The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-12-24
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SiXty-fve men have applied for men,
bership in Daytona's new volunteer fire
department.
Baker county's commissioners will
soon let the contract for the erection
Of q rev county Jail at Macclenny.
Because he couldn't make the bond
required City Treasurer Rowland has
been suspended by Mayor Reilly Of
Pensacola.
Wmauma truck growers are making
heavy shipments. The recent drouth
didn't hurt the crop as artesian irriga-
ton is generally used.
Solomon Oysterman, weTl-known
character in jacksonville, was recently
murdered in that city. Robbery was
supposed to be the motive for the
crime.
Palmetto. in Manatee county, is offer
ed brush factory by an Eastern COM
pany for the manufacture of brushes,
hrooms, etc, of all descriptions, from
the palmetto.
Deray citizens are taking the prelim-
mary steps towards Incorporating the
town. They will next endeavor to wrest
from West Palm Beach the county seat
of Palm Beach county,
In a short time the workmen will
have the new $4,000 building for the
Florida State Deaf and Blind school
completed, when it will be turned over
to the State Board of Control.
The postofiice receipts at Sanford Cor
the month of November show gain in
business over the same month last year
of 5Oi per cent. Applications for box
facilities have far outreached the sup
ply.
Governor Gilchrist and State Treas
urer Knott, member of board of trus-
tees of the Internal Improvement Fund,
are making an investigation of the
Everglades drainage work up the Ca
loosahatchee river or the west side of
the State.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has declared the freight rates on the l..
e. n. railroad to be unreasonably high.
An investigation shows that the rates
have not been changed for 20 years, not
wthstanding the improved facilities for
handling freight.
AT the last meeting Of the Escambia
Cou nty Commissioners the Pensacola
Development and Construction Company
was granted permission to build a new
electric line along the Natioal cemetery
road at Big Bayou. The work on this
will start very soon.
1t is told on Lake county attorney
that he went up to Tallahassee and
made such an eloquent plea FOR the
pardoning of negro woman that his
request was unanimously granted by
the State board of pardons. And then
it was discovered when the records
We're looked over that she had been
dead nine months.
1t $ said that Congress will be asked
to provide for the restoration Of Fort
Matanzas, the old Spanish fort near
M@tar 2as inlet. Acknowledgements. $40
the old fort was in such a ruinou, cul-
dition hat it looked as though it might
fall any day. The fact that it hes
stood to this day shows how strongly /,
was constructed, and is an argument ia
favor Of restoring it,
AS evidence of the enormoGs amour,
of steel still 70 be used in the building
ai the Florida East Coast Railway eX-
tension it is stated by railroad men
that $50 cars of viaduct materia! aud
other steel are now scattered along The
road siding between Miami and Mara
thon, waiting to be unloaded, the dis
charging having been delayed by the
necessity Of improving and repairing
lhe damages done by the late hurri-
cane.
The most important legal papers filed
in the office of the clerk of the circuit
court last week, were the release from
the State of Florida to the Davie Realty
Company Of the S66,66 mortgage on
the $4,000 acres of Everglades land
purchased from the State about a year
ago, and a deed from the Davie Realty
Company, conveying 46,0S0 acres.
This latter tract is in townships SO and
62 in ranges IS and 80 east. Another
deed was recorded conveying 1880 to