Smith's Weekly from Tallahassee, Florida • 4

ST MARKS SURVEY Miami Ahead in state building MAYO EXPLAINS in i MianMrswaaawnsMMS) outbreak has been reported ma 1 practically all puts of the ooV ton belt. Damage is eroeedlngly yexialle but very hear la man pltoes. Texas reports over CO counties seriously infested. A recent survey shows about forty eounttaa in Georgia slmflariy Injured. In the most severely injured all tniftin has been nrevened WM.

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SULLIVAN, Quimsn. AlteMi PAUL Y. LA NO, Cbrk. Jmiimt Ktk, lit. tf mm pleads N0T GUILTY New York, July 8.

(P) Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, pleaded not guilty today to indictment charging him and Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general and the late John T. King with conspiracy to defraud the government. He expressed himself strongly in favor of senate investigation of the alien property custodianship.

CIO MiiS CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS ure i Jiusually well equipped to give ur patrons the very best (ervice in all iaes of building-. Call on us if you are oatemplatingr any kind of building We an save you money. Wheat, of Escambia, gives some Idea aa to Just what the new bridge meant in tha way of the Immsnaeneas of the project The structure, the engineer ste-ted, ia not in the true sense of the word a bridge, but a series of puns. These spans are made up of ateel, creosoted timber trestles and earth fills. The fills, which ore 80 foet minimum at the top, with 2.1 foot side slopes, are approximately fourteon feet above the level of the marshes which are about at sea level.

The materials for the fills were brought in from a pit in the nearby highlands ovor a standard gauge railway constructed for that purpose. The contractor for the filla and trestles was the Hardaway Construction company, of Columbus, Ga. Approximately 409,100 cubic yards of earthwork was placed. E. W.

Parker, of Tampa, waa the contractor on the earthwork. The Atlantic Bridge company was the contractor for the ereo-tion of tho etsel spans and immediate approaches. The steel structures total 700 feet in length. The draw span, of the centre-awing pier type, is 200 feet long, giving two 80-foot clear openlnga for navigation, and the weight of the structural ateel and cantinga wna given at 701,325 pounds. In the construction of the span, a total of 2,100 cubic yards of concrete, with 23,338 pounds of reinforced WANTED ALLIGATOR SKINS TOP MARKET PRICES PAID AT ALL TIMES WE QUOTE AS FOLLOWS: up $250 t.

up 1.85 t. up 1.15 up Jl .75 t. up .40 i. up .20 VPITAL HIDE FUR CO TALLAHASSEE, FLA. LOCATED OPPOSITE S.

A. L. RY. DEPOT HIS OPPOSITION FIVE ACRE FARIAS Inaamueh as those who have criticised my article on the "Five-Acre Farm" seem to have read ri ly the advance news item concerning it, I take this method of calling your attention to the article page 8 of the Florida Review herewith enclosed. The thlfg I am objecting to Is that thousands of these small tracta are being offered as suf-fldont for a farm, without proper discrimination as to the character of the soil on the various Uxcta, or of location.

If you could sit in my office and converse with the representatives of these five-acre land promoters, as I have been doing for n'onths and years, look at their blue prints and hear their arguments, you would realise what is going on In the way of selling Florida lands. The prices range from $200 to $1,000 per acre, and more often than otherwise they are not even trying to get farmers, but htve their agents go into the cltlea and sell to wage-earners many of whom would not know how to put gear on a horse. I have contributed to some of these victims who were strained at the end of a year and could net buy a ticket back to their old home. The most of those who have made good on small farms are men who came and se-lecttd their land themselves. If something is not done we will have a repetition of the 25-foot subdivision lot episode, to the serious detriment of agriculture.

There are some wide-awake pi motors who are trying to avoid tho evils of which I speak twd they dcoerve success. I would do nothing to injure the State, nor do I want to see irreparable injury wrought without 1'ioteat. Very truly youra, NATHAN MAYO, Commiaaioner. LYNCHING RECORD FOR SIX MONTHS Tuskcgee, July t. I send ou the following information concerning lynchinga for the first six months of this year.

