The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-12-15

Tampa, has become daily
Sixty.eight thousand boxes of oranges
have been shipped from Wauchula this
season,
Apalachcola is going to cultivate the
marshes surrounding the town and plant
them to rice.
With 5000 men at work on the key
West extention great deal should be
accomplished in a year,
A careless negro hack driver at Day
tona ran over 6-year-old boy and his
injuries may prove fatal,
The fine orange grove belonging to
Rev. T. J. Sparkman, at Lakeland, has
been partly destroyed BY fire.
G. G. Gibbs, Leon county farmer
has sold eight barrels of pecan nuts
The pecan is great grower in Florida
Albert W. Gichrist, of DeSoto coun-
~, has announced that he will not be
candidate for reelection to the lcgSa-
ture.
The East Coast railway is arranging
to put the Miami hospital building into
use asa hospital for which Serviceit has
never heretofore been used,
The Ocala Star is authority for the
statement that Marion county went wet
in the election of last week because the
negroes voted soidly for the sale Of
liquor
Gainesville has a woman dentist, and
since the fact has been generally know
dental work is not considered so painful
in Gainesville as it had been before. -
Tmes-Union.
A suit was filed in Dade county in
which Frank n, Brown claims $4,000
damages from the Biscayne Drug Co.,
Miami, for having sold him wrong
fully prepared medicine.
Beginning January l4th, Tampa is to
have races three days each week until
March. Many of the horses that were
at the State fair will winter in Tampa
and Others will be brought here to take
part in the sport.
The city assessment roll of Miami has
reached total Of Sl,049, AGO, which is Il
total gain of over 1866, 600 over last
years assessments. Mami's postoifice
receipts also show that the Magic City
is fifth in rank in Florida.
About 1900 cars of Florida oranges
have thus far been shipped from the
state, and the fruit is now going forward
at rapid rate. The estimate of the
crop for this season was only 1900 cars,
but the number will probably exceed this.
The greatest on record, was the catch
of catfish on Lake Jessup which was
made one day last week by Frank Par
ker and two other men, whose names
we failed to learn, was 4, 666 pounds,
which sold for one and one-half cent per
pound. - Sanford Chronicle.
All the Union painters of Tampa are
on strike. They recently presented
demand for half holiday Saturdays,
with full pay, to be effective December
/. The employers refuse positively to
grant the demand and all the men are
now out, with slim prospects of a settle
ment.
1t is said that Manatee county spent
s., 800 on her exhibit at the State Fair
which is three times as much as any
other county spent for an exhibit. As
Manatee came out fourth, she is now
prepared to sympathize with those gen.
tlemen who came tearing out behind
in last years primaries,
B. B. Simmons, a young man about
twenty years of age had his right hand
cut off at Motfit saw mill, near Wau-
chula, last Friday by falling on a circu-
lar saw. The saw made a clean cut,
passing through the hand about two
inches below the wrist, and leaving the
cut off portion laying beside the saw.
great shadow was cast over the
Florida Methodist Conference Friday
morning at Ocala, by the sudden death
of Rev, c. A. Fuwood, of Miami, who
dropped dead in the church near the
pulpit about II o'clock He was II
years old and had just finished address
ing the brethren when he expired. The
remains were taken to Tallahassee for
interment.