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TTRAKST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 1010.
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\LL THE LATEST, LIVELIEST NEWS OF FLORIDA
ILSO l
IT TO RETAIN
I IN SENATE
1 and Gilchrist Likely to
) Present Florida Mem-
f Upper National House.
A lbert w. gilchrist,
of Punta Gorda, Fla. and
'Waycross, Ga., former Gover
nor of Florida, who will proba
bly oppose Senator Duncan U.
Fletcher, of Florida, for the !
United States Senate.
.UGUSTINE, Aug, 9.—Al-
; is still several months be-
campaign for the United
jnatorship from Florida will
full blast, lines are already
iwn, and the friends of Sen-
can U. Fletcher, who is the
ve to fight to retain his seat,
usly patching fences wher-
ible.
many prospective candidates
* mentioned at tbe present
3eems most probable that it
triangular contest—the most
3f all to forecast as to re-
en each of the three is a
candidate. And Senator
John N. C. Stockton, of
ille, and Albert W. Gilchrist,
Gorda, Fla., and Waycross,
former Governor of this
; the three.
impa Fights Fletcher.
r Fletcher has made a splen-
rd while in office, and has
Florida into desirable promi-
many ways. He is a man of
d ability. But his alleged
:he removal of the customs
ters from Tampa to Jackson-
caused trouble for him down
jpulous South Florida coun-
re votes are plentiful. De
tear to have little effect up-
eling there. Mr. Fletcher will
d by the more conservative
vote, as a rule, although he
. r eak even with the business
in the Tampa section from
ndicatlons.
ockton will be the Progres-
people’s” candidate. A man
lized ability and held in the
‘steem throughout Florida,
kton has nevertheless always
bad luck in Senatorial eon-
his earlier races he went too
e opinion of some, in denun-
f opposing forces, but in the
in which he was entered he
d his campaign in a most
dignified manner.
‘Wets” for Gilchrist,
or Gilchrist is strong In
orida, and he would like pret-
:o go to Washington, for he
ious. He will not be sup-
r the union labor element, but
a strong labor vote, and also
j the support of the “wets.”
into the Governorship on a
ion platform.
'rom Senator Fletcher, noth-
ite has yet been given out as
lacies. But it seems a pretty
ss now that the three men-
cvill enter the arena next
?efore the Democratic pri-
Stockton is more apt to be
•ace than Gilchrist if there
two contestants at the show-
Good Roads Assured
In St. Johns County
Contracts Signed for Hard Surfacing
30 Miles of Roads—Concrete
Bridges Planned.
pa Cigarmaker
3 a Wealthy Man
jo Lanza Led Strike in 1901
'as Deported to Honduras.
:turned and Got Rich.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Aug. 8.—With
signing of contracts for hard sur
facing more than 30 miles of high
ways, the work to be done within
three months, the completion of a
good system of highways for St.
John’s County is now assured. Good
roads boosters have been working
long and hard to bring about this
result. Money is raised by the issu
ing of interest-bearing time war
rants, authorized by the last Legis
lature through the efforts of local
good roads advocates.
Within a few weeks it is expected
that contracts will also be let for
reinforced concrete bridges to re
place wooden structures in several
| sections of the county. This work
will total a high figure. Much of
the work provided in contracts now
signed is upon the John Anderson
Boulevard connecting St. Augustine
and Jacksonville and St. Augustine
and Daytona and comprising a 60-
mile link in the Montreal-to-Miami
highway, as well as the Atlanta-to-
Mlami highway.
| Railroad Commission
Hears ‘Class P’ Case
Central Civic Committee Would
Strip Council of Its Power.
Election in Fall.
JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 9—Con-
siderable interest is being manifest
here over the outcome of the pres
ent charter campaign. The Legis
lature passed a bill enabling The City
Council to draft and submit to the
people a new charter. This bill, how
ever, provides that the Council shall
not be abolished.
The strong opinion among the vo
ters is that Jacksonville should try
the commission form of government.
Under the law this cannot be. The
Council has named a committee to
draft a charter and this bill will be
presented to the Council on August
20. It will then be advertised for
eight weeks and submitted to the
people for a vote early in November.