I find according to the records compiled at Tunkekee Institute in the Department of Records and Research that in the first aix months of 1926 there were nine lynch-hgn. This number is the same as number 30 of the first six cnths of 1025, it ia 4 more than the number 6 for the first six months of 1021, 6 lees than the number 15 for the first six montha of 1923, 21 lees than the number 80 ofr the first six mrnths of 1022, and 27 less than the number 80 for the first six m-nths of 1921. The races of the persons lynch ed and the number in each racej wTe; Negro, White, Indian, 1. The offi-nscs charged were: murder, rape, attempted rape, making Improper proposal to woman, burglary, wounding officer of the law, The states In which lynching occurred and the number In each state are as follows: Arkansas, Florida, 8: Kentucky, Missis-sippi, New Mexico, Texas, 1. Yours very truly, R.

R. MORTON, Principal Mrs. Charles Bell Mrs. a H. Roberts.

Mrs. Edward Proctor. Mr. and Mra. George Averitt spent a few days in Tampa this week.

LETTER DELAYED As formerly stated in the Democrat about June 7th or 8th -Senator Duncan TJ. Fletcher wrote on tlo 6th to the effect that "the bill (re St Marks) passed the House on the fourth authorizing and directing the secretary of war to cauae a preliminary examination and survey to be made of the "The bill has been referred to the senate committee on commerce of which I am a member; and you and others Interested may be assured that tho St Marks item will have my best attention." Associated Press reports from Washington in the Times Union of yesterday and in previous dates by other papers state that "the chief stumbling block, the rivers and harbor bill, to gateway by tho House and Senate leaders, waa removed by unanimous consent agreement, to take that measure up on December 14, under limitations of debate that will assure a final vote before the Christmas holidays. Tho Secretary of the chamber of commerce regrets the need to report this hold up in what had seemed to be a happy conclusion of years of effort of the chamber to secure the opening of the channel of the 8t Marks, but it also realizes that a continuous fight will have to be made by every one Interested, after the survey has been actually ordered by the Secretary of war. This survey can not be made until after the passage of the bill and its having beoome a law, at which time the real work will have to be made in securing the approval of the project through the representative engineer ap-pcinted to make the survey. If tho necessity can be shown the engineer, he will undoubtedly approve it and his approval will i all probability secure the necessary appropriation to remove the obstructions.

SECRETARY. GEORGIA COMMISSIONS EORGLUM TO CARVX STEPHENS MONUMENT Stanford, Jul 2. -P) Gutxon Borglam, sculptor, announced that he has lien r-? missioned by the state of (Uor-gin to carve a monument to Aloa- ander 8 epLens, vice-president at the confederacy. Ho will leave in a fev Cayt for Mount Rush- more, S. D.f where he ia to ourva a national monument in the Hick Hills, sponsored by state and natter.

3l governments. GET AWAY WTffl $10,000 PAYROLL New York, July 2. (JP) i. ten thouaanq dollar pay roll was stolen from the Uesevelt hospital In on fifty ninth street by five robbers who entered the cashier's office Intimidated two employes. Two companions of the robbers watched in the corridor as unsuspecting persons passed by and another stayed In a parked car in which all escaped.

DIED FROM BITES OF RATTLESNAKF Dallas, July 2. (IP) Two of four persona bitten In Texas hy rattlesnakes Wednesday, are dead. Mrs. Edith Jane Thornton, to, of Abilene, died despite prompt first aid treatment as did I ma Lou Burkett, 2, of Me-Klnney, by first aid and administration of serum saved two children in the Sen Antonio district a A4V4 oil the ten and a half OF GASOLINE "PLODES WETH Jacksonville, July f. (JDTwenty three Florida cltlea Issued building permits for 114,74550 worth of construction work during' the month of June, so totals mads by the Associated press revealetf Eighteen of the twenty three cities reporting gave totals for the first six month period rolling up a figure of 104,808,046.

for the period. Miami led both in June and the six montha column with 8,903,806 for June and 120,780,847 for the tlx months period. MISUSE OF THE SENATORIAL FRANK Washington, July 2, (P) Res-ponsibllty for misuse of the senatorial frank in the Brookhart-Cummins senatorial campaign in Iowa has beon placed by the post office department upon a clerk in the office of Frank Lun, Henator Brookhart's campaign manager. FOREST FIRES ARE HURTING CALIFORNIA San Franclsoo, June 2. Forest and brush fires are burning in a dozen California eountles.

