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Panama City Pilot
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Entered as secondclass matter May 30th
1907 at the post office at Panama City Florida
ender the Act of Congress of March 3 1879
PANAMA CITY FLA SEPT 17 1908
KehoeMays Brawl
The PILOT uses the word brawl
advisedly as most fitting the condi
tion of the contest at the present time
in this Congressional District over
the nomination of a Representative
Judge Malones mandate that the
Committee reconvene and return Mr
Mays as the lawful candidate did not
strike Chairman DAlemberte of the
District Committee favorably and
deeming that his powers in the case
j were at least coequal with Judge
Malones failed to appear at Talla
hassee as ordered by the Judge
As he held all of the original returns
and had stated he would not attend
Mr Kehoes side swore out a writ of
injunction before Judge Wolfe re
straining the committee from canvas
sing any other than the original re
turns or to return to the Secretary
of State any other than Mr Kehoes
name as the nominee
This writ was served upon all of the
committee who assembled at Talla
hassee but they paid no attention to
the mandate of Judge Wolfes court
but went ahead under the mandate of
Judge Malones court and by a
majority vote declared Mr Mays the
nominee
During the session of the committee
I I there was considerable talk of slap
II ping the chairmans mouth c
conditions quite befitting a gather
ing of the unterrified in the old time
Tweed days and a total disregard of
the law as declared by Judge Wolfe
Undoubtedly the Secretary of State
r will now be enjoined from putting
Mays name on the ballot and possibly
before election every voter may be
enjoined by one side or the other from
voting at all
As a prominent democratic official
said a day or so ago it would be quite
the proper thing for the next Demo
cratic State Convention to add a
plank to its platform relative to this
governing by mandamus and injunc
tion To all of which the PILOT re
sponds Amen
General Apathy
The indifference of the masses re
flected in the public press over the
presidential election which is now
less than seven weeks away is be
coming the subject comment the
leaders of the great political parties iI
business men and others I
This political tranquility in a presi
dential year is such an unknown
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quantity that it jars on the nerves of
the candidates and even llarriman I
anxiously enquires as to the where
foreness of it
The front pages of the great metro
politan dailies barometers of what
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is uppermost in the public mind are
still without scare heads relative to
political movements of politicians
and are filled with the usual list of
exciting crimes and disasters
Why this apathy Taft and his I
managers noting it have decided to I
tour several states Bryan is already I
doing yeoman work Debs with his j
red special is striving to create a I
sensation Graves Chaffin and the i
remainder of the presidential candi
dates are up and at it but the publio I
seem to be tired j
Possibly the panic which struck I
home to every individual has furnish t
ed all the excitement that one re
quires in a twelve month and left no j
surplus assimilating powers for poli
tics More thinking has been done i
l by the masses in late years than ever
before more reading and silent
analysis of statements and though i
the voters will cast the usual number
of votes they will not do much hur I
rahing It would seen that the shout
ing mostly took place when the can
didates were nominated and it was
done then by the professional politi
cians
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September Hurricanes
At noon on Friday last the Signal
Service sent out a warning of the be
ginning of a tropical hurricane in the
region of the Vest Indies It was
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I then at and about Turks Island and
traveling northwestwardly and had
already reached a very destructive
power as was evidenced by the dam
age done at Turks Island on that
dayThis
This is the first of these tropical
storms of which the Weather Bureau
has given notice this Fall They in
variably originate in the Caribbean
sea caused by excessive heating of
the surface at the originating point
I resulting in the cooler air rushing in
from all sides producing cyclonic
conditions
These storms then start on a west
northwest course at a speed averag
ing about 500 miles each 24 hours
though this varies and with a rotary
motion which results in winds from
50 to 200 miles per hour
At their inception the vortex or
eddy is small possibly but a few
miles across As they progress the
area of low barometer accompanying
the storm widens and is often from
300 to 500 miles in diameter
Sooner or later they turn north
and then eastwardly being parabolic
in their progress The so called Gal
veston storm was first located on
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September 1st 1900 in the Caribbean
sea south of Porto Rico By the 6th
it had reached a point off the south
west coast of Florida It reached its
climax at Galveston on the evening
of the 8th Soon after it turned to
the north and east passing out of the
St Lawremce valley on the 12th
The course of that storm is not
fairly illustrative of the majority of
them as but few ever reach a point
so far in the west Gulf before turning
to the north east Many never touch
the Florida peninsula at all but near
the Bahama islands turn north and
north east causing the terrific gales
that are often met with at this season
of the year off the Atlantic coast
Prof Garriott an eminent writer
upon this subject says
All portions of the West Indies
are subject to hurricane visitations
in September The hurricanes of this
emonth are however somewhat more
frequent in an area which embraces
Santo Domingo Haiti and eastern
and central Cuba where they average
about one in three years The smaller I
diameter of the vortex a hurricane I
renders it improbable that any lo
cality in the area referred to will ex
perience a hurricane oftener than
about once in fifteen years The
hurricanes of September sometimes I
recurve north and northeast along I
the Atlantic coast of the United States j
and disappear over the Atlantic east
of Newfoundland and others pass
west over the Gulf of Mexico f
In the United States the most
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important storm j of September ad
vance from the West Indies and the
Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts Storms of this class
commonly possess great strength and
on an average of about one in two
years they are destructive to shipping
and coast industries
The warnings now sent out by the i
Weather Bureau render it possible to
care for the shipping and but few
boats are caught out on the Gulf in
one of these hurricanes These warnings
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ings also permit of much being done I
to save property along the shores of >