The committee of cbuncilmen re
fuses to give out any of the details
of the bill being drawn. Great se
crecy is being maintained in regard
to the provisions of the charter to
be proposed.
Civic Committee’s Bill.
A subcommittee of the Central
Civic Committee has been named and
has drawn a charter bill which strips
the City Council of much of its powe-
and which calls for a new form of
election. The Hare system is to be
used -according to this plan. The
number of elective officers is cut
down to a mayor and four commis
sioners and a municipal judge. The
chief of police, chief of the fire de
partment and heads of other depart
ments are to be appointed.
The great question before this
committee is, how to get the Coun
cil to present this bill to the people.
The Council is the only body having
the power to submit a new charter
to the people. Owing to the fact that
the charter of the civic committee
strips the Council of much of its
power, it is feared that the members
will refuse to present the bill.
Threaten War on Council.
Several members of the committee
have stated that should the Council
refuse to permit the people to have
the right to choose between the two
measures they will engage in a cam
paign to defeat the adoption of the
Council's charter.
The bond trustees believe that they
can defeat the Council’s bill, which
deprives them of all authority ex-
cent as to bonds, by suing out a
writ of injunction to prevent the
holding of the election. The outcome
of the fight is very much in doubt
and the voters are lining up in two
factions for the battle.
Snap Bean Farming
On Big Scale Planned
Pensacola Merchants Agree to Aid in
Finding Most Profitable
Marketing Points.
Social News of Florida
alkiiuiNAee
-T- ALLAHASSEE, Aug. 9.—Mrs
j R. C. Long and daughter, Mrs.
Reinette Hunt, left Monday for
a stay of several weeks at Orkney
Springs, Va. During their absence
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Romaine and
Mr. and Mrs. Travis will occupy the
handsome Long home.
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Damon enter
tained with a dancing party for their
daughter. Miss Mary Damon, on
Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Crosby Dawkins left this week
for Jacksonville, where she wil spend
a few days with Mrs. J. O. Wright,
and will then go on to Asheville,
N. C., where she will spend the re
mainder of the summer.
Tallahassee society,folk attending
the dance at Carrabelle on Thursday
night were Guy Haynes, Phil Cald
well and Abe McDougall.
Misses Sarah and Theresa Bailey,
of Monticello, will arrive next week
to visit Miss Arabel Hopkins.
Mrs. G. W. Saxon and daughter,
Miss Helen Saxon, left on Tuesday for
Atlanta to visit for a week and then
go on to Asheville, N. C., to spend
the rest of the summer.
G. T. Whitfield and family .have re
turned from Port St. Joe, where they
enjoyed a week’s outing.
A surprise to their many friends in
Tallahassee was the marriage on last
Sunday in Hendersonville, N. C., of
J. G. Gornto and Miss Ada Moore, of
this city. The bride, with her mother,
Mrs. M. C. McIntosh, was spending
the summer at Hendersonville. Mr.
Gornto is a son of J. M. Gornto, of
Mayo, who was a member of the last
two Florida Legislatures from La
fayette County. He has been in Tal
lahassee only a few months, in the
office of the State Comptroller. The
young couple returned from Hender
sonville on Tuesday.
Tallahassee people who spent the
week-end at Lanark included Blount
Myers, Phil Caldwell, W. E. Van
Brunt, C. L. Hardwick, T. S. Tran-
tham, J. Will Yon, John Costa, Lau
rie Perkins, Sr.. O. M. Jacoby, Tom
Costa, C. A. Finley, Mrs. Cloes, Miss
Pauline Costa, William Bass, Henry
Messer, Stanley Gramling. William
Robinson, Horace Van Brunt, William
Byrd, Bernard Byrd and Bob How
ard.
T AMPA, Aug. 9.—Miss Roe Ella
Bledso and Eustice Knight will
be married at the country home
of the bride’s parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin Bledso, at Valrico Sunday
afternoon. They will make their
home at Gainesville, Fla.
Miss Kathleen McDermott has gone
to Miami, where she will be the guest
of Miss Brosser and Miss Mildred
Niles. She will return to Jackson
ville in three weeks, where she will
join her parents. Dr. and Mrs. B. K.