Two towns have been threatened by the flames and more than 1.000 men are fighting to halt the crackling advance of the menacing fire lines. One man, Guy Vilson, has been killed, trapped between walls of blazing brush in Siskiyou county, BILL ASKS LONGER HOntfi London, July 2- The house of commons favors Increasing the working day of coal miners froL-seven to eight hours. A bill to this effect passed second read after acrimonious debate. OUR TENNIS Sm WIN Ei Wimbledon, July 2. VP) America's lawn tennis stars won one of the Wimbledon championship honors today bat los another.

Miss It-oy K. Browne and Miss Elizabeth Ryan cap-Vored the woman doubles final from Mrs. Kitty McKna frey and Miss Evelyn Colyer, 0-t 9v Howard Kiry I sixth miking American player, lost to Jtrt Dorrotra 8-6 0-1 4-3. $8,00031 UAIK IN WflcaiaVB. if July 2-i gain 1 of near Lv iJCaat ratv' jpwrsliug rerei'es for twe five ivmths otf 1026 thv.

orrespoi.Hng -fcrzJod cf was leporfid at tK csnsrol eea of the Oout LL-e railroad companr here. NOT A SLOt MACHINE A Chamber of Commerce Is not a slot machine which you place a nickel in and sit back to watch results. Yon have got to turn the crank that moves the machinery after you have placed your money in tho slot to operate the Chamber as it should be operated. DELAND OFFICER SPIRITED AWAY OPERATED ON Band of Six Unmasked Men Take Building Inspector Out of Town Daytona Beach, July 6 John O'Neill, building inspector of the city of DeLand, waa kidnapped by six unmasked men and whisked away in a closed car, operated upon and left on the road between Winter Park and Orlando Saturday night, according to information reaching here today. O'Neal was picked up at 10 o'clock Saturday night.

He had been lured to a hotel ia DeLand by a telegram sent from Jacksonville. He waa tree ted for wouadj and danger of pneumonia from exposure was feared. CNed was unmarried. Rewards are said to have been of-fered for the arrest ef menbera of the band. COTTON ilOPFKES PRESENT III ALL 07 COTTUN CULT wasucmartooL Jnlv siu.

EaeEOii, democrat ef Loelsiajaa, Ccearcs-T me mta the senita mere a tatagrr from the dlMO-tor ef Qm wAtaamk agrferf-tnti at TsUsh, Leeisl-Bt, drtA tottom hes la varying degree fruiting has been preverted. CITY BANK IF FORT LAUDERDALE CLObZD Ft Lauderdale, 7uly 6tVP) The City Bank here failed te open its doors for business, following orders Issued by Its board- of directors placing the bank la the hands of tho state banking department. The bank Is oapltalised at I5V 000, and officers say the institution win be closed temporarily for a reorganisation. WHAT CAN YOU TAKE? Henry Longfallov eedld take A sheet of paper, worth one cent, write a poem on it and make It worth 15,000. That's genius.

Henry Ford can take a similar sheet of paper, write a few woris on it and make it worth That's capital A workman can take three cents' worth of stool, nuke it Into watch springs and collect hundreds of dollars. That's sUlL A mechanic can take en article worth fifty cents, advertise it, and sell it for That's usi-ness. Almost any printer era take a job at price, and wither ft profit Thafa damphooHsIuess Franklin Asjodation Bulletin. UNCLS SAM ItfAlO RICH SOf WITH FLORIDA TAXES Jacksonville, July With a collection of flbVft of income taxes and levVe assessed by the federal governmevi and wits, 25,000 Individual lutarns, Florida was the only state 05 districts to shoe- an increase both fa collections and the number ef returns for the first six months ef 1926. This statement ems iJZxA by Peter H.

