vote ever polled in
Democratic primary in Florida.
Some of the counties show falling
off of qualification, Jackson for in
stance, while others show large in
creases.
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Drastic Measure AGAINST Futures

Observation-Disclosures anti-option
bill is being framed by the house
committee on agriculture, of which
Representative John Lamb of Virginia
is chairman and will be reported to
the house at an early date, No Difficult.
ty is anticipated in passing the meas
ure through the house, but its fate
in the senate is giving the friends of
the measure cause for concern. At
the last session a drastic and anti.
option bill was sent over to the SEN
ate, and never came out of commit.
tee.
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Soldiers Quiet c. 0. P. Rioters.

Bay City, Mich.-Taft and Roose-
welt men in Michigan politics. refus-
ing any basis of compromise after
twenty-four hours of conferences. at
the state Republican convention. at.
tempted to put quart of delegates
into a pint measure and in so doing
precipitated one of the most bitter
conventions in the history of the
state. Two sets of leaders and dele
gates, Taft and Roosevelt, fought out
their issues to the point where the
state militia were needed to maintain
a semblance Of orderly procedure.
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/. However. many

Ing. However. many will be
acknowledge that the evidenN
strong.
1t is not very many years N
Hastings, now so widely know
center of a great industry, u
known outside OF its own
and land which now sells red
from $500 to $500 per acre d
bought for from S. to SO.
Sanford is now a thriving q
the center of a great celery I
tuce producing region. Yet y
ford boom is of much more
date than that of Hastings
very few years ago two larg.
of land near that city were
the owners, the first for Is I'd
acre and later the other for 81
Spectators who invested d
tracts made fortunes from iii
as they are now valued at IN
to $500 per acre. Nor are b
titious speculative values; ID
are producing crops which VI
an enormous interest on Id
mated values, after paying all
es of growing and marketti
were paid.
But these two sections bsl
monopoly on the production Of
special crops. Within a few
past l have seen thousands of aci
this same county, which are ca
of producing as large crops of
toes, Of as good quality, as wer
seen at Hastings. Most of thu
could be bought at prices nd
from S. to SO per acre, and
of it could be drained, if Ii,
were done in large tracts, at
not to exceed $40 per acre. Oh
the land would need to be N
and requires a liberal applied.
fertilizer, but in most cases The
ing would be an easy job.
Like all Florida sand, the i
deficient in potash and that q.
is especially necessary TO The s
ton of good potatoes.
While Sanford has become II
celebrated as a celery shippig
ter, yet the most profitable
crop of which ever heard
state was grown on the West
south of Tamap.
The possibilities of Florida
pend largely upon the enterrts
the owner. Good crops Of yeg
are grown by the use Of CONF
alone. yet if you can
good supply of stable manu-
will find that you will have
results, provided that You do 4
ect to add a liberal applied
commercial fertilizer which d
| large percentage Of potash
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Virginia outlaws Refused Food,

Hiusyine. Va.-According to ''Sug"
smith who lives over Mount Airy
Way. toward the Carolina line, Sidna
Allen and Wesley Edwards. the two
courthouse assassins, came to his cab
in and begged for food. Allen came
10 his door, he said. and Edwards
stood guard. Allen declared neither
had taken food that day. They sot
none from Smith. The posses are
hosting copies Of Governor Mann's
proclamation. calling upon all citizens
10 withhold aid from the fugitive out
Laws
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Oh MS spiritual uynamlte: 1--WE ."
pa" ".,dr are the prospects for next
year in California With so much Of
the wood of the trees injured, the
bloom must be light and the crop per
tree much smaller than 1t would 9TH
erwise have been. Still California
will have fruit enough; don't figure 1t
any other way. If this years Grip had
all been shipped We would have seen
considerably in excess of $4,000 cars
going to market. The northern sec
ton of the state is coming forward
as producer; this coming season
may see 10000 cars of citrus fruit
shipped from the heretofore unimpor
tant belt known as northern Califor
MIA but in reality the south central
part of the state, that section lying
in Tulare county, of which Porter
vile, Lindsey and Exeter are the prin
cipal cities.
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Ststesville. \. C-L Columbus
Shoemaker shot and killed l5-year-
old sweetheart and then blew out his
own brains. his victim being Mss
Jeanette Temple-Cn. both residents Of
Iredsl county. Shoemaker Ted after
the murder Of the girI and the search
Ing party soon found his body short
distance away. lie hSd removed his
scat and placed the muEEle Of the
sun used in numbering Miss Temple
ton 10 his forehead and pulled the
triSxer. His attentions had been rS
psllss By he yoaRg woman
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catsrnIIIars kIllinn c....