McDermott, and her sister. Miss
Helen McDermott. The Misses Mc
Dermott will enter Brenau College,
at Gainesville. Ga.. for the fall and
winter term, while Dr. and Mrs. Mc
Dermott will go on to Tennessee,
where they will visit friends.
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wilson. Jr.,
of Kissimmee, are now at Wiliwana
camp in the Adirondack Mountain.*.
New York, after an extended stay at
the Hotel Imperial, New York City.
Mrs. Wilson is known in literary
circles as Minnie Moore Wilson and
has many friends among the news
paper and magazine writers in the
metropolis. She has written much
about the Seminoles of this State,
but is doing little of late except in
occasional short story, because >f
recent ill health. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson are gaining in strength and
will return to Florida in the fall.
Mrs. Wilson has been closer to the
home life of the Seminoles than per
haps any other white woman, and
writes and talks very entertaining.v
about this little known fragment of
the Indian race.
S T. AUGUSTINE, Aug. 9. — A
charming addition to society cir
cles of this city is Mrs. James
Otto Stevenson, of Washington, D.
C., the wife of the new secretary of
the St. Augustine Chamber of Com
merce. Mrs. Stevenson is well known
as a worker in the suffragette move
ment. She is an ardent believer in
votes for women. She already has
won hosts of friends since her ar
rival here, and there is no doubt
that she will be urged to take a lead
ing part In the movement for wom
an suffrage in Florida.
Miss Belle Floyd and Miss Jacque
line Dodge left this week for Edney-
ville. N. C., for the remainder of the
summer.
Mrs. John T. Dismukes has re
turned from a visit with friends in
Jacksonville.
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BRIDGE PROJECT
Highway Viaduct Now Propose
to Connect Jacksonville and
Beach Section.
F ather f. x. finke-
GAN, one of three Jesuit
priests transferred from Tam
pa to stations in Alabama and
Louisiana. He goes to New
Orleans. Father Navin goes
to Mobile and Father Higgins
to Grand Coteau, La.
A, Aug. 9.—Estanislao Lan-
of the wealthiest Spaniards
city, died at El Centro As-
Sanitarium in this city,
owned bank and building
stock and was a director in
pa and Sulphur Springs Trao-
mpanv. He came here 20
o as a cigarmaker and In the
f 1901 took such an active
t with twelve others he was
board a schooner bound for
Honduras and deported with-
ority of law, but none the less
lv by a vigilance committee,
•eturn he gave up cigarmak-
through lucky deals in real
»came wealthy.
de’s Body Put in
e Box and Frozen
Smack Turns Back When
Member Leaps Overboard
and Drowns.
Compromise Proposed on Old Order
for Reduction of Rates on Heavy
Commodities.
TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 9.—A hear-
ing was held this week before the
Railroad Commissioners on a pro-
nosed compromise of what is known
as the old Class P case, or Order
No. 72. involving a reduction of com
modities moving in Florida under
Class P, including lumber, cross
ties. brick, etc.
This was one of the most impor
tant hearings of recent years before
the Commissioners, and has brought
to Tallahassee the largest crowd of
shippers appearing at any meeting
before the Commissioners in the last
five years. The lumber interests of
the State were well Represented by
officials of the Georgia-Florida Saw
mill Association and a score or more
of individual lumbermen of Florid i.
The railroads were represented by
high officials.
^COLA, Aug. 9.—When the
Tiaek Caviare reached this port
>- afternoon at 6 o’clock, her tlag
ilf-mast and It was learned that
Duffy, one of the crew, had
om the vessel just as she was
Snapper bunks at Campeche
drowned. His body was recov-
smack proceeding immediately
to Pensacola.
Sherman was drowned Monday
i, since which time his body has
the ice box on the vessel, with
It that it was frozen perfectly
en taken to the undertaker’s
ment yesterday afternoon.
loss PAVING LAWS
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
ROSS, Aug. 9.—Because its
erce the heart of Waycross and
Helled in almost every instance
of the main streets, the At-
Line is being put to heavy
by the sidewalk and street pav-
paign. The latest saving ordi-
ivering Plant avenue from But-
t to the city limits, will cause
t Line to pay a third of the cost
ntire distance, the avenue run-
ig the road’s right of way. The
"tion of Plant that is paved is of
d the Coast Line paid a third
rLOVILLA, GA.