MlHer, coRitter fay ternal revenue for the trlct, in bis seml-anntNl report, In the number ef rc! file for the first six motive of tlfr year there was Increase of over the entire year ef 192b, fJet ieiut shows. Aesarding to the retcvt, collections for the month v2 Jutjo M2 were a wry A neA the PlegJa trist ThL ia more than teke ie eoOutior ef Jane, 1926, wve i- 1,899.02. The eottr iLts in Laie, 1924, wefts 11. Amir ClOW SUC- AKi aSFULLT IM JEFFEI9CAI COUJItT Mr. J.

EL Freemaev who Uvee about four miles north of Monti-cello, bronght some very tdee apples to the city otu day last week, that were grown on his place. We measured one which was eleven and three-fourths inches ia circumference. Mr. Freeman has about ten trees and says that they have no special attention. The trees are eight years old, end he says they began bearing at four years.

TURN FOR TALLAHASSEE The Madison Enterprise has the following in reference to a business institution eoon to open ef in Tallahassee! Messrs. S. C' Eawtdnf, ef Albany, Geu, W. Tomer, H. S.

Turner and Lewis Tamer, ef Perry, and Davie Turner, of Madison, tare organisofi the Tamer Company, Incorporated, and wd Caa a fine new treatment store a Tallahassee about 8tp 1st The Turner Oompeny hare a location en Menrie street in the Capital City, win exteastrety remodel the befldhtg, put the latest fixtarra, Sid have a ctrlft-ly up-tVie the senate krge apert-tut store. sfr. Welter Tamer wQ he active ehasre of Cat new 1 tOt GOUSI TO CSAT3 Verdea, tOdwTaa yestr eld David KrJdasee rwed to death Vy his enters ill. Wfif the eJdoBt so, ef Mn IBd Mr. B.

Meera had tin tri.sArtaae tf bmliij lis uta Tkajda afiasTBsrs UfeacM fva I FRENCH FRANC AGAINJflTS LOW Paris, July 8. VP) After a slight recovery from Tuesday'l slump, the French franc today sagged heavily to a new low record of 80.0 to a dollar, on news that the bank of France statement would ahow an increase ht circulation of nearly a billion francs. NO TWELVE MILE LIMIT SAYS COURT New York, July 8. (IP) There is no twelve mile limit preventing seizure beyond that point for American ships according to a decision of the United States Circuit court appeals made public today. The decision reversed the finding In the United States district court of of Co lumbia which had sustained exceptions to a government libel filed against the American rum runner Underwriter.

COMMITTEE WILL DELVE INTO PRI- MARY ILLINOIS Washlngton, July The senate campaign committee decided today to begin its Investigation of the Illinois republican primary on July 20 at Chicago. KILLED HIS AUNT IS GARROTED Santiago, Cuba, July 8. (IP) Salvatore Aguilera was put to death by Garrote today for the murder of his aunt in March, 1024. It was tho first execution in Cuba in twenty years. PLANE FAILS IN NON-STOP, TRIP SEATTLE-DIEGO Bremerton, July 7.

(IP) The navy seaplane, PB-1, radioed tho Puget Sound navy yard that she had descended at Pillar Point at this morning after storting a non-stop flight from Seattle to San Diego. A 40 percent dividend has just been returned In Columbia county on cooperative live stock, poultry, truck, dairy, pecan and hatchery productlona, according to figures given out by the county agent OF 3 LIVES The dead are Maynard Bute, 14 i William Gilchrist, 25, and Koy( Thaxton, 85. Company official aaid they believed the sranoltno was Ignited t. a result of static electricity whe Gilchrlit and Thaxton remo the cover of the tank before loading it. LOSS Electricity Believed to Ignited Gas as Workmen Uuload Tank mmm "mmmmmm wrleston, W.

July persons art dead and i injured aa a mult of an ion of a 10,000 gallon tank of gasoline at the Viking Una Corporation today. 1 EAT ESCAilA steel was used. A total of 17,085 lineal feet of "foundation" piling waa also placed. Creosoted timber piling used measured 29,705 linear feet, with 240,542 superficial feet of creosoted or "treated" timber in the trestles, bulkheads, fenders, and so forth. All bridges provide a 20-foot roadway of aand clay and two 6-foot strips of sod.

Steel wire link guard rails are placed on the shouldera for the full length of the fill, which constitutes 2.3 miles of the total length of the project. The total cost of tha bridge is given In round numbers at according to estimates given out by R. L. Hannerman, division engineer, and 8. O.h French, project engineer, in charge of the local work.

