The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-05-21
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600 this season,
Governor Glchrist has appointed
Henry w. Curtis, of Quincy, to be
Assistant State Auditor, succeeding
W. B, Sadler,
Gov. Gilchrst, Saturday, for the first
time, used his veto power. He sub
mitted messages to the two houses
yetoinp the bill extending the powers
Of the city Of DeIand and making void
"A bonding election held in that city.
Constitutional grounds were given by
the governor.
As the result of the success that has
come from the experiments of raising
celery this winter, the st. Peters
burg Trucking Association has decided
to 90 into the thing on large scale
next season. c. +. Chambers, the
gentleman who has had so much success
the past season, is purchasing the seed
for the entire crop.
The Italian Government has accepted
the offer of Duke De Litta Of vast
tracts of land in Southwest Florida,
where it is proposed to colonize Eve
thousand of the Messina earthquake
refugees to farm the lands on shares.
The government will send inspectors to
investigate the economic value OF the
land and hygenic conditions OF the To-
cation.
1t is estimated that at least fifteen
thousand birds of different kinds are
nesting on Pelican Island this season.
Since the government bird reservation
was established in this section birds
have become more numerous and more
tanned. AS many as five hundred pell-
cans can be seen at one time on the
sandbars near the inlet at low tide.
A few years ago these birds were sell
dom seen around New Smyrna. New
Smyrna Breeze.
Secretary Meyer Friday announced
the appointment of Lieut.. Commander
Hutchl. Cone to be chief of the Bureau
of Steam Engineering, and engineer-lr-
chief of the navy, vice Rear Admiral
John X. Barton, retired. Commander
Cone was formerly of the engineers
corps, which was merged into the line
of the navy years ago. Commander
Cone was appointed to the navy from
Florida. He commanded the torpedo
fotilla which made the long voyage
around South America at the same
time the Atlantic batteship fleet was
on its trip around the world.
A large manatee or sea-cow, measur-
ing ten feet in length and weighing
about l4O0 pounds, was captured at the
mouth of tn, ST. Lucie river, near
Stuart, and was taken to Palm Beach
last week by Alligator Joe, one of his
helpers and Carl Friend. The manatee
was loaded into a car from the fish
house dock, and was shipped along
with a large collection of animals which
Alligator Joe has sent to Kansas City,
where they will be exhibited this sum-
mer. He has shipped now two cars
filled with aligators, crocodiles, etc.
The manatee was captured i'll net and
is considered a very large specimen.
The Democratic Executive Commit
tee of ralm Beach, have recommended
the appointment Of the following
gentlemen to serve as officers for the
first term; Clerk, F. Z. Fenno Delray:
Treasurer, NJ. B. Lyman, Lantana;
Sheriff, Geo. B. Baker, West Palm
Beach; Tax Assessor, j. NJ. Owens,
Palm Beach; Judge, H, b. Saunders,
Jr., West Palm Beach; Superintendent
of Public instruction, j. c. Harris,
West Palm Beach; Tax Collector, H..
E Stypman, Stuart; Registration Off
Ger, j. 7. Grier, West Palm Beach;
County Commissioners, c. w. McPher-
son, E. F. Bowers, A. P. Anthony, R.
H. Rousseau, H. j. Niblick; County
School Board, H. A. Pennock, H. T.
Grant, j. J, Schabinger; Fish and
Game Warden, j. w. Pierce.
The East Florida Telephone Company
is now branching out in all sections of
the State and completely covering
Alachua county from the east to
western sections. During the last
week this company ran their lines into
Melrose, which will give service to the
most eastern point of the county, and
they have for long while been con-
nected with Wilcox and nearly all
western points. Only a few weeks
since they made connections whereby