The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-08-11

The tax levy oi Manalep county II
three per cent of the assessed valuation
A proposition to erect an electro
light plant in Sarasota will soon be
made to the town council.
Wild turkeys are so plentiful at Crys-
tai River that the train ran into flock
few days ago and killed five.
Ten to twelve thousand boxes is an
estimate made for the orange crop at
Crescent City this coming season
The first bale of cotton for the sea-
son of 1866 was raised by Walton
Blackstone, a negro of Leon county
On August 22nd an election will be
held in Apalachicoa to vote on forty
thousand dollar waterworks proposition.
The encampment of the Florida State
troops will not be held this year until
the latter part of September or early in
October,
Scientists are seeking preventatives
for sunstrok es. The best one known
vet is to live in Florida. Daytona Ga
zette-News,
Avery G. Powell will soon issue a
trade edition of his paper the Maccen-
ny Standard, to boom the business in
terests Of Baker county.
A $780, hotel will be built at Ar
cadia by 3. r. Tracey, late Of the Uni
ted States Treasury Department. Wash
ington, now at Fort Russell Wyoming,
One Of the heaviest rainfalls that
Jacksonville has had for several months
was the one of last Friday, when 3.2l
inches fell from O'Clock in the morn
ing until s O'Clock at night.
Judge H. F. Atkinson, of Miami, the
state census enumerator for Dade eoun-
ty, started work on the census this
week and will rush it through to COM
pletion as fast as accuracy will permit.
The Miami baseball club is to start
out on tour August II, to be absent
about two weeks. They expect to play
at Palm Beach, Jensen, Titusville, Day
tona, Palatka, DeLand, Orlando, Lake.
land and Barlow.
The Florida East Coast Railway COM
pany will very likely purchase the small
yacht Mystery, owned by Capt, Meloy,
Of Miami for use as dispatch boat
between Miami and the extension work
of the road in the keys.
Tom King, the negro arrested last
week at Miami by Deputy Sheriff Gore,
on charge Of murder and assault at
Inverness, Polk county, has confessed
that he is the party wanted, though he
denies that he committed murder.
Judge II. B. Saunders, of West Palm
Beach, has been awarded the contract
to build road from the western limits
of that city across a shallow chain of
fresh water lakes, that will open up
several thousand acres of rich farm
lands bordering on the Everglades.
The union carpenters and joiners of
Gainesville have gone out on strike.
The mechanics warned the contractors
and employers some time ago that they
would go on strike August |, if the
work hours were not reduced from ten
to nine on the same pay. Several con-
tractors granted the demands at once,
however, and it is believed nea all
will do so.
One day recently seven boys, the eld-
est one 10 years and the youngest one
less than 7, We're found on a barge in
the Key West harbor; all of them beast
ly drunk. They We're brought ashore
by some other boys and put in vacant
lot on the beach, where they were later
found by their parents. One of the
younger boys was so crazed by liquor
that he tore all of his clothes off and
lay in the sun for more than two hours.
Gov. Broward has signed the death
warrant of lsiah f. Cooper, the convict
ed murderer Of Marshal Bowman, of
Punta Gorda, who has been in jail at
Arcadia under sentence of death for
nearly three years. More than year
ago he was reprieved on the eve of his
execution by Governor Jennings, in or
der that his case might go before the
Pardoning Board, but that body never
took action on the case. Friday, Sept.
LIST. is the day set for the execution.
On the 9Th instant the great fishing
fleet of Punta Gorda set sail. Last
year there We're thirty-two crews of
fishermen. This year they number for
ty. OF this number, fifteen crews have
hfteen men each, representing two hun