Round Trip $2.30
kets on sale daily Au-
j to 17. Return limit
st 21. Account IN
I' SPRINGS CAMP-
riNG.
rHERN RAILV/AY.
Doctor, Who Eloped
With Girl, Returned
Tampa Physician Ran Away With
His Thirteen-yearold
Sister-in-law.
TAMPA, Aug. 9.—Deputy sheriffs
, have returned from Groesbeck, Texas,
I with Dr. Guil M. Howsley and Anita
Castellanos, his thirteen-year-old sister-
in-law. with whom he eloped in Novem
ber and with whom he has been living,
supposedly as man and wife since.
Howsley left his wife with three small
children when he went away and they
have been in rather bard circumstances,
. Mrs. Howsley having just undergone a
severe operation at a local hospital.
The Masonic order, to which Howsley
once belonged, took the matter up and
searched for him, having hired detec
tives to hunt'him down.
Howsley’s infatuation for his young
sister-in-law had been noticed for some
time before he left this city, but no one
thought of an elopement on account of
the girl’s tender years. She was going
to school when they ran away together.
Howsley’s wife is from Mexico, where
her people are of the better class.
STUDY PRISON SYSTEMS
OF FIVE SOUTHERN STATES
I TALLAHASSEE, Aug 9.—W. A. Mc-
I Rae. Commissioner of Agriculture, and
[j. C Luning, State Treasurer mem-
Fliers of the Board of State Institutions,
land appointed a committee to visit
other States and inspect their orison
i systems, have returned after visiting
I South Garolina, North Carolina, Missis
sippi, Louisiana and Texas. D. \Y. Pur
vis, recently appointed superintendent of
the State prison farm, to be located in
Bradford County, accompanied them.
JOINS TAMPA TEAM.
TALLAHASSEE Aug. 9—Newt Mabry,
one of Tallahassee’s fast amateur ball
players, left this week for Tampa, where
he has accented a position on the Tampa
team. Another of Tallahassee’s olayers,
Ira Watson, is playing in that city.
PENSACOLA, Aug. 9.—At an en
thusiastic meeting of farmers of the
Roberts-Gonzales community, this
county, last night, at which experts
made addresses, it was decided that
an experiment will be made in the
cultivation of snap beans on a large
scale in that locality. Several farm
ers agreed to plant a certain number
of acres each on the co-operative plan
and ship to Northern markets. The
crop will be planted during the pres
ent month. Business men of this city
agreed to aid the farmers in securing
a market.
It is thought that this will prove
one of the most successful crops for
this section, as experts say the soil
is peculiarly adapted and that cli
matic conditions are ideal.
OLDEST U. S. CITY MAY
ADOPT COMMISSION FORM
ST. AUGUSTINE. Aug. 8.—Senti
ment has suddenly focused in St.
Augustine upon commission form of
government for America’s oldest city.
A wrangle in City Council which re
sulted in some Aldermen nearly
coming to blows and in which one
said he was “in a crowd of sharps’’
was the final straw, and a movement
is now on foot to call an election to
vote upon a charter change.
St. Augustine voted down such a
change two years ago, but other lo
cal issues at the time beclouded the
main question.
G AINESVILLE, FLA., Aug. 9.—
One of the chief social events
of the summer took place on
Wednesday, when Miss Blanche
Rawls, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.
B. Rawls, of Alachua, was married to
T. A. Mobley, of Gainesville. The
ceremony took place at the Alachua
Baptist Church. They left immedi
ately after the ceremony for Live
Oak to visit relatives of Mr. Mobley,
and on their return will be at home
on the Mobley plantation, near
Gainesville.
Howard H. Arnold and Miss Nellie
Wilson were married at the home of
the bride at Lawtey last Sunday,
coming direct to Gainesville, where
they will make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. James Skinner left
for the mountains of North Carolina
on Wednesday, where they will re
main until about September 10.
when they will attend the National
Encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic, at Chattanooga, Tenn.
