The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-09-10

The Aripeka Sawmllls, at Flvay, o
which Y. H. Martin is manager, are
soon to build two additional mills at {
cost of $3.50 600 each.
The city council of West Palm Beach
has offered reward of S25 for the con.
viction of any person who attempts t
kill shade tree in that city.
Andrew Nelson, resident of Tampa
aged about eighty years, committed
suicide last Friday by blowing out hi
brains with a shotgun. He was des.
pendent because of ill-health.
While returning on an exclusion from
Fernandiana. Barlow Law, of Welborn
was instantly killed by fall from the
rapidly moving train. The young man
was q years old and leaves widowed
mother.
Jacksonville is to have two new brick
school houses, one located on Highway
avenue and the other in Hartridge's ad-
dition to Springfield They are to be
eightroom buildings and will be COM
pleted by November LIST.
The contract for new public school
building at Daytona has been awarded
to S. A. Cove, of that city, whose bid
was SAL 500. Work has already been
commenced on the structure which will
be rushed to completion as quickly as
possible.
Barlow boasts of the best subexchange
of the Florida Citrus Exchange in the
State, having now about 250, 600 boxes
Of oranges and grapefruit in sight.
Polk county will contribute about 80
per cent of her fruit to the support of
the exchange.
Work has already been started on the
new bank building for Crescent City.
This is to be quite handsome structure
with a marble front columned with
buff pressed brick. The interior will be
beautifully finished and will have every
modern convenience.
The town council of Leesburg has
ordered all chinaberry and prickly ash
trees cut down, as it has been proved
that they harbor the white fly and that
they are the worse trees for their pro-
pagation. If this is true, it would be
well for other towns to do the same
thing.
Miami is to have another ice plant
with capacity of thirty-fiv tons daily.
William B. Moore, for several years
superintendent of the Florida East
Coast Ice Company's plant in Miami, is
giving the project his attention and will
leave during the early part of Septem-
Der for Philadelphia and New York to
close a deal for the erection of the
plant.
A far-reaching opinion, one which
will have great effect on bankruptcy
cases in Florida, has been handed down
by Judge j. w. Locke of the United
States court Briefly stated, Judge
Locke has ruled that in bankruptcy
proceeding an insurance policy of the
defendant shall not be considered
part OF the assets liable to conversion
into cash.
The jury trying H. F. Hinson, the
East Coast express messenger, before
The Circuit Court of Duval county, in a
charg, # grand larceny, brought in
verdict asst Friday of guilty. Hinson
W. convicted of stealing a package of
je~eIy consigned by Smith & Co. of
New York to Greenleaf & Crosby's
branch house in Miami. Some of the
jew ely was found in his possession.
5arasota was visited by disastrous
FIRE early Thursday morning, three
business houses being destroyed, with a
loss Of about $4,000. A large hard
ware store, bakery and a barber shop
l-l prey 10 the flames. The Bay
View and Bay Villa hotels caught fire
bat were saved by bucket brigade.
Had the conhagration spread in the gale
that was blowing the entire town would
have been burned.
Messrs, Sanders and Boggs, who un.
der the Broward administration on
January 4. 1908, were granted by the
|. |. trustees contract for the purchase
Of 10000 acres Of State lands, at So per
acre, Thursday applied for and received |
a futher grant of Everglades lands at a
much advanced price per acre. Pro-
pided however, that the canal, twenty
feet wide and six feet deep, which the