The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-12-15
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The city of Tampa will be fifty years
old Friday, December 18th.
John w. Sawyer, a prominent citizen
of Key West, died suddenly Monday
morning.
Internal revenue receipts for Tampa
during the month of November amount
ed to sos, 626, 33.
Live Oak housekeepers will discard
colored help and will make an effort to
secure white servants.
The people of Pensacola are planning
to have the naval fleet there to assist
them in their Mardi Gras festival.
The record breaking catch of blue fish
was made by the schooner Shibboleth
Of Miami, being 1000 pounds.
Marion county got first prize money
at the Tampa State Fair. Marion got
into the first prize habit some years ago
The crop Of ostrich plumes recently
harvested at the Jacksonville farm shows
that industry to be thriving in this eli
mate.
The foreign exports from the port of
Pensacola for the month of November
exceeded two and a quarter million dol
lars in value.
The Atlantic Coast Line has one thous-
and men at work on the extension be-
tween Perry and Newberry and lacks
only eighteen miles of finishing.
The first solid carload of lettuce for
the northern market went out of Gaines
vile last week. The car contained 3S4
baskets of the very finest plants,
Twenty million feet of lumber was
shipped from Jacksonville last month,
yet there are many enterprises in the
State that are delayed for lack of lum-
Der.
Wauchula's shipments of oranges it is
expected will reach 100000 boxes.
Zolfo expects crop Of 10000 boxes,
with prices from 81. 10 to Sl,2O on the
trees.
Key West is to have new daily pa
per. Efforts are now being made to
secure the necessary support and if
rumors are correct it will shortly make
its appearance.
The 80 Mexicans who were landed in
Marion county to work in the phosphate
mines have found the labor too strenuous
and have taken tie pass to their own
dear old Mexico.
Sister Mary Ann of Jacksonville pro-
vided Thanksgiving dinners to 81 prison.
ers in Jacksonville jails and at the con-
clusion of the meal visited each one and
presented fruits and smoking material
Potash, soda and other chemicals in
the hold of the wrecked Spanish steamer
Alicia now resting on Ajax Reef, is said
to be killing the fish on the immediate
coast, Many believe it is, and that as
a result the fishing for grouper, espec-
tally, will be considerable affected this
season.
OF the $4,000 appropriated by the
government to remove the hyacinths
from Florida navigable waters, So, 900
given to clear the Kissimmee river is
being used to make breakwater Of
logs along the river to keep the plants
from spreading in the channel. -Orlan-
do Reporter.
An allotment of $40, 900 has been made
by the government for repairing the
shores at the entrance to the dredge cut
from the sea into Bscayne bay, which
shore has been partially washed away
by the action of the water, and which
must be stopped before the channel can
be completed and made serviceable.
One Of the most important suits ever
brought in this State was filed by M jor
St. Clair Abrams in the United States
circuit court in Jacksonville last W eek,
wherein the Florida East Coast railway
and the Boston and Florida Land COM
pany seek to restrain any further pro-
ceedings in the matter Of the drainage
scheme at West Palm Beach.
The valuation of Volusa county prop
erty increased this year 1913, 200. 06 over
that of last year. The total assessed
valuation of the county for 1904 was
SO, 1922, 1856; this year it is 1896, S42
This valuation exceeds any before the