S. A. Robinson, of Orlando, Repre
sentative to the Legislature from
Orange County, was a prominent vis
itor in Gainesville this week.
I ANARK, Aug. 9.—Forming a
pleasant launch party to Carra-
belle on Thursday were Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. McNair, Mrs. Robert How
ard, Valle Randolph, Miss Eggleston,
Mr. Babcock and Mr. and Mrs. Money.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hudson and
children, of Tallahassee, accompanied
by Mrs. Hudson’s mother, wer e here
this week.
A launch party this week to Apa
lachicola was given in honor of Miss
Sarah Redd, of Columbus, Ga., the
guest of Miss Willie Money at the
Lanark Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Golden and
daughters, Misses Sara Golden, Kath
leen Golden, Vera Golden. Leonora
Golden, Mrs. Fletcher and son and
William Golden, of Columbus, Ga.,
are at the hotel.
Tallahassee people in Lanark in
clude Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McNair. Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Alford and little son
Julian; Mrs.'K. P. Robinson and
daughter, Miss Mary Robinson; Mrs.
C. G. Myers and daughters. Misses
Flossie and Emma, and young son.
Maxwell; Miss Bessie Damon, T. B.
Byrd and family and Mrs. R. J.
Phillips, son and daughter.
Forming a pleasant house party
this week, given by Miss Hinds, of
Bainbridge, Ga., were Mr. and Mrs.
Nusbaum, chaperons, Misses Minnie
and Rose Hinds and Julian Kwileeki,
of Bainbridge; Miss Simon, Miss
Marx, Herbert Simon and Frank
Simon, of Monticello, and Miss Flor
ence Kaul, of Columbus, Ga. The
party occupied a cottage near the
beach.
Million Dollar Gain
In Ware County Taxes
Collector Chases Dodgers and An
nounces Intention of Making
a Perfect Record.
New York Gas ‘Tips’
Wasted on Waycross
City Council Ignores Wall Street
Promoter’s Proposal to
Build Plant.
JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 9.—Repre
sentative St. Elmo Acosta Is trying
to get a highway bridge built over
the St. Johns River from this city to
South Jacksonville. He has organ
ized .the St. Johns River Bridge As
sociation. There are now about 2,000
members and severs* men are busy
getting new members every day.
The last Legislature passed an act
whereby the county of Duval Is given
the right to issue bonds to build such
a bridge. Most of the people seem to
be in favor of this improvement, be
cause it would connect the city with
the beaches. At present there Is no
way of getting to the ocean from
Jacksonville except by crossing the
ferry or going by train.
This society has written all of the
port cities on the Atlantic Coast, the
Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific ('oast and
the Great Lakes. About 60 replies
have been received, and in every in
stance these replies have been favor
able to the bridge proposition. About
ten letters are expected from the larg
est ports In England, Scotland,
France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and
Germany.
This society has also collected data
to present to the United States Army
engineers in support of the claim that
the construction of a bridge here
would not injure the harbor or in
terfere with commerce at this port.
^ e mat!lV b fn a tm u s hl 'ity e wi 1 t n h1n u th" Three Jesuit Priests
next 60 nays. At that time a com- i
mittee of engineers from Washington
will be present to hear both sides of
the case.
Identification Necessary for All
Hunters—Fees Required From
Both Residents and Vistors.
Killing of Bachelor
Mystifies Officers
Despite Strong Alibi, Tom Bullard Is
Held for Death of Farmer
Mack Spain.
WAYCROSS. Aug. 9.—Whether or not
Mack Spain, the eccentrac bachelor far
mer of Mexico, a small place west of
Waycross, was really murdered and
robbed or committed suicide in a fit of
despondency, is a question that has
arisen in view of the alibi offered by
Tom Bullard at the preliminary hear
ing given him this week, but in spite
of which he was bound over to the fall
term of Superior Court.
Bullard asked <a friend to kill Spain
and get all his money, but claims the
statohent was made merely as a joke.
