Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-07-02


negro is in jail on the unique charg
of stealing gas. Stolen thunder ma,
release him or make "a lightning change
What is said to be the largest bea
ever seen on the Halifax River wa
killed by r.. w. Rawlings and a. VIII
hanson near Bulow last week.
On charge of disorderly conduct b!
giving short weights in Ice negro for
feited $40 bond by not appearing fol
trial in Jacksonville police court last
Friday. 1t was a hot day.
No Confederate veteran who is the
owner of property to the value Of $1,000
is entitled to draw pension from the
State, under the amended law passed
by the recent legislature.
Billy Bow Legs, Tom Tiger Tail and
Tallahassee, the three steel dredges
built in Jacksonville for the drainage
board are now on the way to Miami,
going from Jacksonville to st. Angus
tine on the outside and thence down
the canal.
Andrew Re and Bastenge Ficarrotta
have been indicted for the murder OF
Councilman Ficarratto, of West Tam
pa, several weeks ago. Re is cigar
manufacturer of good standing and the
other indicted man is relative OF the
murdered man.
The ground and climatic conditions
at Indianola, says the Florida Star, are
so well adapted to the growing of to-
matoes that one volunteer plant which
sprung up year ago now covers the
ground for 100 yards up and down the
river bank. Is it loaded?
John T. Hammond, formerly one of
Orlando's prominent capitalists, but
now Of New Smyrna, where he is pres
ldent of the bank, has purchased about
$1,000 acres of land in the Delespne
Grant, just south of Titusville, which
will be settled and developed by
farmers.
perusal of the recent general re
venue bill discloses the fact that about
the only thing going untaxed are bah
les and dogs.-Palaka Time-Herald.
The babies and dogs are taxed, hence
there are but two things left free-the
air we breathe and the shot air" gen
Grated by the tax observation-disclosures
Times.
Isaiah E. Cooper, three times con-
demned to be hanged, only to be re
prievedat the last moment, is at Camp
No. 8 of the Bowling Park Naval Stores
Co., where he was sent last week. He
is under life sentence for the murder of
Marshal Bowman at Punta Gorda and
remained in jail six years awaiting final
sentence.
In the case Of Jas. Nj, Kelly and D.
NJ. Davidson, charged with murder of
w. G. Sellars, special agent of the
Atlantic Coast Line, at High Springs
in August, 1905, the jury returned
verdict of murder in :he first degree
with recommendation, at Palatka last
Saturday morning. The defense made
a motion for a new trial.
Mayor Green, of Daytona. has vetoed
the ordinance granting franchise to
the Daytona Telephone company. One
of the reasons stated is that the fran
chise proposes that the company pay
beginning three years from date, a tax
or license fee of $l.00 for each phone
The mayor can't see why the cit,
should wait three years before begin
ming to pay this fee.
The telephone line from Miami via
the railroad right-of-way in the keys is
being eXtented very rapidly, Through
connections have beeL made With
Torch Key, about twenty-five miles
this side of Key West. a large num-
Der of men is engaged and it is expect
ed the line will have been finished TO
Key West in the next few weeks.
Miami News-Record.
The executive organizing committee
for the Florida Citrus Exchange has
adopted a charter for the State organi.
cation of orange growers. The charter
allows growers Of citrus fruits to be-
come members by obtaining certifi
cate OF membership for the nominal
sum of one dollar; only one certificate
to be Used to a grower, This allows
one vote to a grover who is a member
no matter how large his grove acreage.
thus putting the small grove owner on
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