H. J. Morrison and Charles D. Snead, representing the government road body, were In charge for the United States Uureau of Public Roada. The estimate as made in-dudes engineering, overhand costs and Incidentals, and of this was contributed by each of the two adjacent counties of Escambia and Santa Rosa.

The balance was mf, up and met by tha "tala end eu ul government road "mun. le bridge will be only sur- by the immense structure ch ia now in course of con-ittructlon over Mobile bay. With the opening of the Escambia bridge, a structure 3.2 miles in length, there has been linked another chain in tho Old Spanish Trail. BOOKKEEPER FALLS HEIR TO FORTINE "Upon the death of an uncle I inherited $60,000. I gave up my position and Intended en-Joying: mysolf when I was stricken with a severe case of stomach trouble ar.d colic attacks.

Two of these attack made me Ion consciousness. After treating with our doctors 'with l.ttle benefit, I decided to try MAYR'S, and It helped me all once. I have been entirely well for the past year." It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the Intestinal tract and allays the inflamation which causes practically all stomach, liver and Intestinal ailments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money All Druggists. FISHERIES IIIEN MEET MOBILE State Shell Flan Commiaaioner Hodges and Royal, commissioner of the state department of game and fresh water Oah are attending a fisheries meeting in Mobile.

The roeetin; wee aaDed by ero- miasioaer ef fisheries Qme oil Alabama for the propose of eV eesatag eoneervetioa ef tdt and to devise ways and naaae ef obtaining the paaeage ef adtfi-ttonal legudatlea for their OPENED crnor Martin, Chairman Hathaway, and Other Notables Participate in Formal Dedicatory Ceremonies Today Governor Slashes Tax Rate Nearly One-Third isaeola, July 8. (ff) it tha achievementa dern engineering wai trans-1 to public uie today when rest Escambia bay bridge dedicated with eeromonles. i ipan, considered one of tha important link in the Old Trail between New Or-and Jacksonville, marks a ra in construction work in and will remain a mon--. to progressive enterprise, ning of the bridge was wtt-1 by Governor John Mar-c Fona A. Hathswsy, chair-f the SUte Road Depart-and ether members of that and a vast horde of other ruished persons, in addition multitude of residenta of Uon and visitori from oth-ts of Florida and neighbor-ates, program for tha dedicate carried out.

It follows i ra. Parade Civic, in-l and agricultural. Form-both ends of tha bridge -sooaly, and paasinf in re-fore the governor of Flor-1 Ida honor guests. afloat Addrossn Dover nor Martin, Chairman Hathaway and Peter Tomlssello. Ferry Pans side of bridge.

1:30. p. m. -Picnic banket lunch, Ferry Pass and Florida-town. Kiwanls luncheon to Governor Martin and guesta at Ferry Pass.

3 p. m. Grand naval air pageant, Floridatown. Planes from the Naval Air Station, Pensacola. 4 p.

Motor and sailing bost regatta, Pensacola Yacht Club, at Floridatown. Speed racea. 6:30 p. ra. Band concert.

Thirteenth Coast Artil'ery Band and Navel Air Station band. Floridatown. 6:30 p. m. Exhibition drill, famous company Uniform Rank of Woodmen of World.

8 p. m. -Grand Illumination of bridge in colored lighta. Lieutea-ante Tucker and Krans and members of 13th Coast Artillery, 8:80 p. m.

Governor's reception, Harry Gardens', Floridatown, 8 p. m. Dancing, Merry Gardens, Floridatown and Satauma Beach. An article, prepared by request by County Engineer Hlnatoa E. Florida state taxes went under the knifa veat-Anfav nrhnn Governor John W.

Martin sliced three milla miu tax rate. The new rate of seven and a half is the lowest levied in tho state ten years. The 29 per cent reduction will mean a saving to property, owners of three mills, or $3 on the Governor Martin predicted a total tax reduction of .00 pev cent before his term of office expiree. Hie preatnt ixskdia which goes into effect in Novewiber, is tha txcond of his adraiivir tration. Srm rta,.