Spain’** body was found in a small pond
2 miles from his home throe weeks after
his disappearance. Bullard himself
found the body, which fact argued in his
favor, although the testimony of wit
nesses w r as to the effect that no one
could have seen the body in the pond
without having had previous knowledge
of its whereabouts.
A careful search has so far failed to
find any of the money the farmer had
wdth him and at his home.
Leave Tampa Church
JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 9.—When
J the hunters begin to polish up their
| guns for a round of sport next winter
in Florida they will find that they
will be hunting under different con
ditions than heretofore. A new set of
law^ has been passed and will be
j In force this fall.
This rew law provides that all
hunters must secure a license, but
that property owners may hunt up3n
their own lands without a permit
during the open season. All other
parties must have either county or
State licenses. Residents of the State
will have to pay $1 for a county li
cense an ’ $3 for a State license.
Non-residents will have to secure
a license in the same manner as do
residents of the State, but they will
have to pay fees of $15.
In the application for a license the
party seeking it must show to the
county Judge who issues the permit
that he is able to write his (or her)
own name, state his color, color of
eyes and hair and give several other
marks of identification.
Penalties are provided for all fail
ures to live up to the law. No hunter
will be allowed to take more than
ten pairs of game birds in one day's
shoot. The open and closed seas >ns
are different for the different classes
of game and fish. A game protection
fund of $5,000 is to be maintained
out of the fees and fines collected.
All rr.onay in excess of that amount is
to be turned over to the State school
fund once each year.
Fathers Navin, Finnegan and Hig
gins Sent to Alabama and
Louisiana Charges.
TAMPA, Aug. 9.—This city had nearly
forgotten that Father John J. Navin
was a member of the "wandering’’ So
ciety of Jesus or Jesuit Fathers and so
subject to be moved elsewhere whenever
his superiors thought it for the good
of the cause, just as a soldier is moved
about from post to post.
Father Navin had been here twelve
years when the order came last week
for him to take charge of Spring Hill
College at Mobile. During his residence
in this city he built up Sacred Heart
College from a small institution to a
I power among the Catholic people in this
section of Florida, and has done a great
work here.
Father F. X. F'innegan, who has been
Father Navin’s chief co-worker here,
was also transferred, as was Father Hig
gins, who has been in charge of the mis
sion work here. Father Finnegan goes
to New Orleans and Father Higgins to
Grand Coteau. I-a.
Father Navin’s place in Tampa as pas
tor of Snrred Heart parish is taken by
Father M. McNally, who comes here
from long service in a Jesuit college in
New Orleans.
Too Much Money to
Spend in Waycross
City’s Income More Than Pays All
Expenses—Tax Rate To
Be Cut Down.
Must Not Tie Barges
ToGovernment Piling
U.
S. Engineer at Savannah Says
Wornout Hulks Rot at
Moorings.
HOME OF CUBAN LIBERTY
AT TAMPA TO BE RAZED
TAMPA, Aug. 9. The old Criterion
Theater, famous during the period pre
ceding the Spanish-American war as the
place where many of the Cuban plots
against Spain were hatched, is to be
torn down to make way for a new
vaudeville theater, announcement just
being made by Lee Dekle. The old
Criterion was a greai gathering place
for the Cuban patriots in the early nine
ties and was famous or infamous even
as far as Madrid.
CAMPHOR TREE RAISING
TO BE TRIED IN FLORIDA
BRADKNTOWN, Auk. 9.—Two 20-
acre tracts have been donated to the
United States Department of Agricul
ture and an experimental farm will be
established here. Professor Stockberger
and Professor Hood have been here and
the Board of Trade has made arrange
ments for money to aid in the experi
ments. Experiments n growing cam
phor trees, which it is believed can be
made a profitable Industry in Florida,
will be among the first made.
CHATHAM ARTILLERY TO
ORGANIZE NEW BATTERY
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—Steps looking to
the organization of a second battery of
Chatham Artillery have already been
taken. First Lieutenant Ed G. Thomson
will command the new battery and Lieu
tenant E. D. Wells the old one. Cap
tain Richard J. Davant, Mayor of Savan
nah, and at present commanding officer
of the Chathams, will be chosen for the
majoralty.
