?::>- -*?5i **i5=<% T"-- -"-"- W'*.- -", ; / , 3 F > -- "Ii'T r , ..' .' 4 e THE CITIZEN-REPORTER Established 1874 J ';; . . . . . . . . . "" . The bright prospects for the future.It OUR POLICE FORCE. > > -i i a i _ CitizejhReporter.. has been the sole aim and objectof - the CITIZEN-REPORTER under the With A. E. Futch and C. F. Eatonas @eHrt .fJreeee I K 13rL. DODD. H., DODD,1aaawIEditor.. EDITOR AID PBOP3IETOBA. present management, covering a pe day, and J. B. Dowling and W. Gil- i( j : : iftms.tJi..l J Jy.yyy riod of thirteen years, to issae a pa- | len as night men, our police force is .... _ yyyyyyy.yI"OURT : Official the Newspaper Town of of Lake Columbia County and per that would be at once an 'honor made up of excellent material. Our y..y.y.y.y. : Florida. -3 City f % : OFFICIALS AND THEIR WORK. to note the and a credit to the city and county, policemen are well qualified to dls- spirit of general f Comment Published every Friday at Lake City. Fla. I The term of our circuit court just upon the Office-South ot Courthouse Square. and command the respect and deserve charge the duties incumbent upon < presiding and the support of the people. That we 'tbem a fact abundantly demon'dtrated closed was in several respects 'a re- of Judge B. H. Palmer. ffe hS Advtrtiiiig law FiraUlei IPOl1pplio ol. markable one in the history of Co- nothing but have made some mistakes we do not during their occupancy of of- commendation & j, Entered In Lake City postofflce a.. second attempt to deny-for who among, us ;, fice. They have become a veritable'' lumbia county, and in features uponi j, fair and firm;courteous, but taja,. 0< class matter. is perfect-but they were honest J'' terror to the offenders of the law, which court, bar, officials, jurors and j tial; ready and to the point {W , Subscription $1.00 Per Year. mistakes; "errors of judgement, not i and as such have won the respect and j I the people of the county at large are tainly no exhibition of favorhiaa i of the heart," and were made whilewe admiration of good citizens. We to be congratulated. can be charged against him OB the ; were do I commend them for their activity, The first day was taken up by ad bench he is simply judge FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1901. honestly striving to our -the eJnbo. duty and subserve the best interestsof alertness, vigilance,and bravery, and : journment, resolutions and remarks diment of the administrative of : our friends and patrons-the people hope that the city's interests as respectful to the memory of our late liws-yet retaining as the mu Gilt VOLUME 28,, NUflBER I. beloved judge, the lIon. Jnn. F. that genial ju of Lake City and Columbia Coun comprehended in their particular social presence thick ty. In this we have the approval of sphere, may always have as capable White, whose memory.will ever hold has given much toward I his popular - With the issue of last week the our conscience, and its patrons can guardians and protectors. a green and sacred; place in the hearts ty.The - CITIZEN-REPORTER closed its twentyseventh rest assured that the policy of the and minds" of the people of our coun- officers- of the court auf the ': successful year and this CITIZEN-REPORTER will not be ON THE: GRIDIRON. ty, and whose strong character, members of the bar hate beet ; week begins a new ,volume. Last changed so long as the present management warm and kindly personality, benign promptly and constantly at ! week celebrated, the thirteenth retains control.flR. The College Gridiron Club has ar- indulgence and uprightness will ever posts, rood order and.a seDa.ntl"...their".,... _. _;;;; ran ired a series of football to be -r--- Vl - : frames revered by all who knew him. the bar anuiienary'ofthe present ,management and public have been 'i : The CITJZES-REFOBTER enjoys BRYAN ON THE I I come off in the near future. The The second day, and part of the tained-and all baa contributed mats. i NEGRO. t first of these will be played at Jacksonville third consumed in the trial to not ,only, ,the distinction of was of a I the end discussed, and each U ill- _ being by far the oldest paper in I on the 21st, during the Fair. tedious civil case, that of Butler, I titled to a part la the credit - the county,-and one of the oldest in In the last issue of the Commoner, IOn that day they will contest the Stevens & Co., vs. Seaboard Air Line due. i the state-but also of being conducted Mr. Bryan fives