The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-08-18
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build new wharf at Miami.
+. II. Hale, a well known real estate
man Of Palatka, died last week
Many people are moving into Jasper
to take advantage Of the schools at that
place.
The Jacksonville Suburban and Sea.
shore Railway is fast securing the right
of way for It's line.
1t costs the city of Pensacola upwards
of $6j, OOO year to run its police and
fire departments,
Large shipments Of cattle continue to
be made from Punta Gorda The aver
age is more than $50 head week,
The Davis murder mystery in Dade
county has been given up as unsolyabio
10y the detectives and all county officers,
The taxpayers Of Duyal county wi'I
pay tax levy of IL mills and a state
levy of mills, making grand total
of % mills,
The chief engineer Of the Suwanee
and San Pedro railroad will soon COM
mence the survey Of that road from
Fenandina,
At the term of circuit court held in
Mariana, Jackson county, last week,
there were OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES for
illegal selling Of whiSkey.
The celebrated "Hernandc2' case,
brought by the East Coast railway TO
adjust the question Of damages for land
used from defendant to straighten the
track came up in st, Augustine last
week.
The HilSborough County Medical as
ISOLATION held meeting at Tampa last
week. Drs. Porter and Guitteras being
present. DR.. Guitteras, who is the
noted Havana physician, delivered an
able lecture.
The presence Of caterpillarS in the
cotton crop in Alachua county is cauS-
ing CONSERVATION on the part of the
growers. Cotton which has opened in
the past few days has also been badly
damaged by the rain.
Because the mosquitoes are too nu-
merous on the Indian river the hand
some new dredge and snagboat Florida
Of the United States Engineering de.
partment has been taken out Of COM
mission for the next thirty days,
The trouble between the union car
penters and the contractors Of Jackson.
vile has reached the courts by the
Builders Exchange asking for an in
junction restraining the union men from
boycotting or placing a member Of the
exchange on the unfair list.
The property owners of West Palm
Beach and vicinity carried speca.
school district election last Week by q
vote of Sc to 6. There will be a levy Of
three mills for high school purposes.
A new school building on a new and
large site will be erected, to cost about
$25, 900, and the school will be one If
the best in the state,
Sheriff Fennell assisted by Deputies
j. II. Granger, J, Lee Stokes, J. y.
Siford, c. W, Livingston and Jack Mar
tin, succeeded Saturday in making a
successful raid on "blind tigers" in
Newberry, having captured four, These
places are alleged to have been conduct.
ing almost open saloons, using very
little discretion and any amount OF
booze.
A small negro boy, by the name OF
Jimmie Pottsdamer, was accidentlS
scalded by the bursting of pipe at the
ice factory at Lake City, last Saturday
night. He had been in the habit OF
making the boiler room his sleeping
place although he had been warned
against it. The boy had no father anc
his mother had been unkind to him. He
was unable to escape, the water burst
ing in his face as he arose.
The members Of the board of com
mssioners of state institutions OF
Thursday inspected the state hospita
for the insane at Chattahoochee. Tn,
last Legislature made an appropriation
for the construction of a building 70
the use of the colored male patient.
and the members of the board went t,
select a site for the erection of thi
building, besides making general in
spection Of affairs at the asylum.
A very severe stroke Of lightning a
Lake City, Sunday morning about !
o'clock, caused three negro women in
house near the union depot to be com
petey stunned. One had been prepare,