The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-07-28
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In west Florida II Is said, Is begin-
ming to look for gubernatorial timber.
Ocala, says the Banner, Is going to
grow soap trees and manufacture tons
and tons Of soap.
A wet and dry election for Marion
county is said to be among the posi-
bilities in the near future.
The slot machines that have been run
In the city of Tampa must be shipped
out of the state so say the authorities.
Two additional rural free delivery
routes from Live Oak will soon be es-
tablshed, making three from that city.
A gambling house was raided in Key
West few days ago and bolito and
roulette outfit, together with $500 In
money, were captured.
Fred Cook, colored, was hung in the
Ocala Jail last Friday for the murder of
Isiah Pitts some months ago. He
stoutly denied his guilt to the last.
A meeting Of representative citizens
Of Manatee and Bradentown was held
last week with the object of consolida-
ting the two towns under one govern
ment
Governor Broward, as soon as the
great accumulation of business in his
office can be worked off, will take
! few weeks well-earned vacation, going
North or West it Is said.
Governor Broward has appointed the
following as members Of the State
Board Of Health: DR.. R. L. Harris, of
Orlando, E. M. Hendry, of Tampa. and
H. Fozzard, Of Jacksonville.
The st. Augustine Board Of Trade
has taken steps to permanently locate
the Deaf and Blind Institute in that
city, by offering to the Board of Con-
troll twenty acres Of choice land adjoin-
ing the institute. n.
The work on the extension on Key
Largo and on the line of the Florida
East Coast Railway extension is being
pushed rapidly by over 800 men, that
number being engaged in cutting right
of-way and clearing ready for graders
and dredges.
Hon. Robert w. Davis, formerly of
Palatka, is in Tampa, accompanied by
his wife and infant daughter. As for
merly announced, the ex-Congressman
and Gubernatorial candidate will form
a law partnership with H. s. Hampton,
combination of which all south Flori-
da will be proud.
Lake City will vote to bond and it
looks now as though it would be 60.
If the effort to drain the praries
proves successful Dade county will be-
come the greatest cotton producing
county Of the state. There are now
growing in this county cotton stalks
known to be thirty years old-Miami
News. 'r~
President Blackman, of Rollins COL
lege, Winter Park, has received an Of
fer of a $50, 900 library for the college
from Andrew Carnegie. The condition
is that $40, 900 in addition be provided
as it's endowment fund. This amount
will no doubt be raised as Rollons COL
lege has raised q quarter Of q million
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Harry Bomford who seriously shot
Capt. C. L. Park in Tampa, when sur
prised by the latter in his home with
his wife, was yesterday sentenced to
one year in the county Jail, the maxi
mum penalty for aggravated assault.
In sentencing Bomford, the judge
stated that the jury would have been
justified in convicting him Of assault
with intent to murder, in which event
the court would have given him the
maximum penalty under that charge
twenty years. ti
A tragedy at Evinston last Wednes-
day resulted in the death of Watt
Barron, and the severely wounding Of
his father, j. F. Barron. J. P. Hester
is supposed to have fired the fatal shots,
although the coroners jury failed to
agree on verdict, because no witness
testified to having seen Hester fire the
shot. The elder Barron was postmas-
ter at Evinston, and the trouble be-
tween them has been Of long standing,
but the refusal Of Baron to deliver Hes
ter's mail without written order
caused the shooting. The son came
upon the scene and was shot to death.
Henry M. Sweat, . farmer living
three miles north Of Macclenny, was