the Gulf With the completion of the I
telegraph to this point the Signal i
Service will have warning signals I
displayed on the G C D Cos
dock It is to be hoped that the rail 1
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way company will in the interest of I
our sea faring population at once
complete the telegraph line and put
in instruments so that storm warn
i ings for these Fall storms may be
I displayed here I
At this season of the year many i
timid people look upon all storm I
weather with alarm which is in
creased by the prognostications of i
almanac sharps and the many others I
who live upon the superstitions of the i
human race Owing to its being the
time for September gales many looked
upon the stormy weather of last week
with fear thinking it was the fore
runner of a tropical hurricane where
as the barometer was steadily rising
with cooler weather and northerly
winds Had there been a hurricane
approaching the barometer would
have fallen with a northeast wind and
it would not bae been cool A little
study of these conditions would re
sult in a better understanding of when
to look for hurricanes and produce
less fear about weather conditions
As interesting in connection with
this subject we append an account of
the first hurricane in this section of
which there is any record On the
11th of June 1559 almost 350 years i
I ago the Spaniards sent a colony from
Vera Cruz Mexico for the purpose
of establishing a post on the north
east Gulf coast The force consisted
i of 1500 soldiers and settlers with a
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large fleet of vessels and supplies
and ammunition sufficient for a whole
1 year The whole was under the com
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i mand of Don Tristan de Luna y Arre
lano Their destination was a Day
i called after the pilot Miruelo and
I possibly may have been St Andrews
Bay as Miruelo describes the bay
I which was given his name as bor
i dered by palm trees at its entrance
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and no bay on the north east gulf
coast ever had palm trees growing at
i its entrance except St Andrews bay
They arrived at their destination some
i time the latter part of August but
i before deLuna had unloaded his
l vessels they were struck during the
night of September 19th by a terrible
hurricane It is stated that it
lasted twenty four hours destroy
I ing five ships a galleon and a bark
i i and carrying one caravel and its
cargo into a grove some distance
i i on land Many of the people perish
ed and most of the stores intended
for the maintenance of the colony
i were ruined or lost
f This was undoubtedly such a hurri
cane as has at different times since
j visited these shores The destruction
1 of deLunas stores and fleet may have
i changed the entire future settlement
i and development of this Bay for it
is possible had the Spanish then suc
I ceeded in planting their colony here
it would have become the main settlement
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I tlement on the north Gulf coast and
I thrived accordingly
Harbor Improvement
We trust that our readers who are
particularly interested in the opening
of this harbor and the improvement
of our Bay waterways will not let a
I week pass without having done some
I thing to forward the work in hand
I Just now the attention of business
i organizations in the inland should be
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turned to the necessity of promptly
I furnishing the engineer in charge
i with all the facts obtainable as to the
amount of tonnage and character
thereof that will pass through this
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i port when the improvements are com
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i pleted
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The Dothan Commercial Club is
I working along these lines as well as I
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trying to interest other like bodies
I in the territory tributary to this port
I and we trust their efforts may be
crowned with the success that they
and the project are deserving of The
whole lower South is vitally inter
ested in this improvement
Good interest is oeing manifested
in the subject of the East Bay canal
thanks to Miss Carlisles timely ar
ticles upon the subject and it only
requires active and energetic initiative
tive work to see that project launched
r General News
A case of yellow fever has been
found in Havana
J J Jones a negro preacher was i
assassinated near Ponce DeLeon on
Sunday evening i
If there be a fish and game warden
in this section of the county he must
be sleeping the sleep of the seven
sleepers
About 50000 pounds of mackerel
were brought to Pensacola on Mon
day East pass fishermen brought in
the most of them
The forest fires in the iron range of
Minnesota are still causing great
damage There has already been
millions lost by fire also several lives
The election in Maine Monday re j
suited in the usual Republican victory
The liquor question was the main
issue and the prohibition element won i
out II
i Business Conditions I
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Bradstreets report for this week 1l I
says
The advance of the fall season and i
the notable enlargement of the move
ment of cereals and cottons to market
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at good prices have made for a further
moderate expansion in jobbing and i
i retail trade and collections This is
especially marked at western Pacific
coast and southern centers Indus I
tries too have shown some improve i
ment notable in this respect being I
coal and lumber interests There ian 5 I
an increase also reported in blast i
furnace capacity and there is more
doing at the paper mills In the textile I
trades little change is noted and I
while the fall demand for dry goods i I
millinery and kindred lines has im i
proved the consensus of reports is
that buying is frequent rather than
heavy and conservatism rules pur
chasing
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Railroad
I i Only direct Rail Route from Central and South Alabama
i and Georgia to the GULF COAST
SCHEDULE TAKING EFFECT JULY I9lh 1908
No1
No2
1140 a m Lv Dothan
1000 p m Ar
1210 p m Hodgesvillo HaO
1235 Campbellton
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110 Cottondale 880
135 Alfords 800
145 Round Lake s780 Dp
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155 Compass Lake 715
230
Fountain
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300 Youngstown 610
410 p m Ar Panama
City 500 p m Dp
Trains Nos 1 and 2 run daily Connections
made at Dothan with Atlantic Coast
Line and Central of Georgia At Cottonclale with L N R U At Panan1l City
on Tue dar and ldne day with steanwrs for Apalachicola and Carrahelle On
Thur dar and Fridy with steamers for Pensacola and Mohile and daily with
launches for Millville 8t Andrews Southport and all point on St Andrew Ray
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