The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-07-23
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The electors of Santa Rosa county
are to vote again in 'wet' and dry
election on July 3lst, an election having
been called by the..county commissioners
for the date. Santa Rosa is now in the
dry column.
South Jacksonville had a serious con-
hagration Wednesday, five houses be-
ing either completely destroyed or
badly damaged. Had not assistance
been sent from the Jacksonville fire
department, the town might have been
wiped out of existence.
Edward Alvarez, convicted of muir
der in the second degree in Bradford
cuunty in 1899 and sentenced to life
imprisonment has been granted his
freedom by the Board of Pardons. This
is the second time he has been pardoned,
the first time about five years ago, ne
was given conditional pardon, but
later his actions became such that he
was again placed in the penitentiary.
The sheep experiment being tried by
the San Mateo Fruit Co., in their orange
grove seems to work all right so far.
The sheep do hot bother the orange
trees and will keep down the grass and
weeds in good shape. The twelve acres
of the Fruit Company's would pasture
about 100 sheep. The so they have are
not enough to cover the whole II acres
and keep the grass down through the
rainy season.
DeLand is becoming one of the auto
mobile towns of the State, and many
cars are used on her sheled streets and
roads. They can 60 to all points on the
coast, to Orange City, Enterprise, Os-
teen and across the riven to Sanford,
Orlando and Kissimmee. Then there is
the drive to Beresford, Glenwood and
to the north end. Next winter the
shell road to the coast will be used daily
by dozens of autes. This, including the
shell road between New Symrna and
Ormond, affords one of the finest and
most delightful auto drives in Florida. 49,
DeLand Record.
An election was held in Sumter county
last week to decide whether or not the
county seat should be removed from
Sumtervile to some other place
Coleman and Webster both wanted it
and when the votes were counted these
two towns had 2S6 each to their credit
with only l25 for Sumterville. But
Sumterville being the county seat, had
an advantage over her competitors, the
law requiring a majority of all votes
cast to make change. The new court
house building, to replace the one des'
troyed by fire about six months ago
will therefore be built on the old site.
The West Palm Beach Tropical Sun
of Thursday says: "In the circuit court
in Miami yesterday before Judge Minor
S. Jones a permanent injunction was
granted to the school trustees of special
tax district No. |, restraining the con-
tractors, there agents, servants or en-
ployees from further interference with
the trustees in their possession and con-
troll of the new school building. The
cross bill of Smith & Grier, the contract
ors, against the trustees was denied by
the court and the suit ordered dismissed.
This action on these two bills practi-
cally ends the controversy regarding
the possession of both the old and the
new buildings.
Herman Masters was broughtup from
Titusvile Thursday evening, suffering
from a severely crushed arm and placed
in the Railroad Hospital. His arm was
caught between the bumpers of two
coaches while he was attempting to
straighten out the kink in the chain
the cars. The accident hap
pened at Titusville about 2:45 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon. Conductor Mas
ters thought he had time to straighten
out the chain before the cars came to-
gether, but miscalculated the time and
his arm was caught and severely crush
ed, the tissues being badly torn, but
fortunately no bones were broken. At
first it was feared that his arm was so
severely crushed that amputation would
be necessary and as the right arm was
injured the prospect was very discourage
ng for the victim. Titusvile surgeons
dressed the injured arm and Immediate
y after special was placed in COM
mission and with Conductor Masters
.board started for this city, making the
he trip of 12O miles in 2 hours and Is