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9.—From his hasty
examination of the 1913 tax returns for
Ware County, Tax Collector J. T. Strick
land is confident a large amount of prop
erty subject to taxation has not been re
turned and he announced to-day that he
intended getting every bit of it on the
tax books within a few months. That
his work will give Ware an Increase of A „ e
at least $1,000,00 01s practically certain. I when It was learned that
As the report now stands the returns j $2,5b0 given by George W
for 1913 show an increase of $546,349 1 - ’ - -
over 1912.
The big growth of Waycross is the
main cause for the gain shown.
The tax rate, now $13 a thousand, will
probably be reduced to $10. The col
lector says he thinks he will make a
collection record for the year of 100
per cent, something that has not been
done in this county up to date.
THIEF STEALS WARDROBE
OF WAYCROSS CANDIDATE
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9.—Alderman Scott
T. Beaton, of the Fourth ward, a prob
able candidate for mayor, is on the war
path. During his vacation at Mayport
some one entered his home on Gilmore
street and went off with his best clothes,
a lot of silverware, some of his wife’s
dresses and a shotgun he had just pur
chased The kitchen window was
smashed with an ax and whoever robbed
the place made a good job.
PIE R C E IN ST IT U T E HAS
FLATTERING PROSPECTS
WAYCROSS. Aug. 9.—According to
President W. A. Huckabee, Pierce Col*
legate Institute. Georgia’s newest col
lege. located at Bldckshear, east of Way-
cross, will open in September with a
very flattering attendance. The college
is a Methodist institution and owns
buildings valued at $60,000.
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9.—Aldermen of
Waycross have evidently had enough of
the gas proposition, judging by the lack
of interest taken by City Council in a
communication from a New Yorker
showing how the city could build a gas
plant and operate it at a profit Instead
of giving a franchise to outsiders.
The proposition was made to the city
’ ** * i bond of
_ Deen ana
L. M. Aldrich as evidenoe of their in
tention to spend no less than $20,000
within a year, had been declared for
feited.
By spending $85,000, the New Yorker
claimed, Waycross would have a money
making plant. The success of the mu
nicipal gee plant at Albany was given as
an Illustration. The Waycross City
Council ignored the proposal.
TAMPA WANTS BRANCH OF
COLORADO SPRINGS HOME
TYBEE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
i TOO SMALL FOR TOURISTS
SAVANNAH. Aug. 9.—Plans are be
ing considered for enlarging the Ro
man Catholic chapel at Tybee.
This season the attendance has been
so large that men and boys have had to
stand. The summer communicants have
been most generous In their contribu
tions to the enlargement fund They
have also raised a fund for the purchase
of new vestments for the priest.
FARMERS QUIT COTTON
TO GROW WATERMELONS
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9--The biggest wa
termelon crop on record is h^ing moved
along the Savannah and Statesboro Rail
road. Already more than 650 cars have
been hauled Bennett Maas, commer
cial agent for the Macon Dublin and
Savannah, reports that farmers are so
well pleased with their melon crops that
some "of them will abandon cotton-plant
ing and go in for melons entirely.
TAMPA, Aug. 9.—Tampa will try for
the • . tabliehment of a branch of the
Union Printers' Home at Colorado
Springs, the union typos being anxious
to have a sea level branch somewhere.
The City Tax Assesor, a former lino
type operator, will lay the matter be
fore the convention in Nashville.
TRAVELING MAN NAMED
STATE HOTEL INSPECTOR
TALLAHASSEE, Aug 9.—John Mc
Dougall has been appointed Hotel In
spector by recommendation of Hotel
Commissioner A. L, Messer. He is a
son of Alex McDougall, postmaster of
*■ city,
McDougall has been traveling for the
Arnold Hat Company, of Atlanta.
