The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1907-12-06
Shor, Items from
all Sections
of the State

| 600, 900 for the season : orange crop %
the opinion of the Tampa Times.
A man was sentenced in the Unted
States court at Pensacola to one ia, ;
Imprisonment in the pententiary
Assistant State Auditor SaduiIcr has
examined the books and accounts u'
/ Tax Collector Jones, of Nassau county
and has found Il shortage estimated a.
between SO, 800 and $4,000.
A notable figure in the business am
commercial life Of Florida was Thomas
Tefair Stockton business manager OF
the Florida Times Union who died a.
his home in Jacksonville Saturday
afternoon Of paralysis Of the throat
a solid car load of lettuce left Tuo,
day for New York city, the shipper be-
ing n. d. Benedict. Hastings has
been shipping potatoes in car load lots
for years and in train loads also, but
with pcrishable vegetables like lettuce
the shipments have been few and light.
Fire broke out in the Florida Lumber
Companys mills at Montbrook, Thurs
day night, and in less than ten minutes
the entire plant was enyeloped in flames.
About fifty men living in the nelghbor~
hood were soon on the scene, but tn"
fire gained such Roadway that the plant
was soon destroyed, entailng a loss Of
$50, 600.
The badly mangled body of a Semi
mole Indian was found Thursday night
on the railroad track in the rear of the
ice works at Miami. 1t was found that
the Indian was one known there as Jack
son Charley, a well known Seminole.
He was in the city Thursday and disap-
peared after night. 1t is supposed that
he went to sleep on the track and
passing train ran over him and killed
him.
Premium lists for the Florida State
Fair, which will be held at Tampa,
February 9Th to 22nd, are now ready
for distribution, and those desiring
same should at once communicate with
President T. J. l., Brown. In addition
to the SIS, 900 given by the State eX-
clusively for the payment of premiums,
the Fair Association will, as usual, add
several thousand dollars, and the
premiums will be more attractive than
ever.
While at Long Key inspecting the
work on the railroad extension, j, X.
Parrott, vice president and general
manager of the Florida East Coast
railroad was very painfully bruised and
cut by falling from the end of a fiat
car into a pile of rock and roots, but
though quite badly hurt he continued
the inspection after having his wounds
dressed by the camp surgeon. The in
juries were sustained by his tripping
as he was about to jump from the car,
On behalf of j. K Mcdonald, as re-
ceiver of the Fort Dallas National
Bank, of Miami, Hudson & Boggs filed
"a bill in the Federal court Tuesday,
asking for receivership for the Haley
on Hall Hotel Co. As no objection was
reised by anyone as to the appoint
ment of a receiver for the hotel prop.
erty, the court granted the prayer Of
the petitions and appointed JOS, A. Nc
Donald, of Miami The movement
was made so that the hotel can be
opened and run during the winter sea
son, and the court was informed chat
there was every prospect thai it
would be so leased under the care Of a
receiver and the orders of the court.
The disappearance of the head Of the
firm with $4,000 or $4,000 and the
failure of the big mercantile firm of
Frederick Wilson e. Co., at GraceviIle,
east of Pensacola, has caused some
what Of a sensation in that section.
The failure of the firm and the fact
that the head of it had disappeared
about two weeks ago became known
last Thursday morning. The firm was
the largest mercantile establishment in
Graceville and one of the largest out
side of those in Pensacola and Marian
ma, in that section of the State. The
liabilities are placed at over $50 600.
About two weeks ago. it is stated, the
head of the firm left Gracevlle presum-
ably for New York to purchase new
goods for the store. He was credited
with between Sl2, 600 and $l5, 600 at a
New York bank with which to make
purchases and also make some settle
ments of Indebtedness due the uhnln-