The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1907-11-29
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The Federation Of Womcn's clubs in
Florida met in annual convention in
Gainesville last week.
with go much cash going into the
saloons every year it is no wonder that
money gets eight 49, Estero Eagle.
ON Saturday, Andrew, l6 year old
son Of !. b. Williams, of Graceyile,
was instantly killed by being thrown
from q horse, his head striking a tree,
Capt. John A. Mckay, SO years of
age, pioneer citizen Of Tampa, form
or cashier Of custom house and father
Of editor y, b, Mckay of the Tampa
Times, died Friday,
The steamer Falcon, Of the Tampa
BAY and West Coast Navigation Com
panv, ulcIad for various debts. has
been sold l., ttr w.. states mdrhal
e. Gordon Keller, of Tampa for $l,o5o,
:. Sahai, Of Yamato, the japanese
colony in Dade county, is making Il
shumcut Of two crates OF large and oN'
ira choice pincappcs to the royal fam
iy at Toxic. This will be the first
green Florida pines to 90 to the Japan
csc empire,
The truckers are preparing to send
out from the lower East Coast truck
farms the coming season the greatest
crop of vegetables they have ever mar
keted. If no adverse conditions are
met with in producing the crop, the
truckers will receive good prices this
season.
The steamship Clinton, Capt James
Mckay. on her last trip out from the
port Of Pun,a Gorda for Havana, Cuba
carried 566 head of cattle furnished by
King Brothers, Wash Langford, l..
Koon and ". II. Hooker This is the
second large cargo of cattle shipped re-
Gently from this point.
Florida still holds the banner for pro-
ductiveness Of soil. 1t is stated that
both Marion and OSceola counties have
"poor farms" which are self support
ing by reason of their bearing orange
groves. The Osceola farm produced
last year crop Of 3, 400 boxes of fruit
If this can beg accomplished on poor
farm" what can be said Of the good
farms of the State, Arcadia Cham
pion,
After sixteen hours deliberation the
iury in the case Of the State against
]. y. Sronhar for alleged embezzle-
moht Of E., 500 of Seaboard railroad
fur Gainesville, returned a verdict
Of =. ~ Friday morning, This case
has been tried in several courts of
Georgia, Canada and Florida. An APP
peal for q new trial was denied and
StoLhar was sentenced to three years in
the penitent'ary.
The Tampa News Of Wednesday tells
of fight that took place on the bot
tom Of the Culf, nine miles off Tarpon
Springs, - taet under water, between
,wo Greek sponge divers, the location
making the blenders answcrable to no
court, except that Of Neptune. Dur
ny the struggle between the deep sea
men, the prize being . bag nlled with
sponpcs. one Of the Greeks was pain
fully accrared in one hand by sponge
hook, which the other diver stuck in
him.
All of the piers to the Long Key Via
duct, the building of which IS casseC
as one Of the greatest engineering featS
in the world, have been placed, and
now all remaining to complete this mon
stcr structure that has required more
than two years of labor and an expense
of several million dollars, is the finish
ing Of nine arches. With this and the
LAYING Of the railroad track across it.
trains will be moving southwark across
the Intervening keys to Knights Key
where another and even greater piece
of work is to be encountered in the
building Of another concrete viaduct
It is now positively asserted that unles:
unforeseen difficulties arise that the
trains will be running to knights Key
inside thirty days.
The call for the convention Of the
Florida State Federation Of Labor has
becn made. ~ .ah,h annual conven
ton will be held in the city of Gaines
ville and while the meeting will not
come off until January, still the call j,
required to be made some time in ad
vance There is every reason to be
lieve that the convention will be the
most important ever held in the history
of the labor movement of the State