The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-05-06
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one thousand acres in celery near that
ciry.
Tnos A. Edison, wife and family
have returned to their Northern home
after pleasant winter passed at their
Florida home near Fort Myers
H. white municipal primary in Tam
pa Tuesday Editor y. h. Mckay. Of the
Tampa Times, was nominated mayor
Ivy majority Of 1856 over his opponent,
v II. Frecker. 1t was one OF the hot
test campaigns ever seen in Tampa.
john Beyill who killed his wife's
father and mother some time ago in
Sumter county, was tried last week and
was convicted Of murder in the third
degree for killing the woman, hut not
guilty Of killing the man. He has been
sentenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
The Merchants and Miners Transpor-
tation Co., has abandoned its steamer
Chatham, which went ashore on the jet
ty at the entrance of the st. John river
last January. Every effort has been
made to save the vessel but the COM
pany now publicly acknowledged aban-
donment and ask the United States
court for limited liability.
A race riot occurred in Coleman Sun.
day afternoon, extending far in the
night in which every negro numbering
from $50 to 200. were driven out of
Coleman. Twelve negroes were badly
beaten and one white man seriously in
iured. Owing to the absence of fi"e-
arms no deaths are reported. Until the
Sante Fee railroad was built into Cole
man there were no negroes living there,
but since they have come in and an
nounced that they were there to stay.
Sam Welch, of Eldora, planted four
quarts of bean seed early in the year
and from the patch has already gather
ed sold twenty-fOur crates and is
sure of getting ten more crates. Those
sold and brought So per crate net From
the same piece Ofground he has all eady
sold $40 worth of cucumbers, which
were planted between beans. These
crops were made without rain. From
this small piece of ground Mr.. Welch
expects to make over eighty dollars
from the two crops now growing and
the ground will soon be ready for an
other crop. This is the way that truck
growing can be made so profitable in
Florida.
The gentlemen of the Big Pocket
Book might as well know this, and this
they do know: that TaliaferrO is to win
at all he must win in the first primary.
Just as sure as there is necessity for
second primary Taliaferro is goner.
The reasons for this are not difficult to
find. Taliaferro will poll his entire
strength in the first primary. The in
terests will influence all their poems
and dependents to vote for him the first
go round, and when that is done there
is no more to it, for no free and indie
pendent and intelligent thinker is going
to vote for TaliaferrO. The opposition
to Talaferro will be divided in the first
between Broward and L'Engle; it is
possible that Taliaferro will be high
man in the first primary, but he will
not have a majority and it is doubtful
If his plurality will be considerable;
either Of the other candidates can de-
feat him in the second, unless the in
IereS,s spend million to elect Talia-
frrro. and 8, is doubtful if even the in
trrests thin, he is worth 50 much.
Five ueV drainage canals are soon to
T.. opened in ,hr Everglades of Florida,
an3 ae','ed proposals will be received
b., ibcho..d of drainage commissioners
81 r'arj-a yutii 10 O'Clock Wednesday,
lme II, 1899, when they vii. be pub
n., o,go-d and read The aggregate
length ., these canals is 235 miles. and
tl,jr CONSTRUCTIONS will require the eX-
cagatiug If approximately $4,000, 600
cubic yards Of earth and 5000 600 cubic
yards Of rock. No bids for this work
VII. be- considered unless accompanied
by ccrtiuyed check for per cent of
the amount OF the bid, payable to w.
Y. Knot, STATE treasurer. Much inter-
es, has lateiy been aroused over the
drainage Of the everglades. and hun
dreds Of prospectors have visited the
state in order to see for themselves the
wonderful drainage work now being
done by the various dredges working