The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-11-24

There is notan empty house in Starke
fit to live in, and there Is demand for
more,
Of the four murder and rape cases on
trial at Del.and the defendants are all
colored.
The cotton crop at ChipIey has all
been marketed and It is saidto he 2opcr
cent short.
The city Of Milton is TO be- lighted by
electricity, furnished hy the SteamS
Lumber Company.
Madison is to have q home insurance
company modelled after the Georgia
Mutual Association,
The Leon county court house has been
improved recently with paint, both out
side and on the interior,
Richard Robinson, a smooth Live Oak
coon. is under arrest charged with walk
INK off with a watch he took to look At.
Jacksonville is anxious to have the
Governor appoint woman as county
superintendent for schools for Duval.
In county court at Miami Monday a
woman named Jcanie Sanchez was fined
$3.50 and costs for selling liquor without
license
4 peach canning establishment at
Mclrosc has 5000 dozen cans ofvery fine
fruit put up and is now giving attention
to tomatoes.
The advertising campaign in connec-
ton with the Pure Food Exposition will
bcthe most active and largest ever given
in this State
The franchise fight between Palatka
and the Heights Street Railway Com
pany has been decided in favor of the
city. The case will be appealed.
The oranges of Orange county are so
fine this year that man in the adjoin-
ing county tried to get some of them to
put with his county exhibit at Tampa.
The Dade County Board of Public
Instruction has decided that pupils who
deserve punishment in school will have
To submit or take their books and go
home.
Four COWS We're poisoned in Pensacola
recently from eating leaves from what
is known as mock orange tree. The
animals died shortly after they swal-
lowed the growth.
The first trains through from New
York to st. Augustine will leave New
York on January 5, several days earlier
than ever before in the history Of the
tourist travel to Florida
The commissioners of Suwanee county
advertised for bids for the construction
of forty additional miles of hard roads in
that county. Bids will be opened and
considered on December :.
Forinsulting young ladies' on the street
in st. Augustine two young men were
each fined $50 and cost in the city court.
The alternative was sixty days impris-
onment, Should have got both.
Charles Brown of Belleview died at
his home Tuesday. He went to Ocala
Saturday, filled up on booze" and was
found by the roadside in an unconscious
condition. He never regained conscious
ness.
In the circuit court at Live Oak on
Tuesday two colored preachers had a
most amusing seance, Both had been
fired from the church where each tried
to eXpound the truth, and each accused
the other of many crimes.
Arrangements are being perfected to
increase the capacity of the Packers
Packing and Preserving Cos. plant at
Delray from 33, 600 cans a day to 100, 600
cans. The plant was operated with
great success last season.
Two years in the pententiary was
the sentence meted out to James Osteen
convicted Of manslaughter in the kill
ing Of the Carter brothers. Allen Os-
teen who was on trial as an accomplice
of his brother, charged with the murder
of the Carter brothers, was found not
guilty and is free man.
Letters patent have been granted in
cooperating the De Soto Turpentine Co.,
with capital Of $4,000. The incorpor-
ators are c. Bowling, B. w. Blount and
o. II. Lowther. Mr.. Bowling is presi-
dent of the new company, and Mr.. Low