The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-05-07
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The Tampa custom house receipts
for the month of April were Sl4S, 729. 70
as against $3.50, 5lO.sS last year.
The Marion County Hospital Asso-
citation will soon commence the cree
ton of a handsome new hospital in
! Ocala.
Eustis is to have electric lights, a
franchise having been granted to a
Georgia firm, who are to have the lights
installed during the summer.
The past winter in Miami has been
an eventful one in the matter of con-
structon of new buildings and the en-
suing weeks of the summer months
promise to be equally as busy.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Fort Meade has been called for May
18th when steps will be taken to incor-
porate the town and introduce pro-
gram Of municipal improvement.
Several hundred acres of trucking
lands have already been sold in the
newly-opened country along the Okee-
chobee road, west of West Palm Beach,
the sales exceeding in value Sc, 600.
The bond election for good roads in
Duval county which was advertised to
be held on May IL has been postponed
the county commissioners finding that
the advertising calling the election is
legally defective. The board will set
new date at the next meeting.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway has
laid off every other section foreman be-
tween Waldo and Cedar Key and the
length of the section is doubled. In
order to cover the increased territory
section former will be supplied with
motor cars. Levy Times-Democrat.
The trial of William Thompson, the
Russian, at Pensacola, who was indict-
ed by the grand jury on the charge of
murder, in connection with the lynch |
ing of David Alexander, was brought
to close Friday by the jury bringing
in verdict of not guilty.
Hon. John i. Stokes, of Pensacola,
aged %, has been elected pro tenn,
speaker of the Florida House of Rep
resentatives. 1t takes a brave young
fellow to advocate in Pensacola egis,
lative resolution submitting the state
wide prohibition amendment to popular
vote. He must have the stuff in him
for the making of statesman.
Volusa county is to build a road
from Oak Hill to the Brevard county
line and thus make another link in the
contemplated road along the East
Coast. With the present activity in
road building in the counties on the
line, there will, before very long, be a
through hard road from Jacksonville to
Miami, to the great benefit of farmers
and Automobiles alike.
Senator Hudson, of the Thirteenth
district has insroduced Senate Bill No.
225, entitled an act to protect and pro-
mote the fruit growing and horticul-
tural interests of the State of Florida;
to exterminate crop pests and to pro-
vide for the appointment of county
This bill has long been a
necessity, and we hope it will not fail
of passage. An ounce of prevention
will save the citrus fruit growers mil
lions of dollars.
The Trustees of the Internal I'm
provement Fund have decided to en-
ploy Ex-Governor w. S. Jennings as
special counsel in the case of Peters
VS.. the trustees. Mr.. Jennings ability
and familiarity with the laws bearing
on the case caused the trustees to
seek his aid. He is to receive 81, 900
The case is the last of
the big suits in which the trustees
have been involved, and about $500, 900
is concerned. Mr.. Jennings is to pre-
pare all briefs and papers in the case.
It has been appealed to the Supreme
Court at Washington.
Through an agreement of the several
railroads concerned, a new fast and
direct freight route has been inaugu-
rated from Knights Key to Chicago.
The line is established to take care of
the Cuban perishable fruit and vege-
table business and is maintained on
schedule which rivals the fast winter
trains to the northwest. The first :
train of the new line passed Jackson
Vile carrying eighteen cars of pine
apples, tomatoes and potatoes through
solidly to Cincinnati and Chicago. The {