Washington--ln the midst Of the
haooao over saechariR and the Ever.
glades, Secretary Wilson Of the IA.
par1ment Of agriculture has given ON,
q statement TO the effect that bs Is
srea'ly worried over the peanut cron
CsteTpillars, according to the "fa,ba-
Of the cabinet are doing $1,000 oa0 .
year damage to $4,000 600 ps,r,,,
crop. and it is hish time the 49, -,
q this worm cease. The bHsbt =
killing the ehestnuts, black waIrr,s
are almost extinct and hickory nHts
krs Er9vlg sSaEssE,
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rxyc,vsrror Aveoek Drops Dead.

birmingham. Ala.-Former Gov.
charles 3, AycosS Of North Carolina
dropped dead at the Jefferson theater
while addressing the Alabama Educa-
,iopal Association. Mr.. Aycock was
speaking on Universal Education, Its
Necessity and Benefit" The deceased
was born November l, 1883. was dis
r.et attorney under Cleveland and
elected governor for four years in
1909 He leaves S widow and eight
ehi,dren-six girls and two boys-all
miners except the oldest, Miss Alice
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CROP l6,O53,Sl9 BALES
PRELIMINARY CENSUS BUREAU
REPORT SHOWS AN UMPIRE
CEDENTEp YIELD.
Greatest Crop Heretofore Was In
1904, When 13,679,954 Bales
Were Gathered.

Washington.-The census bureaus
preliminary report on cotton ginning,
giving the governments first figures,
other than estimates, on the size of
the 1911 cotton crop of the United
States, shows the total crop to have
reached the unprecedented size of
16,O50,S19 running bales, counting
round bales as half bales.
By states the cotton crop grown in
1911, with that grown in 1910 and the
big crop years 1908 and 1906, express
ed in equivalent 5O0.pound bales, fol
lows:
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THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

BAD roads N the southern portion
Of St Johns county have prevented
thousands Of people from bringing
their autos 10 South Florida. ST. Johns
needs few more road boosters.
Largo is doing some good roads
work on her own hook Several OF her
puolic-s spirited men made up a purse
and purchased road scraper which
will be put to work at once on the
clay roads in the neighborhood Bully
for Largo
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why didn't you notify Mrs WCHs-
Dot that her house was on freg
We'll. l went over there for that puT-
rose. But she's rather keen bridge
rlaysr. and I couldn't set sn OppoT-
tuaity to interrupt the same, WISH
fr=xnn Herald
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Paraguay Has a Revorr+,,u

nuenos Ayres.-A fierce battle he
tween reYolutionaries and the govern.
men ineHl FORCES in Paraguay has been go.
ing on for several days and is stiI,
raging II, according to telegrams receiv.
ed here from Asuncion ~
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Nrhunrce Of Moras.

II Is strange what an influence
words have over men, Let one call
= man an idiot without fighting him.
and he Is quite affected by it; let one
compliment him on his talent without
giving him money. aud he feels hap
pv.-Iysu TurSenisH
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Jap Expedltion oIdn't Sec SEQ

Wellington, New Zealand. - The
japanese antarctic expedition return
ed here. They report having seen
nothing of the British polar epediUion
of Capt. Robert Scott, The japanese
reported all well.
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This o Il the sine Of the headache
that he had when he started for the
banquet And this o Is the sire q
the headache that kept him out Of
chureh.-Chicsgo Record-Hs-Sld
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GROWER CLEANINCS
EDITORIAL Comment Clipped From the
Columns of "The Florida
Grower"

The farmers in California are pray.
ing Tor rain. All grain crops are suf-
iering very much. The hills are still
Drown and the cattle can hardly find
leed IN the pastures. OF course, all
vegetable gardens, alfalfa fields and
citrus orchards are under irrigation
system. and are not suffering. There
mas been less than three inches of
rain since last May,
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A Persian philosopher heinz asked
bv what method he hsd acquired 50
mach knowledge. answered: by not
being prevented by shame from asa,
kzg questions when I Sss tSn2F7lt
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posslsILIrIEsi'
Nol'
interesting Paper }, !.
of Suit IN

Intana.., ~
interesting Paper B, !.
| swift, Of switaerIa@at' !,
lon at the North ~. w
ateiy among many \
that the light SAND, h \
Is too poor to r n,s, Y
t ane Northern n people ,s' Y,
that there are p ar, y ;,
s, ern states where ,D' ~.
light sand / hay. 'a y.
:, and also in NJ y
me sand was ligbt h. I
| have ever seen in ~
IDA Yet the OWNERS Sll Y
made a comfortabr' NJ
many cases acopi,.,
from the sale Of c,os.
sand. ''VNl
For many year, IA
hat the greatest e,r,l
res in farming in ny h,
ack of fertilizer and H. ,
II water. Most tsrn,.
iomlcal in the Use Of MI
resent Season | have i
tanees OF crops proi' Z,
and, which it would \
luai in any other M
lantity, quality n, MI
'me who rad this rg
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FLOODS BREAK LEVEES

the distinguished gentIe.n.
hand, and was accompanied" qainst.
bandstand by Editor Harris and half
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The weather has been freakish.
since the very cold wave of late De.
esmoer the weather has been very
hot at times. Now comes another cold
wave and a temperature of "a above
zero is again reported at San Benar.
oino, which is in the heart of the
southern California orange belt
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FLORIDA has been especially favored
thls season. Plenty of rain to make
the Season" No danger of spring
drouth. Not an orange touched by
irost' The best favored and juiciest
truit In years, and with less competi.
uon than usual. The bloom this year
promises to be the heaviest ever.
Providence is holding it back, so that
there will be absolutely no danger of
Its being damaged by cold