The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-07-01

The assessors report shows st. Pc
tersburg's taxable valuation to total
81, o5l, $50,
A special train left Tampa on the
night of the 10Th for the purpose OF
carrying the Tampa Guards to Chcka-
manga
Orange county is to have a fair Of
her own. The county commissioners
have voted s. 900, Orlando $1,000, and
$4,000 will be raised by private sub
scription.
The observation-disclosures Chemical Com
pany is going to erect large fertilizer
factory in Sanford This company has
one other factory in the state, and that
is located at Gainesville.
Two new voting precincts have been
established in Palm Beach county. One
precinct is at Utopia and the other is
known as Indian Town, both in the eX-
IRENE western part Of that county.
Andrew j. Harris, chief of the Tampa
Fire Department and who has been &C.
lively identifedlwith the department fol
quarter of a century, died suddenly
in his office in Tampa Monday of acute
indigestion. His death is deeply mourn
ed in Tampa.
The dredge Nimkee and big fleet OF
barges and smaller boats are now a,
work on the water front at West Palm
Beach. A laage tract of marsh lani Is
to be filled in, and when the work II
completed, which will take about si'
months, that thriving East Coast city
will have a very pretty water front.
The Key West division of naval mill,
tia has been organized with full list
Of prvates and officers and starts in as
member of the reserve troops OF the
United States under most favorable
circumstances. 1t is now thought that
a second division will be fOrmed-mOre
men have applied for membership than
can be taken in one division.
The George w. Wood Lumber Com
pany of Carysville has the contract fol
the largest shipment of hard wood evel
known in West Florida. Thirty-fvt
carloads of extra fine ash round timber
has been cut from the lands belonging
to this company along the Choctawhat
chez river to fill this contract. Tit
lumber will be loaded on vessels at Pen
sacola and shipped to ports in Germany
The following attorneys have beer
admitted to practice in all the courts
of Florida, without examination, under
the law exemptng from examination
graduates of the law department o.
Stetson University; M. G. Rowe, De
Land; Murray Sans, New Smyrna; DR.
Lincoln HUXLEY, DeLand; W. B. Cone
Lake City; S. Duss, Jr., New Smyrna
c. C. Small, Lake City; E. C. Calhoun
Perry; l.. P. Hardee, Chiefland
Florida has more miles of navigabl
rivers entirely within her borders thai
any other of the fourteen states of tn
South. This does not include the lengt
within her territory of rivers arising il
other states. The only other Southern
states that approach Florida in this re
gard are North Carolina, with LOG
miles, and Alabama, with 1000 miles
Considering that no other state in tn
Union can approach her 200 miles o
seacoast. Atlantic and Gulf, it will b.
II seen that Florida 5 navigation interest
ith we very large and capable of immens
'af'S "lopments.
~ o'''" v is displayed at the Office o
~ 81, O''' 'ackman. several stalks of Mas
'''"'N W. "a commercial corn. Tn
' ., ''t'I''J from 8 to 10 feet in height
",,uS WIZ, ra6nd and three ears of wei
.. Go. his corn was grow
ate that higher education of negroes .v,,
ds to crimes. OF 256 male negroes ,and
wing life sentences in the NorlhCaro- ,;on
prison 1873, or more than half can o. :,
d and write; six attended college h,or
l07 attended school from one to ten ,,ol.
rs. Of the II female life prisoners ,.oo,
en- can read and write, As the SEN v;n
ccs decrease. the figures show that No :,
crime is of lesser degree. Of lab cot,
e negro prisoners serving 10 years ond