The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-04-09
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all Sections
o. the State

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telegraph system.
The contract for building Miami's
new city hall has been let to F. W.
Hahn for $4,000.
A farmer of Stark. has produced a
turnip weighing seventeen pounds,
and it attracted considerable attention
while on exhibit in a local store.
President Taft has appointed Charles
:. Williams as post master Of Key
West. and has sent his name to the
Senate for confirmation,
Solid trainloads containing from
fifty to sixty cars, are twice daily
passing north on the Florida East
Coast railway, from points in Dade
and St. Lucie counties to the northern
markets, filled with tomatoes. beans,
peppers and other vegetable crops
Pensacola, New Orleans, Mobile and
Apalachicola will be the points between
which a 4o0-ton steamship will be op-
Grated BY the Wefng Transportation
Company, which has just been organ
lied at Apalachicola with Geo Weting
as manager.
There is a well defined rumor to the
effect that arrangement is to be made
By the Southern Pacific Steamship
company to have the vessels Of their
line, operating between New York.
New Orleans and Havana, call at Tam
pa. The rumor is associated with that
of Z. H. Hartman laying plans for
the securing Of the Seaboard Air Line,
The Devils Dream is the name Of
a boat-automobile now being built in
Miami for the express purpose Of
crawling and swimming scross the
Everglades of Florida. John Buckley.
of Boston, Mass, who operates a re-
pair shop in Miami is the designer and
builder of this peculiar motor concern,
and within a few days he expects to
give the machine a trial.
Col. William H. Tippetts, proprietor
Of the Hotel Belmont, at St. Peters.
burg, died Sunday afternoon at his
home. Col. Tippetts was an old news
prper man, having entered newspaper
work in 1850, founding the Lake George
and Saratoga Mirror. During his
thirty-fve years Of journalistic work
he represented many newspapers in
this country, in Europe, North Africa,
Western Asia and the Hawaiian Islands.
The negro, Jesse Wills, who muir
iered Section Foreman Hammock
asst November, will be hanged in April.
The Reporter-Star has the following
'egarding it: The death warrant for
Jesse Wills has been received by Sher-
# kirkwood. 1t will be remembered
hat Willis murdered Section Foreman
Hammock at Paola last November.
The time for the hanging is April 18th,
)etweeu ten and two. SANFORD Her
3D.
At meeting of the cattle dealers of
outh Florida held in Tampa last week,
IN association to be known as the Flor
da Cattle Association was formed,
:. L. knight, Of Tampa, was elected
PRESIDENT and J. F. Vanderipe, Of
3radentown, was elected secretary.
resolutions were passed agreeing TO
old al. beef cattle that may be put on :
he market from November to June ! ,
t 3 cents per pound, gross and from /
une to November !, at 2 81 cents :
er pound, delivered at Tampa.
William BexIey and TRULY Osteen, s
Dung white men charged with the
murder of ". H. Mooreland, a travel y
lg man, at High Springs, some
lonths ago, are on trial before the
ircuit court in Gainesville this week.
looreland wa. assassinated on a dark i
rect, while going to the hotel, shortly c
fter arriving in High Springs, by
arty or parties unknown. Tne case
as Immediately taken in charge of by b
lie Travelling Mems Protective Asso- 5
alton, which placed detectives on the b
,ene, and the arrest of the young +
zen followed.
Miss Marguerite Presbrey, daughter
Mr.. and Mrs, Frank Presbrey, of !"
ew York, who with her parents and i
er sister, Miss Alice Presbrey, were y
lssengcrs on the S. S. Havana of the !.
ard Line last week, wrote message !.
her friend, Miss Dorothy Mckinney, -
no is guest at the Viles Cottage.
id placed il in a Perrier bottle Tbis