The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-10-20

1t is SAID tnat tIie 'VN0'
not afford any protection to Ahas'aS'"
island from the encroachments OF ue
sea,
Besides appropriations tor o'her III"
provements, Live Oak will NJ the Ire
department out with a 50, oVo appro'
priation
Four trained nurses from the yeIio"
fever hospitals at New Orleans nave
been sent to Pensacola to help out III
that city.
The municipal election at Key west
has caused great cry OF fraud al
one of the precincts the tally sheet
was torn up
The Atlantic Coast Line will trans
port exhibits to the State fair at tampa
free of charge, and charge full rates
on their return.
Sneads, Jackson county. with popu-
lation of upwards of 200 people, mas
raised 81 1850 to pay the salaries OF her
school teachers.
When the steamer Ponce left New
York the other day for Porto Rico she
carried, among other things, l,5Oo bags
of Florida pineapple shoots.
Engineer Woodrng of Dunnellon was
struck on the head and badly wounded
at Dunnellon Tuesday evening by a
"rowdy" who got full and climbed up
onto the engine where Woodring was
asleep.
The Benner line schooner, Edith and
May, which is the first vessel OF any
line to come with full cargo from New
York to Miami, is in port at the latter
place, dscharging cargo. A full return
cargo has been secured.
Geo. F. Paddison and other citizens
of Eau Gallie and vicinity have cut an
inlet from the Indian river, opposite
the Sebastian river, to the ocean. Over
100 men assisted in the work, Excel
lent results are expected.
f. Warren Clark, formerly an adver-
Using agent for Munyon's remedies, has
brought the first japanese family to
Florida and will locate them on his farm
near Tallahassee. The family consists of
husband and wife and four children.
The American Life Insurance Com
pany of Tampa, organized exclusively
with Florida capital, and standing as
the biggest one of its kind in the State,
will commence operations next week,
The company is capitalized at $500, 900.
The famous Picket orange grove,
three miles east of Barlow, was sold re-
Gently to eastern parties for $50, OO0,
This is one of the finest groves in the
State, comprising 6O acres, and has
10000 boxes of fruit ON the trees now.
In raiding negro gambling den near
Mariana, one day last week, by the
sheriff of Jackson county and posse
j. B. Williams, colored, and another
negro were killed Sheriff Lewis and his
men escaped injury, although the ne
groes fired several shots at them.
The citizens of Wlliston have been
agitating for some time tie organiza-
tion Of new county in that section to
be made mp of certain portions of Levy,
Marion and Alachua counties, and a
public meeting has been held for that
purpose and the necessary steps will be
taken to push the project.
The four-story addition to the Hotel
Palms, at West Palm Beach, is being
pushed rapidly forward to completion,
and Manager Showers will have the
house open by November 80. The ad.
dition is being built of artificial stone
with rough finish, and is by far the
handsomest structure in the city.
One of the most important real estate
deals recently made in Tampa was con.
sumated last Friday by which the Tam.
pa Tribune Publishing Company became
the purchasers Of the Arno hotel prop.
erty on the corner of Tampa and Twigg
streets. The purchase was made from
the Tampa Investment and Securities
Company. The price paid was s25, OOO
Governor Broward has named the fol.
lowing gentlemen as members of the
general reception committee, as repre-.
sentatives of the State at large, to re.