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

OF man COlllu 'IuNh'
The balance in the state treasury W
longing to the several funds at the ''oS'
Of business Nov. Both was S'l0'2o"o'
ILL., Close, Of Fort Meade mas 90
ooros If n,unyr trees from when ne .
will have crop of 25,O0O boxes '"''
year. &c.,, .u,l
frankie Williams, the little 'oIo,'"
GIRL who developed Il genuine case I'll ny
drophobia died at the home OF her parents
in jacksonville.
The pavallion, bath houses and bowl
inc alleys on Amelia beach near r't'
nandina, were destroyed by lo' carry
Saturday morning.
The $50, $50 salvage on the WrerN'u
steamer Alicia has just been DIVIDED
among the wrcckerS at hey West ny
Judge Locke of the United states court
The American Life Insurance com.
pany Of Tampa wrote 100000 worth oI
life insurance the first month ol us en-
istence, and it was not a full month";
either.
A delegation Of the American Agri-
cultural Association is about to start
for the south to receive inducements
looking toward placing Italian coIon'StS
in this section.
The Florida East Coast hotel system
now has about three hundred men EN-
poyed in digging the ditch and laying
the main from the reseryorat AIIapattah
to the waterworks stanpipe in Miami
In the trial of W, F. Williams, for
killing Ed. Danny in Pensacola, the YER
dict of murder in the first degree, with
recommendation for mercy was rem
deree. Williams will be- sent to the pen
itentiary for life,
The first solid carload of lettuce glown
this year went out from Sanford on
Tuesday morning Of this week, 1t was
produced by l.. A. Brumlcy, one Of the
most prosperous and intelligent truck
growers in this vicinity.
There will be- meeting of the rail
road commissioners Of the state OF
Florida at Hotel kiSsmmce, kissimmec
on the 10th day Of December, 1908, at
II o'clock a. M, to consider the appli-
cation of patrons of the Florida Mid
land branch of the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad for a standard guagc track and
better shipping facilities ovcrthc Florida
Midland branch Of the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad.
Work ON the county rock road, bc.
tween West Palm Beach and Miami is
still progressing at Il satisfactory rate,
and it is now 4 foregone conclusion that
the gap between Delray and Fort Lau-
derdale will be completed by the first
day of January, 1896, unless some I'M
forseen incident should arise to rctard
the work. This will make continuous
Hdlu SulldCtu lo,t'l b'lNttH JOlUl
three miles north of West Palm Beach
and Cutler. and even to Homestead. To-.
Miami News.
A bulletin on the manufacturing in.
terests of Florida has just been put out
by the census bureau. The following
are some of its figures: Value of man
ufactured products of the state for last
year, $50, ,07S, an increase of g. per
cent since 1900; manufacturing establish
ments in the state, l,ilO, capitalized
at S22, 95S, 4S2, employing 1861 wage
earners, who are paid SIS, 73O, 222 an.
nually. The product of the principal ar
ticles manufactured was AS follows last
year: Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes,
SIG, 764, 276; lumber, So, $50, l05; tur.
pentine and rosin, 1851, 1913.
The excessive rainfall of the past
week has caused the prairies in this
section to become oyertlowed. Hun
dreds of acres of vegetables that had
been planted on the prares have been
destroyed and will have to be replanted
The damage extends all the way from
Hallandale to Cutler and Perrinc. The
pine land crops have been benefited by
the rains and those fortunate to have
crops on the pine land will be sure to
make money. The present indications
are that the prairies will not be dry
enough to be replanted before the first
week in January. Miami News.