The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-11-19


destroyed by fire at TitusyIIe WedneS-
day.
Plant City now has new board OF
trade. The organization was protected
Monday by prominent citizens of 'h"I
place.
The county commissioners If DrSoto
county at their last meeting approprla-
ted 81, 800 to aid in making war on the
whitehy
Fort Myers now has curfeW ord'-
nance requiring boys under sixteen
year of age to stay at home after ;
O'Clock at night.
A Savannah firm paid Alachua county
growers thirty cents a pound for three
hundred bales of sea island cotton at
Gainesville Friday.
Two valuable lots have been bought
in Jacksonville on which the Ancient
Accepted Order Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine will erect a splendid temple.
The Aripeka sawmills located at
Fivay. in Pasco county, have been pur-
chased by Martin Amorous of Atlanta.
The entire property is valued at 3d.
600, 900.
The work on the new Federal building
in Ocala is rapidly nearing completion,
and it is expected that the poStoifce
will be moved into the new quarters
early in December.
VIM. Price of Melrose has been sell
ing canned tomatoes at Waldo and
other places which were put up by his
factory. He put up $1,000 cans of to-
matoes and peaches last year.
At least two and probably three solid
carloads of homeseekers will arrive in
Pensacola from the West during the
coming week. 1t is expected that they
will nearly all settle upon Escambia
county lands.
In the Forthcoming Senatorial race
the line up is as follows Broward, a
native FlOridian; Blount a native GeOr-
gian; L'Engle, native Flordian;
Reeves, native Albanian; Taiaferro
native Virginian. 1t is time Florida
sent a native to the United States
Senate.
1t is a mistake to say that Dade
county voted 'wet' in the recent elec
ton. The county voted "dry." but /
Miami's vote for whisky was strong
enough to carry the election for the
sale of the stuff that dishoartcns, dis.
gusts, disgraceS and damns all who
touch it.
The report of a survey made Of Tam
pas harbor by a government engineer
recommends that the government cX-
pend So, 700, 600 upon its improvement.
This would provide twenty-four foot
channel, three hundred feet wide, to
the head Of the estuary besides other
improvements.
Less than one-quarter of the land Cf
the South is now in cultivation, yet the
distribution of rainfall, the steady tenn
perature, the long growing seasons
mark this section rs particularly adapt.
ed to the wel-being Of man. FIori'a
has total acreage Of IS, ,0iO acres
now under cultivation. The State could
well support a population Of twenty
times the number it now holds within
its borders.
The Supreme Court of Florida has
affirmed the decision of the lower courts
in the case of r. H. Owen, white charg-
ed and convicted of the murder of K, l..
Smith and Joe MusseIwhite, in Alachua
county, several months ago, and he will
be hanged, unless granted a pardon on
a communication Of sentence, neither of
which is likely. At present Owen is
prisoner in Duval county Jail, having :
been taken there from Gainesville for ;
when the citizens Of Jones
vile threatened to lynch him. The
death warrant for Ovens execution
will very likely be issued some time in
December, and the execution will take |
place in Gainesville probably during the !
latter part of the month. ,
In the person of Gen. Abe Sawyer,
Key West has the most diminutive citi.
zen of the State, if not of the entire -
country; while Marion county may claim !;
the distinction of being the home of the +
largest tat least, the heaviest. The 1;
Ocala Star says: miss Allie Bitch the :,
fat girl from the sand hills in the west /
arn norton of Marion county, retnrned