his views on the race honors with the Stetson University I Rwv. Co., so that nearly half of tbe State : for a greater length of time by question, and they will be read with Another game will be played with first week was gone before the crim- Stevenson vs.Dave Choice,alias Date Jf the same proprietors. interest in all parts of the country.The the same team here, and another at inal docket was reached. Then on ; selling intoxicating JIqJ, main part of his editorial is as DeLand. uors without a license; Found not :.a the In August of 1900 the REPORTERand Friday, State Attorney, Hon. L. guilty. the COLUMBIA COUNTY CITIZEN follows: The line-up will be as follows: Rice, E. Roberson, was called away in the were consolidated-these two old and "It was to have been expected that cent.; Keen, Bates, guards; Henderson midst of a murder trial by tbe sadden bles State ys. Alex,.Jones and Arch Mo- long established newspapers were northern papers would wax wroth and Maguire T., tackles; Ives H., and sad death of his brother in Geor- Alex.; assault Jones with intent to murder 1 welded into one and have since been : grow bitterly sarcastic in replying to MitchilT., ends; Maguire H., Simon- gia, and did not return until the Mublea found guilty and Arch published under the' hyphenatedname i f southern strictures upon the Presi- ton, half backs; Brown F., quarter I Tuesday morning following, his place State not guilty. of THE CITIZENREPORTER.This dent for entertaining Booker T. back; Helvenston, full baek. The being filled and his duties discharged the vs. Simon Wright oarderin first combination of forces has madeit Washington at dinner. But the Lake City players e made of good during his absence by Col. T. B. Oli- murder degree. Found runty of i possible for us to publish a better southern papers are replying by,asking stuff and the DeLand boys will have Ii. ver, appointed and sworn by the court of in the first degree and themercy the paper and to cover a much larger some pertinent questions and to hustle if they carry off the honors. at his request.as acting State Attorney State Coart was asked field,and, if we are to judge from the citing some pertinent facts. They >I I. for the time. vs. Jesse Jones; selling IDtoxicaling - point out the fact that northern love i j': DEATH OF B. F. ncFA LANE. liquors without license. Yet it is J frequent expressions of appreciation I a fact that, never in the Found for the negro is confined to election I I I not guilty. . coming from its patrons, has increased memory of our oldest citizen, has so . day. How business offices in'I|'I B. F. McFarlane, one of our old and State vs.John C.Whliamsmurda many I and its influ- much public business been 'I strengthened dispatched I r" , the north employ clerks? respected citizens, died last Friday in the first degree. The State ilbuI negro j : ence. As an evidence of the popularity 1 I I! here in the same period of time, i j How trainmen em morning at the Gainey House at 3:30 for I I Boned tbe charge of murder in the many negro are - .. past and present. of the CITI- I so many convictions had out of tbe I I ployed on northern railroads? How ]! o'clock, after an illness, of severalweeks first degree against -the defendant, ZEN-REPOBTER it has been for t same number criminal years prosecu many negroes have been appointed {!J from paralysis. He was 63 tions. I and placed dim on trial for murder past and is at present the official I or- to postmasterships in the north? : years of age, and had resided here in the second degree. The jury found of both and This to show that gan city county. for the goes our courtsare 34 How northern past years. the prisoner not guilty. have For more than 'a generation this many states elect-I' He getting down to a strict business ed came -originally from North State vs. Johnson negro senators or Kirby murder ; paper, under HS several names, has basis with their work, and it also Carolina and the relatives the that first How only degree. A t ero mechanics i motion for many are em- a reduction been and welcome speaks much for a regular visitor the and efficiency ployed in northern mills and j survive him, a sister and a niece, reside of the amount of bond in hundreds ot homes and been read facto-j!I accuracy of the public officials. The was at Aberdeen in that State. ries presented and taken under alongside white mechanics adrift by thousands of patrons in Lake i juries also seemed to catch the same