The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-12-23

The Board Of County Commissioner
of Duval will not again lease the cour
~ convicts, but will arrange to worl
them on the roads in future years.
At a meeting of the Alachua count,
Democratic executive committee, /
was decided to recommend G. Week
Miller for appointment by the Cover
nor as county tax collector to succeed
the late W. y. Dickinson.
The Alcina has the record catch o
fish this season. She arrived in Pensa
cola last week after being on the bank!
six days with a total catch Of Co. ol
pounds of fish; Is, 600 pounds of snap
pers and 10000 pounds of groupcrs.
The Kentucky Military Institute vii
leave their Kentucky home at Lyndon
on Friday January 9th on their annual
return to Military Park at Eau GaI!ie
where the school will hold its three
months winter session. Their special
train will arrive there On Sunday morn
ing Jan 8th.
Benford Deacon, Of Daytona, has ".
ceived news of the appointment of his
brother, Stuart Deacon to the position
of stipendiary magistrate Of Liverpool,
England, the official appointment to
this position being made by the King OF
England on the recommendation of the
home secretary.
The new hotel in DANA was complete
ly destroyed by fire last Thursday morn
ing. 1t twas complete loss. The auto
mobile garage adjacent to the hotel
was also burned to the ground. The
hotel was insured to some extent. For
a while the fire threatened the entire
town, but was saved by the wind
changing.
United States secret service officials
ra ided the Offices of the Capital Invest
ment Company as bucket shot in Chi.
cago last week. The main Office and
four of its branches were visited and
all papers and records were confscated.
Sidmon Nellie is said by the federal
O fiicials to be the chief owner of the
company. He is believed to be in this
state.
The work of erecting the new build
ing of the Orange County Fair Asso-
citation is progressing satisfactorily.
The two story main building is nearly
completed. The upper story will be
used for domestic arts and science ex-
hibits, while the lower floor will be used
for displays of fruits, grains, vegeta-
bles and other farm products. The fair
will be held in February.
Tom Heard, the negro car-breaker,
captured few days ago by Special
Agent Pinkoson, Of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway Company, has made full
confession, duplicating five other ne
groes, two of whom are now under ar
rest and confined in the Alachua county
j all. The officers believe that they
have at last captured majority of the
gang of robbers who have, for several
years, been operating at High Springs. !
The Florida Times Union has just
closed contract with the Glenn II. /
Curtiss Aviation Company of New York
to hold an aviation meet in Jacksonville,
at MOncrief Park, on Christmas day,
the program to start promptly at 3
o'clock. Mr. Sutton, representing the
Curtiss company, has been in Jackson,
Vile for several days in the interest Of
his company, and the contract was
closed, calling for the introduction of
two or more of the famous Curtiss
machines and two or more daring
aviators Eugene Ely. who bears the
ii distinction Of being one Of the worlds
most daring aviators, will be at the
jacksonville meet with Augusta Post,
me of Mr.. Curtiss' most sensational
iyers. 1t is also possible that Nc
Jurdy, the well known aviator, will al
10 be present at this meet to give an
exhibition in his aeroplane.
The Record has it from reliable
sources that since the election whiskey
louses at Jacksonville have their paid
agents going from town to town in this
ounty soliciting orders for whiskey,
nd N several instances they have COL
ected the money for the stuff. They
re operating mostly among the colored
'eople, but never refuse an order from
white person or the money for the
anne. This is an offence, a violation
f law that the citizens and the officers