The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-03-26
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The city council of Punta Gorda has
contracted for an electric light plant to
bn put iWo operation at once.
Another survey across the State for
the purpose of a ship canal has been
ordered by the Federal Government.
The Exchange National Bank of
Tampa, has increased its capital stock
from 500, 900 to $3.50, 600 and declared
q special cash dividend of 100000
The 1920 company of Coast Artillery,
when has been stationed at Key West
COR rambler of years, has been trans
ierred to Fort Hamilton, n. Y.
Vicc.President Zayas, of the Cuban
Republic, who passed through Tampa
Tuesday on his way to New York, was
given great reception by the Cuban
colony Of Tampa.
The comptroller of the Currency at
Washington has approved an increase
in the capital stock of the First Ma
tional Bank of Pensacola from $780,
900 to $500, 000
Indications point to very large at
tendance of the newspaper men of the
State at the coming annual convention
of the Florida State Press Association
at st. Augustine on March 80 and 81.
More than eighty acres are now in
cultivation in the recently opened
Okeechobee lands west of West Palm
Beach, and it is expected that the crop
Of vegetables now being grown for
early spring shipment will bring returns
of not less than $4,000
Claiming that he found his wife in
the arms of one of his farm hands
when he returned home and that he
shot them both, B. A. Humphrey, a
farmer, went to Jacksonville and sur
rendered to the authorities.
The Tampa Tribune has the follow
ing: Early this week the Tampa North
ern Railway company will occupy its
new depot at Brooksville, at which
place the company has made number
Of terminal Improvements amounting
to about $4,000. Right-of-way for the
extension of the road from BroOksville
to Dunnelon has been secured and con-
siderable grading done.
Last Thursday while fishing on the
reef from the inlet, S. R. Flynn, Presi-
dent, Live Stock National Bank, Chi
cago, Ill.,, captured the largest sail
fish ever caught at Palm Beach. 1t
measured eight feet. 1t has been
mounted by j.. Paul Clark and is now
on exhibition in Mrs. Holly's store and
in few days will be shipped to Mr..
Flynn's home in Chicago. = tropical
Sun, West Palm Beach.
Z. o. Painter, president of the E. O.
Painter Fertilizer Co., of Jacksonville,
in conjunction with Frank Cartmel, of
Z. Bean & Co., distributors of crate
material, and several other prominent
business men, has organized steam
ship line to ply between Jacksonville
and West India points. The company
has bought the former Clyde liner
Goldsboro, which will be brought to
Jacksonville at once for the first cargo.
Al meeting of the Florida head
camp Woodmen Of the World, Division
v held in Tampa last week, the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the en-
suing year: j. Mack Towne, Tampa,
head counsul commander; DR.. T. S.
Anderson, head advisor; R. E. Bray,
head banker; j. E. Davis, head clerk;
Eppes Tucker, head escort; Charles S. |
Noble, head Waterman; Louis Johnson,
head sentinel. Miami was elected as
the next place of meeting; time, second
Tuesday in March, 1910.
The quartermaster' department at
Washington has authorized the con-
tract for the construction of 1923, 800
barracks building at Fort Barrancas.
The building will be $50 feet long and
two stories high and will be erected .
near the present barracks building.
The department has also authorized the
following contracts for buildings at
Fort Barrancas; One mess hall, to cost
s., POO; lavatory, $500; plumbing for
the same, $500; one double fireman's
quarters $5,3S5.
Entering plea of guilty to assisting
in the robbery Of the postoffice at Day.
tona early in February, and making no
plea other than that he had done wrong