The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-12-16

roads down the East Coast to Miami.
Among the boats now cruising be
tween the Halifax river and Key Yves
are the Betty S, the Kathryn F, TIT
Widgeon, the Three Queens and tn,
Cocopomello.
The volume of business done in Plan
City by the local Coast Line freigh
office for November of this year ovel
the same month last year shows an in
crease ofnearly $1,000 The percentage
Of increase is 81 per cent.
In report made by the Comptroller
of the Currency it isshown that Florlda
has forty-three national banks in oper
alton. These banks have loans and
discounts amounting to S2S, llO,8l4 and
individuals deposits amounting to S26,
0S6, $50.
The Plant City Realty Co. closed a
deal on November 80 for l3, 800 acres
of land in Lake County for Chicago
syndicate. The purchase price amount
ed to about 500, 600. The tract Of
land was the property of K, f. Black,
of Minneola. Fla.
1t is rumored that Mrs. Potter-Palmer
has Invested heavily in phosphate and
grazing property in the Makka Valley
district, 30 miles from WauchuIa. AS
a result of her investment a railroad
will be built from Wauchula or Barlow
to Sarasota, by way of the Makka Val
ley.
The bond election held in West Palm
Beach last Tuesday resulted IN bonds
being defeated by vote of SO to 81. |
As two-thrds vote was requested
another election will be called as soon
as possible, when it is believed the I.
bond issue will carry without any |
trouble.
Sarasota has been visited by the /
Prince and Princess Michel CaDtacurzene
of Russia, who We're the guests of |
Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, for !
a time, a. the Belle Haven Inn. ,
The princess was formerly Miss /
Julia Dent Grant, granddaughter of the |
late President Ulysses S. Grant and
daughter of Gen. Frederick Grant.
A movement is on foot to carve out a
new county, taking territory from
Marion, Citrus and Levy counties. The
proposed new county will be 900 square
miles in area, with population in the
neighborhood of 1900. Several of the
largest phosphate plants in the world
and an immense amount of timber is in
the territory which is to be mapped out
for the county. No name for the new
county has yet been suggested.
Two outbreaks of smallpox are re-
ported to the city physician and are
now effectively, in hand. One consist
ing of single cae, is at l29 Franklin
street. The other at sos Ashley in,
cludes one convalescent and five sus-
poets. Al of the cases and suspicious
persons have been removed to the pest
house, and there is little or no danger
of spread OF the disease, which is trace
able TO newcomers to the city. Tampa
Times. +
In the Circuit Court at Tampa last
Thursday, through her attorneys, Hilton
/. Hampton and Nc Mullen & McMullen,
Mrs. Matilda Atkinson entered suit
for S25, zoe damages against the At
lantic Coast Line. The suit arose out
of the accidental killing of Goode Atkin-
son, her son. in The yards Of the Allan.
tic Coast Line, near the Grand Central
avenue crossing some months ago.
Young Atkinson was tlagman in the
employ of the company.
Thos. Howard, colored, about ID
years old was burned to death near
Palatka last week. Tom was living
with his grand father in two room
house near the Edmonson place in the ,
country, and late IN the night the old ,
man was awakened by smoke. He
Immediately saw that the hut was on .
fire, ana lost no time in arousing the
boy. However, the lad was not mind ,
full of the real situation, so again went
to sleep. After the fire his charred ,
body was found in the debris.
The Daytona surveyors were au- {
thoiized by action of the board Of
county commissioners at the meeting 7
held the first part of last week to make |
a skeleton map of the county showing
the correct lines of the commissioner {
districts and also to give on the true I
lines of the public roads from the Put 4