SAVANNAH, Aug 9.—Because own
ers of disabled barges and other vessels
persist in tying them up to the Govern
ment piling in the Savannah harbor, It
is probable they will be arraigned In
the United States Court and subjected
to a heavy fine. |
Speaking of this violation of the Fed- j
era! law, Colonel Dan C. Kingman, I
United States engineer for this district,
said:
“Uncle Sam is patient and long suf
fering. He puts up with a lot of an- I
noyance rather than be disagreeable. |
l4I spurred into action, he is
likely to make things lively. It looks
to me as if something of this kind is
about to happen here pretty soon on ac-
unt of the action of certain impru
dent owners of vessels and barges who
persist in tying them up to the pilings
forming a part of the training wall of
Savannah harbor, and leaving them until
they sink. These vessels are not only
unsightly, hut are a great menace to
navigation."
SEABOARD SPECIAL AGENT
RESIGNS HIS POSITION
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—Thomas Bal-
lantyne, former chief of the Savannah
fire department, but for several months
special agent of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway on the Hutchinson Island ter
minals. has resigned, and J R. Whitten,
of New Orleans, has been named to
succeed him. It is understood that Bal-
luntyne will accept a position as chief
of a department in a neighboring city.
WAYCROSS. Aug 9.—With a $780 ap
propriation for twelve months, the com
mittee on parks and cemeteries of Way-
cross City Council expended only $1.30,
according to the financial statement for
the first six nLonths of the year Just
issued.
Practically every department of the
city is keeping within its budget, and
will end the year with a balance to its
credit. The engineering department,
with $14,464 available, has spent only
$6,011 96. Out of an appropriation of
$10,280 the fire department has spent
but $3,865.38.
The revlseo estimate of Income places
the total for 1913 at $156,442.43. The
estimate when the year’s appropriations
were made was $151,000 The expected
increase will therefore leave the city a
neat balance to start 1914 with.
In addition to these expenditures the
city is spending $100,000 in permanent
improvements, this money coming from
a bond issue voted last year.
50 MARKSMEN COMPETE
FOR LABOR DAY SHOOT
SAVANNAH. Aug. 9.—About 50 men
from the First Regiment Infantry, Na
tional Guard of Georgia, are taking
dally rifle practice in an effort to se
cure ten men to compete in the J^abor
Day shoot at the Rose Dhu Range.
Several valuable trophies are offered.
The DeRonne trophy, valued at $3,000,
is the most coveted.
BANKRUPTCY SUIT FILED
AGAINST BREWING PLANT
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—-An involuntary
bankruptcy suit has been filed against
the Consumers’ Brewing Company. The
moving creditors are M. S. und D. A.
Byck, the Herman Coal and Wood Com
pany and J A. Rimes.
The Consumers' Brewing Company
was organized about a year ago to
take over and operate the old brewing
plant left by Herman Winter, near the
Cathedral Cemetery. The company
started off with elaborate plans, ana in
tended making a stupendous amuse
ment park of the grounds, but busi
ness was disappointingly bad.
It would b* difficult to find
moru conscientious, efficient
end pelnless dentists In Qeor-
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gia than tha gentlemen who
own end operate the
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MUNICIPAL BRICK PLANT
SUGGESTED FOR ORLANDO
ORLANDO, Aug 9.Orange County I
and the city of Orlande art* con tern- |
plating bon issues for brick paving. I
and it is City Engineer Ramsay’s idea
that the city should put in a brick- j
making plant, ship in the right sort of j
shale and make its own paving bricks. |
He has advanced the Idea and will bring
it before the Council. He figures that
Orlando could not only make its own
bricks. ’>ut could also supply brick for
other cities and counties.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Aug. 8.—Charged
w.th “KanKing," two negroes employ- ; To Thousand Island,; Montr.al,
,d by Sheriff rrcry a« simtter^ tWe goston. New York, Philadelphia. At-
nt*K n, e.4 from St. Johns J ark are in . , antlc CUy Washington, Baltimore
' a ‘l , '‘’ n ’ ' r . ’ . ?■' _ and Savannah, Including all expenses
breaking up blind tigers In the coun- (except a few mea i s f transportation,
try districts and he sent negroes „ tandard Pullman , all meals rn route>
I.'l. . pa L* e™! b«t hotels, stateroom and meals on
known to exist there. Negrues there
became aware of the fact and badly i
beat up the two.
steamers eighteen days for only
work. Special trains leave Atlanta.
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