Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-05-07

week purchased of S. Is. storey MS
orange grove and 700 acres, situated
about six miles north Of Kissimmee,
Jesse Turner was seriously stabbed
four times by knife in the hands OF
J. O'Neil, at Hastings last Friday A
dispute over horse led to the trouble
A resolution was passed in the Flor
ida Legislature last week adopting the
orange blossom as the State flower.
Representative MacWilliams, of ST.
Johns county, proposed it.
The Board of Commissioners Of Man
atee county will consider at its next
meeting the matter of an election to
determine whether or not that county
shall issue bonds in the sum of $780,
900 for good roads,
The old St, Cloud property, near kls-
simmee, with $4,000 acres of land, has
passed into the hands of the Seminole
Land and Investment Co., who will di-
vide it into small lots and proceed to
settle thousands of coloniSts, ii they
carry out their project.
The bond election for good roads in
Duval county which was advertised to
be held on May u has been postponed,
the county commissioners finding that
the advertising calling the election is
legally defective. The board will set
new date at the next meeting.
bon. John p. Stokes of Pensacola,
aged %, has been elected pro tenn speak
err Of the Florida House of Reprenta-
tives. 1t takes a brave young fellow to
advocate in Pensacola a legislative res
oution submitting the statewide pro-
hibition amendment to popular vote
He must have the stuff in him for the
making of statesman.
President A. A. Murphree, of the
Florida Female College at Tallahassee,
has been elected president of the Uni
versty of the State of Florida 10 place
of Dr.. Andrew Sledd, who resigned on
account of friction b9s@eet Murphree,
II has been unofficially announced
from the general headquarters of the
Florida State troops that the brigade
OF infantry which comprises the mill
tary force OF Florida. will be ordered
out for its annual tour of field duty du. =
ing the first week in June. which tour
OF duty will be held at the permanent
camp site at Philbrofen, on ST. Johns
river near Jacksonville.
Mrs. A. H. Emerson, of Tacoma. has
sold 200 acres of land to Mr.. Lawrence,
OF Indiana, who expects to come this
TALL with colony. That is the way 10
get the right sort of immigration.
Those Hoosiers will bring their nei III
borS, churches, lodges, schools aud civ.
ilization with them. There is plenty of
room in Florida for such colonies and
they will help each other to do WE'LL
Arcadia News.
In the State Senate, on Wednesday
the bill OF Senator Beard regulating
The practice of osteopathy was passed
with only three dissenting votes. Sen
ator Beard said that he was surprised
that there was not more opposition, as
some physicians have been opposing the
measure. He pointed out that the hin
only placed the oSteopaths on the same
footing with the homeopaths and other
physicians.
Three of the five negroes who es.
capped from the county Jail at DeLand
last week have been recaptured. Jane,
Hampton was caught in Volusia count,
and Charles Warren and John John.
son were found in Lake county. The
latter has been convicted of murder
while Warren has not yet been tried
but is charged with murder. Arthur
Nelson, under sentence of death, and
Iheo Har:. charged with assault with
intent to kill, were still at large the
first of this week. There is reward
OF 500 for Nelson's capture and S25 for
Hart.
The Nashville firm manufacturing
the HELo brand of baking powder,
which had large consignment seized
here several weeks ago by government
officials, who charged that the powuer
violated the pure food and drug law b,
being about two ounces to the nound |
under weight, has decided TO comply