and Columbia North he la limited to the position i| He was sheriff of the county for one I ment, and an affidavit filed in supportof City County. inspiration and disposed of the various - twenty-seven of porter in hotels and on trains, or i j term during the Republican regime, same ; whereupon the said bond During the past years 1 matters given in charge to them to waiterships in hotels pr restau- and although a Republican, was held was reduced to 41,800.SENTENCES.. great changes have been with a business-like wrought in dispatch and a high by the members of I respect rants. Is there . in the social, political financial and a negro linotype operator the ready justice seldom equalled, and 'I economic conditions of the county! og any great daily paper in I I opposition party. A consistent tbe result has.been the granting of Judge Palmer pronounced the fol. north | member of the Baptist Church, a lowing sentences the that id so roundly denounc-t I on Saturday, state and nation and the CITIZEN- few I very new trials. Appeals ing the south for its attitude toward { conscientious Christian, and a man are last day of Court : the"I REPORTER has carefully noted and almost as few-and the dockets I I the Roosevelt- ,I of sturdy and admirable character, Geo. Wad kin.. Vashingtou dinner in- J which convicted_ ___ of __ __ faithfully recorded them all It has n n i he were very heavy. on the !rimlI - I cident? Does of these north- enjoyed the friendship. and esteem --- ----- in the first degree sentenced beloved any one !I wa to seen our state slowly but I nal side at the beginning of are - ern republican daily newspapers em- everyone. The remains were interred I practically five years at hard labor in the State surely emerge and progress from an at the cleared; the jail, which was ; ploy a negro preeman, a" negro reporter I City Cemetery Friday prison. The prisoner was given forty undeveloped settled and full is sparsely afternoon, Rev. T. S. Hubert I empty, and the business trans- editor? I offici- days from the or a negro city Some adjournment of Court unknown section : acted is comparatively un- for the most part disposedof til to-day it is known and recognized I i of these days the negro will realize 'j ating. _________ finally. Even the civil cases tri- I to make up, tender and have settled from ocean to ocean as one of the I that he has nothing to gain from the The colored people of the city are able were nearly one and signed his bill of exceptions;and alleged friendship of who seekto every gotten I I it was further ordered ,., wealthiest, most productive and de- men < making a determined effort to secure off the docket. that the de lightful states of the Union; it has use him for political purposes the establishment here of tbe Ede The grand jury, as we have already fendant be allowed bail by entering seen Columbia County, twenty-seven only." I|I ward Waters College, which was destroyed noted, disposed of a great-an unusual into bond, as required by law in such years ago but little more than a by the Jacksonville fire. We amount of business, then made a cases in the sum of $1,& J. wilderness, take rank as one of the HANGED FOR MURDER. learn that they have raised by sub- sensible general presentment and Cicero Barnes, convicted of assault !! scription from all sources with intent to murder setencedto leading agricultural, horticultural, between" concluded its labors for the term by was educational and manufacturing About six weeks ago Will Jones, a I i I twelve and fourteen hundred dollars, final adjournment on Friday evening the county jail at hard labor for counties in the state-its population negro desperado, shot and killed 'a.and that they ;rand a fair chance of i iof the first week.reflecting credit one year. doubled and its wealth more than i I woman and two men in Madison. securing the prize. We learn thatit upon| tbe body and its foreman ando I Ii Alex. Jones, assault with intent to ; twice quadrupled; it has witnessed :! county. He became offended at the is the intention of the trustees 1 i it is not out of place to say here and J I murder, sentenced to State prison 41 the growth and development of Lake woman because she refused to have I make tbe instiution an industrial :l! give credit where it is due, that, the hard labor for a period ot six months. City from a country village-a mere anything to do with him, and he ; training school, using the Tuskegee I j i ability of