The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-05-28
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taloupes.
The earliest two cars of watermelons
ever shipped from Florida were
shipped from Nocatee on May 18th and
netted the shippers S76O.
David Thompson, the white man
placed on trial in the Criminal Court
in Miami, Wednesday, for breaking
into the store of Walter Kitching at
Stuart, and stealing sun. of money,
was found guilty Thursday.
Will McFadden, the negro who
brutally assaulted Mrs. d. M. Walters
at Pineda, Fla, in August 1907, was
hanged in the Jail yard at Titusville at
10 o'clock Friday morning He pro-
tested his innocence until the last.
The House of Representatives at
Tallahassee has passed the bill appro-
prating an additional So, 500 to be used
for marking Olustee battlefield in an
appropriate manner. Eloquent speech
es in favor of the appropriation pre-
coded the passage of the bill.
A dest ruc've fire occurred in High
Springs friday, in which the Presby-
terian manse was destroyed and several
residences caught from falling cinders
but were saved. The manse was &C.
cupied by the family of Rev. G. E.
Thompson, several of whom are on the
sick list, and they suffered severely
from the shock.
William P. Smith, of the law firm of
Kay, Doggett & Smith, Jacksonville,
has arranged for the purchase of the
j. j. Holly grove at Alapattha. The
grove contains about 800 citrus trees
and the larger POI tion of them are in
full bearing. The Holly grove is con-
sidered one of the best citrus groves in
the southern part of the State.
Judge Graham, of Tampa, has
rendered a decision that married women
cannot legally make contract. Mrs.
Stertzbach had made a contract to
teach in Hillsborough county schools,
and later was dismissed, with others,
by order of the county superintendent.
for lack of funds. She brought suit
for her pay according to contract, with
result as above stated.
A canning factory at Buckingham, on
the Orange river is now being con-
Quoted by VIM. Comm, who intends to
can up all his products, such as toma-
toes, beans and okra, that is left
when he is over with the shipping
business. The vegetables thus canned
will be as good as the best, but too
ripe for shipping. In addition he will
take all left over that his neighbors
will send in.
Letters patent for The Live Oak and
White Springs Railroad Company have
been asked for. The road is to be built
from Live Oak to White Springs. The
stockholders of the company are we'll
known business men. w. l.. Tedder,
president of the Tedder Lumber Com
pany. is president, and c. D. Black
well, cashier of the Live Oak bank, is
secretary and treasurer. The capital
stock Of the company is $4,000 The
length of the road will be about l8
mills.
1t has been discovered that there is
no Suwannee county. An act passed
in 1889 defining the boundaries of Co.
lumbia county was so loosely drawn
that it practically covered all of Su-
wannee county, as can be seen by re-
ferring to Section 26, General Statutes,
State of Florida 1906. An analysis
of the description in that section also
leaves it in doubt where Columbia
county extends, for it does not close
that county as TO part OF us southern
boundary, as it gives only what is
generally recognized as the southern
boundary of Suwannee.
The board of officers of the corps of
engineers appointed to recommend
routes for a survey for a canal across
the northern part of the state of Flor
ida, from east to west, will recommend
to the government survey of five
routes, 1000 miles in all, at cost of
approximately $4,000. The canal
routes to be surveyed will aggregate
very much more than the Panama canal
survey and will require several months
to complete with five parties of sur
veyors at work. 1t is expected that
if the plan of survey is approved the