The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-06-03


when it comes to earning living.
Kissimmee has sold her S43, 900 mu-
nicipal bond issue to home concern,
the Citizens Bank, at a premium Of
81, 100.
Kissimmce is to have an amusement
park where those in search OF recre-
alton can indulge in bathing. boasting,
roller skating, etc
Mrs. Potter Palmer. Of Chicago, has
purchased 1000 acres Of land fronting
on Sarasota Bay and few miles south
Of Sarasota, whore she will build WIN
ter home and several cottages.
Following action by the st. Angus
tine city council at the regular meeting
Thursday night the voters in the coming
sewerage bond election will east their
ballots upon a 500. OOo issue, instead of
$4,000.
Palm Beach Improvement Co.. will
soon award contract for construction of
1000 feet of Seawall; 60 foot roadway
will he allowed along lake front through
ROYAL Park Addition. which will then
converge with Royal Palm Way; this
will then connect with new county road
and ocean beach, where another 60 foot
road is provided for.
Elizabeth Tucker, Il negro w,man,
died in West Palm Beach about seven
O'Clock last Friday evening from injur-
les received early in the day, when she
was run into by Charlie Long. another
negro, riding bicycle. A coroner's
jury held AN inquest Saturday morning,
and returned verdict of "excusable
homicide" thereby relieving Long of
any blame IN the matter.
What is probably the largest grape
fruit tree in Florida is on the place of
j. G. Horn, about three miles east of
Largo. This tree has circumference
of seven. feet and eight inches, three
feet above the ground. 1t is about for
ty.tive years old and produces an aver
age of about sixty boxes of fruit per
year. The tree has paid the owner as
high as $3.50 in season.
Twsnty.four hundred acres of the
public lands in Florida were withdrawn
from all forms of disposition by Secre-
tary Ballnger of the interior depart.
ment. This action was taken in aid of
proposed Legislation affecting the use
and disposal of phosphate deposits on
the public domain. The interior de-
partment has received information indi-
eating that these lands probably con-
tanned such deposits. The greater part
OF the ., 400 acres referred to ia in Mara
ion county. 1t is said that some of the
lands are underlaid with very rich de-
posts of the mineral which has made
Florida mining ands famous.
Those people who contend that there
will be IA much smaller vote in the Sec
ond primary than there was in the first,
should not forget that in the second
primary two years ago 2,O64 more votes
were east for Senator than in the first
election. Fletcher receiving 1885, and
Broward %, 563- "a majority for Fetch
If 4 - q a in No hrSt
primary was ~. O7S. Beard 4, 592, Fetch
er 7,20S, and Lamar l2,572. In the
first primary this year 46, 500 votes were
poled, 8, $50 less than in the first pri-
mary Of 1908. and much smaller per.
centage Of the qualified vote was polled
this year than in the first primary of
TWO years ago. If Il full vote is polled
on June 18th it will total $1,000.
A Winter Park dispatch to the Tampa
Times says: Professor Blackman re-
Gently returned fron New York, where
he arranged with Andrew Carnegie for
the payment to the college on the $25,
600. which he had offered fer the cree
t.on of a science hall. This offer was
conditioned on the raising of an equal
amount by the college for endowment,
and ibis condition was met with several
hundred dollars to spare some time
since DR.. Blackman also saw Mrs. F.
B. Knowles, of Worcester, Mass, who
gave largely toward the erection of
Knowles hall and secured from her a
gift of Sl0,O00 for the furnishing and
eqaipping Of the new building. The
new Knowles hall will cost between
S35, 900 and $40, coo and will be fully
equipped for research and instruction
in physics, chemistry, biology. bacteri-
oIogy and the other sciences. 1t will
contain four laboratories demonstration
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