this representative I, Benjamin Stephens, breaking aDO railroad station scarcely known killed her and her husband. While I|j Institute as a model, and that if i it'' of body I entering a building with intrnt tu upon should be located here, it would be our citizens and. this arm of the I the map-.to: one of the most beautiful making his escape from the scene of i I placed in the edge or probably out I court to so quickly dispatch the volume commit a misdemeanor _tended to prosperous and progressive cities the murder, he saw a man hunting in side the corporate limits, with" sutiiI of business before it was due in State prison at hard UU lor slit in the South Under its pres- the Woods and shot him down. I dent ground ,attached' thereto for a i t large measure to the year. farm indefatigable ent management it has witnessed the Jones was arrested and, as the feelin and experiment station. We labors States.. Alex. Mi-U-nUon. awu and : hope that they may be successful and i efficient work of Col. L. recent phenominal, though substantial the county was inteuse against I that their brightest dreams may be'j i j IE. Rober.son, our able state's attorney larceny, septenced to State pruon n growth of Lake City in popula- him, be was taken to Tallahassee for realized. i!l! while constantly with that body hard labor for four years. tion, commerce: and industry; a city safe keeping. He was brought back ;| --- aiding, advising, expediting and assisting Charles Richard. eutenng a with a population of 2020 in 1890, and to Madison county on October 14th, ; it in its work during the first building with, intent to commit a labor t by no means escaped the trials and I i warrant, the sheriff was required BAKERS_ I tions of felony prison were hid at the \icieitudes, vexations and disap- to be present in person at the 4-X. OLD -HARVEST- --NORTH- 'I sometimes of four or live a day some rate for three year ointments Incident to so long a life. execution and two of his deputies' CAROLINA--.CORN.- -CROWN GIN. half dozen felonies being; disuse of Deafness Cannot be Cured - - Sickness, sorrow and death have designated l>y himself; he was also I KENTUCKY- BOURBON. ETC.-- |Properly I! by local appiirauonv a. tb... ,iuo* ttiI s . tack In turn invaded its sanctum, ordered to request the presence of I - I, tbe dthd.a....f .*rei..n. ut Ihr tar Torn'i ... ana l1Ia1" and financial depressions political the district attorney, clerk of the I I and if the Iaeet- -is- continued-- -- fiv.will I'l i only by conuitulioaal imemiT t.irurr rrmedirhralnt Uritno ." ' convulsions, accidents and misfortunes county court and twelve respectable i II result in great saving to our county 1 caused by an InlUracd onditiua <*T1Ibt tilt 1 mucous lintnir of for tfu.tacBua '-and also have at times impeded its progress citizen, including a physician or I:i AT CRABB'SOLD as a great deterrent from Wben Ibis tuf gets intumcd ?<* aarru crime u4 , by a burlaJ. livlnbusinelitrlike rumbling wi.u.t.ir lQlI'rtf'l and lessened its influence, but surgeon. He was also required to STAND working example of the fact when It f.entire cl..+rd ikaf ,. b the n with "right" for its motto and "jus permit the counsel of the criminal, trial and punishment therefor that "lilt aDd nnlc_ the InBimmiUon.. Ib all 101'lie ha: taken out and lbl tube rr l<>r 'd U- tice" for its aim, and possessing the any minister of the Gospel the condemned become speedy and certain. This is Dial cuudltion heating mill be Ur.troy ee the spirit of the forever %in." auul ul tea ar .u>** moral support and hearty good will man desired, and his rcla-i I ing ground times and it is gain i by catarrh. w bt B u Dutblnit but an IBUJ*' of the city and county. it has lived lations, to be present; also such officers : : --- -- -- it grows the everywhere.less frequently The will more condition We will vl pyr for.joe mucous hundred urlifr dulUrtri ',*ai' of the prison, deputies and public take the a >eof Uralncvi iau.rd bj tatarih thai and prospered, and closes the twen- GI law and punishment t8: . .. Shio0les pPess C4urrll'ure of cured by IUI1 stables con-I I criminals into its I lunnot. ty-seventh year of its existence well military guard and + + own hands and or circular tree satisfied with, the past and with sistants as be saw+ tit. For fay W. P. Sf1U lynchings will become fewer. I I K .I.l'.UI1'"O Tot1 w I'MtD. Inionclu-ion, it is f Sold by drllfol' ToIC gratifying to us U&lCi F :are Uw best. -' 1-