The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-06-26

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evidence SUFFICIENT TO convict any coy Or
person found stealing subsLrfbers papers
sitter delivery Of same by carrier.
Twentv-4ive cases were docketed in
the recorders court yesterday morn
ing and the fines assessed amounted
to $71. Quite a number or de1eno-
ants were before the court charged
with failing to keep their premises
in sanitary condition and they were
fined 50 and costs each with the in
structions to go home and clean up.
Judge Monroe handed out another
lesson to the concealed weapon tot
crs" Wednesday afternoon when he re-
ceived a plea Of guilty from each of
fourteen prisoners. Among them was
Robert MCGEE, charged with carrying
a pistol. His fine was $3.50 and costs
or a long term on the county roads.
Since the incumbency Of Judge Mon
roe the fine for carrying concealed
weapons has been boosted about $3.50.
one little matter of evident forget
'fulness which Is causing many drivers
To pay a few dollars into the city
treasury these days is allowing horses
to trample over the grass plots. When
teams are tied at the side of the grass
plots it is not unusual for the ami
mails to climb over the curbing and
stand in the grass. This is against
the law, and not a few drivers have
been hailed into court recently and
have been fined. The marshal sug-
Eests that teams be looked after when
fastened up near the grass plot in such
a manner as to keep the horses or
mules from taking up a position on
the grass. for if they are discovered
there. the arrest of neglectful and for
getful drivers are not TO be surprising
if a policeman happens to pass along
the way.
Pfcprietors of restaurants and fruit
stphds are cautioned to look after the
screening Of their places of business Off
= restaurant, or their stock of fruit,
IS the law directs Sanitary inspectors
ere Keeping a weather eye open for
violation Of the screening law, and
will make cases against all neglectful
persons.
Preparations for the Improvements
Of the head of the slip between Pal
afoN and Baylen docks We're being
made yesterday by the contractors
force of men. An upright donkey en-
sire has been transferred there, and
mary pillngs will be driven as start
or in the Improvement. 1t is possible
that dynamite will be used today in
the wreCkaee operations, to remove
the old hulks lying there.
Thomas Cephus, a soldier, arrested
for resisting arrest and for disorder
ly conduct, was fined SIS and costs in
the city court yesterday morning
Cephus was said to have put up a
strenuous resistance when an officer
sought to place him under arrest on
Wednesday night.
The usual half holiday closing will
be more generally observed today than
usual. it is said, a great many busf-
mess houses announcing their inten-
ton TO close at l O'Clock on account Of
the unusually hot weather
The dredging on the west side of
Commandments wharf has been com
pleted, and the work Is now going on
at a point east of Tarragona wharf
This part will be deepened UP to the
head of what IS known as the third
berth, enabling three moderately sized
vessels to work on the one side Of that
dock at the same time. AS there are
conveniently laid tracks to the num-
Der of half a dozen on the east side
sought anNously by the stevedores,
, as the work may be carried on rapid
~ there.
J. y. Hutchins has returned home
from Indiana, where he went on a
visit TO friends for ten days or two
weeks.
The fire department was called ont
last night at 9.55 o'clock to q vacant
house at the corner OF Tarragona and
Gregory streets the roof Of which had
igntted from sparks from passing
engine. The fire was extinguished
with small damage