The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-10-13
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Lee county has shipped 200 boxes of
oranges SO far this season,
Lake Butler is making an effort to
get four rural mail routes for that place.
An Alachua county man expects to
realize $50 from his hay crop this sea-
son.
The strawberry growers around Law
tey will have a larger acreage than last
year
Tuesday Jacksonville voted to issue
$500, 900 in bonds for municipal improv-
ments.
The infant child Of X. w. Lord Of
Sanford was drowned in a wash tub
last week.
Over 200 telephones were put out of
business by the recent electric storm at
Pensacola.
The Ladies Improvement Society of
Wildwood will build fence around the
public square.
Electric power is so cheap in Orlando
that numerous factories are using it in
stead of steam.
Hon. w. NJ. Girardeau, of Monticello
has shipped carload of watermelon
seed to California.
Lightsey & Lewis, the Fort Meade
cattle men, will ship $50 head to Cuba
from Punta Gorda.
A railroad is being surveyed from
Green Springs to Indian Rocks, on the
west coast of Tampa Bay.
The new Hotel Osceola at TavafeS.'
owned by Alfred st. Clair Abrams, has
been opened for the season.
Captain Henry Filler, of Lemon City,
a pioneer Of Dade county and former
county commissioner, is dead
Sneak thieves have been busy in Kis-
simme, not less than four robberies in
one day have occurred recently.
Revenues paid by Tampa to the Fed
eral government for the month of Sep
TENDER amounted to 1856, 1857.
The city council of Kissimmee has
purchased 100 car loads of Barlow
phosphate rock for street paving.
A detention camp for the people of
Pensacola has been established at Nc
David a few miles north of the city.
The street paving at Kissimmee is
being delayed on account of not being
able to secure the rock for the work.
Very high tides prevail in the Miami
river because of the very great volume
of water overlooking from the Ever
glades.
The recent census gives Polk county
population of 1858, the racial pro-
portion being 1857 white and 5,OO7
colored.
Rather than have the people take any
chances Of being infected, the city of
Tampa furnishes free the stuff to drive
away the mosquitoes.
Governor Browsrd has appointed M.
A. Brown, his private secretary, as
sheriff of Duval county, to succeed the
late W. Bloxham Pickett.
Burglars moved out about S., 900
worth of goods from the store of Henry
Jacobs, Jacksonville, some time during
Saturday night or Sunday.
Hereafter the female prisoners of
Duval county will have to work instead
of being allowed to lie idle in jail while
serving out their sentences.
Prominent citizens of Miami have
suggested to the board of trade that
President Roosevelt be invited to visit
that city on the occasion of his trip to
Florida.
The Duval theatre, Of Jacksonville,
has been placed on the unfair list by
the Central Labor union of that city,
because Of some trouble with the scene
shutters.
The KILLER steamship company is a
new corporation that will put on line
of freight steamers between New Or
leans and all important Florida ports on
the Gulf of Mexico.
Capt. Thos. Lacey, Of Miami, was
found dead in row boat early Satur-
day morning. His body was partly in
the boat, but his head was in the water.
He was drunk when last seen alive.