The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-02-12
Short Items from
all Sections
of the State

The rails have been purchased for
Sanford's trolly line and the work of
laying same will soon begin.
All stray dogs have been killed in
Ocala since the biting of small boy
by one Of the CANNES recently
Colman truckers are shipping from
200 to $50 crates of cabbage per acre.
This seasons crop is banner one.
Fort Myers, as usual, opens the tar
pom season, handsome silver king
having been landed there the past
week.
The celery crop is now being moved
from Sanford to the markets and the
growers are receiving satisfactory re-
turns.
The Board of Bond Trustees of Jack
sonville has decided to substitute oil
for coal as fuel at the electric light
and waterworks plants.
At meeting Of number of the
leading business men of Miami new
organization was perfected. under the
name Of the Miami Club.
Bonito are affording much sport for
fisherman in Tampa bay. Though
these fish are not edible they are among
the gamest Of the fnny tribe which in
habit the Gulf.
The grapefruit grove of Kimball At
wood on the Manatee river is veri-
table gold mine this year for its owner.
1t is estimated that the yield will be
$4,000 boxes valued at 5000, 900.
DR.. Guy c. Estes died at the Rail-
way Hospital in st. Augustine last
Friday of appendicitis and other COM
plications. He was 32 years of age
and was a resident of Palatka, where
his remains were laid to rest.
Mrs. w. B. Lamar, wife of Con-
gresham Lamar of the third district,
recently bought two-story brick store.
house fronting q feet on Peachtree
street, Atlanta, and 96 feet deep, for
which she paid S65, 900 cash.
The people of Lakeland are almost
within sight of free mail delivery.
The government requisite is that stamp
sales shall reach 500 year, and it /,
is estimated that the receipts at Lake
land will reach this figure by March 81.
Reports from all over the southern
part of the State are to the effect that !
the orange crop has not been injured
by the late cold wave. Even as far
south as Tampa, where the thermome-
ter registered rs degrees, there was
not the slightest indication that the
trees were damaged in any way.
Recognizing the Importance of Jack
sonville as shipping port, the Mer-
chants e. Miners Transportation Com
pany will make Jacksonville port of
entry. st. Johns river-front property
costing $l8O,0O0 has been secured in
J Jacksonville, where warehouses and
wharves will be built preparatory to
the Inauguration of a direct freight
and passenger service between Balti-
more and Jacksonville.
William Jennings Bryan, the past
week, has delighted audiences at Tam
pa, Sutherland, St. Petersburg, Lake.
and, Winter Park, DeLand and Jack
'onville, and has been greeted by i'm
nense crowds at each city. His ia
nous lecture, "The Prince of Peace"
vas given at several places. While re-
urning to Tampa from st. Petersburg,
le was in an automobile wreck, was
injured and narrowly escaped
erious injury.
The trouble between the New
smyrna Bridge Company and the war
department. has been adjusted and the t
ridge company is now considering r
ids for permanent and substantial re- v
airs, and it is expected that work will c
Don begin on the bridge. This will be
God news for the public, as the draw
as been opened for several months O
nd owing to the Inconvenience of v
citing across the river travel to Coro. -
ado and the beach has been very light. t
New Smyrna Breeze. A
Will McFadden, the negro who a
rimnially assaulted Mrs. Walters, n
life of the railroad section foreman, v
Pineda last February, has been cap +
lred, and is now in Jail in St. Angus
ne. Sheriff Brown, of Brevard coun- :.
!, captured the negro at turpentine h.
amp on the st. Johns river about :,