Fort Pierce news., 1910-07-01
Some State Happenings
Florida Items Gathered from Our Exchanges.

e The prisoners in the Duval count
: jsil are now provided with iron bunk
-aBy an act Of Congress the name POI
D of St. Johns has been changed to Por
= Of Jacksonville.
Qualified voters in Jacksonville wi
, vote July 18th on 100000 bond issu
! for public Improvements.
Putnam county realized s779 in tol
for the first three months on the nev
toll bridge across St. Johns river.
A movement is now on foot TO bono
Volusia county in sum sufficient fol-
the building of complete system o.
good roads.
The public buildings bill passed by
Congress carries a provision appropri-
ating s55,OOO for a government building
at St. Petersburg.
A negro convict who refused to work
and attacked the guard with an axe at
Fish Creek, last Saturday, was shot in
the stomach and nortally wounded.
Napoleon B. Broward is the first ex.
governor of Florida TO be elected to the
United States Senate, but he isn't the
first one that'e tried good and hard.
Twenty.one names were added to the
list OF attorneys admitted TO practice
law in the courts Of Florida at the re-
cent examination held in tallahassee.
All the street cars in Jacksonville are
to be painted green, but that does not
mean that those Jacksonvillians are a
green set. II you think so, try them.
A Putnam county branch OF the Mis-
sissippi to Atlantic Inland Waterway
Association was organized in Palatka
last week under the auspices of the
board of trace.
The day is near at hand when home
stealing in Florida will be a thing of
the past. Less than 100000 acres now
remain, and mnch of this is not partic.
ularly desirable.
L. E. Dowell, an 4. c. L. engineer
running out Of Waycross, was placed
under arrest at Jacksonville last FRIDAY
charged with grand larceny from the
Southern Express Company.
Three negro youths were sitting in d
buggy under shelter on farm near
Jasper when lightning killed the two
on the outside while theone in the cen.
ter was unharmed.
j. e. Batten aud j. Harper, both
formerly OF Pensacola, are now under
arrest 10 New Orleans charged with
using the mails for fraudulent purposes
by operating bogus commission house
and swindling shippers.
A colony Of japanese is being planned
in the Everglades. A large amount of
lumber has been ordered, and cherry
trees are to be planted around each
house and along the avenues Of the
colony, where the little brown meu will
live.
Bernard Masters, one Of the most
prominent residents and business men
Of st. Augustine was assaulted and |
robbed near that city Wednesday af. |
ternoon OF last week by negro tramp
whom he had fed and given work tba
lay. The negro escaped.
While Senator and Mrs. Hudson
we're enjoying au auto spin, few even.
ngs ago on the suburbs of Miami their
ar collided with a motorcycle and the
10Y riding it had one leg broken in two
'laces and was severely bruised. Even
he lawmakers sometimes go wrong.
June crop conditions in Florida as
eportsd by the U. 8. Departments Of
agriculture are: Pineapples 08, lem
ns Y, oranges IS, lines rs. Igrapesruit
?, peaches II, pears Is and watermel- |
rs so. The yield per acre Of white /
otatoes is 90 bushels and quality IS per ,
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